Gimme a Break!

  • Premiered: Oct 1981
  • Episodes: 137
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Wednesday at 21
  • Comedy

Seasons:

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Season 5
5x1
Joey's Train
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 14, 1985
Nell is sad and doesn't want anyone to remind her of the Chief since he pased away. Joey recives part of a toy train the Chief gave him, and puts it in the Chief's room. Nell gets mad .. show full overview
5x2
Ship of Fools (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1985
Nell decides to take her ex-husband's offer up on performing on his ship. While she is on the ship, she finds out that Tony has left his second wife, who is many years younger than Nell.
5x3
Ship of Fools (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1985
While continuing to perform on Tony's ship, Nell discovers that he has fallen in love all over again with a woman that Joey befriends on the ship.
5x4
The Man From Zoron
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1985
Joey is saved by a man from being hit by a bus, and when the man tells the family that he is from another planet, everyone but Nell believes him. The man says he is from Zoron, and that .. show full overview
5x5
Addy's Goodbye
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1985
Nell finds out Addy was given a teaching job as the a Dean at Columbia University by a professor she despises and thinks is tricky. Nell and Addy get into a fight at her goodbye party, .. show full overview
5x6
So Long, Jonathan
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1985
Jonathan leaves on his Mexican archeological dig project. In the meantime, back at the Kanisky house, Julie finds out that she is pregnant with his baby after she decides to go to enlist in the Navy and fails the test.
5x7
Mama
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1985
Mama Maybelle arrives in Glenlawn to visit Nell, and tells her that she has to have an eye operation, and fears that she may never be able to see again. She tells Nell that she is going .. show full overview
5x8
Sam's Little Girl
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Air date
Nov 09, 1985
Sam is taking the role of a big sister to a girl named Pam, a kid from a single-parent home. When Pam arrives at the house, Sam has other ideas of her own, when the new neighbor Chip .. show full overview
5x9
The Elevator
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1985
Nell finds out that Addy is engaged to be married to her dentist, who has been previously married before, and has several children from each marriage. When Nell decides to accept Addy's .. show full overview
5x10
Nell's New Car
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Air date
Nov 23, 1985
Nell finds out Addy is selling her car, and wants to be the first one to take it off her hands. However, Angie's sister has already purchased it, and Nell talks her out of it. When Nell .. show full overview
5x11
Nell's Gifted Child
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Air date
Nov 30, 1985
Nel finds out that Joey is a gifted child, and should take a test to see what grade he should be placed into. When Joey tells her that the 4th grade is fine, and that he just wants to .. show full overview
5x12
Katie's Apartment
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Air date
Dec 07, 1985
Nell finds out that Katie is dating a married author of a famous book. She tells Katie to stop seeing him, and then tells her she is old enough to do what she wants. Katie then tells .. show full overview
5x13
Snippets
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1985
Nell and the gang decorate the Christmas tree as Joey pretends that he is sick, but wants to help out as well. During the Christmas gathering, the family recalls events from the past. In .. show full overview
5x14
Second Chance (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 04, 1986
Nell decides to quit college and pursue a real singing career. She becomes the manager for an ex-con who wrote a song in jail and decides to put it to music. When Nell and the ex-con go .. show full overview
5x15
Second Chance (2)
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Air date
Jan 11, 1986
The ex-con is sad that Gary hated the song, and decides that singing is not the career for him. Nell then appears on Gary Collins' Hour Maganzine Show, and decides to go back to college afterall.
5x16
Bienvenido, Jonathan
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 18, 1986
Jonathan returns home, giving attention to everyone accept Julie, who beleives that Jonathan doesn't love her anymore. In the end, Jonathan tells Nell that he knows that archaeology is .. show full overview
5x17
The Gun
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Air date
Feb 01, 1986
Joey accidently shoots Nell when he finds the Chief's gun in one of her dresser drawers. The whole family, including Mama Maybelle, who comes for a visit, helps Nell out when she is shot .. show full overview
5x18
A Lesson for Nell
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Air date
Feb 08, 1986
Nell finds out that Grandpa is dating Sally Parsons, who was previously dating Officer Simpson. When Simpson finds out he takes it like a baby, but Nell takes it much personal, and tells .. show full overview
5x19
Pride and Prejudice
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 15, 1986
Nel is rejected for a job as a receptionist because she thinks she is black. When Addy decides to go for the same job as well, she is rejected too. They decide to take the case to the .. show full overview
5x20
Family Reunion
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 22, 1986
Nell's sister Loretta comes to town when she decides to leave Howard. She confides in Nell on what to do, but Nell doesn't know what she can do to help. Mama Maybelle shows up and calls .. show full overview
5x21
Getting to Know You
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 29, 1986
When Officer Simpson leaves his cousin's adopted children with Nell to babysit, her date who is at the house at the time lets Nell see who he really is, when he shows her his feelings that he has for kids, none whatsoever.
5x22
Katie's Korner
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1986
Katie, who has been sad since her latest boyfriend left her and is now engaged, is going broke and is deciding to close Katie's Korner. Nell knows that Katie is going to commit suicide .. show full overview
5x23
Found Money
Episode overview
Air date
May 03, 1986
When Nell's grandmother passes away and leaves her a nice amount of money, she decides to split it with the family, and decides to let them spend it on something that is fun since it was .. show full overview
5x24
The Purse Snatcher
Episode overview
Air date
May 10, 1986
While at a Greek restaraunt with her freinds, Nell's purse is stolen, which upsets everyone. However, the two Greek waiters have their own plan of getting the purse back for her.

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