Gimme a Break! - Season 3 (1983)

Officer Simpson catches Joey Donovan, an abandoned seven-year-old boy, trying to bilk people out of their money.

When the social worker comes to pick up Joey, Nell tells her he ran away.

The new mayor of Glenlawn takes an interest in Nell.

Nell sets the Chief up with a woman who, unknown to her, is a male-to-female transsexual.

Nell's friend (and sometimes rival) Addy Wilson, a Phi Beta Kappa, comes to town.

Nell and the Kaniskys try to persuade the recently widowed Grandpa to come and live with them.

Nell's plans to give Joey a Christmas with the family meet with resistance, they've all made plans.

Samantha believes the world is coming to an end.

Upset because her ex has remarried, Nell goes out with the girls and runs into the other lover of her life.

The Chief puts his whole family (and Nell) in the lock-up after they join Samantha in protesting the planned destruction of an old Spanish mission.

Nell recalls how she met the girls' mother, Margaret Kanisky, and how she gave up a singing career to take care of them when Margaret revealed that was terminally ill.

Nell undergoes hypnosis to recall the location of a missing ring, but the side effects are unexpected.

Nell arranges some Valentine's Day dates for the family; all of them end in disaster.

Nell and Addy win a trip to New York City on "Wheel of Fortune."

When Nell and Addy arrive in New York City, they take a carry-on bag from a man at the airport they think belongs to Nell. It actually belongs to the man from whom they stole it and the contents get them in a lot of trouble.

After getting caught in the rain with Joey at the rodeo, Grandpa is hospitalized with severe pneumonia.

Nell is upset when she learns that Katie would rather open a business than go to college.

Grandpa attends a dance at a senior citizen's center.

The final tests stand in the way of Nell and Katie each receiving their high school diplomas.