1987 • 22 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Sep 21, 1987
Shirley eats her words when she takes a job as an undercover advice columnist and inadvertently causes Dwayne and his new girlfriend to break up.
Episode 2 • Sep 28, 1987
Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.
Episode 3 • Oct 05, 1987
Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.
Episode 4 • Oct 12, 1987
Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.
Episode 5 • Oct 19, 1987
After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.
Episode 6 • Oct 26, 1987
Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.
Episode 7 • Nov 02, 1987
When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Daryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.
Episode 8 • Nov 09, 1987
With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.
Episode 9 • Nov 16, 1987
A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10K run for charity.
Episode 10 • Nov 23, 1987
Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancée and she kicks them out of her house.
Episode 11 • Nov 30, 1987
Maurice and Daryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.
Episode 12 • Dec 07, 1987
Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.
Episode 13 • Dec 14, 1987
Shirley's truck driving father comes to town but is too busy to attend the banquet when Shirley is named ""Business Woman of the Year.""
Episode 14 • Jan 25, 1988
When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!
Episode 15 • Feb 01, 1988
Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he had forgotten why he was elected to office in the first place.
Episode 16 • Feb 08, 1988
Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.
Episode 17 • Feb 15, 1988
The diner is threatened when Shirley decides to deed over her half to a con man.
Episode 18 • Feb 22, 1988
Shirley teaches a young boy with ""two left feet"" how to dance.
Episode 19 • Apr 25, 1988
Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.
Episode 20 • May 02, 1988
Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.
Episode 21 • May 09, 1988
Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.
Episode 22 • May 16, 1988
A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real life bear invades the campsite.