Rhoda plans a wildly impulsive act to demonstrate to her estranged husband Joe that she’s far from being a dull person.

Rhoda and Joe Gerard take their marital problems to a marriage counselor, where Joe makes a startling disclosure.

A weighty problem develops when Rhoda adds a few unwanted pounds and Brenda becomes slim for the first time in her life.

Accompanied by Brenda, Rhoda tries to lose her separation blues by going away on a singles weekend.

Rhoda experiences the trauma of a “”blind date”” when Brenda’s boyfriend fixes her up with a loud, pushy, arrogant and egotistical showbiz type.

A swinging bachelor makes a play for Rhoda as she undergoes the first few difficult days of her separation from Joe.

Rhoda and Joe decide to separate.

Rhoda goes out with Joe for the first date since their separation and labels it as a weird experience.

When Brenda turns down his marriage proposal, Lenny, the hearbroken lad, quits his job and sinks into a fit of depression.

Rhoda has one little problem with money; she doesn’t have any, and it’s forcing her window-dressing firm out of business.

The emotional, high-strung Ida Morgenstern demonstrates her knack for jumping to conclusions when hubby Martin begins to act very secretive.

Rhoda and Joe decide the only way they can spend more time together is to barricade themselves in their apartment, disregarding family, friends, work, and in short, the world.

Martin Morgenstern is overjoyed when his best friend visits him after a 35-year hiatus, but is overwhelmed with insecurity when he recalls that his best friend was also once engaged…

Love beats a pathway to Brenda’s door when a young federal agent uses her apartment to run a security check on the residence across the street.

Rhoda drills Brenda on the finer points of life, such as how to land a man, when Brenda’s Mr. Right seems to be taking her for granted.

Rhoda, whose only real luck with a man has been with her husband Joe, finds herself playing marriage counselor to a couple who has been married for 12 years.

Two’s company and three’s a crowd, as both Brenda and Rhoda discover when they have uninvited guests moving in with them.

Torn between her pride at losing a huge account for her window-dressing firm, Rhoda battles with a stubborn though prosperous tuxedo chain-store owner who wants her to decorate his windows…

Rhoda is determined to prove to her friends that women can have a great time without men, although she becomes dubious of her own theory when she tries it one…

Somewhere in Rhoda’s neighborhood, a burglar is walking the street, possibly going after her because she just might be the only person able to identify him.

Against his better judgment, Joe hires Nick, Brenda’s obnoxious boyfriend, to become a wrecker at his demolition firm.

Rhoda’s new, delightful, vivacious middle-aged neighbor becomes a threat to mother Ida.

Business is booming at Rhoda’s window-dressing firm, due partly to her creative sketches, but also because of Myrna Morgenstern’s “”persuasive”” sales pitches, something which Rhoda puts an end to.

Seething tempers result when two of Rhoda’s and Brenda’s closest friends take advantage of them.

To help the financial burden of a rent increase, Brenda takes on a roommate, but it’s the beautiful roommate who turns out to be a real burden when she comes…

Mama Ida’s innocent but overzealous desire to become a grandmother results in her arranging another rock-bottom date for Brenda.

A psychiatrist tries to give the Gerards’ party a boost by directing a group-encounter session, revealing some interesting suppressions from the guests.

That rotten job Brenda felt she held at the bank looks like a rose garden after she quits being a teller and is faced with the thorns of unemployment.

Ida Morgenstern finds herself tempted to have an affair with her doctor.

Rhoda and Joe have a difficult time trying to celebrate their first anniversary pleasantly when their tempers keep getting the best of them.

After Rhoda and Joe are robbed, Rhoda blames the mishap on Carlton’s lack of ability to handle his job, causing Carlton to be fired.

All of Rhoda’s insecurities surface when she meets Joe’s ex-wife, who turns out to be beautiful.

Bored with her life, Rhoda’s mother Ida decides to become a “”now”” woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she’s launched a whole new career.

Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda’s and Joe’s plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.

Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.

Brenda decides to break out of her “”nice, warm rut”” by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn’t discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.

When Rhoda discovers Joe has been visiting a doctor without telling her, she begins to worry, but not as much as when she finds out what kind of doctor he…

Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.

Rhoda’s shy, retiring high-school chum, Myrna Morgenstern, shows up unexpectedly to demonstrate her new, Rhoda-like, head-on approach to life, and she begins a tumultuous non-romance with Joe’s best friend.

Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple, free of all jealousies and hang-ups until a man Rhoda once loved asks her out for dinner.