The Righteous Apples perform at an old-age home, in which they expose corruption in the home's management and saves the relationship of an elderly black couple consisting of a once-famous musician and his wife.
One of the Apples is arrested on a mugging charge and must juggle his alibi in order to protect an emotionally troubled girl he had been counseling that evening.
Racial tensions mount at Sherman High during the Apples' investigation into the stabbing of the assisstant principal.
A teenager is desperate for money to buy a new outfit for a recording audition
Battle lines form when there's a schedule clash between the Righteous Apples roller disco dance and a rally for the Knights of the White Light.
Unable to tell her parents that she's pregnant, J. T.'s girlfriend visits an abortion clinic. The abortion accidentally leaves her sterile and to make matters complicated, the doctor is a white native of South Africa.
"Big Neck" Morris runs into unexpected opposition from his girlfriend when he organizes a tribute to Martin Luther King.
D. C. Junior's parents accept his new girlfriends' cerebral palsy, but reject her when they learn she isn't Jewish.
Sandy Burns helps a terminally ill woman face death with grace.
Gloretta Benson's interracial romance with the son of a television producer is complicated by his disapproving mother.
In "Springsteen's Issues," tensions between two gangs — one black, one white - erupt into violence.
DC Junior, thoroughly fed up with his nagging parents, moves out.
The Apples take Gloretta in hand upon learning that a flirtation with drugs is behind the deterioration that she's blames on scholastic problems.
Love blossoms when DC. meets Sandy's friend, Brenda Howard, and the two seem very happy until DC confesses that Brenda is too aggressive for him.
A star-struck stage hand, thinking the Apples have stolen his music, kidnaps Glo.
Big Neck falls in love with his opponent in the race for Senior Class President, a hard-driving young lady named Vinette and the dark horse candidate uses it to his advantage.
Snooky, son of a famous evangelist, wants to become an Apple. His father expects him to prepare for the ministry.
Big Neck's relationship with Sheila Cooper has lost its love and they decide to break up on the eve of a big dance.
The Apples go to L.A. for a recording audition and are swept up by the glamour of Hollywood.
Sandy's Aunt Allison mistakes Neck for a prowler and shoots him. The resulting confusion strains Sandy's relationship with her family and with the Apples.