Married With Children

Peggy forces Al to sacrifice a basketball game and spend a torturous evening in conversation with new neighbors, idealistic newlyweds Steve and Marcy Rhoades.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt, Sandy Sprung

Marcy introduces Peg to a new diet to improve her marriage. Al wants no part of it but learns if he tries the diet, he can persuade Peg to quit. He must then swallow his pride and admit to Peggy he loves her.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt, Sandy Sprung

There has been a rash of burglaries in the area, and the Rhodes' house is robbed and Al's car stereo is ripped off, both families seek alternatives: Steve and Marcy buy a guard dog that won't stop barking, and Al purchases a fire arm. One fateful night, the two methods of home defense butt heads, and it's not a pretty picture.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Ron Burla, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Steve and Marcy plan to add a new room onto their house using their tax refund money. Al convinces Steve to make it into a billiards room while Peggy convinces Marcy to make it into an exercise room, which leads to an all-out battle of the sexes to see who will win.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Zane Buzby
Writer(s): Marcy Vosburgh, Sandy Sprung, Ron Leavitt

Al and Steve buy a beat up Ford Mustang off of one of Kelly's boyfriends. Soon they form a tight friendship while fixing it up like new. The only problem is they are neglecting their wives now that they spend every free minute with the car. Marcy gets to experience something in the backseat of the Mustang that she has always wanted to do and when Al finds out about it, he won't let her forget it.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Richard Gurman, Katherine Green, Michael G. Moye

It's the Bundys' 16th wedding anniversary. Al plans to buy Peggy a very fancy watch, but unfortunately, his credit card gets declined. Dare he show up at the party without a present?

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Katherine Green, Richard Gurman, Michael G. Moye

Steve and Marcy decide that once is enough after they volunteer to watch Kelly, Bud, and the family dog Buck, after Al and Peggy go away for the weekend to a seedy motel in Wisconsin where Al wants to watch a boxing match on the cable TV system.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Ralph Farquhar, Matt Geller, Michael G. Moye

Al takes Steve one evening to watch a poker game with his poker playing friends. Steve gets the feel of the game and sits in for one of the men, but he ends up losing his paycheck to Al. From then on, Steve tries to avoid Marcy to avoid telling her the truth about losing their mortgage payment money while Al plans to use his $300 winnings to buy a new fishing rod.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Brian Levant
Writer(s): Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye, Sandy Sprung

To get the money to purchase a new VCR that Al won't buy her, Peggy takes a job in a department store selling clocks, which takes the "fun" out of the Bundy marriage as a result of her absence, and Kelly and Bud getting stuck with Al for the evenings.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Ellen L. Fogle, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Al gets a first-hand look at Luke's swinging bachelor life when he takes refuge at Luke's apartment after work rather than return home to finish an argument with Peggy over visiting her relatives for the weekend. Luke invites two women over at his place where one of them, an attractive but dim-witted airplane stewardess, tempts Al.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Arlando Smith
Writer(s): Marcy Vosburgh, Sandy Sprung, Michael G. Moye

While Steve is out of town for the week on business, Marcy starts having dreams involving a romance-minded Al which turns her dreams into nightmares, and turns off her sexual urges, prompting her to look into the source of her nightmares, while a clueless Steve asks Al for advice on Marcy's sudden lack of sexual needs.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt, Sandy Sprung

The near death of the playboy owner of Al's shoe store starts Al wondering why he's never visited the store. Feeling unappreciated Al decides to take drastic action.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Marcy Vosburgh, Sandy Sprung, Michael G. Moye

Personal problems and crises delay Al and Peggy's departure to the going out of business party of their favorite hamburger joint, "Johnny Be Goods," which range from Kelly being stood up from going to a party, Bud wanting to finish a remote-controlled car for a model car festival, to Marcy stranded at the Bundys wearing only a towel after staining her dress.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison
Director(s): Linda Day
Writer(s): Katherine Green, Richard Gurman, Michael G. Moye