Newly divorced and scared Ann Romano 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 has been wined and dined by a new boyfriend named Steve Blanchard. Ann doesn't realize how far things have gotten until he invites her to go away with him for the weekend on a trip to Chicago. It soon becomes apparent to everyone but Ann that she is headed for her first fling since her marriage ended.

Ann comes down with a bad case of jealousy when Julie and Barbara begin spending time with their father's steady girlfriend, Candy. Meanwhile, Julie is beside herself when her boyfriend Jeff begins paying attention to a sexy cheerleader.

David gets Ann a job interview for an assistant to an account executive in a public relations firm. However, Ann is worried that her qualifications for the position won't matter as much as her sex appeal. Meanwhile, Julie coaches Barbara in flirting with her teacher to influence him during exams.

Guest star : Robert Mandan

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.

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

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, only to discover he is not wanted.

Guest star : Don Diamond

Julie is torn when her current boyfriend, Chuck, wants her to go "all the way" with him. When Ann discovers Julie's problem she advises her to think long and hard and to do what feels right. Later, that evening when she is alone with Chuck, Julie finally makes a decision.

Guest star : William Kirby Cullen

Ann is furious when she receives a $4,000 phone bill. She soon begins a letter writing campaign to anyone and everyone, including the President of the United States . Coincidentally, the President just happens to be passing through her neighborhood and Ann soon finds two Secret Service agents at her front door.

Ann is comfortable with her platonic relationship with David. However, she has an interesting reaction when she discovers David and a sexy new building tenant in a compromising situation, which brings to the forefront her true feelings for David.

Guest star : Susan Bay

Julie has been wanting to buy her boyfriend's car, but Ann refuses to pay for it and advises her to get a job to pay for it herself. So, Julie jumps at the chance when Schneider puts in a good word to help get her a job as a waitress in a grubby diner on a rough side of town.

Guest star : Stanley Adams , Joey Forman , Jeannie Linero , Suzanne Somers , Roy Stuart

Julie is excited and nervous when she has a blind date with a college guy. However, her excitement about the evening turns to confusion and anger when her date, Ken, shows up and he takes an interest in Ann, who appears to enjoy the attention from the younger man.

Guest star : Robby Benson

Barbara is all excited at the prospects of hosting a party at the apartment for the basketball team. However, once she and Julie manage to talk Ann into allowing it, they hit another roadblock ... no alcohol. The girls soon talk David into chaperoning the party while Ann is away at a wedding and secretly plot to have the guests sneak in the beer.

Ann is excited when she comes home with the news that she got a new job. However, her excitement is dampened when she learns that her ex-husband Ed is stopping by for a visit and has a big announcement: he is engaged and is planning to wed within a few weeks. To be continued...

Guest star : Joseph Campanella

Barbara and Julie are secretly hoping and plotting to get their mother Ann and their father, Ed back together. They have high hopes, especially when Ann allows Ed to stay over, but both of them are in for a rude awakening and a final acceptance that their parents will never get back together.

Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage.

Ann is overcome by guilt after Chuck and Julie run away.

Schneider uses CB radio to search for Julie and her boyfriend.

Their possessions stolen, runaways Julie and her boyfriend consider calling Barbara for help.

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

Guest stars : Michael Goodrow - as Hank the Hunk Christopher Knight and John Putch (first of 14 episodes as 'Bob Morton')

David returns from Los Angeles with a job offer and hopes of marrying Ann. To be continued...

As David works on Barbara and Julie, and as they pressure Ann to consider marrying David, Ann is faced with a serious decision..... she is not ready to marry again. David goes on without her.

Note : This is Richard Masur 's final episode as a series regular.

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

Note : This is Mary Louise Wilson 's first episode

Schneider touts his visiting nephew as a model gentleman, unaware that the youth is a thief.

Guest star : Mark Hamill

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

Ann finds herself attracted to the symphony conductor that her employer has an ad campaign with.

Note: Valerie Bertinelli and MacKenzie Phillips do not appear in this episode.

The girls put on a New Year's show at a retirement home.

Julie's religious zeal is driving Ann and Barbara crazy. To be continued...

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

Ann won't allow her ex-husband to spoil Julie and Barbara with a new car.

Schneider expects Ginny to leap at his marriage proposal.

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.

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

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

Barbara accepts an invitation to a school dance, then can't turn another one down.

Ginny persuades Ann to go to a singles bar.

Note: Final appearance by Mary Louise Wilson except in a later clip show;

Tired from cramming for entrance exams, Julie doesn't want to go to college any more.

Barbara and Julie want to sneak out to a party on a school night, while Ann is away on a business trip to Las Vegas . But the girls are fearful that their mother might find out that they're heading to the party, so they try to reach Ann via a phone call, only to learn that she didn't reach her hotel.

Note: Pat Harrington does not appear in this episode.

After Julie plows into a car, its dashing driver offers her a job. To Be Continued...

Guest star : Jim Hutton

Julie's boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. To be Continued....

Julie is startled by her boss's proposal. To be continued....

Julie is implored by her father not to marry her 42-year-old boss.

A lecherous client has more than business on his mind.

An insecure boy interested in dating Barbara bolsters his confidence by taking out a notorious classmate first.

After Julie and Barbara return home from a weekend visit with their dad complaining that Dad's new wife is trying to cut them out of his life, Ann initiates her first face to face meeting with the new Mrs. Cooper ? only to learn that the girls haven't exactly been fair or kind to their new stepmother.

When Barbara hands in Julie's verse as her own for a class, a school counselor takes her for a poetic genius.

While Barbara agonizes over whether Cliff Randall will invite her to the Grateful Dead concert, she has to contend with an over-eager girl trying to be her friend. When reality sinks in, she reaches out to Barbara at the last moment. To be continued...

Barbara's classmate (portrayed by Lindsay V. Jones) phones to say she has overdosed .

Julie runs into an attractive young man in the lobby who is looking for Schneider. However, his visit to see Schneider is anything but a social call when he reveals that he is Schneider's son, from a brief marriage 20 years earlier. Ann, Barbara and Julie quickly do their best to prepare Schneider for the news.

Ann sees her 36th birthday as a crisis, not a cause for celebration.

Schneider makes the grand announcement that a celebrity has just moved into the building, a race car driver named Cam Randolph. Meanwhile, Julie and Barbara have devised a meeting between their mother and Cam, but Ann is initially anything but excited about meeting him. Things start to change, however, once Ann gets to know him. To be continued...

Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver.

Ann learns that a secretary she just hired has epilepsy .

Frustrated over not getting enough attention at home, Barbara rebels by running away to a Chicago motel room with Bob Morton.

Determined to keep his job, Schneider woos the building's new owner ? who falls for him.

Ann has a competitor in the lecherous Francine Webster.

First appearance of Shelley Fabares as Francine Webster.

Aspiring designer Julie tries to enter a fashion show after the entry deadline.

Barbara and Julie are excited about getting a new stereo and decide to buy Schneider's old one for $200. However, as they are scrounging up the money, Julie checks her balance in her checking account and quickly finds that somehow an additional $125 has been credited to her account. Stricken with guilt and Barbara's encouragement, Julie decides to take the money.

Barbara is an eyewitness to a vandalism at the school and soon finds herself between a rock and a hard place, over whether or not to do the honest thing and tell the truth, or not say anything and protect a friend. Ultimately, she tells the truth, but then must face possible alienation as a result of her actions.

Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. To be continued...

Ann thinks Julie's new roommate is a bad influence on her.

Ann's career advice to Barbara's friend leads to hard feelings between the boy and his father.

Ann's ex-husband tells her that he can no longer pay her child support for his daughters. To be continued...

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

Ann is stunned when a friend says she is leaving her husband.

Barbara has been steadily dating Cliff and soon finds herself trying to gently discourage Bob from pursuing her. However, Bob is sure he can win her away from Cliff, until Ann encourages him to perhaps date other women. He does but Barbara's reaction to Bob's new girlfriend is incredibly telling.

While he is recovering from a back injury, Schneider needs an assistant maintenance man to help out with his work around the building. Barbara suggests that Schneider hire her friend Jackie, who has an intellectual disability . Schneider reluctantly takes on the kid, who does his best to prove he can do the job, but when there is a gas leak in the building, Jackie's competence is put to the test.

Note: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

Sally, an old school friend of Barbara's shows up for a visit with the news that she is now a mother. Originally, she agreed with the father to give the baby up for adoption , but after one look at the baby, decided to keep it. However, the big bombshell is dropped when she mentions that the father is Cliff Randall, Barbara's boyfriend.

Ann is interested in a business associate, but isn't quite sure how to convey her romantic interest to him. Barbara and Julie suggest that she just make the first move and call him, which she does. However, he isn't quite getting the hints and assumes that when she asks him out, the dinner is business instead of pleasure.

Mr. Peabody, an elderly resident in the apartment building, refuses to pay higher rent or to allow the building's owners to throw him out, because he is old and disabled. He locks himself in the Romanos' apartment with a shotgun, and holds the family hostage until he can get on TV and tell the building's owners to allow him to stay in his apartment and pay a fair rent amount for it.

Julie and Barbara become rivals when they fall for the leader of a rock group. To be continued...

The battle for the band leader continues as Barbara tries to win him back from Julie.

Ann plays hostess to an Arab sheik while Julie leads a demonstration against his country's economic policy.

The pace of Barbara's restaurant job proves to be faster than she anticipated.

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

In the first of a three-part story, Ann and a sportswriter begin a promising romance. In the second, a smooth-sailing romance between Ann and a sportswriter hits the rocks.

Ann considers pursuing a relationship with her married sports writer, but soon concludes that to do so would strip her of her self-respect.

Julie is depressed because her designing career seems to have reached a dead end. Guest star : Jay Leno

Francine uses her feminine wiles to wrest away one of Ann's big accounts.

Only hours after they meet, Ann's old pal and Schneider are ready to sail off on a romantic cruise.

The baby grand delivered to Ann by mistake belongs to her next-door neighbor, a slightly unstrung piano teacher who begins giving lessons in her living room.

Barbara learns a lesson about beauty after Schneider accidentally opens a door smack into her nose. Schneider differentiates himself from Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes , who was in the news for punching a player 2 months earlier.

Note: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

Julie falls for an egotistical filmmaker whose temperament exactly matches her own.

Barbara's high school graduation has arrived and she is all excited, except for two issues: she is unsure if she wants to attend the University of Wisconsin , like her father did, and trying to make a decision on whether to hang out at a party with friends or one with just family, after graduation.

A lucrative offer to direct public relations for a computer firm prompts Ann to give Mr. Davenport two weeks' notice

Ann is all set to go away for the weekend to a ski lodge, but her plans are put to a halt when Grandma Romano drops by with the announcement that she has left Ann's father and now would like to stay with Ann and the girls. Not quite taking her seriously, Ann is dealt a blow of reality when her father drops by needing a place to stay as well.

Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.

Barbara has begun her college education and feels very independent, balancing school work with social activities. Meanwhile, Ann begins to feel undereducated as she hears Barbara's experiences and makes a decision to go to college. The big surprise comes when she is taking the same course as Barbara.

Barbara's latest boyfriend, Brad, is putting the pressure on her big time to have sex. Barbara honestly does not know what to do and isn't quite sure she wants to accommodate his sexual demands, but at the same time, doesn't want to lose him. So, she decides that perhaps she should and goes out and buys some contraceptives.

Julie returns from a ski trip sporting a meek fiance, an impending wedding date and an unexcited best man. To be continued...

Guest star : Michael Lembeck

Best man Max insists that his amorous intentions toward Julie are honorable, even as the wedding party assembles.

Newlyweds Julie and Max return from their honeymoon to an apartment they can't afford because Max has been laid off from his job.

Note : Michael Lembeck becomes a regular cast member.

A psychiatrist recommends a heart-to-heart talk to take the heat out of Ann's relationship with her mother.

Barbara hires a genetics tutor David Coburn (actor) , unaware of his obvious shortcomings.

Ann pressures her assistant into working on a Saturday night ? at her place.

Barbara tries to earn some extra money by selling football betting cards. However, Schneider gets arrested when Barbara involves him in her illegal football pool activities.

After Ann rushes out to yet another appointment, her family shouldn't be so surprised to learn she has suffered a heart attack .

A feud erupts between Schneider and Max for male dominance in the Romano household, as well as the attention of Ann and the girls.

Ann and the family put on another show at the senior citizen hotel.

Note: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

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

A fast talking insurance man from Buffalo can't decide whether he would rather romance Barbara, Ann or Grandma Romano.

NOTE: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

Barbara's desire to live near campus and Max's new job in Houston have Ann pondering the thought of living alone for the first time in her life. NOTE: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

Grandma Romano moves to Indianapolis, takes an apartment in Ann's building and finds a job in her office.

NOTE: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

Barbara is harassed by an overzealous suitor.

NOTE: Mackenzie Phillips does not appear in this episode.

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

Barbara feels compelled to tell Bob about his new girlfriend's former exploits.

A binge of credit-card spending leads Max and Julie to insolvency.

Note : This is Mackenzie Phillips ' final appearance as a series regular until' Season 8. Pat Harrington does not appear in this episode.

After Schneider's rebuff during an outing to a comedy club, Ann brings home a footloose funny man.

Ann's boss, Mr. Connors is going through a rough time after his wife walks out on him, citing that he has become too boring for her taste. To cheer him up, Ann invites him out to dinner, but when Schneider crashes the dinner, Mr. Connors gets some lessons in picking up the ladies and ends up with a gold-digger.

Ann's archeology professor offers her love and companionship and asks her to live with him in Greece .

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

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.

Barbara goes 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 can get a higher grade on her paper, that is, if she accepts her professor's advances. Later, Barbara decides 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, only to discover 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. To be continued...

Guest star : Ron Rifkin

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.

Note : Ron Rifkin becomes a regular cast member

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 is not ready to continue her education.

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

Note : Glenn Scarpelli becomes a regular cast member

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.

Ted Loomis, the young man who once tutored Barbara, comes by the Romano apartment for a visit. Ted has graduated from college at 14, but is having a hard time finding a job. Schneider and Barbara quickly come up with a plan that results in Ted becoming Barbara's boss at the sporting goods store and quickly turns him into a mini-dictator.

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.

Note : Final appearances by Richard Masur and Ron Rifkin .

Following Nick's death in a car accident with a drunk driver, Alex begins feeling lonely and unwanted, especially since his mother has remarried. This leads him to run away from home in Chicago and hop a bus to Indianapolis with a plan to talk Ann and Barbara into letting him move in with them.

Ann is flying into Indianapolis, but her flight has been delayed. This leads Schneider, Barbara and Alex to pass the time waiting in the airport and each one of them has an encounter with the opposite sex, all of which seem promising, but things quickly go awry.

Ann's business is in severe trouble as she is finding it hard to keep up with the bills. This is when her old nemesis, Francine Webster steps in and offers to become her partner. However, Francine has a difficult time trying to convince Ann that she would be the perfect partner, until a prospective client appears and Francine works her magic.

Barbara and Ann return home one evening to discover they have an unexpected houseguest, Julie. It seems Julie has left Max due to severe marital problems. She thinks he is having an affair and confides in Ann and Barbara that she indeed has cheated on Max. Max soon arrives after a phone call from Ann, and is in for a shock as Julie plans to drop her bombshell on him. To be continued...

A stunned Max keeps his distance from Julie after learning that she had an affair. Meanwhile, Julie has no idea where she wants her marriage to go, but is soon in for a shock, she is pregnant. This leads Ann to step in and try to help mend Max and Julie's strained relationship.

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

Guest star : Boyd Gaines

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

Ann's cousin Sophie stops in Indianapolis for a visit. She quickly hits it off with Schneider after displaying her knowledge of hardware, and they begin seeing each other. However, an upcoming dance at Schneider's lodge has him in quandary. Should he take Maxine, a girl who he considers flashy and attractive, or Sophie, who he considers rather plain and mousy?

Alex's first date stirs Ann's protective parenting instincts.

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

Ann leaves on a business trip just before a storm from two gale-force grandmas, Grandma Cooper and Grandma Romano, inundate the Romano apartment. Barbara must bear the brunt of the storm as she soon finds herself being showered with gifts. Grandma Romano buys her an electric organ and Grandma Cooper upstages her by giving Barbara a trip to Hawaii .

Ann, Schneider, Grandma Romano and Bob are all planning a surprise birthday party for Barbara at the sporting good store where she works. Everyone manages to sneak into the store room in preparation, but unwelcome guests arrive and take Barbara at gunpoint in a robbery attempt. Everyone eventually gets locked up in the storeroom, but no one is in the mood for celebrations.

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 is a little nervous about an upcoming doctor appointment with her gynecologist. Later, Barbara has heartbreaking news to break to Ann and Mark; it seems that she may not be able to conceive a child. This throws all her plans up in the air, and she fears that her relationship with Mark will be over when he finds out; Schneider's birthday approaches.

Note : This episode won the 1982 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series . ^[2]

Alex doesn't feel like the hero he is hailed as 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.

Ann prepares her home for a visit from a Russian women's basketball team. When the team arrives, one member, Olga takes a liking to Schneider. When Schneider reciprocates, Olga makes a decision to defect and marry Schneider, which infuriates Ann.

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

Alex is desperate to find a new coach for his softball team, and tries to recruit Ann and Barbara. Meanwhile, Max arrives in Indianapolis on a business trip and stays at the Romano apartment. He quickly accepts Alex's offer and becomes the new coach, but this may prove to be a bad move on Alex's part, since Max wants to bench the inadequate player.

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

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 is coming through loud and clear, Schneider is going deaf.

Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career: fortune-telling .

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

Note : Shelley Fabares , Boyd Gaines , Michael Lembeck , and Mackenzie Phillips are now regular cast members. However, Lembeck and Phillips are only credited for the episodes in which they appear, and Gaines and Fabares aren't credited for every episode early in the season.

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

Note : Joseph Campanella last appearance as Ed Cooper.

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.

Note : Ran with the Season 7 opening credits, so Boyd Gaines appears in the episode but isn't in the opening credits.

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.

Note : Ran with the Season 7 opening credits, so Shelley Fabares appears in the episode but isn't in the opening credits.

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

Note : First appearance by Howard Hesseman .

Guest star : Eve Plumb

Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear. To be continued...

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. To be continued....

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. To be continued....

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 is completely unprepared.

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she is 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 old boyfriend 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.

Note: Valerie Bertinelli does not appear in this episode.

Ann has been expecting a visit from a top Sicilian designer, named Guido Panzini, who bears a striking resemblance to Schneider. When he arrives, he and Francine immediately hit it off and start seeing each other. This puts a kink in Schneider's plans of romancing Francine.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

Ann picks up the morning newspaper and is in for a shock: Sam has set a wedding date for the two of them, and he hasn't even proposed yet. It seems the two are to get married in three days, but Ann is overcome with a case of premarital jitters, though they aren't as bad as the jitters that Sam has, causing him to phone a radio talk show for advice.

Ann and Sam leave for their honeymoon and arrive at their destination, a ski lodge. Things immediately get off on the wrong foot as the airline loses Ann's luggage, but things get even worse when Sam injures his back on a ski lift, which lands him in bed for most of the honeymoon.

Note : Final appearance by Glenn Scarpelli .

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

Note: This is the only time the writing and directing credits are shown at the start of an episode.

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.

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.

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.

Note : Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington Jr. do not appear in this episode. Final appearance by Mackenzie Phillips .

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

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

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

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

It is Grandma Romano's birthday, but no one feels like celebrating when Julie leaves Max a Dear John letter.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

Ann gets a job offer in London and considers taking it. Despite getting nagged by her mother, she decides to accept the job. This leads her to wonder how she is going to tell the rest of her family that she is leaving.

Note : Final appearance by Bonnie Franklin

Schneider learns that his brother died and that somebody needs to take care of his nephew Keith ( Corey Feldman ) and niece Lori, 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.

Note: Pat Harrington Jr. and Valerie Bertinelli are the only cast members to appear in the series finale.

Note: The episode was designed as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff that was not picked up by CBS. ^[3]