Dear John Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Dear John: Season 4 (1991 - 1992)

• Season 4 Episode 22: The Nightmare Continues

  Louise's visualization technique backfires.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Freddy's Back

  John baby-sits the boss's parrot.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Adult Education

  Kirk gets his high school diploma.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Heartburn and Heartache

  A doctor links John's stomach pain to Kirk.

• Season 4 Episode 18: The Write Stuff

  John tries writing soap opera scripts.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Poor John

  John overextends credit to impress a girlfriend.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Poor John

  Lack of funds clouds John's ski weekend with a new flame.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Who's Who

  John teaches a literacy class; Kirk tries to date one of the students.

• Season 4 Episode 14: John's Divided Heart

  Scriptwriter Mary Beth sees John's problems as soap-opera fodder.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Big Payday

  John gets the group to invest with Kirk's shady friend.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Do the Wrong Thing

  John stands up a date (Elayne Boosler) to go out with another.

• Season 4 Episode 11: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

  John hires a Santa with marital problems for the day-care center.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Once I Had a Secret Love

  Louise confesses to an affair with a club member.

• Season 4 Episode 9: I Do, Baby

  Kate marries Mitch; Wendy has a baby.

• Season 4 Episode 8: I Do, Baby

  Kirk plans to disrupt Kate's wedding.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The Bachelor Shower

  John and Kirk are videotaped using a malfunctioning ATM.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Lust & Death

  Kirk faces a shotgun wedding.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Hello Annie

  Kirk becomes a new member's (Marietta DePrima) unexpected housemate.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Whose Soap Opera Is It, Anyway?

  John tells Mary Beth how he feels about her new job.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Kate's Cop

  Kate dates a police sergeant (Gregory Salata).

• Season 4 Episode 2: Kirk's Ex-Wife

  The group meets Kirk's ex-wife.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Brothers

  Kirk convinces John they're long-lost brothers.

Dear John: Season 3 (1990 - 1991)

• Season 3 Episode 22: John's Week Off

  An expensive ring convinces Kate to accept a persistent suitor's proposals.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Matthew and the Baby

  John tries to get Matthew to talk about the coming of the baby.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Louise, the Hero

  Louise's claim makes the group suspect her sanity.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Poet

  John wants his former professor to evaluate his poetry.

• Season 3 Episode 18: The Poet

  John mulls exposing his mentor (George Hearn) as a plagiarist.

• Season 3 Episode 17: John and Kirk's Excellent Adventure

  Kirk loses the group's birthday present to John.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Love Stories

  Kirk and John suffer after being honest with their girlfriends.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Love Stories

  Kirk asks Jackie (Mindy Seeger) to live with him.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Love Stories

  Cupid's arrow strikes John, Kate and Kirk.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Molly and Me

  Ralph falls for a co-worker who turns out to be married.

• Season 3 Episode 12: A Matter of Trust

  An actress (Robin Strasser) involves John in a tabloid scandal.

• Season 3 Episode 11: A Matter of Trust

  An actress (Robin Strasser) involves John in a tabloid scandal.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Homeward Bound

  John asks his aging mother to move in.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Down and Out in Rego Park

  The group tries to cheer unemployed Mary Beth.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Blunder Years

  The group encourages John to seek a favorite adventure author.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Hole in One

  Kate meets her ex (Corbin Bernsen) at her aunt's funeral.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Hot Lips Lacey

  John learns the other musicians in his clarinet recital are kids.

• Season 3 Episode 5: That's Big of Me

  A new member (Doug Sheehan) woos Kate and Louise; John joins the gym.

• Season 3 Episode 4: A Priest's Story

  John mediates a feud between Kirk and his priest brother.

• Season 3 Episode 3: And Baby Makes Four

  John has second thoughts about Wendy's request.

• Season 3 Episode 2: And Baby Makes Four

  His ex-wife's maternal yearnings raise John's hopes of reconciliation.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Pretty Man

  Kirk inadvertently misleads John about their double dates.

Dear John: Season 2 (1989 - 1990)

• Season 2 Episode 24: No More Mr. Nice Guy

  A divorce lawyer inspires Kate and John to bold actions.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Aunt Red

  Kate chooses John as her nephew's role model, but the boy likes Kirk.

• Season 2 Episode 22: To John With Love

  Mary Beth (Susan Walters) tells John she has a crush on him.

• Season 2 Episode 21: True Confessions

  The group threatens to expel Kirk unless he tells the truth about his life.

• Season 2 Episode 20: John's Night Out

  John skips a meeting to prove his non-dependence.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Babyface

  John, Kirk and Ralph baby-sit Louise's son.

• Season 2 Episode 18: John's New Job

  John's new boss at a publishing firm is an amorous ex-student.

• Season 2 Episode 17: John's New Job

  John plans to confront his boss about ending their affair.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Some Nights to Remember

  John won't join in reminiscences about a closing restaurant.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Unwelcome to the Club

  A paroled murderer joins the group.

• Season 2 Episode 14: John's Friend

  Kirk and John go on a ski trip, but John finds another friend.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Kirk's Problem

  A new member's aggressive response to advances renders Kirk impotent.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

  John fears breaking up with a woman because of a bond with her 9-year-old.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Honolulu Baby

  John accompanies Mrs. Philbert to her high-school reunion.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Kate, a Date and Fate

  Kate's romance with John's friend has familiar elements.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Dilemma With Emma

  John's meddlesome aunt joins the group.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Father Knows Best

  John's father (Stephen Elliot) dates Kate.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Something on the Side

  John catches his ex-wife's husband being unfaithful.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The British Are Coming

  Louise needs a man to pose as her husband for her visiting relatives.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Secret of Success

  Ralph sells a self-help book, but John doesn't want it.

• Season 2 Episode 4: John's Blind Date

  John's blind date (Jan Hooks) wants to move in.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Ralph's Second Chance

  Ralph's wedding announcement worries John.

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Other Group

  John attends another group's meeting and is asked to leave One-to-One.

• Season 2 Episode 1: A New Leash on Life

  John takes in a stray dog and has to move.

Dear John: Season 1 (1988 - 1989)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Bound for Gloria

  Kirk regrets 'hitting on' a widow visiting the group.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Friends & Lovers

  John and friend get entangled in each other's love lives.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Margo

  John's fellow club members think his date (Shannon Tweed) has a secret.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Gone Camping

  John and son Matthew are snowbound in a remote cabin.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Sisters

  Kate fakes dating Kirk to trap her boyfriend-stealing sister.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Last Dance

  Ralph fears his social skills don't measure up to his dancing.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Second Time Around

  John's first lover (Gwen Verdon) visits.

• Season 1 Episode 15: For a Friend

  John's married friend joins the club to meet women.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Love and Marriage

  Louise announces she is pregnant and plans to remain unmarried.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Stand by Your Man

  A homosexual club member (Cleavon Little) falls for John.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Dream Babe

  Kirk finds true love in a subservient woman.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Return of Ricky

  A faded rock star threatens to back out of the club's '60s benefit concert.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Honest John

  Wendy and John lie about their divorce to get their son into prep school.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Was It Good for Me?

  Ralph asks John to get him a date with Kate.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Dancing in the Dark

  John celebrates Christmas with a neighbor (Sylvia Sidney).

• Season 1 Episode 7: Politics as Usual

  Kate campaigns for a married congresswoman candidate who tries to seduce John.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Dear Mike

  The party who broke up John's marriage seeks his companionship.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Matthew's Dilemma

  John can't understand why his son won't spend time with him.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Younger Girl

  John's beautiful new girlfriend thrills him, until he learns her age.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Hello, Goodbye

  A young man claims to be John's son.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Ralph's Curse

  Kate and John try to convince Ralph his bad luck isn't from an Egyptian curse.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  John reluctantly attends his first meeting of the One-Two-One Club.