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The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis.
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.
9/26/1982
Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara's worried he won't get to the church on time.
10/3/1982
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.
10/10/1982
Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.
10/17/1982
To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.
10/24/1982
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.
10/31/1982
Barbara's scheme to get her mother and Mark's newly divorced father together at a dinner party gets faster results than she anticipated.
11/7/1982
Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.
11/21/1982
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.
11/28/1982
Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.
12/12/1982
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.
12/19/1982
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.
12/26/1982
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.
1/2/1983
Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.
1/23/1983
Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.
1/30/1983
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.
2/13/1983
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.
2/20/1983
Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.
3/6/1983
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.
3/7/1983
A letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.
3/14/1983
Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.
3/21/1983
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.
3/28/1983
Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.
5/2/1983
Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.
5/9/1983
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.
5/16/1983
Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.
5/23/1983
