Top-rated
Sat, May 11, 1991
Winekta, Illinois. One year after the death of their father from a long battle with cancer, the four very different sisters of the Reed family try to put aside their personal differences and help their widowed, alcoholic mother, Beatrice, sell her house. Alex, the eldest of the sisters, is a wealthy and snobbish, WASP wife of Wade Halsey, a plastic surgeon, with a teenage daughter, Reed, and is too self-involved with her perfect life to notice anything else, until she's forced to bail out her own mother from jail when she's arrested for drunk driving. Georgie is a real estate agent who takes over as the matriarch of the family to support it and her two sons, Trevor and Evan, when her flaky, unemployed husband, John Whitsig, confides himself to their house and singing karaoke in his bathrobe after suffering a nervous breakdown since losing his job. Teddy, the second oldest of the sisters, is a free-spirited drifter and artist who arrives in town after years of living on the road with her teenage daughter Cat and tries to win back her ex-husband Mitch Margolis, a fish store owner, whom is now romantically involved with the youngest sister Frankie, an ambitious marketing analyst living in nearby Chicago.
Top-rated
Sat, May 18, 1991
Alex, on the eve of her 15th wedding anniversary party with Wade, realizes that her idyllic marriage may be falling apart when she finds out that he is a cross dresser. Meanwhile, Teddy continues to try to win back her ex-husband Mitch, who will not give in to her pleads for a renewed commitment.
Sat, May 25, 1991
Teddy looking for work, asks Frankie to give her a job at her office as an intern, which only heats up tensions between them over Teddy's continuing ploy to win back Mitch, and Frankie trying to steal the affection of Cat by giving her expensive gifts. Meanwhile, Alex and Wade join a counsel group for cross-dressing husbands much to his anger when he feels that their marital problems be kept private. Georgie tries to find psychiatric help for John while he continues to sulk around the house and sing to himself. Elsewhere, Beatrice meets Judge Truman Ventner after she is indited for drunk driving and shortly afterward, beings a relationship with him.
Sat, Jun 1, 1991
Frankie, probing into their dead father's past, finds some disturbing secrets she never knew which hints of an extra marital affair he had with one of Beatrice's friends. Meanwhile, Georgie wrestles with temptation when she considers romance with an old college boyfriend when he comes into town, while John decides to pursue a singing career.
Top-rated
Sat, Jun 8, 1991
Georgie, trying to get a raise and a promotion at the reality office, invites her boss over at her house for dinner, which nearly turns disastrous due to Trevor and Evan's problems, and everyone else crashing the event to dump their problems on Georgie. Meanwhile, Alex begins to realize that her financial situation is more in trouble then she thought when all her credit cards are rejected, and she meets a repo man who repossesses her car for non-payments, and at this point, she finally realizes that Wade had invested all of their wealth in a stock that failed. Mitch phones a party-line where he confides his problems about his problems with Frankie, unaware that it is Teddy, now employed as a phone operator. Also, John hires a film crew to rent out the house to record his songs for a cable TV commercial.
Sat, Jun 15, 1991
Frankie and Mitch announce their engagement to everyone and decide to get married quickly, and Alex is more than happy to hold the wedding at her house. But Teddy is the only one not happy, and after falling off the wagon, she crashes the exchange of vows with a shotgun she stole from Alex and gives the new meaning to the term: "shotgun wedding. While the family members talk to the camera about Frankie and Mitch, Alex gets stuck with some unexpected bills after Wade skips town to escape from bill collectors.
Top-rated
Thu, Jun 20, 1991
With Cat angry and alienated at her for falling of the wagon, Teddy decides that Cat is better off living with Mitch while she thinks about leaving town again. Alex tries to get Reed the lead part in her high school play of 'Romeo and Juliet' despite the fact that Reed cannot act and cannot remember her lines. Meanwhile, Georgie's youngest son Evan, is hospitalized for leukemia. The grim turn of events begin to push Georgie to her breaking point, but it also brings John to his senses when he finally sees the seriousness of his life which brings him out of his near-catatonic state to take a job offer and give support to his family again.
Sat, Sep 21, 1991
Two months later. Georgie and the other sisters plan a blockbuster 10th birthday party for Evan on his return home from the hospital. Meanwhile, Frankie must decide whether to come to Evan's party or go to Japan to meet with an important client. Teddy's continued drinking moves her further away from the others. Also, John realizes that he has a fan base when sales for his show tunes surprisingly skyrocket which dozens of fans camp, making up of middle-aged men in bathrobes, camp out on the lawn of his house.
Sat, Sep 28, 1991
John continues to receive orders for his vocal tape while he tries to help Mitch with his finances. Mitch needs $25,000 to keep his fish market open. Georgie suggests that he borrow the money from Frankie, but Mitch disagrees. As luck would have it, Teddy meets Hank Seawell, a prestigious photographer whose pictures of the homeless she once tried to paint. Seawell has been hired by Alex to take photos of her and Wade. At Teddy's suggestion, Alex decides to spend more quality time with Wade and gets tickets to an interactive theater show. One of the stars of the show, Tiffany Blue, happens to be having an affair with Wade. Finally, Mitch reluctantly forms a financial partnership with Frankie to save his fish market. When they go to City Hall to file the partnership papers, they decide to get married instead.
Sat, Oct 5, 1991
Tiffany tries to persuade Wade to have a hit man kill Alex before she caries out the perfect divorce. Meanwhile, Georgie must decide whether to go to a bowling tournament with her co-workers from the real estate office or to care for the invalid Evan. Frankie and Mitch must decide how to tell the family of their marriage. Also, Teddy makes a startling discovery about herself, while her relationship with Hank heats up.
Sat, Oct 12, 1991
Teddy, Mitch and Frankie join forces to look for Cat after she runs away at the thought of living with Frankie and Mitch. Alex, now living on her own, decides to be like Teddy and take a walk on the wild side. Meanwhile, Teddy cannot bring herself to tell the family of her pregnancy (nor that Mitch may be the father) and considers an abortion.
Top-rated
Sat, Oct 19, 1991
Alex attends her 20-year high school reunion where she finds love when an old beau from the 1970s pays her a visit. Truman asks Beatrice to spend the weekend with him. Meanwhile, John tries to convince Georgie to take the weekend off so they can spend a romantic time alone. Also, Teddy, Mitch, and Frankie worry if Cat may be having thoughts about sex.
Top-rated
Sat, Nov 2, 1991
Nude photographs of Teddy taken by Hank and shown at his art exhibit hosted by Alex, forces the mayor to close it down and it lands Teddy in jail when she assaults a police officer. Alex asks her plumber Victor, to be her escort for the exhibit just to make Wade jealous when he brings his date as well. Meanwhile, John is fit to even the score with two radio show DJs that humiliate him during an interview on-the-air.
Sat, Nov 9, 1991
Teddy tells the family members a slightly different version of how she became pregnant. Before leaving town, Hank tries to convince Teddy to tell Mitch the truth about her pregnancy. Meanwhile, Truman sweeps Beatrice off her feet and Alex finds out about her mother's newfound romance while deciding to peruse a career as an interior decorator. Georgie and John's other son, Trevor, causes problems for them when he becomes rebellious resulting from frustration at being neglected when they continue to give all their attention to the sickly Evan.
Sat, Nov 16, 1991
Alex, getting no help from a computer dating service, decides that Victor is the perfect choice to fit the bill despite that fact that they both come from very different backgrounds. While Mitch is out of town with Cat, his overbearing and meddlesome mother, Naomi, pays an unexpected and unwelcome visit to Frankie at her loft. But they soon discover that they have a lot in common. Georgie and John's cranky neighbor, Mr. Ratner, causes problems for them over property rights, and Georgie eventually discovers the real deep-rooted reason for Mr. Ratner's unhappiness.
Sat, Nov 23, 1991
On Thanksgiving, Georgie visits the old Reed home where she grew up and mysteriously is transported back in time where she views one particular Thanksgiving that put a change on her life. Back at the Wistig house, John and the others wait impatiently for Evans health tests to say if he will live or not. Meanwhile, Reed returns from a six-month trip to France transformed into a rebellious activist and causes problems for both Alex and Wade over her newfound personality.
Sat, Dec 14, 1991
While trying to keep her window decoration job, Teddy has a miscarriage that is an emotional setback for her. Alex discovers that Reed has her own reasons why she wants to enter with her in the annual Mother/Daughter costume pageant, that Reed wants to use the first prize money to return to France since learning that her parents are now divorced. Meanwhile, Frankie can't decide whether or not to complain of an annoying office Lothario who makes unwanted sexual passes at her because he is her ticket to becoming corporate vice president of the firm.
Top-rated
Sat, Dec 21, 1991
On Christmas Eve, Georgie attempts to bring the family together by holding a Christmas party at her house. Alex, lonely and frustrated that Reed is out of town visiting Wade, plans to go on a vacation to Mexico with Victor who also confides in Alex about his lonely childhood. The jealousy between Frankie and Mitch reaches physical proportions due to his attention to Teddy over her recent miscarriage. But things change when contaminated eggnog makes Alex, Frankie, Mitch, John, Victor, and Georgie herself sick which ruins Georgie's attempt at a Christmas cheer. Meanwhile, Teddy receives a emotional boost when she begins having conversations with the ghost of Charles Dickens over what to do with her life. Also, Trevor, Evan, and Cat rent horror movies with a Christmas theme to ease their boredom over everything that's happening around them.