Pappalardo owned and made the boys operate. Nell can't believe that this is true. Joey is anxious and ho Air Date : 1st-Oct-1986 Joey meets Matthew finally, and is mad that he has a little brother. She is in love with a student named Eric, and she and he are going to drop out of College and get married and move to South Dakota, where the two will live on a farm, since he doesn't have enough money to stay in school. At home, they think Glenlawn is safe, but a guy holds them up and takes their purses. Joey and Matthew were taken to a museum by a police officer who tells Nell they are not fond of one another and are arguing back and forth.
Air Date : 10th-Dec-1986 Nell gets a call from her highschool secret admirer, whom she never knew personally in Alabama. However, Nell who was at a strip club, seeing male exotic dancers, returns home, tricks the robbers by saying there are jewels in the closet in a locked box, gets the Chief's gun, and saves the family from danger. The ladies compete with each other to win his affection, and in the end, he decides to ask his estranged wife to take him back. Joey Donovan is his name, and his Uncle Jerry dropped him off and left him in Glenlawn, because his dad Tim is at sea. During the second season, the tone of the show was still as it had been in season one.
However, the policeman who the Chief is friends with arrives and says that they are innocent and friends with a police Chief in California. While Samantha is in despair, Katie arrives home one last time to have her laundry cleaned before she moves to San Francisco, and tells Samantha to come with her and she will give her a job there. Addy is happy for Nell that she is who she is, and Nell decides to re-enroll in night school to get her diploma. When she gets home, the family tells her that after she left everyone made up with their Valentines and she promises not to be matchmaker again until Joey tells her he is having a problem with his girlfriend. Nell is happy that soon after the wedding, she will be going back to Glenlawn, and will be away from her mother for good.
Nell and the gang decorate the Christmas tree as Joey pretends that he is sick, but wants to help out as well. The whole family, including Mama Maybelle, help out Nell. Nell and Addy then decide to take the boys to the park and they have a blast. Swackhammer, obviously from his office position. She is upset though that her ex- husnband, Tony, has ran off and married an 18 year old girl, and tells James she needs more time to think about getting back together with him.
Air Date : 12th-Jan-1984 Samantha protests against demolition of an historic Spanish site after Nell tells her she did the same thing in Alabama when whites would not serve blacks. Air Date : 5th-Nov-1986 After Addy is laid off at the University for going on strike, Nell hires her as an assistant at Mcdillon and Loud's publishing company where she works. Nell takes the receiver while Marty looks his restaurant. However, they hear gunshots outside as she is about to do this, and the policeman runs in and explains everything, saying he is a cop, and that he used them as part of a drug bust, and that the shots they heard were the police getting the real criminals. In the end, Joey returns back in the apartment as Nell stays behind and finds out that she is not going to live with them and he cries. When Nel tells Addy she should call her fiance, his new girlfriend answers, and Addy decides to shut him out of her life forever.
But Nell doesn't want Joey to go alone with Matthew wandering the streets of New York. They find the puppy outside the fire escape in a box, so she tries to get the puppy inside and her shoe's caught in the fire escape. Nell's mom advises her to let the apron strings go, and to let Joey grow up. Air Date : 25th-Feb-1987 Nell finds out that it is Parents Week at Littlefield College in New Jersy, and she is upset that Samantha didn't invite her to attend it. Nell fears it will be a disaster if she doesn't get the whole family together. Mama Maybelle is very proud of Nell for once in her life, since she finally made a right decision. After Nell brings Joey home, she tries to teach him that gambling is wrong.
When she arrives at the college, Samantha is stunned to see her, and she begins to barge in on student's lives. The two are overjoyed that Grandpa hasn't given up when they see he is up to his old tricks when a nurse comes into the room and he teases her. But then Tammy shows up and Tony tells Nell he is married to her and they are on their honeymoon on the ship. In the end, the Chief shows up and says he will be cutting through the ceiling and rescuing them. In the meantime, back at the Kanisky house, Julie finds out that she is pregnant with his baby after she decides to go to enlist in the Navy and fails the test. When Tim shows up to pick up Joey, he tells Nell he wants to go back to sea, and as much as he loves his boys, he has no time to be with them.
Nell then says she will go back to the pawn shop and get them back. Just when Nell thinks she's had enough of New York after getting a job at McDillon and Loud Publishing Company as a reader, she decides to take a trip back to Glenlawn because she misses her house there, only to her surprise, Grandpa calls her and tells her he sold it and moves to New York to be with Nell, Addy, and the boys since there's nobody left in Glenlawn anymore. Season 4 1984-1985 25 episodes 64. However, Nell changes her mind and drops the case when she hears about the dog being put to sleep for what he did. However, Joey runs off every time he comes face to face with Nell. During the Christmas gathering, the family recalls events from the past. Later, the boys are fine, and everyone returns to Addy's, where Nell and Tim talk in private at Addy and the boys look at her computer.
In the end, the Cheif says he loves his father and the two hug. So Nell decides to get a new job instead. Nell tells Addy that she was worried about Katie because her ex-husband Tony left her years ago and she didn't leave him. After a few days, a job offer in Bakersfield is thrown upon Nell, and when she gets the acceptance, Margaret tells her she is dying and wants her to raise the girls. In the end, Katie finds out that the boy knew Julie was her sister all along and wanted to go over the house so he would get a date with her. Only a rare few mentions of Margaret Kanisky were made this season, as the family was finally over grieving her death at this time.
She meets the family and she sleeps in Carl's room. So Nell takes Samantha home with her to to be with her family. The man is actually a policeman, and thought Nell and Addy took the suitcase for the drugs. Nell's mom advises her to let the apron strings go, and to let Joey grow up. The episode only includes Nell and Grandpa from the main cast, and begins with Nell telling Grandpa to go the senior citizen center because it has a mess of women which he agrees.