Agony

Mar 11, 1979

Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

Mar 18, 1979

Jane tries to get use to being alone and to deal with the reactions from an avid press and an overwrought mother.

Mar 25, 1979

Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.

Apr 8, 1979

Laurence's interest in another woman at the hospital where he works prompts him to suggest that he and Jane have an open marriage agreement.

Apr 15, 1979

Jane tries to balance Laurence's demands for attention with Michael and Rob's need for her to mediate a quarrel.

Apr 29, 1979

Jane celebrates her birthday by taking the advice she's been giving to another woman; she leaves Laurence.

Apr 13, 1980

Jane returns from vacation and decides to start dating again, but sees Laurence on a tape at a video-dating service talking about how much he loves his wife.

Apr 20, 1980

Val threatens to moonlight in one of Vincent Fish's erotic films when Diana refuses to give her a raise.

Apr 27, 1980

Michael appears anonymously on Jane's radio show to answer questions about the homosexual lifestyle, but Junior's blunder exposes his identity with devastating consequences.

May 4, 1980

Jane tries another medium when she makes a television pilot that goes completely off course.

May 11, 1980

Jane helps Rob explain his homosexuality to his parents and advises her mother about a smitten Junior Truscombe.

May 18, 1980

A religiously reformed Andy Evol returns and both he and Jane return to Happening Radio when Junior falls ill.

May 25, 1980

Jane is taken hostage during her radio show by a reader unhappy with her advice.

Jan 18, 1981

Jane encounters a broad range of opposition when she decides to stop working and be a full time wife and mother.

Jan 25, 1981

Jane and Laurence wait for their baby while attending a baby care class run by a strange woman and trying to help Michael deal with a fight with Rob.

Feb 1, 1981

Jane continues helping people from her hospital bed as a black nurse faces the anger of her superior and Val runs off with Andy Evol.

Feb 8, 1981

Jane's investigation into group therapy uncovers a problem in her marriage and in that of Val and Andy.

Feb 15, 1981

Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.

Feb 22, 1981

Jane and Laurence grow farther apart when their baby is kidnapped by a disturbed man.

Mar 1, 1981

Laurence tries to win Jane back and she throws a New Year's Eve party that promises to change many people's lives.