Gimme a Break!

John Hoyt

Stanley Kanisky

Joey Lawrence

Joey Donovan

Telma Hopkins

Addy Wilson

Lara Jill Miller

Sam Kanisky

Matthew Lawrence

Matthew Donovan

Paul Sand

Marty

Rosie O'Donnell

Maggie O'Brien

Rosetta LeNoire

Maybelle Harper

Seasons

Season 1

19 episodes

Premiered Oct 29, 1981

Season 2

22 episodes

Premiered Oct 2, 1982

Season 3

22 episodes

Premiered Sep 29, 1983

Season 4

25 episodes

Premiered Sep 29, 1984

Season 5

24 episodes

Premiered Sep 14, 1985

Season 6

25 episodes

Premiered Sep 24, 1986

Episodes

1–6 of 19

Ep 1

Katie the Crook

Oct 29, 1981

In the series premiere, Samantha comes home with a black eye, and Nell teaches her a few skills on how to fight. Julie an her friend are studying on where babies come from, and as the cheif comes home, he walks into the kitchen to find them kissing. Simpson then arrives at the house with Katie, who was picked up for shoplifting, but wasn't arrested. Katie has been actin like this because of the recnt death of Margaret, her mother, and the cheif and her make amends in the end.

Ep 2

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Nov 5, 1981

Nell and Angie go to a bar to meet guys. However, Nell gets sad that she isn't admired by any of the men. She then goes home and the Chief decides to fix her up with one of his officers. What he doesn't know is that the officer is just doing the Cheif a favor so he can get a better job position. The Cheif throws the man out and tells Nell what happened when she comes out ready for her date. Nell realizes he wasn't interested in her because she is overweight. Angie then shows up and invites Nell out and she accepts, even after being rejected by the officer.

Ep 3

The Second Time Around

Nov 12, 1981

A woman accidently hits the cheifs police car, because her contact lense came out as a moth sat on her face. When she meets the cheif to tell him how sorry she was for smashing into his car, she realizes the two went to Franklin High together, and she was a cheerleader, while the cheif was a professional football player. The two hit it off, and begin dating, and Samantha is sad because she doesnt want a step-mom. In the end, when Marion wants to sleep with the cheif, he hastily rushes out of her apartment and knew he could not go trough with it because of his love for his dead wife Margaret. However, Nell tells him thathe does not have to worry and that Margaret would have wanted him to move on.

Ep 4

Mom's Birthday

Nov 19, 1981

A woman with a perfume gift for Margaret on her birthday shows up, learning that Margaret is deceased. When the Cheif comes home, he is upset because it is Margaret's birthday and she died 6 months earlier. He decides to take the family out to dinner at a Mexican restaraunt, but when the mariacci singers sing ""Happy Birthday"" to a woman named Margart, the family begins to feel sad again. Nell decides to get out the family home movies to which the Cheif objects to, but in the end is happy seeing Margaret the way he remembered her.

Ep 5

Do or Diet

Nov 26, 1981

Nell decides to hold her PORKO'S meeting at the house, and when she gets on the scale she gets mad because she gained two pounds. WHen the Cheif comes home he is disgraced by the group and has a bad case of indigestion, forcing him to stay on vebetables for the next three weeks. However once Nell and the CHeif begin their diet, the Cheif insists on sampling her lasanga, and then they go on an eating bindge. The next moring when they wake up, they cant believe how crazy they were to eat so much in one sitting.

Ep 6

A Man in Nell's Room

Dec 3, 1981