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#1  JOE
While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and decides not to return to Minneapolis.
gs: Bill Zuckert (Nolan Arthur) Todd Turquand (Donnie Gerard) Richard Reicheg (airport guard) Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards)
w: w: David Davis & Lorenzo Music d: Robert Moore


#2  You Can Go Home Again
Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.
gs: Wes Stern (Lenny Fiedler)
w: Pat Nardo & Gloria Banta d: Robert Moore


#3  I'll Be Loving You, Sometimes
Rhoda's smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides it might be best if the two of them begin dating other people as well as each other.
gs: Todd Turquand (Donnie Gerard) Howard Hesseman (Kirk Stevens)
w: Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore d: Alan Rafkin


#4  Parents' Day
Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.
gs: Bella Bruck (Neighbor) Paula Victor (Ruth Maginness) Robert Alda (Paul Gerard) Norman Bartold (maitre d')
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore


#5  The Lady in Red
Rhoda lands a job with a small publishing firm and ends up delivering the eulogy at the funeral of an author whose specialty was X-rated books.
gs: Louise Latham (Louise Shattner) Robert Moore (Mr. Graham) James Burrows (agent) Byron Webster (funeral director) Bill Smillie (minister) Helen Winston (woman) Loretta Fury (clerk)
w: Gail Parent d: Robert Moore


#6  Pop Goes the Question
Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of "Will you marry me?" it's "How about living together?"
gs: Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) Tom Atkins (Vic Rhodes)
w: Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore d: Robert Moore


#7  The Shower
Unable to think of just the right gift to get Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and uses the occasion to stage a small reunion for Rhoda with some of her old high school classmates.
gs: Linda Lavin (Linda Monroe) Beverly Sanders (Susan Alborn) Barbara Sharma (Myrna Morgenstern) Millie Slavin (Jeanette Lamont) Phyllis Glick (Ellen) Florida Friebus (Harriet)
w: Gail Parent d: Robert Moore


#8  Rhoda's Wedding (Part 1)
Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends.
gs: Cloris Leachman (Phyllis Lindstrom) Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) Gavin MacLeod (Murray Slaughter) Edward Asner (Lou Grant) Georgia Engel (Georgette Franklin)
w: James L. Brooks & Allan Burns, David Davis d: Robert Moore


#9  Rhoda's Wedding (Part 2)
Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up.
gs: Cloris Leachman (Phyllis Lindstom) Georgia Engel (Georgette Franklin) Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) Gavin MacLeod (Murray Slaughter) Edward Asner (Lou Grant) Paula Victor (Mrs. Gerard) Bella Bruck (neighbor) Bernard Barrow (Judge) James L. Brooks (subway passenger *uncredited)


#10  Honeymoon
Rhoda and Joe's cruise doesn't turn out the way they expected.
gs: Charles Lane (Mr. Fosner) Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Fosner) Richard Masur (Nick Lobo) Burt Mustin (sleeping man) Arthur Space (doctor) Alfonso Williams (bartender)
w: Pat Nardo & Gloria Banta d: Alan Rafkin


#11  "9-E" Is Available
Rhoda wants a new apartment, especially after an old beau of Joe's lets herself in with a key.
gs: Wes Stern (Lenny Fiedler) Pamela Bellwood (Jill Martin) Richard Romanus (Luis Alvarez) Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini (Luis's girl)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore 

#12  Anything Wrong?
Joe goes to his father for marital advise.
gs: Robert Alda (Paul Gerard) Sharon Spelman (Rachel) Martin Kove (Gary) Al Stevenson (Stan)
w: Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher d: Robert Moore


#13  I'm a Little Late, Folks
Rhoda thinks she may be pregnant, but she isn't sure enough to tell her husband Joe, especially when he comes home with the news that his business is facing economic troubles.
gs: Beverly Sanders (Susan Alborn) Cara Williams (Mae) Maidie Norman (nurse)
Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore d: Robert Moore


#14  'S Wonderful
Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.
gs: Barry Brown (Jimmy Klein) Pat Sturges (waitress)
w: Marilyn Suzanne Miller d: Robert Moore


#15  Good-Bye Charlie
It's a case of mutual dislike at first sight when Rhoda meets Joe's friend Charlie Burke, a patronizing "man's man" who is not exactly thrilled with his best buddies wife.
gs: George Loros (Julie) Candy Azzara (Alice Barth) Joel Lawrence (Mike) Richard Schaal (Charlie Burke)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore


#16  Guess What I Got You for the Holidays
With his business on the verge of failure, Joe becomes ever increasingly worried, resisting Rhoda's advice to free his emotions, even if it means crying.
gs: Scoey Mitchell (Justin Culp) Cara Williams (Mae) Joseph Sirola (Charlie Curran)
w: Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher d: Robert Moore


#17  Whattaya Think It's There For?
At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.
gs: Scoey Mitchell (Justin Culp) Cara Williams (Mae)
w: Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher d: Jerry Belson


#18  Not Made for Each Other
Rhoda's shy, retiring high-school chum, Myrna Morgenstern, shows up unexpectedly to demonstrate her new, Rhoda-like, head-on approach to life, and she begins a tumultuous non-romance with Joe's best friend.
gs: Wes Stern (Lenny Fiedler) Barbara Sharma (Myrna Morgenstern) Richard Schaal (Charlie Burke)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore


#19  Strained Interlude
Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple, free of all jealousies and hang-ups until a man Rhoda once loved asks her out for dinner.
gs: Candy Azzara (Alice Barth) Allen Garfield (David Bloom)
w: Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher d: Robert Moore


#20  Everything I Have Is Yours, Almost
When Rhoda discovers Joe has been visiting a doctor without telling her, she begins to worry, but not as much as when she finds out what kind of doctor he is.
gs: Scoey Mitchell (Justin Culp)


#21  Chest Pains
Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.
gs: John Ritter (Vince Mazuma) Norman Fell (Dr. Henry Gerber) Julie Mannix (nurse)
w: Coleman Mitchell & Geoffrey Neigher d: Robert Moore

#22  Windows By Rhoda
Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.
gs: Will Mackenzie (Mr. Pennick) Louis Guss (Leo) Harryette Warren (saleslady) Barbara Sharma (Myrna Morgenstern)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore


#23  A Nice Warm Rut
Brenda decides to break out of her "nice, warm rut" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.
gs: Scoey Mitchell (Justin Culp)
w: Marilyn Suzanne Miller d: Robert Moore


#24  Ida, the Elf
Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a "now" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.
gs: Frank Campanella (Mickey) Barbara Sharma (Myrna Morgenstern)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore


#25  Along Comes Mary
Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.
gs: Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) Scoey Mitchell (Justin Culp) Candy Azzara (Alice Barth)
w: Charlotte Brown d: Robert Moore