Lane Binkley

Mary brings home a pregnant friend, Matilda, whose attitudes towards marriage upset Tom. She learns the joys of parenthood, and paternal Tom helps deliver the baby.

Veronica and the other employees of the bar are out in the cold after they stage a wildcat strike to protest Archie's refusal to let them unionize. But while the employees picket in the snow, the temperature inside keeps rising as Archie and Murray try to run the entire operation themselves.

The drifting Julie and Chuck learn a hard lesson on life from their "houseguests;" while Schneider continues his special effort to bring the runaways home, in the third of a four-part story. Schneider's persistence finally appears to have paid off and Ann, for the time being, is elated.

Baricza considers leaving CHP and helping his father, who is being threatened, with his crop dusting business. Jon and Ponch investigate crop vandalism.

Ann's new secretary would rather be known as a doper than admit the much darker and deeper truth -- that she's an epileptic.