Daddy Cool
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1991
Former 70s rock star Bobby Rivers discovers he has twin children: Anna and Thomas. Joined by long-term friend Tracy, they all move in with Bobby and come to terms with their new family model.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1991
Former 70s rock star Bobby Rivers discovers he has twin children: Anna and Thomas. Joined by long-term friend Tracy, they all move in with Bobby and come to terms with their new family model.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1991
Coming to terms with his feelings for his father, Thomas wants to hire an actor to substitute for Bobby as his dad at the upcoming parent-teacher evening at school.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1991
Bobby discovers Anna has a rocker as boyfriend and his fatherly instincts come to the surface when he finds out the boyfriend has spent one night in her room.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1991
Bobby must choose between family and music when he's offered a six-month tour. Anna continues playing the piano.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1991
Anna wants Doc Martens for a date. A company wants Bobby's hit for a commercial and with Wayne again thinking more about himself Thomas jumps in to do the contract negotiations.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1991
Doug thinks he isn't needed any more. He leaves the house. But when the others notice that, they feel sorry.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1991
Thomas has a new girlfriend, Karen. She's older, gorgeous, gives him free pizza from her job - and has the hots for Bobby.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1991
Thomas and Anna return drunk from a party. Tracy blames Bobby for lacking discipline. She wants to move out with the children.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1991
Bobby is presented with a terrific opportunity to perform in the "Tivoli". But a major setback muddies his enthusiasm when he loses his beloved guitar.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1991
An old friend of Bobby and Tracy, Gloria, wants to drop by. Tracy, however, isn't very delighted to hear from 'the slut' again. Thomas on the other hand sees possibilities.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1991
Bobby buys Anna a dress - from his own money. When his Golden Record can't be found anywhere the others think he sold it for the dress. Anna composes a song for school.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1991
Doug thinks a complimenting Tracy is the perfect match for him.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1991
Bobby finds a joint in the house. Everybody suspects everybody.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1991
When Bobby discovers a joint in the house, fingers are pointed everywhere and when no one confesses ownership everyone falls under suspicion.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: May 7, 1991
With a new woman by his side, Wayne (better known as Mario) seems to have changed completely. But when a stripper, ordered by Doug for a bachelor party, causes a commotion Wayne is left in the firing line.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: May 14, 1991
Bobby decides that, as head of the family, it's time to take on a 'real' job.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: May 21, 1991
Bobby collapses after a fight with Thomas and Wayne is the one who has to pass on the news from the hospital that Bobby has left.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: May 28, 1991
When Tracy dates a French musician there is a concern that she may follow him to Paris to live happily ever after.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1991
Bobby's former band member, Lochie Burns pays a visit. Bobby is amazed to discover that while he remained in a time-warp, Lochie developed into a successful businessman.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1991
Bobby attempts to sit down and write his memoirs, revisiting the fun days for all to read, but finds it much more difficult than he ever imagines.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1991
There is a concern of plagiarism as the clan discover from the news that Bobby may have stolen someone else's tune for his hit 'Easy Street'.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1991
Thomas considers moving out. Thanks to Anna, the clan is featured in the David Brasche Show.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jul 2, 1991
The clan prepares to go on a weekend vacation, for the first time together.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1991
Because no one answers the phone calls (or does it properly), Thomas decides to buy an answering machine.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1991
Thomas and Anna catch the flu, Doug catches the flu and also Tracy catches the flu - which leaves Bobby in charge. Bobby is nominated for an award.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1991
Thomas' continued insults are beginning to take their toll on Bobby. Fortunately, Doug has a parenting book that's sure to help.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1991
Thomas wants Rhys, a typical bully, to guard his flea market stand. In exchange, Rhys wants a date with Anna.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1991
Misunderstandings lead to Thomas and Anna thinking Bobby and Tracy are going to get married.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1991
Bobby considers selling the house in order to pay back an advance he got several years ago on his record sale - but which didn't live up to its expectations.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1991
With Anna and Thomas out of town on school sports trip and Doug at an actors' workshop, Bobby and Tracy find themselves alone in the house for the weekend.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Aug 27, 1991
The kids' 16th birthday is approaching and Bobby is in charge of buying them the present. Emma Bigelow wants to throw a pool party for the kids - which make Anna worry about her appearance.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1991
Tracy tells a slimy business client that she is married to Bobby to get him to back off. With the client coming over to the house to sign some papers, Tracy asks Doug to pretend to be her husband, Bobby Rivers.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1991
A rich rock star offers a lot of money for a '69 record Bobby owns - the only problem is to find it.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1991
Tracy dates Wayne - partly out of boredom, partly tricked into it - and finds him the next morning in her bathrobe.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1991
Bobby - and subsequently Doug - think the new next-door neighbor is a vampire.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1991
Bobby thinks his age is an issue and he considers giving up Rock and Roll. Doug's mother visits with news: she's dating.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1991
A crazy fan who found out Bobby has kids - but not with her - threatens Bobby and his family.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1991
Another below-the-belt gig means the end for Wayne managing Bobby. Bobby takes on managing duties for an up-and-coming band.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1991
Anna's new friend, Nicola Norton, changes her for the worse - nobody can recognize her again, let alone handle her. Fights are imminent.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1991
According to a 'survey' among the boys, Thomas learns that he's the only one besides a geek who hasn't done 'it'.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1991
Bobby and Doug buy a grill and want to throw a family barbecue. Anna is tutored in maths by Susan, an older girl Thomas has the hots for. Things cool down when he and Anna learn she's a lesbian.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1991
A rip-off sends the mob after Wayne - who now stays for some days at Bobby's driving everyone mad.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1991
Wayne loads off his nephew Sam at Bobby's. Anna works for the school paper and for that has gotten a computer from school. Thomas wants to raise some money by finding partners who want to place ads in the paper.
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1991
Bobby's former band member, Lochie Burns pays a visit. While Bobby stayed the same, Lochie has become a successful - and restless - businessman.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1992
Emma Bigelow asks Thomas to the Debutante Ball but there's one problem - he can't dance.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1992
An internship leads to Anna working for Tracy and Thomas for a big corporation - Burger Boy, that is. When Wayne finds out he blackmails Thomas who is embarrassed having such a job.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1992
Doug falls for the female electrician working at the house; she thinks he is Bobby and the others play along.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1992
Bobby's former manager Louey Little drops by and wants to bring Bobby back to the top - and fleece him. With a new potential manager around Wayne has a hard time.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1992
A parcel with Beth's belongings from the plane crash arrives. In there also her diary. Reading in it the clan learns more about the dark past of the family and Beth.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1992
The call from a movie producer who wants him for a starring role lets Doug fly high - too high the rest of the family thinks.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1992
Bobby has to face the fact that he's a pizza-addict when the others challenge him to go 48 hours without.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1992
Anna wins the general knowledge tournament school and is selected to become a contestant on Sale of the Century.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: May 5, 1992
A baby-sitting Bobby? Can't Be. - So Anna and Thomas return with the baby twins - who actually belong to one of Tracy's friends - to the supermarket where they think Bobby has kidnapped them.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: May 12, 1992
Jackie Hammond, Bobby's ex from back in the day, is back on the charts and back in Bobby's life.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: May 19, 1992
After losing accounts, Tracy also loses her job. Doug cooks for the taxi drivers' picnic. Bobby tries gardening.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: May 26, 1992
With all those 'negative vibrations' at home Bobby tries a sixties approach - a commune - so the people in the house find inner peace.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1992
Thomas' classmate Marcus falls for Tracy - who has learned that she's the only one from her class not to be married. Bobby's favorite jeans tear apart.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1992
Hearing-impaired Bobby must face the fact that his love for Rock'n Roll may leave him behind deaf.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1992
When Doug is out on a double-shift, Tracy tries her luck with cooking for a catering job. When this turns ugly, the rest must step in - meaning no party for Anna and Jodie.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jun 23, 1992
Tracy and Doug do the catering for the Egyptian Embassy. When Tracy prefers the business part over helping Doug in the kitchen, a fed up Doug quits. Anna protests against kangaroo being served at a diner.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1992
Wayne hires Tracy and Doug to cater for his rich uncle Alphonso's birthday. The catering firm gets into trouble with the law. Wayne's typical wooing pays off.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1992
Thomas takes care of Quentin, the pedigree dog of Mrs. Bigelow, Emma's mom. Bobby has bought an 'antique' lawn mower and terrorizes the neighborhood.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1992
Bobby takes a book about positive thinking - taking life into one own hands and the like - literally, miffing the others.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1992
After breaking his leg, Bobby watches his neighbor killing her husband from the rear window and freaks out when she discovers him peeping.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Jul 28, 1992
Anna goes for her driver's license. Bobby, however, thinks boys - in this case Thomas - should make theirs first. Eventually a bet follows: Who will make the license first, Anna, backed up by Tracy, or Thomas, who has Bobby in his corner.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1992
An Italian Spell delivered with the mail causes Wayne to freak out. Thomas bets Sam that he can't beat him at selling stuff at the flea-market.
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1992
Bobby finds his ex-drummer's Little Black Book. Unfortunately for Wayne, it's a little out of date.
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Aug 18, 1992
Bobby is obsessed with finding the name of the actor playing Lt.Cmdr. Gary Mitchell in Star Trek's pilot episode. His obsession puts an unpleasant halt on his plans to renovate the house.
Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1992
Thomas has fallen for Michelle, a rich girl, from school. The only thing spoiling a 'hit' could be his dad - at least Thomas thinks so.
Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1992
Bobby gets jealous when he learns that Tracy has a beau. Wayne shadows the guy.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1993
An 17-year old, Billy, appears and tells a stunned family that he is Bobby's son. And there is more than one thing Bobby and Billy have in common. At least way more than Thomas has with his dad.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1993
Bobby's 'Easy Street' is a hit in Kazakhstan - recorded by a local group. Anna and also Thomas (unknown to each other) audition for 'Romeo and Juliet'. While Anna fails, Thomas succeeds in getting the role and now can kiss 'Juliet' Jodie.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1993
Bobby mistakes a student (who's helping Anna in putting together a time capsule) for Buddy Holly. Thomas (plus dad) is invited to one of his friend's party, whose father is a possible future member of the government.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1993
Tracy tries her hands on plumbing - after all, she attended a course. Wayne accidentally ran over his best friend - cock Enzo.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1993
Thomas wins a romantic evening for two and the only girl he can think of is Jodie. Tracy and Doug do the catering.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1993
Thomas and Anna discover that a painting Bobby owns is a Lichtenstein and may be worth a couple thousand dollars. Enough for scheming Thomas. Doug meets a woman and wants to marry her - so she can stay in Australia.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1993
'It' is back - those highly 'positive vibrations' that helped Bobby to stardom. Thomas soon finds out how to use 'it' to make money.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1993
Anna's denied a top scholarship because of Bobby's past as political activist.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1993
Anna has fallen for a guy, whose father once harassed Tracy who now fears like father like son.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1993
A 48 hour Bobby Rivers marathon on the radio, people lining up for his records...a Bobby Rivers revival? Nope, a tribute to the deceased Bobby.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1993
Thomas tries practical jokes on anybody - which his victims of course don't like. Payback follows.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1993
A top producer is interested and Bobby may have a chance to participate in a rock opera. A knot in Tracy's breast means some fear and an operation for her.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: May 4, 1993
Harriet, still in charge, drives every one nuts. Thomas then finds nude pictures of her in a magazine. Wayne organized a gig for Bobby - Country and Western style.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: May 11, 1993
With Tracy away for two weeks Thomas hires his math professor's annoying sister, Harriet, as housekeeper. Harriet subsequently drives everyone mad.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: May 18, 1993
Beth, the thought-to-be-dead kids' mom, surprises the stunned clan with a visit. She explains what she has done and why the family has thought she was dead. Tracy gets a job offer - in New York.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: May 18, 1993
After a long quarrel between Anna and her mother, Beth decides to stay. Tracy decides to accept the New York offer - time to say goodbye.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: May 25, 1993
With Tracy's room vacant, Thomas, Anna and Bobby and even Wayne line up to be the next lodger - and Beth's the one to choose.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1993
To get a peek at the nude model in the senior's art class Thomas tries to get in. But what he sees there is - that his own mother is the model. Bobby wants to cut his hair.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1993
Prom's coming up and Bobby and Beth prepare to be in charge of the music and the catering respectively. But the committee - Jodie, Thomas and Anna, vote against them.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1993
A picture of one of his schoolmates reminds Bobby of stealing a Spiderman comic from him back in their school days. Beth has a big account and reluctantly must ask a neighbor for help.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1993
Thomas tries to woo a Californian exchange student. For Bobby and Beth old feelings may be back.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1993
With Anna, Thomas and even Wayne lining up for money, it's not a far cry to know where to turn to when the housekeeping money is missing. But everyone blames everyone else.
Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1993
Getting close with Beth again Bobby must decide who he loves: Beth or Tracy. For that he travels to New York to see Tracy. Bobby gets the chance to play with Led Zeppelin.
Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1992
Wanting to know her future, especially with Bobby, Beth goes to see an astrologer. Bobby mistakes her leave for a permanent one.
Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1993
Bobby is selected for jury duty in a pizza baking contest.
Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Aug 3, 1992
The 'noise pollution' of a neigboring band is too much for Bobby and he starts a 'war of sounds'. Beth's new bike and not-so-great biking skills trouble Thomas.
Episode: 4x27 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1993
Beth calls in a family counselor because of the constant fighting between Anna, Thomas and Bobby. Wayne has got family problems too.
Episode: 4x28 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1993
Wayne's former school is about to be closed and - emotionally attached to the school - he promises to get the money to prevent this. Anna is nearly date-raped.
Episode: 4x29 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1993
The school's recess hall will be given to Bigelow Constructions, annoying the students. Beth leads Jodie and a reluctant Anna to protest, resulting in a suspended Anna.
Episode: 4x30 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1993
In a maths test Thomas beats Anna who can't believe it and smells a big-time cheat. Only Beth has trust in him and the learning method she taught him. Later, Thomas must tutor Sam.
Episode: 4x31 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1993
Anna and Thomas may have graduated high school but that doesn't compare to Wayne's news - he's landed Bobby a gig writing a jingle for a Supermarket's national ad campaign.