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CBS
Dec 5, 1997
30 m

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CBS
Dec 5, 1997
30 m

Step by Step

Summary Two appealing stars, winsome kids, and a can't miss time slot in the middle of ABC's hit Friday lineup was more important than plot in the early success of this standard issue family sitcom. Frank (Patrick Duffy of Dallas) is a freewheeling, divorced contractor who impetuously marries widowed beautician Carol (Suzanne Somers of Three's ...

Directed By: Richard Correll

Written By: Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett, William Bickley, Michael Warren, Robert Griffard, Howard Adler, Robin Stein

TV-14
CBS
Dec 5, 1997
30 m

TV-14
CBS
Dec 5, 1997
30 m

S7 • Episode 9

Goodbye, Mr. Chip

Air Date: Dec 5, 1997

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Summary Two appealing stars, winsome kids, and a can't miss time slot in the middle of ABC's hit Friday lineup was more important than plot in the early success of this standard issue family sitcom. Frank (Patrick Duffy of Dallas) is a freewheeling, divorced contractor who impetuously marries widowed beautician Carol (Suzanne Somers of Three's ...

Created By: William Bickley, Michael Warren

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Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1997 • 30 m

Making the Grade

It's the first day of school for Lilly and Karen starts college. Carol is bored so she decides to go to college and enrols in the same classes as Karen, to her embarrassment. Dana dumps Rich over his lackadaisical attitude to school.

Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1997 • 30 m

A movie company is coming to Port Washington and all the Lambert girls try out for a role in the movie. However, only one can get the part. Carol is baking cookies for Lilly's class's bake sale, when it suddenly becomes competitive.

Episode 3 • Oct 3, 1997 • 30 m

Your Cheatin' Heart

Frank and Carol are going through a bedroom drought and, no matter what they do, they keep getting interrupted. Rich acts mysteriously and Karen is convinced he is cheating on Dana. Karen and Al follow him to find out what he is doing.

Episode 4 • Oct 10, 1997 • 30 m

Take This Job and Shove It

JT is having trouble keeping a job when he pressures Sam into getting a position for him at her garage. As payment for a patio job he did, Frank accepts a boat in lieu. Carol is not happy when she sees the piece of junk that it is.

Episode 5 • Oct 17, 1997 • 30 m

Karen flirts with a new teaching assistant and Dana believes it is the reason why Karen is getting better grades than her. Mark starts dating an out-of-control punk girl, and Frank and Carol believe that she is leading him astray.

Episode 6 • Oct 24, 1997 • 30 m

Can't Buy Me Love

Karen is trying to get into the Delta Theta Zeta sorority and is going to their pledge dinner. Dana is also invited. Frank's business is very slow when they hear that an old friend of Carol's is about to start building a big hotel.

Episode 7 • Oct 31, 1997 • 30 m

It's Halloween and the kids are all ready for a party, which they have in old neighbouring house. JT and Sam are having relationship troubles and break up. Meanwhile, Lilly is having her first Halloween party in the Lambert house.

Episode 8 • Nov 7, 1997 • 30 m

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

An old friend of Rich's, who is a girl, returns to Port Washington. Dana becomes concerned and a little jealous when Rich seems to have a lot more fun with her. Frank's cousin is passing through town and calls in, to Frank's chagrin.

Episode 9 • Dec 5, 1997 • 30 m

Goodbye, Mr. Chip

Carol advises Karen's boyfriend Chip to get a backbone, but he goes too far when he breaks up with Karen.

Episode 10 • Dec 19, 1997 • 30 m

Too Many Santas

When Lilly recognises JT as Santa in the mall she becomes disillusioned and decides she no longer believes in Santa. Frank and Carol decide to convince her that she is wrong. At the same time, JT tries to make up with Sam.

Episode 11 • Jan 9, 1998 • 30 m

Phoney Business

Al is hired to star in what she has been told is a commercial for suntan lotion. But the commercial is for a phone sex hotline instead! After Al clears the air to her confused family about what they just saw on TV, she recruits J.T. to confront the sneaky producer about the commercial.

Episode 12 • Jan 16, 1998 • 30 m

Goin' to the Chapel

JT takes up aerobics to impress the instructor but it turns out much more difficult than he thought it would be. When Carol is upset at finding Dana and Rich together in his place, Dana angrily decides that she and Rich will elope.

Episode 13 • Jan 23, 1998 • 30 m

Dana is looking for something that she and Rich can do together. They decide to do pottery at the local community college. Frank and Carol start spicing heat up their marriage with role-playing games, which leads to a misunderstanding.

Episode 14 • Jan 30, 1998 • 30 m

Pain in the Class

Frank doesn't want to go his school's 25th reunion because one guy continually outdid him. JT and Rich want to watch a bikini contest on TV with a group of friends but this starts to go wrong when JT also has to mind Lilly.

Episode 15 • Feb 27, 1998 • 30 m

J.T. and Rich need money to take the girls on a ski trip, so they decide to make some quick money as male strippers. Carol and Frank are asked to share their marriage secrets with a group at their church.

Episode 16 • Jun 5, 1998 • 30 m

And Justice for Some

Frank and JT swap seats at a basketball game. JT wins a pickup truck for being in the lucky seat, which Frank thinks that he should have. When Karen and Al see a very handsome officer speaking at a women's seminar, they fight over him.

Episode 17 • Jun 12, 1998 • 30 m

Episode 18 • Jun 19, 1998 • 30 m

We're in the Money

Episode 19 • Jun 26, 1998 • 30 m

Frank's good work results in him being offered an expensive house at cost. Everybody is happy about the move except Lilly, who reacts by getting into trouble up at school. It turns out that she is not the only one not wanting to move.

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