A Dallas-type plot pits big-business baron Roy Singleton with a young farm family, the Nobles. For quite a while, Singleton has tried to take their property, and now he seems to have found the answer. The old deed set the property line…
The proposed road for the Noble family is too expensive to build. When Leona argues that the high price doesn't make sense, she is told that a road has three dimensions. It would take 23 dump trucks to cart off the dirt before any…
Armondo, a high-school-aged garage mechanic has just received a $1,000 check for a job on which he had spent long hours. His girlfriend wonders what such back-breaking effort is worth.
Leona wants to spend a large chunk of money on a knockout dress for the upcoming prom. The others in her family insist that she think of a simpler solution, one that will fit her yearly budget. This leads to an obvious question: what…
At a new location, a marina, Cynthia is running a successful business as a sailing instructor. But the business threatens to stop dead when a new student, Myrna Mitchell, damages the hull of Cynthia's sailboat. Can she afford a new…
Micki Tenini, the sister of an up-and-coming record producer, is joining a band called the Marveltones. She clashes slightly with the bandleader, Henry (Apollo) Jackson, who reminds her the proportion of fast songs to slow songs. In…
After a real-life scene in which health detectives break down the cause of diseases, the story of a band and a recording studio picks up from the previous episode. The new secretary can't keep track of things on her cluttered desk; the…
A car accident has prompted the driver, Blanca Ortiz, to take action. She is deeply upset for the boy who had to cross the busy street to reach a playground. It was nobody's fault that the accident occurred–or was it? Upon doing…
Cynthia accepts a sailing challenge from her old nemesis. At the insistence of a sea captain, Cynthia charts out the proposed race route and the tide tables. Thus she plots a few sailing smarts to win the race.
Micki and the Marveltones put a lot of money and effort into recording a single, hoping that a radio station will play it. But the record gets lost in a slew of submissions from local bands (this is Los Angeles, after all). After an…
The city council wants to pass a bill that would prohibit commercial use of the marina. That would sacrifice Cynthia's sailing instructions. But just who is in favor of restricting use of the marina, and why? It takes a while for…
Tony has bought a car from a local dealer. Thinking he has got a bargain based on the average gas mileage on this model, Tony finds himself at the gasoline pumps more often than he would like. At about the same time, his daughter Blanca…