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.

Working side by side at the travel agency spawns a growing attraction between Max and Barbara, that becomes impossible to ignore.

Schneider gets a new lease on life after he's accidentally electrocuted, then revived, a hair raising experience in which he claims he died and came back to life.

After six years of not smoking, Sam lights up. But when he tries to quit, he finds his willpower has gone up in smoke.

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.""

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

Ann and Francine's business relationship is threatened when Francine announces she's marrying an ad executive Ann doesn't trust.

Barbara loses charge of her household when Grandma Romano moves in with her own set of rules, menus, meal schedules and a collection of cuckoo clocks.

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.

Francine goes behind Ann's back to talk Sam into designing an elaborate office suite that's too grandiose for Ann's taste.

Sam's late night disappearance has the family convinced he's been kidnapped until Ann learns he's kept his old apartment.

To arrange a long-overdue vacation, Barbara and Mark visit a travel agency, where Barbara finds an unexpected career opportunity.

Barbara, still wanting to have a child, continues to consider adoption.

A weekend watching little Annie for Max and Julie has Barbara longing to have her own baby and begins considering the option of adoption.

Ann's imagination runs away with her when Sam runs off on a business trip with an associate who happens to be his ex-girlfriend.

A plan to collaborate on the writing of children's stories drives Julie and Max into a bitter feud over Max's potential as a writer.

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.

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

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.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

While Schneider is making love to his girlfriend, she has a heart attack which ultimately leaves Schneider impotent. Schneider then goes to great lengths to remedy his problem to no avail. That is until Ann makes a suggestion concerning an ex-flame of Schneider's, but Schneider is unsure if he wants to take her advice.

Schneider's cell mate from a gambling bust shows up and demands first class treatment or else.

Ann and the girls spend a warm Christmas Eve in a frigid mountain cabin.

Julie applies her religious zeal to a drunken derelict, whom she found in a garbage can. Conclusion.

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

Newly devorced and scared Ann Romono is up for her first decision. Her older daughter Julie wants to go on a camping trip with her friend and a couple of boys. Julie threatens to leave her mother and live with her Dad unless Ann says she can go.

Ann fears the girls are rejecting her in favor of their father's steady girlfriend.

Ann finds herself attracted to the piano player who has moved into the building.

Ann scolds Julie for flirting with her teacher at exam time.

Ann's visiting father tries to persuade her to return home.

Ed is forced to admit the truth to Julie and Barbara.

The topsy-turvy years in Schneider's building are fondly remembered (in clips from past shows) when condominium conversion threatens to disperse the tenants.

Schneider, Ann and the girls continue to reminisce about the past as the construction of condominiums seems to be a sure thing.

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.

Schneider learns that his brother passed away and that somebody needs to take care of his nephew and niece so Schneider gets a phone call to come and pick them up. The place where he arrives is a carnival like place with circus like people. This place needs repairs and some ""manly guidance"" so everyone tries to persuade Schneider to move there and with Ann gone and the kids grown up, Schneider finally accepts the move.

Ann's new boyfriend invites her to spend the weekend with him.

Ginny is always depressed after her mysterious Sunday excursions.

With the family doctor away and Julie down with possible appendicitis, Ann accepts the services of a young resident.

Julie's boyfriend wants to stay out all night.

Julie writes Chuck a Dear John letter, while Ann finds herself in the middle of a feud between Chuck's parents.

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.

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.

Schneider contemplates taking Ann's cousin to a dance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ann has the holiday blues, believing she and Sam will be alone on Christmas, but Sam plans to surprise her with a Caribbean cruise.

Ann is throwing a party in her apartment and has invited other tenants in the building. She begins to go through pre-party panic and it doesn't help when Schneider drops in with whistles, joy buzzers and whoopee cushions, expecting an invitation but soon discovers he is not wanted.

Angry over her phone bill, Ann writes a protest to the President and gets in hot water with the Secret Service.

Julie gets a waitress job in a grubby diner on the rough side of town.

Julie's new best friend is a stuck up rich girl and Julie quickly demands more expensive things like clothes and she also demands that Ann send her to a prestigious school. Ann refuses to give in to Julie simply because she can't afford it but that's when David steps in offering to kick in some financial aid for the Romano/Cooper household.

Schneider uses CB radio to search for Julie and her boyfriend. (Part 3 of 4)

Hoping to attract desirable males, Barbara decides to change her image.

Ann must deal with an upholstery ripoff that invades her home.

Julie's religious zeal is driving Ann and Barbara crazy. First of two parts.

Schneider expects Ginny to leap at his marriage proposal.

Ann's boss has second thoughts about a woman's ability to handle the job he just gave to Ann.

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

After a man-on-the-street chat with a newscaster, Schneider is offered a job as a male model, but becomes depressed when he learns the role he is to portray.

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

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

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.

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

A visit from Sam's ex-wife sparks a sudden need for attention in Ann, who resents the pampering the former Mrs. Royer receives from Sam.

One evening after a date, David and Ann get cozy on the couch, but Barbara and Julie decide to put the kibosh on any intimacy. However, David makes the decision that it is the perfect time to ask Ann to marry him and gives her one week to come up with the answer. After two hours go by, he changes his mind and tries to get her to decide right away.

Ann discovers David and a young woman in a state of dishabille.

Julie has a date with a college man who discovers a decided preference for Ann.