Step by Step/The Apartment

The Apartment
Season 3, Episode 2
Airdate	October 1, 1993
Production Number	455-451
Written by	Julia Newton
Directed by	Richard Correll
Produced by	Ronny Marshall Hallin
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Step by Step — Season Three

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The Apartment is the second episode of the third season of Step by Step, and the forty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Patrick Duffy (Frank Lambert), Suzanne Somers (Carol Foster Lambert), Staci Keanan (Dana Foster), Sasha Mitchell (Cody Lambert), Brandon Call (John Thomas "J.T." Lambert), Angela Watson (Karen Foster), Christine Lakin (Alicia "Al" Lambert), Christopher Castile (Mark Foster), Josh Byrne (Brendan Lambert)

Plot Overview

While a friend of hers is away for three months, Dana can have her apartment. Carol is against, but Frank convinces her this is the best way to let her try out living alone close by before she goes to college next year. Carol gives in, but is obsessed with 'her baby' to the point Al feels neglected. Even J.T. discovers he misses one thing about Barky: a sparring partner at trading verbal abuse. At first Dana felt hounded by ma, but once she's really alone feels miserable enough to start talking to Gordon, the pot plant Cody gave her as company. She's ready to return to the comfortable nest, but now Carol has changed her tune, so she calls the men for fake repairs in the apartment... Meanwhile Frank has accepted a construction client's payment in kind: the TV of his choice, to put in the parents' bedroom, but Carol makes him promise to throw it out as soon as watching sports gets in the way of their love life given his addiction to sports airings...