When Mona's domineering mother crosses the Atlantic to pay the family a visit, Mona is forced to stand up to her for the first time in order to save Tony and Angela's engagement.
After promising Angela not to pressure her about getting married, Tony sets up an elaborate stratagem to propose to her at a football game.
Reeling from the recent death of a childhood friend, Tony drags his family on a series of death- defying adventures until it dawns on him that what's missing in his life might just be marriage to Angela.
Tony is forced to do a little moonlighting when, attempting to prove he's not a "kept man," he buys Angela a painting he can't afford.
When Angela goes out of town and leaves the Bower Agency in Mona's care, a dangerous flirtation develops between Mona and Angela's biggest client.
Tony enters the world of high finance when, eager to prove that he trusts Sam's taste in men, he allows her new stockbroker boyfriend to invest his "cookie jar" money.
When term papers, car trouble and boyfriend problems give Samantha a case of Freshman Blues, she returns home for some tender loving care.
Jonathan "borrows" Tony's prized jeep to impress a trendy girl from school, but returns it with a deep scratch he then pulls Samantha and Billy into the fray when he enlists their help in covering his tracks before Tony gets home.
Tony thinks he's a cinch to become the TV sports announcer for Ridgemont College, but meets his match when daughter Samantha decides to audition.
Tony and Angela have some explaining to do when a social worker makes a surprise visit and Billy is nowhere to be found.
Tony is invited to Italy to claim an inheritance from his late Uncle Aldo -- which means he'll soon have the proud task of acquainting Samantha and Billy with their ancestral roots. But when he arrives and finds that Aldo's past dealings have besmirched the revered family name, he's determined to restore its integrity for the sake of the children.
At a dance which Tony and Angela are attending with separate dates, a longtime happily married couple -- who reminds them of themselves -- indulges in happy reminiscence. It awakens Tony's and Angela's romantic interest in each other and prompts them to fantasize about what their own love story might be like, played out in 1940s Hollywood style.
Tony's childhood dream of becoming a fireman comes true when he becomes a volunteer for the Fairfield Fire Department, but his enthusiasm lands him in hot water.
When dorm life keeps Samantha from her studies, she moves into an apartment off-campus, but her choice of roommates has everyone -- especially her boyfriend Matt -- up in arms.
When Billy has trouble adjusting to his new pre-school, veteran parents Tony and Angela get some remedial lessons in child-rearing when they take a course in "positive parenting."
Tony and Angela must decide if they're ready for the challenge of raising a child when Billy's grandmother can no longer care for him and asks Tony to take him in.
When Samantha moves into the Ridgemont College dorm, she excitedly anticipates her new-found freedom, but discovers, to her dismay, that Tony is as much a part of her new life as he was of her old.
While Tony meets girlfriend Kathleen's father for the first time, Angela fills in as babysitter to Mrs. Rossini's five-year-old neighbor Billy.
When Tony and Mona suggest that Angela put her workaholic ways behind her and have some fun, they are shocked at the results.
Tony is shocked when Samantha considers making her summer job at a New Mexico resort -- and her new boyfriend -- permanent.