A new school year brings boredom, bullies, and romantic mix-ups.

A cheerleader befriends Carol solely to meet Mike.

Ben has been calling an X-rated phone service.

Fired Mike hides the truth from his parents.

Carol spreads rumors about herself and a "hunk".

A con man sells Mike a "magic" rock.

A proposed school dress code puts Maggie and Jason at odds.

Ben invites a street girl home for the holidays.

Grounded liar Mike hears Maggie fibbing to her boss.

Carol has the chance to skip a high-school grade.

A girl raises a grade for Mike, then demands payment.

The winter formal causes opposite problems for Carol and Mike.

Maggie's quarreling parents come to visit the Seavers.

Mike and his friends go to a college party and have to decide whether to use drugs or not.

Mike plays Cupid for smitten Ben and his baby sitter.

Carol wants to use radio-contest winnings on a nose job.

Maggie's busy schedule leaves Ben feeling neglected.

A genealogy assignment unearths a dark family secret.

Airlines passengers Jason and Mike must deliver a baby.

Maggie wants Jason to fire the elderly handyman he hired to fix the furnace, but he refuses because the man is a friend.

Jason knows the editor offering Maggie a dream job is a notorious womanizer.