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24 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 16, 1984
Dexter's nephew comes to live with him, but his aggressive attempts to make new friends don't go smoothly.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 23, 1984
High school's a whole new ball game for Rick.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 30, 1984
Edward sets up a curfew that Rick ignores.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 7, 1984
Rick runs away from home thinking Edward no longer trusts him.

Episode 5
Sun, Oct 28, 1984
It's a dark and stormy night as Edward encourages Rick and his friends to tell a pass-the-ghost story.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 4, 1984
Rick fixes his grandfather up with his teacher.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 11, 1984
Ricky and Alfonso are disappointed when they're unable to go a Thanksgiving party, as Edward, Kate and Dexter have decided to take them on a surprise trip to the Caribbean island of St Agnes in the company plane, which Kate is piloting.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 18, 1984
The Strattons make an emergency landing on a Caribbean island where they have Thanksgiving dinner.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 25, 1984
Rick gets his hopes up when his mother shows up with her fiancé and makes plans to move in next door.
Episode 10
Sun, Dec 9, 1984
Rick, Freddy and Alfonso hold the "Miss Fuller Freshman" pageant where things go wrong.
Episode 11
Sun, Dec 16, 1984
It's Christmas time, but Alfonso is sad to learn he won't be spending the holidays with his mother, while Freddy and his family are homeless.
Episode 12
Sun, Dec 30, 1984
Rick hopes his friend Lulu Baker will be able to run his favorite hamburger restaurant.
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 6, 1985
Grandfather Stratton announces his retirement just to have some fun.
Episode 14
Sun, Jan 13, 1985
Rick becomes a peer counselor and tries to help a student whose attitude is worse than his grades.

Episode 15
Sun, Jan 27, 1985
Edward's father shows up and wants him to buy the family's flour business but Edward doesn't want to. Ricky comes up with the idea for his grandfather to sponsor a spot on TV for Lulu Baker to bake with the company's flour. Ricky's grandfather gives him a job but because Alfonso asked him to go to ball game he not only didn't do his job the work he did got messed up. So upset with Ricky that his grandfather fires him and insults him. Edward encourages Ricky to go confront his grandfather and he's at the TV station where Lulu is shooting her latest spot. But things get so tense that she brings Ricky and his grandfather out where they hash things out.
Episode 16
Sun, Feb 3, 1985
Kate is concerned that her relationship with Edward is not moving forward, which is her subtle way of saying that she wants to get married and have a family. But Edward still reeling from his first marriage is hesitant. But when Dexter tells him he should marry her, he proposes and Kate accepts. When Ricky learns of this, he's not exactly thrilled. Which leads Edward to blurt that this is what Kate wants which she over hears.
Episode 17
Sun, Feb 10, 198530 mins
Following Kate's spat with Edward, she decides to leave town for awhile. Edward wanting to see her tracks her down to the cruise ship she's about to leave on. When she decides to go, Edward is heart broken. But she returns and agrees to marry him.
Episode 18
Sun, Feb 17, 1985
Edward suspects Rick's new friend of being a thief.
Episode 19
Sun, Feb 24, 1985
When Alfonso is not doing well in school, Dex thinks he is spending too much time on his dancing. And when Alfonso's grades don't improve, Dex forbids from entering a dance competition. But Bruce Jenner who is trying out some exercise equipment Edward has developed, thinks he knows what Alfonso's problem is.
Episode 20
Sun, Mar 3, 1985
A pair of scalawags use Rick in their scam to sell faulty cameras.
Episode 21
Sun, Mar 10, 1985
When Rick reveals that the cafeteria's been substituting horse meat for beef on his cable-access show, the principal wants to know his source.
Episode 22
Sun, Mar 17, 1985
Edward forgets Rick's father-and-son banquet when he and an old buddy revive their singing career.
Episode 23
Sun, Mar 24, 1985
Rick feels bad about himself when he sees how gorgeous his computer date is.
Episode 24
Sun, Apr 7, 1985
Rick babysits a girl he suspects was taken from her mother by her father.
