Apple's Way

- Season 1

(1974)

Shortly after moving back to Iowa George learns that a stately tree, planted by his ancestors, is to be removed. George leads the fight to save the landmark and have the motel built elsewhere.

A father makes his disabled son abandon his musical career in favor of a hopeless campaign to walk again.

The Apples discover a menagerie of animals in a roadside zoo kept in abysmal conditions. Cathy is particularly upset and George impulsively decides to take the wild creatures home. But the family soon learns how unworkable that is.

The Apples intend to hire a housekeeper but due to a mixup hire George's former French teacher instead. Mrs. Perry shows up expecting to teach the family a foreign language but imparts a more valuable instead.

Apple is determined to persuade his lonely old father to come and live with the family.

After a long losing streak, the coach of Appleton's high school basketball team is fired by a group of irate alumni.

Apple is ridiculed by his neighbors when he reports to the newspaper that he saw a UFO.

George is offered his old job in California.

When a longtime employee is passed over for a promotion Barbara think the woman has been discriminated against. She decides to protest. George tries his hand at selling perfume.

Patricia finds out her pen pal in Greece is handicapped. After sharing the details with her family her father George organizes an fundraising effort for an operation that will help the young girl recover.

George is on a crusade to have an traffic signal installed at a dangerous intersection. The matter becomes personalized when one of the Apple sons is seriously injured at the site.

The Apple children unwittingly use a design of their father's to build a float for a contest, a fact which might disqualify them.

Steven is excited about his 4-H project which involves taking care of a young sheep. But when it's time to sell the animal Steven is distraught and George must help him through the realities of farm life.