CAPSULE: Michael is given more responsibility at DAA, causing friction between him and Elliot. Hope also has to take some responsibility with the anti-incinerator campaign. Michael and Eliot are excited:…

CAPSULE: Michael crosses swords with the creative director at DAA. Hope gets more involved with her environmental project. At DAA, Michael and Elliot attend a “”war council”” on Minnesota Brands,…

CAPSULE: Gary’s decision to quit teaching and stay at home with his new baby causes a conflict between him and his mother. Gary and Susannah’s new baby Emma cries for…

CAPSULE: Ellyn takes steps toward starting an affair with Jeffrey Milgrom. Hope begins work on an environmental project. Ellyn and Hope’s present-day relationship is compared to the one they had…

CAPSULE: Elliot reunites with his family, but Ethan is still full of anxiety which manifests itself as fear for his safety. Elliot moves back in his house with his wife…

CAPSULE: Melissa must come to terms with the problems she has over the age difference with Lee. Their relationship is paralleled by a new one between Russell Weller and Peter…

Elliot and Michael have a close encounter with disaster on an airplane. Hope’s employer, the magazine Synergy, is being taken over and will curtain its environmental watchdog activities. At a…

CAPSULE: Susannah and Gary become new parents after a difficult delivery. Melissa has a hard time accepting Gary’s new status. In a story told in reverse, the opening scene has…

CAPSULE: Ellyn and Melissa try using a video dating service. Melissa is unexpectedly attracted to a younger man she meets. Ethan must kiss a girl in the school play. Ellyn…

CAPSULE: While she and Michael are having problems of their own, Hope gets involved in the love life of her teenaged babysitter. Hope and Michael arrive home early while their…

CAPSULE: Nancy’s and Elliot move closer to a reconciliation, to the disapproval of her visiting mother Eleanor. Elliot and Nancy are spending an evening at Michael and Hope’s talking about…

CAPSULE: Hope is writing an article that could affect Susannah’s Race St. Project, driving a wedge between her and Gary. Gary and Susannah are proceeding with preparations for parenthood. Melissa…

CAPSULE: Nancy pursues her relationship with Matt, but Elliot makes a concerted effort to win her back. Elliot returns the kids to Nancy and has an awkward meeting with her…

CAPSULE: Melissa must deal with her aging grandmother who wants her to take over her business. Melissa is preparing to go to her parents for a birthday dinner for herself,…

Michael takes a creative writing class, as does Nancy. Michael incurs Nancy’s wrath when he writes about something he heard about her in confidence from Elliot. Also, Michael and Elliot…

CAPSULE: Hope suffers a miscarriage just as Michael and Elliot begin work for Miles Drentell at DAA. Elliot and Michael are in Miles Drentell’s office interviewing for jobs at DAA….

CAPSULE: Ellyn, Nancy, Hope and Melissa go on a cathartic camping trip. Melissa gets some camping equipment as a payoff for a photo shoot and the gang makes plans to…

CAPSULE: Ellyn’s work and personal life take a great toll on her, both physically and emotionally. Ellyn has been suffering from an unknown stomach ailment but she tells Woodman and…

CAPSULE: Elliot gets involved with his wayward father. Ethan suffers an injury. Elliot goes to see his divorced father Charlie who is in town. Charlie introduces him to a woman…

Gary and Susannah try to figure out what to do when they finds out that she’s pregnant. Nancy misses a publishing deadline for her book.

Flashback scenes of Michael and Elliot meeting, working together, and forming their own company are interspersed with the present-day dissolution of the Michael and Elliot Company. The two have serious…

Melissa gets a job working with Carly Simon. Michael and Elliot face losing their business. Melissa is excited–Russell has shown some of her work around and he might be able…

CAPSULE: Michael takes on a client that he, his wife and his friends find repugnant. Gary and Susannah’s odd relationship continues to grow. At a diner with Hope, Gary, Elliot…

Ellyn tries to deal with the shock of her parents’ divorce and her growing estrangement from Woodman. Ellyn is shocked to receive a call from her father asking her to…

Melissa and Gary consider having a child together. Gary volunteers his time at a social services center, where he is irritated by and attracted to a brusque administrator. Gary and…

As Christmas and Hanukkah near, Hope suffers a minor injury and an unknown illness. Michael has a crisis of faith and imagines his life as a 1960’s TV sitcom. Michael…

Things get complicated between Elliot and Nancy as they moved toward finalizing their divorce. They both try to establish new relationships. Scenes of Elliot and Nancy’s courtship are intercut with…

As she and Michael argue about her working and having another child, Hope learns about some previous tenants of their house. Hope is making tentative moves toward returning to work…

Ellyn and Woodman’s weekend is ruined when they are forced to babysit Janey.

Gary evaluates the fate of his academic career as he undergoes tenure review at the college. Ellyn learns her building is going co-op, leaving her to decide whether to buy…

Michael’s old girlfriend from college pays a visit.

Melissa’s burgeoning romance slows when she learns he doesn’t want any more kids. Nancy has her first date since the separation.

Nancy and Elliot’s separation takes its toll on their son; Elliot prepares for a blind date with a chiropractor.

A rocky relationship between Michael and his brother Brad is further strained when Michael learns the family business is almost bankrupt.

Michael’s hopes for a joyous reunion with his father are destroyed when he discovers the real reason for the visit.

Competing for the attention of the same man jeopardizes the new found friendship between Ellyn and Melissa.

Elliot temporarily moves in with Michael and Hope after separating from Nancy.

Michael’s jealousy is aroused when an important client make it clear he prefers Elliot. Meanwhile, Hope and Nancy try to come to terms with computers.

Elliot and Nancy seek professional help for their troubled marriage; Michael finds it hard to keep it a secret.

It’s a Hitchcockian nightmare as Gary falls in love; as the romance progresses, he begins receiving a series of threats against his life.