One Day at a Time
One Day at a Time: Season 8

Air Date

September 26, 1982

Episodes

26 episodes

One Day at a Time

Season 8

Episodes

1. The Perfect Wedding (1)

September 26, 1982
24 min

Barbara's nerves are on edge as her wedding day approaches and husband-to-be Mark is no help, he's more interested in his golf game than helping with the preparations.

2. The Perfect Wedding (2)

October 3, 1982
24 min

Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara's worried he won't get to the church on time.

3. Honeymoon's Over

October 10, 1982
24 min

Barbara tries to adapt to life at Mark's rooming house, where her new husband's friends, including a scantily clad woman, breeze in and out without knocking to use the bathroom, or asking to use the closet and community refrigerator.

4. Catcher in the Mud

October 17, 1982
24 min

Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.

5. Last Time I Saw Paris

October 24, 1982
24 min

To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.

6. Auntie Francine

October 31, 1982
24 min

Ann may be a little envious of Francine's freewheeling lifestyle, especially after Francine takes Alex for the weekend and shows him the time of his life.

7. Lovers & Other Parents

November 7, 1982
24 min

Barbara's scheme to get her mother and Mark's newly divorced father together at a dinner party gets faster results than she anticipated.

8. Miracle of Birth (1)

November 21, 1982
24 min

Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.

9. Miracle of Birth (2)

November 28, 1982
24 min

Julie insists on flying to California to have her baby in an underwater birth tank but her labor pains are beginning at her mother's home in Indianapolis.

10. First Things First

December 12, 1982
24 min

Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.

11. Pride and Privacy (1)

December 19, 1982
24 min

Forced out of their rooming house by an explosion, Barbara and Mark impose on Ann for a temporary home until they can find a place of their own.

12. Pride and Privacy (2)

December 26, 1982
24 min

With Julie, Max and the new baby also needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.

13. Pride and Privacy (3)

January 2, 1983
24 min

Unable to cope with the pandemonium at her house, Ann takes refuge at Sam's place, until he offers her a solution for which she's completely unprepared.

14. The Cruise

January 23, 1983
24 min

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.

15. Spare the Child

January 30, 1983
24 min

Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.

16. The Hero

February 13, 1983
24 min

Saving a businessman's life earns Schneider executive status in a job, complete with a secretary, a plush office, a rent-free apartment nearby and very little work to do.

17. The Good Life

February 20, 1983
24 min

A South Pacific island would be just the ticket for Sam, if only Ann would drop her work, desert the family and join him in paradise.

18. Social Insecurity

March 6, 1983
24 min

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

19. A Young Man's Fancy

March 7, 1983
24 min

Approaching his 15th birthday, Alex anticipates his first female encounter. But when he strikes out with the school's ""girl most likely to,"" he makes a play for an older woman.

20. The Letter

March 14, 1983
24 min

A letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.

21. Buyer's Remorse

March 21, 1983
24 min

Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.

22. Sonny Boy

March 28, 1983
24 min

A weekend outing with a girl from school is more attractive to Alex than the father-son night he agreed to attend at Schneider's lodge.

23. Panzini

May 2, 1983
24 min

Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.

24. Sisters

May 9, 1983
24 min

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

25. Second Time Around

May 16, 1983
24 min

Sam unilaterally sets a wedding date as Ann learns from his newspaper announcement that she's getting married in three days. But it's Sam who starts getting cold feet.

26. Honeymoon II

May 23, 1983
24 min

Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.