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The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis.
Bonnie Franklin
Ann Romano
Valerie Bertinelli
Barbara Cooper
Pat Harrington Jr.
Dwayne Schneider
Mackenzie Phillips
Julie Cooper
Boyd Gaines
Mark Royer
Howard Hesseman
Sam Royer
Michael Lembeck
Max Horvath
Nanette Fabray
Katherine Romano
1975
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's new boyfriend invites her to spend the weekend with him.
Ann fears the girls are rejecting her in favor of their father's steady girlfriend.
Ann scolds Julie for flirting with her teacher at exam time.
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 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.
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.
Julie's boyfriend wants to stay out all night.
Angry over her phone bill, Ann writes a protest to the President and gets in hot water with the Secret Service.
Ann discovers David and a young woman in a state of dishabille.
Julie gets a waitress job in a grubby diner on the rough side of town.
Julie has a date with a college man who discovers a decided preference for Ann.
The girls cajole David into chaperoning a party while Ann is away.
Ann's ex-husband announces his plans to remarry. First of two parts.
Barbara naively announces the reconciliation of her father and her mother. (Part 2 of 2)
1978
Ann's ex-husband tells her that he can no longer pay her child support for his daughters.
1976
Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage. (Part 1 of 4)
Ann is overcome by guilt after Chuck and Julie run away. (Part 2 of 4)
1977
After Julie plows into a car, its dashing driver offers her a job. First of four parts.
Julie's boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. Second of four parts.
1979
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.
Ed is forced to admit the truth to Julie and Barbara.
Ann is stunned when a friend says she's 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, that's when Ann encourages Bob to perhaps date other women. He does but Barbara's reaction to Bob's new girlfriend is incredibly telling.
While he's 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 disabled friend, Jackie. Schneider reluctantly takes on the kid who does his best to prove he can do the job. However, when there is a gas leak in the building, Jackie's competence is put to the test.
Sally, an old school friend of Barbara's shows up for a visit with some news, she's 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 ""Romano's""apartment building refuses to pay higher rent to allow the building's owners to throw him out.Because he is old and disabled.He locks himself in ""The Romano's Apartment""with a shotgun and will hold the family hostage.Until he can get on tv and tell the buildings owners to allow him to stay in his apartment and pay a fair rent price for it.On a sad not,this was Mr.J.Pat O'Malley's last tv performance.He would spend his last years living at The Motion Picture and TV Home in Woodland Hills,Ca.,Until his death in 1986.
Julie and Barbara become rivals when they fall for the leader of a rock group. First of two parts.
Conclusion. 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 of a three-part story, 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.
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.
Julie falls for an egotistical filmmaker whose temperament exactly matches her own.
Barbara's high school graduation has arrived and she's all excited, except for two issues. First, she's unsure if she wants to attend the University of Wisconsin, like her father did and second she's up in arms, 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, however her plans are put to a halt when Grandma Romano drops by with the announcement that she's 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.
Schneider uses CB radio to search for Julie and her boyfriend. (Part 3 of 4)
Their possessions stolen, runaways Julie and her boyfriend consider calling Barbara for help. (Part 4 of 4)
Hoping to attract desirable males, Barbara decides to change her image.
David returns from Los Angeles with a job offer and hopes of marrying Ann. (Part 1 of 2)
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.
Ann must deal with an upholstery ripoff that invades her home.
Schneider touts his visiting nephew as a model gentleman, unaware that the youth is a thief.
Ann's visiting father tries to persuade her to return home.
Ann finds herself attracted to the piano player who has moved into the building.
The girls put on a New Year's show at a retirement home.
Julie's religious zeal is driving Ann and Barbara crazy. First of two parts.
Julie applies her religious zeal to a drunken derelict, whom she found in a garbage can. Conclusion.
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.
Tired from cramming for entrance exams, Julie doesn't want to go to college anymore.
""Barbera""and ""Julie""want to sneak out to a party on a school night.This occurs,while""Ms.Romano""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 and their beaus(Especially ""Cliff Randell"").So they try to reach their mother via a phone call.But they find out that ""Ms.Romano""didn't reach her hotel.This is one episode.Where both Ms.Philips and Ms.Bertinelli's characters show another side to their characters and to the characters'relationship.That there is a warm and caring friendship to these two young women and not an angry rivelry.
Julie is startled by her boss's proposal. Third of four parts.
Julie is implored by her father not to marry her 42-year-old boss. Conclusion.
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 step-mother.
When Barbara hands in Julie's verse as her own for a class, a school counselor takes her for a poetic genius.
While agonizes over whether Cliff Randall will invite her to the Grateful Dead concert, she has to contend with a over-eager girl trying to be her friend. When reality sinks in, she reaches out to Barbara at the last moment.
Barbara's classmate phones to say she's taken a drug overdose. Conclusion.
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 anything but excited about meeting him, at first that is. Things start to change however, once she gets to know him and she invites him over for dinner.
Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver. Second of two parts.
Ann learns that a secretary she just hired is a reputed drug user.
Frustrated over not getting enough attention at home, Barbara rebells 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.
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 and fink on a friend or not say anything. Ultimately, she tells the truth but then must face the results of her actions, possible alienation.
Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. First of two parts.
Conclusion. 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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
A fast talking insurance man from Buffalo can't decide whether he would rather romance Barbara, Ann or Grandma Romano.
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.
Grandma Romano moves to Indianapolis, takes an apartment in Ann's building and finds a job in her office.
Barbara is harassed by an overzealous suitor.
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.
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.
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 companisonship and asks her to live with him 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.
1980
Barbara went 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 certainly can get a higher grade on her paper, that is if she accepts her professor's advances. Later, Barbara determines 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, but soon discovers she'd rather not have it, since 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.
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.
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's not ready to continue her education.
Former tenants ask Schneider to help them conceive a child through artificial insemination.
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.
A child who once tutored Barbara has graduated from college, but can't find a job, at age 14.
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.
1982
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.
Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara's worried he won't get to the church on time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 newly friend 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.
Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.
Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.
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.
Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.
1981
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.
Awaiting Ann's overdue flight, everyone passes time in fleeting encounters with the opposite sex.
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.
Barbara schedules back to back dates with two guys but the first won't take her home.
Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.
Schneider contemplates taking Ann's cousin to a dance.
Alex's first date rekindles the protectionist approach Ann took with her daughters.
Schneider becomes the not-so-silent business partner of Ann and Francine after the bank turns down their loan.
While Ann is away, Barbara's grandmothers wage a war of presents for her affection.
Unwelcome guests arrive just in time for Barbara's surprise birthday party at the store.
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.
Alex talks Max into coaching his baseball team and Max's first action as coach is to bench Alex.
At a dentistry convention in Las Vegas, Barbara and Mark consider avoiding the hassle of wedding arrangements with a quickie Vegas marriage ceremony.
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's coming through loud and clear, Schneider's going deaf.
Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career, fortunetelling.
1983
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.
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.
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 begins considering the option of adoption.
Barbara, still wanting to have a child, continues to consider 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's been kidnapped until Ann learns he's kept his old apartment.
Francine goes behind Ann's back to talk Sam into designing an elaborate office suite that's 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's 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's 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 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.
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.
