Family

Coming Apart

Buddy gets a job at a bakery, and introduces Willie to her boss, ""Big Al""; Nancy gets involved with Peter, while she's

Such Sweet Sorrow

Salina drops by, at a time when Willie is having problems with Alex; Doug is offered a great job in New York.

Home Movie

Willie drives everyone crazy by following them around and filming them; Buddy has difficulty with a school assignment --

Coming of Age

Buddy officially reaches puberty; Nancy is caught between Kate's resentment of her thoughtlessness, Peter's proposal of

Jury Duty (1)

Kate is subjected to widespread abuse for being the lone holdout; Buddy captures first prize, T.J.'s heart, and (for goo

Jury Duty (2)

Kate is subjected to widespread abuse for being the lone holdout; Buddy captures first prize, T.J.'s heart, and (for goo

The Cradle Will Fall

Buddy completes her orthodontal treatment; Salina returns to town once again, only to be plunged into a custody battle w

Skeleton in the Closet

Doug must face his sister Emily's alcoholism. Buddy tries to help a senior citizen she spots shoplifting food from the s

On The First Day Of Christmas (a.k.a. The Christmas Story)

Doug is suspicious when his father introduces his new, and much younger, girlfriend; Nancy and Jeff have a fight over wh

Rites of Friendship

A friend of Willie's comes out of the closet; Buddy, after getting invited to the ""Junior Jump"" by a popular boy, asks

An Eye to the Future

Buddy (as ""Diamond In the Rough"") gets heavily into the CB scene; Kate decides to go back to college; Doug does a stin

Lovers and Strangers

Willie gets cradle-robbed by a visiting movie director, and takes it much too seriously; Doug gets a dog as a birthday p

Return Engagement

Maggie Calder, the woman who nearly destroyed Doug and Kate's marriage 20 years ago, is back for a second attempt. Buddy

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . .

A daughter whom Elaine gave up for adoption years ago finds her, through Kate; Willie is intrigued by a pretty client at

Someone's Watching

A series of anonymous gifts eventually makes Nancy feel threatened; Buddy's motor-mouth school-project partner uses the

A Safe House

A former friend of Willie's, now an outlaw, gives him a call; Buddy thinks she has a great scoop for the school paper.

Best Friends

Nancy attends her high-school reunion, meeting the guy she dumped to marry Jeff; T.J. asks Buddy to a formal dance, caus

Taking Chances (1)

When Doug loses his sight after getting hit by a car, opinions are divided as to whether he should undergo an operation

Taking Chances (2)

After spending an eternity as a blind man whose youngest daughter despises him, Doug finally musters up the courage to h

Comings and Goings

Willie and Salina search for an apartment together. Jeff's mother Sylvia is confined to the Lawrence home following a ba

. . . More Things in Heaven and Earth

Kate is shaken by what a supposed psychic says about her long-missing aunt; Nancy lands a prestigious legal assignment,

An Endangered Species

A recently-divorced friend wants to hang out with Kate; Nancy gets upset when a classmate asks to use her place for an a

Acts of Love (1)

While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a

Acts of Love (2)

Lizzy dies, but not before Willie convinces her to marry him first.

The First Time

Kate unhappily contemplates her 49th birthday; T.J. asks Buddy to go steady with him, but she's not sure.

Change of Heart

Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.

Annie Laurie

Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.

We Love You, Miss Jessup

Buddy's English teacher gets outed; Willie suspects Nancy of being a home-wrecker.

The Little Brother

Willie fails to understand a black thing; Buddy develops an interest in genealogy.

Childhood's End

Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and -- guess what? -- she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorce

A Tale Out of Season

Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater; Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Than

Labors of Love

Buddy, upset by a lack of attention from T.J., tries to make him jealous by hanging out with a geek; Willie catches the

A Child is Given

More Than Friends

Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things get awkward when he pans Willie's script.

Princess in the Tower

Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo -- and gets trapped over

Echoes of Love

Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her pare

See Saw

Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on instal

Lifeline

Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide, to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up

. . . And Baby Makes Three

Nancy and Jeff aren't sure whether to get back together; Buddy is disgusted that Audrey has fallen for the cheap ploys o

Crossing Over

Willie has an appointment with a big-shot film producer, on the eve of his 21st birthday; then, he and Doug make friends

The Covenant

Medical crises abound in the family when James reveals to Doug that he must soon undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy

A Friend of the Family's

A somewhat unscrupulous former friend of Willie's drops by; Buddy needs driving lessons; Kate and Doug consider taking s

Fear of Shadows

Kate has a recurring nightmare about running over a little boy; Buddy gets a pet raccoon.

Sleeping Gypsy

Everyone at school dislikes Buddy's bohemian friend; Kate gives Doug a plaid jacket he doesn't much care for.

Counterpoint

Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug

Starting Over

Annie's sole surviving relative dumps her into the Lawrences' lap -- where she doesn't feel quite comfortable, at first.

All For Love

Zack tells Buddy that unless she sleeps with him, he will have to satisfy his manly needs with another girl; Doug thinks

Changes

Nancy is all set to re-marry Jeff; Annie, heretofore known as ""Annie Cooper,"" decides to add ""Lawrence"" to her name;

Magic

Kate, in the hospital for a physical, meets a burned-out former rock star; Annie needs Doug's help to impress her classm

Just Friends

Willie considers an affair with a married woman he met in a writing class; Nancy, sick of living in a ""fishbowl,"" deci

Generations

The family decides to spend Thanksgiving at Hattie's farm where Kate faces ghosts from the past. Buddy is intrigued by a

Expectations

Nancy's new boss pressures her to sleep with him; Buddy tries out for the cheerleading squad.

Gifts

Annie, who still misses her parents, can't relate to the Lawrences' holiday cheer, and decides to run away until Christm

The Friend's Affair

A colleague and friend of Doug's is cheating on his wife; Annie suspects a next-door neighbor of having murdered his.

Exits and Entrances

After Buddy stars in a high-school play (Shaw's Saint Joan), her interest in acting is strongly encouraged by a friend o

Moment of Truth

A man he once helped put in jail threatens Doug; Buddy and Audrey have a fight about who copied from whom on an algebra

Malicious Mischief

Nancy considers a marriage proposal from Timmy's daycare provider -- until he gets accused of child abuse; Willie falls

Sleeping Over

Buddy's invitation to a sorority becomes a sore point in her friendship with Audrey when Audrey isn't invited to join. W

Disco Queen

Buddy sneaks into a disco club, with the help of an older acquaintance, and finds it more than she bargained for; Annie

The Athlete

Buddy, volunteering at a hospital, encounters a star high-school basketball player who is there for a broken leg -- or s

The Competition

Buddy learns the price of competition when an overachieving classmate commits suicide after losing a history competition

Ballerina

Willie has a fling with a ballet dancer; Doug purchases a workout set by mail order.

Diversions

While studying for the bar exam, Nancy's attention is diverted by a charming and seemingly accident-prone neighbor.

An Apple For the Teacher

Kate's teaching career gets off to a rough start, when a student decides to continuously annoy her; Annie borrows Buddy'

Prelude

Buddy has a crush on her swimming instructor, much to Zack's displeasure; Kate is tempted to call an old boyfriend.

Going Straight

Willie hires Bambi Deering, the stripper he met on his 21st birthday. Doug attempts to save hefty plumber's fees by repa

From Russia With Love

Kate acts as escort to, and highly impresses, a visiting Ukrainian composer; Buddy and Annie play Monopoly to determine

Thanksgiving

Doug's father starts showing his age.

'Tis the Season

A pre-Christmas argument with Willie nearly gives Doug a heart attack; Buddy invites her school's janitor to her house,

Jack of Hearts

Buddy and Nancy find themselves in a love triangle; Annie dabbles in the occult.

When the Bough Breaks

Kate finds out she's pregnant; a friend of Buddy's, on vacation from her all-girls school, picks Willie as a seduction t

Hard Times

Two friends of Buddy's who have been going steady for 3 years are having relationship problems -- and when she tries to

Whispers

Buddy's friendship with a teacher gives rise to rumors; Annie uses questionable tactics to get Willie to let her intervi

Play on Love

Willie finds the director of his play more interesting than Rachel; Buddy insists on buying an old sports car, over Doug

Daylight Serenade

Buddy has an ambiguous relationship with a nerdy schoolmate whom Kate is training for a piano recital; Nancy begs Annie

Such a Fine Line

A schoolboy has a crush on Kate; Jeff, now an in-over-his-head rock manager, blows into town with his band.

The Ties That Bind

Elaine resurfaces in Kate's life after being dumped by Fred for a younger woman. Meanwhile, Annie experiences abandonmen

Just Like Old Times

Buddy tries to make everyone think she didn't get into any of the schools she applied to; Doug wants Annie to share his

Smarts

Annie gets picked on by her classmates, for being too smart; Buddy, studying for her SATs, worries that she's not smart

Letting Go

Doug is upset when Buddy starts dating a 21-year-old; Annie is jealous of an old friend who has matured much faster than