Charley attempts to chronicle a day in Richard's life.
Richard is jealous when Charley allows her former boyfriend to stay at her apartment.
Politics upset the lovers' plans to spend a "perfect evening."
Richard persuades Charley to move in with him---and then is asked to speak out against permissiveness.
Charley and Richard have opposite ideas about how they should spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. She wants to talk; he wants to touch.
Ginger is expecting a surprise from a boyfriend, a Government official she won't identify.
Charley drags her latest photographic subject, the leader of a ghetto gang, back to Richard's apartment.
Part one: Charley is bothered less by her possible pregnancy than by Richard's insistence that they marry. Charley's careful plans for a special anniversary celebration does little to ease the shock when she tells Richard that she may be pregnant.
Conclusion: Charley's pregnancy has been confirmed, but it's not certain that she and Richard will marry.
Charley's cancellation of a weekend trip angers Richard, though he'd done the same thing twice before.
Scooped by a rival, a furious Richard searches for the leak among his friends.
Charley's revelations of her relations with Richard appear just before he is to be honored by a national women's association.
Part one: Ginger falls for another married man.
Conclusion: Both Ginger and Joplin want to end their romance, but lack the nerve to tell each other.
Al and Lucy's marriage plans falter when she is offered a job that pays more than his.
Part one: Richard is offered a post as a special adviser in the Carter Administration.
Conclusion: Charley charges "sellout" when Richard changes his column to please President Carter.
Charley marries a dissident Korean professor to keep him from being deported.
Charley's assignment from a Communist magazine to photograph yaks in Mongolia interests the FBI.
Charley smolders over Richard's anticipation of a reunion with his Parisian friend.
Part one: After some assertiveness training, Ginger loudmouths herself, Charley and Lanny into a small-town sheriff's jail.
Conclusion: Lucy brings her TV-news crew to Parlorville to expose the sheriff who jailed Charley, Ginger and Lanny.