The following is an episode list for the American television sitcomWings, which ran on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997, with a total of 172 episodes produced, spanning eight seasons.
In the series premiere, Joe Hackett gets a message that his late father planned a scavenger hunt for an old suitcase of his. However, it also requires Joe to reconnect with his estranged younger brother Brian, who ran off with Joe's ex-fiancée Carol six years earlier.
Fay encourages a retired pilot to complete his trip around the world. Brian encourages Helen to wear something more revealing for an upcoming audition.
In order to get Helen to break her vow that she does not date pilots, Brian hires an actor (Craig Bierko) to play the role of a charming pilot who asks Helen out.
Brian schemes to get Helen an audition for a very famous conductor (David Ogden Stiers), who tells her she's terrible. Helen decides to give up the cello gaining a new level of peace, until she is thrown for a loop when the conductor concludes that with considerable effort she could show promise.
Fay keeps inviting Roy to group events despite how much the group dislikes him. Roy asks for help from Joe on how to be a nice guy and tries to make friends with the gang by joining them in a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit. Unfortunately, Lowell is his partner.
Joe holds a bachelor party for Jerry Stark, a guy he can't remember going to high school with despite Jerry claiming Joe is his oldest and best friend. No one else on the island seems to know Jerry until the party's exotic dancer turns out to be his long lost love, suddenly putting the whole wedding in disarray. When Joe admits to the man that he cannot remember him, he thinks Joe is a great practical joker.
Helen has received a birthday package from her parents which includes some old home movies. Joe and Brian compete to see who gets Helen a more expensive birthday gift. Brian gives Helen a CD player and makes Joe jealous. After arguing about the gift, Joe gives Helen his mother’s cameo pin. Helen realizes the significance while watching her home movies after he leaves. Subplot: Fay helps Lowell with his budget.
Brian is roped into dating a policewoman to get her to drop charges on his unpaid parking tickets. Unfortunately she's not his type and is very vindictive. Subplot: Lowell tries to capture something funny on his video camera for "America's Wackiest Videos."
Joe is grounded due to hypertension with the unreliable Brian his only option for keeping the airline running. When Brian quits and Joe can't afford a new pilot Sandpiper's future seems in doubt. Guest star: Robert Colbert.
Brian hires high school student Kenny McElvey (Michael Manasseri) as a backup pilot for the still-grounded Joe. Joe and Helen decide to go on their first date and try to keep it from Brian. Joe and Helen decide they may be better as friends.
Roy's son R.J. (Abraham Benrubi) takes cello lessons from Helen. Roy agrees to pay for the lessons after he thinks R.J. is "hot for teacher," but the truth is R.J. is gay. An enraged Roy then challenges R.J. to a one-on-one basketball match in which R.J. is not allowed to be gay if he loses.
After Helen asks to learn how to fly, Joe starts a flight school. Helen, annoyed with Joe's classroom ways, takes Brian up on his offer to let her fly the Sandpiper plane, despite her being unlicensed. When turbulence knocks Brian out Joe has to talk Helen through the landing. After the landing Joe and Helen realize life is too short and decide to start dating.
Joe has to take care of Helen when she gets her wisdom teeth pulled out. Unfortunately for Joe, her appointment falls on the same day as a gathering based around a much anticipated college basketball game and Helen's TV is in the shop.
Brian's upset because Fay beat him at tennis. Meanwhile, Roy tries to mess with Helen's mind by claiming that one of his male pilots is actually female, and Joe accidentally destroys Lowell's beloved Graf Zeppelin model.
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"My Brother's Back and There's Going to Be Trouble"
Joe is hospitalized for back trouble and leaves his normally overly detailed schedule for Brian to manage Sandpiper. Brian disregards Joe's schedule and runs the airline his own way. All his schemes suddenly go off the rails when the plane goes missing.
Joe and Brian think they spotted a UFO but Joe is reluctant to report it to the FAA for fear of Sandpiper becoming a joke. Meanwhile, Helen and Fay squabble over a lunch bill.
After a disastrous start to Valentine's Day, Joe and Helen agree to meet at their special place. Unfortunately, they each have a different idea as to where that is. First appearance of Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci, portraying a waiter.
Joe and Helen want to spend time alone together, but Brian keeps interrupting them. After they kick him out of the house, Brian meets Gwen, a very spontaneous woman who convinces Brian to marry her... while jumping out of an airplane. Joe and Helen try to talk them out of it only to find they're no match for Gwen.
Brian dates young pilot Kenny's mother. Knowing Brian's ways with women, Kenny isn't thrilled. Subplot: Joe is paranoid that Helen is keeping a secret from him after she finds the name of an ex in his little black book.
Joe and Brian’s estranged mother returns to reconnect with her sons. Brian is thrilled but Joe feigns apathy to hide his anger for having to be the responsible one of the Hackett household.
When Brian sees a woman who looks like Fay on a TV show about escaped fugitives (hosted by Maury Povich) he's convinced Fay is the killer and is trying to murder him.
Helen gets a music job with the Maine symphony orchestra forcing her and Joe to talk about their future. Joe and Helen have a messy fight and break up after neither is able to commit to changing their life for the other. When the symphony job falls through, Helen leaves for New York City.
After struggling in New York for ten months and resorting to waiting tables at a strip joint, Helen relents and wishes to return to Nantucket. Joe and Brian bring her back, but Joe does not mention that he has a new girlfriend, Gail, even though he and Helen had already broken up. Helen reacts to the news by driving her Jeep Wrangler through Joe's office.
Joe sues Helen for running into his office. However, not even small-claims court can change Helen's anger. Tony Shalhoub joins the cast permanently as Antonio Scarpacci, former restaurant waiter who now is a cab driver.
Joe doesn't like it when Helen becomes friends with his new girlfriend Gail. In a subplot, Roy tries to sneak aboard Air Force One when President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush are visiting Nantucket so he can bolster his political credibility. Fay also tries to sneak aboard so she can shake hands with Barbara Bush in order to keep her streak of touching every President's wife ever since Eleanor Roosevelt gave Fay a pat on the head when she was a little girl. Gail breaks up with Joe and ends her friendship with Helen when she sees the both of them having a messy fight, clearly not over each other but not ready to rekindle their romance. As Joe mopes about no one else having a worse day than him, a news report shows Roy getting arrested for trespassing on Air Force One.
With the airport fogged in, Brian entertains the gang with his hypnosis act and gets Roy to confess his deepest, darkest secret: he stole $250,000 from an old man at a local Norwegian restaurant and buried it in his backyard. As everyone excitedly digs up Roy's backyard, Brian wonders how effective his hypnosis was.
Roy and Brian trick Joe into coming with them to a timeshare lecture in South Carolina, to which both Brian and Roy assure Joe that they know how to finesse these hucksters and can use it for free golf, but a rainstorm ruins their plan. Subplot: Antonio plays the only song he knows on guitar ("Michael, Row the Boat Ashore") over and over, entertaining the passengers, but annoying Helen.
Antonio's visa is not renewed and his deportment to Italy is imminent. Helen offers to marry Antonio so he can remain in the United States. (Part 1 of a two-part episode.)
Helen learns that she will get arrested for matrimony fraud if she divorces Antonio before three years have elapsed, unless he wins a green card in a lottery. Antonio is ambiguous about whether or not he won, suggesting he has genuine feelings for Helen. (Part 2 of a two-part episode.)
Fay is upset when Joe declines to give her a raise, citing budget cutbacks. But when Joe appears with expensive sheep-lined bomber jackets for him and Brian, Fay is outraged and quits. Joe has to eat several slices of humble pie to convince Fay of their partnership. Note: This episode shows a flashback of how Joe met Fay when she was a stewardess, and they decided to start Sandpiper Air.
Joe and Brian's childhood home is due to be demolished after a severe storm condemns it. At first they're upset, but then they can't really recall many happy memories of being there.
Joe announces Sandpiper will give a plane ticket anywhere to whoever makes the biggest donation to charity by a specific deadline. Cranky Carlton Blanchard (William Hickey) wins by donating $10,000. The catch is Carlton wants to fly cross-country to reunite with his estranged brother, and along the way, annoys everyone on the plane. Furthermore, Carlton has a dull memory, as he cannot recall whether his brother lives in Rock Springs, Wyoming or Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Helen wants a new goal in life and takes an aptitude test. When the results are in, the gang intercepts the letter and sees her best skills are food service and musician. In order to avoid the forthcoming guilt, anger and depression from her, Brian falsifies the paper, which prompts Helen to aspire to become a stand-up comedienne. Guest appearance by Oliver North as himself.
Joe, Brian, Helen and Lowell try out a video dating service and compare notes to each other's experiences. Brian gets matched up with a pushy trader (Peri Gilpin), Helen gets matched up with a local waiter who conscripts Helen into his work, Joe gets matched up with a ventriloquist who will not talk but her dummy has a crush on Joe, and Lowell gets matched up with an ordinary woman, but his idea of a fun date is to take her on a ride on the forklift.
Brian gets a large tax refund and treats himself to an expensive vacation in Barbuda. When he learns the refund was in error and the IRS is demanding the money back, he is subject to a tirade from responsible Joe, who advised him to save the refund instead. Brian gets a second job as a security guard at a bank to earn the money. In the subplot, "Responsible Joe" seems to only be so in financial matters, as he is taking a girl he is dating to Fenway Park for an opening dayRed Sox game despite the fact that Helen paid for the tickets when she was dating Joe. This is one of the few episodes where the subplot and main plot collide.
Joe is reunited with his old baseball coach Snyder (Brian Doyle-Murray) who touts his new star pitcher Ty Warner (Matthew Fox) who is poised to break Joe's longstanding record at Siasconset High School for the most strikeouts. This causes Joe to feel both anger and jealousy at his age and station in life.
When a female helicopter pilot, Alex Lambert (Farrah Forke) moves to the island, Joe and Brian compete to impress her. Subplot: Lowell invites Antonio to join him and his friends for their Tuesday night rat shoot at the local dump, and is upset when Antonio shoots more rats than he does.
Brian sinks Lowell's houseboat, so he lets Lowell stay with him and Joe. When Lowell proves to be a surprisingly adept chef, Joe and Brian wonder whether they should hide Lowell's insurance check.
Shannon Moss (Teri Austin), a woman Brian is obsessed with comes back to the island, and Brian can't seem to say no to her, even though she stands him up several times.
Joe mortgages his house to buy Helen a new cello so she can audition for a string quartet. Subplot: Fay, Lowell, Roy and Antonio rehearse for a community theatre play titled "Phantom of the Oprah".
After Helen agrees to a date with a sensitive guy she just met, Joe and Brian try to be more sensitive to get to Alex. Subplot: Lowell wants a nickname.
Lowell has a hard time accepting that a long-time mechanic friend of his, Weeb Gilroy, has died. Subplot: Joe and Brian have to keep an already sleepless Helen awake for another 18 hours after she suffers a concussion.
When Sandy Cooper (Valerie Mahaffey), an old high school classmate, returns to Nantucket, Joe fears she's still obsessed with him. Subplot: Antonio tries to sell some of his personal items to raise money for his family back in Italy.
It's Christmas, and Lowell's ex-wife Bunny shows up and ends up sleeping with Antonio. Subplots: Brian is skeptical about meeting Alex's family and Fay becomes overbearing in preparing for the annual holiday party.
Antonio chauffeurs Carlton Blanchard (William Hickey) around the island for extra money. Carlton's equally irritating nephew Lewis (Gilbert Gottfried) also visits the island.
Dan Mattay (Jack Ging), Joe and Brian's mean-spirited football coach from Siasconset High, returns to Nantucket as the school is dedicating the gymnasium in his honor. As revenge for all his insults and torture, Joe and Brian sneak into Coach Mattay's hotel room in the middle of the night and dress him up in drag as a prank, unaware that he just died in his sleep.
Danny (Charles Rocket), an old friend of Brian's, shows up, and they relive some wild times, much to Alex's dismay. Lowell takes in his idol, an over-the-hill television superhero (Robert Ridgely), who takes advantage of his hospitality.
Davis proposes to Helen, but Joe still has feelings for her. Subplot: Brian tries to win Alex back. Ray Charles makes a cameo appearance in the teaser. This was Farrah Forke's final appearance as a cast regular; she would make a guest appearance in the following season.
Joe takes Brian to see a psychiatrist (George Plimpton), but he ends up treating Joe instead. Subplot: Lowell goes on a search for his favorite hat that Antonio lost.
After his therapist pronounces him fully recovered from his break-up with Alex, Brian plunges back into the dating world. His efforts at the Club Car yield nothing of interest (despite Antonio's assistance with the "Good Cop, Bad Cop" routine), so he follows the advice of others and starts dating casual friend Joan. That elusive "spark" that is missing from their first three dates finally comes to life when Brian breaks up with her. Meanwhile, Lowell prepares a commencement speech address for his alma mater and Casey has trouble getting a good haircut.
After receiving $20,000 from his family's trust fund, Lowell invests the money in an old wax museum. Despite everyone's doubts about it, Lowell renovates the museum and renames it "Lowell Mather's House O' Wax", but at the lackluster grand reopening, he comes to realize that running the museum won't be easy. When fire ravages the museum, Lowell is determined to start again from scratch, but after realizing that the museum has fire insurance, he's just thankful to get his money back.
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"Is That a Ten Foot Sandwich or Are You Just Glad to See Me?"
Joe and Helen just want some time alone with one and another, but Brian and Casey continually interrupt them. To apologize, Brian and Casey decide to surprise them with an engagement party, but Antonio misinterprets an overheard conversation and believes Brian to be sleeping with Casey. When she hears about it, Helen drags Joe to the party site well before they are expected.
Lovesick Antonio finally works up the nerve to ask Casey on a date, but before he's able to, he must earn some money to pay his back taxes. Antonio ends up working as a chauffeur to a successful businessman (Jonathan Frakes) who also has his eye on Casey. However, when this man has the attitude of "what goes onboard ship stays onboard ship", both Antonio and Casey are forced to look to themselves for who they really are: Antonio about how integrity and honor vs. success and money, and Casey for seeing more to men than their ability to take care of a wife.
Brian's attractive ninth-grade teacher Laurie Jenkins (Peggy Lipton) shows up, and he goes out with her. Although Joe and Lowell are thrilled that Brian is "hot for teacher", he cannot get over the fact she is an older woman who once taught him. TV legend Soupy Sales makes a cameo appearance in the teaser as a "Simon Says" competitor who courts Roy's mother.
Helen and Casey's mother Dee Dee (Debbie Reynolds) comes to the island to help plan the wedding. Subplots include Fay and Roy splitting a ticket to see Barbra Streisand, and Brian and Lowell compete to see who can eat more of Dee Dee's food.
When Sandpiper is losing business to Aeromass, Brian tries a celebrity endorsement by hiring an ex-astronaut (Robert Culp), but the guy turns out to be even more obnoxious than Roy. Despite his private bluster, the astronaut's excellent public image is helping Sandpiper business, but can they bank on it?
When an air traffic controller (Dann Florek) finds out Antonio ate his donut, he holds the entire airport hostage on Christmas Eve, with Antonio at gunpoint in the control tower. In getting to know the man, he admits he was on edge because his wife was committing adultery, but the gang soon learns Antonio was the one she was having the fling with.
Sandy Cooper (Valerie Mahaffey) is back on the island, and Joe tries again to get anyone to believe she's obsessed with him. Subplot: Fay gives Antonio her third husband's wardrobe, which makes Antonio the butt of 1970s jokes.
Fay sets Joe and Helen up with another married couple whom they love, but they get a little too clingy with the other couple. Subplots: Antonio assists Lowell after he injures his hands working on Antonio's taxi, and Brian and Casey try out a new singles place in Boston.
Joe and Helen crash a wedding to see how much things will cost, and end up getting into a fight which spills over onto the bride and groom. Subplot: Lowell and Antonio train for a Polar Bears water jump competition.
Joe has to wait for blood test results to come back to find out whether or not he's the boy's father. The waiting game is tense for all as Brian has to deal with his ex-girlfriend having a fling with Joe, which also goes over poorly with Helen. Although Joe was not dating Helen when this happened, the fact he may have a son is a trust issue for their upcoming wedding.
Fay retires and Casey takes her place behind the ticket counter, proving to be adept at the job. When Fay returns wanting her job back, Sandpiper runs into human resource problems.
Brian appears on a popular woman's talk show hosted by Mary Pat Lee (Caroline Aaron), but it turns out to be a trap set up by his ex-girlfriend Alex (Farrah Forke in a guest appearance).
Casey gets interested in the sculptures Lowell makes out of old plane parts, and wants him to make a career of it. Subplot: Brian takes a prank snapshot which ends up in the wrong hands.
Cranky Carlton Blanchard is at death's door, and everyone goes to his house to set what they can buy from his greedy nephew. The kids from The Brady Bunch Movie make a cameo appearance when Helen dreams she is Marcia.
Helen realizes she never sent in the paperwork to divorce her and Antonio. So she enlists the help of Brian to fly her and Antonio to Mexico to get a divorce before Joe finds out. Subplot: Lowell refuses to rest despite his obvious signs of illness.
Antonio plays host to his cousin, who is engaged to a beautiful woman. Subplot: Joe and Helen receive their first wedding gifts, but the ones from Helen's side are better than those from Joe's side.
Joe and Helen are finally set to get married, except for a few minor setbacks, such as Joe dropping Helen's wedding ring in the toilet and getting his hand stuck, and Brian picking up the wrong size tuxedos. This was Thomas Haden Church's last appearance as a cast regular, having made one final appearance in the next season.
Joe and Helen return from their honeymoon in Jamaica to discover that their house burned down. Joe tries to find the root cause, but when he learns it was Brian (who unknowingly threw Casey's clothes too close to the fireplace hearth while having sex with her), he fires Brian from Sandpiper and disowns him. Subplot: Antonio hopes for one more shot at winning Casey's heart.
While digging through the remains of Helen's house, Brian discovers the old suitcase their late father left them and tries to use it to make up with Joe. Joe is extremely reluctant, until he is visited by his father's ghost (Don Murray), who uses reverse psychology to get Joe to reconcile with Brian. Subplots: Helen has her own method of revenge on Casey and Antonio exacts his revenge on both Casey and Brian.
Sandpiper is chartered by Eleanor Kingsbury (Marian Seldes) to fly to Miami to retrieve the body of her late father Harrison, Nantucket's richest man, for his funeral service. While in Miami, Joe and Brian live it up and party, but when a buzzed Joe picks up the wrong corpse the next day, he must become the replacement corpse until Kingsbury's body can be found and switched. At the funeral, Joe overhears shocking evidence of the actual cause of Kingsbury's death.
When Lowell witnesses a mob hit, he must decide whether or not to enter the Witness Protection Program, struggling with the issue of leaving his friends behind forever versus letting a guilty man run free and hurt again should Lowell not testify in court. This was Thomas Haden Church's final appearance on the show.
Joe and Brian set up Antonio with a fabulous woman, only to later discover that she is a call girl. Subplot: When Casey shows drawing talent, Roy shows her a manuscript to a children's book he wrote, asking if she would illustrate it.
Joe and Helen engage a famous architect to build their new home. Subplot: Brian must find out why Budd, Lowell's replacement, is having bad flashbacks of his days in the Marine Corps.
Brian feels left out now that Joe's married, so he starts to overeat. Subplots include Casey applying for a job as a tour guide and Antonio buying a valuable (and painful) pair of Italian leather shoes.
Joe and Brian reunite with whom they think is their grandfather (Pat Hingle), but is actually an old roommate of their dad's from the mental hospital. Subplot: Antonio throws away a chain letter as superstitious garbage and bad fortune follows.
Roy is celebrating his leap year birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese-style restaurant, and Helen invites his estranged gay son R.J., who has recently finished law school. Roy seems glad to see R.J., but R.J. does not mention he also brought along his boyfriend Luke (Tim Bagley). Meanwhile, Joe becomes frustrated in his attempts to win Helen a stuffed bear from the restaurant's Claw machine.
Fay plans to marry a man she met on a cruise, until she finds out his is the same as her late husbands: George. Subplot: A bedridden Joe expects Helen to baby him.
When Antonio runs the ticket desk for Joe and Brian, a star from the Boston Bruins misses his flight due to being late and Antonio selling the player's seat to a woman with a standby ticket. This soon ruins Sandpiper's business reputation, even making its way into a Tonight Show joke (Jay Leno in a cameo).
Brian falls in love with Melissa Williams (Ally Walker), a woman who's just about to get married. Roy acts like he is going out with Edna so that Antonio falls back in love with Edna.
In flashbacks explaining the continuation of "Whose Wife is it Anyway", Helen shows that she never got the chance to inform Davis Lynch the wedding was off, as during the engagement party he was rushed off to Burma in wake of a military coup to salvage his major investments. Once there he had been taken hostage and only now is released, and is coming to Nantucket to marry Helen. She tries to find a way to end the engagement while doing so behind Joe's back.
Sandy Cooper (Valerie Mahaffey) is back in town and Joe tries, yet again, to prove to Helen just how nuts she is. But it is he who ends up in the psychologist's chair. Roy, Fay, Antonio and Casey fear that the tuna they had for lunch may be tainted.
Casey is in danger of losing her job, so she tries to create a sister city for Nantucket. Brian unknowingly slept with the wife of the leader of Kiranon. In a rare example where the subplot collides with the main plot, Joe is becoming increasingly angry with other men who pay attention to Helen.
Casey's ex-husband Stuart (John Ritter) shows up with news that he is bankrupt. Roy teaches Antonio how to dance, and they enter a contest on a cruise ship.
Joe and Helen burn Brian's house down and he expects to get a big check like they did. But the insurance investigator thinks Joe, Helen, Brian and Casey are conspiring to commit insurance fraud. Antonio manages to woo the woman and get a room at the Century Inn, where she leaves an unextinguished cigarette lying around.
When Joe and Helen meet their new neighbors Steve and Barbara, they think they are great at first until Steve asks Joe to bail him out of $5,000 of gambling debts and Barbara bluntly accuses Helen of sleeping with Steve. Now scared of these two, Joe and Helen must find a way to avoid them, even going so far as to break into their own dark house. Subplot: Antonio receives his recently deceased Uncle Bernardo's personal belongings, which include perfumed love letters written to Gina Lollobrigida.
On Halloween, the gang convinces a man who is separated from his wife to stop being so focused on work and spend time with her. Little do they realize that he is a medical courier, and he left a cooler with one of his deliveries at the airport.
Casey suggests that Brian uses his insurance check to open a martini bar with her as the manager. However, when a customer (Stuttering John) suffers an accident on Brian's property, Casey says she neglected to have Brian's bar insured.
A financial crisis forces Joe to seek out an investor. When businessman Edgar Clayton comes to the island, Joe thinks it's his lucky day. But Clayton informs Joe he doesn't invest in businesses, he buys them. With no other choice, Joe sells. Joe and Brian are glad that with Clayton's backing they got their plane out of repossession and are up and running, until Clayton says now his slacker son Cord is the new president of Sandpiper.
The first act that new Sandpiper president Cord Clayton does is hold a meeting telling everyone they need a big idea. After learning that Roy cannot break into the market of charter flights, Cord proposes making Sandpiper an exclusive charter service, and has Joe and Brian fly a pair of bickering mother-daughter country music singers. When the tour fails, Cord tries fleeing, only for Joe and Helen to tell him he must be a man and face his father at a business meeting in New York.
Cord returns but becomes nervous during a presentation before his father's board of directors and leaves, leaving Joe and Brian to continue. Helen overhears one of Clayton's young hotshots saying that he recommended Cord for the presidency of Sandpiper in order for him to run Sandpiper into the ground, which Clayton could use as a tax write off. Clayton takes the news badly but, at Cord's behest, allows Joe to run Sandpiper to him and agrees to stay on as a silent investor.
Another odd Christmas hits Nantucket as Antonio drives a nun around the island who's in search of a vision she saw in a dream, Joe and Brian try to defuse a long-standing feud between two elderly brothers, and Fay, Helen and Casey get trapped in the basement of the department store where Casey works.
Roy falls in love with talk show host Mary Pat Lee (Caroline Aaron), but discovers she's using information he gave her to ambush Joe and Helen on her show. Subplot: Brian pays Casey to run errands for him.
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"Hosed"
Leonard R. Garner Jr.
Story by : Christopher Vane and Art Baer & Ben Joelson Teleplay by : Christopher Vane
Joe and Helen deal with a crooked vacuum cleaner salesman who charges them for a vacuum cleaner that had an eternal guarantee. Subplot: Brian comes up with a scheme to date Roy's niece.
Joe and Brian return home after vacationing in Las Vegas, during which Joe gets food poisoning after eating at a cheap casino breakfast buffet. When the flight's pilots also get food poisoning, Brian lands the plane safely and is hailed by the media as the "Angel of Flight 28". Brian's newfound fame is taking up all his time and overloading Joe at Sandpiper. Cameo appearance by Steve Young playing himself as one of Flight 28's passengers.
Fay holds a yard sale to help clear all of the clutter from her house. After selling goods that belonged to her three late husbands, Fay begins to be visited by their ghosts. However, Fay is also asked out by a man she met at the yard sale who tells her he values the memories of his relatives more so than the gifts they gave him.
Brian and Helen go to New York to see the Broadway musical Rent, but their trip turns into a nightmare when Helen loses all her money in a card game. Cameo appearance by Calvert DeForest.
Brian and Casey are kicked out of Joe and Helen's place, so they rent a house of their own with help from Antonio as they know he's spending all his time at his new girlfriend's house and won't be there. When Antonio and his girlfriend break up, however, they find themselves all living together. Subplot: Helen and Joe are blackmailed by some teenagers who have pictures of them doing various things around their house in the nude. Guest Starring Sibel Ergener.
Brian falls for someone after reading love letters mistakenly sent to the old occupant of the house. Antonio installs a home security system for Joe and Helen.
Roy invites Joe and Helen over to his house to meet his mother (Rose Marie) and tells her that Helen is his girlfriend and Joe's the help. Subplot: Casey catches Brian's cold before a date.
Brian's surprised to find out his girlfriend Emily Palmer (Shannon Tweed), has son is in college, named Shawn (Christopher Wiehl). Further complications happen when Casey starts dating Shawn. Joe and Roy try to overcome a fear of the circus.
Joe enters a boxing tournament to beat an old rival. Things turn unusual when the rival is injured and the replacement contender turns out to be Brian.
To cheer up Helen, Joe restores her cello. While she rediscovers her passion for music, the rest of the gang hunts for money that Joe and Brian's father left them. They eventually find it and now have $250,000. Joe and Brian each have different plans for the money; Joe wants to expand Sandpiper while Brian wants to leave Nantucket. In the end, Joe and Helen move to Vienna for a year so that Helen can study cello with a famous conductor, while Brian agrees to run Sandpiper while Joe is away. Fay will continue on at Sandpiper (and is given a small ownership stake as a reward for her dedicated service), and it's strongly implied that Casey will run the lunch counter in Helen's absence.
Home releases
All eight seasons of this series have been released on DVD.[175]
