Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
One-plane airline owner Joe Hackett is reunited with his fun-loving brother when their late father bequeaths them a strange box.
Helen gets her first callback for a symphony audition; Fay encourages a flier to complete his global journey.
Brian wants to rendezvous with his ex, Carol, who has developed a habit of dumping boyfriends.
Brian talks Carol into a few days on the island, where the Hackett brothers find that history repeats itself.
Joe may be the only man on the island who hasn't gone out---or stayed in---with the girl Brian fixes him up with.
Joe gets tied up in an emergency meeting, leaving Brian and Helen to go to a Celtics game without him.
Helen's no-dating-pilots rule is bent when she unknowingly starts to date one, and when she finds out the truth, she's flying too high to care.
A writer flies in to interview Joe, but it's tales from and about Brian that catch his interest.
The boys urge Helen to demand an audition with a conductor, but she gets him at a bad time---his honeymoon.
Roy's quest for likability is an adventure for all when he practices Joe's advice.
Joe agrees over the phone to be best man for a high-school pal---whom he doesn't remember.
Helen's birthday sets the brothers in motion trying to outdo each other to get her the more expensive gift.
Helen suggests a "little white lie" to get Brian out of his unwanted romance with a policewoman, but his lie of choice isn't Helen's.
High blood pressure grounds Joe, but the lackadaisical manner of his remaining pilot has Joe flying into a rage.
A lonely Joe and Helen dine together, then park at Indian Point---not far from Joe's new backup pilot.
Roy says his jock son wants cello lessons from Helen only because he's attracted to her, but the jock demurs.
The elements conspire against holiday plans for everyone but Fay, whose traditional gathering is short on gatherers.
Fledgling pilot Helen cuts Joe's dull ground school for hands-on experience with Brian---who loses consciousness in mid-flight.
Joe has to miss a crucial TV-sports evening with the guys to care for the dentally impaired Helen.
Boosting Fay's tennis confidence haunts Brian; busting Lowell's zeppelin haunts Joe; and a gender question haunts Helen.
Brian runs the airline while Joe's in traction, a job made tougher after Kenny loses the plane.
Both Hacketts see a UFO, but only Brian talks, while Joe fears loose lips will sink his airship.
On Valentine's Day, Joe and Helen try to calm that morning's storm by meeting at their special place; Roy meets his classified-ad date.
Brian's plan to marry a woman he's known for 20 hours spurs long-time friends Joe and Helen to question their feelings.
Brian's lack of a "sensitive, intelligent, attractive woman" is overheard by one, who offers to fill that void, which doesn't sit well with her son.
Another difference in the Hackett brothers is their reaction to seeing their mother, who walked out on them 18 years earlier.
Putting what he perceives as two and two together, Brian concludes that Fay is a wanted murderer.
Helen lands a job with a symphony, over a former student, who purposely blows the audition.
Helen returns from New York after a disastrous 10 months---and prospects don't improve when Joe reveals how he's spent the time.
Helen refuses to pay for damaging Joe's office, so he takes her to court.
Her anger at Joe unabated, Helen, supported by Brian, takes a shot at group therapy.
Brian discovers that Lowell's jealousy of his wife is well-founded when Brian and Joe get an offer they'd better refuse.
Joe is drafted to challenge Roy for a town-council seat, but neither wins the endorsement of the corrupt local paper.
Tyne Daly plays a wealthy woman whose changes to the life of Brian appall Joe---until she offers Joe a change also.
Joe overhears plans for his surprise birthday party, but misses that it has to be moved to the next night.
Joe insists that Helen and Gail end their bickering over lunch, which goes better than either anticipated; Fay tries to stretch a streak of touching First Ladies.
Downtime at the terminal is filled by "Fay's Foggy Day Fun Box," until Brian hypnotizes Roy, who reveals a "deepest, darkest secret."
After Roy reveals that his departed wife is hardly "late," he decides to find the woman who left him 16 years ago.
Brian plays a trick on Joe, who's unaware their golf weekend includes a time-share sales pitch---or sharing a room with Lowell and Roy.
When Antonio faces deportation, Brian finds a woman who's willing to wed for a while.
The bride has trouble adjusting to married life, which could end if Antonio can win the green-card lottery.
When Fay doesn't get a raise, she decides to test Joe by going to work for Roy.
Brian, Joe and Helen have time for one last look before the wrecking ball destroys the house where the Hacketts grew up.
A self-esteem seminar run by Dr. Frasier Crane is analyzed by a dissatisfied past customer---Helen.
The Hacketts fly to New Mexico with an elderly man whose curiosity is endless---and endlessly irritating.
Helen turns to stand-up comedy, thanks to a career-placement test---altered by friends who fear the truth will hurt.
Helen, Lowell, Brian and Joe compare notes at the end of their video dates.
A robber spoils Brian's second job as a bank guard.
Joe's high-school pitching record will be broken---if he gets the pitcher to the game on time.
Helen's Boston Symphony debut, her friends' attendance and everyone's future are in doubt when Joe's plane begins to sputter.
All have survived the water landing, but can they survive each other as they await rescue?
The insurance company is unresponsive after Joe's plane crash, so Brian talks him into trying a personal-injury ploy.
Brian is ready for surgery after a doctor makes a comment about his nose.
Roy faints during his rendition of the National Anthem at a Red Sox game; and Fay's error is no hit with Joe.
When Lowell asks Helen out, she reluctantly accepts and has a good time---unlike Lowell.
The Hacketts compete for a pilot, who finds them both infantile.
Brian accidentally sinks Lowell's houseboat, so Lowell moves in with the Hacketts---and proves to be a wonderful roommate.
Despite intentions to the contrary, Brian gets wrapped around the finger of an ex.
Alex and Joe aren't talking about their time spent together, and that drives Brian crazy.
Joe's complaint gets a video-store employee fired on Christmas Eve.
The laugh's on Helen when she learns jealousy is not behind Joe's reluctance to fix her up with his friend.
Antonio testifies against a robber, who's later freed on a technicality.
An irresistible force---Lowell---encounters immovable objects---Roy and Joe---when Lowell asks for a raise.
Alex shares a secret with Helen and Antonio, and suddenly it's the talk of the island.
A local audition prompts Helen to take a second job to save for a new cello.
The quartet rejects, accepts, then annoys Helen, who'd quit were it not for the Hacketts' enthusiasm. Meanwhile, rehearsals continue for "Phantom of the Oprah."
Brian scrambles to prove his boast to Alex that Clint Black is an old pal.
Joe and Brian try to find "the key" to Alex, who sees through them---again.
Helen befriends an old man, who falls in her house and then stays on to convalesce.
Joe and Brian try to keep Helen awake after she sustains a concussion; Lowell struggles over a eulogy for an old friend.
At a wedding reception, Antonio is smitten, and Lowell toyed with by his ex-wife.
Brian takes Alex on the perfect date---one meticulously tested and perfected on others.
Brian insists he won't pull the old "love 'em and leave 'em" act with Alex.
Roy gets Brian jealous about Alex and gets Helen in trouble with a health inspector.
After Lowell divorces Bunny, they begin acting like newlyweds.
Helen reluctantly agrees to "entertain" a potential investor in Joe's airline.
Joe is the only happy camper when stuck in a hotel with Helen, Alex and Brian, who were all romance bound.
The arrival of an old friend and a visit to the gym hinder Helen's date plans.
Everybody brings their problems to Joe, and that's a problem for him.
Brian finds Joe, who refuses to return and sells the airline to Brian.
Joe's afraid a visiting ex-classmate who was crazy about him will still be just plain crazy.
Joe, Brian, Helen and Lowell find fun in Boston, but at a price.
Antonio's spirits are lifted out of the holiday doldrums by Lowell's ex.
Helen gets more of a surprise than she bargained for when she takes a sneak peek at a gift from Davis.
The Hacketts want Lowell to find his own place, but Lowell's never lived alone.
A PI seeking Fay takes her picture and leaves without explanation.
Antonio chauffeurs obnoxious Carlton Blanchard, whose nephew is equally annoying.
Joe dates a 19-year-old whom Helen used to babysit; a lost dog finds women for Antonio and Roy.
An invasion of models tests Brian's commitment to Alex.
The gang recalls off-season jobs, including Helen's dance gig---for Roy's lodge brothers.
When Alex and Brian realize it wasn't such a good idea to move in together, neither will admit it.
The Hacketts pull a prank on their ex-football coach---right after the man has expired.
Roy's ex-wife seems to want him back, which stuns everyone---except Roy.
Joe cancels one date to be with another, while Helen dates another after Davis cancels out on her.
To Alex's dismay, a bad influence has Brian spending his nights out with the boys.
Joe sweats out a loan application; Helen anticipates a breakup with Davis.
Helen goes to see fiancé Davis, telling Joe their intimate evening together was "a mistake."
The arrival of Helen's "perfect"---and snobby---sister Casey spoils Joe's romantic-dinner plans.
Joe joins Brian in seeing a therapist after Helen moves up their wedding date.
Brian starts dating again, but finds no immediate spark with a woman who seems perfect for him.
Lowell invests in a defunct attraction that shows little sign of life.
Casey and Brian plan a surprise engagement party for Joe and Helen, but Helen thinks they're having an affair.
The businessman Antonio's chauffeuring makes a play for Casey.
Brian goes out with his ninth-grade teacher; a "Simon says" instructor plans on marrying Roy's mom.
Helen's mom arrives with a cash wedding gift, which is no surprise---save for the amount.
A famous astronaut comes to Nantucket to endorse Sandpiper Airlines.
An air-traffic controller holds Antonio at gunpoint for eating his doughnut.
Joe's secret admirer Sandy Cooper returns, claiming that her previous action was a joke.
Joe and Helen make friends with a new couple, but a weekend together changes things for one duo.
Roy prepares to marry a mail-order bride from Russia.
After Joe and Helen set their wedding date, they crash a reception to check out a facility.
A reunion brings back Brian's old flame, who has surprises for both Hacketts.
Brian answers a call meant for Joe, who's forced to tell him about Sara.
After Fay's retirement, Helen persuades Joe to hire Casey, who stuns the brothers by accepting---and doing a great job.
Brian is confronted by his ex, Alex, on a talk show.
A gallery owner sees art in Lowell's welded gift to Casey, who pictures herself as Lowell's agent. Meanwhile, Brian's little joke on Joe creates big problems for Helen.
Brian makes a video diary of Joe and Helen's relationship, as recalled (in flashbacks) by friends and family, including Roy.
Joe and Helen consider buying the house of Lewis Blanchard's dying uncle; stressed Helen dreams she is Marcia Brady.
Helen plans a quickie divorce from Antonio, whom she once wed to prevent his deportation.
Antonio falls for his cousin's fiancée, whom he's to entertain while his cousin is away.
Brian plans a wild bachelor party for Joe, while Helen anticipates a quiet evening. And each gets the night the other wanted.
Helen and Joe's wedding is marred by mishaps, including no tux for Joe and a magic-marker mustache for Helen.
Brian & Casey accidentally burn down Joe's house. Helen and Joe spend their honeymoon making love.
While digging through the remains of Helen's home, Brian discovers the old suitcase their father left them and tries to use it to make up with Joe.
Chartered to pick up a corpse, the Hacketts return with the wrong body.
Lowell sees a mob-related murder and becomes a prime candidate for the witness-protection program.
Brian and Joe cheer up Antonio by introducing him to a woman---whom they later learn is a hooker.
Helen goes on a buying binge with insurance money from her burned house; Brian and Casey search for something they have in common besides sex.
Joe and Helen hire an architect to build their dream house. Meanwhile, Brian hires a new mechanic with an "incident" in his past.
A visit to "Eat-a-holics" reveals what's behind Brian's expanding behind; Casey compromises herself during a job interview.
Joe dreams that he and Helen are in a plane crash, and the next day, all the events leading to the crash come true.
Brian and Casey are unhappy with their dates for Joe's Christmas party, where the host is in a hurry to leave on a trip.
Joe and Helen care for a friend's 7-year-old for a weekend; Casey and Antonio go ga-ga over a visiting TV star, unaware that he's gay.
Joe and Brian are thrilled with the arrival of their raconteur grandfather. But Helen and Casey suspect his stories are "borrowed" from other sources.
Helen reunites Roy with his estranged son, whose homosexuality Roy has yet to accept.
Fay's ready to marry her cruise-ship suitor, until something about him reminds her of her departed husbands.
A Boston Bruins goalie misses his game when Antonio refuses to allow him to board a Sandpiper flight.
On Valentine's Day, Cupid shoots Brian and his sole passenger, who's flying in for her wedding; and Roy makes a date with Antonio's ex.
News of Helen's ex-fiancé reminds her that she never broke off their engagement.
Another visit from Sandy Cooper sends Joe to a psychiatrist, when no one will believe she's obsessed with him.
Antonio suspects that his new boss is a mobster; Helen tries to impress her former teacher.
Brian learns his latest tryst was with the visiting princess of Nantucket's sister city. And her husband's in town, too.
Joe and Helen's contractor becomes a wreck---and their house guest---after his wife kicks him out. Brian stalks George Kennedy.
Antonio mobilizes his friends to search for the beautiful woman who disappeared before he could learn her name---thanks to Joe.
Vignettes show how Joe, Brian, Casey and Helen imagined their adult lives when they were kids.
Carol Alt plays a high-school friend turned stripper who invites Joe to see her work. But what will Joe tell Helen---if he tells her at all?
Casey spots her missing husband on television and goes in search of him. Meanwhile, Roy teaches Antonio how to dance.
Joe and Helen need to sell their jinxed lot so they can buy their dream home.
Joe and Helen burn Brian's house down and he expects to get a big check like they did. But the insurance investigator thinks Joe, Helen, Brian and Casey are conspiring to commit insurance fraud.
Joe and Helen are delighted to meet their new neighbors, until the newfound friends get a bit too familiar.
When Brian decides to settle down, the woman he selects doesn't quite meet his expectations.
A major storm strands the airport gang at a "Singles Mingle" event, where Brian and Casey see some familiar faces.
Suicide-hotline volunteer Antonio dates a caller; a lunch cart steals Helen's customers.
The gang springs into action to find a medical courier who's left a human heart in the terminal. But Roy wants to fence the organ.
Casey sells Brian on buying a diner with his insurance settlement and turning it into a martini bar.
When their plane is repossessed, Joe and Brian meet a potential investor. But he wants to buy the airline outright.
The new Sandpiper boss's "really big idea" makes the Hacketts charter pilots for a country-music duo.
Joe and Brian step in for a nervous Cord at a company conference; Antonio teaches Casey how to live within her means.
On Christmas Eve, Helen, Fay and Casey get locked in a store, and Antonio helps a nun on a mission. Meanwhile, two feuding brothers collide at the Hacketts'.
Antonio discovers Roy is dating the cabbie's favorite talk show host; Joe and Helen's relationship cools off.
The breakdown of a new, expensive vacuum takes Joe and Helen to the cleaners; Brian dates Roy's newly arrived niece.
Heroism goes to Brian's head after he's declared "an angel" for taking over for indisposed passenger-jet pilots, while Joe pales in comparison: he was indisposed as well.
On Valentine's Day, a suitor hires the plane for a marriage proposal; Brian and Casey agree to a date; and Fay is haunted by her late husbands after selling their possessions.
A trip to the Big Apple turns sour when Helen and Brian are stranded in New York without money; Brian enters Helen in a drag queen contest.
Casey and Brian move into a home with Antonio, who becomes an insufferable roommate when his girlfriend dumps him. Meanwhile, Helen and Joe experiment with nudism.
Brian falls, sight unseen, for the author of romantic letters to a former tenant of his house; Antonio installs a burglar alarm for Helen and Joe.
While Brian admits that Fay's gorgeous vacation replacement is a distraction for him, Joe is a different story. Or is he?
Brian and Casey are ill. Joe and Helen visit Roy's house and meet Roy's mother, Eleanor.
Brian realizes his new girlfriend may be older than he thought when he meets her college-age son; Joe and Roy face their fear of clowns.
Joe is pitted against Brian in a boxing tournament, but the "friendly competition" turns personal after Joe blames Brian for a costly error at work.
The Hackett brothers set off on a treasure hunt prompted by a note found in a suitcase belonging to their late father.
Brian and Joe have different ideas about what to do with their new-found fortune. And Helen has a dream she'd like to pursue, too.
