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Season 1

  • S01E01 Help

    • March 11, 1979
    • ITV1

    Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

  • S01E02 An Unmarried Couple

    • March 18, 1979
    • ITV1

    Jane tries to get use to being alone and to deal with the reactions from an avid press and an overwrought mother.

  • S01E03 Conjugal Wrongs

    • March 25, 1979
    • ITV1

    Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.

  • S01E04 Wedlock, Deadlock

    • April 8, 1979
    • ITV1

    Laurence's interest in another woman at the hospital where he works prompts him to suggest that he and Jane have an open marriage agreement.

  • S01E05 Forever and Never

    • April 15, 1979
    • ITV1

    Jane tries to balance Laurence's demands for attention with Michael and Rob's need for her to mediate a quarrel.

  • S01E06 Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

    • April 29, 1979
    • ITV1

    Jane celebrates her birthday by taking the advice she's been giving to another woman; she leaves Laurence.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Back to Reality

    • April 13, 1980
    • ITV1

    Jane returns from vacation and decides to start dating again, but sees Laurence on a tape at a video-dating service talking about how much he loves his wife.

  • S02E02 Working Girls

    • April 20, 1980
    • ITV1

    Val threatens to moonlight in one of Vincent Fish's erotic films when Diana refuses to give her a raise.

  • S02E03 Coming Out... and Going In Again?

    • April 27, 1980
    • ITV1

    Michael appears anonymously on Jane's radio show to answer questions about the homosexual lifestyle, but Junior's blunder exposes his identity with devastating consequences.

  • S02E04 Television Can Damage Your Health

    • May 4, 1980
    • ITV1

    Jane tries another medium when she makes a television pilot that goes completely off course.

  • S02E05 Problem Parents

    • May 11, 1980
    • ITV1

    Jane helps Rob explain his homosexuality to his parents and advises her mother about a smitten Junior Truscombe.

  • S02E06 Second Time Around

    • May 18, 1980
    • ITV1

    A religiously reformed Andy Evol returns and both he and Jane return to Happening Radio when Junior falls ill.

  • S02E07 A Woman Alone

    • May 25, 1980
    • ITV1

    Jane is taken hostage during her radio show by a reader unhappy with her advice.

Season 3

  • S03E01 From Here to Maternity

    • January 18, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane encounters a broad range of opposition when she decides to stop working and be a full time wife and mother.

  • S03E02 Arrivals and Departures

    • January 25, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane and Laurence wait for their baby while attending a baby care class run by a strange woman and trying to help Michael deal with a fight with Rob.

  • S03E03 Hospital Romances

    • February 1, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane continues helping people from her hospital bed as a black nurse faces the anger of her superior and Val runs off with Andy Evol.

  • S03E04 Communications Breakdown

    • February 8, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane's investigation into group therapy uncovers a problem in her marriage and in that of Val and Andy.

  • S03E05 Holy Wars

    • February 15, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.

  • S03E06 Lucas v Lucas

    • February 22, 1981
    • ITV1

    Jane and Laurence grow farther apart when their baby is kidnapped by a disturbed man.

  • S03E07 Rings Off Their Fingers

    • March 1, 1981
    • ITV1

    Laurence tries to win Jane back and she throws a New Year's Eve party that promises to change many people's lives.