After a hard day's work collecting garbage, Roc Emerson looks forward to relaxing at home with his family. Instead he...

While Roc and Joey attend a baseball game, their father, visits Franke, an old friend who is dying at a local hospita...

Roc encounters trouble when he arranges a romantic evening with Eleanor.

When Roc learns that Leon, a veteran garbage collector, is being forced to retire, Roc tries to comfort the old man. ...

When unemployed trumpet player Joey can't pay his gambling debts, he begs his older brother for a thousand-dollar loa...

Jealous when one of Eleanor's patients gives her flowers and a diamond necklace, Roc agrees to let him propose to tes...

Andrew's reunion with his younger brother Russell throws the Emerson household into chaos when Russell announces that...

Roc is promoted to Crew Supervisor, a big step on his way toward an executive position. While Eleanor, looks forward ...

When nurse Eleanor invites co-worker Nadine Randall home for dinner, an immediate love-hate relationship develops bet...

While Roc looks forward to a reunion with several of his old army buddies, Andrew aims to enjoy a Sixties party at th...

Arguing the Emersons need a larger home, Joey suggests that they attend a bank auction that is selling homes with def...

After nurse Eleanor helps to deliver twin babies at the hospital, she once again wants to discuss the subject of chil...

After suffering the embarrassment of submitting a sperm sample to Dr. Martin, Roc learns that while his sperm count i...

Roc and Joey are shocked when their elderly father, Andrew, meets a beautiful young woman named Celia Miller at the n...

Roc and Eleanor prepare to go to Washington D.C. for the weddig of Eleanor's cousin. Before the wedding, Eleanor's mo...

Reverend Hill suggests that Joey Emerson, an unemployed musician, give trumpet lessons to some of the congregation's ...

Roc 's boss Stan had a brief sexual encounter with a woman at a sanitation convention. Now Stan's wife Connie has thr...

Roc hopes his union's decision to strike against the city will only last a few days. When the strike enters week thre...

When Joey, Andrew and Roc offer a meal to a pregnant homeless woman, Linda, who suddenly goes into labor in the middl...

Roc is proud to be chosen by his boss, Mr. Samuels, to supervise a new sanitation trainee. But when he discovers that...

When a gang of drug dealers move into a nearby house, Roc and Elenor try to organize their neighbors into a non-viole...

After an evening of satisfying sex, retired railroad porter Andrew Emerson discovers that the woman lying next to him...

When Joey Emerson wins a huge bet on a horse race, his bookmaker, Mickey, can't pay cash. Instead, Mickey offers Joey...

When temperamental trumpet player Kenny Davis quits his job with the famous Les McCann Band, fellow band member Billy...

When Eleanor wakes screaming from a nightmare, the rest of the family try to calm her by confessing the horrors of th...