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Philip arranges a blind date for Alan, so he can be alone with Ruth, who's been let down by her latest suitor.

Ruth's screams of a prowler brings Rigsby to her side and prompts a visit from the regional crime squad.

Rigsby has to tell an ill-tempered wrestler to turn down the volume on his radio.

Rigsby has to choose between his pride and his stomach when Philip challenges his ability to go without food for three days.

Even the callous Rigsby becomes concerned over a depressed new tenant who has suffered a series of business and personal problems.

Rigsby's political loyalties are put to the test as election fever grips the house.

Rigsby spends Christmas alone, but both Alan and Philip return early looking for some solitude for romance.

Rigsby tries to seduce a new tenant while fending off bill collectors.

Rigsby tries to find a woman through an ad in the personals column and receives a surprising response.

Rigsby, Alan, Philip and Ruth go out to an upmarket restaurant (which has a strict dress code) for Ruth's birthday. Rigsby borrows his new lodger Spooner's suit, without his permission.

Rigsby persuades a tenant behind on his rent to hypnotize Ruth and plant the idea she's madly in love with Rigsby.

Alan becomes engaged to a girl from a snobbish family.

Rigsby jumps to a drastic conclusion when a hypochondriac tenant is taken to the hospital.

Alan wears an earring to attract the opposite sex, which Rigsby disapproves of. Alan sneaks Maureen into his room; Rigsby hears her and ejects her.

Ruth befriends a young couple who have moved in, fleeing from her disapproving father.

Rigsby convinces his new tenant, a pious Welsh student, that Philip is in need of spiritual guidance, but it's Rigsby who sees the light.