After Julie plows into a car, its dashing driver offers her a job. First of four parts.

Julie's boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. Second of four parts.

Julie is startled by her boss's proposal. Third of four parts.

Julie is implored by her father not to marry her 42-year-old boss. Conclusion.

An insecure boy interested in dating Barbara bolsters his confidence by taking out a notorious classmate first.

After Julie and Barbara return home from a weekend visit with their dad complaining that Dad's new wife is trying to cut them out of his life, Ann initiates her first face to face meeting with the new Mrs. Cooper - only to learn that the girls haven't exactly been fair or kind to their new step-mother.

When Barbara hands in Julie's verse as her own for a class, a school counselor takes her for a poetic genius.

While agonizes over whether Cliff Randall will invite her to the Grateful Dead concert, she has to contend with a over-eager girl trying to be her friend. When reality sinks in, she reaches out to Barbara at the last moment.

Barbara's classmate phones to say she's taken a drug overdose. Conclusion.

Julie runs into an attractive young man in the lobby who is looking for Schneider. However, his visit to see Schneider is anything but a social call when he reveals that he is Schneider's son, from a brief marriage 20 years earlier. Ann, Barbara and Julie quickly do their best to prepare Schneider for the news.

Ann sees her 36th birthday as a crisis, not a cause for celebration.

Schneider makes the grand announcement that a celebrity has just moved into the building, a race car driver named Cam Randolph. Meanwhile, Julie and Barbara have devised a meeting between their mother and Cam, but Ann is anything but excited about meeting him, at first that is. Things start to change however, once she gets to know him and she invites him over for dinner.

Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver. Second of two parts.

Ann learns that a secretary she just hired is a reputed drug user.

Frustrated over not getting enough attention at home, Barbara rebells by running away to a Chicago motel room with Bob Morton.

Determined to keep his job, Schneider woos the building's new owner — who falls for him.

Ann has a competitor in the lecherous Francine Webster.

Aspiring designer Julie tries to enter a fashion show after the entry deadline.

Barbara and Julie are excited about getting a new stereo and decide to buy Schneider's old one for $200. However, as they are scrounging up the money, Julie checks her balance in her checking account and quickly finds that somehow an additional $125 has been credited to her account. Stricken with guilt and Barbara's encouragement, Julie decides to take the money.

Barbara is an eyewitness to a vandalism at the school and soon finds herself between a rock and a hard place, over whether or not to do the honest thing and tell the truth and fink on a friend or not say anything. Ultimately, she tells the truth but then must face the results of her actions, possible alienation.

Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. First of two parts.

Conclusion. Ann thinks Julie's new roommate is a bad influence on her.

Ann's career advice to Barbara's friend leads to hard feelings between the boy and his father.