Maggie

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 8
Original Language EN
Creator Erma Bombeck

Maggie (1981)

Created by Erma Bombeck
⭐ 5.0 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 8 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

Based on books by Erma Bombeck, Maggie Weston is a housewife living with husband Len and sons Mark and Bruce outside of Dayton, Ohio. There is a third son, LJ, who is never seen because he's "always in the bathroom." Rounding out the main cast are Maggie's friends.

Seasons & Episodes

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E1 The School Conference

Series premiere about the everyday life of a housewife in Dayton, Ohio. In the opening episode, Maggie receives a note from school accusing her 8-year-old son of "borderline obscenity."

E2 A Tooth for a Tooth

Maggie babysits for a friend in hopes of coming up with enough money to cover Mark's braces, but the girl is not the angel Maggie is led to believe.

E3 Career

Len considers a career switch after learning that a former colleague has struck it rich outside the teaching profession.

E4 Bruce's Birthday Party

The girls goad Maggie into throwing a birthday party for Bruce, but Buffy's diamond ring winds up in an unlikely place during the event.

E5 Marriage Encounter

Maggie and her husband Len, on their way to a marriage encounter session, make a wrong turn and wind up stranded when the car runs out of gas.

E6 Alienation of Affection

Maggie returns from a trip to hear nothing but rave reviews of Loretta's housekeeping.

E7 Mark's Shrink

Maggie takes Mark to see a therapist in hopes of curing his problem. The doctor recommends that Len project a more masculine image to his son.

E8 Maggie the Poet

Pressure from her mother leads Maggie to take up poetry again, but after selling her first poem to a newspaper, Maggie suffers writer's block. (Last show of the series.)