7.7/10100 votes#1 - The Perfect Wedding (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1982
Barbara's nerves are on edge as her wedding day approaches and husband-to-be Mark is no help, he's more interested in his golf game than helping with the preparations.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1099 votes
#2 - The Perfect Wedding (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1982
Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbara's worried he won't get to the church on time.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10101 votes
#3 - Honeymoon's Over
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1982
Barbara tries to adapt to life at Mark's rooming house, where her new husband's friends, including a scantily clad woman, breeze in and out without knocking to use the bathroom, or asking to use the closet and community refrigerator.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.4/1099 votes
#4 - Catcher in the Mud
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1982
Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1095 votes
#5 - Last Time I Saw Paris
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1982
To land a new French account, Francine talks Ann into a weekend trip to Paris to learn about the French market.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1093 votes
#6 - Auntie Francine
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1982
Ann may be a little envious of Francine's freewheeling lifestyle, especially after Francine takes Alex for the weekend and shows him the time of his life.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1098 votes
#7 - Lovers & Other Parents
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1982
Barbara's scheme to get her mother and Mark's newly divorced father together at a dinner party gets faster results than she anticipated.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1095 votes
#8 - Miracle of Birth (1)
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1982
Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.7/1096 votes
#9 - Miracle of Birth (2)
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1982
Julie insists on flying to California to have her baby in an underwater birth tank but her labor pains are beginning at her mother's home in Indianapolis.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.3/10100 votes
#10 - First Things First
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1982
Barbara's decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Peter Noah
- 6.5/1093 votes
#11 - Pride and Privacy (1)
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1982
Forced out of their rooming house by an explosion, Barbara and Mark impose on Ann for a temporary home until they can find a place of their own.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Peter Noah
- 6.7/1094 votes
#12 - Pride and Privacy (2)
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1982
With Julie, Max and the new baby also needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1092 votes
#13 - Pride and Privacy (3)
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1983
Unable to cope with the pandemonium at her house, Ann takes refuge at Sam's place, until he offers her a solution for which she's completely unprepared.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.5/1098 votes
#14 - The Cruise
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1983
Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.8/1097 votes
#15 - Spare the Child
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1983
Alex's video game fascination has him skipping school and facing punishment from the principal, and may be symptomatic of hidden emotional problems.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1095 votes
#16 - The Hero
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1983
Saving a businessman's life earns Schneider executive status in a job, complete with a secretary, a plush office, a rent-free apartment nearby and very little work to do.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1094 votes
#17 - The Good Life
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1983
A South Pacific island would be just the ticket for Sam, if only Ann would drop her work, desert the family and join him in paradise.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1094 votes
#18 - Social Insecurity
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1983
Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1097 votes
#19 - A Young Man's Fancy
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1983
Approaching his 15th birthday, Alex anticipates his first female encounter. But when he strikes out with the school's ""girl most likely to,"" he makes a play for an older woman.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.8/1096 votes
#20 - The Letter
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1983
A letter to Ann's mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10105 votes
#21 - Buyer's Remorse
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1983
Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/1097 votes
#22 - Sonny Boy
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1983
A weekend outing with a girl from school is more attractive to Alex than the father-son night he agreed to attend at Schneider's lodge.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: George Tibbles
- 4.9/10101 votes
#23 - Panzini
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/2/1983
Schneider feels threatened when his lookalike, a top Sicilian designer sweeps Francine off her feet.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1096 votes
#24 - Sisters
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/9/1983
Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1095 votes
#25 - Second Time Around
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 5/16/1983
Sam unilaterally sets a wedding date as Ann learns from his newspaper announcement that she's getting married in three days. But it's Sam who starts getting cold feet.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
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The misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent in Indianapolis.
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"The Perfect Wedding (1)" is the best rated episode of "One Day at a Time" season 8. It scored 7.7/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by Alan Rafkin and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1982. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Perfect Wedding (2)".