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| Picture | Title | Original Airdate | Episode # |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | Old Friends | September 19, 1987 | |
| Sophia befriends a man with Alzheimer's Disease, while Blanche accidentally gives Rose's teddy bear to a Girl Scout community volunteer, who refuses to return it. | |||
| 53 | One For the Money | September 26, 1987 | |
| The ladies recall previous money-making attempts. | |||
| 54 | Bringing Up Baby | October 3, 1987 | |
| Rose is informed of her uncle's death, and that he left her his "baby" to take care of. The girls initially believe that they will be raising an actual baby, until the lawyer informs them that it is actually a pig. The other women are against it until they learn they will receive $100,000 upon "Baby's" death, and the pig is already in old age! | |||
| 55 | The Housekeeper | October 17, 1987 | |
| The ladies believe that their new housekeeper, Marguerite, has magical powers. She is very personable, and quickly befriends with the ladies. However, she is horrible at keeping house, and they are forced to fire her. Then, the ladies become convinced that Marguerite has put a "voodoo hex" on the house and on all of them. | |||
| 56 | Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself | October 24, 1987 | |
| Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy must face their fears: Blanche is afraid to be in an enclosed space with bald men, Rose is afraid to give the eulogy of her deceased relative, and Dorothy is afraid of flying in an airplane. | |||
| 57 | Letter to Gorbachev | October 31, 1987 | |
| Rose writes a touching letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, in which she requests world peace. When Russian authorities come to Miami, they expect Rose to be a nine-year-old girl, so the ladies play along with the charade. | |||
| 58 | Strange Bedfellows | November 7, 1987 | |
| A political candidate, whom the ladies are campaigning for, falsely claims that he and Blanche had an affair. When confronted by Blanche, he drops an even bigger bombshell: that he made up the rumor to throw the press off from the fact that he had been born a woman. | |||
| 59 | Brotherly Love | November 14, 1987 | |
| Dorothy initially hits it off with Stan's visiting brother, Ted, angering an unexpecting Blanche. However, in the end, Ted is revealed to have ulterior motives that are very similar to Stan's lifestyle. | |||
| 60 | A Visit from Little Sven | November 21, 1987 | |
| Rose's visiting naive cousin falls for Blanche after a jealous scheme goes awry. Making matters even worse, Sven will be getting married after he leaves Miami. | |||
| 61 | The Audit | November 28, 1987 | |
| Dorothy and Stan are audited by the IRS, and they may be in deep trouble when it comes to light that Stan was foolishly and secretly spending money on extravagant items. | |||
| 62 | Three On a Couch | December 5, 1987 | |
| Constant bickering leads the ladies to seek professional counseling from a psychiatrist, who feels that they are totally incapable of living together. | |||
| 63 | Charlie's Buddy | December 12, 1987 | |
| A visitor claims to have fought in battle with Rose's late husband, but he is actually just out for Rose's money. | |||
| 64 | The Artist | December 19, 1987 | |
| Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy all pose nude for a Hungarian sculptor. | |||
| 65 | Blanche's Little Girl | January 9, 1988 | |
| Blanche's estranged daughter, Rebecca, visits, having failed as a model in Paris, and has become obese. Her boyfriend is rude and obnoxious toward her. However, Blanche is afraid to meddle because Rebecca previously walked out on her for the same problem once before. | |||
| 66 | Dorothy's New Friend | January 16, 1988 | |
| A local novelist, whom Dorothy befriends, reveals her true colors to Rose and Blanche. | |||
| 67 | Grab That Dough | January 23, 1988 | |
| The girls go to Hollywood, California, to be on the game show "Grab that Dough". However, they are forced to travel cross-country the day before the show, only to find that their hotel has no vacant rooms, forcing them to pay to sleep overnight in the hotel lobby – without any luggage or spare clothes. While they sleep, however, someone steals their purses. Even worse, the game show does not go quite as planned. | |||
| 68 | My Brother, My Father | February 6, 1988 | |
| Sophia's brother, Angelo, visits, and everyone (including Angelo) is deceitful about their real lives. | |||
| 69 | Golden Moments (1) | February 13, 1988 | |
| Sophia announces that she will be moving to New Jersey to live with her eccentric son, Phil. | |||
| 70 | Golden Moments (2) | February 13, 1988 | |
| Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose all try to talk Sophia out of leaving Miami. | |||
| 71 | And Ma Makes Three | February 20, 1988 | |
| Sophia becomes "the third wheel" in Dorothy's latest relationship, alienating the man. | |||
| 72 | Larceny and Old Lace | February 27, 1988 | |
| An alleged former gangster tries to woo Sophia, much to Dorothy's dismay. | |||
| 73 | Rose's Big Adventure | March 12, 1988 | |
| Rose's newly-retired beau becomes nothing more than a couch potato. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Blanche search for a contractor to remodel the garage. | |||
| 74 | Mixed Blessing | March 19, 1988 | |
| Dorothy's son, Michael, plans to wed Lorraine. | |||
| 75 | Mister Terrific | April 30, 1988 | |
| Rose starts dating television superhero "Mr. Terrific", whom Dorothy inadvertently gets fired, and replaced by his on-air sidekick. Nevertheless, he still saves the day, and re-gains his job after performing a dangerous publicity stunt. | |||
| 76 | Mother's Day | May 7, 1988 | |
| Waiting for their children to call, the ladies reminisce about their own prior Mother's Day memories: Sophia recalls an incident involving her mother, played by Beatrice Arthur; Rose recalls a motherly lady she once met at a bus station, whose biological daughter passed away many years earlier; and Blanche recalls the last Mother's Day she spent with her mother. | |||