One Day at a Time aired from December 1975 until September 1984 on CBS.
After 17 years of marriage, Ann Romano ( Bonnie Franklin) found herself divorced and living with her two teenage daughters in an apartment building in her home town of Indianapolis. The problems of trying to keep a job and be an understanding mother to two headstrong girls provided the plots for most episodes of this series. Ann resumed use of her maiden name while both 17-year-old Julie ( MacKenzie Phillips) and 15-year-old Barbara ( Valerie Bertinelli) kept their father's name, Cooper. The building's super, who regarded himself as the Rudolph Valentino of Indianapolis , was Dwayne Schneider ( Pat Harrington, Jr). His first name was virtually never used -all the tenants referred to him only as Schneider. David Kane ( Richard Masur) was Ann's romantic interest during the first season ( he had been her divorce attorney), and at one point they did almost get married , but he departed early in the fall of 1976. Not long after his departure, Ann aquired an outspoken brassy new neighbor in Ginny Wrobliki ( Mary Louise Wilson), but she only lasted one season in the cast. It was during that season, however, that Ann found herself a substantial job working as an account executive for the advertising agency of Connors and Davenport ( Claude Connors was played by John Hillerman and Jerry Davenport by Charles Siebert). Although not a regular in the series , Joseph Campanella made occasional appearances as Ann's ex-husband Ed Cooper.
In 1979 , while still in college, Julie married Max Horvath ( Michael Lembeck), an airline flight steward. No sooner did they get married when he got laid off from his job, forcing the newlyweds to move in temporarily with Ann and Barbara. Max did get back to work and, when he got promoted to a new position in Houston , he and Julie moved away from Indianapolis ( series star Mackenzie Phillips had developed a serious drug problem during the 1979-1980 season and was written out of the show to allow her to rehabilitate herself). When Ann left the advertising agency in the fall of 1980 she started a new professional and eventually personal involvement with Nick Handris ( Ron Rifkin). They became partners doing free-lance advertising-Ann writing copy and Nick doing the art work-and despite initial hostility, romance did bloom. Nick was divorced with a young son, Alex ( Glenn Scarpelli). Ann's mother, Katharine ( Nanette Fabray), also became a frequent visitor to the Romano household, especially after her husband died and she moved to Indianapolis to be close to her daughter.
As the 1981-1982 season began, Ann was getting over the shock of Nick's tragic death in an auto accident. Since Nick's ex-wife Felicia ( guest star Elinor Donahue) had moved to Chicago and remarried, Ann was talked into letting Alex move in with her and Barbara until things settled down. Francine Webster ( played by Nanette Fabray's neice Shelley Fabares) , Ann's old nemesis from the days at Connors and Davenport , turned up and convinced her to go into a partnership similar to the one she had had with Nick. Julie and Max also returned to Indianapolis , where he got a job as a travel agent while trying to make extra money as a writer. Barbara and her new boyfriend , dental student Mark Royer ( Boyd Gaines), got married in the fall of 1982 and soon thereafter, Julie gave birth to a daughter, Annie ( Lauren/Paige Maloney). The following spring, in an effort to economize, Barbara and Julie and their families decided to share a house.
Then following a courtship that had begun several months earlier, Ann married Mark's divorced father, architect Sam Royer ( Howard Hesseman) With Alex moving to Chicago to be with his mother ( Glenn Scarpelli had left the series to co-star on NBC's Jennifer Slept Here in the fall of 1983), and her daughters sharing their own house , Ann had no children at home for the first time in years. The only thing to mar her happiness was the sudden disappearance of Julie, who walked out of her home, leaving Max, Barbara and Mark, now a practicing dentist to care for little Annie. ( Mackenzie Phillips , suffering severe weight loss and other physical problems , was written out of the show for the second and final time).
Knowing that stars Bonnie Franklin and Valerie Bertinelli planned to leave the series at the end of the 1983-1984 season, the producers of One Day at a Time ended the show's run with a couple of dramatic changes. Ann, having received a fantastic job offer in London, moved overseas with her husband, Sam and Schneider moved to Florida to raise his orphaned neice and nephew following the unexpected death of his brother ( The Schneider story-line was actually a pilot for a proposed spin-off series starring Pat Harrington, Jr. but it was never picked up).
One Day at a Time was created by Whitney Blake ( she had been a regular on Hazel) and Alan Manning and was developed by Norman Lear.
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