Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. That's the good news. The bad news? Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, live directly across the street and embrace the motto "Su casa es mi casa," infiltrating their son's home to an extent unparalleled in television history.
Writer: Tucker Cawley
Air date: 2002-09-23
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Depressed that Marie and Debra can't resolve their differences, Robert decides to join a support group and his cousin Gerard convinces him to attend a Inner Path meeting. The Romano family is concerned that Robert has joined a cult, and Marie insists that Raymond join Robert doing an upcoming meeting, so that he can keep an eye on his brother.
Writer: Mike Royce
Air date: 2002-09-23
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: After arguing with Ray over his inability to help her with the household tasks, Debra becomes intrigued when their friends, Linda and Bernie, mention they've been seeing a marriage counsellor. Although Ray is against the idea, he quickly adopts a cooperative attitude when they meet the therapist, Pamela.
Writer: Jeremy Stevens
Air date: 2002-09-30
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: When Ally's teacher, Miss Purcell, overhears Ray commenting about the kids' excessive workload, she invites Raymond to address the curriculum review board and gives him a mountain of material for review and evaluation.
Writer: Aaron Shure
Air date: 2002-10-07
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray writes a eulogy for his father Frank, who hasn't died yet. In the eulogy, he tells a childhood story about watching his tough dad pet the family bunny named Hoppy. Unfortunately for Ray, Marie reads the eulogy and gets offended when she learns that Ray hasn't written one for her.
Air date: 2002-10-14
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray fears something is wrong with him after he comes home from a night out with his friends and tells Debra that he didn't enjoy it. She thinks Ray is finally growing up.
Writer: Tom Caltabiano
Air date: 2002-10-21
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: After deciding to lend Robert $1,000 when he complains he's struggling with finances, Ray and Debra are surprised when Robert uses the money for a vacation to Las Vegas.
Writer: Steve Skrovan
Air date: 2002-11-04
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray moves his things out of his and Debra's bathroom and into the kids' bathroom so Debra has more space, but he soon regrets it when his dad and brother start teasing him and tell him that he is no longer the king of his own house.
Writer: Lew Schneider
Air date: 2002-11-11
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray and Debra are excited to have finally met a couple, who are just like them. However, Ray starts having mixed feelings when their annoying 8 year-old son wreaks havoc around the Barone household.
Writer: Ray Romano
Air date: 2002-11-18
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Robert think he has finally found "the one," and her name is Angela, an international-trade lawyer. She's bright, speaks four languages, and clearly likes Robert. The girl goes on to endear herself to Debra by complimenting her lemon chicken. Ray is also smitten with Angela, until he sees something disturbing during dinner.
Writer: Jay Kogen
Air date: 2002-11-25
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: While Raymond, Robert, and Frank don't want to bring up the fact that Marie is having vision trouble, Debra decides to level with her and suggests she visit an eye doctor. When Marie gets a pair of glasses just in time for the holidays, she winds up spotting and pointing out everyone's physical insecurities.
Writer: Tucker Cawley
Air date: 2002-12-09
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Robert gives Ray a great idea on what to get Debra for Christmas, but he isn't very happy when Ray takes all the credit for it.
Writer: Lew Schneider
Air date: 2003-01-06
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Boisterous Frank learns a difficult lesson in humility from his granddaughter, Ally. During a trip to the supermarket with Ray and Ally, Frank starts nibbling on some trail mix and is caught by a testy manager, and a heated argument ensues. Watching it all unfold is Ally, who becomes frightened by Frank's ranting.
Writer: Steve Skrovan
Air date: 2003-01-27
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Raymond's friend Andy tells him that Jerry Musso, a radio talk show host, hates him. While Raymond is in shock over this, Robert enjoys seeing him fall over like this.
Writer: Steve Skrovan
Air date: 2003-02-03
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: The six-year on-again, off-again relationship between Robert and Amy is reaching a pivotal moment. Robert wants to propose to Amy, but there's one small formality the hopeful groom-to-be must take care of first: asking Amy's devout churchgoing parents for their daughter's hand in marriage.
Writer: Mike Royce
Air date: 2003-02-10
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Tired of being labelled the "evil witch" around the house, Debra convinces Ray that it's his turn to discipline the kids. While leaving to take Ally to a Frontier Girls meeting, Debra tells Ray that he must force the twins to clean up their room or they can't go out and play.
Writer: Aaron Shure
Air date: 2003-02-17
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: After Debra signs Ray up for charity work at the hospital without asking, he reluctantly agrees to go. However, he soon becomes a hit with the patients and starts spending more time there than at home, much to his Debra's dismay.
Writer: Mike Royce
Air date: 2003-02-24
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Amy's parents show up unexpectedly at their daughter's apartment on a Sunday morning. They want to talk Amy out of marrying Robert and take her home to Pennsylvania. They are surprised to see Robert there and shocked to learn that he often spends the night.
Writer: Tucker Cawley
Air date: 2003-03-10
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Yet another bump appears on the rocky road to Robert and Amy's wedding, when the bride-to-be puts her betrothed in charge of writing the wedding invitations. Ray and Frank can't believe Robert let himself get roped into planning the wedding, they nevertheless come up with a plan to help ensure that Robert will never have to help out with the wedding again.
Air date: 2003-03-31
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray takes Ally over to her friend Molly's house for a sleepover. He is mortified when Molly's mother turns out to be Peggy, the same Frontier Girl troop scout leader that he had a run-in with doing the cookie sale last year. Things get awkward when she pats his rear after he helps her set up a tent for the girls.
Writer: Steve Skrovan
Air date: 2003-04-14
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Marie announces that Rose, the elderly lady living next door to her and Frank, has passed away. She is upset because Rose was the woman she had chosen for Frank as a replacement wife, if Marie should pass away first. Debra thinks it would be fun to fantasize about who would take her place.
Writer: Leslie Caveny
Air date: 2003-04-28
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Debra throws the bridal shower for Amy, but her good intentions get sidetracked by Marie's overzealous participation. This leads to a fight between the two and Marie winds up leaving. Debra then gets a little to much to drink and ends up falling a sleet in her car with the key still in the ignition. She is awoken by a police officer who arrests her for being drunk behind the wheel.
Writer: Tucker Cawley
Air date: 2003-05-05
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray and Debra wind up in a two-week stand-off over a suitcase.
Writer: Mike Royce
Air date: 2003-05-12
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Ray throws a lame bachelor party for Robert and is shamed by Debra, Marie, and Amy into throwing him a proper one at the lodge, which will also be attended by Amy's father and brother.
Writer: Phil Rosenthal
Air date: 2003-05-19
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Robert and Amy exchange vows in a classic Barone family wedding ceremony.
Writer: Phil Rosenthal
Air date: 2003-05-19
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Robert and Amy exchange vows in a classic Barone family wedding ceremony.
