Just the Ten of Us

- Season 2

(1988)

Coach Lubbock fumes over a note passed in his classroom that may shed light on a late-night rendezvous one of his daughters had with a boy.

To help out with the family, Marie, Cindy, Wendy, and Connie go out and find part-time jobs. But only two daughters succeed.

Nobody believes in Elizabeth's conversation with God until a tree crashes through her bedroom window--where Graham would have been had she not forced him and the kids to have early-morning prayers outside with her.

Before the girls can go on date, they have to bring them to the house for what is known as the dinner test. Wherein the Coach tries to make sure that their date is OK. And so far no one passes. And when one of them has a date with guy who is sure to fail, they find a guy who seems like the kind of guy who could pass the test. So they introduce him as the date and bring him for the test.

When the fence railing was broken and placed back together poorly Coach decides to have what is known as "Coach's Court" to find out. He learns that it began when one of his boxers made obscene remarks toward Marie and J.R. got in his face telling him to knock it off. That's when the girls go see him and when he does it again Marie slugs him.

Wendy steals Elizabeth's ID, and Cindy steals Marie's, to sneak into an exclusive dance club. Meanwhile, Marie tutors--and falls for--the nephew of Father Hargis whom Coach has never met. Then Cindy's club date shows asking for "Marie."

Graham tries to keep it a secret that he's going into the hospital for hemorrhoid surgery. But when the girls get wind of his hospital stay, they assume he's dying-and they spread the news of his failing health to everyone at St. Augie's.

Graham's plans to buy Elizabeth an organ change when the transmission goes out on the family station wagon. Frustrated, he decides to sell the car, unaware that the girls have raised the money on their own to fix the transmission.

JR tries out for the St. Augustine track team, only to be beaten by Wendy.

Connie finds herself getting writer's block when asked to submit to the school's literary journal. Once she gets published, Father Hargis recalls it thinking it is pornography.

Graham tells Wendy she's a genius, then Sherry finds out that's not the first time a Lubbock was told that lie.

Wendy, Cindy, Connie, and Marie start singing as The Lubbock Babes, but try not to tell Graham.

Wendy gets suspended from school, but her time off is no vacation.

Father Hargis brings a young man from Spain to the Lubbocks, whom he hopes will join the school. He hopes seeing the Lubbock girls will entice him. They all think he doesn't speak English but he can but continues to let them think so. And all four girls make a move on him by getting someone who speaks Spanish to tell him they like him.

The girls accidentally push Father Hargis's car into the school pool, then decide whether to confess or cover it up.

Graham directs a school play, but reviewer Connie thinks the play is as dead as its salesman.

Marie goes to the dance without a date, and meets a boy named Russell. Her sisters urge her to cut off him, deeming him a "dog,"

Cindy goes for a spot on the campus radio station. Despite much disbelief from others, Cindy gets the job on her merit, only to hear that her father was supposed to "get her the job."

Coach teaches the girls about not playing when there's no grass on the field. A very special episode.

As the Lubbock sisters take to the stage to sing once more in the local pizzeria, they each daydream about where their singing might one day take them.