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- Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
- A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
- This series took place in an apartment building numbered 227. The cast would frequently be sitting outside on a large set of stone stairs, involved in some discussion that would unfold into the weekly plotline.
- This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
- Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
- Follows the inmates of the Cell-Block J of the Bass Women's Prison.
- Cindy Fralic (Nancy McKeon) plans to become a Los Angeles County firefighter. However, in the 60-year history of the department, no woman has ever passed the department's physical skills test. Battling divorce, stereotypes and opposition from both men and women, Cindy Fralic passes the physical agility test to become the first female firefighter in Los Angeles County.
- Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
- Mary and Lester's romantic evening is interrupted by a police stakeout of Sandra's boyfriend.
- Lester has a chance to do a big project and give a friend who's out of work a job. But things change when he learns that the company whom he'll be working for sponsors apartheid. So he has to choose which is more important.
- Brenda and Calvin take care of a pig for a class project designed to teach the seriousness of teenage pregnancy.
- Sandra's novel inspired by the residents of 227 could hurt Mary's chance to become president of the Ladies' Auxiliary.
- Mary goes on a journey of self-analysis after receiving a visit from her best friend, now famous psychiatrist.
- Mary is suspicious of her new neighbor just because he throws knives.
- Pearl, Mary and Rose end up in jail when they protest the Social Security office's claim that Pearl is dead.
- Taking a cue from Sandra's book, Brenda "mistakenly" invites an attractive man to a party on the wrong night.
- Mary and Lester go to the reading of Lester's uncle's will. Lester discovers that he has white cousins, and they have to live under the same roof for a week to collect the $10,000 inheritance. Since the cousins live in Arkansas, Mary and Lester invite them to stay at 227. However, Mary is nervous when she feels that their presence could cost her the presidency of the Ladies Auxiliary Club.
- Sandra receives a letter from her mother, who is coming to visit. This upsets her because she feels that her mother never really loved her. Mary tries to placate her, but Sandra accidentally invites a gentleman friend, Mop, over for the same weekend her mother is visiting. Mary helps Sandra prevent her mother and Mop from meeting.
- Calvin decides to live with his pilot father, even it means moving to Iceland.
- Mary and Lester's 20th anniversary is made complicated by conflicting plans and in-laws.
- Mary returns from a shopping trip to discover that Lester has acute appendicitis.
- Rose is feeling frustrated that all the men she's been dating dumps her for younger girls. So to help her, Sandra suggests she joins a video dating service but Sandra suggests she adopt more exotic persona, so she transforms herself to Raquel. And when s guy expresses interest in her, she finds it hard to maintain the Raquel persona.
- Lester's Uncle's men's club is honoring him. Mary wants to be there with him but his Uncle says that no women are allowed. Mary then decides to dress up like a man and go to the award ceremony as does Sandra.
- A director and his assistant are preparing to shoot a scene for a movie in front of 227. When Sandra tries to insinuate herself into the movie by auditioning for a one-line speaking part, she is unable to deliver the line he way the director wants her to. When Mary tries to help her, the director chooses her for the part instead. Sandra becomes upset that Mary stole her part. However, out of nervousness, Mary throws out her back. Rose and Lester try various remedies to help her recover in time to deliver the line.
- Mary and Sandra go into the pillow business, but their partnership is jeopardized by their differing positions.
- Calvin and his friend Eddie are about to fail history, so they have a tutor help them. When the tutor is an attractive young woman who inadvertently distracts them, Mary and Rose decide to help them. When both of their efforts fail, Lester decides to help out. Unfortunately, the boys still fail their final exam. Mary helps them get a second chance, but it is up to the Jenkins to get the boys back on track.
- Mary, Rose, and Pearl are toying around with Brenda's new keyboard, and Mary sings a song she wrote in high school. Sandra stops by and Mary sings the song for her. Sandra helped her edit it, and Brenda gave the song to Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), who offered to publish the song. When Mary is offered $5000 for the song and refuses to share with Sandra, Sandra sues Mary.
- Lester takes Rose to a dance where he sees his high-school sweetheart.
- Mary forbids Brenda from going on a date with Calvin before her 16th birthday.
- Sandra falls for a schoolteacher, who's willing to give up his job for an executive position with a high salary.
- Sandra and Mitchell have doubts about their wedding.
- Mary enlists the Temptations to perform at the church's charity show.
- Lester has to go to the IRS for an audit and he is nervous. Mary who goes with him tells him that everything will be OK. They go to a coffee shop before going to the audit. Lester thinks he forgot some records that they need so he leaves Mary in the shop. Later a guy comes in and starts making some chauvinistic comments that Mary takes exception to, and they both go at it. Later when Mary and Lester go to the audit, she discovers that the IRS man is the one she had the heated exchange with.
- Mary deals with a corporate lawyer Lester is trying to impress.
- Mary and Rose share the butler they won in a raffle.
- The ladies go to a self-help seminar and Mary meets a developer who has a 50 million dollar museum job. Rose recommends Lester for the job, but when Mary tells Lester about it, he says he can't manage the job because his company is too small. In spite of that, Mary agrees to meet with the developer and uses Sandra's boyfriend's penthouse to make her and Lester appear more affluent than they are.
- Pearl gets engaged to a man she meets at a club where Mary and the ladies have a girls' night out.
- Sandra looks for a man to be a husband and father, then decides to settle for just the latter.
- When Mary and Rose catch a young man spray painting the building, they try to stop him but in the end they turn his spray can on him and he gets away. Later he files a suit against them for assault. They hope that Sondra who was in her date's car at the time can corroborate their version of the events. But all she saw was when Mary and Rose grabbed the boy and spray painted him.
- Lester's cousin Ed and his wife Sherry are visiting Mary and Lester. Ed is absolutely devoted to Sherry and still treats her like they're still on a honeymoon after 5 years of marriage, but Sherry feels stifled by him. Sherry announces to Mary that she's leaving Ed, and surreptitiously leaves during dinner. A depressed Ed mopes around the apartment and it's up to Mary, Lester, Rose, Pearl, and Sandra to cheer him up.
- When Rose needs a new handyman for the building. One of the kids' friends at school suggests his father, who is actuality a concert violinist. But he tries his best so that they could stay in the handyman's apartment.
- Sandra's roommate steals her boyfriend.
- Mary plays host to her ill-mannered competitor in a big choir contest.
- Sandra gets a job as a weather girl at a cable-TV station following her appearance on a talk show.
- Mary takes a job at a travel agency, where her boss finds her so important that he wants her to come with him on a trip.