Archie drives Gloria and Joey to Dr. Adams house... Gloria new boss; who is owner and head veterinarian of the veterinary clinic she works for. Dr. Adams also lets Gloria and Joey be his roomates, with the rule of no pets. Meanwhile, a rich lady leaves her pure-bred show dog's non-pure-bred puppies at the office, and tells Gloria that Dr. Adams will destroy them for her. So it is up to Gloria and Joey try rescue them.
Gloria and Joey arrive at their new home; but then find out that it belongs to the head veterinarian, Dr. Adams (Burgess Meredith). So instead of having a house full to themselves, like they originally thought, they will be his housemates. After a while, Gloria considers take her and Joey back to live with Archie after meeting Dr. Adams' bitchy business partner, Dr. Maggie Lawrence (Jo deWinter), being charmed by the other veterinary assistant, Clark Uhley, Jr., and then to have her job not be what she expected.
After receiving flowers from a client of the vet, an exceedingly nervous Gloria goes out on a date with him. Which is her first date since her break-up with Michael.
Michael's presence is sorely missed when Gloria tries to curb Joey's urge to fight a bully.
On an emergency call, Gloria and Dr.Adams make a near-fatal mistake that gives them both pause about their careers.(TV Guide)
Jealousies arise over a runt piglet: Clark's upset when Gloria is entrusted with it's care, and Joey thinks the ""new baby"" has taken his place in his mother's heart.(TV Guide)
It is test time in her vet-assistant class and Gloria - known in high school as ""Gloria Flunker"" -has additional cause for anxiety: Dr Adams is the substitute teacher. (TV Guide)
Maggie makes a big mistake in refusing a lawyer's toster oven as payment for treating his monkey. (TV Guide)
It's bad enough that Clark told his father Gloria is his fiancee, but now Dad is offering her money to call off the wedding.(TV Guide)
With visions of more money for Dr. Adams-and herself-Gloria signs him up for Social Security, only to find the computer has declared him dead.(TV Guide)
Joey nominates Gloria to rescue his friend's cat from the home of a women who, it is said, uses pets for potting soil and bakes children in her oven. (TV Guide)
Joey's Christmas may not be very merry if he discovers that his father hasn't sent him the bicycle he wants. (TV Guide)
A reluctant Joey agrees to visit his dad for the first time since his parents' separation, but Gloria is panic–stricken when she learns he wasn't on the plain when it landed in California. (TV Guide)
Gloria is a Victim of an armed robbery at the office, and she can't recall a single detail for the police.(TV Guide)
On a ""house call"" to a traveling circus, Maggie meets an old flame-Boffo the Clown.(TV Guide)
A Plague-ridden squirrel sends the clinic staff into quarantine, which occasions intimations of mortality and confessions of innermost feelings. (TV Guide)
Dr. Adams's longtime paramour brings up the subject of marriage-but Dr.Adams isn't the groom she had in mind.(TV Guide)
Gloria is overjoyed with a hefty reward for finding a recently deceased client's dog-until she discovers what the dog's role is in the old lady's funeral plans. (TV Guide)
Gloria falls into a blue funk when she receives the final papers on her divorce. (TV Guide)
Stranded with moter truoble. Gloria and Clark are forced to share a room at a romantic honeymoon motel.(TV Guide)
The vet-assistant class falls victim to budjet cuts. So Gloria resorts to a tactic from her activist days with the Meathead: A sit in. (TV Guide)
Gloria discovers that when she got divorced she lost more than a husband-she also lost her credit rating. (TV Guide)