 | 1x01 Pilot (Air Date: Sep. 21, 1999)
Lily Manning meets Rick Sammler when Lily's daughter, Grace, hurts her ankle on the soccer field and their chance encounter leads to the beginning of a relationship. However, the relationship ... | | 1x02 Let's Spend The Night Together (Air Date: Sep. 28, 1999)
While on a date with Lily, Rick runs into an ex-girlfriend. When the two decide to spend their first night together, they end up talking all night instead of taking their relationship to ... | | 1x03 The Scarlet Letter Jacket (Air Date: Oct. 05, 1999)
Rick and Lily bring their kids to a school carnival where Lily and Karen are assigned to work at the same booth. | | 1x04 Liars and Other Strangers (Air Date: Oct. 12, 1999)
After meeting Rick for the first time, Judy confesses her worries about Lily's relationship with him. | | 1x05 There Be Dragons (Air Date: Oct. 19, 1999)
Rick brings Lily home to meet his kids, but the meeting does not go as smoothly as expected. Meanwhile, Jesse gets her period and Jake tries to get back together with Lily. | | 1x06 A Dream Deferred (Air Date: Oct. 26, 1999)
Lily begins to face the reality of being on her own. Judy begins to pull away from Lily after feeling like a third wheel now that Rick is around all of the time. | | 1x07 The Ex-Files (Air Date: Nov. 02, 1999)
Rick and Karen have an awkward weekend together when they both go to Eli's basketball tournament. | | 1x08 The Past is Prologue (Air Date: Nov. 09, 1999)
Lily and Rick must both face the reality of their failed marriages while Eli continues to struggle academically. | | 1x09 Outside Hearts (Air Date: Nov. 16, 1999)
While Lily is away, Judy lets Grace attend a party. | | 1x10 Thanksgiving (Air Date: Nov. 23, 1999)
Lily's father, who is having trouble deciding which side to take in the divorce, invites Jake to Thanksgiving, which upsets Lily. | | 1x11 Where There's Smoke (Air Date: Dec. 07, 1999)
Lily is thrown into panic mode when a small fire breaks out at her house. | | 1x12 The Gingerbread House (Air Date: Dec. 21, 1999)
Lily confesses her one-night stand with Jake to Rick, who is unable to forgive her. | | 1x13 Mediation (Air Date: Jan. 24, 2000)
Jake and Lily go to divorce mediation and argue over the house. Grace begins to tutor Eli in English and the two talk about their parents' relationship woes. | | 1x14 Sneaky Feelings (Air Date: Jan. 31, 2000)
Eli feels tempted to cheat on Jennifer. Karen feels attracted to a younger co-worker. | | 1x15 The Mystery Dance (Air Date: Feb. 07, 2000)
Rick and Lily begin to mend their relationship. Judy meets a man who might fulfill her dreams. | | 1x16 Daddy's Girl (Air Date: Feb. 14, 2000)
Lily hires a divorce attorney. The last straw is after Jake reneges on his promise not to max out their credit card. She finds this out after it's rejected at a store. Grace meets a boy ... | | 1x17 Unfinished Business (Air Date: Mar. 06, 2000)
Lily and her family cope with a life-altering accident. | | 1x18 Strangers and Brothers (Air Date: Mar. 13, 2000)
Aaron proves to be a source of comfort and renewal for the Manning family; Lily gains ground in the divorce proceedings. | | 1x19 Cat-In-Hat (Air Date: Apr. 03, 2000)
Karen pushes herself far beyond her comfort zone when her involvement with Leo becomes more serious. Eli plays his parents against each other in order to get into a bar to see his friends' ... | | 1x20 My Brilliant Career (Air Date: Apr. 10, 2000)
Lily's new job helps her put her priorities in order. While talking to Grace, Tiffany lets it slip that her relationship with Jake started BEFORE Lily and Jake split up, possibly altering ... | | 1x21 Letting Go (Air Date: Apr. 17, 2000)
When Judy's continuing affair with Sam is discovered, she takes steps to prevent any more pain from entering her life. Lily realizes just how much she's taken Rick for granted when he's ... | | 1x22 A Door, About to Open (Air Date: Apr. 24, 2000)
Lily says that the kids in the two families should meet. So they schedule a night for that. Zoe is concerned about the environment. Grace again has conflicting feelings about Eli. Jennifer ... |
| 2x01 Wake Up, Little Susie (Air Date: Oct. 24, 2000)
Lily and Rick try to blend their families together, but it doesn't go smoothly. Jesse has trouble adjusting to high school. | | 2x02 Booklovers (Air Date: Oct. 31, 2000)
Judy turns the bookstore into a "book club for singles." This attracts an interesting clientele, including Jake (who's tiring of his girlfriend Tiffany) and Lily's boss Christie. Judy isn't ... | | 2x03 I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down (Air Date: Nov. 14, 2000)
Parental pressure bears down on Eli to get his act together for college. However, Eli wants to form a music group. | | 2x04 Feast or Famine (Air Date: Nov. 21, 2000)
It's Thanksgiving and that means both the Sammler's and Manning's get together for dinner, whether they want to be there or not. It turns out that the two mothers get along quite well. It's ... | | 2x05 Ozymandias 2.0 (Air Date: Nov. 28, 2000)
Changes in the design of Miles' building that Rick's firm are designing means a dinner meeting for Rick - and a reluctant Lily -- with Miles and important clients. When Lily puts her two ... | | 2x06 Food for Thought (Air Date: Dec. 05, 2000)
Jesse is taken to a psychiatrist to find out why she isn't eating. Karen's firm is hired to oppose the building of Miles' building -- the one Rick is designing. | | 2x07 Learner's Permit (Air Date: Dec. 19, 2000)
Grace gets her learner's permit. She has a crush on Pace, a boy from her driver's education class, who seems oblivious to her feelings. So she goes out with Paces' annoying friend, Spencer, ... | | 2x08 Life out of Balance (Air Date: Jan. 10, 2001)
Lily thinks she might be pregnant, and the reaction she gets from Rick wasn't what she was hoping for. She begins to think that he's not who she thought he was. Grace has an accident in ... | | 2x09 Scribbling Rivalry (Air Date: Jan. 17, 2001)
Layoffs at her workplace make Lily even uneasier there. But the new management consultant reverses those firings, putting Christie on edge and making Lily look foolish for speaking up at ... | | 2x10 Love's Laborers' Lost (Air Date: Jan. 24, 2001)
Judy finds herself drawn between two men: the intellectually stimulating Paul, and the physically stimulating Will. Eli grows tired of Carla always wanting to get into trouble. | | 2x11 Thieves Like Us (Air Date: Jan. 31, 2001)
Jessie's glitter is missing, and Grace and Carla are the prime suspects. Rick discovers some unsettling news about both sides of his project with Miles. Evidence is discovered concerning ... | | 2x12 Suspicion (Air Date: Feb. 07, 2001)
Jesse doesn't want to go to a dance by herself, which frustrates Karen because they bought a dress for it. Christie and Graham continue to clash at work. Karen's worried that her relationship ... | | 2x13 Edifice Wrecked (Air Date: Feb. 14, 2001)
Rick and David are served with a notice to get an injunction to stop the Atlantor project - and the hearing is on Valentine's Day. Grace is troubled by the fact that a building that is helping ... | | 2x14 The Other End of the Telescope (Air Date: Mar. 07, 2001)
Tensions between Benny (a busboy) and Giancarlo (the chef) at Jake's restaurant boil over. Jake separates the two and tells Benny to go home. He returns with a gun to confront Giancarlo. ... | | 2x15 Standing Room Only (Air Date: Mar. 14, 2001)
Rick and Lily celebrate their engagement. Tiffany reveals to Grace that she's pregnant, but Grace pretty much had that figured out when she heard Tiffany throwing up in the bathroom. Lily ... | | 2x16 Aaron's Gettin' Better (Air Date: Mar. 21, 2001)
Aaron returns for an extended stay and impresses everyone with his improvement. Grace and Spencer go back to the restaurant to write about their experience there, but Spencer gets nervous ... | | 2x17 Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Air Date: Mar. 28, 2001)
Will returns to repair ice damage to Lily's house. Judy runs into Paul. Lily grows agitated with Graham's constant flirting with the office women. Judy tells Karen that she thinks that Paul ... | | 2x18 Best of Enemies (Air Date: Apr. 04, 2001)
Lily and Rick begin their wedding plans and want Judy to help, but Judy seems hesitant. Jesse faints and falls in the girls' locker room. Grace learns of it and voices her concern to Judy. ... | | 2x19 Armageddon (1) (Air Date: Apr. 11, 2001)
Karen finds out that a grand jury is being impaneled to investigate the Atlantor project. The District Attorney wants Karen to help them, but she is reluctant. She acts nervously around ... |  | 2x20 Won't Someone Please Help George Bailey Tonight (2) (Air Date: Apr. 18, 2001)
Miles gets indicted and work on the Atlantor project is indefinitely suspended. Rick is invited to appear on a local talk show to tell his side of the story. But instead, he gets ambushed ... | | 2x21 Moving On (Air Date: Apr. 25, 2001)
Rick and his kids start to move their stuff to Lily's and Lily gets a call to sign the divorce papers. Eli gets his reply from the University of Illinois about admittance, and it's not good. ... | | 2x22 The Second Time Around (Air Date: May. 02, 2001)
As the wedding approaches, hardly anything is finalized. Lily's father appears to her in her dreams. He asks her to ask Jake "what's been lost". Grace gets a letter from Carla.Rick finds ... |
| 3x01 Busted (Air Date: Sep. 28, 2001)
As the two families merge into one house, disagreements over Jesse and Zoe's room decorations dominate the breakfast discussion. Lily's employer, Pages Alive, shuts down, so she's out of ... | | 3x02 The Awful Truth (Air Date: Oct. 05, 2001)
Grace doesn't know what to make of her new teacher. Judy asks Lily to work at her planned bookstore/cafe. Lily also interviews at a radio station. Karen brings up the idea of hiring Jake ... | | 3x03 Kind of Blue (Air Date: Oct. 12, 2001)
Sam returns to town, further complicating the lives of Judy, Lily, and Rick. Sam wants to hire Rick to be the architect for a project he has. Judy, however, wants to hire Rick to redo her ... | | 3x04 Acting Out (Air Date: Oct. 19, 2001)
Jessie and Grace both audition for the same role in a school production of "As You Like It." Mr. Dimitri throws them a curve when he announces that he is planning a musical version of the ... | | 3x05 Destiny Turns On The Radio (Air Date: Nov. 02, 2001)
A boy in the play school play asks Jesse out. Grace is less than happy with the news, because she thought that the boy was flirting with her during rehearsal. Karen is upset that Rick didn't ... | | 3x06 Jake and the Women (Air Date: Nov. 09, 2001)
The women want to hold a baby shower for Tiffany. his doesn't excite Jake so he discourages the idea of having Zoe at the shower. So she calls Lily to cancel the shower. Jake tells Tiffany ... | | 3x07 Chaos Theory (Air Date: Nov. 23, 2001)
Lily and Karen both have unrealistic expectations for Thanksgiving celebrations. So naturally, nothing goes as planned. The lighting board at the theater goes out, so rehearsal is postponed. ... | | 3x08 The Sex Show (Air Date: Nov. 30, 2001)
Grace finds an "adult magazine" in their home recycling bin. Rick is amazed at Sam's continued inability to be with only one woman at a time. Judy later confesses to Sam while having lunch ... | | 3x09 Tough Love (Air Date: Dec. 07, 2001)
When Eli loses his job and Grace's teacher questions her acting, they both learn the hard way that real self-confidence can be one of life's toughest accomplishments. Both learn that tough ... | | 3x10 Pictures (Air Date: Dec. 14, 2001)
Amid complete chaos, a surprise Christmas Eve delivery of Tiffany and Jake's baby unites the Manning and Sammler families like never before. Meanwhile, Judy's first encounter with Sam's ... | | 3x11 Taking Sides (Air Date: Jan. 04, 2002)
Flashbacks in the series' interview style recall a telling incident in the lives of Rick, Karen, Sam Blue's estranged wife Jeannine, and Sam himself, who rues another dalliance. Also, when ... | | 3x12 Gardenia (Air Date: Jan. 11, 2002)
A tragic accident shakes Karen from her deep depression and sets her up for the toughest battle of her life. This makes Eli and Jessie learn the hard way that their parents are more fragile ... | | 3x13 Falling in Place (Air Date: Mar. 04, 2002)
Jessie's anxiety and guilt about her mom's slow recovery causes tension with every member of the family, especially Lily. Meanwhile, Eli is in denial about the seriousness of his mother's ... | | 3x14 The Gay-Straight Alliance (Air Date: Mar. 11, 2002)
Jessie finds out a secret about Katie that could forever change their friendship. Katie's gay. But while Jessie is questioning her feelings for Katie and vice versa, someone else is being ... | | 3x15 One Step (Parent) Backward (Air Date: Mar. 18, 2002)
Sam places his dream of committing to Judy and having a family squarely on the shoulders of his ten-year-old son. Meanwhile, Jake finally realizes his feelings for Tiffany and his new baby ... | | 3x16 Aaron's List of Dreams (Air Date: Mar. 25, 2002)
When Lily's brother Aaron expresses a desire to move out on his own with a young woman who is also mentally disabled, she finds it emotionally impossible to let him go. | | 3x17 Experience Is the Teacher (Air Date: Apr. 01, 2002)
The prospect that Grace may be romantically involved with her creative-writing teacher troubles Lily, infuriates Jake, and imperils the career of the instructor. | | 3x18 Losing You (Air Date: Apr. 08, 2002)
Just when Lily thinks life can't get any more complicated, her mother begins to show early signs of Alzheimer's disease. | | 3x19 Chance of a Lifetime (Air Date: Apr. 15, 2002)
Rick and Lily face more life-altering decisions when he is offered a major architectural position in Australia and she is offered a chance to take her Chicago-based radio show into national ... |
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