Barbara went all out on a paper for a government class and ends up with a D. When she goes in to see her professor, she soon discovers, that she certainly can get a higher grade on her paper, that is if she accepts her professor's advances. Later, Barbara determines to bring him to justice and files a complaint against him.

Thanks to Ann's hard work, Connors & Davenport has just landed a brand new account and Ann is all excited about the possibilities of a promotion. She soon finds herself battling with Francine over it, but ultimately she gets it, but soon discovers she'd rather not have it, since it means moving to Amarillo, Texas.

Ann's attempts to land her own advertising accounts lead to repeated run-ins with an irritating commercial artist.

Ann and Nick do so well on their first campaign that he wants to form a partnership with her.

Ann and Barbara return from a weekend trip to find they've been robbed with Schneider's assistance.

Ann's father has died and her mother is chronically depressed until Schneider takes her out on the town.

Barbara's search for an interesting major leads her to the conclusion that she's not ready to continue her education.

Former tenants ask Schneider to help them conceive a child through artificial insemination.

Alex is fed up with Nick's plans for their father-and-son weekends.

Schneider falls madly in love with a woman who prizes her freedom above everything.

Schneider is overcome by jealousy at the thought of going fishing while his young girlfriend is alone with a man her own age.

An old family secret surfaces when Grandma Romano gets pinched for shoplifting.

Barbara joins a committee to assist a young man about to lose his immigration status, which could condemn him to prison in his native land.

Ann is convinced that her constant bickering with business partner Nick is related to sexual tension.

Beerbelly's wife, dissatisfied with her marriage, makes a play for Schneider.

Ann has the flu and the last thing she wants is for her mother to play nursemaid.

Nick won't let Alex get away with turning in a shoddy science project.

A new account is going well for Ann and Nick until they realize the merchant is involved in a bait-and-switch scheme.

A child who once tutored Barbara has graduated from college, but can't find a job, at age 14.

Alex begins to resent Ann's relationship with his father and accuses her of keeping his father and mother apart.

Nick and Ann manage to get the apartment to themselves, only to have Ann's old boyfriend David arrive at their door.

After the recent death of Nick, Alex is left feeling lonely and unwanted by his recently married mother. So, he hops a bus from Chicago and head straight to Ann and Barbara.

Awaiting Ann's overdue flight, everyone passes time in fleeting encounters with the opposite sex.

Ann's old nemesis Francine insists that she would make a perfect partner, a prospect Ann finds revolting.

Julie shows up unexpectedly, toting all her posessions and spouting unlikely tales of Max's infidelity.

Julie and Max seem headed for divorce unless someone like Ann can persuade them to talk it out.

Barbara schedules back to back dates with two guys but the first won't take her home.

Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.

Schneider contemplates taking Ann's cousin to a dance.

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

Schneider becomes the not-so-silent business partner of Ann and Francine after the bank turns down their loan.

While Ann is away, Barbara's grandmothers wage a war of presents for her affection.

Unwelcome guests arrive just in time for Barbara's surprise birthday party at the store.

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

Francine's father and Grandma Romano are a hot item until she learns his line of work.

Barbara fears that her marriage plans will dissolve after she learns that she can't conceive a child.

Alex doesn't feel like the hero he's hailed after saving lives in an apartment blaze because he caused the fire in the first place.

The men go fishing and the women await their return, but all have one thing in common, they're talking about marriage.

A Russian women's basketball team visits Ann's home and one of the stars decides to defect and marry Schneider.

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

Alex talks Max into coaching his baseball team and Max's first action as coach is to bench Alex.

At a dentistry convention in Las Vegas, Barbara and Mark consider avoiding the hassle of wedding arrangements with a quickie Vegas marriage ceremony.

The family rushes off to Las Vegas to talk Barbara out of a quickie marriage ceremony.

The annual variety show for the Park Utopia senior-citizens hotel takes place.

It's coming through loud and clear, Schneider's going deaf.

Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career, fortunetelling.

Barbara's nerves are on edge as her wedding day approaches and husband-to-be Mark is no help, he's more interested in his golf game than helping with the preparations.

Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara's worried he won't get to the church on time.

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.

Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.

To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.

Ann may be a little envious of Francine's freewheeling lifestyle, especially after Francine takes Alex for the weekend and shows him the time of his life.

Barbara's scheme to get her mother and Mark's newly divorced father together at a dinner party gets faster results than she anticipated.

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.

Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.

Forced out of their rooming house by an explosion, Barbara and Mark impose on Ann for a temporary home until they can find a place of their own.

With Julie, Max and the new baby also needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.

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.

Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.

Saving a businessman's life earns Schneider executive status in a job, complete with a secretary, a plush office, a rent-free apartment nearby and very little work to do.

A South Pacific island would be just the ticket for Sam, if only Ann would drop her work, desert the family and join him in paradise.

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

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 letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.

Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.

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.

Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

Sam unilaterally sets a wedding date as Ann learns from his newspaper announcement that she's getting married in three days. But it's Sam who starts getting cold feet.

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