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Season 1 · 24 episodes

• E1 Pilot
  Sep 17, 1991 25 min

  After Jill explicitly tells Tim not to touch the dishwasher, he breaks it in an attempt to make it more powerful; more of a "man's" dishwasher. Jill has a job interview, but she doesn't get it and when Tim tries to comfort her, he only makes matters worse. After talking to Wilson, Tim tries again and succeeds.

• E2 Mow Better Blues
  Sep 26, 1991 25 min

  After breaking one of Tim's tools that has been in the family for twenty years, Mark fears that he will be traded in after Brad and Randy make up a story about "Peter", their former brother that was traded in after he broke one of Tim's flashlights.

• E3 Off Sides
  Oct 1, 1991 25 min

  When she can't find a babysitter, Jill has a magician watch the kids while she and Tim go on their romantic dinner. However, Tim is too distracted by a football game to pay attention to her. Meanwhile, the kids accidentally lock the magician in a trunk.

• E4 Satellite on a Hot Tim's Roof
  Oct 8, 1991 25 min

  Tim becomes green with envy while putting up a new satellite dish on the roof when Jill's teacher visits.

• E5 Wild Kingdom
  Oct 15, 1991 25 min

  While working in the basement, Tim hears some strange noises. Is it a mouse or is it a creepy crawly snake?

• E6 Adventures in Fine Dining
  Oct 22, 1991 25 min

  Tim bets Jill that he can teach the boys some table manners.

• E7 Nothing More Than Feelings
  Oct 29, 1991 25 min

  After Jill drove while her oil light was on, Tim shares this with the Tool Time audience and the other guys say their wives don't respect their tools.

• E8 Flying Sauces
  Nov 5, 1991 25 min

  The K&B Construction guys are invited on Tool Time to show how to make hot gourmet meals while on the job site. They use the tools of their trade to make meals anyone would be proud of. At home, Jill is fed up with Brad and Randy excluding Mark from their games so she has a talk with them. Brad and Randy tell Mark that they, along with Tim and Jill, are aliens from outer space.

• E9 Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
  Nov 19, 1991 25 min

  Tim decides to put in another sink in the bathroom so his shaving junk won't be in Jill's way, but the project takes longer than he expects.

• E10 Reach Out and Teach Someone
  Nov 26, 1991 25 min

  Tim decides to do a Tool Time special for women to teach plumbing. After being called an idiot by Randy, Brad worries that he will do bad on a test. Tim starts his hot rod.

• E11 Look Who's Not Talking
  Dec 10, 1991 25 min

  Jill gets stage fright when she has to deliver a speech in front of women at the Library Association. Tim and Mark dress up as women to help her get over her fear.

• E12 Yule Better Watch Out
  Dec 17, 1991 25 min

  Tim competes in the neighborhood Christmas light competition. Mark writes his Christmas list to Santa, but Brad and Randy tell him Santa is dead.

• E13 Up Your Alley
  Jan 7, 1992 25 min

  Tim and Jill have a bowling match against each other and try not to make it competitive, until the K&B Construction guys show up. The boys get in trouble at an arcade.

• E14 For Whom the Belch Tolls
  Jan 14, 1992 25 min

  Jill doesn't want Stu Cutler, Tim's old college friend, in the house. So Tim tries to keep him away, but when he gives in and Stu comes to the house he insults Tim and Jill and belches with the boys.

• E15 Forever Jung
  Jan 21, 1992 25 min

  Karen visits and Tim must stand up to her. Jennifer invites Brad to her parents' anniversary, so Jill teaches him how to dance.

• E16 Jill's Birthday
  Feb 4, 1992 25 min

  Tim gets Jill a lifetime membership to a health care club, until she says she will never exercise again. Brad and Randy spend all of their money on a baseball card, so they make Mark give them a "brother tax" to get Jill a present.

• E17 What About Bob?
  Feb 11, 1992 25 min

  Tim cheats to beat Tool Time guest Bob Vila at a trivia game. Randy pulls a prank on Curtis, a geek at school.

• E18 Baby, It's Cold Outside
  Feb 18, 1992 25 min

  Mr. Binford ruins Tim and Jill's romantically planned weekend by making them go camping to present Binford's new line of winter camping gear.

• E19 Unchained Malady
  Feb 25, 1992 25 min

  Tim gets bad luck after throwing a chain letter from Al out. Randy wrecks his new bike after being dared to do a trick.

• E20 Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor
  Mar 3, 1992 25 min

  Jill tells Tim that he is a bad listener when he doesn't remember her mentioning the opera fundraiser. Brad and Randy try to get Mark to eat a worm while working on a birdhouse.

• E21 A Battle of Wheels
  Mar 17, 1992 25 min

  Tim accidentally breaks one of Jill's pottery projects when she leaves it in the garage. Tim lets Al host Tool Time for a day after blaming him for one of his mistakes.

• E22 Luck Be a Taylor Tonight
  Apr 7, 1992 25 min

  Al and Jill's sister, Robin, ruin Tim's poker night.

• E23 Al's Fair in Love and War
  Apr 28, 1992 25 min

  Al tries to ask Greta Post out, but when he does he screws up. After Jill finds her old diary, Tim wants to read it. Tim notices that Brad acts different around Jennifer.

• E24 Stereo-Typical
  May 5, 1992 25 min

  Tim and Jill have a fight over the volume of the stereo, until the speaker blows.