1. Fathers and Sons

Everyone has date problems: Emma has no date for the college dance and must go with Jennie and Jason & Jennie breaks up with Jason & Chip has a fight with Amy upstairs because she was drooling over Matt Dillon in the movie they rent ed & Kate's chiropractor date was a self-centered bore; and Allie has no date at all. But Emma meets someone at the dance: a self-satisfied, arrogrant business major whom everyone else hates on sight.

3. Kate and the Cab Driver

Sep, 1987

Kate falls for a charmingly immature cab driver who quit his job as an advertising executive to become an artist -- and who wants Kate to go on impulse with him to Brazil.

4. Mother's Day

Resenting their daughters' taking them for granted, Kate and Allie guiltily invite their own mothers to lunch -- then regret it when Marion won't stop talking about the food on her recent cruise and Joan won't stop criticizing Allie.

5. Return of Bob Barsky

After an unexplained absence, Bob Barsky calls to ask Allie out on a date and explains that he is moving back to New York -- and is also seeing someone else.

6. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

While Kate and Dennis take old clothes to Goodwill, Allie rushes across town to pay Jennie's school fees but l eaves her purse in the cab and is left stranded and penniless in Manhattan.

7. Ted's Fix-Up

Kate and Angela fix each other up with each other's ex's, with surprising results.

8. Jennie's New Deal

Nov, 1987

After Emma moves into the college dorm, Jennie feels cooped up living at home under her mother's rules.

9. Hired Wife

Nov, 1987

Businessman Bill Connor comes with a startling proposition: he is single but pretending to be married in order to get a promotion, and needs someone to impersonate his non-existent wife at an executive party. Kate agrees with his stand against prejudice on the basis of marital status but then is attracted to a man who turns out to be a co-worker of Bill's. The whole farce turns out to be moot when Bill finds out the promotion was never available--the company was hiring from the outside--and quits, leaving Kate free to date Peter.

10. The Marriage Counselor

Nov, 1987

Bob suggests marriage counseling for the constantly bickering Kate and Allie.

11. The Triangle Has Four Sides

Dec, 1987

Kate tries to date Dennis and Peter at the same time, but they end up finding out about each other. When Kate realizes they don't care she is dating other men, she dumps them both and starts dating Ted, again.

12. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Dec, 1987

Kate, Allie and the kids work overtime buying and wrapping gifts for the catering clients, promising themselves a skiing vacation in Vermont & but the apartment is burgled and everything stolen, leaving them to redo it all in just one day.

13. A Catered Affair

Jan, 1988

14. The Band Singer

Jan, 1988

Jenny is enamored of classmate Howard, auditions for his band, and becomes their lead singer. While the band rehearses in their basement, Kate and Allie give combined French dinners/French lessons and worry that Jenny is not willing to be herself with Howard -- to the point where she won't admit she can't rollerskate when he wants her to sing dressed as a skating '50s carhop.

15. Almost Married (a.k.a.) And Then There Were None

Jan, 1988

Ted invites everybody to his friends' cabin in the Adirondacks, but there's an escaped convict on the loose.

16. My Day with Paul Newman

A film crew asks to use the front door in a movie

17. The Namath of the Game

Sports nut Kate becomes Joe Namath's personal assistant

18. The Mouse That Squeaked

Kate and Allie panic when Chip's mouse gets loose.

19. Inside Park Avenue

Kate and Allie get a taste of how the other half lives---and loves---when they cater a society couple's 25th-anniversary party.

20. Working Women