Season 1 - Episode Guide

Head comedy writer Rob Petrie talks his wife Laura into leaving their slightly sick son Ritchie at home with a babysitter while they attend a work gathering

Rob tries to fake hes not sick, when he fears his co-writers can do a show without him

When Rob has to start working late nights with a beautiful actress Laura starts to worry.

Much to Rob's horror,Laura tries her hand at matchmaking when she invites her quiet introverted cousin Thomas over for a meal with exactly the opposite Sally.

Rob suffers with guilt when he has to go on a business trip the night of his son's play

While rummaging through Rob's old army equipment, Rob and Laura recall that he broke her foot the night they met

Without checking with Laura , Rob agrees to look after Larry-Buddys dog over the upcoming long weekend. Not only do Laura and Richie have other plans , Richie is terrified the large dog will eat him.

When a old Army buddy comes for a visit, Rob can't remember who he is

Laura thinks she is losing her sex appeal so she decides to dye her hair blond.. then changes her mind when Rob says he loves her with brown hair on the phone.

Rob forgets to get 44 tickets to the Alan Brady Show for the PTA

Rob and Richie find themselves more than a little lost when Laura briefly resumes her dancing career.

Laura convinces Rob to treat Sally like a women and not one of the fellas leading Buddy to thing Rob has fallen in love with Sally

Rob buys Laura a huge gaudy necklace that she secretly hates, to get rid of it, she gives it to Robs mother,  that loves it as a gift

Buddy accepts a writing job that Rob turned down but has to get out of his contract writing for the Alan Brady Show, it backfires and Buddy ends up with no job

Rob thinks Buddy owes him money but it turns out it's the other way around

When Robs old Army buddy shows up the same night as he is hosting a dinner party for his sponsor, knowing they will clash, Rob tries to get rid of the Army buddy to no avail

Rob, Buddy and Sally write a skit about a wife opening her husbands mail angering Laura because she is guilty of doing the same thing.

After Jerry teases Rob about writing a rotten show, Rob accidently punches Jerry in the nose.

Rob tells the story about when Richie was born.

When Buddy's wife is out of town, Buddy stays with Rob and Laura

Ritchie is starting to learn some new words. He says a bad word to Laura in the car. She thinks ignoring it is the best course, but Rob wants to have a "man-to-man" talk with Ritchie. Rob also wants to confront the family that he assumes is responsible for Ritchie learning the bad words, but that could prove embarrassing

Rob is father of the week at Richie's school

Sally helps get a dance craze started.

Rob has jury duty

Romance enters Sally's life in the form of an insurance salesman named Leo Fassbinder.

Buddy laments the decline of the American male and yearns for the "good old days". Rob starts to feel he does too much housework. He has a nightmare about the bad circumstances of the "old days"

Rob's sleep walking brother visits.

Rob's sleep walking brother visits

Laura meets a man running a tie shop that says he gave Rob his first job