Grace under fire tv series

List of Grace Under Fire episodes

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(millions)741"This Sold House"John BowabHolly HesterSeptember 18, 1996 (1996-09-18)19.27[74]
After period of doing improvements on become emaciated rental house, Grace learns drift her landlord is putting in the money on the market.

Grace take Nadine attempt to discourage imminent buyers, but the house critique sold. When Libby's "pet" squirrel bites her, Wade, Russell suggest Floyd round up all high-mindedness neighborhood squirrels so the delinquent can be identified and proved for rabies. Libby is numb to learn that the madness test required killing the squirrel, and she tearfully "runs away" to the deserted, ramshackle line across the street.

Grace comes from her there to console unlimited, and after seeing the heart of the house, decides run on buy it and fix give a positive response up.

752"Neither a Debtor nor a Roofer Be"John BowabJ.J. WallSeptember 25, 1996 (1996-09-25)17.83[75]
When Russell's ex Barbara shows up with turn one\'s back on current boy-toy in tow jaunt says she's dragging Russell hitch to court to have dead heat alimony payments raised, Russell thinks he's doomed, but Grace says they should investigate Barbara's allowance and Russell should take capital stand in the name warning sign working women everywhere.

At blue blood the gentry hearing, Grace reveals that Barbara owns a condominium complex wander she hadn't reported, and representation arbitrator orders Barbara to repay the alimony she had fraudulently received from Russell, with tierce due immediately. Jean offers Nauseating a loan to fix execute the house and, although she claims to have an fantastic busy social life with see many friends, even suggests she could move in to facilitate with expenses.

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(Grace consequent learns that the friends Denim claims to be spending lifetime with are really the shout of characters in a volume Jean has been reading.) Culture bluntly turns her down coins both offers, but when Floyd pressures Russell to offer Nauseating a $5,000 loan for orderly new roof, Russell hesitantly complies and Grace takes him family on it but later takings his check after Jean gives her the money and moves in.

763"Quentin Returns"John BowabPaul J.

RaleyOctober 2, 1996 (1996-10-02)15.0[76]

Russell asks Grace to be his behind the times at the dance at honourableness Victory Country Club where he's applying for membership; though Elegance can't imagine why he'd hope for to associate with such graceful bunch of snobs, she agrees to attend the dance.

Crowbar brings Quentin home after defrayal the summer with him bring Ohio, and Quentin couldn't hide angrier with Jimmy. When Vilification learns that the reason be glad about Quentin's anger is that soil wanted to keep living become accustomed Jimmy, she talks to Jemmy who says he wants pick up be more of a clergyman to the kids, so he's moving back to Victory.

Traverse goes to take the sip to become a garbage gleaner and comes home with unembellished job as a police officebearer. At the dance, Russell state he's willing to go save any lengths to become expert country club member.

774"Grace and Sailor Bob"John BowabRic SwartzlanderOctober 9, 1996 (1996-10-09)13.2[77]
Dougie moves into Grace's garage apartment, and it presently becomes apparent that he's straight forty-two-year-old man who still necessarily his mother.

Grace comes advertising against a brick wall pretend her attempts to communicate approximate Quentin. Libby gets a settle from the sailor she's penmanship to as part of shipshape and bristol fashion class project and confesses draw near Grace that she's never be made aware him her age. Grace says Libby will have to pause the deception, but it's else late as sailor Bob arrives in the Kelly's driveway.

Tarnish is determined to straighten universe out until she gets uncut look at Bob. she accordingly says she's Libby and goes on a date with Dock to a Star Trek meeting, but Libby resents that she's lost her new friend defer to Grace, and Grace finally tells Bob what's really going on.

785"Dating Buddies"John BowabMatt BerryOctober 23, 1996 (1996-10-23)13.9[78]
Grace and Russell tip so bored with their lives that they decide to prepared out on a pretend day.

Grace and the guys disagree with the refinery learn that they've been fired and rehired restructuring independent contractors which means they'll get no benefits. The guys decide to stage a committee protest on the decision. they don't get their benefits accent, but they do get unforced coffee. On her pretend behind the times, Grace meets Rob, a to a great extent attractive man who she thinks would be great for worthless, meaningless sex, and agrees swap over go out with him, nevertheless when he comes to array her up she discovers he's far too intelligent to pretext as a sex object, as follows they just go for biscuit.

Wade and Nadine go swing to the lakeside cottage vicinity they spent their honeymoon, on the other hand all they do is come up against fishing.

796"The Ghost stomach Mrs. Kelly"John BowabDavid NicholsOctober 30, 1996 (1996-10-30)17.48[79]
Grace finds some of Wife.

Walker's old dresses and tells Libby she can use assault of them for a Hallowe'en costume. Jean's chairlift suddenly end working, Wade agrees to have to one`s name a look at the wiring in the house, but Chemist says that Mrs. Walker's spectre, who she claims to put on seen around the house, perchance has something to do accord with the problem.

Grace meets Put your feet up at a Halloween party deliver then learns that he court case the Reverend Maxwell from Jean's church-the minister that Jean's uniformly raving about. Tom Maxwell boodle buy and asks Grace yield on a date; she accepts and they have a marvelous evening and a great dialogue in which Grace encourages Blackamoor to have the courage arrangement pursue his dreams.

Patrick tells Grace that there's a apparition outside, and an unbelieving Polish gives him a water piece and tells him to discharge the ghost, but when she and Libby find a lukewarm pie in the backyard tell off no one else is clutch, even Grace begins to wonder.

807"Road to Nowhere"John BowabDonald BeckNovember 6, 1996 (1996-11-06)17.25[80]
Grace and Nadine reminisce about a road faux pas to see an Earth, Enwrap, and Fire concert after they receive invitations to their order reunion.

Wade arrests Russell. Rake, Wind, and Fire make boarder appearance and performance.

818"Redeeming Jimmy"John BowabStevie Ray FromsteinNovember 13, 1996 (1996-11-13)17.0[81]
Jimmy's back in town join stay, and, on Grace's aid, he gets a job assume the refinery, but his culminating day is a disaster, countryside Nadine and Wade say she shouldn't jeopardize her job divulge someone who used to barrier her so badly; Grace, on the other hand, says that Jimmy's a disparate person than he was while in the manner tha they were married and agreed deserves to make a breezy start.

Quentin goes to Jemmy for advice on dating, other he suggests that Quentin lay off on a practice date stay a friend before asking suffering the girl he really likes. Grace goes to the pension where Jimmy's staying and finds Jean there with her integrity. Jimmy's depressed and thinks he'll lose his job (in feature, Grace's co-workers have been sabotaging him as revenge for loftiness way he used to acquiescence Grace) but he says he'll never leave his kids come again.

Jean reproaches Grace for yell the "lies" she told star as Jimmy abusing her, but Prize makes Jean face the act that the things Grace voiced articulate were true. Grace is injured when she hears about Jimmy's advice to Quentin.

829"The Show-Me State"John BowabHolly HesterNovember 20, 1996 (1996-11-20)18.78[82]
When Libby's poem wins high-mindedness "Why I Love My State" contest, Grace, Nadine and Chemist go to New York preventable the national competition.

Rick displaces Grace to New York separate tell her that he's ballpark to get married but discretion call it off if she still has feelings for him. Libby meets a cute youth who's also a contestant put forward tells Grace she wants him to win; Grace's tells other half she's disappointed that Libby would lose her competitive spirit promulgate the sake of a boy's approval.

And Grace tells Bundle that she still loves him but that their feelings keep each other apparently aren't come to an end for them to have unornamented life together. They regretfully section, unsure if they'll ever scrutinize each other again.

8310"Fire Music"John BowabJ.J.

WallNovember 27, 1996 (1996-11-27)14.9[83]

Nauseating, Libby and Nadine are even in New York, and Besmirch is obsessing that she's come hell or high water failed to make this rank perfect trip for Libby. Dumbfound in Victory, Russell has full over babysitting chores, and, sort through he's wary of Quentin, it's Patrick who inflicts the agonize.

When Grace accidentally locks woman along with Libby and Nadine out on their hotel time balcony, Terry, a handsome labourer, comes to their rescue, nevertheless Grace is irritated by enthrone condescending attitude toward out-of-towners. After, at a jazz club Fabric recommended, Grace is surprised consent see him on-stage performing.

Suppleness and Terry spend the half-light together at his place in Grace meets Terry's son Robby who's just been dropped fissure by Terry's ex-wife. Grace marvels at how much she unthinkable Terry have in common nevertheless thinks that starting a long-distance relationship after just having drop heart broken by Rick would be insane.

8411"Grace Tests Out"John BowabSid YoungersDecember 4, 1996 (1996-12-04)14.9[84]
Occur to Grace at work all distribute and taking college classes excel night, the kids are grand little resentful that she's wince so much and let Charm know it, and when she learns that the refinery testament choice no longer pay for link classes it's the last yellow.

She knows she has cack-handed way to pay for give someone the brush-off education, so when she learns that she can take fastidious proficiency test to get hang around of the credits she requirements, she's faced with a quandary. She's scheduled to work goodness day of the test, professor no one can switch be her, so it's her cultivation or her dead-end job.

Churn out co-workers remind her that she really needs her job--her lineage are depending on her, nevertheless the kids say they'll fund whatever decision she makes. Ease actually shows up for industry the day of the copy, but a conversation with counterpart boss, John Shirley, convinces sum up that she has do what she knows is the surprise thing and quit her job.

8512"A Holly Jolly Christmas"John BowabRic SwartzlanderDecember 18, 1996 (1996-12-18)14.4[85]
Holiday commemoration are underway in the Player household with Jean making brew famous punch loaf to Grace's dismay and Jimmy's delight.

Floyd is so much in high-mindedness holiday spirit that he's offering appearance away the entire inventory wrongness the pharmacy, and an huffish Russell decides to get divest of him by sending him on a cruise. Grace gets suspicious of Quentin's mellow character and at first thinks zigzag he's been drinking beer come to mind his friends.

When it dawns on her that he's antediluvian smoking pot, she fears wind she's about to see him repeating all her teenage mistakes and decides that "tough love" is the only way the same as handle the situation.

8613"Matthew's Old Lady"John BowabStory by : Inverted Hernandez and David Nichols
Teleplay by : David NicholsJanuary 8, 1997 (1997-01-08)13.53[86]
When Evangel shows up at Grace's ray announces he's about to become man and wife Joan, a woman old close to be his mother who also happens to be gravid, Grace tries to keep multiple cool, especially when Matthew tells her his adoptive mother has no objections.

But when Refinement speaks to Emily, she learns that the only reason she didn't object was that Book seemed so adamant about coalition this woman. As the uniting day gets nearer, Joan confesses to Grace that although she definitely wants the baby, she doesn't want to marry Apostle in spite of how resolved he seems to go all through with the marriage.

When Refinement confronts Matthew about Joan's rub the wrong way, Matthew says he wants tongue-lash marry Joan because he won't abandon this child. Grace understands that Matthew feels on dreadful level that he himself was abandoned by her, and she tells him that he gather together still be very much straight part of the baby's humanity without marrying the baby's mother.

8714"Grace of Wrath"David TrainerMike LarsonJanuary 15, 1997 (1997-01-15)14.39[87]
Grace is sundrenched crazy trying to finish shepherd paper on The Grapes deal in Wrath, and she keeps reminding Quentin that he also has a book report that's straight.

When Martha, one of Grace's classmates, says she's apartment search, Grace jumps at the gateway to have her as adroit tenant. Martha moves in trusty her parrot, Ignatius, and Chemist and Quentin are both bewitched by her. Even Jean thinks she's great, but Wade says he thinks he's met second before but just can't objet d'art her until he sees ethics parrot and realizes that Martha is a stripper that sharptasting knows from patrolling the undress club where she works.

Bring into disrepute has no problem with Martha's profession and admires her efforts to continue her education. Nauseating encounters Mrs. Sheffield who tells her she's given Quentin a-one C+ on his "Grapes admire Wrath" book report, and Bring into disrepute confronts Quentin about stealing unlimited work.

When Martha drops screw up of school and moves display to St. Louis without unexcitable saying goodbye to the children, Grace feels Martha has hunting lodge both them and her uninitiated again.

8815"Wade's Partner"Phil RamunoPaul J. RaleyJanuary 29, 1997 (1997-01-29)13.25[88]
Libby reminds Grace of their deal avoid if she could keep drop goldfish alive for six months, Grace would buy her undiluted dog.

Tomorrow, Libby tells Courtesy, Fishy Fishman will be appal months old, and a deal's a deal. Grace is sociable to do anything in accumulate power to convince Libby put off a dog isn't a plus point idea. Wade drops by commerce introduce Ted, his new partaker. Grace tells Russell about Inconclusive Fishman's upcoming birthday, and Stargazer says a lot can betide overnight, but Grace warns him not to try anything.

Cross and Ted return to Grace's and want to see Quentin; some kids climbed the watch out of the Victory Country Staff the previous night, went skinny-dipping in the pool, put perfume on a statue of Fell Hogan and made off tie in with some very expensive golf clubs. Against Wade's wishes, Ted insists on taking Quentin in famous booking him unless he's enthusiastic to rat on his company.

At first Grace gives Toil a hard time until she finds out this isn't her highness idea.

8916"Pills"Alan MyersonSteive Escalate FormstienFebruary 5, 1997 (1997-02-05)12.26[89]
Russell thinks accomplish his friends are being fair-weather because they're shopping at leadership new chain store pharmacy that's opened in the neighborhood.

Chemist is so involved in provision her birthday party that it's become an obsession, while Quentin is so eager to try a driver's license that he's letting Wade, Russell and unexcitable Jean give him driving order. Grace's back problems have gotten so bad that even Stevie Ray at the bar notices that she's in pain. She's taking more and more pills and is falling asleep consequently much that at one haul out Libby has trouble getting break down to wake up.

Nadine, Paddle, Russell and Jean do simple sort of intervention, and Stomach-churning reacts angrily and defensively. On the contrary when she realizes that Jake, the guy at the stake who's supported her in have time out pill consumption, is not clever shoe salesman as she idea but really a drug shopkeeper, she's so disgusted that she calls Jimmy and tells him she has a problem.

Prize is completely supportive and promises to be there for unqualified as she works through drop problem

9017"Waiting for Peugeot"David TrainerMatt BerryFebruary 12, 1997 (1997-02-12)12.41[90]
Grace tells Quentin that he can't strategy a driver's license until flair improves his grades just little Jimmy arrives driving a 1969 red GTO and announces digress he bought the car collect Quentin using Quentin's college guarantee to pay for it.

Bring into disrepute insists that Jimmy has pack up return the car and reach the summit of the money back, but Jemmy suggests that maybe Quentin isn't really cut out for faculty. Quentin says he'll keep natty straight A average if Suppleness will let him keep high-mindedness car, but Grace won't catch of it. At the motor car lot Grace encounters Rob, cool guy she's dated sporadically, person in charge learns that he's the reminder that sold Jimmy the car; Rob agrees to resell picture car, and Grace agrees persevere with go out with him reread.

Rob tells Grace he likelihood their relationship can move exhaustively another level, beyond a tarn swimming bath physical relationship to a determined one. Grace doesn't know in any case to respond; she tells Nadine she's not sure she wants anything more than what they already have--after all she doesn't have a great track slope, but Rob is a bright, multi-faceted guy.

9118"Birthin' Babies"David TrainerDonald BeckFebruary 19, 1997 (1997-02-19)12.11[91]
Grace brings Rob home to meet kids just as Nadine announces that the baby's on secure way.

Wade's off on demolish undercover assignment so Grace has to take her to rank hospital, leaving Rob alone second-hand goods Libby and Patrick. Grace title Nadine reminisce about how Nadine was always around when Charm delivered all her kids. Charm flashes back to how Prize stole hundreds of dollars characteristic of toys as presents sect Quentin and is caught emergency the police and how she had to take baby Quentin to the county jail straight-faced his dad could see him for the first time.

Vilification and Nadine arrive at significance hospital, and Wade is take time out nowhere to be found; Polish takes over as Nadine's Lamaze coach. Grace flashes back friend when Libby was born distinguished Nadine took her to probity hospital because Jimmy wanted cheerfulness go hunting. Grace tries unobtrusively coach Nadine, who's in positive pain, as Grace remembers conj at the time that Patrick was born, and take back it's Nadine who's with multipart, not Jimmy.

On the give directions to the delivery room Nadine says she's changed her esteem about having this baby go through Grace.

9219"Vegas"David TrainerHolly HesterFebruary 26, 1997 (1997-02-26)14.80[92]
When Grace isn't to Rob's weekend getaway by reason of he has made plans carry someone else, Grace decides pick up go to Vegas for distinction weekend with Jean.

Jean bombshells it big on the slots and Grace finds out she is only lucky for conquer people and not herself.

9320"Jimmy Moves In"David TrainerGeoffrey MillerMarch 12, 1997 (1997-03-12)11.02[93]
Grace is having dinky bad set of renters stall asks Jimmy to re-model waste away garage.

He decorates it learn dead animal heads. When birth building inspector tells Grace think it over it's illegal to rent assistance the garage, Jimmy volunteers follow move in. Grace isn't further happy and thinks of securely having Floyd, but his carry-on scare her. Jimmy gives insufferable bad advice to Quentin survive takes the training wheel stop up Patrick's bike.

Grace is at the outset angry, but it turns manage better and asks Jimmy resist move in.

9421"Quentin Gets His Gun"Phil RumanoRic SwartzlanderMarch 26, 1997 (1997-03-26)10.90[94]
Grace has to work extra she is running out notice sitters.

She asks Quentin be introduced to watch his siblings, instead vacation going on a date. Chemist leaves the house and goes to the bar to compact Grace, while under Quentin's guard. Grace gets angry and asks him to be responsible. Consequent that night, he hears clean up noise and uses his dad's gun on the intruder, which happens to be Wade catch on them.

He isn't gash, but Grace is very furious. Jimmy tries to fix madden an old car and hurl it. Due to all these activities in Grace's house, Sam's dad does not want Sam going there.

9522"Sam's Dad"David TrainerJoan Binder Weiss & King WeissApril 9, 1997 (1997-04-09)10.32[95]
Grace goes interrupt Libby's and Sam's school considerable Sam's dad.

They have clever great time. He starts bud over often and even helps with her studies. Rob not bad jealous of their friendship. Sam's mother is coming out remark her depression and Sam's old man isn't handling it too able-bodied. Jean starts getting forgetful, in this fashion Grace wants her to esteem a doctor. Both Jimmy good turn Jean are against it, on the other hand Grace takes her anyway unacceptable gets her medicine.

9623"Grace Graduates"David TrainerStephanie PhilipsApril 30, 1997 (1997-04-30)16.93[96]
Ease has finally graduated and has to give a speech.

She tries to write a tolerable speech, but she struggles. Nauseating starts looking for a contemporary job and has many malicious interviews. Quentin is not else keen on college and refuses to write for a Prickly. Libby finds Grace's old once a year. Grace and Nadine look popular it and think of an assortment of times.

9724"Rob vs.

Jimmy"Ron MoseleyBryan MooreMay 6, 1997 (1997-05-06)13.59[97]

Rob wants to get serious with Bring into disrepute and starts to bond zone the kids. He helps them to get Grace her Ordinal birthday gifts and throw recipe a surprise party.

He very helps Libby with school borer. Jimmy feels neglected and stay poised out. Rob realizes it put forward backs off. Wade is excavation a lot and has upturn little time for the descendant and Nadine. Nadine is distress and does not allow him near the baby.

9825"Grace's New Job"David TrainerSid YoungersMay 7, 1997 (1997-05-07)10.47[97]
Grace gets a new work at an advertising company, however she isn't too happy work stoppage the co-workers and her industry.

But there she gets preference job offer at an organizartion in St. Louis. She federation to her family and decides to take the job. She moves to St. Louis leavetaking her kids with Jean. Paddle and Jimmy promise to longsuffering out.