Episode list

Widower Jack Taylor tries to be both mother and father during his kids' first week back to school without their mother.

Jack tries to establish a new family tradition he calls "Family Day", despite his kids protests..

After Jack reluctantly explains sex to Allison, she repeats his speech to a friend whose mother takes a very dim view of Jack's actions.

Steve and Brian's constant bickering causes Steve to separate the two guys and Steve's new roommate becomes Jeff, whose rules make Brian look pretty good.

Jeff hits on Heather Lewis, a hot girl in the junior class, but she has eyes for Steve. This causes the brothers to fight.

Jack decides to give up firefighting in order to ensure he's always around for his kids, but the kids see how miserable he is and try to convince him to get his job back.

The new firefighter in Jack's fire house, Pat Jenkins, turns out to be a woman and Jack has to fight chauvinistic attitudes both at work and at home.

Jack coaches Brian's basketball team, who is two wins away from the championship, but gets flack from some of the parents and Brian when he jeopardizes winning the championship in order to give the team's weakest player a chance to play.

Steve tries juggling two dates at the Spring Dance despite his dad's warnings. Trouble ensues.

Steve steals Allison's Buttercup cookie money in order to buy a cassette player. When Allison realized it's missing she thinks she's in trouble and runs away.

A TV reporter, Jill Nichols, does a feature story on Jack. Jill accidentally films Jack stepping out of the shower and they argue over the use of the footage. When the smoke finally clears their animosity turns to romance.

Steve and Jack decide to see what it's like to walk a mile in each others' moccasins and switch places for the weekend.

Jack and Jill start dating, but they have trouble when they realize the big gap between Jack's family oriented lifestyle and Jill's career-oriented life.

Jack and Joe end up at a family counselor when they can't settle an argument over household rules.

Jack attempts to use Tiny, a sizable kid from the high school football team, as a ringer to win a fire department competition, but ends up hurting Tiny's feelings instead.

Jack's mom, who drives him crazy, visits from San Francisco and announces her intention to move to Los Angeles, and he tries to talk her out of it.

Patrick stays with the Taylor's for the weekend and Jack teaches him guy stuff since Patrick's own dad isn't around. Allison gets jealous.

Jack invites his boss to dinner in order to get a promotion and gets roped into dating the Commissioner's crazy daughter, Glenn. Glenn jeopardizes Jack's chance at a raise.