19 Episodes · Premiered October 30, 1988 · Ended May 7, 1989
Laura and Ben return from a two-year European honeymoon and find Linda jobless, as is Laura, whose catering business went South with sister Jane at the helm.
College reminiscing turns ugly when Richard learns that Linda and Ben had a close encounter.
Amanda leaves because she and her mother cannot agree on how Amanda's birthday should be celebrated.
Richard and Linda learn the hard way that they're broke.
Linda attempts to suck up to some rich clients and inadvertently becomes the object of their awkward teenage son's affection. Meanwhile, Ben and Richard play with a model train set.
Manager Ben's softball teammates give him an ultimatum after all agree that Richard is an incompetent player.
Jane has a whirlwind romance with Peter, a man she met on a video dating service. After they impulsively become engaged, Laura and Linda discover Jane bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter's domineering mother.
Richard joins the Big Brothers organization to mentor a troubled teen.
Feelings of inadequacy stalk Linda with the arrival of her "perfect" sister, a gorgeous doctor who suddenly feels unworthy of accepting her Woman of the Year award.
The girls visit a psychic who warns Linda that a terrible fate will befall her if she doesn't become a nicer person.
Laura convinces a producer to let her host a cooking segment on a Los Angeles morning show, but she freezes up when the camera goes on.
Steve's life is in shambles, and Linda realizes his problems all stem from illiteracy. Meanwhile, Ben and Laura fight about his love of Late Night with David Letterman.
Linda accepts a vice president job at a movie studio, unaware that she's being used as the token female executive. Ben and Laura later discover this and attempt to intervene, not knowing that Linda's already hard at work plotting her revenge.
When he begins writing a nonfiction newspaper column, Ben haplessly alienates everyone in his life.
Laura is miffed when it appears that Jane has usurped her position as worshiped older sister in the eyes of their visiting younger sister Molly.
Linda is less than thrilled at the sudden arrival of her father, a door-to-door salesman who walked out on the family 25 years earlier.
While correcting her deviated septum, Linda considers having a nose job, but Richard is highly opposed.
Letters from a secret admirer tempt Richard to stray.
When Linda pops into a real estate office seeking change for the parking meter, she ends up selling her house and landing a new job as a realtor.Note: This establishes the setup for the next season, but since the show had shifted so far away from its original concept, it was retitled "Open House".