3X1:Sunstroke
3X2:The Bottom Line
3X3:A Promise Kept
3X4:And God Laughs
It is Georgie and John's anniversary in this episode. John, however, has to go on a business trip, despite Georgie's requests that he remain. Later on, she receives a call that John's plane has crashed and that no one knows how many survivors there are. It is not until the end of the episode that she finally receives another phone call, this time from John, telling Georgie that he is okay. Georgie buys John a gazebo in this episode.
Meanwhile, Teddy is in New York with Simon Bolt, trying to advertise her clothing line. She returns to Winnetka when she hears about John's accident.
Also, Frankie loses a major client for her firm, but then, by a stroke of luck, they gain an even better client.
3X5:Sins of the Mothers
3X6:Lost Souls
3X7:Accidents will Happen
3X8:Crash and Born
Georgie's car is crashed into by a drunk driver at the end of episode 3X7, and in this episode, we see what has happened. She is stuck in her car and the paramedics and firefighters are having difficulty releasing her. By halfway through the episode, Teddy, Alex, Frankie, Mitch, John, Evan and Trevor are all at the site of the crash. As the firefighters and paramedics are fighting to release Georgie, she goes into labour, but must wait to deliver the baby until she can be freed from the car. So, after much waiting and pain for Georgie, plus a great deal of anxiety from Mitch and Frankie, Georgie is safely removed from the car and delivers the child minutes later on the street. Frankie names the baby Thomas George, after his grandfather, and his surrogate mother, Georgie.
3X9:Best Seats in the House
3X10:Rivals
3X11:Portrait of the Artists
In this episode, Teddy and Alex both have startling experiences with artists whom they admire, but in very different ways. Alex decides to take a course from JD Fitzhugh (or something like that) who wrote The Pitcher in the Pumpernickel and who has been her idol for years. She writes a story (about her rivalry with Teddy), and he complements her for it, but later she overhears him mocking her story to someone over the phone. She confronts him, calling him a hypocrite, and eventually he apologizes and she continues to study with him.
Teddy, now fully into designing, is having a photo shoot with a famous model. When she finds out that the photographer she booked is no longer available, she is delighted to hear that she can have her high school flame, Jeffrey, come instead. His visit is bittersweet; although they remininisce, she soon discovers that he has AIDS. This tears her up a great deal, particularly when the model refuses to work with him because she's "staring into the face of death".
On a lighter note, while Georgie is away, Frankie kills John and the boys with kindness by trying to cook for them and plan so-called fun outings for them, which they do not particularly enjoy. Eventually, John convinces her that she doesn't have to do that and they are both okay with it.
3X12:Teach Your Children Well
3X13:All that Glitters
3X14:Crimes and Ms. Demeanors
3X15:The Whole Truth
3X16:Things are Tough all Over
3X17:Moving Pictures
3X18:Mirror, Mirror
3X19:Different
3X20:Dear Georgie
Georgie takes on a job writing an advice column for the local paper, not knowing that most of the people writing in for her advice are her family members. Things go disastrously wrong when they follow to catty suggestions she gives. Finally, she opts to be more reasonable rather than making her answers punchy, so that people might actually benefit from her advice.
3X21:Some Other Time
Georgie and John are visited by two old friends, a couple whom John and Georgie introduced too each other. Strangely, the couple, who have been married for three years, are all over each other and very much in love, which causes Georgie and John to question their relationship. They decide to take a weekend to think of nothing but each other, but they end up being unable to find the romance that they once had in their relationship. In the end, they decide that they like the way that their relationship has developed over their years of marriage and that they no longer need to be head-over-heels in love like they were when they first fell in love.
Alex, undergoing chemotherapy for her breast cancer, is isolating herself in her house and avoiding the outside world. Teddy, Kirby, and Reed decide that Alex should go out to an opthamology event that she has been invited to. Alex refuses at first, but Teddy then makes a beautiful dress for Alex and hires a limo for her, so she finally attends the event. Once there, she meets Dr. Stanley Livingstone, a podiatrist, and the two dance and enjoy each other's company for the evening. After a few days of Stanley trying to see Alex and pursue a relationship, she finally tells him that because of her cancer, she does not want to be in a relationship right now because she needs to focus only on herself and not on him. "Some other time", she tells him, she would love to date him, but not now.
3X22:The Cold Light of Day
Alex has lost most of her hair and she is upset about it. Because of this, Reed and Kirby encourage her to buy a wig. Initially Alex refuses, but then she mysteriously comes upon a wig shop in Winnetka that promises that it's wigs hold special powers. So, Alex tries several wigs that the wig-seller promises will change her life. With the first wig, Alex sees herself as a different person, but as a bag lady. She returns to try two other wigs, one which makes her life "smooth sailing", except that it's sailing on the Titanic, and another which makes her a queen, but a queen whose subjects want her beheaded. Finally, the wig-seller convinces Alex that she should not try to be a different person, but just accept her life as it is, and she gives Alex a wig that is identical to her original hair.
Teddy, still angry at Simon Bolt for selling the Theodora Reed company to Cyrus Calvin, is very surprised when he proposes to her. She's torn, but decides to accept the proposal, until she realizes that Bolt will do nothing but try to control her life during their marriage, and she decides not to marry him after all. He does, however, give her his mother's wedding ring, despite her refusal to wed him.
Frankie and Mitch decide to begin marriage therapy. Mitch is initially the unwilling one, but he eventually warms up to the idea and wants to continue. He feels that they have made a commitment. Frankie goes for an individual session and the counsellor suggests that perhaps Frankie doesn't want to mend her marriage but should get a divorce. Frankie, upset and angry, refuses to go to the counsellor again, so Mitch ends up going for an individual session as well. The counsellor tells him that both of them deserve happiness and love.
This is a good episode, and the parts with Alex trying different wigs is funny. Georgie, John, Evan and Trevor are on vacation for the episode.
3X23:Out of the Ashes
3X24:The Icing on the Cake
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