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22 Episodes 1982 - 1983
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 28, 1982
Jack joins Janet and her boss for a business date and gets drunk; back at the apartment afterward, he accidentally gets into Janet's bed. She gets him out but he does not remember anything. In the morning, with a few wrong words, he thinks he slept with her.

Episode 2
Tue, Oct 12, 1982
Terri wants to break up with her dentist beau but can't seem to do it. Jack has a toothache so Terri arranges for her guy to see him. Although terrified, Jack reports to him and finds out he must return in a week for treatment. But just before his appointment Terri dumps the guy with Janet's help, and when he sees Jack in her place he assumes it's because of him. Unaware of what has happened, Jack goes for his appointment.

Episode 3
Tue, Oct 19, 1982
The guys get a phone answering machine. Larry tells Jack he sets him up with a girl who will call him. Later a girl named Rita calls and leaves Jack a message telling him where they will meet. Jack goes to see her. Thing is she thinks Jack is a fence whom she wants to fence some diamonds for her. When Jack meets her, they arrange to meet at his place later, she then kisses him and slips him the diamonds. When he goes home, he finds them and freaks out and shows the girls. That's when Rita and a guy show up demanding their money.

Episode 4
Tue, Oct 26, 1982
Upon learning that she and Jack live together, Janet's date, a reporter, wants to do an article about them, but when it comes out, it hints that something more is going on between Jack tells them to ignore it until the girls are being treated lewdly by men who read the article. And when guys think Jack is "the man", he doesn't deny it--until his girlfriend dumps him. Things get worse when Jack and Terri's mothers read the article and think it's best that they leave the apartment.

Episode 5
Tue, Nov 9, 1982
Mr. Angelino has a vacant restaurant which he is trying to rent out. When Jack decides to get it, he jumps in without checking it out first. He discovers that it needs a lot of work so he pulls all of his money in the bank to use on the renovation. But he still needs to come up with the rent money and the bank won't grant him a loan.

Episode 6
Tue, Nov 16, 1982
Final preparations are underway to open Jack's Bistro. Larry is totally ineffective with repairs in the building and even has the flyer printed with the wrong date. No customers show up on opening night.

Episode 7
Tue, Nov 23, 1982
Felipe asks Jack if his cousin, Maria who just arrived from Mexico can stay with him. And when Jack sees how lovely she is he agrees. Now she doesn't speak or understand English too well. But Janet and Terri deduce from her demeanor that she got dumped. So Jack offers her a job at the restaurant which she misinterprets as a marriage proposal.

Episode 8
Tue, Nov 30, 1982
Janet's friend Randy comes to town, and when Jack meets her, he is smitten. Janet is OK with Jack and Randy going out. Later, Janet and Jack find out Randy omitted one detail - she is married.

Episode 9
Tue, Dec 7, 1982
Jack learns that an ultra conservative minister is trying to keep his restaurant from getting it's wine license. Mr. Angelino tells Jack he knows the man and the reason is because the restaurant was once a hangout for hookers. So Jack has to try and convince the minister that the restaurant is respectable. Mr. Angelino's tells Jack to have a brunch at his restaurant and will invite the minister to show him his place is respectable. He asks Janet and Terri to come and dress conservatively. But things get hairy when an amorous newlywed couple who are waiting to go on their honeymoon come in and start making out. And Larry's date turns wild after he gets her drunk.

Episode 10
Tue, Dec 14, 1982
When Jack's kitchen help quits, Mr Furley immediately says he will do the job and Jack cannot say no. Mr Furley is not effective. Larry suggests hiring guitar player for background music. Larry decides to be the accompanist singer.

Episode 11
Tue, Jan 4, 1983
When Terri saves a man's life, he asks her out, so she asks him to meet him at the apartment. When he sees she lives with Jack, he gets a strange look. And Furley thinks he knows him. Later, while playing Scrabble with Janet, Furley remembers that the man is a convicted murderer who killed a guy whom he thought was seeing his girlfriend.

Episode 12
Tue, Jan 11, 1983
Larry's younger sister Diane is in town, and allows Jack to take her out, but they do not get back home until after 2AM and Larry is furious. especially after a miscommunication makes everyone think they did more than just go out.

Episode 13
Tue, Jan 18, 1983
At the bar, Carol tells Larry and Furley about an incident with a boat on the water. They leave the bar, but the story spreads around, with the details all switched around. Soon it becomes a story about Carol breaking up with her husband.

Episode 14
Tue, Feb 1, 1983
A building inspector claims that there's a minor infraction at Jack's restaurant which gives him cause to have it closed unless Jack pays him off. The girls tell him to record the man soliciting a pay off. He calls the police and a detective comes and plays the tape, Jack leaves for a moment and the cop only hears Jack's earlier conversation with Furley about "pot" "from Mexico" that could be costly. So the police go after Furley.

Episode 15
Tue, Feb 15, 1983
Terri treats a man who is an actor on a soap opera. Later he asks her out, and she accepts. But what she doesn't know is that he prefers trashy women so the show is considering writing him off unless he appears to be respectable. After going out with him on one date, he proposes to Terri. While Janet is happy Jack is suspicious. Later he goes to Jack's restaurant with one of his girlfriends and Jack sees him.

Episode 16
Tue, Feb 22, 1983
Jack and Furley are at the bar. And Futley accidentally knocks over another guy's drink. The man starts hurling insults at Furley. Jack tells the guy to back off. He tells Jack to make him. Jack says let's go outside. But the guy wants to see him in a boxing gym. Jack says yes. But he later learns the man is an excellent boxer.

Episode 17
Tue, Mar 1, 1983
Janet & Terri make a bet that Jack cannot stay away from women for one week. Immediately the girls make him go with Mr Furley to the bar for Woman's Night. Furley meets a woman who has a friend for Jack. This causes Jack to lose the bet.

Episode 18
Tue, Mar 15, 198330 mins
Janet gets a stereo for Jack and Terri as a surprise, but it needs to be repaired, and Mr. Furley recommends his nephew Mark to work on it in return for Janet helping him with dating lessons. Jack and Terri find out about the nephew and assume Janet is dating him.

Episode 19
Tue, Mar 22, 1983
Jack tells the girls that he's been so busy at the restaurant he can't do his errands and asks them if they could help him and they say yes. He also tells them that he will sleep in the apartment above the restaurant. One night he is about to go to the apartment when he finds Mr. Angelino there with a girl. Jack assumes why he is there so he leaves, but he returns to tell Mr. Angelino his wife showed up. He steps out and when his wife enters the apartment she finds Jack with the girl and they leave. Later Janet and Terri show up and when they find Jack with the girl, they leave in a huff because they assume Jack only told him he was busy so that they would do his chores while he messed around with the girl.

Episode 20
Tue, Apr 5, 1983
Jack goes to the bar and tries to pick up a woman by using an old line. She turns him down. Larry shows up with a fake mustache, he says he thinks it'll make him more appealing to the women. Jack thinks he's crazy. Larry approaches the woman Jack tried to pick up and she leaves with him. He says he used the same line Jack tried. Thinking that a mustache might help Jack decides to get one. When he goes home, Janet thinks he looks silly. But Terri throws herself at Jack. Janet tells Jack that Terri's infatuated with him. He thinks she's crazy till Terri kisses him. She tells Jack they have to find a way to make him less appealing and she thinks she knows what will work. So as Jack goes to see Terri, her mother shows up and tells Janet why Terri is behaving the way she is and that Janet's plan won't work.

Episode 21
Tue, May 3, 1983
An old friend of Jack's from the Navy visits. Mr. Angelino comes looking for Jack but he's not around, so Angelino tells Jack's friend that he wants to bring some people to Jack's Bistro and asks him to tell Jack what he wants. But he tells Jack it' for something other than what Angelino wants. When Jack throws a surprise which upsets them, Jack's friend bails him out so Angelino tells Jack to give him a job which was what he is angling for. So Jack, the girls, and Larry decide to pull the same thing on him, but Larry can't make it, so Furley steps in.

Episode 22
Tue, May 10, 1983
Janet and Terri mistakenly assume that Jack needs money for his business. So they ask Mr. Furley if they can use the rent money to help Jack and he agrees but says they have until next week to pay him. So they ask Larry to pose as a radio DJ who calls Jack and says if he answers his question he'll get $500. He answers it and once he gets the money he goes out and buys a coat which makes the girls upset. Furley then lets slip that the girls need money, so Jack decides to give them the rent money for the restaurant. So he goes to the bar where they are and tries to slip them the money, but gives it to a customer.
