Al Bundy is a misanthropic women's shoe salesman with a miserable life. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dimwitted and promiscuous.
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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Unaired Pilot
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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
Original Air Date—5 April 1987
In the very first episode of this widely successful, ribald sitcom, Al Bundy has a chance of getting front row seats to the basketball game, but Peggy makes him stay home and meet their new yuppie neighbors, Marcy and Steve Rhodes.
Next US airings:
Sat. Apr. 10 5:30 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 2: Thinnergy
Original Air Date—12 April 1987
Marcy introduces Peg to a new energetic diet to improve her marriage. Al, meanwhile, wants to part of it but learns if he tries the diet, he can persuade Peg to quit. He must then swallow his pride and admit to Peggy he loves her no matter what.
Next US airings:
Sat. Apr. 10 6:00 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 3: But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy
Original Air Date—19 April 1987
There has been a rash of burglaries in the area, and the Rhodes' house is robbed and Al's car stereo is ripped off, both families seek alternatives: Steve and Marcy buy a guard dog that won't stop barking, and Al purchases a fire arm. One fateful night, the two methods of home defense butt heads, and it's not a pretty picture.
Next US airings:
Sun. Apr. 11 5:00 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 4: Whose Room Is It Anyway?
Original Air Date—26 April 1987
Steve and Marcy plan to add a new room onto their house using their tax refund money. Al convinces Steve to make it into a billiards room while Peggy convinces Marcy to make it into an exercise room, which leads to an all-out battle of the sexes to see who will win.
Next US airings:
Mon. Apr. 12 5:00 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 5: Have You Driven a Ford Lately
Original Air Date—3 May 1987
Al and Steve buy a beat up Ford Mustang off of one of Kelly's boyfriends. Soon they form a tight friendship while fixing it up like new. The only problem is they are neglecting their wives now that they spend every free minute with the car. Marcy gets to experience something in the backseat of the Mustang that she has always wanted to do and when Al finds out about it, he won't let her forget it.
Next US airings:
Sun. Apr. 11 5:30 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 6: Sixteen Years and What Do You Get
Original Air Date—10 May 1987
It's the Bundys' 16th wedding anniversary. Al plans to buy Peggy a very fancy watch, but unfortunately, his credit card gets declined. Dare he show up at the party without a present?
Next US airings:
Sat. Apr. 10 6:30 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 7: Married... Without Children
Original Air Date—17 May 1987
Steve and Marcy decide that once is enough after they volunteer to watch Kelly, Bud, and the family dog Buck, after Al and Peggy go away for the weekend to a seedy motel in Wisconsin where Al wants to watch a boxing match on the cable TV system.
Next US airings:
Mon. Apr. 12 6:30 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 8: The Poker Game
Original Air Date—24 May 1987
Al takes Steve one evening to watch a poker game with his poker playing friends. Steve gets the feel of the game and sits in for one of the men, but he ends up losing his paycheck to Al. From then on, Steve tries to avoid Marcy to avoid telling her the truth about losing their mortgage payment money while Al plans to use his $300 winnings to buy a new fishing rod.
Season 1, Episode 9: Peggy Sue Got Work
Original Air Date—31 May 1987
To get the money to purchase a new VCR that Al won't buy her, Peggy takes a job in a department store of selling clocks, which takes the "fun" out of the Bundy marriage as a result of her absence, and Kelly and Bud getting stuck with Al for the evenings.
Next US airings:
Mon. Apr. 12 6:00 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 10: Al Loses His Cherry
Original Air Date—7 June 1987
Al gets a first-hand look at Luke's swinging bachelor life when he takes refuge at Luke's apartment after work rather than return home to finish an argument with Peggy over visiting her relatives for the weekend. Luke invites two women over at his place where one of them, an attractive but dim-witted airplane stewardess, temps Al.
Next US airings:
Mon. Apr. 12 5:30 AM TBS
Season 1, Episode 11: Nightmare on Al's Street
Original Air Date—14 June 1987
While Steve is out of town for the week on business, Marcy starts having dreams involving a romance-minded Al which turns her dreams into nightmares, and turns off her sexual urges, prompting her to look into the source of her nightmares, while a clueless Steve asks Al for advice on Marcy's sudden lack of sexual needs.
Season 1, Episode 12: Where's the Boss?
Original Air Date—21 June 1987
Season 1, Episode 13: Johnny Be Gone
Original Air Date—28 June 1987
Personal problems and crises delay Al and Peggy's departure to the going out of business party of their favorite hamburger joint, "Johnny Be Goods," which range from Kelly being stood up from going to a party, Bud wanting to finish a remote-controlled car for a model car festival, to Marcy stranded at the Bundys wearing only a towel after staining her dress.
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