Family

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  E1Thanksgiving

  Nov 20, 1979

  Doug's father starts showing his age.

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  E2'Tis the Season

  Dec 24, 1979

  A pre-Christmas argument with Willie nearly gives Doug a heart attack; Buddy invites her school's janitor to her house, where he quickly endears himself to everyone but Kate.

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  E3Jack of Hearts

  Jan 14, 1980

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

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  E4When the Bough Breaks

  Jan 21, 1980

  Kate finds out she's pregnant; a friend of Buddy's, on vacation from her all-girls school, picks Willie as a seduction target.

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  E5Hard Times

  Jan 28, 1980

  Two friends of Buddy's who have been going steady for 3 years are having relationship problems -- and when she tries to help, the results aren't quite what she expected; Nancy is having trouble at work, which starts to affect even Timmy.

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  E6Whispers

  Feb 4, 1980

  Buddy's friendship with a teacher gives rise to rumors; Annie uses questionable tactics to get Willie to let her interview him for her school paper.

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  E7Play on Love

  Mar 3, 1980

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

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  E8Daylight Serenade

  Mar 10, 1980

  Buddy has an ambiguous relationship with a nerdy schoolmate whom Kate is training for a piano recital; Nancy begs Annie to teach her how to roller-skate, so she can go to a party with a handsome fellow lawyer.

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  E9Such a Fine Line

  Mar 17, 1980

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

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  E10The Ties That Bind

  Jun 4, 1980

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

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  E11Just Like Old Times

  Jun 11, 1980

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

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  E12Smarts

  Jun 18, 1980

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

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  E13Letting GoFinale

  Jun 25, 1980

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

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  E1Starting Over

  Sep 21, 1978

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

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  E2All For Love

  Sep 28, 1978

  Zack tells Buddy that unless she sleeps with him, he will have to satisfy his manly needs with another girl; Doug thinks of buying a flashy sports car.

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  E3Changes

  Oct 12, 1978

  Nancy is all set to re-marry Jeff; Annie, heretofore known as ""Annie Cooper,"" decides to add ""Lawrence"" to her name; Buddy, ever the traditionalist, is bothered by it all.

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  E4Magic

  Oct 19, 1978

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

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  E5Just Friends

  Nov 9, 1978

  Willie considers an affair with a married woman he met in a writing class; Nancy, sick of living in a ""fishbowl,"" decides to move out of the guesthouse and into an apartment of her own.

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  E6Generations

  Nov 23, 1978

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

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  E7Expectations

  Dec 7, 1978

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

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  E8Gifts

  Dec 21, 1978

  Annie, who still misses her parents, can't relate to the Lawrences' holiday cheer, and decides to run away until Christmas is over; Willie runs into his old barber, who is about to close up shop for good.

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  E9The Friend's Affair

  Jan 4, 1979

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

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  E10Exits and Entrances

  Jan 11, 1979

  After Buddy stars in a high-school play (Shaw's Saint Joan), her interest in acting is strongly encouraged by a friend of Kate's, a professional actress; Annie gets a telemarketing job to pay for a new bike.

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  E11Moment of Truth

  Jan 18, 1979

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

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  E12Malicious Mischief

  Jan 25, 1979

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

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  E13Sleeping Over

  Feb 1, 1979

  Buddy's invitation to a sorority becomes a sore point in her friendship with Audrey when Audrey isn't invited to join. Willie sleeps with Kate's musician friend, leading to a serious mother-son rift over casual sex.

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  E14Disco Queen

  Feb 8, 1979

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

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  E15The Athlete

  Mar 1, 1979

  Buddy, volunteering at a hospital, encounters a star high-school basketball player who is there for a broken leg -- or so he thinks; Annie runs for class president against her nemesis, Emmy Sheldon.

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  E16The Competition

  Mar 8, 1979

  Buddy learns the price of competition when an overachieving classmate commits suicide after losing a history competition to her. Annie's cookie-selling strategy is a riot.

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  E17Ballerina

  Mar 15, 1979

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

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  E18Diversions

  Mar 22, 1979

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

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  E19An Apple For the Teacher

  Mar 30, 1979

  Kate's teaching career gets off to a rough start, when a student decides to continuously annoy her; Annie borrows Buddy's ""lucky"" ring to help during a spelling bee, and promptly loses it.

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  E20Prelude

  Apr 20, 1979

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

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  E21Going Straight

  May 10, 1979

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

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  E22From Russia With LoveFinale

  May 17, 1979

  Kate acts as escort to, and highly impresses, a visiting Ukrainian composer; Buddy and Annie play Monopoly to determine who gets Willie's old room.

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  E1Acts of Love (1)

  Sep 13, 1977

  While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a physics student named Lizzy -- who, as he soon finds out, has radiation sickness.

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  E2Acts of Love (2)

  Sep 20, 1977

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

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  E3The First Time

  Sep 27, 1977

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

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  E4Change of Heart

  Oct 4, 1977

  Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.

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  E5Annie Laurie

  Oct 25, 1977

  Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.

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  E6We Love You, Miss Jessup

  Nov 1, 1977

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

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  E7The Little Brother

  Nov 8, 1977

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

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  E8Childhood's End

  Nov 15, 1977

  Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and -- guess what? -- she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorced father, is apprehensive about seeing his kids again.

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  E9A Tale Out of Season

  Nov 22, 1977

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

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  E10Labors of Love

  Nov 29, 1977

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

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  E11A Child is Given

  Dec 13, 1977
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  E12More Than Friends

  Jan 3, 1978

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

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  E13Princess in the Tower

  Jan 10, 1978

  Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo -- and gets trapped overnight, along with a very pregnant younger woman; Buddy has the bright idea of dyeing her hair blonde.

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  E14Echoes of Love

  Jan 17, 1978

  Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her parents are splitting up, and angry that Doug is representing her mother in the divorce.

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  E15See Saw

  Jan 24, 1978

  Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on installing Timmy's new bed; Buddy leaves for a week-end of skiing with T.J. and his parents.

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  E16Lifeline

  Jan 31, 1978

  Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide, to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up her; Buddy baby-sits a whiny kid.

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  E17. . . And Baby Makes Three

  Feb 7, 1978

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

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  E18Crossing Over

  Feb 14, 1978

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

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  E19The Covenant

  Feb 21, 1978

  Medical crises abound in the family when James reveals to Doug that he must soon undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy begins to miscarry Jeff's baby.

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  E20A Friend of the Family's

  Feb 28, 1978

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

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  E21Fear of Shadows

  May 2, 1978

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

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  E22Sleeping Gypsy

  May 9, 1978

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

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  E23CounterpointFinale

  May 16, 1978

  Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug contemplates early retirement after his tennis partner has a heart attack.

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