Episode 1
JOE
1974-09-09 • 30 min
While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and she decides not to return to Minneapolis.
TV season
1974-09-09
The first season of Rhoda aired on CBS from September 9, 1974 to March 10, 1975.
Episode 1
1974-09-09 • 30 min
While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and she decides not to return to Minneapolis.
Episode 2
1974-09-16 • 30 min
Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.
Episode 3
1974-09-23 • 30 min
Rhoda's smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides it might be best if the two of them begin dating other people as well as each other.
Episode 4
1974-09-30 • 30 min
Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.
Episode 5
1974-10-07 • 30 min
Rhoda lands a job with a small publishing firm and ends up delivering the eulogy at the funeral of an author whose specialty was X-rated books.
Episode 6
1974-10-14 • 30 min
Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of ""Will you marry me?"" it's ""How about living together?""
Episode 7
1974-10-21 • 30 min
Unable to think of just the right gift to get Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and uses the occasion to stage a small reunion for Rhoda with some of her old high school classmates.
Episode 8
1974-10-28 • 30 min
Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends.
Episode 9
1974-10-28 • 30 min
Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up.
Episode 10
1974-11-04 • 30 min
Rhoda and Joe's cruise doesn't turn out the way they expected.
Episode 11
1974-11-11 • 30 min
Rhoda wants a new apartment, especially after an old beau of Joe's lets herself in with a key.
Episode 12
1974-11-18 • 30 min
Rhoda thinks she may be pregnant, but she isn't sure enough to tell her husband Joe, especially when he comes home with the news that his business is facing economic troubles.
Episode 13
1974-11-25 • 30 min
Joe goes to his father for marital advise.
Episode 14
1974-12-02 • 30 min
Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.
Episode 15
1974-12-09 • 30 min
It's a case of mutual dislike at first sight when Rhoda meets Joe's friend Charlie Burke, a patronizing ""man's man"" who is not exactly thrilled with his best buddies wife.
Episode 16
1974-12-16 • 30 min
With his business on the verge of failure, Joe becomes ever increasingly worried, resisting Rhoda's advice to free his emotions, even if it means crying.
Episode 17
1975-01-06 • 30 min
At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.
Episode 18
1975-01-13 • 30 min
Rhoda's shy, retiring high-school chum, Myrna Morgenstern, shows up unexpectedly to demonstrate her new, Rhoda-like, head-on approach to life, and she begins a tumultuous non-romance with Joe's best friend.
Episode 19
1975-01-20 • 30 min
Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple, free of all jealousies and hang-ups until a man Rhoda once loved asks her out for dinner.
Episode 20
1975-01-27 • 30 min
When Rhoda discovers Joe has been visiting a doctor without telling her, she begins to worry, but not as much as when she finds out what kind of doctor he is.
Episode 21
1975-02-03 • 30 min
Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.
Episode 22
1975-02-10 • 30 min
Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.
Episode 23
1975-02-24 • 30 min
Brenda decides to break out of her ""nice, warm rut"" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.
Episode 24
1975-03-03 • 30 min
Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a ""now"" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.
Episode 25
1975-03-10 • 30 min
Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.