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The School Conference

Episode number: 1

Overview: Series premiere about the everyday life of a housewife in Dayton, Ohio. In the opening episode, Maggie receives a note from school accusing her 8-year-old son of "borderline obscenity."

A Tooth for a Tooth

Episode number: 2

Overview: Maggie babysits for a friend in hopes of coming up with enough money to cover Mark's braces, but the girl is not the angel Maggie is led to believe.

Career

Episode number: 3

Overview: Len considers a career switch after learning that a former colleague has struck it rich outside the teaching profession.

Bruce's Birthday Party

Episode number: 4

Overview: The girls goad Maggie into throwing a birthday party for Bruce, but Buffy's diamond ring winds up in an unlikely place during the event.

Marriage Encounter

Episode number: 5

Overview: Maggie and her husband Len, on their way to a marriage encounter session, make a wrong turn and wind up stranded when the car runs out of gas.

Alienation of Affection

Episode number: 6

Overview: Maggie returns from a trip to hear nothing but rave reviews of Loretta's housekeeping.

Mark's Shrink

Episode number: 7

Overview: Maggie takes Mark to see a therapist in hopes of curing his problem. The doctor recommends that Len project a more masculine image to his son.

Maggie the Poet

Episode number: 8

Overview: Pressure from her mother leads Maggie to take up poetry again, but after selling her first poem to a newspaper, Maggie suffers writer's block. (Last show of the series.)