Love, Sidney

Oct 28, 1981

Laurie and Patti move back in with Sidney when Laurie's marriage fails.

Nov 4, 1981

The trio are in danger of eviction when the building goes condo and the new rules limit occupancy to one family per unit.

Nov 11, 1981

Nov 18, 1981

Dec 2, 1981

Laurie's estranged parents come visit, and she learns that her father never told her mother about her many letters.

Dec 9, 1981

Dec 16, 1981

Patti takes up the violin, an interest that plays on the nerves of Sidney and Laurie—until they learn that her teacher is virtuoso Itzhak Perlman.

Dec 30, 1981

Sidney sits in on a seance and asks to speak to his late mother Yetta.

Jan 6, 1982

Jan 13, 1982

Laurie's boss goes after Sidney.

Jan 20, 1982

Feb 3, 1982

Feb 10, 1982

Laurie considers marrying her new boyfriend.

Feb 17, 1982

Feb 24, 1982

Laurie tries to cure Patti and Sidney of their dog phobia.

Mar 3, 1982

Mar 17, 1982

A fire damages the apartment.

Mar 31, 1982

Apr 7, 1982

Jun 16, 1982

Sep 8, 1982

Laurie's bringing Patti to an anti-nuclear protest rally doesn't sit well with Sidney.

Sep 15, 1982

Patti's biological father wants Patti to know the truth about him -- but Laurie doesn't.

Oct 2, 1982

Oct 9, 1982

Sidney is racked with guilt when Patti lapses into a coma after falling from a swingset he built.

Oct 16, 1982

Oct 23, 1982

Oct 30, 1982

It's the ninth anniversary of the day Sidney and Laurie first met.

Nov 6, 1982

Nov 13, 1982

Nov 27, 1982

Sidney tries to help a teenage prostitute get off the streets. (Part 1 of 2)

Dec 4, 1982

Dec 11, 1982

Sidney's visiting uncle Mort is no longer the good man Sidney remembers.

Dec 18, 1982

Sidney worries about the stress Patti's undergoing because of her strict ballet teacher.

Mar 28, 1983

Laurie's soap character undergoes a sex change and when Laurie begins using Sidney as inspiration for her work, he demands editorial rights.

Apr 4, 1983

Patti auditions for a commercial.

Apr 11, 1983

Sidney and Patti are temporarily blinded by an accident during a repair of her dollhouse.

Apr 18, 1983

Sidney shocks a rabbi friend when he mentions he never had a bar mitzvah.

Apr 25, 1983

Laurie's birthday has her feeling old, so she goes on a date with a 21-year-old.

May 2, 1983

Laurie enters Sidney's old paintings in an exhibition.

May 23, 1983

May 16, 1983

May 16, 1983

Sidney's fling with a female co-worker just doesn't work out. Guess Why?

May 30, 1983

Sidney rescues a suicidal gay man, then is trapped into being his friend.

Jun 6, 1983

An opera star agrees to perform at Patti's birthday party, mercifully replacing Sidney's terrible clown act.