Evening Shade

Ava suffers from empty nest syndrome when Taylor moves into his first apartment, and Merleen gets hooked on the Shop-At-Home Channel.

The tension mounts with the temperature when Wood gets locked inside Freida’s new sauna on the first night of football season.

Harlan thinks he’s the perfect expert witness until Ava opposes him in court.

Herman is about to confess a momentary indiscretion to his girlfriend, Margaret, but she beats him to the punch.

Wood tries to allay Emily’s fear of scary costumes on her first Halloween outing.

Evan draft’s Wood to take over Nub’s paper route when Nub is under the weather.

Everyone’s dreaming of getting rich quick when a big movie star makes an offer to buy the town.

When Frieda decides to quit smoking, she chooses Herman to help her kick the habit.

Ponder Blue panics when a new restaurant in town takes a bite out of his business.

Ava, Fontana and Freida set Ponder up with a new girlfriend, against Wood’s advice and then are mortified when they discover that this new gal in town used to be a guy.

Mayor Wood Newton finds himself in the undignified position of imitating a clucking chicken in order to earn a million dollar inheritance.

The checking account is empty and the garbage truck’s been repossessed, as new Mayor Wood Newton assesses the town’s financial condition passed down from the last administration.

Wood has a big decision to make when he’s offered the chance to coach a big league football team.

Ava insists that Wood come to the rescue when Molly is embarrassed by a secret suitor who has painted “I Love Molly Newton” on the town’s water tower.

Wood has to move out of the house when daughter Emily comes down with chicken pox, because he never had them as a kid.