It's a Living

- Season 5

(1987)

Sonny gets stood up at the altar twice.

As the staff prepares for a wedding reception, Nancy dozes off and has a bizarre dream about her own marriage, ten years in the future to Sonny.

Jan worries when her daughter has her first date.

The staff helps Dot put on a production of Little Red Riding Hood at a children's theater for charity.

Dot is thrilled about her new part on a soap opera until she realizes her character is in imminent danger of being killed off.

Nancy has just the solution to Howard's mid-life crisis: she invites him to a square dance, and she won't take no for an answer.

Nancy is having a bad week: hotel management wants her to search the waitresses' lockers, and Howard wants her to back off.

Sonny pesters singer Jack Jones into getting him a gig in Las Vegas. Howard gets jealous when Nancy makes a date with Jack Jones who invites her to go to Vegas with him.

When a jealous Howard follows Nancy to Las Vegas, he's horrified to find her gambling at a blackjack table with a lounge lizard named Chick.

Sonny's mother pays him a visit and proceeds to belittle him at every turn.

Dot takes out a personal ad to meet men and gets a surprise she never bargained for.

The person Amy has been pen pals with is paroled. When he visits the restaurant he's not exactly the person described in his letters.

Sonny manages to infuriate an entire table of feminists while Dot starts dating one of Amy's ex-boyfriends.

After seeing Howard flirting with a much younger woman, Nancy begins considering having a face lift.

Dot's newspaper critic boyfriend is assigned to review her play.

Richie hits the big money which lands Jan in a mink coat. However, is his sudden success short lived?

Nancy's estranged cousin visits to make amends, and Nancy is surprised to see the changes in her.

Jan has hopes of reuniting her divorced parents but there is one hitch in her plan, her father is newly engaged.

Grandma St James. decides to live with Ginger.

Dot helps an actress and sees her find success.

Sonny bribes Amy with tickets belonging to a friend.

Ginger's efforts to campaign for her favorite senator make front-page news when she's photographed sitting on his lap.

Sonny becomes an instant hero after saving a choking victim by administering the Heimlich maneuver. Meanwhile, Nancy and Howard contemplate taking separate vacations.

Ginger's beau makes a sudden and forceful proposal.

A career magazine interview inspires reminiscences.

Richie (Richard Kline) becomes obsessed with Jan's blonde wig.