In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
Timmy seeks help for Janice who is trapped in an abandoned well; and Desmond and Manny duel over Viva.
Richard offers Janice a job. Viva eases Desmond into another year. A challenge accompanies Carol Anne's new son.
At a black-tie affair honoring Janice's boyfriend, Norris falls victim to Janice's mother's boyfriend.
Carol Anne gets a death threat, but the woman hired to guard her body is more interested in Desmond's. Janice has a Weldon executive over for dinner.
Carol Anne has all the luck because Janice ignores Edda's lucky lima bean. Meanwhile, advertised female wrestling packs the bar.
The rumor mill grinds Edda and Janice while Weldon and Desmond take a commemorative hike. Carol Anne looks for work.
Carol Anne creates one really great page for her diary after Norris turns his bar into a cabaret, where he discovers a rising talent.
Child-parent relationships are strained between Edda and Janice as well as Desmond and his visiting mum.
Carol Anne organizes a high-school reunion, where Janice is reunited with her senior-prom date.
Janice is romanced by a traveling salesman. Norris buys his way into a band. A man who won't take no for an answer asks Carol Anne to dance.
A voodooist and an olfactory psychic are only two of the steps taken by Carol Anne to locate Tom who is sought not only by his spouse.
Janice and Edda are living at Weldon's mansion until their tornado-ravaged trailer is fixed. Meanwhile, Carol Anne mourns her missing spouse.
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
Pamela Reed , Bonnie Hunt , John Neville
Tom Werner
Carsey-Werner Company ,
as Janice Pasetti
as Carol Anne Smithson
