Seasons & Episodes
Pilot
Corky tries to mainstream into the 9th grade, the same grade as Becca. Becca worries that Corky may stop her from gettin
Corky for President
Corky runs for freshman class president with the help of an unpopular, smart student,Lester Fishbein. He has a crush on
The Baby-Sitter
Corky gets a babysitting job; his classmates barge in at the house where he is babysitting. The intrusive folks include
Break a Leg, Mom
An episode showcasing the singing talents of Patti LuPone. A Tony winner for the musical ""Evita"", actually centers aro
Becca's First Love
Becca falls for the lead singer (Gabe) in a neighborhood band. She stays out with Maxine to listen to the band past curf
Paige's Date
Drew sets up Paige with a charmer whose head is in the clouds; unfortunately his sense of responsibility seems to be mir
Paige's Mom
Paige's mom comes back. They have a great time, and make plans for a trip to New England. Paige's mom winds up living wi
Call of the Wild
Drew works on a construction project at an Indian burial ground. A wolf who mysteriously gaurds the grounds saves Corky
Corky Witnesses a Crime
Corky tries out for the football team. The footbal coach hits a student, one of his former players, and all the team sta
Ordinary Heroes
A frustrated Drew decides to quit his construction job and go into the restaurant business; and he joins Libby in counse
Pets, Guys and Videotape
Paige goes to work for a veteranarian who is very kind with suffering animals but kind of insufferable with humans. The
Corky's Crush
Becca and Corky (in the same class somehow) do a classroom exercise in which paired students must pretend to be married
Thacher and Henderson
At the high school football reunion, Drew finally makes peace with his best friend after a falling out over a business d
The Return of Uncle Richard
Drew's younger brother Richard, a lovable family black sheep, breezes in at a time when Corky is beginning to wonder who
Brothers
The Special Olympics, a time for warmhearted competition and fun, also bring love to Corky and a challenge to Tyler, who
Corky Rebels
At 18, Corky wants out from under his parents' wings-- even if it just means taking the bus to school. Unfortunately, he
It Ain't All It's Cracked up to Be
Becca enters a Miss Teen contest and finds out that she is sharing a room with none other than Rona Lieberman. Scholarsh
Pig o' My Heart
Drew finally gets a chance to own his own restaurant, but it's Corky who brings home the bacon: a huge runaway porker th
Becca and the Underground Newspaper
As a reporter for an underground newspaper, Becca zealously pens an expose of the school janitor's criminal past for the
Save the Last Dance for Me
Becca's aged dance teacher (Viveca Lindfors) must enter a nursing home.
With a Mighty Heart
Drew is sure that his father, who stops by on his way to join the Peace Corps in the Solomon Islands, isn't telling them
The Spring Fling
Becca finally gets asked to the dance by Tyler. Only had already accepted an invitation with someone else. She breaks it
Honeymoon from Hell
The Thatchers win a problem-plagued church raffle trip to Hawaii.
Corky and the Dolphins
While in Hawaii, Corky goes dolphin-riding and Becca falls for a surfer. (Part 2 of 2)
The Visitor
Libby discovers she's expecting again, and the family fears the consequences of a pregnancy at her age.
Becca and the Band
Rona and Tyler break up because Rona lied to him and went to a frat party. Becca becomes manager of Tyler's band and set
The Banquet Room Renovation
Drew decides to turn the back room of the restaurant into a banquet room in hopes of bringing in more money. He gets fun
Halloween
Halloween scares up a bad time for all: Libby and Drew at Jerry's big party, Corky at the school masquerade, and Becca w
Chicken Pox
Becca dreams about figure skating with a man. She wakes up with the chicken pox and has to stay home sick. Tyler comes
La Dolce Becca
Becca gets a crush on a French student and Maxi with this French guy's friend. They have high hope of getting in with t
A Thacher Thanksgiving
Corky pictures the family at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving; Drew, opening the restaurant for the holiday, meets an ol
Libby's Sister
Tension between Becca and Drew isn't helped by the arrival of Libby's sister Gina (Mary Page Keller) and neice Zoe ( Lei
The Buddy
A fun-loving old buddy brightens up Drew's life, but the man has a shady side. Meanwhile, Becca and Zoe squabble over ro
The Bicycle Thief
Corky resolves to enter a 50k bike race despite his father's objections, and makes friends with another biker who is epi
Isn't It Romantic
Cupid is shooting arrows at almost everyone. First Hans gets a crush on a lady that delivers newspapers whose husband ju
The Bigger Picture
Gina despairs when nothing she does is right in the eye of her mother, and Corky despairs when his special-ed substitute
Last Stand in Glen Brook
Becca organizes a '60s-style protest in support of a record store owner (Quincy Jones) arrested for selling allegedly ob
Head over Heels
Becca does a double flip over her gymnastics coach-as does Gina over a handyman (Michael St. Gerard) several years her j
Corky's Travels
Corky gets lost and wanders around the mean streets of Chicago. He meets a kindhearted, young hooker who gives him his f
Thanks a Bunch, Dr. Lamaze
Drew confronts his feelings about them having yet another child. He comes through in the end when another woman goes int
Ghost of Grandpa Past
Drew is having doubts about the restaurant and keeps having conversations with his Grandfather. I think in the end he de
Arthur
Corky befriends an older man with Down Syndrome who leads a kind of life that Corky would like to lead.
Lighter Than Air
Libby cooks up a great ad for a line of diet frozen foods; Corky and Zoe paly Sherlock Holmes and snoop into Tyler's fur
Proms and Prams
Expectations run high as Becca awaits Tyler's invitation to the prom, and Libby expects her baby. Patti Lupone sings ""M
Toast
The Thatcher's toast a third season by reopening their renovated grill, but their dreams go up in smoke. Corky is given
Hello, Goodbye
The Thatcher's rise from the ashes of the restaurant: exchange student Becca prepares to take wings for Paris; Paige and
Out of the Mainstream
Corky is nearly swamped when he tries to help Tyler's younger brother, who also has Down Syndrome, mainstream at Marshal
Armageddon
New roles with Libby as the primary bread-winner and Drew as the homemaker, create new friction in their marriage.
Sweet 16
At 16, Becca retains her innocence-but maybe not for long. Throughout this episode Becca records herself and her birthda
Life After Death
Becca is devastated to learn that Jesse has tested HIV-positive, and during a scuffle between him and Tyler, she blurts
Dueling Divas
Libby's vivacious cousin Gaby ( also played by Patti Lupone) breezes in from Sicily like a whirlwind, touching everyone'
Invasion of the Thacher Snatchers
Corky imagines that his family is turning into Venusians after seeing a B-movie called ""Body Snatchers From Venus"". At
Loaded Question
The thatcher household is burglarized. Suspicions center on an Africa-American welder named Marquis ( another aquaintanc
Triangles
Corky takes a tumble for the new assistant manager; Becca is torn between Tyler and Jesse: Tyler says that he isn't over
The Smell of Fear
Christmas brings anxieties to all, but most of all to Becca, who fears the worst when Jesse is hospitalized with pneumoc
Struck by Lightning
The thatcher house is struck by lightening. As a result, Corky predicts the future, Arnold the semi-wonder dog runs away
Jerry's Deli
Jerry's dad shows up at the ad agency, and starts pushing Jerry around, so Jerry quits and starts to help ""run"" the gr
The Room
Becca, Libby, and Paige have entered the ""man zone"". They tear down a wall in the Thatcher house to reveal another roo
The Wall
It's just a graffiti-covered wall that the students are ordered to repaint, but it becomes a symbol of the future for Je
The Blues
Jesse gets hired to work as a waiter at Drew's place, but declining patronage forces Drew to let him go. They become rea
The Fairy Tale
Libby writes a fairy tale about Corky, and Corky enters it in a contest. Libby then gets an offer to get it printed as a
Hearts and Flowers
Inspired by her grandparents' upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, Becca proposes to Jesse, and he agrees! But then they t
Corky's Romance
Romance blossoms between Corky and a girl with Down Syndrome (palyed by Andrea Friedman who has Down's), but it's nipped
More Than Friends
Drew and Libby leave the kids to watch over the house. Becca and Jesse decide to have a party there. Then Tyler and some
Confessions
Corky, somehow rendered mute by the accident, does not speak up until Becca bears her soul to him. Then Corky says that
Consenting Adults
Paige has a great heart-to-heart with Drew about her upcoming marriage with Kenny. Drew takes matters into his own hands
Bec to the Future
A 40-something Becca (Pamela Bellwood) looks back on the summer of '92. ( In the future, Becca is now married and is a d
Exposed
Jesse paints a nude painting of Becca. (It is never determined if she posed nude or if the nudity was solely the product
Premarital Syndrome
Corky and Amanda's ""trial marriage"" gets off to a rocky start. ( or crunchy, as in the crunchy macaroni and cheese: th
The Whole Truth
Paige fends off an attempted rape by Becca's poetry teacher ( Leigh J. McCloskey). But their accounts differ and Becca,
Love Letters
Becca and Co. find old World War II letters at the bookstore. (Martin, Smitrovich, and Burke read selected letters while
Windows
Amanda's angry parents vow to annul her marriage to Corky and try to regain custody of Amanda. They then run off to a mo
Babes in the Woods
Becca, Goodman, Ray Nelson Jr., Jesse and two other students from their English class go on a weekend camping trip, chap
Udder Madness
Ray nominates Becca ( against her wishes) for Homecoming Queen; Goodman nominates a cow in protest of beauty pageants in
Happy Holidays
The holidays take on a whole new meaning for Corky, who's celebrating his first Christmas as a married man-and now how t
Choices
Paige finds that she is carrying Michael's baby, and is at first delighted to know this. So's the whole family. But Mich
Incident on Main
Gay-bashing skinheads beat up Jesse outside the AIDS hospice. Becca gets his blood on her hands after the beating. She g
Lost Weekend
In her quest to get Becca out of her shell, Goodman takes her and Jesse on a double date. But Jesse and Becca get pissed
Visions
Shortly after his 18th birthday, a feverish Jesse collapses in extreme pain at school and is rushed, unconcious, to the
Five to Midnight
Jesse's insurance runs out, and he gets transferred to County Hospital (which is like being transferred to the Recieving
Bedfellows
A fellow AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to live rather than give up and die. He ho
Last Wish
Becca and Jesse go to see the ocean, after Jesse says that i's something that he wants to do. Jesse is not exactly on to
Life Goes On (and On and On)
The series finale, it leaps 4 years into the future to see Becca and Jesse marry, and 10 years when Becca, now about 27
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