List of Too Close for Comfort episodes

Sara befriends Monroe Ficus, a recently dumped young man, who quickly follows her all over the place even following her home. Meanwhile, Henry and Muriel plan on celebrating their anniversary but just before heading out for the evening they get a phone call from Sara and Monroe with news that they have been arrested.

April secretly arranges for her father Bill to meet face to face with his brother Henry, so they can attempt to reconcile after a petty childhood dispute caused them to stop speaking forty years ago. The effort may be for naught, however, when Bill eats a piece of cheesecake baked by Monroe, who did not realize it was an old Russian recipe for homemade poisoned rat bait.

Muriel secretly asks her mother Iris stay with her until she recovers from childbirth, much to the chagrin of Henry, who has always found her to be overbearing. When Muriel unexpectedly takes a stand against her mother's nonstop criticism, it's up to Henry to straighten out the mess, and he learns a big secret about Muriel in the process.

Andrew accidentally becomes exposed to the chicken pox, which Henry has never had. After exhausting all other options, Henry is forced to move in with Iris, and proceeds to interfere with her social life.

Henry reluctantly allows a flirtatious substitute courier named Bambi to take a cold shower when she arrives for a pickup extremely hung over. This proves to be an error in judgment when Bambi falls asleep in his bed wearing nothing but his robe just as Muriel arrives home.

Henry and Muriel travel to the Oxnard marina to visit his old Navy buddy Arthur, who is finally getting remarried after losing his wife 17 years ago. Henry convinces Arthur to cancel the wedding when he discovers Arthur's bride-to-be is only 26 years old, but he has a hard time breaking the news to her.

After Iris is mugged in the garage of her condominium complex, Henry agrees to go along with Muriel's and Iris' plan to sell the condo and use the proceeds to add a third floor to the Rushes' apartment building. Unfortunately, they select a remodeling company that is going through a personnel transition.

Henry is appalled when his 78-year-old father Huey comes for a visit and announces he's going to be marrying a woman half his age. Henry pleads with his father to reconsider, but the argument takes on a different tone when Huey announces his fiancée is pregnant.

Henry takes it upon himself to schedule Sara to go on a date with a well known baseball player, which she reluctantly agrees to. While the two click almost immediately, Henry demands Sara break off the relationship when he discovers the man is a cocaine addict.

Henry reluctantly allows Monroe to have his friend Sam become a temporary roommate to help him with the rent. However, Henry is shocked when Sam turns out to be a runaway girl from Florida.

Henry and Muriel become excited about the possibility that their son could be a genius when they discover Andrew can read even though he hasn't turned three years old yet. Henry is eager to enroll him in a school for gifted children, but Muriel becomes dead set against it when she learns Andrew would have to live at the school.

Muriel hires a housekeeper named Evon, a immigrant from a war-torn Central American country, who is in the United States on a temporary visa. She immediately begins a relationship with Monroe, and tells Muriel that her visa is about to expire and she is in need of a way to stay in the United States. When Monroe announces they are going to get married shortly after her visa expires in order to keep her in the country, Henry fears they may be making a mistake.

Two women kidnap and blindfold Monroe while he is about to return home from his security guard job at the mall. The women take him to their apartment and rape him. When Henry learns what happened, Henry is appalled, especially when Muriel, Jackie, and Sara assume that the police will not take Monroe's story seriously because he was raped by women. When the police officer tells Monroe that it would be best not to pursue charges, in order to avoid any unwanted media attention that could result from a trial, Monroe considers dropping the case. Henry convinces Monroe not to give up. Henry and Monroe decide to track down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Henry and Monroe find a bag containing $110,000 of cash under Henry's car while at the mall. However, a tense situation quickly develops when they can't agree on what should be done with it.

In this clip show, Monroe is away taking care of his ill father, and Henry has been feeling depressed. He insists it has nothing to do with Monroe's absence, but his family tries to convince him otherwise through the use of flashbacks.

Henry's friend Herb purchases a house in the area, and the Rushes graciously allow him and his wife to spend a few days with them while a problem with the escrow is cleared up. However, their houseguests quickly wear out their welcome.

Henry decides to do a human interest story about the proprietors of a new Vietnamese restaurant and their difficult trip to America. However, he is stunned when the story results in several readers attempting to force the proprietors to close down and leave.

Lisa decides to attend a night class to prepare for her citizenship test, but she suddenly wants to quit, claiming she doesn't like the teacher. Henry prods her to continue the class, but he and Muriel are shocked when Lisa finally admits the teacher is sexually harassing her.

A prominent civic leader in Marin County, Herbert Maxwell, is found dead in his car and Henry is assigned by Mrs. Stinson to write a front page story in tribute to him printed for this week's Bugler. When Henry finds a discrepancy in the police report, in which the time Herbert's secretary said he left work and the time he was found dead are inconsistent, he and Monroe suspect that foul play may be involved, leading them to investigate the situation. But when Henry interviews Mr. Maxwell's secretary to find out what really happened, he finds out that Herbert's secretary lied about when he left work as a way to keep his secret, that she and Herbert have been having an affair. This leads Henry to make the tough decision on whether to print the story of Mr. Maxwell's secret life or to keep the name of Mr. Maxwell untarnished.

Henry helps Mr. Forester, an elderly man who occasionally provides Henry with neighborhood gossip, compose a personal ad to find a female companion. Mr. Forester convinces Henry to write romantic correspondence to a respondent on his behalf, only to become irate at Henry when he interprets a response from her as a marriage proposal.

Muriel is infuriated when Henry passes over her photograph for the front page in favor of a photograph taken by the eight-year-old daughter of the newspaper's biggest advertiser. In retaliation, she decides to resign from her job as the paper's photographer, forcing Henry to use Monroe as a replacement.

When a showcase for rock-and-roll musicians is dropped from an upcoming local music festival by the city council, a famous music duo named Dudley and Bond come to the paper to state their case and asks Henry to print a letter written by them in the paper that he doesn't approve of; Monroe finds out about the two men's plight and has them come to Henry's house, believing he can convince him to write a critical editorial of the decision in the paper, not knowing that Henry already rejected the men's request.