The misadventures of an author-turned-innkeeper and his friends in rural Vermont.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Bob Newhart , Mary Frann , Tom Poston , Julia Duffy , Peter Scolari , William Sanderson , Tony Papenfuss , John Voldstad , Steven Kampmann , William Lanteau , Thomas Hill , Jennifer Holmes , Todd Susman , Ralph Manza , Jeff Doucette , Fred Applegate , Rebecca York , Kathy Kinney
Dick is the substitute host of a children's TV show. Meanwhile, Stephanie believes she has put on weight.
Michael breaks up with Stephanie after Dick tells him not to always let her have her way.
Larry after watching Jeopardy decides to try and get his high school equivalency. So he asks Dick to help him. When he fails the test, Dick goes to the teacher and convinces him to give Larry another try and to test him as if he was on Jeopardy. And Joanna upon seeing the Inn's rating in the Vermont guide go down, sets out to restore it. So she drives George and Stephanie crazy.
Stef and Michael plan to go to Morocco when Stef and Joanna become best friends. Stef wants her and Dick to go too. Dick was there in the Army and got sick from the food and doesn't want to go, but Joanna talks him into going.
Stephanie's father acts strangely when he visits the Stratford during the town's celebration of Colonial Days, while Dick bristles at the foppish costume Joanna makes him wear.
Dick was a member of a band in college and he plans a reunion with his other band members at the Inn. Everyone is now older, taking pills for all sorts of ailments due to getting older, but they try to perform anyway.
Joanna and Stephanie start an aerobics studio but self centered Stephanie thinks it is all about her.
Michael is upset when his friends read his personal diary, but his friends are equally upset about the things he wrote in it.
George quits the Beaver lodge when he feels that they did not award him a prize he thinks he deserved. He tries to start a new lodge with the help of Dick and Michael.
George volunteers to be a big brother to a boy named Mitch, but he would rather have writer and TV host Dick for his big brother.
Michael's Mother shows up and thinks he doesn't have any talent, so he takes up dancing, painting, writing a novel and the violin trying to impress her.
Larry changes after a near-death experience.
Everyone gets the measles and Stef ends up taking care of them while Michael can only talk to her through the front door of the Inn or by phone. George runs such a high fever that Stef calls the doctor to come in an emergency.
When the previous owners of the Stratford Inn become jealous of the inn's new success, they try to scare everyone into thinking the Inn is haunted in hopes of getting the Loudens to sell the Inn back to them.
Dick and Joanna renew their vows - sort of. Stef is Maid of Honor and George is Best Man.
The town's snow carnival is in danger because there is no snow. In desperation, they turn to the only men who guaranteed snow for the carnival: Larry, Darryl, and Darryl.
Dick is set to star in a home video version of his self-help plumbing book, but the director decides he lacks charisma and replaces him with an actor who knows nothing about plumbing.
George's only living relative, his boorish cousin Eugene, comes to visit.
Dick realizes he's been resting on his laurels as a writer when all of his attempts to get a book published under the pen name Dwight Schmidlapp are met with rejection.
A new waitress at the Minuteman Cafe comes between Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. Meanwhile, George protests Michael's decision to cancel the television station's reruns of Barnaby Jones.
An actress with a reputation as a man-eater stays at the Inn and takes a liking to George, much to Dick and Joanna's concern.
When Michael goes to interview for a new job, he puts the television station's receptionist in charge of Dick's show, and she turns out to be a much better producer than Michael.
Michael balks when Mr. Vanderkellen demands he sign a prenuptial agreement, feeling it indicates a lack of trust on Stephanie's part. Meanwhile, Dick breaks an irreplaceable music box given to the Vanderkellens by Winston Churchill.