With his business on the verge of failure, Joe becomes ever increasingly worried, resisting Rhoda’s advice to free his emotions, even if it means crying.

At Ida’s insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad’s financial…

Despite Joe and Brenda’s insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.

It’s a case of mutual dislike at first sight when Rhoda meets Joe’s friend Charlie Burke, a patronizing “”man’s man”” who is not exactly thrilled with his best buddies wife.

Rhoda thinks she may be pregnant, but she isn’t sure enough to tell her husband Joe, especially when he comes home with the news that his business is facing economic…

Joe goes to his father for marital advise.

Rhoda and Joe’s cruise doesn’t turn out the way they expected.

Rhoda wants a new apartment, especially after an old beau of Joe’s lets herself in with a key.

Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe’s plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends.

Rhoda almost doesn’t make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up.

Joe pops the question, but it’s not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of “”Will you marry me?”” it’s “”How about living together?””

Unable to think of just the right gift to get Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and uses the occasion to stage a small reunion…

Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.

Rhoda lands a job with a small publishing firm and ends up delivering the eulogy at the funeral of an author whose specialty was X-rated books.

Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered–her parents’ apartment.

Rhoda’s smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides it might be best if the two of them begin dating other people as well as each other.

While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and she decides not to return to Minneapolis.

An eventful night out is had by all, as Janey and Susan go to a hen night, and Roger goes on a blind date, and Ben, who should be at…

At Susan’s mother’s funeral, Arthur, the father who abandoned the family thirty years earlier, turns up and takes such a dislike to Ben he offers his daughter a million pounds…

Ben is approached by a man who remembers his father as a great darts player and asks him to join the local pub team. Ben discovers that he is not…

Susan wants to look her best for an impending school reunion. When she is asked to give the keynote address, however, she decides that her best may need some help….

Ben and Susan go off to a couples’ retreat for a weekend – at which they prove to be less than ideal guests – leaving Janey and Michael vying for…

With Ben away on a volunteer dental programme in Colombia, Susan is persuaded by Janey to go on the Facebook social network, which leads to her meeting up again with…

Janey and Michael give their parents a Spanish holiday as an anniversary present but Michael has used Ben’s credit card to finance it and needs to replace the money quickly…

Ben and Susan have yet another row after he refuses to attend her godparents’ anniversary party so they decide on a trial separation, taking it in turns to live in…

Susan gets an audition as a presenter of a pre-school TV show alongside a puppet monkey after a producer hears her reading to children in the library. There is however…

With Ben on a course Susan works late at the art gallery with handsome young Chris, whose advances she spurns. Next day he accuses her of sexual harassment and she…

Ben is overjoyed when Mark, Kenzo’s wealthy, successful father reappears and encourages him to propose to Janey. Susan, on the other hand, believes that Craig’s feelings for her daughter are…

Whilst playing Santa at Susan’s works Christmas party Ben becomes emotionally involved when a little girl asks him to reconcile her mother and grand-father, who have fallen out. He actually…

To prove how trendy he is, Ben accompanies an embarrassed Michael to a gay club, where he gets chatted up by the adoring Rupert, who follows him home and sends…

Whilst Susan is away Ben takes part in a police identity parade, where he is picked out as being a mugger and remanded in a cell with hard cases Carl…

When Janey has to sit with a poorly Kenzo, Ben volunteers to look after one of her elderly care clients, Harry, a man who seems to have been around but…

Ben is appalled to discover that Martin, the benign elderly widower from next door, is besotted with Susan and has built a shrine to her in his kitchen. Whilst Ben…

Craig, a young Australian, arrives at the house, claiming his mother was at college with Ben and Susan lets him stay in exchange for doing some decorating. Initially irritated by…

Given that he used to have lots of girl-friends, when Michael comes out as gay, Ben is perplexed but determined to be supportive. Susan is just annoyed that Michael told…

When the council assume Ben is disabled and send him cheques he tries to return the money but the clerk won’t listen and Rosemary, the gushing welfare visitor who comes…

Ben’s old friendship with a celebrity dentist causes problems, while Susan finds a new friendship at an Albanian airport and her loyalty to Ben is put to the test.

Kenzo’s school project about the family gives everyone a chance to look at some of the crazier moments in the Harper history.

Susan decides to get another dog but when she is considered unsuitable to adopt by the dog adoption assessor, Susan loses her cool, and as a result, it is Ben…

An undercover assessor for Cavitex, posing as a patient, leads to Ben having to attend a retraining course, and to make matters worse, Roger is also attending.