The misadventures of a divorced mother, her family and their building superintendent in Indianapolis.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Bonnie Franklin , Pat Harrington Jr. , Valerie Bertinelli , Mackenzie Phillips , Glenn Scarpelli , Michael Lembeck , Boyd Gaines , Nanette Fabray , Shelley Fabares , Richard Masur , Ron Rifkin , Mary Louise Wilson , Howard Hesseman , John Putch , Joseph Campanella , Charles Siebert , Scott Colomby , Howard Morton
Following Nick's death in a car accident with a drunk driver, Alex runs away from his new home in Chicago by hopping on a bus to Indianapolis with a plan to talk Ann and Barbara into letting him move in with them.
While waiting for Ann at the airport, Schneider, Barbara and Alex all have run-ins with the opposite sex.
Ann's business is in trouble and Francine Webber offers to be her partner. Ann is skeptical until she works her magic with a client.
Barbara and Ann return home one evening to discover they have an unexpected house guest, Julie. It seems Julie has left Max due to severe marital problems. She thinks he's having an affair and confides in Ann and Barbara that she indeed has cheated on Max. Max soon arrives after a phone call from Ann, and is in for a shock as Julie plans to drop her bombshell on him.
Julie shows up on Ann's doorstep announcing that not only is she leaving Max, but that she's pregnant.
Barbara schedules back to back dates with two guys, but the first won't take her home.
Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.
Ann's cousin Sophie stops in Indianapolis for a visit. She quickly hits it off with Schneider. However, Schneider is later caught in a quandary. Should he take Maxine, a girl who he considers flashy and attractive, or Sophie, who he considers rather plain and mousy?
Alex has a date and Ann's overprotective instincts return.
Turned down for a loan from a bank,Ann and Francine receive the money from,of all people,Schnieder,who vows to be only a silent partner. Question is,can he stop talking and butting in long enough to do so?
While Ann is off on a business trip Barbara is left between two competing grandmothers.
A planned a birthday party at Barbara's job goes awry when,as she arrives,there's a hold up attempt. Resulting in her and her family/friends getting locked up in the storeroom by the crooks.
Ann's natural but deep seeded worries about getting older,surface as Barbara has now become engaged to marry Mark Royer...and how will Ann deal with it all as time goes by?
Grandma Romano is having a hot relationship with Francine's father.
After a visit to her her gynecologist, Barbara has heartbreaking news to break to Ann and Mark; it seems that she may not be able to conceive a child.
Alex knows he doesn't deserve the accolades for saving some people from a fire because he caused it.
The men go fishing and the women await their return, but all have one thing in common: they're talking about marriage.
During a visit to Ann's apartment by the Russian women's basketball team, one member falls for Schneider and decides to defect.
Alex gets Max to coach his baseball team. Trouble arises when Max won't let Alex play.
At a dentistry convention in Las Vegas, Barbara and Mark consider avoiding the hassle of wedding arrangements with a quickie Vegas marriage ceremony.
The family rushes off to Las Vegas to talk Barbara out of a quickie marriage ceremony.
It's coming through loud and clear, Schneider's going deaf.
Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career: fortune-telling.