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Original Air Date—29 October 1981
Recently widowed Police Chief Carl Kanisky returns home to find his household in a mess. His housekeeper, Nell, has vacuumed his goldfish, Gertrude, his youngest daughter, Samantha, has a black eye, his middle daughter, Julie, is kissing a boy in the kitchen, and his oldest daughter, Katie, has been picked up for shoplifting. |
Original Air Date—5 November 1981
Nell is tired of striking out on the dating scene, so the Chief sets her up with one of his officers. |
Original Air Date—12 November 1981
The Chief is reunited with a woman he knew when they were both high school students - when she runs into his police car. |
Original Air Date—19 November 1981
Nell, the Chief, and the girls try to take their minds off of the fact that it today would have been the girls' mother's birthday. |
Season 1, Episode 5: Do or DietOriginal Air Date—26 November 1981
Nell and the Chief, who have both struggled with weight problems for years, try not to think about food. |
Original Air Date—3 December 1981
Nell quits her job and moves out of the house when she argues with the Chief over inviting her boyfriend to stay the night. |
Original Air Date—10 December 1981
The Chief is caught in a stand-off at a drug store and is forced to shoot the hold-up man. |
Original Air Date—17 December 1981
Katie sponsors Julie for membership in the Silver Slippers, an exclusive club to which she belongs. |
Original Air Date—7 January 1982
Julie falls in love with Arnie, a boy she meets at a video arcade. |
Season 1, Episode 10: Nell's ExOriginal Air Date—14 January 1982
Nell's ex-husband Tony, a singer who had a modest Top 40 hit in the mid-1960s, returns to audition for a gig on a TV show. |
Original Air Date—21 January 1982
The Chief hopes Katie will be the first member of the Kanisky family to go to college, but she doesn't believe she can do well on a test. She asks Julie to take the test for her. |
Original Air Date—4 February 1982
Katie is hospitalized with what turns out to be complications from an Intra-Uterine Device. |
Original Air Date—11 February 1982
Nell goes back to Alabama when she learns her father is dying. |
Original Air Date—18 February 1982
Samantha runs into the house after getting into a fight. Failing to get the attention of Nell and the Chief, who are fighting because Nell sat on his hat, she runs off with a squad car. |
Original Air Date—25 February 1982
On their 55th wedding anniversary, Grandpa Kanisky discovers a shocking revelation about Grandma when he goes through their old love letters. |
Original Air Date—11 March 1982
Katie's band has an opportunity for a gig in Hollywood. |
Original Air Date—18 March 1982
Samantha believes that an innocent kiss from a boy has made her pregnant, but no one will clear up the situation for her. |
Original Air Date—25 March 1982
Two burglars break into the house while the Chief and the girls are away at an award ceremony and Nell is out with a friend. |
Original Air Date—1 April 1982
Katie's friend Valerie is pregnant, and her boyfriend Jonathan is unsure about marrying her. |
Original Air Date—2 October 1982
When the Kaniskys' phone service is mistakenly cut off for non-payment (it was supposed to be a Chinese woman), Nell clashes with the service representative at the phone company. |
Original Air Date—9 October 1982
The Chief doesn't approve when his brother Ed has a date with a woman who used to be a prostitute. |
Original Air Date—16 October 1982
Sam causes a stir in the household because of her imaginary friend named Debbie Jo. |
Original Air Date—23 October 1982
Grandpa Kanisky causes commotion when he stays over at the house. |
Original Air Date—30 October 1982
Valerie, the girl who married and gave birth at the same time in the Kanisky household, returns with the news that her husband has walked out on her. Nell helps her find a job so that she can support her baby. |
Season 2, Episode 6: Porko's IIOriginal Air Date—6 November 1982
Dr. George Avery, founder of the diet group People Organized to Reduce and Kick Obesity (PORKO), gives a speech at one of Nell's meetings. Having gained back a significant amount of weight, he is depressed and wants to end his life. It's up to Nell and the other PORKO members to try and stop him. |
Original Air Date—13 November 1982
During a stakeout, a police officer admits his homosexuality to the Chief, who is extremely displeased. |
Original Air Date—27 November 1982
Katie and Julie clash over a boy they both like. |
Original Air Date—4 December 1982
While Nell is away at a funeral, Officer Simpson accidentally shoots the Chief in the hand. The injuries are minor, but nonetheless Samantha worries that he's going to die. |
Original Air Date—11 December 1982
Nell gets a job selling Amaze-O-Vac vacuum cleaners door to door, finding out too late about the shoddy quality of the product. |
Original Air Date—18 December 1982
Nell goes to court when a neighbor's dog becomes a nuisance. |
Original Air Date—6 January 1983
When Uncle Ed falls ill suddenly, he learns that he needs a kidney transplant from a relative, so he asks the Chief to donate his kidney. |
Original Air Date—13 January 1983
The Chief is angry when he catches Julie smoking a cigarette. |
Original Air Date—20 January 1983
The Chief fires a female officer for posing for a pornographic magazine. |
Original Air Date—27 January 1983
The Mayor of Glenlawn puts political pressure on the Chief over the female officer who posed nude. |
Original Air Date—10 February 1983
The Chief's sister-in-law, Blanche Ross, drops in unexpectedly on his birthday and treats Nell condescendingly. Later night, she walks into the kitchen and sees Nell performing the Heimlich maneuver on the Chief, and assumes they're having sex. She decides to sue the Chief for custody of the girls. |
Original Air Date—17 February 1983
Nell learns that the members of a singing group she used to belong to are in town, and she reflects on how they tricked her into leaving the group for a thinner replacement. |
Original Air Date—24 February 1983
Uncle Ed asks his girlfriend Maxine to marry him. |
Original Air Date—3 March 1983
At the bank, Grandpa is confused for a bank robber. |
Original Air Date—10 March 1983
Nell takes Samantha to the police station to show her that their real day-to-day functions bear no resemblance to what she sees on her favorite TV cop shows. |
Original Air Date—28 April 1983
A delicatessen owner takes in a young girl who tried to shoplift from him. |
Original Air Date—5 May 1983
Grandma Kanisky takes over the household while Nell is sick. |
Original Air Date—29 September 1983
Julie wants to meet her favorite singer, Andy Gibb, who is doing a recording session in town. |
Original Air Date—13 October 1983
Nell is attracted to a man in her diet group. |
Original Air Date—20 October 1983
Nell and the Chief worry when they see Katie going out with a 34-year-old college professor. |
Original Air Date—27 October 1983
Officer Simpson catches Joey Donovan, an abandoned seven-year-old boy, trying to bilk people out of their money. |
Original Air Date—3 November 1983
When the social worker comes to pick up Joey, Nell tells her he ran away. |
Season 3, Episode 6: The MayorOriginal Air Date—10 November 1983
The new mayor of Glenlawn takes an interest in Nell. |
Season 3, Episode 7: MelissaOriginal Air Date—17 November 1983
Nell sets the Chief up with a woman who, unknown to her, is a male-to-female transsexual. |
Original Air Date—1 December 1983
Nell's friend (and sometimes rival) Addy Wilson, a Phi Beta Kappa, comes to town. |
Original Air Date—8 December 1983
Nell and the Kaniskys try to persuade the recently widowed Grandpa to come and live with them. |
Original Air Date—22 December 1983
Nell's plans to give Joey a Christmas with the family meet with resistance, they've all made plans. |
Season 3, Episode 11: HerbieOriginal Air Date—5 January 1984
Samantha believes the world is coming to an end. |
Original Air Date—12 January 1984
Upset because her ex has remarried, Nell goes out with the girls and runs into the other lover of her life. |
Original Air Date—19 January 1984
The Chief puts his whole family (and Nell) in the lock-up after they join Samantha in protesting the planned destruction of an old Spanish mission. |
Season 3, Episode 14: FlashbackOriginal Air Date—26 January 1984
Nell recalls how she met the girls' mother, Margaret Kanisky, and how she gave up a singing career to take care of them when Margaret revealed that was terminally ill. |
Original Air Date—2 February 1984
Nell undergoes hypnosis to recall the location of a missing ring, but the side effects are unexpected. |
Season 3, Episode 16: ValentineOriginal Air Date—9 February 1984
Nell arranges some Valentine's Day dates for the family; all of them end in disaster. |
Original Air Date—16 February 1984
Nell and Addy win a trip to New York City on "Wheel of Fortune." |
Original Air Date—23 February 1984
Nell and Addy fear that the man who stole their suitcase has come back for them. |
Season 3, Episode 19: RodeoOriginal Air Date—8 March 1984
After getting caught in the rain with Joey at the rodeo, Grandpa is hospitalized with severe pneumonia. |
Original Air Date—15 March 1984
Nell is upset when she learns that Katie would rather open a business than go to college. |
Season 3, Episode 21: The CenterOriginal Air Date—19 April 1984
Grandpa attends a dance at a senior citizen's center. |
Original Air Date—3 May 1984
The final tests stand in the way of Nell and Katie each receiving their high school diplomas. |
Original Air Date—29 September 1984
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Original Air Date—6 October 1984
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Original Air Date—13 October 1984
There's nothing happy for Nell about her birthday, until she learns it isn't the birthday she thinks it is. |
Original Air Date—20 October 1984
A woman from Grandpa's past returns. |
Original Air Date—27 October 1984
Samantha falls in love with an 18 year old con artist. |
Original Air Date—3 November 1984
When Nell's CPR patient dies, Ray Parker Jr. performs at the benefit for his widow, neither of them knowing that the deceased was a vicious mobster known as Eddie the Enforcer. |
Season 4, Episode 7: BreakdanceOriginal Air Date—10 November 1984
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Original Air Date—17 November 1984
Nell thinks she has quite a find in a charming archaeologist, until she discovers he's Addy's daddy. |
Original Air Date—24 November 1984
A female officer accuses the Chief of sexual harassment. |
Original Air Date—1 December 1984
Julie lies to Nell to be with her boyfriend Jonathan. |
Original Air Date—8 December 1984
To get back at Nell for not letting her go on a fishing trip, Sam plans to use Joey to get back at her. |
Original Air Date—15 December 1984
Nell tries to get her family and friends to go one evening without watching any television. |
Original Air Date—22 December 1984
During the Christmas season, Nell and Addy are attracted to the same man. |
Original Air Date—5 January 1985
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Original Air Date—12 January 1985
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Season 4, Episode 16: The GiftOriginal Air Date—19 January 1985
Nell's stressed because she's being honored as the woman of the year and can't find anything to wear. Julie shows her the diamond necklace her new boyfriend just gave her. Nell tells her that she should give it back because she doesn't know him that well. Seh entrusts it to Nell till she meets him again. Nell's new boyfriend gives her a mink coat, which she takes and plans to wear at the ceremony and also wears the necklace. Later she gets robbed. And tries to tell Julie what happened without looking like a hypocrite. |
Original Air Date—26 January 1985
Nell goes back to Alabama for her sister's wedding, where she clashes with her mother. |
Original Air Date—2 February 1985
Nell's mother plans to move to Glenlawn with her. |
Season 4, Episode 19: EarthquakeOriginal Air Date—9 February 1985
After an earthquake, Nell is trapped in the library with a deaf woman who can read lips, but only in Spanish. |
Original Air Date—16 February 1985
Addy's women's group is having a benefit concert with Sammy Davis, Jr. as the emcee. When Sammy can't make it, Nell finds a man who looks like him and tries to get him to perform. |
Season 4, Episode 21: Cat StoryOriginal Air Date—23 February 1985
During a torrential rainstorm, Officer Simpson disappears while trying to save a cat and is presumed to have died. |
Original Air Date—23 March 1985
Nell and Addy take over when the entire Glenlawn police force suffers food poisoning. |
Original Air Date—30 March 1985
Everyone gets mad at the Chief and starts to move out of the house one by one. |
Season 4, Episode 24: FriendshipOriginal Air Date—4 May 1985
Nell is angry at Addy, so she decides to find a new best friend. |
Original Air Date—11 May 1985
It's Julie's birthday, and she's depressed about breaking up with her boyfriend, Jonathan. |
Original Air Date—14 September 1985
It has been three months since Chief Kanisky died, when a present he bought for Joey's birthday turns up. Meanwhile, Julie and Jonathan want to move into his bedroom, but Nell objects to this. |
Original Air Date—21 September 1985
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Original Air Date—28 September 1985
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Original Air Date—5 October 1985
Joey meets a man who claims to be from another planet. |
Original Air Date—19 October 1985
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Original Air Date—26 October 1985
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Season 5, Episode 7: MamaOriginal Air Date—2 November 1985
Nell's mother comes to Glenlawn to have eye surgery. |
Original Air Date—9 November 1985
Sam volunteers as a Big Sister to a mischievous little girl who is rude to Nell. |
Original Air Date—16 November 1985
Nell and Addy find themselves stuck in separate, adjacent elevators in the same building. |
Original Air Date—23 November 1985
Nell buys Addy's old car. When the car starts to break down, it comes between the two of them. |
Original Air Date—30 November 1985
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Original Air Date—7 December 1985
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Season 5, Episode 13: SnippetsOriginal Air Date—14 December 1985
Nell and the Kaniskys and their friends look back at the past during the Christmas season. |
Original Air Date—4 January 1986
Nell agrees to sing for a band led by an ex-convict. |
Original Air Date—11 January 1986
Nell and the band appear on "Hour Magazine". |
Original Air Date—18 January 1986
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Season 5, Episode 17: The GunOriginal Air Date—1 February 1986
Joey is frightened when Nell is accidentally shot in the foot with the Chief's old gun. |
Original Air Date—8 February 1986
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Original Air Date—15 February 1986
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Original Air Date—22 February 1986
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Original Air Date—29 March 1986
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Original Air Date—5 April 1986
Nell worries what Katie might do after a string of extremely bad luck. |
Original Air Date—3 May 1986
Nell shares her monetary inheritance with her family and friends. |
Original Air Date—10 May 1986
Nell's purse is stolen at a Greek restaurant. |
Original Air Date—24 September 1986
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Original Air Date—24 September 1986
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Original Air Date—1 October 1986
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Original Air Date—8 October 1986
Joey's father returns and introduces him to his younger brother, Matthew. |
Original Air Date—15 October 1986
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Original Air Date—29 October 1986
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Original Air Date—5 November 1986
Nell starts to regret moving to New York. Even after Grandpa successfully sells the Kaniskys' house, she still feels homesick for Glenlawn. |
Original Air Date—12 November 1986
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Original Air Date—19 November 1986
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Original Air Date—26 November 1986
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Season 6, Episode 11: The ScamOriginal Air Date—3 December 1986
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Original Air Date—10 December 1986
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Original Air Date—7 January 1987
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Season 6, Episode 14: The LoanOriginal Air Date—14 January 1987
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Original Air Date—21 January 1987
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Original Air Date—21 January 1987
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Original Air Date—28 January 1987
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Original Air Date—4 February 1987
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Original Air Date—11 February 1987
Captain Jerk, the star of Joey's favorite TV show, chokes on his whistle and is hospitalized. He needs a transfusion, and Nell gladly agrees to allow the hospital to use her blood. However, she is livid when she learns that the Captain is the leader of a white supremacist group. |
Original Air Date—25 February 1987
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Original Air Date—31 March 1987
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Original Air Date—7 April 1987
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Original Air Date—28 April 1987
When Nell learns that the church where her father preached is being torn down, she goes back to Alabama to try and save it. |
Original Air Date—5 May 1987
Nell goes out on a date with an African prince. |
Original Air Date—12 May 1987
Nell tries to interfere in her mother's love life. |
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