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29 Episodes 1985 - 1988
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 20, 198525 mins
The family visits the Tumbleweed Ranch in Lizard Flats, Arizona, where George once went as a child. While George is disappointed at the modernization, he is happy to see that Dusty, the old cowboy who was there in the old days, is still around. After Webster hears Dusty's campfire retelling of an Indian legend about a white horse named Moonhunter, he sees a white horse that he thinks is the same one from the legend. Webster wants to catch it, offering the wranglers co-ownership in return. However, Jack, the head wrangler, has other plans.
Episode 2
Fri, Sep 20, 1985
After the wranglers catch Moonhunter, Webster is upset to see what they have to do to domesticate him. Meanwhile, George meets a realtor and wants to fulfill his dream of owning a ranch.
Episode 3
Fri, Sep 27, 198525 mins
Webster's class has to do a report on what it's like to be married and raise a child; he has been assigned an arrogant girl named Annette as his "wife," while their "baby" is an egg named Chester who meets with a tragic fate at the breakfast table.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 4, 198525 mins
Webster's new best friend Rob, who moved here from Ohio, is significantly taller than he is. When Webster says it would be nice to have a bodyguard, Rob thinks that's the only reason Webster wants to be friends with him. Meanwhile, Katherine gets tired of dealing with the city bureaucracy at work and starts looking for a new job.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 11, 198525 mins
While George prepares for an IRS audit, Webster becomes convinced that he is from Jupiter after reading an article in a tabloid newspaper that Rob shows him.
Episode 6
Fri, Oct 18, 198525 mins
Webster has been getting home late and not calling; George decides to ground him, but Katherine, who is now majoring in psychology, comes up with a more novel idea: that Webster act as the parent to her and George to see what it's like from their perspective.
Episode 7
Fri, Oct 25, 198525 mins
When Katherine's mother dies of a sudden stroke, she becomes withdrawn from the world. She won't go to her classes or go out with friends or family, and she refuses to go to Webster's party even though she promised him that she would.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 1, 198525 mins
Webster has a dream to make a free throw from a regulation basketball court, like his favorite basketball player, Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks. When George takes Webster and Katherine to New York, Katherine's former sorority sister gets mid-court tickets to the Knicks-Celtics game for Webster and George as well as opera tickets for the two of them. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 8, 198525 mins
Webster travels to Hollywood to see Uncle Philip, who has been signed to do a movie musical called "Rockin' Feet." He also has a surprise for Webster: he's dating a woman named Sherette. When they visit the Paramount lot, Webster sees Sherette make her move toward the film's producer.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 15, 198525 mins
While at first Philip doesn't believe Webster when he tells the truth about Sherette, he eventually figures it out when his part in "Rockin' Feet" is rewritten for a woman - and that woman is her. Back in Chicago, Katherine and George's attempt at a second honeymoon is spoiled when a blizzard knocks out the power and the heat.
Episode 11
Fri, Nov 22, 198525 mins
Webster is upset when his friends tease him about having a babysitter, so he persuades Katherine to let him stay home alone for an hour. When he gloats about this to his friends, two older boys who hear this take the opportunity to rob his house. Meanwhile, Bill hires his nephew Skippy to represent him in a lawsuit over a car accident.
Episode 12
Fri, Nov 29, 198525 mins
When Webster throws out a chain letter that promised bad luck if he doesn't send it to 25 people, bad things start to happen. He gets a D in math, Katherine's beaded bracelet breaks, and Papa is hospitalized because of what he says is "bad luck." This makes Webster think the chain letter was right, but Katherine and George must find a way to convince him that it's just a series of coincidences.
Episode 13
Fri, Dec 6, 198525 mins
As the Parkers' 25th wedding anniversary approaches, Webster shows Katherine a picture he took of Bill's car at a hotel. She tries to confront Bill with this, but the clumsy way she does this makes Bill think she's interested in him. Bill tells this to Cassie, who refuses to believe it, but when George hears about it and goes to talk to Cassie, Webster, who doesn't understand what they're misunderstanding, tries to explain it to Katherine who draws an equally wrong conclusion.
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 13, 198525 mins
Katherine gets a homemade dress as a present from Webster: an unflattering lime green one that says "I Love Paris" and has a large, battery-powered, lighted Eiffel Tower embedded on it. She can't admit to Webster that she doesn't like the dress, and he wants her to wear it for a special occasion. Cassie tells her to wear it as she goes out the door and then change at the neighbors' house while Webster isn't looking. The day she chooses to wear the dress is the day she participates in an experiment where she and other students will be observing four children's interaction with toys - those four children are Webster and three of his classmates.
Episode 15
Fri, Jan 10, 198625 mins
Katherine's Aunt Charlotte drops in for a surprise visit; when Papa comes to play cards and refuses to take George's car, he meets Charlotte and they become smitten with each other.
Episode 16
Fri, Jan 17, 198625 mins
Webster fantasizes about winning the lottery.
Episode 17
Fri, Jan 24, 198625 mins
George is upset that a younger pro football player has been signed to do the morning sports report. Webster suggests that he cover his hockey team's charity game as a human interest story. The station agrees, and George's report goes over so well that he starts to get more children's sports stories, which distresses him. Webster is upset when he overhears him saying so, but his spirits pick up when he and Rob audition for the job of covering kids' sports at the station.
Episode 18
Fri, Jan 31, 198625 mins
Rob spends the night with Webster after he and his mother have dinner at his house. The next morning, his Dad comes to pick him up in his two-seat convertible. Webster doesn't see anything wrong until George and Katherine explain to him that Rob's parents are divorced and have been fighting over custody; they believe his father may have tried to kidnap him.
Episode 19
Fri, Feb 7, 198625 mins
Ever since his sister was diagnosed with leukemia 10 years ago, Jerry has volunteered as a hospital clown for children with leukemia, and he invites the family to join him. George refuses to go because he saw too many dying children during his football career and can no longer handle it, but Katherine and Webster go with him. At the hospital, Webster befriends Mark, a boy from Wisconsin who is in remission from leukemia, and invites him to stay the night. At the house, he gets more activity and fun than his overprotective mother allows him to have.
Episode 20
Fri, Feb 14, 198625 mins
Webster's outlook on Valentine's Day brightens when a cute new girl joins his class.
Episode 21
Fri, Feb 21, 198625 mins
Webster visits "Uncle" Jake Tyler, a college classmate of George and Travis. Jake is a country music singer who, after his son died and his wife divorced him, has chosen a new career path: taking care of foster children. When one of their mothers comes back to pick him up, he has trouble letting go.
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 7, 198625 mins
Since George and Katherine won't let Webster have a BB gun until he proves he's responsible, he sneaks a shooting lesson from a friend and kills a bird.
Episode 23
Fri, Mar 14, 198625 mins
Katherine and George arrange a dream wedding for Katherine's Aunt Charlotte, but Webster senses distress in the bride-to-be.
Episode 24
Fri, Mar 28, 198625 mins
Katherine frustrated by her inability to surprise George on his birthday, decides to make him suffer for his curiosity.
Episode 25
Fri, May 2, 198625 mins
Webster keeps losing library books, including the one on which he has to write a book report. Meanwhile, Katherine has to give a speech, but she comes down with laryngitis the day before it is due.
Episode 26
Thu, Jun 4, 198725 mins
When the new maid Maria shows up very pregnant, Katherine and Webster help with the chores, and George helps with the delivery.
Episode 27
Sun, Jan 24, 1988
Katherine brings patients to the house for therapy on a night when George & Webster have settled in to watch a big game.
Episode 28
Mon, Mar 30, 1987
Papa is staying home with Webster while George and Katherine are in the Bahamas. Webster complains that he doesn't get to go with him, but Papa reminds him of all the places that he's been, as seen in past clips.
Episode 29
Tue, Mar 31, 1987
Jerry comes by to tell Webster and Papa that a hurricane in the Bahamas has put Katherine and George's lives in jeopardy.