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Season 1

  • S01E01 Birthday Presence

    • February 29, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian and Ross come to an understanding while trying to persuade a divorced father to attend his son's birthday party.

  • S01E02 How to Succeed in Day Care

    • March 3, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian and Kate are at odds and evens when the parents of overachiever Molly ask them to add math and reading to their curriculum.

  • S01E03 One Big Happy Family

    • March 6, 1988
    • NBC

    Self-sufficient teen Ross looks at quality time as an overrated inconvenience, while Brian is serious about getting to know his son.

  • S01E04 That Saturday Feeling

    • March 13, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian takes the title of ""Hippest Dad"" to heart, when all Ross would like him to be is ""Anonymous Ride Giver,"" especially when his dad's new found coolness threatens to ruin his party.

  • S01E05 Community Service

    • March 20, 1988
    • NBC

    Caught in a stock scam, Eileen receives a sentence worse than death: community service at the day-care center. Meanwhile, Ross's bathrobe, Baby, seems to have escaped from his custody.

  • S01E06 Birth Wait

    • March 27, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian and Kate have their hands full at a slumber party with a guitar-strumming Ross, Eileen, two hyper kids, and another kid who's dreading the arrival of a new sibling.

  • S01E07 What I Did for Love

    • April 3, 1988
    • NBC

    When Kristin turns down his request for a date, Ross and his overactive teen hormones settle for an evening of team babysitting.

  • S01E08 Great Expectations

    • April 10, 1988
    • NBC

    Buoyed by Ross's high aptitude scores, Kate goes to work as his high-pressure tutor.

  • S01E09 How Now, Dow Jones

    • April 17, 1988
    • NBC

    Kate turns bearish when Brian becomes more interested in part-time stock counseling than in full-time storytelling.

  • S01E10 Life at a Glance

    • April 24, 1988
    • NBC

    Obsessive planner Eileen meets a divorced father and, after dating him for only a week, she maps out their next 50 years together.

  • S01E11 The Age of Dinosaurs

    • May 1, 1988
    • NBC

    Ross basks in the glow of pre-school as he wows the kids with a hit dinosaur demo, prompting Brian and Kate to steer him toward a teaching career.

  • S01E12 Do You Think I'm Sexy?

    • May 15, 1988
    • NBC

    Aided by amateur counselors Eileen and Kristin, Kate tries to rekindle the romance in her marriage, as hamsters and finger painting replace dining and dancing.

  • S01E13 The Field Trip

    • May 29, 1988
    • NBC

    The kids are gearing up for a trip to the petting zoo, but Kate's ego is what needs stroking after a bad day has her convinced that she's a day-care disaster.

Season 2

  • S02E01 My World and Welcome to It

    • October 30, 1988
    • NBC

    Eileen gives Ross a student internship, but will the pressure of being a successful pre-stockbroker drive him into early retirement?

  • S02E02 Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    • November 6, 1988
    • NBC

    The intimitable Eileen is moving next door, and it's not a pretty sight as she demoralizes the remodeling men and, in a pinch, babysits Emily.

  • S02E03 Trading Places

    • November 27, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian welcomes college buddy Steven Keaton whose plan to see St. Louis with son Andy falls on its arches when Andy decides he'd rather spend time at the playschool.

  • S02E04 Girl Wars

    • December 4, 1988
    • NBC

    Ross finally gets up the nerve to ask a girl to a dance, but best friend Stiv has the nerve to ask her first.

  • S02E05 Harper and Son

    • December 11, 1988
    • NBC

    Brian's gregarious father visits, but he strikes out with Brian when he tries to turn Ross from a star sleeper into a star athlete.

  • S02E06 Merry Kristin

    • December 18, 1988
    • NBC

  • S02E07 You Gotta Be a Football Hero

    • January 1, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross goes out for football to make a pass at a girl who loves the sport, and Brian is carried back to his gridiron glory days.

  • S02E08 Smart Women, Nice Refreshments

    • January 8, 1989
    • NBC

    Eileen ropes a reluctant Kate into joining a professional women's group, but before long, Kate ""the Organizer"" has tied down the lead over Eileen in the race for club secretary.

  • S02E09 Out for a Stretch

    • January 15, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross takes a job baby-sitting, but an evening out cruising in a stretch limo is too tempting to turn down, so he takes Molly and Emily along for the ride.

  • S02E10 The Music Man

    • January 29, 1989
    • NBC

    The preschool's music teacher, Charlie the Song Guy, strikes a chord with Eileen, who learns to enjoy sounds other then the ringing of a cash register.

  • S02E11 A Very Brady Episode

    • February 5, 1989
    • NBC

    After getting an F on a term paper, Ross' parents are very disappointed in his efforts. They asked what he was doing with his time & he's watching a Brady Bunch marathon. So they ground him from the tv until he can improve his grades. As he was studying, Ross has a dream about being on The Brady Bunch! He's greeted by Carol & was amazed that he's their long lost son, Chuck Brady! Carol makes him take off the robe & Chuck finds himself wearing 70's clothes. He also meets Mike who asks him to go get a perm. And Alice who had boxing gloves on. Then he met Peter & Bobby who wanted him to work on his campaign for student council president. Then he met a very pregnant Marcia! Marcia thanks him for backing her up for student council. Then the boys & girls fight over that. Chuck doesn't want to be student council president. Then Chuck sees his two girls who are Marcia's friends dressed as cheerleaders.

  • S02E12 My Momma Done Tol' Me

    • February 12, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross battles Kate's low opinion of his new girlfriend, who has a very high opinion of herself.

  • S02E13 Fraternity

    • February 19, 1989
    • NBC

    While Ross admires Brian's practical joking fraternity brother Stan, Brian thinks Stan still has some growing up to do.

  • S02E14 Tears of a Clown

    • February 26, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross and Stiv enroll in home ec to savor the presence of their female classmates, but Ross finds his cooking teacher's company most appetizing.

  • S02E15 Harmless Harper

    • March 5, 1989
    • NBC

    Brian is flustered but flattered by the amorous attention of an attractive stockbroke, but Kate invests her complete trust in her husband.

  • S02E16 Three Men and a Babe

    • March 12, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross loses big with his buddies when he begins spending all of his time in artistic pursuits with his girlfriend, instead of joining the guys for their manly game of Risk.

  • S02E17 Foul Play

    • March 23, 1989
    • NBC

    Eileen figures to benefit when her ""best friend"" Kristin begins going out with Eileen's grateful boss.

  • S02E18 The Reunion

    • April 2, 1989
    • NBC

    Eileen is determind to relive the humiliating days of yesteryear at her high-school reunion, so she hires Ross to pose as her husband.

  • S02E19 The Lost Weekend

    • April 16, 1989
    • NBC

    Ross and his girlfriend have the house to themselves or so they think.

  • S02E20 Father Knows Best

    • June 4, 1989
    • NBC

    An overprotective dad pulls his son out of preschool, while Ross is pushed into a date with the daughter of one of Eileen's clients.