Episodes

In the piano-making town of Grand, Pa., Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed) keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon (John Randolph) and for Weldon's newlywed niece and her husband (Bonnie Hunt, Michael McKean), while raising her teenage daughter (Sara Rue). In the opener, Janice's estranged husband (Ed Marinaro) calls after having gone out for cigarettes - three years earlier.

Tom's attempt to win back his job is marred by Carol Anne's suspicion that he's having an affair with Janice (Pamela Reed), who allows herself and Edda (Sara Rue) a designated period of depression to deal with the divorce.

Lunching together, Carol Anne and Janice (Bonnie Hunt, Pamela Reed) clear things up betwen them, but find there's still a problem they both share. Meanwhile, cable-TV viewers are offered the philosphy of Norris (Joel Murray). [Repeat's description: Carol Anne and Janice each set off to solve the problems they both share.] Stavros: Ron Karabatsos.

There's one little thing that Tom (Michael McKean) never told Carol Anne (Bonnie Hunt) about his past, and it's just arrived in Grand, behind the wheel of the porsche that smacked into Carol Anne. Medea: Lori Petty.

Bonding in the woods, Tom and Dylan (Michael McKean, Jackey Vinson) get tips on the "son-father thing" from Norris (Joel Murray), while the surgery-bound Desmond (John Neville) imparts a surprise on the same topic to Weldon (John Randolph).

With Eddie (Ed Marinaro) in town to celebrate his glory days of yore, Janice (Pamela Reed) has a knee-jerk reaction to his glory days of now; and Dylan (Jackey Vinson) leads Edda (Sara Rue) astray.

After Wayne's father is shot by a deer, Tom (Michael McKean) sets about networking at the funeral, while the widow (Jane Hoffman) falls under the official scrutiny of her son (Andrew Lauer), and Janice (Pamela Reed) seeks a smoke.

Weldon (John Randolph) wants to hold his head high at Carnegie Hall, but Desmond and Janice (John Neville, Pamela Reed) agree it should be a hairpiece lower; Japanese bikers disrupt Tom's financial future; Norris (Joel Murray) channels the spirit of a genuis.[Repeat's description - "Weldon tries a cosmetic change for Carnegie Hall; Norris channels a genuis's spirit; Japanese bikers throw Tom's future off track."] Lech: Armin Shimerman.

In New York, Janice (Pamela Reed) hears history repeating itself, while at Carnegie Hall, George Bush and Leonard Bernstein are replaced by Dan Quayle and Plafka Dobra (Jack Mayhall, Natasha Pavlova). Sheila: Kathy Ireland.

Janice compares rashes with Edda's Romeo (P.J. Ochlin); Norris finds all you need is love to avoid a career as a dead comic; Tom is tempted by an offer from Japan - for Carol Anne (Bonnie Hunt). Taki: Gedde Watanabe. Dr. Frank: Eddie Jones. Claire: Sheila Wells.

Norris (Joel Murray) succeeds in business without really trying; Wayne (Andrew Lauer) proposes to Janice (Pamela Reed); a secret admirer (Lenny VonDohlen) arranges to meet with Carol Anne (Bonnie Hunt). [From TV Guide's Thursday Guidelines: "On a better-than-average outing for Grand, Wayne proposes to a heavily medicated Janice and Tom decides NOT to sell his wife to a Japanese businessman. An amusing - but not terribly romantic - installment."]

Weldon's plans for Plafka (Natasha Pavlova) are stabled; Janice gives Wayne a "maybe," and learns the cause of her rash; Carol Anne yields to men's tears; and Tom sees his $1.1 million turn into $46,853.

Aspiring beaus are dismissed by the Pasetti women (Pamela Reed, Sara Rue); Desmond and Weldon (John Neville, John Randolph) square off in the name of love, or something like it; Carol Anne plans a tryst while Tom plots his takeover of Eastern Europe. Viveca: Britt Ekland. Jeremy: Lenny Von Dohlen. Dustin: P.J. Ochlan.