Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Ropers' from 1970-1982:
- Audra Lindley as Helen Roper (1979-1980)
- Evan Cohen as David Brookes (1979-1980)
- Jeffrey Tambor as Jeffrey P. Brookes III (1979-1980)
- Norman Fell as Stanley Roper (1979-1980)
- Patty McCormick as Anne Brookes (1979-1980)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Ropers':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Brian Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer D: Dave Powers
Series premiere. After selling their apartment house, Stanley and Helen Roper try out a new lifestyle in a condominium.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke D: Dave Powers
With Roger Bowen (James), Jean Gillespie (Margaret), Rick Garcia (Locksmith), Tom Pedi (Mover).
Stanley locks himself out of his new condominium while dressed in only a robe and slippers.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke D: Dave Powers
With Lois Areno (Marilyn Graham), Marilyn Borden (Hetty), Rosalyn Borden (Betty), John Fiedler (Bill Marsh), Jane Dulo (Kate Morgan), Mickey Deems (Uncle Bert), Hope Clarke (Dr. Young).
Stanley's physical checkup for a life insurance policy has him convinced his days are numbered as he awaits the results.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke D: Dave Powers
With Alice Hirson (Mrs. Eastham), Don Chastain (Keith).
Helen believes Stanley is having an affair when she finds a batch of love letters he's written to another woman.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke D: Dave Powers
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Lucy Lee Flippin (Hilda), Lucille Benson (Mother), Rod Colbin (Hubert Armbrewster).
Helen's mother announces her plans to stay with with Stanley and Helen -- permanently.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke D: Dave Powers
With Lois Areno (Marilyn Graham), Richard Kline (Larry Dallas), William Cort (Mr. Williams), Mary-Robin Redd (Mrs. Williams), Cooper Neal (Councilman Clifford), Nancy Priddy (Mrs. Clifford).
When Helen invites 40 neighbors to brunch and only 1 shows up, she is so hurt that Stanley decides the time has come to move.
September 15, 1979: The Party
Season 2, episode 1
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With John Ritter (Jack Tripper), Joyce DeWitt (Janet Wood), Suzanne Somers (Chrissy Snow).
A prudish new neighbor of the Ropers suspects the worst when he sees Janet and Chrissy giving Stanley disco lessons.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Squire Fridell (Bill), Vernon Weddle (Ernest Grimes), Peggy Converse (Mrs. Hollingsworth).
A young man appears at the Ropers carrying his mother's diary, which has an entry claiming that Stanley is the boy's father.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Rod Colbin (Hubert Armbrewster), Cliff Norton (Don Webster).
When the Ropers' electricity is turned off, Stanley is forced into using an unfriendly neighbor's kitchen to cook a gourmet meal for Helen's snooty sister.
Season 2, episode 4
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Lois Areno (Debbie Hopper), Beverly Dixon (Hortense Bell), Henry Sutton (Rev. Munson), Missy Howard (Girl).
Helen and Stanley respond very differently to the suggestion that they adopt a child.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Wayne Kline, Joseph Staretski, Martin Rips D: Jack Shea
With Dick Christie (Officer Hibbs), Fred Pinkard (Desk Sergeant), Alan Koss (Officer Slade), Art Koustik (Bartender).
Stanley and Jeffrey, driven to the same bar by marital tiffs, begin a friendship that ends shortly afterwards in jail.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Lois Areno (Debbie Hopper), Martin Ferrero (Salesman), Sheila Rogers (Customer).
While flirting in a hot tub with a stewardess, Stanley loses Helen's prized puppy.
Season 2, episode 7
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Joey Forman (Officer McNab), Sam McMurray (Charles Remington).
Stanley buys Helen an antique clock from the back of a van that looks just like the one stolen from their neighbors' townhouse.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Mark Fink D: Jack Shea
With Carleton Carpenter (Roland Calvert).
After Stanley accidentally sets fire to his kitchen, he and Helen move in with the Brookes for the night.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Rod Colbin (Hubert Armbrewster), Richard B. Shull (Joey).
Stanley buys some "new" furniture for Helen, not realizing that its previous owner was Helen's snobbish sister Ethel.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Stephen Neigher D: Jack Shea
With Matthew Tobin (Donald Carey).
Stanley suspects the worst when Helen disappears with a handsome bachelor who comes to the door looking for her.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Alan Hackney D: Jack Shea
With Barry Nelson (Uncle Steve).
Stanley discovers that a hobo is the landlord's uncle and plots to bring him to a society party at the Brookes.
Season 2, episode 12
W: George Tricker, Neil Rosen D: Jack Shea
With Jay Varela (Mr. Ramirez), Jillian Kesner (Linda Graham), Dante D'Andre (Man #2), Julio Medina (Man #3).
Starved for affection, Helen claims she has a passionate admirer.
Season 2, episode 13
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger).
The Ropers find out that a 18-year-old girl has been living in their storeroom for weeks.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Edward Edwards (Michael Dinkelmann).
Stanley pays Brooke's nephew $50 to take Jenny out on a date.
Season 2, episode 15
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Lucille Benson (Mother).
Ethel attempts to retrieve a valuable horse-shaped vase from the Ropers.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Barbara Allyn, Katherine Green D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger).
Helen's and David's birthday party is a disaster when first Stanley and Jeffrey and then Helen and Anne start squabbling.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Stephen Neigher D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Jordan Charney (Mr. McLaughlin), Lola Mason (Lucille Pomeroy), Paul Valentine (Maitre 'd).
Helen is convinced Stanley is having an affair when she sees him give a locket to another woman.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Richard B. Shull (Joey).
Helen volunteers Stanley to babysit on his poker night, so Stanley takes David to the poker game.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), James Callahan (Tom Cummins), Gloria LeRoy (Gloria Mealy), Joe George (Bartender), Mickey Deems (Drunkard), Lucille Benson (Mother).
Stanley is jealous when Helen wants to reunite with an old boyfriend who is in town, so he tries to reconnect with an old girlfriend to get even with her.
Season 2, episode 20
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Edward Grover (Rev. Harper).
Stanley fears Helen accidentally gave a box containing his girlie magazines to a church rummage sale.
Season 2, episode 21
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Rod Colbin (Hubert Armbrewster), Timothy Blake (Louise Cooper).
Running out of money, Stanley needs to take a job on the killing floor at his brother-in-law Hubert's meat packing plant. Later, his fortunes change when he learns Hubert is planning a secret trip to Acapulco with his secretary.
Season 2, episode 22
W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea
With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Lois Hamilton (Debbie Hopper), Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Darcy Pulliam (Hilda), Henry Sutton (Rev. Munson), Lucille Benson (Mother).
Helen's mother decides to holds a wake for herself at the Ropers' house while she's still around to enjoy it. (Last show of the series.)