Dorothy decides to help Sophia with the Meals on Wheels program and runs across a reclusive man who hasn’t stepped out of his apartment since the 1960’s. Meanwhile, Blanche’s birthday…

Stan has finally hit it big with a new invention but still Dorothy can’t be happy for him. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche fight over some war bonds that if cashed…

Rose makes a stunning discovery while admitting a patient at the hospital. Meanwhile, Sophia has to have surgery but a mix-up occurs after the operation and Sophia becomes lost in…

Blanche’s daughter wants to give birth in a birthing center while Blanche is preoccupied by the possibility of Rebecca delivering in a local hospital. Blanche doesn’t want to be embarrassed…

When the FBI agent announces that George Bush will make a visit to their home, the girls continue to reminisce and Dorothy quickly readies a list of points she wants…

An FBI agent investigates the girls’ life’s for a possible visit from President Bush. This leads the girls to reminisce about times they have spent together.

Dorothy’s gambling problem re-surfaces after a visit to the race track and quickly begins falling in to debt and gaining an apathy to her job. Meanwhile, Rose takes up painting…

The girls attend the wedding of Dorothy’s niece who’s father was once engaged to Sophia. Sophia thinks that the wedding reception is the perfect spot for revenge after supposedly putting…

The married man whom Dorothy once dated re-enters her life and has news that he’s now divorced and would like to reconcile with Dorothy. Meanwhile, Blanche and Sophia become the…

Blanche and her sister, Charmaine, reconcile after a life-long rivalry. However, the reconciliation does not last long after Blanche reads her recently published book and realizes the heroine is based…

Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles or an old boyfriend who has just come to town and asks her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with…

Rose discovers that she may be carrying the HIV virus after learning the blood they used in her gallbladder operation may have contained HIV antibodies. What really gets to her…

Blanche is stunned when a man comes to the front door and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant…

After visiting the doctor, Blanche learns that he wants to put a pacemaker in her. However, after the operation, Blanche is so scared of intimacy that she decides to give…

Dorothy becomes alarmed when Sophia forgets the date of her wedding anniversary. This leads Dorothy to face the fact that Sophia is becoming more and more forgetful with age. After…

Blanche tries to lure men by placing a fake ad in the paper trying to sell a Mercedes. Meanwhile, Rose has to deal with meeting Miles’s daughter who makes it…

Rose joins a positive thinking group and tries to get a pessimistic Dorothy to join. Meanwhile, Blanche is scared to get serious with her latest boyfriend especially after he has…

The girls take in a 15 year old girl who has just found out she’s pregnant and scared to tell her father. Meanwhile, Blanche’s prison pen pal has just been…

It’s the Christmas season and the girls are fed up with Christmas shopping in a heat wave. So they decide to buy gifts for the one person they pick from…

Blanche is shattered after her father, Big Daddy, passes away. However, when she goes back to her childhood home, she gets into a big argument with her sister, Virginia and…

Dorothy’s son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he’s separated with his wife and needs a place to stay. However, Dorothy quickly gets tired of his freeloading…

Dorothy finds a list of things that she wanted to accomplish before a certain age and finds that she hasn’t accomplished many of them. So she decides to go after…

Blanche is visited by her brother in-law and is taken back by his resemblence to her deceased husband. She quickly finds herself falling in love with hopes of marriage.

Sophia’s friend has come up with an idea that will change her life. She wants to commit suicide and she wants Sophia there to hold her hand. Meanwhile, Blanche, Rose…

Rose has been dating Miles Webber, a college professor, but the only thing they seem to have in common is the dance floor. When Miles invites her to a party,…

Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and jumps to the conclusion that he’s on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is a shocker, he’s leaving law…

When the company that Rose’s husband worked for, cuts off their pension plan, Rose must face the fact that she’s going to get a new job, one that pays more….

Blanche’s daughter, Rebecca has some wonderful news. She’s going to become a mother, through artificial insemination. However, Blanche is less than thrilled, she’s totally against the entire thing.

Dorothy continues to seek medical advice and turns to Harry Weston for help. Meanwhile, Blanche goes on a writing binge resulting in a novel that is less than enthralling.

Dorothy is feeling rundown, tired all the time and has a lack of energy. She is sure she is ill, but all of the doctors she visits tell her she’s…

Blanche debates on whether or not to sell the house as her and the rest of the girls recall times they have spent together (via flashbacks).

Blanche, Dorothy and Rose return home from a play to discover Sophia in the midst of selling the house. It’s later discovered a for sale sign was accidentally placed on…

Sophia’s old friends, Philomena and Dominic, come to Miami from Sicily, for a visit and have shocking news for Dorothy. Philomena and Sophia had met in the hospital when they…

A week prior to a friend’s annual party, the girls debate on what they should do to improve their appearance. This leads the girls to reminisce about previous attempts to…

Sophia goes into action to break her friend, Lillian out of “”the worst nursing home in the city.”” However, Lillian proves to be too much of a handful for Sophia…

Rose’s sister, Holly comes for a visit and becomes quick friends with Dorothy and Blanche, and leaves Rose out in the cold. However, when Rose catches Holly with Blanche’s boyfriend…

After Sophia accidentally knocks a bottle of Rose’s pills down the sink, it is discovered, she is addicted to them. She then must battle withdrawal when she can’t get a…

Dorothy’s old friend, Trudy comes for a visit and this revives their old rivalry between each other. However, the visit turns tragic when Trudy suddenly dies and Dorothy blames herself.

Without the consent of the other girls, Sophia sinks their life savings in, Pepe, a prize fighter. However, on the eve of the fight, the girls discover Pepe missing and…

Dorothy is in charge of a hospital charity show and things aren’t going her way. She can’t find any talent for the talent show and her emcee has just cancelled….