Alex's first date rekindles the protectionist approach Ann took with her daughters.

Ann is sorely troubled by intimations of her own mortality that are triggered by Barbara's engagement.

Barbara tries to adapt to life at Mark's rooming house, where her new husband's friends, including a scantily clad woman, breeze in and out without knocking to use the bathroom, or asking to use the closet and community refrigerator.

Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.

Julie insists on flying to California to have her baby in an underwater birth tank but her labor pains are beginning at her mother's home in Indianapolis.

Unable to cope with the pandemonium at her house, Ann takes refuge at Sam's place, until he offers her a solution for which she's completely unprepared.

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.

Approaching his 15th birthday, Alex anticipates his first female encounter. But when he strikes out with the school's ""girl most likely to,"" he makes a play for an older woman.

A weekend outing with a girl from school is more attractive to Alex than the father-son night he agreed to attend at Schneider's lodge.

Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.

Sam and Ann are adjusting to married life and find they disagree on monumental issues such as where the spoons should be kept.

The opening of his new dental office gives Mark such a case of the jitters that he may give up his practice before the first patient walks through the door.

Schneider has a sentimental reunion with his high-school love, who pays him a visit on his 50th birthday, bringing along her own cherished memories of their past.

An Italian priest arrives unexpectedly at the Royers, claiming to be a distant relative of Grandma Romano.

Mark's jokester friends are visiting and taking their jokes too far to the point where everyone gets sick of them. Barbara gets so fed up that she tries to teach them a lesson by ""getting hurt.""

Ann gets a job offer in London and ponders taking it. Despite getting nagged by her mother, she decides to accept the job. This leads her to wonder how she's going to tell the rest of her family that she's leaving.