"Classic AW CD 50:21"

TRACK 1

December 1968

• Russ has been waiting up for Rachel who abruptly ran from the house earlier while in the middle of a discussion about getting their own place and having a family. She arrives home and issues Russ an ultimatum. The argument continues.
• Alice tells Pat that Lee spoke to her in a way that suggests she may still be in love with Sam.
• Mary/Russ.
• Steve/Rachel.
• Sam and Lahoma drive up in a car in front of John's house, where they encounter Lee, which causes Lahoma to erupt in a small fit of jealousy.
• Ada/Ernie.
• Lahoma/Mrs. Gilhooly.
• Ernie on the phone with Dru.
• After Mrs. Gilhooly leaves, Sam and Lahoma discuss the incident in front of John's house involving Lee and Sam tries to reassure the ever-doubtful (with good reason) Lahoma of his love for her, not Lee.
• Mary/Rachel.
• Sam/Mrs. Gilhooly.
• Rachel is ambivalent toward the invitation Ernie is extending to her and Russ for the housewarming.
• Pat, babysitting for Ricky, tries to interest Rachel in him and then is mystified when in a discussion about getting an apartment, Rachel tells her there is "no hurry about it."
• Pat/John/Dru.
• Sam/Rachel.
• Ada gets Ernie to admit that he arranged the housewarming purposely as a device to get Rachel to visit them.
• Sam and Rachel quarrel when he demands she attend the party and criticizes her treatment of Ada and Ernie.
• Top 40 Music.

TRACK 2

• Lahoma arrives in need of an urgent discussion with Lee about accepting Sam's proposal.
• Liz/Fred/Rachel.
• Lahoma and Lee discuss Lahoma's acceptance of Sam's marriage proposal and she poignantly asks Lee what she can possibly say to ease Lee's pain, to which Lee has a very noble response. A most beautiful scene!
• Fred/Steve.
• Liz is not especially pleased when Rachel laughs at her old photos of Russ and Bill as children and tells her that an outsider couldn't possibly appreciate them. Then she politely but haughtily rebuffs Rachel when she expresses interest in assisting Liz with her charity work and fundraising.
• A dejected Rachel, determined to "show" Liz, goes to Steve pretending to be a part of the fundraising committee, but he sees through her. But feeling that they come from similar backgrounds, he relates to her need to prove herself to people like Liz and agrees to help her successfully solicit money.
• Missy/Bill/Liz. NOTE: This is one of two episodes where Clarke experiments with a peculiar vibrating element added to the music he plays during the show.
• Rachel/Mary.
• Liz/Missy/Bill. Scene particulars unknown.
• Mary/Jim/Rachel.
• Mary and Alice watch television after dinner.
• Russ tells Rachel he has set up an appointment with Dr. Clater, much to her dismay.
• Rachel goes into the bathroom to avoid Russ, with whom she is annoyed over his making a doctor's appointment for her.
• Mary/Alice.
• Jim suggests to Russ that perhaps if he and Rachel had a small place of their own, it might change a lot of her attitude, especially about a family.
• Lenore and Walter have just returned from the tropics and are surprised to get a visit from Rachel.
• Rachel/Dr. Clater.
• Walter/Lenore.
• Mary/Russ/Rachel.
• Alice/Russ.
• Missy/Bill/Lee.
• Liz 's big mouth gets her in trouble with Bill once again over her remarks about Sam in front of Lee.
• Mary/Jim/Dru/Russ. Mary is getting ready to serve dinner in a warm, charming, domestic scene with a strong undercurrent of sadness running through it over Russ and Rachel's difficulties.
• Mary, Jim, and Dru finish their meal.
• Mary and Jim arrive at Pat and John's for a visit and game of cards, where they encounter Steve.
• Pat/John/Mary/Jim/Steve.
• Pat/John/Mary/Jim. The card game concludes.
• Russ frantically chases down the stairs after Rachel when she flees from the house in the middle of a discussion. Dru intercedes.
• More annoying Top 40 music, some played at high speed.