Dick demonstrates how to blow smoke rings to a chimpanzee who is appearing on his talk show. Unfortunately, Dick gets caught in his own ring when he becomes addicted to smoking.
Goodbye, Phoenix. Hello, Hollywood...maybe...but, only if Dick can have a successful screen test with a glamourous leading lady.
AKA New Girlfriend. Reminiscent of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", the Preston's get a big surprise when Lucas's girlfriend shows up to dinner, and just happens to be black. The most surprised is Dick's mom, known for her bigotry.
Annie, unknowingly, takes a "dirty" book with her to school. Thus, giving a whole new meaning to sex education.
Jenny takes tennis lessons, and Dick becomes green with jealousy.
When the house of their dreams becomes available, the Prestons decide to move. Problems arise as they try to sell their old house and Annie decides she doesn't want to leave.
Dick gains a sidekick on his talk show. Soon, he begins to fear that the popular (and egotistical) singer will steal his job.
In one of the funniest episodes of the show, Dick buys a motorcycle and against advice from everyone takes it out to the desert on a ride. When he runs out of gas and takes refuge in an old cabin, thinks take a turn for the worse.
A storm descends on the Preston's household, and they find themselves re-enacting Noah's ark.
When symphony conductor Paul Franz is a guest on Dick's talk show, Dick asks him on the air to come to their house for dinner, throwing Jenny into a panic and Dick into the dog house
In the series pilot, Dick and Jenny Preston have been married for 18 years and are the proud parents of two children, 10 and 16. With Dick's talk show doing well, they feel that their life is next to perfect, until unexpected news arrives--Jenny is pregnant.
A misunderstanding causes Jenny to think Dick is building her a sewing room instead of the sauna he's planning on.
An ever-helpful Dick promises a young starlet a world-record. To Jenny's dismay, the record is for the longest TV kiss.
Someone's playing Robin Hood with the Preston's items. Unfortunately, it seems to be an inside job.
After fighting with his manager, Dick must negotiate his own contract with the station manager.
This flashback episode focuses on the calamaties that ensue when Jenny goes into labor. Also, Annie feels ignored becuase of the baby's arrival. Also, young Lucas gets a new bike and falls off breaking his nose!
Jenny becomes suspicious when Dick keeps missing dinner. Is he seeing gorgeous models for business or pleasure?
The alternative title to this episode could have been: Jenny and the Unmarried Hitchhiker. Dick must deal with them both on the way to the hospital for the birth of the Preston's third child.
Dick plays marriage counseler when Bernie and Carol split up over the issue of having children.
Dick is being honored with an award, unfortunately, the ceremony is being held at a restricted gold club.
Jenny and Dick find themselves on opposite ends of the school board election.
Mike's ex-husband returns and the chase in on. Is he really reformed?
When Jenny and Carol go into business together, their husbands warn them that friends should not share a business. For once, maybe their husbands are correct.
When the talent for the television station's telethon doesn't show up, its up to Dick and the gang to carry it off
A guest on Dick's talk show claims to be Jenny's first husband.
In a flashback episode, Dick and Jenny recall about the hotel they spent the night in on the way to an important wedding and the needle Dick got stuck in his leg.
The office is robbed after hours and Dick must make a daring escape from the crooks--with hilarious results.
Dick agrees to a drinking test for his show, that shows the evils of drinking, but while under the influence he says a few things about marriage that Jenny does not find funny
When the house next to the Preston's comes up for sale, it's hard for them to admit they don't want Bernie and Carol to buy it.
Dick's persistent headaches lead him to seek psychiatric help.
Bernie comes up with a game show he is sure will be a winner for the network, if he can only sell the idea.
An episode of Dick's show requires the gang to pretend to be someone from history. Dick as Mark Twain and Fred Astaire, Jenny as Lena Horne, Carol as Barbra Streisand and Mike as Ladybird Johnson.
Mike is given her own cooking show but she only knows how to cook one thing.
Dick's mother brings her father's ashes over to the house so they can scatter them according to his wishes. But somehow during the night, the ashes disappear
A sexy new divorced neighbor among other things make both Dick and Jenny to wonder if the other one still sees them as attractive.
A network exec drops some hints that Dick's show may be moving to New York.
On his way home Christmas Day, Dick gets caught speeding and doesn't have enough money to to get out of jail. When he calls Bernie to bail him out, he too gets a ticket and Christmas doesn't look very merry.
Dick is left in charge of the baby when Jenny and Annie head out of town, but it seems he mislaid Chrissy at the grocery store. A great football episode
The Preston's new neighbors are fast becoming great friends and even allow Dick to buy stock in their tool company. But when it becomes known to Dick that the company is a mafia front, things get a little scary.
Hoping they've sent the children away to a save place, Dick and Jenny try to figure out how save themselves from the mafia.
Dick's mother mistakes marijuana cigarettes for her legal ones.
Everytime Dick and Jenny try to take a second honeymoon, Dick suffers some kind of injury and they can't go. So when he pulls a muscle right before they are leaving for a week in paradise, he decides not to tell Jenny.
Carol and Bernie want to adopt a baby, but Carol gets more than a little nervous and accidently gets a little tipsy.
When Dick's show is censored, he walks off of the set. Will Jenny be able to stand having him at home?
Mike falls for her creative writing teacher, not knowing he's already married.
When Dick's brother arrives with a new lady, Bernie recognizes her as a nude dancer.
Carol (a Catholic) has to pretend to be Jewish, so that Bernie's mother won't be upset.
When Dick gets offered a part on a popular soap opera, the Prestons leave their home in Arizona for California.
A neurotic script writer falls for the Preston's houseguest.
Dick has all of his friends over for a poker game. But, as the host, he's torn between the game and the baby.
When Dick and Jenny win a trip to Germany, things go from bad to worse when a mix up in rooms almost get Dick arrested for immoral behavior.
One of Dick's fans confuses tv with reality and begins to think that he is a real doctor and will only allow him to care for her.
Dick goes to the dentist, but the laughing gas has some unusual effects.
This flashback episode has Dick describing his first acting job to his co-workers.
A cold, wet, drunk and very jealous Jenny makes an umseemingly comment about Dick's co-star that gets picked up by the press.
An Italian director thinks Dick would be perfect for this new movie but Dick isn't so sure when he discovers he'll have to do a nude scene with a sexy Italian actress.
Lucas visits his parents and has some interesting plans. He's leaving school to become a professional bowler.
Dick's Uncle Jackie comes for a visit and ends up dying, which sets off a family battle over how the funeral should be conducted.
Dick's old friend can't memorize his lines.
Dick has a chance to do a commerical that pays well and could lead to other jobs, but it's a cheesy ad for a toilet bowl cleaner.
Richard and Connie introduce Dick and Jenny to friends of theirs and the two couples hit it off so well, the Richardsons began to feel jealous.
An eager actor puts Dick in a back brace while they are rehearsing. Will the young stud take over Dick's job while he recovers?
The Prestons babysit, then lose Margot's spoiled dog.
An ambitious young actress gives Dick something more than he bargained for--a hickey.
Company comes and stays and stays and stays and tempers start to fly.
When Jenny thinks she might be pregnant, Dick has a dream that he and the guys at work are the ones expecting.
Dick quits his job when a producer promises him the lead in a new show. Problem is, it that it hasn't sold yet.
Jenny gets a chance to do a commerical but it doesn't go over well.
Jenny buys a painting for $75 that she is convinced is a Matisse, but the art dealer appears to be dragging his feet on the decision.
A flashback episode that tells the story of how Dick and Jenny met and how they almost ended up hating one another.
Annie accidently walks in on her parents while they are making love