• Premiered: Mar 1976
  • Episodes: 86
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  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Monday at 21
  • Drama Family

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Season 3
3x1
Acts of Love (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 13, 1977
While Nancy and Buddy prepare for their parents' 25th wedding-anniversary party, Willie meets, and falls in love with, a physics student named Lizzy -- who, as he soon finds out, has radiation sickness.
3x2
Acts of Love (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1977
Lizzy dies, but not before Willie convinces her to marry him first.
3x3
The First Time
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1977
Kate unhappily contemplates her 49th birthday; T.J. asks Buddy to go steady with him, but she's not sure.
3x4
Change of Heart
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1977
Nancy is jealous of Jeff's new fiancée.
3x5
Annie Laurie
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1977
Doug gets propositioned by a female lawyer.
3x6
We Love You, Miss Jessup
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1977
Buddy's English teacher gets outed; Willie suspects Nancy of being a home-wrecker.
3x7
The Little Brother
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 08, 1977
Willie fails to understand a black thing; Buddy develops an interest in genealogy.
3x8
Childhood's End
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 1977
Buddy's friend Laura returns for a visit, and -- guess what? -- she, too, is now an alkie; a friend of Doug's, a divorced father, is apprehensive about seeing his kids again.
3x9
A Tale Out of Season
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 22, 1977
Doug's colleague and protégé turns out to be a child-beater; Nancy finds a puppy; Buddy finally gets into the Thanksgiving spirit.
3x10
Labors of Love
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1977
Buddy, upset by a lack of attention from T.J., tries to make him jealous by hanging out with a geek; Willie catches the eye of his cute über-boss.
3x11
A Child is Given
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1977
The joy of the holiday season in the Lawrence household is shattered when little Timmy is taken ill and faces a crisis on Christmas Eve.
3x12
More Than Friends
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1978
Nancy hits it off with Willie's former writing teacher, but things get awkward when he pans Willie's script.
3x13
Princess in the Tower
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1978
Kate, slightly sick of family life, checks out a model apartment in a brand-new high-rise condo -- and gets trapped overnight, along with a very pregnant younger woman; Buddy has the bright idea of dyeing her hair blonde.
3x14
Echoes of Love
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 1978
Willie can't stop reminiscing about Lizzy, so he hooks up with her former roommate; Audrey is depressed because her parents are splitting up, and angry that Doug is representing her mother in the divorce.
3x15
See Saw
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 24, 1978
Kate volunteers to help a moody (and arithmetic-obsessed) young patient at the Braille institute; Willie works on installing Timmy's new bed; Buddy leaves for a week-end of skiing with T.J. and his parents.
3x16
Lifeline
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 1978
Nancy plays hot-line operator when her classmate attempts suicide, to get back at her married boyfriend for breaking up her; Buddy baby-sits a whiny kid.
3x17
. . . And Baby Makes Three
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1978
Nancy and Jeff aren't sure whether to get back together; Buddy is disgusted that Audrey has fallen for the cheap ploys of the school Casanova.
3x18
Crossing Over
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1978
Willie has an appointment with a big-shot film producer, on the eve of his 21st birthday; then, he and Doug make friends with a stripper.
3x19
The Covenant
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1978
Medical crises abound in the family when Doug's father, James, reveals he must undergo exploratory surgery, and Nancy begins to miscarry.
3x20
A Friend of the Family's
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1978
A somewhat unscrupulous former friend of Willie's drops by; Buddy needs driving lessons; Kate and Doug consider taking separate vacations.
3x21
Fear of Shadows
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 1978
Kate has a recurring nightmare about running over a little boy; Buddy gets a pet raccoon.
3x22
Sleeping Gypsy
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 1978
Everyone at school dislikes Buddy's bohemian friend; Kate gives Doug a plaid jacket he doesn't much care for.
3x23 Season finale
Counterpoint
Episode overview
Air date
May 16, 1978
Kate has to go back and repeat a class she flunked the previous semester, and gets picked on by a snobby professor; Doug contemplates early retirement after his tennis partner has a heart attack.

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