Seasons & episodes

To help commemorate the anticipated breaking of Joe's old high school strike-out record, Joe's old coach coerces him to fly him and his star player to the game. But when heavy fog prevents his landing on time, some question whether his concern was safety or for his own high school record.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Helen spilling soup on a man lands her a job offer with the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She fights to get even one person (besides Roy) to attend her inaugural performance, but in the end, they'll all wish they'd stayed on the island.

S4 · E1Lifeboat 1992-09-24 · 22 min＋

After their plane plunges into the Atlantic en route to Boston, the whole gang finds themselves at each others throats and struggling for survival in a leaky lifeboat.

S4 · E2The Fortune Cookie 1992-10-01 · 22 min＋

Joe's future is up in the air when Sandpiper Air is grounded by his insurance company, but Brian's plan to save the airline doesn't fly right with Helen.

S4 · E3Noses Off 1992-10-08 · 22 min＋

Sandpiper is finally back in business but Joe's nose is broken by a man who mistakes him for Brian. At the surgeon's office, the doctor's observation of a bump on Brian's nose has him obsessing about getting a nose job.

S4 · E4Blackout Biggins 1992-10-22 · 22 min＋

Roy is struck out at Fenway Park by his own rendition of the National Anthem, and Fay commits a costly personal foul at work.

S4 · E5Mathers of the Heart 1992-10-29 · 22 min＋

Lowell convinces Helen to go on a date with him.

S4 · E6Two Jerks and a Jill 1992-11-05 · 22 min＋

Antonio upstages Lowell in front of the Tuesday Night Rat Club, while Brian and Joe are grounded by an attractive helicopter pilot.

S4 · E7It's So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House 1992-11-12 · 22 min＋

Brian and Joe gain a new roommate after Brian accidentally sinks Lowell's houseboat.

S4 · E8Just Say No 1992-11-19 · 22 min＋

Brian's ex-flame arrives from New York to rekindle the fire and it's up to his friends to keep him from getting burned again.

S4 · E9It May Have Happened One Night 1992-12-03 · 22 min＋

After having a few drinks, Alex asks Joe to drive her home and when he arrives late the next day everyone assumes that they spent the night together.

S4 · E10The Customer's Usually Right 1992-12-17 · 22 min＋

Joe is irritated about getting charged a rewind fee for a returned video tape which he believes was rewound.

S4 · E11Exit Laughing 1993-01-07 · 22 min＋

Helen dates a guy with an annoying laugh. Antonio has trouble with his jerk neighbor.

S4 · E12What the Cabbie Saw 1993-01-14 · 22 min＋

Antonio performs his civic duty when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then testifies against him. But then the suspect gets released on a technicality, and Antonio starts to fear for his life.

S4 · E13Labor Pains 1993-01-28 · 22 min＋

When Lowell demands a raise from Joe and Roy, shrewd bargaining tactics by Antonio and Roy leave Lowell dejected and jobless.

S4 · E14I've Got a Secret 1993-02-04 · 22 min＋

When Alex tells Antonio and Helen that she posed nude for Playboy while in college, the secret is just too good to keep quiet.

S4 · E15The Gift (1) 1993-02-11 · 22 min＋

With an opening in a quartet, Helen wants to try out but her cello is on the bottom of the ocean. She gets a second job to purchase a new cello but things don't go as planned. Lowell, Faye, Roy and Antonio audition for a play.

S4 · E16The Gift (2) 1993-02-18 · 22 min＋

Helen gets the quartet role but hates it. However, she doesn't know how to quit without letting Joe and Brian down. Faye, Roy, Antonio and Lowell practice for their awful play.

S4 · E17I Love Brian 1993-02-25 · 22 min＋

Hoping to impress Alex, Brian claims to know Clint Black. Helen and Alex are entertained while they expect Brian's scheme to attend a concert and meet him will backfire.

S4 · E18The Key to Alex 1993-03-15 · 22 min＋

Joe and Brian, in heated competition, pull out all the stops in a transparent attempt to get closer to Alex.

S4 · E19The Houseguest 1993-04-08 · 22 min＋

Helen throws a surprise birthday for Nantucket's most unpopular resident, 70-year-old Carlton Blanchard, who threatens to become a permanent household fixture after suffering a fall in her home.

S4 · E20Goodbye, Old Friend 1993-04-29 · 22 min＋

Weeb Gilroy's death has Lowell searching for the right words to eulogize his long time friend. Words fail him at the end and all he can think of is to finish working on the plane they built together.

S4 · E21Another Wedding 1993-05-06 · 22 min＋

The crew is invited to the wedding of the air traffic controller.

S4 · E22Date Package Number Seven 1993-05-13 · 22 min＋

Alex finally agrees to a date with Brian, only to find out later it was all a set-up.