Mary’s chicken soup makes the evening news. The time has come for Steve to gesture goodbye. Mary’s guilt gets Leroy a Cadillac.

George gets a “visitor” and then a “surprise.” The Hartmans get a call from Tom’s ex’s ex. George returns home in a panic.

Mary plays hostess to a funeral and eulogizes the late Leroy Fedders. Tom and Mary make plans for the hypothetical. Tom has a surprise for Mae.

Mae’s reunion is a big headache for Tom and it’s all Mary’s fault. Loretta and Charlie get some not so friendly news. Loretta makes a spectacular comeback, in more ways…

Charlie and Loretta face eviction at the hands of the Friendly Loan Co. Steve appears on the Johnny Tilson Show, where it’s apparent that he’s romancing starlet Kate Walters. Martha…

Mary tells Tom that it’ll be 23 years before their sexual desires are synchronized again. Tom is angered by Mary’s need for “something else” that she can’t explain. Mary seeks…

Dr. Fermin tells Loretta that she’s in spontaneous remission. Charlie devises a plan to come up with money to stall eviction by selling raffle tickets for a color TV he…

Now that Mary knows her thing is communication, she has to decide what to do with it. Tom doesn’t communicate well when he tells Loretta and Mary what happened between…

Steve reassures Cathy that starlet Kate Walters was just for publicity. Tom has to explain to Heather that he broke the rules when he’s sent home from the plant over…

Cathy tells George and Martha that she and Steve are going to Hollywood to be married, just as Kate Walters arrives at Steve’s apartment. Tom has it out with George…

Mary, Martha, and Loretta plan Cathy’s impromptu bridal shower while she’s throwing her engagement ring back at Steve. A distraught Cathy arrives home, announces Steve’s infidelity, and renounces men. Dennis…

Mary secretly phones Mona but can’t talk. After her date with Dennis, Cathy’s over Steve. Loretta has a new tune about Cathy’s relationship with Steve called How Can You Say…

Mary is too busy preparing food products without food to care about Cathy’s relationship with Dennis. Loretta receives a phone call from another Mrs. Haggers. Mona arrives at the Hartman…

Mary and Tom have a surrogate. Loretta gets a non-obscene phone call. Mary leaves Tom alone with Mona.

Charlie talks to Loretta about Muriel. Cathy and Dennis return from a night together. Loretta prepares for her predecessor.

Mrs. Haggers meets Mrs. Haggers. Sergeant Foley waits with Mary. Mary is shaking – and it’s not from the cold. Charlie and Muriel remember things differently.

Mary is not nervous as Mona drops by. Cathy has no need to be jealous. Tom learns the wonders of performance anxiety.

Mary wonders about Tom’s sudden burst of cooperativeness. Charlie tells Loretta the story of Muriel. Cathy has found the perfect man – again.

Mona has a perfect record – practically. Loretta and Mary tackle each other’s problems and talk about “the scar!”

Loretta gives a farewell performance. Cathy plays hard-to-get and says yes to two dates.

Tom has some good news. Mary’s not in touch with herself and witnesses the wounding of the Lackawanda Institute.

Martha confides in Mary and tells her about the ozone. Mary talks to Heather about love and slaps her in the face.

The Shumways are warned about Sergeant Foley from the one he loves. Mary tells of the meaning of STET and loses more than her arm. Muriel talks of Charlie’s “base…

Mary feels awful and Roberta says “great.” Mary tells Dennis he must forget Cathy. Mary confides in Cathy, who hates her.

Mary wonders about international conspiracy and makes the morning meal. Cathy and Dennis play games. Mary gets a gift from Dennis, but has nothing to give him, except maybe one…

Loretta delivers word that a neighborhood family was murdered; Mary and Tom have a disagreement about making love; Charlie announces he almost has enough money to get Loretta’s record demo…

Mary brings her grandfather home from the police station; Kathy falls for a blue-eyed Armenian bartender; a reporter interviews Loretta about the murders; and Mary feels ashamed when Tom rejects…

Mary is interviewed by a reporter; Young Heather Hartman displays suspicious behavior when asked about the recent murders; Grampa Larkin is arrested again.

Grampa Larkin appears in court; Tom and Mary’s drought in the bedroom continues.

Word begins to spread that Heather knows more about the Lombardi murders than she’s telling; Cathy gets fired; Mary receives a threatening phone call about Heather.

Grampa Larkin visits a psychiatric social worker; Mary gets some sex books; a strange man follows Heather home from school.

Mary turns to the police after Heather confesses that she saw the killer; Loretta is arrested for picketing; Charlie stumbles on Mary’s sex ed books.

Tom is furious with Mary after finding her sex books; Grampa Larkin’s social worker admits that she’s in love with him; Heather’s story makes the evening news.

Immediately after recording her demo, Loretta begins suffering from fainting spells; Mary becomes jealous of one of Tom’s coworkers; Heather escapes police protection.

Charlie tries talking sense into Tom, but Tom feels something is missing in his life. Cathy prepares for her date with Chuck. Charlie and Loretta go to the Doctor’s office….

Tom and Heather both go missing on the same night, and so Mary can only hope that Heather is safe and that Tom was kidnapped by the mass murderer. She’d…

Loretta considers not going to Nashville since Heather is missing. Mary finds out the truth about Tom. Loretta gets some good news. Cathy admits she’s in love with Steve. Tom…

Cathy brings Steve over to meet her parents. Fanny is too much for Raymond. The mass murderer is revealed and Heather, Trudy, and Mary’s lives are in danger.

Mary returns home with one shoe and no groceries. Tom wants to know where she’s been. Loretta and Charlie are off to Nashville.

Mary tries to calm the mass murderer, while he continues to ask for demands: a car and $100,000.