One Day at a Time - Season 9 (1983)

A plan to collaborate on the writing of children's stories drives Julie and Max into a bitter feud over Max's potential as a writer.

With Sam off on a business trip with an ex-girl friend, Ann's imagination gets the better of her.

A weekend watching little Annie for Max and Julie has Barbara longing to have her own baby, and she begins considering the option of adoption.

Barbara, still wanting to have a child, continues to consider adoption.

While on a trip Barbara finds herself a new job.

Ann has the holiday blues, believing she and Sam will be alone on Christmas, but Sam plans to surprise her with a Caribbean cruise.

Sam's late night disappearance has the family convinced he's been kidnapped until Ann learns he's kept his old apartment.

It's Grandma Romano's birthday, but no one feels like celebrating when Julie leaves Max a Dear John letter.

Francine goes behind Ann's back to talk Sam into designing an elaborate office suite that's too grandiose for Ann's taste.

On Schneider's fiftieth birthday he is visited by a face from the past.

Barbara loses charge of her household when Grandma Romano moves in with her own set of rules, menus, meal schedules and a collection of cuckoo clocks.

Ann and Francine's business relationship is threatened when Francine announces she's marrying an ad executive Ann doesn't trust.

An Italian priest arrives unexpectedly at the Royers, claiming to be a distant relative of Grandma Romano.

Mark's friend's jokes are going too far so Barbara decides to teach them a lesson.

After six years of not smoking, Sam lights up. But when he tries to quit, he finds his willpower has gone up in smoke.

Schneider gets a new lease on life after he's accidentally electrocuted, then revived, a hair raising experience in which he claims he died and came back to life.

Working with her brother-in-law sparks something between him and Barbara.

Ann receives an offer to be in charge of a marketing enterprise in England. She's concerned for family & friends and also worries about taking this big step that would change her life.

When his brother dies, Schneider decides to move there to take care of his niece and nephew. It's hard, but then Ann, Barbara and Julie are all gone and thus the series ends. Schneider will be taking life himself "One Day at a Time."