When an all girl band beats out Tommy and Ernie's group for a gig at Senior prom the boys want payback. They decide to nominate Tommy for homecoming queen but when the event gets closer Tommy has doubts.
Overwhelmed and overextended, the family pools its funds to hire a part-time housekeeper; Tommy comes to realize that his best friend has a drinking problem; Nicholas tries to break a world's record.
Tom experiences a midlife crisis as he approaches his fiftieth birthday; Nicholas searches for the perfect name for Susan and Merle's coming child; Nancy has second thoughts when the dull stockbroker she dumped begins seeing Elizabeth.
The Bradfords plan Susan's surprise baby shower; Tommy's frustration with his girlfriend's inexperience leads him to pursue a much older friend of Mary's; Nicholas inadvertently plays Cyrano for a school chum.
The annual winter break festivities lead to offbeat romances for Mary, Joannie and Nancy; Tom's boss coerces him into setting up Tommy with his visiting niece; Elizabeth's new beau is forced to cancel their date for the Valentine's Day dance.
Nicholas's grandfatherly friend Joe Simons returns to Sacramento under false pretenses; Joannie tries to come up with a TV commercial to boost David's struggling business; Tom is smothered by a temp when his secretary goes on vacation.
Nicholas learns the meaning of class distinction when he befriends an underprivileged schoolmate; David's jealousy over Janet's work colleague may be justified; Tommy becomes overprotective when his best friend begins seeing Elizabeth.
Nicholas is targeted by an assertive classmate who wants to go steady with him; Abby's grief is triggered by the visit of a friend of her late husband; Nancy becomes overdrawn at the bank because of all the money she's been lending her siblings.
Abby hires the unemployed mother of one of Nicholas' classmates; Merle puts together a women's basketball team comprised entirely of Bradfords; Tom's effort to finish his novel is undercut when Abby gets published first.
When Tommy protests Tom's frugality, Tom teaches him a lesson by putting him in charge of the family's finances; Joannie begins to doubt the intentions of the higher-up who gave her a plum assignment; Nicholas dukes it out with the class bully, who happens to be a girl.
Tommy decides to forego college in favor of a music career; Tom's sister Vivian returns with her new fiancé; Elizabeth tries out theories from her psychology class on the family.
The family makes itself scarce for Tommy's intimate graduation party, but when Tommy is called away to help an injured Irving J. Moore, word gets out that the Bradford house is unoccupied, leading to an all-out brawl for the Class of 1980.
Susan faces unexpected complications as she nears the end of her pregnancy; Jack asks Elizabeth to move in with him; Nicholas volunteers Tom as assistant scout master of his cub scout troop.
Abby feels responsible for the complications surrounding Susan's pregnancy; Susan gives birth prematurely, and the fate of the baby hangs in the balance; Elizabeth hides her live-in arrangement with Jack from the family.
Abby's troubled nephew stays with the Bradfords until his estranged father can be located; Joannie is promoted to sportscaster at the television station; Nicholas turns a profit from Mary's female anatomy textbook.
Abby accepts a job as guidance counselor at a dangerous inner-city high school; Nicholas falls in with a classmate with a penchant for stealing; Tom becomes a constant passenger after his driver's license expires.
Susan brings her baby home from the hospital; Abby senses disapproval from Joan's parents when they arrive to meet their new granddaughter; Tommy starts work as a guitarist at a male strip club, but finds it pays more to take to the stage.
Tommy's songwriting collaboration with a single mother turns personal; Jeremy reluctantly enrolls in high school and then does all he can to be expelled; David remodels the garage as living quarters for Susan and the baby until Merle's return.
Primed from reading too many spy novels, Nicholas believes he's embroiled in a real-life espionage plot; When his staff becomes hush-hush around him, Tom becomes suspicious that he's about to be fired.
The newspaper closes its doors during a labor dispute, landing Tom on the unemployment line; All four of the family's cars are out of commission after a postal truck crashes into the Bradford driveway; Nicholas promotes a bartering system to navigate the family's financial crisis.
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