Name: One Day at a Time
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Bonnie Franklin, Valerie Bertinelli, Pat Harrington, Jr., Mackenzie Phillips, Boyd Gaines

Bonnie Franklin

Valerie Bertinelli

Pat Harrington, Jr.

Mackenzie Phillips

Boyd Gaines

Howard Hesseman

Michael Lembeck

Nanette Fabray

Glenn Scarpelli

Shelley Fabares

Whitney Blake

Allan Manings

The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and their new building superintendent in Indianapolis.

One Day at a Time

One Day at a Time 1975 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme

Newly devorced and scared Ann Romono is up for her first decision. Her older daughter Julie wants to go on a camping trip with her friend and a couple of boys. Julie threatens to leave her mother and live with her Dad unless Ann says she can go.

Ann's Decision

Ann's new boyfriend invites her to spend the weekend with him.

Chicago Rendezvous

Ann fears the girls are rejecting her in favor of their father's steady girlfriend.

Jealousy

Ann scolds Julie for flirting with her teacher at exam time.

How to Succeed Without Trying

One evening after a date, David and Ann get cozy on the couch, but Barbara and Julie decide to put the kibosh on any intimacy.  However, David makes the decision that it is the perfect time to ask Ann to marry him and gives her one week to come up with the answer.  After two hours go by, he changes his mind and tries to get her to decide right away.

David Loves Ann

Julie's new best friend is a stuck up rich girl and Julie quickly demands more expensive things like clothes and she also demands that Ann send her to a prestigious school.  Ann refuses to give in to Julie simply because she can't afford it but that's when David steps in offering to kick in some financial aid for the Romano/Cooper household.

Julie's Best Friend

Ann is throwing a party in her apartment and has invited other tenants in the building.  She begins to go through pre-party panic and it doesn't help when Schneider drops in with whistles, joy buzzers and whoopee cushions, expecting an invitation but soon discovers he is not wanted.

Super Blues

Julie's boyfriend wants to stay out all night.

All the Way

Angry over her phone bill, Ann writes a protest to the President and gets in hot water with the Secret Service.

Fighting City Hall

Ann discovers David and a young woman in a state of dishabille.

David Plus Two

Julie gets a waitress job in a grubby diner on the rough side of town.

Julie's Job

Julie has a date with a college man who discovers a decided preference for Ann.

The College Man

The girls cajole David into chaperoning a party while Ann is away.

Father David

Ann's ex-husband announces his plans to remarry. First of two parts.

Dad Comes Back (1)

Barbara naively announces the reconciliation of her father and her mother. (Part 2 of 2)

Dad Comes Back (2)

Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage.  (Part 1 of 4)

The Runaways (1)

Ann is overcome by guilt after Chuck and Julie run away. (Part 2 of 4)

The Runaways (2)

Schneider uses CB radio to search for Julie and her boyfriend.   (Part 3 of 4)

The Runaways (3)

Their possessions stolen, runaways Julie and her boyfriend consider calling Barbara for help. (Part 4 of 4)

The Runaways (4)

Hoping to attract desirable males, Barbara decides to change her image.

Barbara's Emergence

David returns from Los Angeles with a job offer and hopes of marrying Ann. (Part 1 of 2)

David's New Job (1)

As David works on Barbara and Julie, and as they pressure Ann to consider marrying David, Ann is faced with a serious decision..... she is not ready to marry again. David goes on without her.

David's New Job (2)

Ann must deal with an upholstery ripoff that invades her home.

The Upholstery Ripoff

Schneider touts his visiting nephew as a model gentleman, unaware that the youth is a thief.

Schneider's Pride and Joy

Ann's visiting father tries to persuade her to return home.

A Visit from Dad

Ann finds herself attracted to the piano player who has moved into the building.

The Maestro

The girls put on a New Year's show at a retirement home.

Happy New Year

Julie's religious zeal is driving Ann and Barbara crazy. First of two parts.

J.C. and Julie (1)

Julie applies her religious zeal to a drunken derelict, whom she found in a garbage can. Conclusion.

J.C. and Julie (2)

Ann won't allow her ex-husband to spoil Julie and Barbara with a new car.

The New Car

Schneider expects Ginny to leap at his marriage proposal.

Schneider Loves Ginny

Ginny is always depressed after her mysterious Sunday excursions.

Ginny's Child

With the family doctor away and Julie down with possible appendicitis, Ann accepts the services of a young resident.

Julie's Operation

Ann's boss has second thoughts about a woman's ability to handle the job he just gave to Ann.

The Traveling Salesperson

Julie writes Chuck a Dear John letter, while Ann finds herself in the middle of a feud between Chuck's parents.

The Butterfields

Barbara accepts an invitation to a school dance, then can't turn another one down.

Barbara Plus Two

Ginny persuades Ann to go to a singles bar.

The Singles Bar

Tired from cramming for entrance exams, Julie doesn't want to go to college anymore.

The College Question

""Barbera""and ""Julie""want to sneak out to a party on a school night.This occurs,while""Ms.Romano""is away on a business trip to Las Vegas.But the girls are fearful that their mother might find out that they're heading to the party and their beaus(Especially ""Cliff Randell"").So they try to reach their mother via a phone call.But they find out that ""Ms.Romano""didn't reach her hotel.This is one episode.Where both Ms.Philips and Ms.Bertinelli's characters show another side to their characters and to the characters'relationship.That there is a warm and caring friendship to these two young women and not an angry rivelry.

The Girls Alone (a.k.a.) Where's Mama?

After Julie plows into a car, its dashing driver offers her a job. First of four parts.

The Older Man (1)

Julie's boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. Second of four parts.

The Older Man (2)

Julie is startled by her boss's proposal. Third of four parts.

The Older Man (3)

Julie is implored by her father not to marry her 42-year-old boss. Conclusion.

The Older Man (4)

A lecherous client has more than business on his mind.

Ann's Out-of-Town Client

An insecure boy interested in dating Barbara bolsters his confidence by taking out a notorious classmate first.

Bob Loves Barbara

After Julie and Barbara return home from a weekend visit with their dad complaining that Dad's new wife is trying to cut them out of his life, Ann initiates her first face to face meeting with the new Mrs. Cooper - only to learn that the girls haven't exactly been fair or kind to their new step-mother.

The Second Mrs. Cooper

When Barbara hands in Julie's verse as her own for a class, a school counselor takes her for a poetic genius.

The Ghost Writer

While agonizes over whether Cliff Randall will invite her to the Grateful Dead concert, she has to contend with a over-eager girl trying to be her friend.  When reality sinks in,  she reaches out to Barbara at the last moment.

Barbara's Friend (1)

Barbara's classmate phones to say she's taken a drug overdose. Conclusion.

Barbara's Friend (2)

Julie runs into an attractive young man in the lobby who is looking for Schneider.  However, his visit to see Schneider is anything but a social call when he reveals that he is Schneider's son, from a brief marriage 20 years earlier.  Ann, Barbara and Julie quickly do their best to prepare Schneider for the news.

Schneider's Kid

Ann sees her 36th birthday as a crisis, not a cause for celebration.

Ann's Crisis

Schneider makes the grand announcement that a celebrity has just moved into the building, a race car driver named Cam Randolph.  Meanwhile, Julie and Barbara have devised a meeting between their mother and Cam, but Ann is anything but excited about meeting him, at first that is.  Things start to change however, once she gets to know him and she invites him over for dinner.

The Race Driver (1)

Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver. Second of two parts.

The Race Driver (2)

Ann learns that a secretary she just hired is a reputed drug user.

Ann's Secretary

Frustrated over not getting enough attention at home, Barbara rebells by running away to a Chicago motel room with Bob Morton.

Barbara's Rebellion

Determined to keep his job, Schneider woos the building's new owner, who falls for him.

The New Owner

Ann has a competitor in the lecherous Francine Webster.

Ann's Competitor

Aspiring designer Julie tries to enter a fashion show after the entry deadline.

The Dress Designer

Barbara and Julie are excited about getting a new stereo and decide to buy Schneider's old one for $200.  However, as they are scrounging up the money, Julie checks her balance in her checking account and quickly finds that somehow an additional $125 has been credited to her account.  Stricken with guilt and Barbara's encouragement, Julie decides to take the money.

Take the Money

Barbara is an eyewitness to a vandalism at the school and soon finds herself between a rock and a hard place, over whether or not to do the honest thing and tell the truth and fink on a friend or not say anything.  Ultimately, she tells the truth but then must face the results of her actions, possible alienation.

Barbara the Fink

Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. First of two parts.

Julie's Big Move (1)

Conclusion. Ann thinks Julie's new roommate is a bad influence on her.

Julie's Big Move (2)

Ann's career advice to Barbara's friend leads to hard feelings between the boy and his father.

Ann, the Father

Ann's ex-husband tells her that he can no longer pay her child support for his daughters.

Father, Dear Father (1)

Ed is forced to admit the truth to Julie and Barbara.

Father, Dear Father (2)

Ann is stunned when a friend says she's leaving her husband.

Ann's Friend

Barbara has been steadily dating Cliff and soon finds herself trying to gently discourage Bob from pursuing her.  However, Bob is sure he can win her away from Cliff, that's when Ann encourages Bob to perhaps date other women.  He does but Barbara's reaction to Bob's new girlfriend is incredibly telling.

Bob's New Girl

While he's recovering from a back injury, Schneider needs an assistant maintenance man to help out with his work around the building.  Barbara suggests that Schneider hire her disabled friend, Jackie.  Schneider reluctantly takes on the kid who does his best to prove he can do the job.  However, when there is a gas leak in the building, Jackie's competence is put to the test.

Schneider's Helper

Sally, an old school friend of Barbara's shows up for a visit with some news, she's now a mother.  Originally, she agreed with the father to give the baby up for adoption but after one look at the baby, decided to keep it.  However, the big bombshell is dropped when she mentions that the father is Cliff Randall, Barbara's boyfriend.

Yes, Sir, That's My Baby

Ann is interested in a business associate but isn't quite sure how to convey her romantic interest to him.  Barbara and Julie suggest that she just make the first move and call him, which she does.  However, he isn't quite getting the hints and assumes that when she asks him out the dinner is business instead of pleasure.

The Dating Game (a.k.a.) Ann's Dating Game

""Mr.Peabody"".An elderly resident in the ""Romano's""apartment building refuses to pay higher rent to allow the building's owners to throw him out.Because he is old and disabled.He locks himself in ""The Romano's Apartment""with a shotgun and will hold the family hostage.Until he can get on tv and tell the buildings owners to allow him to stay in his apartment and pay a fair rent price for it.On a sad not,this was Mr.J.Pat O'Malley's last tv performance.He would spend his last years living at The Motion Picture and TV Home in Woodland Hills,Ca.,Until his death in 1986.

Peabody's War

Julie and Barbara become rivals when they fall for the leader of a rock group. First of two parts.

Jealousy (1)

Conclusion. The battle for the band leader continues as Barbara tries to win him back from Julie.

Jealousy (2)

Ann plays hostess to an Arab sheik while Julie leads a demonstration against his country's economic policy.

The Arab Connection

The pace of Barbara's restaurant job proves to be faster than she anticipated.

Hold the Mustard

Ann and the girls spend a warm Christmas Eve in a frigid mountain cabin.

Girl Talk

In the first of a three-part story, Ann and a sportswriter begin a promising romance.

The Married Man (1)

In the second of a three-part story, a smooth-sailing romance between Ann and a sportswriter hits the rocks.

The Married Man (2)

Ann considers pursuing a relationship with her married sports writer, but soon concludes that to do so would strip her of her self respect.

The Married Man (3)

Julie is depressed because her designing career seems to have reached a dead end.

Going Nowhere

Francine uses her feminine wiles to wrest away one of Ann's big accounts.

Francine Strikes Again

Only hours after they meet, Ann's old pal and Schneider are ready to sail off on a romantic cruise.

The Dental Hygienist

The baby grand delivered to Ann by mistake belongs to her next-door neighbor, a slightly unstrung piano teacher who begins giving lessons in her living room.

The Piano Teacher

Barbara learns a lesson about beauty after Schneider accidentally opens a door smack into her nose.

The Broken Nose

Julie falls for an egotistical filmmaker whose temperament exactly matches her own.

Mad for Each Other

Barbara's high school graduation has arrived and she's all excited, except for two issues.  First, she's unsure if she wants to attend the University of Wisconsin, like her father did and second she's up in arms, trying to make a decision on whether to hang out at a party with friends or one with just family after graduation.

The Graduation

A lucrative offer to direct public relations for a computer firm prompts Ann to give Mr. Davenport two weeks' notice.

Fear of Success

Ann is all set to go away for the weekend to a ski lodge, however her plans are put to a halt when Grandma Romano drops by with the announcement that she's left Ann's father and now would like to stay with Ann and the girls.  Not quite taking her seriously, Ann is dealt a blow of reality when her father drops by needing a place to stay as well.

Grandma Leaves Grandpa

Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.

Schneider Gets Fired

Barbara has begun her college education and feels very independent, balancing school work with social activities.  Meanwhile, Ann begins to feel undereducated as she hears Barbara's experiences and makes a decision to go to college.  The big surprise comes when she is taking the same course as Barbara.

Back to School

Barbara's latest boyfriend, Brad is putting the pressure on her big time to have sex.  Barbara honestly does not know what to do and isn't quite sure she wants to accommodate his sexual demands but at the same time doesn't want to lose him.  So, she decides that perhaps she should and goes out and buys some contraceptives.

Pressure

Julie returns from a ski trip sporting a meek fiance, an impending wedding date and an unexcited best man.

Julie's Wedding (1)

Best man Max insists that his amorous intentions toward Julie are honorable, even as the wedding party assembles.

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