Season 6 (1999-2000)
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Season # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119 | 1 | "Don't Let Go" | Steve Robman | P.K. Simonds | October 5, 1999 (1999-10-05) |
| Bailey tries to plan a perfect wedding for Charlie and Kirsten. But when his plans fail, he tells Charlie to plan his own wedding. Kirsten's parents, Gene and Ellie, come to town, but they aren't supportive of the engagement because of Charlie and Kirsten's previously failed wedding in the past (from Season 2). Meanwhile, Claudia breaks up with Cody after she catches him cheating on her. Sarah confronts Bailey about his anger towards her. After an editor, named Evan, offers Julia a book deal she quits college and moves home. | |||||
| 120 | 2 | "Naked" | Daniel Attias | Julia Dahl | October 12, 1999 (1999-10-12) |
| Charlie and Kirsten have a terrible honeymoon in Mexico but when they start to experiment sexually, they end up having a great time. Back in San Francisco, Cody keeps pursuing Claudia, who turns him away. Bailey and Sarah are having communication problems, but are solving them by having sex. Also, Joe visits and tells Bailey about his separation from his wife Frannie. Julia has writer's block, but Evan refuses to help her out. | |||||
| 121 | 3 | "Bye, Bye, Love" | Adam Nimoy | Allan Heinberg & Mimi Schmir | October 19, 1999 (1999-10-19) |
| Daphne hires Victor as a nanny for Diana, and gets help job-hunting from Kirsten. Charlie counsels a troubled teen, named Myra, at work. Meanwhile, Julia investigates her parents' relationship, which upsets Bailey. Claudia figures out that Cameron is attacking his friends on a web page. Sarah thinks she's found her father in New York and plans to meet him, meaning that she will have to leave Bailey. | |||||
| 122 | 4 | "Wrestling Demons" | Lou Antonio | Melissa Rosenberg | October 26, 1999 (1999-10-26) |
| Victor turns the house into a haunted one for Owen on Halloween. Julia realizes that she has feelings for Evan. Charlie and Kirsten explore having their own baby. Bailey finds out that Will is back in San Francisco and is chauffeuring wrestlers for a living after dropping out of college. Claudia sees that Cameron has feelings for her when he tells her about his decision to break up with Alexia. | |||||
| 123 | 5 | "The Shortest Distance" | Eric Jewett | Tom Garriguso & Ian Biederman | November 2, 1999 (1999-11-02) |
| Kirsten and Charlie are having difficulty with the regimen associated with trying to get pregnant. His effort to pay for in-vitro fertilization, leads to him getting a second job and he doesn't have time to tutor Myra anymore. Claudia helps tutor Myra and receives some helpful advice from her about her situation with Cameron and Alexa. Bailey decides to pay Sarah a visit in New York with Griffin and Will, but doesn't get very far. Evan and Julia finally sleep together. Daphne lies to Charlie about finding a new job. | |||||
| 124 | 6 | "Too Close" | Daniel Attias | Julia Dahl & P.K. Simonds | November 9, 1999 (1999-11-09) |
| Bailey goes to a bar and almost drinks, but meets a woman named Tracy, who turns out to be married. Griffin sees Daphne working at a strip club. Bailey invites Will to move in with him. Meanwhile, Myra keeps turning to Charlie for help, but when he reports her principal, Myra's mother claims that he was involved with her sexually. Julia wants to make her and Evan's relationship public, but he becomes very hesitant. Claudia finds out that Cameron got back together with Alexa. So she tries her luck with a football player. But when he gets her alone, he won't take no for an answer. | |||||
| 125 | 7 | "We Gather Together" | Steve Robman | Allan Heinberg | November 16, 1999 (1999-11-16) |
| Charlie convinces Myra's mother to drop statutory rape charges against him. Claudia decides to not report Derek's attack in order to deal with it. Daphne and Griffin get drunk and end up together. Kirsten is pregnant. Bailey continues seeing Tracy, while Julia gets closer to Evan and his son Brian. | |||||
| 126 | 8 | "Faith, Hope and Charity" | Daniel Attias | Melissa Rosenberg & Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman & Mimi Schmir | November 30, 1999 (1999-11-30) |
| Julia decides to break up with Evan after she discovers his emotional unavailability. Claudia gets drunk at Grant High School's homecoming dance when no one reacts on Derek's problems. Meanwhile, Charlie considers leaving his counseling job and working at the furniture factory. Bailey spends time dating a lot of girls and gets interested in Holly, an attractive English immigrant and medical intern. Also, Daphne and Griffin survive a terrible motorcycle accident and the Salingers are ready to pay for his expensive hand surgery since he doesn't have insurance. | |||||
| 127 | 9 | "Ties That Bind" | Lou Antonio | Mimi Schmir & Robin Schiff | December 7, 1999 (1999-12-07) |
| Bailey continues dating Holly, a very interesting girl. They spend the night together and end up under the sheets. Griffin fells that he has a debt to the Salingers, now that they paid for his expensive hand surgery. Meanwhile, Claudia tries to return to playing her violin, but gets upset when she finds out she's no longer the best. Charlie and Kirsten try to buy illegal hormones, but end up realizing they should get pregnant naturally. | |||||
| 128 | 10 | "Dog Day After New Year" | Keith Samples | Julia Dahl & Tom Garrigus | January 11, 2000 (2000-01-11) |
| Bailey goes to a wedding with Holly and all her relatives think they're married. Julia's new editor hasn't answered her about her book, so she tries to find her and not just sit and wait. When she finds her, she tells Julia that another book with the same story of hers has been published, so her book won't be published anymore. Thurber, the family bulldog, is sick. Claudia takes him to the veterinary. Charlie and Kirsten are in a double date with Daphne. Charlie quits his job after his boss says 'no' to his projects, but when they talk, he gets back. Bailey and Claudia decide to put Thurber to sleep due to his old age and ill health, and the whole family spread his ashes in the park, saying goodbye for the last time to the long-time friend. | |||||
| 129 | 11 | "Fear and Loathing" | Joe Pennella | Ian Biederman | January 18, 2000 (2000-01-18) |
| Julia accompanies Claudia on a trip to Yale University for a college tour and to visit Justin Thompson where they meet his new girlfriend Laura. At the same time, Claudia becomes acquainted with a fellow student, named Carl, assigned to show her around the campus. Back in San Francisco, Victor steps in when Owen comes home every day claiming to be bullied at school. Meanwhile, Bailey questions himself on how casual he wants to be with Holly when they spend almost every day together which changes when she tells that it's all too much for her. Also, Charlie becomes wary about Daphne's new irresponsible boyfriend, Luke, in handling baby Diana, but learns that his parenting is not all perfect either since he has to make a deadline with his new furniture designs and be with Kirsten for a surgery. | |||||
| 130 | 12 | "Bad Behavior" | Harry Winer | Melissa Rosenberg & Allan Heinberg | January 25, 2000 (2000-01-25) |
| Julia becomes intrigued by a writer, named Adam, in her writing class with no apparent block, but later discovers that Adam is pretending to be a student at Stanford and uses writing to channel his personal feelings. Meanwhile, Owen's friend's father make disparaging remarks about Victor since he happens to be gay. While dating and sleeping with a number of different women in an attempt to purge his pain after breaking up with Holly, Bailey betrays Will's trust when he sleeps with Will's new girlfriend's sister. Charlie gives Daphne a job at the furniture factory as the consultant while Kirsten has her own hands full with her busy schedule. Also, Claudia reconnects with another school musician, named Todd, who inspires her to go with her instincts when it comes to music. At the end, Bailey reaches into the kitchen refrigerator and drinks one of Charlie's beers. | |||||
| 131 | 13 | "The Declaration of Co-Dependence" | Danny Leiner | Mimi Schmir | February 1, 2000 (2000-02-01) |
| Bailey has a full plate to deal when he starts drinking again and then discovers money missing from the restaurant and learns that Joe is responsible. Charlie and his foreman, Gun, clash on cost cutting for the new furniture line. After some incidents with the workers, Gus decides to let Charlie run the business all by himself. Bailey's love life takes yet another turn when he meets a young woman, named Evvie, at an AA meeting who asks him to be her sponsor. Meanwhile, Adam takes Julia out for a time on the town where she curbs his romantic ideas for her in which he suspects that she doesn't like him. Also, Daphne announces that she and her Army boyfriend, Luke, have decided to move back to Texas and she wants to take baby Diana with her. | |||||
| 132 | 14 | "One For the Road" | Steve Robman | Ian Biederman & P.K. Simonds | February 8, 2000 (2000-02-08) |
| Justin Thompson arrives in San Francisco for his engagement party where Julia tries to remain supportive of his coming marriage to Laura. But when Adam notes to Julia that Justin and Laura lack a link between them, Julia tries to tell Justin not to get married which alienates him and Laura. Meanwhile, Daphne objects to Charlie's control over her and baby Diana. But when Charlie realizes that he doesn't want to fight another ugly court battle and let Daphne be unhappy, he eventually tells her that she can leave town with their daughter and Luke. Also, Bailey tells Evvie that they should start living up their lives by going to a party and drinking, where as Bailey drinks in moderation Evvie ends up collapsing from alcohol poisoning and is rushed to the hospital, and everyone blames Bailey for this turn of events. | |||||
| 133 | 15 | "What If..." | Ken Topolsky | Allan Heinberg & P.K. Simonds | February 22, 2000 (2000-02-22) |
| After a drunken Bailey crashes his jeep into a stoplight post, he blacks out and has a vision of an alternate reality of what life would be like if his parents never died in the car accident. In this alternate world, set during a weekend of planning Nick and Diana Salinger's 31st anniversary party, all of the siblings are insecure with their parents whom they cannot stand up to. Bailey is revealed to be living with Will and both of them work as roadies for a heavy metal rock band, in which Bailey dropped out of college and never stopped drinking or grew up. Charlie appears better off having gone back to college, got a Masters Degree in architecture, and is a fairly wealthy man working in a prestigious company, but like Bailey, he never met Kirsten or ever grew up and has to deal with his pregnant girlfriend getting an abortion where he meets Kirsten for the first time working as a medical consultant at an abortion clinic. Julia also never grew up and has been engaged to Justin for years which changes when she meets Griffin for the first time and loses her virginity with him. Claudia, on the other hand, is a home-schooled violinist having gone on various world tours in which she wants to quit her profession for a little rest. All of them, nevertheless, come together for their parents anniversary party at Salinger's Restaurant. At the end, Bailey wakes up from his fantasy and decides to seek help for himself. | |||||
| 134 | 16 | "Blast the Past" | Daniel Attias | P.K. Simonds & Melissa Rosenberg | March 14, 2000 (2000-03-14) |
| After spending a few weeks in rehab, Bailey doesn't feel as good as he looks to others and is beside himself over his life troubles. Meanwhile, Claudia and Todd accompany Julia and Adam on a drive to Las Vegas when Justin decides to elope with Laura where Julia must decided on where she stands with Adam, while Todd doesn't know how to make his move on Claudia. Tensions between Charlie and Joe over managing the restaurant come to a head when Charlie states that he does not trust Joe because of the embezzlement incident. Also, an unusually moody Kirsten thinks she's going through withdrawal since she quit taking her anti-depressant pills, only to get an even bigger surprise that will change her life and Charlie's. | |||||
| 135 | 17 | "Getting There" | Joe Penella | Tom Garrigus | March 21, 2000 (2000-03-21) |
| Unable to find his calling, Bailey becomes reacquainted with Holly where he attempts to help her older sister, Fiona, find her calling as a costume designer. Meanwhile, Claudia gets the violin position Todd coveted in which leads to some competition for both of them. An order for a hotel chain may be more than Charlie can handle due to his lack of funds and manpower to build the chairs at the factory, while Kirsten deals with morning sickness during her first trimester of her pregnancy. Also, Julia seeks to cure her writers block with frequent sex trysts with Adam as their relationship heats up, which unwittingly creates writers block for him. | |||||
| 136 | 18 | "Too Cool for School" | Scott Brazil | Ian Biederman & Mimi Schmir | April 4, 2000 (2000-04-04) |
| Charlie looks into buying the furniture factory when Gus decides to sell it to a major corporation. But Charlie learns more about owning it when he must come up with some collateral for a bank to give him a loan. Meanwhile, Bailey's lack of education and no college degree sets him back on his unchosen career, until he learns more about a college business education while accompanying Holly on her pre-med lectures. Julia begins to resent Adam when he challenges criticism from his writing instructor in which he responds frustrated at himself and everything. Adam then breaks up with Julia and leaves town. Also, Victor deals with his young son over his one-time tryst with a woman. Claudia privately celebrates her 17th birthday as deals with a brief separation from Todd who is going to New York for a violin concert. | |||||
| 137 | 19 | "Isn't It Romantic" | Ken Topolsky | Allan Heinberg | April 11, 2000 (2000-04-11) |
| Just as Bailey begins taking business college classes, Holly's student visa is revoked which means that she must return to England. After considering every option, Bailey then asks Will to pretend to be married to Holly in order for her to get a green card. Meanwhile, a discontented Daphne returns to town with baby Diana and reveals to Charlie and Kirsten about her difficulties and doubts about Luke which Kirsten sees that is parallels her own life with Charlie over his busy hours at the furniture factory. Despite Griffin's objections, Julia confronts her former boyfriend, Ned, after spotting him in town which leads Julia to re-examine her own troubled life. Also, Victor rejects Claudia's matchmaking for him and Ross. | |||||
| 138 | 20 | "Great Expectations" | Christian D. Della Penna | Emily Whitesell | April 18, 2000 (2000-04-18) |
| Will panics after a meeting with an INS agent asking about the authenticity of his and Holly's "marriage," while Bailey grows with discomfort after Will and Holly pretend to act intimate in public. Meanwhile, Adam arrives back in San Francisco and asks Julia to join him and his artist friends living at a camp in Mexico. Kirsten frets about her pregnancy and fear of losing her baby by miscarriage. Claudia lets the "love" word slip to Todd after telling him about a romantic dream about him. A factory foreman, named Mitch, opposes Charlie's assembly-line plan when production gets slowed down due to a shortage of labor. | |||||
| 139 | 21 | "Taboo or Not Taboo" | Matthew Fox | Mimi Schmir & Melissa Rosenberg | April 19, 2000 (2000-04-19) |
| Claudia is tempted by an academic shortcut of plagiarizing a term paper while trying to balance her time between school and seeing Todd. Meanwhile, Will's discomfort grows after he moves in with Holly to continue his and Bailey's charade being married. Justin arrives back in town after having left his wife with ironic timing for Julia who is giving an interview to Phoebe, a young writer researching Julia's life story. Also, Kirsten goes out on the town with Daphne and her free-spirited friends who inspire Kirsten not to be afraid to be spontaneous and take a chance in her life. | |||||
| 140 | 22 | "Falling Forward" | David Dworetzky | Allan Heinberg & Tom Garrigus & Ian Biederman | April 26, 2000 (2000-04-26) |
| Charlie and Bailey decide to increase production of the furniture assembly line sales when a big client offers a generous fee. But Charlie is forced to cut production after Mitch has an accident when he is hospitalized for a heart condition. Meanwhile, Holly gets wind of Will's feelings and growing attraction to her which leads her to think that Bailey's marriage plan was not a good idea after all. Holly leaves to go back to England and Will tells Bailey that he has decided to return to college. A women's magazine offers Julia a column to write and a possible job opportunity while she rekindles and consummates her romance with Justin. After a romantic dinner date between Claudia and Todd at his house, she tells him that she wants him to be the one to take her virginity. Claudia and Todd finally sleep together. | |||||
| 141 | 23 | "All's Well..." | Steve Robman | P.K. Simonds | May 3, 2000 (2000-05-03) |
| Bailey considers moving to Philadelphia to go back to college following Joe's advice, but has some complications when Owen does not want to go with him and Charlie tells Bailey about keeping their parental responsibilities. Meanwhile, Julia ponders a choice to moving to Washington D.C. for a magazine internship and being away from Justin and the rest of the family. Claudia ponders accepting a scholarship to attend Julliard Academy of Music in New York City or staying near Todd in San Francisco. Ross persuades Claudia to take the scholarship and not pass up an opportunity like this. Todd hears about Claudia's scholarship offer and tells her that he too wants her to leave despite that he does love her and it might risk ending their romance. Also, Daphne confides in Charlie about her problems with Luke who wants a job in Texas and leaves no time for her to be with Diana. | |||||
| 142 | 24 | "...That Ends Well" | Ken Topolsky | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | May 3, 2000 (2000-05-03) |
| In the series final, Bailey, Julia and Claudia all announce their plans to leave town for their own individual careers during the weekly family dinner at Salingers Restaurant. But it starts a wave of arguments over ones priorities. Charlie has a surprising revelation of his own when he tells them that he has decided to sell the family house and split the money between them. After thinking about it, the rest of siblings agree and decide to move on and let go of their past for good. Griffin also decides that it's time for him to move out of the Salinger garage and into a place of his own. With everyone leaving town, Charlie makes Luke the new partner in his furniture factory to give him support and to Daphne and little Diana while Charlie and Kirsten, expecting their first child, move into a new house with Owen to start anew. |
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