From: eec@leland.Stanford.EDU (Edie Cheng)
Subject: HF: Update for 10/8/92 (Spoilers)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 18:46:30 GMT

I forgot the exact title, but I think it was something like this:

	"Appleknocker marries Tomato Girl"

[I seem to have forgotten the order of events, so sorry if this is terribly
messed up.]

Perrette is helping the Davises in the restaurant.  She's making a crepe,
and Grandmother Davis asks her why her pancake is so flat.  A delivery man
comes in and starts to unload some boxes in the kitchen, and listens to
the whole Davis family talk.  Robert comes into Ruperts and announces that
he has been accepted to a college.  The whole family rejoices and Abe says
something about putting a desk in the bedroom for Robert to study at.  Robert
jokes that his wife will be too distracting.  Perrette laughs and gives him 
a kiss as the delivery man frowns at them.

Later, when the Davises arrive home Abe picks up a letter that was placed
under the door.  The letter warns against the mixing of races and quotes
the Bible, saying that if they don't obey God's law "we'll" see that it is
obeyed.  [I think it is implied in the note that the writers are black.]  
Abe is disturbed but crumples the note into his pocket and doesn't
tell anyone.

Mike is getting ready to go to another game and asks Ruth to go with him.
She says she's too busy, but tells him he looks dapper (he's wearing a
fashionable tie) and reminds him to take his umbrella.  He goes to the
game alone and sits down in his seat, but starts looking around for Judy.
Judy shows up and they start catching up on the game, when it starts to
pour.  Mike shares his umbrella with her, and they start to chit chat.
He asks her why an attractive girl like her doesn't have tons of suitors,
and she tells him she was married but her husband died in the war.  He
shares his grief about Mike Jr. dying at the end of the war, and she tells
him she moved to Ohio because her bar in Florida burnt down.  They discover
that they are both residents of River Run (which I guess is a suburb just
outside of Cleveland), and she realizes he's Mike Sloans of Sloan Industries.
She tells him she works at the Road House, and he tells her about how he and 
Ruth won second place in a dance competition there.  The game is cancelled 
due to the rain, so Mike offers Judy a ride home.  She declines but he offers
to lend her his umbrella.

[Sorry, I got confused about the order of some of the Jeff and Ginger stuff...]

In the locker room, all of Jeff's teammates are oogling at the new Lemo
Tomato Juice calendar (for 1947) which has pictures of Ginger in her cute
little Lemo Tomato Juice Girl outfit in a series of cute and slightly
provocative poses.  The guys all joke about how lucky Jeff is, but he is not
very happy about the calendar.  When he gets home, he confronts Ginger about
the calendar and complains that she's practically wearing underwear in all
of the pictures.  I think he asked her why she hadn't quit yet, or something. 
She tries to explain to him how important the job is to her, that it might 
lead to her big break.  He says he thought the Lemo job was her big break.  
She says it was her first break, like his invitation to Spring training was 
his first break, and his second was making the cut, and the third was getting 
off the bench...  She says she just wants a chance to make it.  He sees that 
she really wants it, so he offers to postpone the wedding for a little while,
but a year is too long.  She is overjoyed that he would to that, and asks for
6 months.  He frowns, so she says 3, which is only 12 weeks.  He agrees,
reluctantly.

Jeff and Ginger go to see Father Dreyer, and ask him if he will agree to 
performing a secret wedding.  He tells them that being secretly married
is lying and that that is not the purpose of marriage, so he will not agree
to do it.

Later, Jeff finds all the guys in the locker room calling up the station
trying to win the Date with a Tomato contest, where the prize is a date with
Ginger.  Jeff gets very mad that Ginger is going to go out on a date, and she
tries to explain to him that nothing will happen, it will be very innocent
with lots of photographers and all.  He is really mad and wants her to quit
the job.

At the Sloan house, Mike and Ruth are getting ready to go to the plant.  He
wants to go to the game again that afternoon, and she wants him to help her
work on approving the plans for the houses they're building.  [This plan was 
from a previous episode, I guess they are building a lot of housing for the
vets to buy.]  I think she said something about him getting home late, so he
decides to drive himself and have Ruth take a cab home.  The phone rings and
it is for Abe.  Mike tells him it better not be a personal call.  Abe picks
up the line, and hears a man threatening him if he doesn't get the white
woman out of his house.  (We can see that it is a white man's mouth speaking
into the phone.)  Abe is upset but says the man must have the wrong Abel Davis
and hangs up.  He leaves, and Perrette rings the doorbell.  Ruth opens the
door and Perrette walks in right past her to greet Gloria.  Gloria explains 
that Perrette is her daughter-in-law and introduces her to the Sloans, who 
look completely shocked and have surprised grins plastered onto their faces.
Perrette says she has brought the rhubarb pie recipe Gloria wanted.

Later at the Davis house, Abe is in his bedroom doing something when Perrette
walks in with a cup of cafe.  He says it tastes good, always better when it
is called cafe rather than coffee.  They start to chat.  She seems a little
sad, and asks him how they raised Robert to be the way he is, how he can
still face the world.  Abe says his parents raised him to know that he was
worth something no matter what other people said.  She asks if they told
him that, and he says no, but he used to listen to his mother through the
air ducts and he could hear her praising him.  She smiles and says he is an
optomist.  She leaves and closes the door, and Abe immediately stops smiling.
He takes out the gun he had hidden and starts to put it together.

At the baseball stadium, Mike is late because Ruth made him stay to approve
all of the housing plans.  Judy sneaks down to the box seats, and is hassled
by an usher until Mike walks up and tells the usher that Judy is with him.
She thanks him, and he tells her to take Ruth's ticket for the last game,
since Ruth won't come next time and this way she won't get hassled if he is 
late.  She returns his umbrella.  They seem generally happy to be in each 
others' company.

When Mike gets home from the game, Ruth is playing the piano.  She tells him
she has figured it out.  He seems a little nervous and asks what.  She says
she decided that Perrette must be partly Moroccan, so in Europe it wouldn't
be considered a *real* mixed marriage.  He seems relieved.  Ruth tells him 
that she has decided to go to the last game with him.  He says he's glad but
he gave away her ticket, and explains that he felt sorry for a "youngster"
who snuck down to the boxes.  Ruth says that they'll just get other seats.
He says he's glad she suggested it, they'll have to sit in general.  She
says "I've never sat in general before, are the seats clean?"

The Davises are listening to the radio, and Gloria asks Abe to talk in the
bedroom.  She has a fit over the gun behind the bed, and he shows her the
threatening letter.  She is very upset and they talk about what to do about
it.  Robert eavesdrops through the air vent and hears about all of the threats.

Ginger goes on her Date with a Tomato, with a poor guy who has had a terrible
run of bad luck.  He tells her how happy he is to be on this date with her,
because it proves that his bad luck streak is over.  He starts to tell her
about the terrible week he's had (and it's really funny and melodramatic--his
furniture got stolen, he was mistakenly arrested, he was robbed by his cell-
mates...).  Ginger tries to be attentive, but is distracted when their waiter
comes--it's Jeff in disguise.  The guy orders champagne and keeps telling her
his story, while Jeff does everything to serve them badly.  He pops the
champagne cork right into the guy's temple, he spills the champagne, he crops
dinner on the guy's lap.  Finally for dessert they're having cherries flambe,
and Jeff dumps tons of brandy into the dish.  He can't get the dish lit though,
and he goes for more matches.  Ginger goes after him and tells him to stop
it, when we hear a big fire off to the side (the date guy lit the cherries)...

Afterwards in the car, Ginger is really pissed at Jeff.  He tries to say he
is sorry but he couldn't help it, he didn't know what he was doing, etc. etc.
and Ginger does not forgive him at all.  She tells him she trusted him the
whole time he was in Florida and all, and that basically he does not trust
her at all.  Finally, they kind of kiss and make up.

Perrette and Robert pack their bags and announce to the family that they are
going to college somewhere far away -- something-Force University.  Gloria
says that's too far away, but Robert says he doesn't want to be the cause for
harm to his family.  Perrette says there are other people like them (I guess
meaning mixed couples) and that they can live a nice quiet life there.  The
whole family hugs and Abe and Gloria cry.

Jeff and Ginger are talking on the phone and he tells her that she has to go
to his house for dinner because the team owner is coming for dinner and he
wants to meet Ginger.  She tells him that the regular soloist for the radio
show is sick and she's been asked to fill in with her own ballad.  He tells
her not to sing but to go to his house, and she tells him she can't pass up
the song.  They fight over it.  Ginger is all dressed up and ready for the
song when Jeff shows up at the station.  He tells her he wants her to come 
home right now.  She says she'll go after the song, but he says it will be too
late.  He says the team owner wants them to get married in the stadium as a
publicity stunt, and he's going to announce it at the dinner.  She says she
can't go.  He says he offered to give up baseball for her, but she says she
didn't ask him to do that.  He says he's waiting to hear her offer the same
to him.  They are both really upset.  He says when she wanted to make it he
never thought--she cuts in "that I'd make it."  He says no, he never thought
it through, that if she became famous she would probably leave River Run for
Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, or Hollywood.  In any case, he would never
see her again, that her making it would take her away from him.  He begs her
to go with her.  She begs him to please wish her luck, to say "break a leg
Ginger".  He says only, "Come home with me, Mrs. Metcalf."  It's time for her
to sing, so she walks out in tears.  She goes on stage and starts to sing
"I'll Be Seeing You" (which if you don't know, is a sad lovesong, with lyrics
about two people who've parted, and the singer sings about seeing their love 
"in all  the old familiar places...").

We see the Davises having a very tearful parting as we listen to Ginger
singing the song.  Gloria completely breaks down in tears, and Grandmother
lingers at the window.  In the studio, Jeff walks into the audience as Ginger
sings the song.  She is very sad and practically crying as she sings the song.
Just before she finishes, he walks out.


Then the previews for the next episode (which will be in two weeks):

Jeff asks Judy out.  Some guy asks Ginger out and tells her that Jeff said
it was ok.  Mike asks Judy to go with him to a road game to try and see the
pitcher break the record.  On the train, Jeff runs into Judy...

I think that was the whole show.  Please add anything I've forgotten.