One Day at a Time
Dad Comes Back (2)
TV Flash files “Dad Comes Back (2)” as the last listed hour of season 1 — One Day at a Time (1975–1984) on CBS, season 1, episode 15, aired 1976-03-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E15: listed hour 15 of 209 in the One Day at a Time guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 1976-03-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dad Comes Back (1)” (S01E14). Next is “The Runaways (1)” (S02E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Julie and Barbara are hoping to get their parents back together, but they learn to accept that that is not going to happen.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dad Comes Back (2) sit in the One Day at a Time guide?
S01E15 is listed hour 15 of 209 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 15.
When did One Day at a Time S01E15 air?
Dad Comes Back (2) aired 1976-03-30 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Original series or the later reboot first?
This catalog hour is the 1975–1984 CBS original with Bonnie Franklin. The later reimagining is a cousin, not a replacement.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Bonnie Franklin's newly divorced Ann Romano raises two daughters in an Indianapolis apartment while Pat Harrington Jr.'s Schneider supplies the tool-belt Greek chorus. Lear-adjacent single-mom sitcom with real stakes under the jokes. Women's lib as weekly multi-cam, not a one-episode pamphlet.
The first image is an Indianapolis apartment that has to look like independence: Bonnie Franklin's newly divorced Ann Romano raising two daughters, a tool-belt superintendent in the doorway, and women's lib as weekly multi-cam rather than a pamphlet. CBS's One Day at a Time (1975–1984) ran nine seasons, 209 episodes, a Whitney Blake / Allan Manings / Norman Lear relevant sitcom about single motherhood, teen trouble, and a laugh track that does not apologize. Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips grew up on…
Filed against
- Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano
Bonnie Franklin’s Ann Romano raised two daughters in an Indianapolis apartment on One Day at a Time — newly divorced, Pat Harrington Jr.’s Schneider as tool-belt Greek chorus, Lear-adjacent single-mom sitcom with real stakes under the…
- Mackenzie Phillips as Julie Cooper
Mackenzie Phillips grew up in public as Julie Cooper on One Day at a Time — Bonnie Franklin’s newly divorced Ann Romano, two daughters in an Indianapolis apartment, Pat Harrington Jr.’s Schneider as tool-belt chorus. Lear-adjacent…
- Valerie Bertinelli as Barbara Cooper
Valerie Bertinelli’s Barbara Cooper grew up in One Day at a Time’s Indianapolis apartment — Bonnie Franklin’s newly divorced Ann, Schneider’s tool-belt chorus, women’s lib as weekly multi-cam — then walked Touched by an Angel’s…
- Pat Harrington Jr. as Dwayne Schneider
Pat Harrington Jr. made Dwayne Schneider the tool-belt Greek chorus on One Day at a Time — Bonnie Franklin’s newly divorced Ann Romano raising two daughters in a 1970s Indianapolis apartment. Lear-adjacent single-mom sitcom with real…