One Day at a Time

Barbara naively announces the reconciliation of her father and her mother. (Part 2 of 2)

Ann's ex-husband announces his plans to remarry. First of two parts.

The girls cajole David into chaperoning a party while Ann is away.

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

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

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

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

Julie's boyfriend wants to stay out all night.

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 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.

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 scolds Julie for flirting with her teacher at exam time.

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

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

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.

""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.

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

Ginny persuades Ann to go to a singles bar.

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

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

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

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

Ginny is always depressed after her mysterious Sunday excursions.

Schneider expects Ginny to leap at his marriage proposal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

David returns from Los Angeles with a job offer and hopes of marrying Ann. (Part 1 of 2)

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

Their possessions stolen, runaways Julie and her boyfriend consider calling Barbara for help. (Part 4 of 4)

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

Ann is overcome by guilt after Chuck and Julie run away. (Part 2 of 4)

Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage. (Part 1 of 4)

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

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

Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. First of two parts.

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.

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.

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

Ann has a competitor in the lecherous Francine Webster.

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

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

Ann learns that a secretary she just hired is a reputed drug user.

Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver. Second of two parts.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A lecherous client has more than business on his mind.

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

Julie is startled by her boss's proposal. Third of four parts.

Julie's boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. Second of four parts.

After Julie plows into a car, its dashing driver offers her a job. First of four parts.

Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.

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.

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

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.

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

Barbara learns a lesson about beauty after Schneider accidentally opens a door smack into her nose.

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.

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

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

Julie is depressed because her designing career seems to have reached a dead end.

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

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

In the first of a three-part story, Ann and a sportswriter begin a promising romance.

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

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

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

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

Julie and Barbara become rivals when they fall for the leader of a rock group. First of two parts.

""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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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's archeology professor offers her love and companisonship and asks her to live with him Greece.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 is harassed by an overzealous suitor.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Barbara hires a genetics tutor, unaware of his obvious shortcomings.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

A Russian women's basketball team visits Ann's home and one of the stars decides to defect and marry Schneider.

The men go fishing and the women await their return, but all have one thing in common, they're talking about marriage.

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.

Barbara fears that her marriage plans will dissolve after she learns that she can't conceive a child.

Francine's father and Grandma Romano are a hot item until she learns his line of work.

Ann is sorely troubled by intimations of her own mortality that are triggered by Barbara's engagement.

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.

Schneider contemplates taking Ann's cousin to a dance.

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.

Julie and Max seem headed for divorce unless someone like Ann can persuade them to talk it out.

Julie shows up unexpectedly, toting all her posessions and spouting unlikely tales of Max's infidelity.

Ann's old nemesis Francine insists that she would make a perfect partner, a prospect Ann finds revolting.

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

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 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.

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.

Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.

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.

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.

Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.

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.

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

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

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.

To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.

Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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