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- | | align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="# | + | | align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#00AC5B" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:125%;" |<span style="color: black;">'''''Married... with Children'''''<br>'''(season 1)'''</span><br> |
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- | | bgcolor=# | + | | bgcolor="#00AC5B" align="center" colspan="3" |<span style="color: black;">'''Broadcast'''</span> |
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| style="text-align: left;"|'''Original channel''' | | style="text-align: left;"|'''Original channel''' | ||
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| style="text-align: left;"|'''Original run''' | | style="text-align: left;"|'''Original run''' | ||
- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |April 5, 1987 – June 28, 1987 | + | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |April 5, 1987 – June 28, 1987<!-- |
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- | | bgcolor=# | + | | bgcolor="#00AC5B" align="center" colspan="3" |<span style="color: black;">'''Home video release'''</span> |
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| bgcolor=white align="center" colspan="3" |'''[[DVD]] release''' | | bgcolor=white align="center" colspan="3" |'''[[DVD]] release''' | ||
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''[[DVD Region Code#Region codes and countries|Region 1]]''' | | style="text-align: left;"| '''[[DVD Region Code#Region codes and countries|Region 1]]''' | ||
- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |October 28, 2003 | + | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |October 28, 2003--> |
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- | | bgcolor=# | + | | bgcolor="#00AC5B" align="center" colspan="3" |<span style="color: black;">'''Season chronology'''</span> |
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- | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="right" colspan="0" |Next → <br> [[Married... with Children (Season 2)|Season 2]] | + | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="right" colspan="0" |'''Next →'''<br>[[Married... with Children (Season 2)|Season 2]] |
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This is a list of episodes for the premiere season (1987) of the television series ''[[Married... with Children (TV Series)|Married... with Children]]''. | This is a list of episodes for the premiere season (1987) of the television series ''[[Married... with Children (TV Series)|Married... with Children]]''. | ||
- | This season introduces the major characters: Al, Peg, Kelly and Bud Bundy, along with their neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades. The first season is the only one in which Al and Peg are regularly intimate, to the point of Al initiating the sessions. It is also the only one where Peg can be seen doing housework under normal circumstances, and she even has her own car (as seen in "Sixteen Years and What Do You Get"). In "Thinergy," Bud mentions that Kelly had been held back a year in school. | + | This season introduces the major characters: Al, Peg, Kelly and Bud Bundy, along with their neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades. The first season is the only one in which Al and Peg are regularly intimate, to the point of Al initiating the sessions. It is also the only one where Peg can be seen doing housework under normal circumstances, and she even has her own car (as seen in "Sixteen Years and What Do You Get"). In "Thinergy," Bud mentions that Kelly had been held back a year in school. Al's dislike of the French is first shown in this season and it is also the first time that he calls Marcy a "chicken." It also contains the first mention of Peg's family being "hillbillies" from the fictional Wanker County, Wisconsin. |
==Episodes== | ==Episodes== | ||
+ | :''See also: [[List of Married... with Children Episodes|List of Married... with Children episodes]]'' | ||
+ | * Christina Applegate and David Faustino both missed one episode | ||
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Pilot (Married... with Children Episode)|Pilot]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Pilot (Married... with Children Episode)|Pilot]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Linda Day]] | | style="text-align:center;"|[[Linda Day]] | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Ron Leavitt | + | | style="text-align:center;"|[[Ron Leavitt]] and [[Michael G. Moye]] |
| style="text-align:center;"|April 5, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|April 5, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.01 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.01 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married with two children, is forced to choose between going to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife, Peg, in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades, a happy young couple | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married with two children, is forced to choose between going to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife, Peg, in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades, a happy, young couple who have moved in next door and are the epitome of 1980s social climbing and greed.<br />Note: On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in honor of its 25th anniversary. The re-aired pilot had 2.9 million viewers. |
- | Note: On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in honor of its 25th anniversary. | + | |
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Thinergy (Married... with Children Episode)|Thinergy]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Thinergy (Married... with Children Episode)|Thinergy]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Ron Leavitt | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye |
| style="text-align:center;"|April 12, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|April 12, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.02 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.02 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Inspired by a diet book from Marcy to improve their sex life, Peg decides the entire family should be eating healthier and starts them on a diet, much to the dismay of the family, mostly Al | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Inspired by a diet book from Marcy to improve their sex life, Peg decides the entire family should be eating healthier and starts them on a diet, much to the dismay of the family, mostly Al. |
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|The neighborhood has a local robber on the loose. After Steve and Marcy are robbed, they buy a guard dog to protect themselves | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|The neighborhood has a local robber on the loose. After Steve and Marcy are robbed, they buy a guard dog to protect themselves. Al, though, buys a gun and ends up accidentally shooting the dog. |
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Whose Room is it Anyway (Married... with Children Episode)|Whose Room Is It Anyway]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Whose Room is it Anyway (Married... with Children Episode)|Whose Room Is It Anyway]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Zane Buzby]] | | style="text-align:center;"|[[Zane Buzby]] | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Marcy Vosburgh | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung |
| style="text-align:center;"|April 26, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|April 26, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.04 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.04 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Steve and Marcy plan on adding another room to their house with their tax refund, but the men and wives get into a huge argument when Al and Steve want a room to play 8 ball pool | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Steve and Marcy plan on adding another room to their house with their tax refund, but the men and wives get into a huge argument when Al and Steve want a room in which to play 8-ball pool, while Peg and Marcy want to put together a yoga exercise room. |
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Have You Driven a Ford Lately? (Married... with Children Episode)|Have You Driven a Ford Lately?]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Have You Driven a Ford Lately? (Married... with Children Episode)|Have You Driven a Ford Lately?]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Richard Gurman | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Richard Gurman and Katherine Green |
| style="text-align:center;"|May 3, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|May 3, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.05 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.05 | ||
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|style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Steve gets a vintage rusty 1965 [[Ford Mustang]]. Since the car is in bad condition, Al and Steve decide to restore the car for themselves but it completely takes their time, irking their wives. | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Steve gets a vintage rusty 1965 [[Ford Mustang]]. Since the car is in bad condition, Al and Steve decide to restore the car for themselves but it completely takes their time, irking their wives. | ||
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Sixteen Years and What Do You Get (Married... with Children Episode)|Sixteen Years and What Do You Get]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Sixteen Years and What Do You Get (Married... with Children Episode)|Sixteen Years and What Do You Get]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Katherine Green | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Katherine Green and Richard Gurman |
| style="text-align:center;"|May 10, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|May 10, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.06 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.06 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al is unable to purchase a gift for Peg on their 16th wedding anniversary and later learns that his credit card was maxed out by Peg and Kelly, who used it to buy gifts for him and pay for their catered dinner and entertainment, and Al is unable to outgun them both. | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al is unable to purchase a gift for Peg on their 16th wedding anniversary, and later learns that his credit card was maxed out by Peg and Kelly, who used it to buy gifts for him and pay for their catered dinner and entertainment, and Al is unable to outgun them both. |
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Married... without Children (Married... with Children Episode)|Married... without Children]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Married... without Children (Married... with Children Episode)|Married... without Children]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Ralph R. Farquhar | + | | style="text-align:center;"|''Teleplay'': Ralph R. Farquhar, ''Story'': Matt Geller |
| style="text-align:center;"|May 17, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|May 17, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.07 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.07 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"| | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al and Peg decide to go on vacation. They ask Steve and Marcy to take care of their kids, Bud and Kelly. They do not get along, as Bud and Kelly throw a huge party at the Rhoades' house, irking Steve and Marcy. Meanwhile, Al and Peg have a better-than-expected time on their vacation and decide to make it much longer than expected, while Steve and Marcy stare in horror at the street hoping for them as the party goes wild. |
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- | | style="text-align:left;"| | + | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[The Poker Game (Married... with Children Episode)|The Poker Game]]" |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|[[Brian Levant]] |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Ron Leavitt and Michael G Moye |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|May 24, 1987 |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|1.08 |
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"| | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al invites Steve to play poker with his best friends, but Steve ends up losing his paycheck to Al, leaving him in a hard situation with Marcy, who wants the money back, but Al insists he won it fair and square and refuses to return the money. Marcy enlists the help of Peggy to stop him.<br>Note: Christina Applegate and David Faustino do not appear in this episode. |
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| style="text-align:center;"|1.09 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.09 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Peg takes a job as a clerk at a clock store at the mall when Al | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Peg takes a job as a clerk at a clock store at the mall when Al will not buy her a VCR, to earn on her own money. Both Peg and Al are unhappy with the situation and pay their kids to suggest that Peg should quit the job. |
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| style="text-align:left;"|"[[Al Loses His Cherry (Married... with Children Episode)|Al Loses His Cherry]]" | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Al Loses His Cherry (Married... with Children Episode)|Al Loses His Cherry]]" | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|Arlando Smith | | style="text-align:center;"|Arlando Smith | ||
- | | style="text-align:center;"|Marcy Vosburgh | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung |
| style="text-align:center;"|June 7, 1987 | | style="text-align:center;"|June 7, 1987 | ||
| style="text-align:center;"|1.10 | | style="text-align:center;"|1.10 | ||
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- | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al runs away from home after a fight with Peg and stays with his best friend, Luke. When a pair of sisters | + | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al runs away from home after a fight with Peg and stays with his best friend, Luke. When a pair of sisters shows up, Luke takes one to bed while the other tries to seduce Al. Al has mixed feelings whether he should cheat on Peg, since he already has 16 years with her, but unhappy with his life. He decides not to cheat on Peg and returns home. |
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- | | style="text-align:left;"| | + | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Nightmare on Al's Street (Married... with Children Episode)|Nightmare on Al's Street]]" |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|Michael G. Moye |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|June 14, 1987 |
- | | style="text-align:center;"| | + | | style="text-align:center;"|1.11 |
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+ | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Marcy freaks out when she begins having erotic dreams about Al after a heated argument about men vs women, and wonders whether she is actually sexually attracted to Al. Haunted by her dreams, Marcy ultimately comes to a conclusion and confronts Al. | ||
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+ | | style="text-align:center;"|12 | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|12 | ||
+ | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Where's the Boss (Married... with Children Episode)|Where's the Boss]]" | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|June 21, 1987 | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|1.12 | ||
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+ | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|When the owner of the shoe store is in a near-fatal plane crash, Al decides that it is time to get some recognition from his boss or quit his job. After quitting, Al returns to the shoe store, but not without a surprise. | ||
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+ | | style="text-align:left;"|"[[Johnny B. Gone (Married with... Children Episode)|Johnny B. Gone]]" | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|Linda Day | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|Katherine Green and Richard Gurman | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|June 28, 1987 | ||
+ | | style="text-align:center;"|1.13 | ||
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+ | |style="background:#c28b6c; colspan="7"|Al and Peggy delay going to a closing of their favorite hamburger joints, Johnny Be Good's, when Bud and Kelly need them to solve their own problems. Meanwhile, Steve and Marcy prepare a party for their bosses at home. | ||
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Current revision as of 07:52, 21 July 2017
Married... with Children (season 1) | ||
Country of origin | United States | |
No. of episodes | 13 | |
Broadcast | ||
Original channel | FOX | |
Original run | April 5, 1987 – June 28, 1987 | |
Season chronology | ||
Next → Season 2 | ||
List of Married... with Children episodes |
This is a list of episodes for the premiere season (1987) of the television series Married... with Children.
This season introduces the major characters: Al, Peg, Kelly and Bud Bundy, along with their neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades. The first season is the only one in which Al and Peg are regularly intimate, to the point of Al initiating the sessions. It is also the only one where Peg can be seen doing housework under normal circumstances, and she even has her own car (as seen in "Sixteen Years and What Do You Get"). In "Thinergy," Bud mentions that Kelly had been held back a year in school. Al's dislike of the French is first shown in this season and it is also the first time that he calls Marcy a "chicken." It also contains the first mention of Peg's family being "hillbillies" from the fictional Wanker County, Wisconsin.
[edit] Episodes
- Christina Applegate and David Faustino both missed one episode
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Linda Day | Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye | April 5, 1987 | 1.01 |
A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married with two children, is forced to choose between going to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife, Peg, in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades, a happy, young couple who have moved in next door and are the epitome of 1980s social climbing and greed. Note: On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in honor of its 25th anniversary. The re-aired pilot had 2.9 million viewers. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Thinergy" | Linda Day | Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye | April 12, 1987 | 1.02 |
Inspired by a diet book from Marcy to improve their sex life, Peg decides the entire family should be eating healthier and starts them on a diet, much to the dismay of the family, mostly Al. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy" | Linda Day | Ron Burla | April 19, 1987 | 1.03 |
The neighborhood has a local robber on the loose. After Steve and Marcy are robbed, they buy a guard dog to protect themselves. Al, though, buys a gun and ends up accidentally shooting the dog. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Whose Room Is It Anyway" | Zane Buzby | Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung | April 26, 1987 | 1.04 |
Steve and Marcy plan on adding another room to their house with their tax refund, but the men and wives get into a huge argument when Al and Steve want a room in which to play 8-ball pool, while Peg and Marcy want to put together a yoga exercise room. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Have You Driven a Ford Lately?" | Linda Day | Richard Gurman and Katherine Green | May 3, 1987 | 1.05 |
Steve gets a vintage rusty 1965 Ford Mustang. Since the car is in bad condition, Al and Steve decide to restore the car for themselves but it completely takes their time, irking their wives. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Sixteen Years and What Do You Get" | Linda Day | Katherine Green and Richard Gurman | May 10, 1987 | 1.06 |
Al is unable to purchase a gift for Peg on their 16th wedding anniversary, and later learns that his credit card was maxed out by Peg and Kelly, who used it to buy gifts for him and pay for their catered dinner and entertainment, and Al is unable to outgun them both. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Married... without Children" | Linda Day | Teleplay: Ralph R. Farquhar, Story: Matt Geller | May 17, 1987 | 1.07 |
Al and Peg decide to go on vacation. They ask Steve and Marcy to take care of their kids, Bud and Kelly. They do not get along, as Bud and Kelly throw a huge party at the Rhoades' house, irking Steve and Marcy. Meanwhile, Al and Peg have a better-than-expected time on their vacation and decide to make it much longer than expected, while Steve and Marcy stare in horror at the street hoping for them as the party goes wild. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "The Poker Game" | Brian Levant | Ron Leavitt and Michael G Moye | May 24, 1987 | 1.08 |
Al invites Steve to play poker with his best friends, but Steve ends up losing his paycheck to Al, leaving him in a hard situation with Marcy, who wants the money back, but Al insists he won it fair and square and refuses to return the money. Marcy enlists the help of Peggy to stop him. Note: Christina Applegate and David Faustino do not appear in this episode. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "Peggy Sue Got Work" | Linda Day | Ellen L. Fogle | May 31, 1987 | 1.09 |
Peg takes a job as a clerk at a clock store at the mall when Al will not buy her a VCR, to earn on her own money. Both Peg and Al are unhappy with the situation and pay their kids to suggest that Peg should quit the job. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "Al Loses His Cherry" | Arlando Smith | Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung | June 7, 1987 | 1.10 |
Al runs away from home after a fight with Peg and stays with his best friend, Luke. When a pair of sisters shows up, Luke takes one to bed while the other tries to seduce Al. Al has mixed feelings whether he should cheat on Peg, since he already has 16 years with her, but unhappy with his life. He decides not to cheat on Peg and returns home. | ||||||
11 | 11 | "Nightmare on Al's Street" | Linda Day | Michael G. Moye | June 14, 1987 | 1.11 |
Marcy freaks out when she begins having erotic dreams about Al after a heated argument about men vs women, and wonders whether she is actually sexually attracted to Al. Haunted by her dreams, Marcy ultimately comes to a conclusion and confronts Al. | ||||||
12 | 12 | "Where's the Boss" | Linda Day | Marcy Vosburgh and Sandy Sprung | June 21, 1987 | 1.12 |
When the owner of the shoe store is in a near-fatal plane crash, Al decides that it is time to get some recognition from his boss or quit his job. After quitting, Al returns to the shoe store, but not without a surprise. | ||||||
13 | 13 | "Johnny B. Gone" | Linda Day | Katherine Green and Richard Gurman | June 28, 1987 | 1.13 |
Al and Peggy delay going to a closing of their favorite hamburger joints, Johnny Be Good's, when Bud and Kelly need them to solve their own problems. Meanwhile, Steve and Marcy prepare a party for their bosses at home. | ||||||