It's a Living is an American sitcom set in a restaurant at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. The show aired on ABC from October 30, 1980 until June 11, 1982. After the series was cancelled, new episodes aired in first-run syndication from September 28, 1985 to April 8, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver, Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions, later in association with Golden West Television and Lorimar-Telepictures.
Air date: 1986-09-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: On a night when everyone wants to leave early, the majority of the staff systematically becomes trapped on the roof, leaving Amy, Nancy and Howard to deal with a mob of customers.
Air date: 1986-10-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Amy is feeling lonely so to pick up her spirits, the girls take her out to a singles bar. However, each one of the girls encounter a man who is far from Mr. Right.
Air date: 1986-10-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Newly married Jan is set to attend her high school reunion and is thrilled that she will get to see her old boyfriend, one who still holds a torch for her and her for him. Meanwhile, Nancy tries a new trick to lure Howard home.
Air date: 1986-10-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Jan's birthday is coming up but Amy has not such a nice surprise for Jan, after she becomes convinced that Richie is having an affair with Ginger.
Air date: 1986-10-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Nancy is not to pleased with a visit from her sister, Gloria, and things don't improve when Nancy becomes convinced that Gloria is trying to take Howard away from her.
Air date: 1986-11-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: After their car breaks down, while on a trip to Las Vegas, Sonny and the girls check into a hotel. A hotel that is run by a mysterious man and his unseen mother.
Air date: 1986-11-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Divorcees are coming out of the wood work when Dot's mother and Jan's father come for a visit and hit it off.
Air date: 1986-11-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: After going out one evening to a social event, Dot and Howard begin a series of dates that everyone becomes convinced that Dot and Howard's relationship has turned into something other then platonic.
Air date: 1986-11-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The hotel hosts a murder mystery but things turn surprisingly real when Sonny becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Air date: 1986-12-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A long time rival and food critic of Howard's visits the hotel which puts Howard's job and relationship with Nancy in jeopardy.
Air date: 1986-12-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Richie's new sculpture is a smash success and agrees to let it be displayed in the restaurant. His success crumbles, however, when Jan allows the sculpture to be sold to a tourist, only later Jan learns it isn't his sculpture.
Air date: 1987-01-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sonny strikes oil and with the help from a shady investor, tries to convince the girls to go in on an oil investment.
Air date: 1987-01-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Nancy drops heavy hints about her upcoming birthday and expects a party to be thrown. Meanwhile, Jan and Richie fight and Sonny pleads to join Dot's car pool.
Air date: 1987-01-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Thanks to Jan's advice, Ginger is evicted from her apartment after withholding the rent to force the landlord to repaint it. Ginger then moves in with Amy, who lives in a ""No Men Allowed"" apartment building, but Ginger's love-life soon conflicts with that rule.
Air date: 1987-01-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Ginger babysits for a friend who later strands Ginger with the baby who takes him to work. Meanwhile, Sonny car-sits for a friend, but picks up the wrong the wrong car, one that belongs to a gangster.
Air date: 1987-01-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Howard's naive niece visits and begins dating Sonny. Something Howard is determind to put an end to.
Air date: 1987-02-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Amy feels guilty for being unwed so she decides to reunite with an old flame. Meanwhile, Dot sells skin care products.
Air date: 1987-02-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dot is slightly unnerved by an old boyfriend who's becoming a priest and is questioning his commitment.
Air date: 1987-02-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Jan Murray plays a former children's show host whose fan club dinner clashes with Nancy's meeting with a vice president from the restaurant chain.
Air date: 1987-02-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: South Pacific natives arrive to worship the person they consider a supreme being, Howard. Meanwhile, Nancy challenges the waitresses to a contest.
Air date: 1987-03-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dot quits to become a full-time unemployed actress. Meanwhile, Sonny writes a musical based on Attila the Hun and Ginger's footwear fetish spreads to Amy.
Air date: 1987-05-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Ginger weighs the merits of two boyfriends while Howard weighs offers from other restaurants.
Air date: 1987-05-09
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A romantic evening alone in the hotel is anything but for Jan and Richie, who weather interruptions from the restaurant staff.
Air date: 1987-05-16
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Fur flies after Ginger buys Jan's car and Amy asks Dot to act as a go-between with a handsome new employee.
Air date: 1987-05-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Nancy reviews her relationships with her employees during a visit to her psychiatrist.
