Phil Mishkin

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.

Four wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound personal and professional problems, thus the weekly ball game becomes a method of working out their frustrations. So adept do they become at this cathartic activity that their team makes it to the statewide championship — which leads to yet another crisis.

A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.

The owner of a toy store chain still lives at home with his mother and crazy uncle.