It's a Living

- Season 4

(1986)

Sonny gets stuck on the roof, and as each waitress comes up to tell him to get back to work they one by one also get stuck there, leaving Nancy, Howard and Amy to handle the restaurant by themselves.

The girls, Sonny, Nancy, Howard and Howard's date all find themselves at the same singles bar after work. High jinks ensue.

Jan's high school reunion is at the restaurant, where she runs into her old boyfriend Jack.

Richie wants to make a sculpture for Jan for her birthday but needs somewhere to work on it so Ginger offers him her apartment, leading the others to think they're having an affair.

Nancy's sister Gloria comes to visit, much to her dismay. With a history of stealing boyfriends, Nancy isn't happy when Gloria takes a shine to Howard.

With the restaurant closed for a few days to install new sprinklers, the girls and Sonny head out to Vegas. Sonny's car breaks down en route and everyone is forced to stay the night at an isolated motel, where the desk clerk is acting an awful lot like Norman Bates...

With Dot's mom and Jan's dad in town, Ginger suggests they spend time together to get them off their daughters' cases. They end up out all night which Dot and Jan don't like. Howard, Amy and Sonny contend with a burial plot saleswoman.

Dot and Howard start spending time together outside of work, which leaves them feeling confused, and Nancy paranoid. Sonny struggles orhanizing his event "Lounge-Aid."

Over the Top hosts a murder mystery evening. It's all fun and games until it gets all too real for Sonny.

A famous restaurant critic who has a long time beef with Howard visits Over the Top, which stresses out Nancy. Sonny and Ginger spend the weekend in Palm Springs, leaving the girls perplexed.

Jan finds an old sculpture of Richie's, and Dot sells it- landing Jan in big trouble. Nancy tasks Amy with writing a profile of Ginger for the hotel magazine, but Ginger proves to be an elusive subject.

Everyone decides to invest in a potentially oil bearing property, thanks to Sonny.

Nancy keeps hinting at her birthday so the girls decide to throw her a surprise party.

Ginger takes Jan's advice about her deadbeat landlord, getting her evicted. Amy takes Ginger in, but winds up also evicted. In the meantime, clever thinking comes in handy.

Ginger must baby-sit for first-time vacationing parents, but can't get out of work. Nancy offers to be Howard's magic act assistant. Sonny has trouble with a mobster and the cops.

Dot agrees to fill in for a stripper at a bachelor party. Sonny takes Howard's estranged visiting daughter out on the town, much to Howard's dismay.

Pressured Amy accepts a marriage proposal.

Dot's former beau, rethinks his vows.

Dickie Doodle fan club meets at the restaurant.

Tropical island natives name Howard as their chief.

Dot auditions for a soap opera but doesn't get the part, and blames her job as a waitress for her lack of success so she quits the restaurant.

Ginger accepts marriage proposals from two men in one day.

Jan wins employee of the week and uses her prize of a free night at the hotel to spend a romantic evening with Richie.

Dot falls for a guy that Amy has been dating.

Nancy discusses her relationships with her psychiatrist.