Stephanie returns to the Stratford to fill Leslie's shoes; Dick meets with a lustful celebrity in Manhattan to help her write her memoirs.

Conclusion. Dick fends off the advances of a celebrity while Stephanie must decide whether to stay at the Inn or return home to her parents.

Stephanie's jilted husband Carl comes looking for her while George adopts a stray dog.

Joanna challenges the town's historical practice of the men and women eating separately during the town's regular potluck dinners.

Joanna convinces Dick to direct a play for the town but is angry when he refuses to cast her in the lead.

Thanksgiving Day finds Joanna preparing dinner for over 100 people and George in charge of a rained-out parade.

Lost in the woods during a snowstorm, Stephanie takes refuge in an empty cabin.

A melodramatic marriage crisis of one of the townsfolk keeps interfering with Dick's book deadline.

Dick and Joanna allow Kirk to hold his new singles group at the inn.

Kirk meets the woman of his dreams but struggles to accept her chosen profession.

Joanna is bound to convince Dick and Stephanie that a man and a woman can be just friends after a professor asks her out after attending his poetry night.

An old beau of Stephanie's arrives at the Stratford with his new fiancée in tow--Stephanie's best friend from high school.

George joins the volunteer fire department.

A guest-spot on a local cable TV show called Book Beat lands Dick a potential new career; Kirk convinces Joanna to star in a commercial for the Minuteman Café.

When he finds out that Cindy is planning a trip to Europe next year, Kirk decides to ask her to marry him.

Kirk plans to sell the Minuteman Cafe, which will result in a fast food restaurant next door to the Stratford Inn, unless Dick admits Kirk is his best friend.

Kirk and Cindy's plans to get married at the Stratford are thrown into disarray when Kirk faints every time the minister begins the marriage service.

Kirk and Cindy's honeymoon is delayed when Kirk's grandmother Blanche arrives for a visit--with a stolen car.

George invites Dick to join his fraternal order, but the other members don't want Dick as a member.

A local TV station offers Dick his own public affairs show.

Stephanie stubbornly refuses to stay home to mind the Inn when Dick, Joanna and George head to the annual town Maple Syrup Festival.

Dick and Joanna plan a birthday party for George but can't find anyone in town to invite.