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Just the Ten of Us

  • 1987-1990
  • 3 seasons
  • ABC
  • Comedy, Family
  • TV-G

Coach Graham Lubbock, his wife Elizabeth, and their eight kids move to Eureka, California so he can take a coaching job...at an all-boys' school. The boys are thrilled that his four beautiful daughters will be their new classmates; he is not so thrilled. Zany plots range from raffling off a date to taking a job at a slaughterhouse.

Season 2 Episode Guide

20 Episodes 1988 - 1989

Episode 1

Strangers in the Night

Fri, Oct 28, 1988

Coach Lubbock fumes over a note passed in his classroom that may shed light on a late-night rendezvous one of his daughters had with a boy.

Episode 2

She Works Hard for the Money

Fri, Nov 4, 1988

To help out with the family, Marie, Cindy, Wendy, and Connie go out and find part-time jobs. But only two daughters succeed.

Episode 3

Voice of God

Fri, Nov 11, 1988

Nobody believes in Elizabeth's conversation with God until a tree crashes through her bedroom window--where Graham would have been had she not forced him and the kids to have early-morning prayers outside with her.

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Episode 4

The Dinner Test

Fri, Nov 18, 1988

Before the girls can go on date, they have to bring them to the house for what is known as the dinner test. Wherein the Coach tries to make sure that their date is OK. And so far no one passes. And when one of them has a date with guy who is sure to fail, they find a guy who seems like the kind of guy who could pass the test. So they introduce him as the date and bring him for the test.

Episode 5

Coach's Court

Fri, Nov 25, 1988

When the fence railing gets broken and poorly reassembled, Coach decides to hold "Coach's Court" to find out how it happened and who knows about it. He learns that it began when one of his boxers made obscene remarks toward Marie, and J.R. got in his face telling him to knock it off. The girls went to see him, he mouthed off again, and Marie slugged him.

Episode 6

The Merry Mix-Up

Fri, Dec 2, 1988

Wendy steals Elizabeth's ID, and Cindy steals Marie's, to sneak into an exclusive dance club. Meanwhile, Marie tutors--and falls for--the nephew of Father Hargis whom Coach has never met. Then Cindy's club date shows asking for "Marie."

Episode 7

The Unkindest Cut of All

Fri, Dec 9, 1988

Graham tries to keep it a secret that he's going into the hospital for hemorrhoid surgery. But when the girls get wind of his hospital stay, they assume he's dying-and they spread the news of his failing health to everyone at St. Augie's.

Episode 8

A Christmas Story

Fri, Dec 16, 1988

Graham's plans to buy Elizabeth an organ change when the transmission goes out on the family station wagon. Frustrated, he decides to sell the car, unaware that the girls have raised the money on their own to fix the transmission.

Episode 9

Personal Best

Fri, Jan 6, 1989

JR tries out for the St. Augustine track team, only to be beaten by Wendy.

Episode 10

Song of Constance

Fri, Jan 13, 1989

Connie finds herself getting writer's block when asked to submit to the school's literary journal. Once she gets published, Father Hargis recalls it thinking it is pornography.

Episode 11

Head of the Class

Fri, Jan 20, 1989

Graham tells Wendy she's a genius, then Sherry finds out that's not the first time a Lubbock was told that lie.

Episode 12

Dream Girls

Fri, Feb 3, 1989

Wendy, Cindy, Connie, and Marie start singing as The Lubbock Babes, but try not to tell Graham.

Episode 13

A Day in the Life

Fri, Feb 10, 1989

Wendy gets suspended from school, but her time off is no vacation.

Episode 14

Zorro en el Gallinero

Fri, Feb 17, 1989

Father Hargis brings a young man from Spain to the Lubbocks, whom he hopes will join the school. He hopes seeing the Lubbock girls will entice him. They all think he doesn't speak English but he can but continues to let them think so. And all four girls make a move on him by getting someone who speaks Spanish to tell him they like him.

Episode 15

Car in the Pool

Fri, Feb 24, 1989

The girls accidentally push Father Hargis's car into the school pool, then decide whether to confess or cover it up.

Episode 16

The Critic

Fri, Mar 10, 1989

Graham directs a school play, but reviewer Connie thinks the play is as dead as its salesman.

Episode 17

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Fri, Mar 17, 1989

Marie goes to the dance without a date, and meets a boy named Russell. Her sisters urge her to cut off him, deeming him a "dog,"

Episode 18

Radio Days

Fri, Mar 31, 1989

Cindy goes for a spot on the campus radio station. Despite much disbelief from others, Cindy gets the job on her merit, only to hear that her father was supposed to "get her the job."

Episode 19

Puberty Blues

Fri, Apr 14, 1989

Coach teaches the girls about not playing when there's no grass on the field. A very special episode.

Episode 20

Rock n' Roll Fantasy

Fri, Apr 28, 1989

As the Lubbock sisters take to the stage to sing once more in the local pizzeria, they each daydream about where their singing might one day take them.

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