It's a Living (1980-1987)

Sonny's temporary replacement is a big hit.

Dot's former beau, now a priest, rethinks his vows.

The girls recall the misfit men they've known.

Cassie reluctantly agrees to take in homeless Vicki.

The staff acts in a version of ``Little Red Riding Hood.''

Vicki's innocence loses her a man.

A Soviet track star defects in the restaurant.

Dot helps an actress and sees her find success.

Everyone is overworked when Dot has jury duty.

Lois finds a porno magazine in Ellen's things.

The girls decide to give Nancy a birthday party.

Nancy tries to squelch Dot and Howard's romance.

An ailing girl inspires depressed Dot.

To keep Howard, Nancy debates plastic surgery.

A new date proves a match for assertive Ginger.

Ginger hides her job from her successful mother.

Dot agrees to fill in for a stripper at a party.

Dot's cartoonist boyfriend puts her in his strip.

The waitresses become involved with a baseball team.

Nancy eyes vulnerable Howard; Dot may be pregnant.

A record-company executive ``discovers'' Sonny.

Grandma St. James decides to live with Ginger.

The president is coming to the restaurant.

Frustrated Dot hires a professional matchmaker.

Two men propose to Ginger on the same day.

Jan, Dot, Amy and Ginger hunt men in a singles bar.

Maggie dates the director of Dot's theater group.

Howard is jealous when he sees Nancy with a date.

Jan announces she is pregnant.

Dot and Vicki eye the same man; guest Susan Ruttan.

Ginger baby-sits; Sonny runs afoul of the mob.

A scene from Dot's acting class becomes reality.

A woman claims Sonny is her child's father.

Amy learns her pen pal is newly paroled.

Jan tries to pay for her daughter's dance classes.

Terrorists seize the restaurant.

Jan attempts to reunite her divorced parents.

A woman accuses Cassie of taking her husband.

Ginger's beau makes a sudden and forceful proposal.

Sonny finds trouble in a notebook full of women's numbers.

Dot falls for a man who has dated Amy.

The girls think Jan's husband is dating Ginger.

An old beau of Cassie's reappears as a bridegroom.

Sonny offends a group of feminist diners.

Ginger discovers Amy keeps a gun in the apartment.

Jan stretches the truth for a high-school rival.

Jan overhears two men fixing a horse race.

Jan cannot cope with her daughter's first date.

Dot's mother and Jan's father go on a blind date.

Amy receives gifts from an explicit secret admirer.

Lois' daughter lies about her in a school paper.

Amy's preacher beau wants her to go on the road with him.

Sonny's ego inflates after he saves a patron.

A valentine from Amy's beau includes a hotel-room key.

The Dickie Doodle Fan Club meets at the restaurant.

A fire traps patrons in the restaurant.

The waitresses try to reunite Dennis and his wife.

Dot lands a long-awaited soap-opera role.

A professor Jan dated threatens to fail her.

The band doesn't show for a prom at the restaurant.

A man is hired after suing for sexual discrimination.

Delivery complications nearly kill Jan; guest Danny Thomas.

Dot quits her job to pursue acting.

Jan unknowingly sells a valuable sculpture for $250.

Dot gives up her job for a part in a play.

Dot meets a man through a personal ad.

Dot thinks she sees a murder in the next building.

Sonny's lover and father move in simultaneously.

Pressured Amy accepts a marriage proposal.

Sonny thinks his latest girl's beau is after him.

Dot feels guilty after disabling a mugger.

A handsome Venezuelan dumps adoring Cassie.

Amy's father demands she come back home to Texas.

Richie becomes obsessed with Jan's blond wig.

Vicki's visiting father has a fling with Nancy.

After hours, Dot and Sonny console each other at the restaurant.

Jan plans a romantic night with Richie in the hotel.

Sonny and the girls are stranded in a bizarre motel.

New owners may make the restaurant a health club.

Lovesick Howard follows Nancy to Las Vegas.

The staff tries to ease Sonny's 40th-birthday blues.

Horror movies turn Dot's dreams into nightmares.

Sonny buys what he believes is oil-rich land.

Nancy is reluctant to have a needed operation.

Jan's arm is stuck in a wall just before a big date.

The waitresses take revenge in Nancy's dream wedding.

Nancy will do anything for a good restaurant review.

A handsome repairman proposes to Jan after one date.

Dot's boyfriend is assigned to review her play.

Dot attempts to save a princess from jewel thieves.

A career-magazine interview inspires reminiscences.

Nancy fears losing her job to a younger woman.

Lois is reunited with her high-school sweetheart.

Jan's old flame comes for her high-school reunion.

The fiancee of Sonny's brother makes a pass at Sonny.

Sonny's visiting mother belittles his career.

Neglected Nancy has an extramarital fling.

Discouraged actress Dot works as a casting assistant.

Evicted Ginger and Amy camp out in the restaurant.

Cassie rooms with Sonny until she can find a condo.

Maggie's brother falls for Jan.

Groom Sonny is stood up -- twice.

A meeting of a mystery society results in murder.

A burglar invades the waitresses' slumber party.

Jan and Richie celebrate a windfall prematurely.

Sonny bribes Amy with tickets belonging to a friend.

Ginger and Amy want a double wedding.

Tropical-island natives name Howard as their chief.

Sonny accidentally locks himself on the roof.

Jan's ex-husband (Dennis Dugan) returns.

The waitresses contrive a diary for snooping Nancy to find.

A news photo links Ginger and a married senator.

Assorted mishaps plague Jan's wedding day.

Dot finds she cannot keep her new puppy.

Nancy loses her job because of her age.

Nancy evaluates her relationships during therapy.

Nancy's man-hungry, estranged sister arrives.

A suave millionaire sweeps Cassie off her feet.

Nancy's long-estranged cousin comes to make amends.

Ginger tries voodoo to land a husband.