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

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

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.

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

Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.

Schneider becomes the not-so-silent business partner of Ann and Francine after the bank turns down their loan.

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

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

The annual variety show for the Park Utopia senior-citizens hotel takes place.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

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.

A letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.

Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.

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.

Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

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.

Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.

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

Francine goes behind Ann's back to talk Sam into designing an elaborate office suite that's too grandiose for Ann's taste.

Ann and Francine's business relationship is threatened when Francine announces she's marrying an ad executive Ann doesn't trust.

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.""

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.

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.