Maude

Maude hires a black housekeeper to prove her liberalism and insists that they become close personal friends.

Maude, a woman who believes in fighting city hall -- or anything else in her Bath -- tangles with a psychiatrist who is treating her daughter.

When Maude's grandson and Arthur's granddaughter are found playing "doctor" behind the garage, war is declared between Maude and Arthur over the punishment the boy should be given.

Carol learns all about the "wrath of a woman scorned" when she starts dating a man who jilted her mother before she married Walter.

Guess who's coming to Maude's fund-raising party for a black militant? Well, it's almost time for the guests to arrive and even Maude doesn't know who is coming and who isn't.

Maude comes home from a routine visit to her doctor with the unexpected news that she is pregnant. This brings strangely divergent reactions from both her daughter and her husband.

The news that Carol is remarrying is taken in stride by Walter, but Maude considers it a disastrous affront to her position as her daughter's best friend and confidante.

Maude is given a speeding ticket by an eager young traffic cop who insists she was doing 34 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone.

Arthur is watching the national election results on television with Maude and Walter and reminds them of their stormy courtship days.

Maude is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her old school chum, hoping to be able to gloat a bit since she knows Phyllis has never married.

When one of the teenagers on the block is busted by the police for marijuana possession, Maude, the people's defender, heads a group to keep the youth out of jail.

Maude's unexpected pregnancy wreaks havoc in the lives of Maude and Walter while they try to decide what to do about it, in the conclusion of a two-part story.

Maude accompanies Walter to an out-of-town business convention where they find themselves trapped in a shoddy, run-down motel room.

Walter's 50th birthday is near and everyone except Walter is excited, so Maude plans a surprise birthday party for him.

When Maude takes on the medical profession, the battle is destined to be one-sided -- in other words, the medical profession doesn't have a chance of winning.

When fire damages his house, Arthur moves in temporarily with Maude and Walter, a move which wreaks havoc on the already battle-scarred Findlay household.

Maude and Florida discover that male chauvinistic pigs come in all colors when Florida's husband demands she stop working for white people.

Walter, a victim of the "male past fifty" syndrome, is caught having a cocktail with a former secretary and then tries to lie his way out of it.

Would Maude let a simple thing like hate -- instead of love -- between a mother and daughter keep her from bringing the two of them together to patch up their differences?