Season 1

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  7.6/1030 votes

  Raj Returns

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1985

  Raj and Nadine return to Raj's old house.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Kim Weiskopf

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  5.2/1024 votes

  A Horse is Not a Home

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1985

  An ad offers a house instead of a horse.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.4/1021 votes

  The Houseguest

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1985

  Dwayne falls for his dentist's wife.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.8/1019 votes

  One Enchanted Evening

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1985

  The Thomases take in feuding roommates.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.3/1019 votes

  Dueling Menus

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1985

  Raj tries to impress his mother-in-law.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.1/1022 votes

  Dwayne's Crush

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1985

  Carolyn feels unloved and tries to leave.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.0/1018 votes

  The New Kid

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1985

  A 10-year-old orphan is left at the diner.

  Director: Gary Shimokawa

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.7/1019 votes

  The Bully

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1985

  Raj explains how he landed in jail.

  Director: Gary Shimokawa

  Writer: Jurgen Wolff

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  7.2/1023 votes

  Dee's Dilemma

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1985

  A tough gang menaces a party at the diner.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.2/1018 votes

  Aunt Shirley

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1985

  Raj and Shirley compete for diner profits.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: David Braff

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  6.9/1018 votes

  Raj on the Run

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1985

  When Dee comes home from college for vacation and then decides to drop out of school in favor of a sales career, older brother Raj starts treating her like a child.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.8/1016 votes

  That Old Gang of Mine

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1985

  A series of misunderstandings, misadventures and mistaken identities combine to disguise Raj as a woman and sends him fleeing from two FBI agents.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.1/1017 votes

  The Challenge

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1985

  While taping a commercial, Raj accidentally accepts a wrestling match with the ferocious Mama's Boy Jones after he insulted the wrestler's mother.

  Director: Gary Shimokawa

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.2/1017 votes

  Rags to Riches

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/2/1985

  When Raj opts for a softball game over attending an art show with Nadine, who strongly objects, the couple begins to think each other selfish and split up.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.4/1019 votes

  Married or Not

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1985

  The entire gang became characters from The Wizard of Oz when Carolyn is accidentally knocked unconscious.

  Director: Gary Shimokawa

  Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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  7.3/1017 votes

  The Improbable Dream

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/16/1985

  When Rerun's new investment manager makes him a wealthy man, his old friends find they are losing him to the fast life.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.0/1019 votes

  Goodbye, Mr. Ripps

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1986

  When the gang hears that their favorite teacher, and renown practical joker, is retiring, they plan the ultimate farewell party.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Kim Weiskopf

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  7.7/1019 votes

  Dee and Dwayne

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1986

  When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.

  Director: Gary Shimokawa

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.1/1013 votes

  Nadine's Boss

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1986

  Raj writes a theater play, and to help him out in launching the project, his friends agree to take on the production's roles, where it appears they really begin to live out their parts with comical results.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/1015 votes

  Mr. First Nighter

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1986

  Romance blossoms for Shirley when the Navy seaman she has been writing to for years comes to town.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.8/1015 votes

  Shirley's Pen Pal

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1986

  An efficiency expert with the nickname ""Pink-Slip Patty"" gives Nadine and her fellow social workers a case of the jitters -- which eventually affects Raj the same way.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Bob Bendetson

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  6.6/1020 votes

  The Wedding

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1986

  When the legality of their first wedding is questioned, Raj and Nadine decide to get married all over again.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: David Adam Silverman