The Best Episodes of One Day at a Time Season 8

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

Barbara's newly friend Bob reveals he still has feelings for her.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: N/A

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

Ann and Sam's ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: George Tibbles

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

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

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

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that she's marrying the shipboard piano player.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: George Tibbles

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

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

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

Julie's announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: George Tibbles

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

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