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Step by Step

Comedy, Family · 1991 · Rated 7/10

Last aired: S7 E19, Movin' on Up · 1998-06-26

Frank Lambert is a construction worker and a single father of 3 kids: J.T., Alicia "Al", and Brendan. Carol Foster, a beautician, also has 3 children: Dana, Karen, and Mark. After Frank and Carol run into each other on vacation and spontaneously get married, they and their children (who appeared to have known and hated each other) have to learn to live together and love each other. It's not easy, but they are trying to do this step by step.

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Season 7

Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7
E1 Making the Grade 1997-09-19 · 30 min It's the first day of school for Lilly and Karen starts college. Carol is bored so she decides to go to college and enrols in the same classes as Karen, to her embarrassment. Dana dumps Rich over his lackadaisical attitude to school.
E2 A Star Is Born 1997-09-26 · 30 min A movie company is coming to Port Washington and all the Lambert girls try out for a role in the movie. However, only one can get the part. Carol is baking cookies for Lilly's class's bake sale, when it suddenly becomes competitive.
E3 Your Cheatin' Heart 1997-10-03 · 30 min Frank and Carol are going through a bedroom drought and, no matter what they do, they keep getting interrupted. Rich acts mysteriously and Karen is convinced he is cheating on Dana. Karen and Al follow him to find out what he is doing.
E4 Take This Job and ... 1997-10-10 · 30 min JT is having trouble keeping a job when he pressures Sam into getting a position for him at her garage. As payment for a patio job he did, Frank accepts a boat in lieu. Carol is not happy when she sees the piece of junk that it is.
E5 Poetic Justice 1997-10-17 · 30 min Karen flirts with a new teaching assistant and Dana believes it is the reason why Karen is getting better grades than her. Mark starts dating an out-of-control punk girl, and Frank and Carol believe that she is leading him astray.
E6 Can't Buy Me Love 1997-10-24 · 30 min Karen is trying to get into the Delta Theta Zeta sorority and is going to their pledge dinner. Dana is also invited. Frank's business is very slow when they hear that an old friend of Carol's is about to start building a big hotel.
E7 Dream Lover 1997-10-31 · 30 min It's Halloween and the kids are all ready for a party, which they have in old neighbouring house. JT and Sam are having relationship troubles and break up. Meanwhile, Lilly is having her first Halloween party in the Lambert house.
E8 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 1997-11-07 · 30 min An old friend of Rich's, who is a girl, returns to Port Washington. Dana becomes concerned and a little jealous when Rich seems to have a lot more fun with her. Frank's cousin is passing through town and calls in, to Frank's chagrin.
E9 Goodbye, Mr. Chip 1997-12-05 · 30 min Carol advises Karen's boyfriend Chip to get a backbone, but he goes too far when he breaks up with Karen.
E10 Too Many Santas 1997-12-19 · 30 min When Lilly recognises JT as Santa in the mall she becomes disillusioned and decides she no longer believes in Santa. Frank and Carol decide to convince her that she is wrong. At the same time, JT tries to make up with Sam.
E11 Phoney Business 1998-01-09 · 30 min Al is hired to star in what she has been told is a commercial for suntan lotion. But the commercial is for a phone sex hotline instead! After Al clears the air to her confused family about what they just saw on TV, she recruits J.T. to confront the sneaky producer about the commercial.
E12 Goin' to the Chapel 1998-01-16 · 30 min JT takes up aerobics to impress the instructor but it turns out much more difficult than he thought it would be. When Carol is upset at finding Dana and Rich together in his place, Dana angrily decides that she and Rich will elope.
E13 Feet of Clay 1998-01-23 · 30 min Dana is looking for something that she and Rich can do together. They decide to do pottery at the local community college. Frank and Carol start spicing heat up their marriage with role-playing games, which leads to a misunderstanding.
E14 Pain in the Class 1998-01-30 · 30 min Frank doesn't want to go his school's 25th reunion because one guy continually outdid him. JT and Rich want to watch a bikini contest on TV with a group of friends but this starts to go wrong when JT also has to mind Lilly.
E15 The Half Monty 1998-02-27 · 30 min J.T. and Rich need money to take the girls on a ski trip, so they decide to make some quick money as male strippers. Carol and Frank are asked to share their marriage secrets with a group at their church.
E16 And Justice for Some 1998-06-05 · 30 min Frank and JT swap seats at a basketball game. JT wins a pickup truck for being in the lucky seat, which Frank thinks that he should have. When Karen and Al see a very handsome officer speaking at a women's seminar, they fight over him.
E17 The Understudy 1998-06-12 · 30 min Al is cast as an understudy in an upcoming community theater production, but - believing she deserved a larger role - refuses to learn her lines. This makes for huge problems when the star falls ill, and Al takes the stage grossly under-prepared.
E18 We're in the Money 1998-06-19 · 30 min Just as Karen is musing that nothing ever happens, Cody returns from his overseas trip after two years, bringing with him gifts for the family. For Frank and Carol he has a cheque for $50 000, which starts a disagreement on how to spend it.
E19 Movin' on Up 1998-06-26 · 30 min Frank's good work results in him being offered an expensive house at cost. Everybody is happy about the move except Lilly, who reacts by getting into trouble up at school. It turns out that she is not the only one not wanting to move.

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