Seasons & episodes

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.

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.