Season 4 (1997-1998)
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Season # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original air date |
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| 70 | 1 | "What a Drag" | Michael Engler | Mark B. Perry | September 17, 1997 (1997-09-17) |
| After spending all summer in Europe, Julia has trouble adjusting to married life as she settles in with Griffin. Meanwhile, Claudia wants to be popular during her first day of high school, so she tries out for the cheerleading squad, but ends up with the humiliating job of being the mascot. Sarah's vindictive father presses drunk driving charges against Bailey for the accident that put Sarah in the hospital after Bailey refuses to back off from being with her. Also, Charlie finds Owen dressing up in drag and in talking about it to Owen's pre-school teacher, Jenny, and finds himself drawn to her. | |||||
| 71 | 2 | "Past Imperfect" | Ken Topolsky | P.K. Simonds | September 24, 1997 (1997-09-24) |
| Griffin is annoyed when his boring Merchant Marine friend, Shuyler, comes to a visit and becomes a burden on both Griffin and Julia. Claudia gets busted while snooping inside a football player, Reed Isley's, locker whose affections she is trying to win. Meanwhile, Charlie is bothered by the rumors about child abuse involving Jenny, so he decides to not let Owen go back to pre-school. Also, Bailey prepares for his trial for drunk driving while Sarah decides to lie on the witness stand to protect him. Eventually, Bailey decides to accept a plea deal that the district attorney offers despite the protests of Sarah's parents. | |||||
| 72 | 3 | "Handicaps" | Lou Antonio | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | October 1, 1997 (1997-10-01) |
| Griffin begins having financial problems at the garage, but keeps them to himself to avoid troubling Julia. Meanwhile, Bailey and Sarah decide to move in together, believing they will resolve their problems that way after she is cut off by her parents and he becomes blacklisted by the employment market due to his court plea bargain. Claudia becomes more worried about being a standout in school. All Charlie's dates turn out to be a disaster. | |||||
| 73 | 4 | "Zap" | Eric Jewett | Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green | October 15, 1997 (1997-10-15) |
| Julia gets a new job as a museum curator while her new co-worker, Daniel, misreads her intentions and kisses her. He tells her she does not appear like a married woman. Meanwhile, Owen finds Charlie the perfect woman called Nina, who works as a zoo keeper. Bailey and Sarah settle down as platonic roommates and building managers in their new apartment, and they almost immediately get complaints from an irate tenant named Annie, a recently divorced single mother who's also a recovering alcoholic after Bailey runs into her at an AA meeting. Also, Claudia continues to try to get Reed's attention. | |||||
| 74 | 5 | "Fight or Flight" | Patrick Norris | Julia Dahl | October 22, 1997 (1997-10-22) |
| Charlie and Nina's relationship gets slowed down when they realize they have different looks at the world. Meanwhile, Bailey and Annie start bonding and talking about their addictions while Sarah feels alone and left out. Griffin realizes that something in wrong with Julia and after following her to her place of work finds Daniel flirting with her. Also, Charlie sulks about the restaurant being closed down for repairs. | |||||
| 75 | 6 | "Immediate Family" | Daniel Attias | Mark B. Perry | October 29, 1997 (1997-10-29) |
| Following Julia's advice, Griffin tries to bond with Charlie by helping out for the restaurant's grand re-opening. Charlie confesses to Nina that he loves her. Meanwhile, Bailey and Annie quit their short relationship over both of their AA sponsors advice not to get involved due to their fragile states. Charlie faces Kirsten who returns to town and causes tension with Nina. Elsewhere, Claudia gets Reed a job at Griffin's garage, but he continues to remain oblivious to her crush on him. | |||||
| 76 | 7 | "Positive Attitude" | Michael Enlger | P.K. Simonds | November 5, 1997 (1997-11-05) |
| The family prepares to throw Julia and Griffin a wedding party. Griffin continues to keep the truth about his finance problems from Julia and decides to borrow a lot of money from a "business associate" named Howie. Charlie collapses on a racquetball court and he is diagnosed with having lymphoma. Charlie does not tell anyone, but he later tells everything to Kirsten. Charlie also meets Kirsten's new husband, Paul Thomas, a resident intern at the hospital where Kirsten also works. Meanwhile, Sarah is convinced that now is the right time for her to lose her virginity with her boyfriend Elliott, but her plan fails. Due to her decision, Bailey ends up in bed with Annie. | |||||
| 77 | 8 | "Sickness/Health, Richer/Poorer" | Rodman Flender | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | November 12, 1997 (1997-11-12) |
| Julia finally finds out about Griffin's financial problems before they renew their wedding vows. Nina can't face the fact that Charlie is sick which leads to him breaking up with her. Meanwhile, Bailey brings Annie and her seven-year-old daughter, Natalie to the wedding, but his choice to bring Natalie causes a big disaster. | |||||
| 78 | 9 | "Truth Be Told" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | November 19, 1997 (1997-11-19) |
| Now that she knows the truth about their financial problems, Julia starts working on resolving the problem with Griffin after they are evicted from their apartment and move in with Charlie in the Salinger house. Meanwhile, Charlie's relatives struggle to deal with the fact that Charlie is sick and each one deals with the news in their own way with Claudia's worry, Bailey's insecurity and Julia's indifference which leads Charlie to turn to Kirsten for emotional support. | |||||
| 79 | 10 | "Adjustments" | Vicky Jackson LeMay | Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green | December 3, 1997 (1997-12-03) |
| Sarah convinces Julia that she needs to find a real job for herself, but Julia's new job as an office intern does almost nothing to help hers and Griffin's financial woes after her car is towed for being parked illegally and Julia has to uses her weekly paycheck to get the car released. Meanwhile, the prideful Charlie won't accept the help that his family is offering him after he begins chemotherapy treatment. Bailey misunderstands Charlie's frustrations towards Annie as she struggles to find a new job. Claudia is furious to find out that Julia and Griffin fired Reed to get out of their financial problems. | |||||
| 80 | 11 | "S'Wunnerful Life" | Jan Eliasberg | Mark B. Perry | December 10, 1997 (1997-12-10) |
| Sarah and Bailey host a Christmas party at their apartment, while Charlie decides to go on a long distance road trip with Kirsten. Meanwhile, Will pays Bailey a visit realizes that he and Bailey are living in totally different worlds. Justin shows up for a visit and Julia paints a nice picture inspired him. | |||||
| 81 | 12 | "Empty Shoes" | Arvin Brown | P.K. Simonds | January 7, 1998 (1998-01-07) |
| Charlie asks for help at home and the restaurant after he realizes he is unable to function due to chemotherapy. Bailey realizes he needs to fire Julia from the restaurant because she is a terrible waitress and a more lousy homemaker. Also, Claudia realizes that Reed does not has the same romantic feelings to her like she does to him. Sarah decides to build a miniature theater set as a college project with a little help from Charlie. | |||||
| 82 | 13 | "Parent Trap" | Kevin Inch | Tammy Ader | January 14, 1998 (1998-01-14) |
| Tired of hiding their romantic relationship to Natalie, Bailey and Annie decide to tell her the truth, who does not takes it too well. Meanwhile, Reed finally tells Claudia the hard truth to convince her that he is not her boyfriend and that he is not interested in her. Julia and Griffin's relationship worsens over their separate work schedules and Griffin's continuing bad luck with running the garage. Prompted by an unexpected persistent rash brought by chemotherapy side affects, Charlie decides to try out a new herbal medicine supplied by Kirsten. | |||||
| 83 | 14 | "Of Human Bonding" | Brian Mertes | Julia Dahl & Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green | January 21, 1998 (1998-01-21) |
| Charlie meets a fellow cancer patient, named Kevin, who inspires Charlie to live life to the fullest and he puts on a new behavior. Julia spends time with Jeanie, a woman she works with, and they talk about their troubled marriages. Meanwhile, Bailey wants to bond with Annie's daughter, Natalie, despite the fact that the youngster wants nothing to do with him. Sarah has problems with her boyfriend Elliot, whom may be losing interest in her. At the end, Julia is surprised when she finds out Jeanie left her husband. | |||||
| 84 | 15 | "Here and Now" | Daniel Attias | Mark B. Perry | January 28, 1998 (1998-01-28) |
| Charlie finds out his friend Kevin is in complete remission and is convinced that his cancer recovery made his chances to recover smaller. Meanwhile, Julia and Griffin finally realize they are investing money in failed business after they scrap together money to produce a TV commercial for the garage which falls flat. Sarah is convinced that she'll die as a virgin, until Elliot comes out of the closet to Bailey. Also, Claudia is hard-pressed to complete a school assignment on a time capsule that requires her to look to the future. | |||||
| 85 | 16 | "I Give Up" | Ken Topolsky | P.K. Simonds | February 4, 1998 (1998-02-04) |
| Griffin is selling the shop and the only one interested in buying it is his business opponent. He has no choice and sells it. He and Julia are now debt free. The new owner, Rosalie, offers him a job at the store, which he refuses to take until Julia convinces him to. Meanwhile, Charlie has pneumonia and is back to the hospital. He gets better, but is too depressed to feel good. Everybody worries about him, including Kirsten. He decides to make a will just in case. Bailey, overwhelmed by responsibilities of managing the restaurant and going to school, decides to drop out of college so he can deal with everything. Paul tells Kristen that he suspects that she's still in love with Charlie. Elsewhere, Claudia begins skipping school over being ignored by her siblings and of Charlie's medical condition. | |||||
| 86 | 17 | "Of Sound Mind and Body" | Steve Robman | Lisa Melamed | February 11, 1998 (1998-02-11) |
| Still in the hospital, Charlie asks Kristen if he can leave Claudia and Owen for her if he dies. She wants to raise them, but Paul doesn't like children so much. Meanwhile, Claudia has been missing school for several weeks and the school calls for a meeting. Bailey and Julia are so busy that they don't show up. As a result, Social Services are called and they pick up Claudia and Owen after they find both of them alone and unsupervised at the house. Claudia tells them that she and Owen are being neglected and Julia and Bailey do the best they can to get them back. Everybody is mad at Claudia for skipping school and soon after, Charlie, Bailey and Julia naturally begin to blame each other instead of blaming themselves for this predicament they are now in. Julia and Griffin go to Social Services and offer to take care of Claudia and Owen and manage to get them released. Claudia confides in Julia about being very depressed and lonely. Elsewhere, Rosalie continues to flirt with Griffin, and kisses him. | |||||
| 87 | 18 | "True or False" | Lou Antonio | Ellen Herman | February 25, 1998 (1998-02-25) |
| Claudia gets help from a psychologist which leads her to ask Charlie to spend more time with her and he decides to teach her how to drive a car so she can get a learner's permit. Meanwhile, Griffin discovers that he cannot fight with his growing attraction to Rosalie anymore and has sex with her in the garage after hours. Julia rediscovers the academic world in a college literature class that she takes. Elsewhere, Bailey discovers that Annie has fallen off the wagon after he finds her drunk on the second anniversary of her sobriety. | |||||
| 88 | 19 | "Go Away" | Jan Elisaberg | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | March 4, 1998 (1998-03-04) |
| Julia, Bailey and Charlie leave town to drive up to their family cabin up in the Sierras to relax for some time as Charlie waits for the results of his latest medical test. The getaway gives Bailey an opportunity to escape Annie's overwhelming neediness for him, and for Julia to seek a way to forget about Griffin's suspected infidelity. Back in San Francisco, Kirsten and Paul look after Claudia and Owen in which Claudia is convinced that no one really cares about her anymore and sends off some out-of-state school applications. After arriving back, Julia talks to Griffin about Rosalie. Bailey finds out Annie was forced to go into a rehab clinic after Sarah finds her passed out in her apartment. | |||||
| 89 | 20 | "Square One (1)" | Daniel Attias | P.K. Simonds | April 22, 1998 (1998-04-22) |
| Charlie decides to throw up a party to celebrate his cancer being in remission, but everyone has something else to do on the date he wants to throw the party. He meets Daphne, a stripper, who makes him realize his life should change now that he is out of danger. Meanwhile, Julia wants to start her marriage over with Griffin. But he feels so guilty about his fling with Rosalie that he quits his job at the garage and finally confesses to Julia about his infidelity. Also, Bailey and Sarah both go crazy while babysitting Natalie while Annie is in rehab. | |||||
| 90 | 21 | "Free and Clear (2)" | Steve Robman | Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess | April 22, 1998 (1998-04-22) |
| Sarah and Bailey continue to take care of Annie's daughter and Sarah realizes she still has feelings for him. Bailey finally gets his drivers license reinstated and also feels the same romantic feelings for Sarah. Meanwhile, Julia and Griffin go to a marriage counselor after Julia announces that she has decided to enroll in college. Joe decides to sell the restaurant, so the family buys it, because Bailey is ready to manage it. Elsewhere, a visiting prep school student rep, named Jamie Burke, makes a play for Claudia, until she learns that his parents have had a long-term rivalry with her late parents. | |||||
| 91 | 22 | "Opposites Distract" | Julianna Levin | Lisa Melamed | April 29, 1998 (1998-04-29) |
| Julia expects help from Justin to solve her marriage, but it all turns out differently. As he's done before in the past (in Season 2), Justin tries to convince Julia that Griffin is a loser after he gets into a bar fight over frustration about his marital troubles. Meanwhile, Sarah wants to make peace between Annie and Bailey, so she finally decides to get them together to resolve their problems. Charlie enrolls himself to appear in a stage production in Daphne's musical. Also, Jamie expressed a strong interest in Claudia despite her lack of interest towards him. | |||||
| 92 | 23 | "Fools Rush In" | Michael Engler | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | May 6, 1998 (1998-05-06) |
| In a rare stroke of good luck, Griffin wins a free weekend trip to Los Angeles when he turns out to be the 1,000th customer at the local supermartket. He and Julia gets closer and their relationship seems to filled with love again... but it turns out to be short lived. Meanwhile, Charlie is bothered by Daphne's stripping profession and that makes some troubles in their new-found romance. The real shock comes when she admits being pregnant from their first night of sex. Bailey has deep misgivings about moving in with Annie when she gets an unexpected visit from her ex-husband, Jay, who's seeking to get back together with her and daughter. Also, Claudia is finally happy when Jamie asks her to go to his prom. | |||||
| 93 | 24 | "Fools Rush Out" | Michael Enlger | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | May 13, 1998 (1998-05-13) |
| In the fourth season final, Sarah confesses to Bailey that she still loves him. Bailey decides to let go of Annie so she and her daughter can get back together with her ex-husband. After Annie movies out of her apartment, Sarah and Bailey get back together and they finish in bed together. Meanwhile, Julia gets accepted into college at Stanford, making Griffin feel like he is holding her back from her college life. Charlie tells Daphne he will take full responsibility as the father of her baby if he has to. Also, Jamie takes Claudia to his school prom where they end up dancing in the football playing field by themselves. |
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