The following is a list of episodes for the American television sitcomCaroline in the City, which ran from September 21, 1995, to April 26, 1999, on NBC.
The ATM fails to give Caroline her money, but when she goes to the bank and they need to watch the video of the transaction, she is too embarrassed as she picked her nose on camera.
Caroline believes Del bought her an expensive gift, which turned out be much more modest than she thought. Richard paints a nude of a Mobster's girlfriend. Annie tries to find a man she met at a New Year's Eve party.
Caroline returns to her hometown of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, where a park is dedicated to her. Her brother Chris steals the limelight away from her once again, however.
Annie convinces Caroline to ask out a man shopping for shirts at the mall. He turns out to be paranoid. She mets Del at Remo's and they sleep together.
Caroline decides whether or not to accept Del's marriage proposal. Remo and Annie tell her Richard has feeling for her. Richard visits a temp agency looking for work.
Caroline gets cold feet as her wedding nears. Meanwhile, Richard writes her a love letter and leaves it on a pile of thank you notes. Caroline never opens the letter, but Richard leaves New York believing she had and rejected him.
A flashback show showing events from shortly after Richard was hired. The events of this episode are out of order from the first season finale and the second season premiere.
Richard fails to sell enough paintings to live in Paris and returns to New York. Caroline takes Salty to the vet. The episode ends with Caroline finding Richard as he is moving into his new apartment.
Richard finds out that Caroline never read his love letter, and tries to retrieve it before anyone sees it. He visits the apartment of Caroline's pregnant friend Vicky, throws the box of thanks you notes out the window, and helps Caroline deliver Vicky's baby. Annie finds his love letter on the street, and at the end of the episode plans to show it Caroline. Richard convinces her otherwise, saying it would only cause needless pain.
Del starts his own greeting card company, Eagle Greeting Cards, and Caroline reluctantly joins. Meanwhile, Richard paints a mural in a shady part of town.
Caroline receives an award, but Joe refuses to attend the ceremony because one of the sponsors makes mink coats. After failing to find another date, Richard agrees to go with Caroline. Meanwhile, Del pretends to be Jewish to get a date.
Joe gives Caroline the phone number of a cat therapist, who determines that Salty's odd behavior is the result of being around Richard. Richard goes to see his 3rd grade teacher, who had told him he was bad with animals.
Annie's mother Angie (Candice Azzara) comes to visit, saying there are termites in her house. Caroline discovers there may be more to this than it seems.
Caroline gets locked in the laundry room of her building with a homeless man. Del tries to get Richard to create greeting cards for him. Annie keeps finding the same $5 bill with the word 'Repent' on it.
Annie's record of never having been stood up is broken. Meanwhile, Joe's ex-girlfriend Lisa comes back into town and moves back into his apartment (which was in Lisa's name), which makes Caroline determined to tell Joe to move out.
Annie's sister Donna (Mackenzie Phillips) is visiting and cannot come up with a new song to relaunch her career. After finding Richard's love letter to Caroline in Annie's diary, she wants to use it for the lyrics to her new song, to Richard's dismay. Meanwhile, Caroline is unable to find her black pumps, and returns to Joe's apartment in search of them.
Richard's work is exhibited in a country club, thanks to Del. A fan of his work decides to become his patron but requires him to give up his job with Caroline.
Unaware of why a small town in upper New York has decided to drop her comic strip, Caroline and Richard go on a road trip to find out, only to have their car break down.
Richard goes downstairs to get some aspirin, and ends up kissing Julia. Caroline catches them and reacts badly. Caroline leaves a message on Richard's answering machine, only to have Julia erase it.
Caroline goes on a date with a novelist whose book she claims to have read, but has not. Julia gets a job as a waitress at Remo's to make extra money, but is terrible at it.
Caroline discovers that the whole building has been getting free cable from a connector in her apartment for which she has never paid. She goes to the cable company to volunteer to pay for it, much to Annie's annoyance.
Caroline is set up with Trevor (Robert Gant) on a blind date at Happy Garden, a Chinese restaurant, but Richard and Julia accompany them and Richard interrupts everything Caroline and Trevor say.
Richard's predecessor comes into town and asks Caroline to be an egg donor for her. Richard believes that his job is at risk and goes all out to make sure Caroline does not replace him with his predecessor.
Richard buys Julia a wedding ring which goes missing after Caroline receives some Chinese takeaway. The delivery boy gets fired and ends up sleeping on Caroline's couch. Annie re-evaluates her feelings for a shy piano player who mistakenly thinks he had a date with her.
Caroline and Trevor start dating again, but Trevor's dog refuses to accept Caroline. Caroline attempts to bond with the dog. Richard believes Marvin Hamlisch stole his childhood compositions. Hamlisch appears as himself.
A councilman wants Caroline in the City to endorse his run for re-election, and also buys one of Richard's paintings. Caroline does not want to give a political endorsement, and Richard wants his painting back.
Richard becomes a used car salesman to earn extra money to buy Christmas presents, but does not tell Caroline or Julia, leading both of them to believe he is having an affair.
Caroline goes to Del's family's house for Christmas and brings a decanter as a gift for Del's mother, not realising that it was a gift from Del's mother in the first place.
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"Caroline and the Love That Dares Not Speak its Name"
Del and Charlie compete with Cassidy Greeting Cards at a greeting card convention and try to get Annie to help make their stall more attractive to customers.
Trevor decides to leave a toothbrush at Caroline's house. Caroline struggles with the commitment that this implies, and Richard inadvertently interferes, putting Caroline and Trevor's relationship at risk.
Caroline falls out with a rude cabbie and threatens to report him. Richard becomes addicted to the Internet. Meanwhile, Annie gets an appointment at a celebrity hairdresser's and Del and Charlie try to collect the remnants of cut celebrity hair so they can sell it.
Richard goes on a gambling tour hoping to cash in on a free bus voucher without actually losing any money. Caroline's mother comes to visit and Annie is surprised by how well they get on, but Caroline reveals this is because they do not discuss any difficult subjects.
Caroline becomes convinced that Julia's dad is secretly trying to kill Richard. Meanwhile, Del changes a line in Caroline's cartoon without her knowledge but becomes alarmed after nobody thinks his new line is funny.
New York's Stage Deli renames a sandwich (previously named after Jo Anne Worley) to name it after Caroline in the City. This leads to a backlash against Caroline. Jo Anne and Caroline stage a feud to maximise the publicity.
Richard and Julia host a party before leaving on holiday to Spain. After José, a bullfighter invited to the party, evinces an interest in Julia, Annie and Caroline see him in the bedroom having sex with a woman they believe to be Julia. After attempting to hide this from Richard, Caroline inadvertently tells him.
Caroline realises that the woman she saw with José was not Julia, and flies to Spain to tell Richard. Trevor, who has just moved in with Caroline, is not happy. Meanwhile, Del tries to impress a woman by helping her son with baseball.
Caroline goes to the bathroom to brush her teeth before kissing Richard, and is plagued by self-doubt as she is haunted by her former crushes and boyfriends. Eagle Greeting Cards is taken over by a larger company.
Julia's father throws Richard out of his home and takes all his possessions, so Richard ends up sleeping in Caroline's new office, in which Caroline refuses to work.
Caroline falls out with Plum, the new office manager, when she wants to get a table removed from her office. Meanwhile, Annie discovers from her mother that her yoga instructor has previously done porn.
Annie gets fired from Cats and goes out with her drycleaner to help her self-esteem. Caroline is asked to watch a focus group on Caroline in the City cards and tries to incorporate their ideas.
Del is put in charge of the company's Halloween party but is concerned that the people in charge in previous years have always been fired soon afterwards. Richard and Caroline set up a first date but have very different ideas of what to do, and Richard ends up in an altercation with a headwaitress (Jane Lynch) at Caroline's favourite restaurant.
Caroline accidentally discovers Richard's divorce papers in his desk at work, which Annie then reads. Due to a series of mishaps the divorce papers end up in the company's internal mail and Caroline and Annie end up running around the building looking for them.
Caroline and Richard go away and book a B&B for the big night when they are finally planning to sleep together. When they arrive they find that their room has been double-booked but Caroline becomes obsessed with the idea of getting the room back.
Caroline and Annie plan to go to a concert to see an opera singer perform, but Richard also wants to take Caroline. As a result all three of them end up going. Meanwhile, Del is told to instruct Reg, one of the other cartoonists, to incorporate a white character into his all-black comic strip, and is promised a chance at going to the company's executive retreat.
Richard refuses to allow Caroline to add a bath mat to his bathroom. Caroline's fellow cartoonist Reg gets thrown out of his house and ends up staying in Richard's apartment. Meanwhile, Del and Annie start going to the gym together to pick up potential dates, but Annie is more successful than Del is.
Spurred on by Caroline, Charlie insists on having a bigger say at work and attends a board meeting, to Del's alarm. Based on a recommendation from Richard, Annie gets a job modelling for a handsome cartoonist (Scott Lowell) as a character called Queen Neptuna.
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"Caroline and Joanie and the Stick"
Ted Wass
Jason Strouse
Unaired (Unaired)
N/A
Joanie, Caroline's classmate from Peshtigo, unexpectedly shows up as Caroline and Richard are about to leave on holiday to Boston. Caroline tries to help her get her children's book published. Meanwhile, Del is insecure that his new girlfriend is taller than he is, and Annie babysits a parrot belonging to the guy from the mailroom at Caroline's office. This episode was not aired on NBC, but was included in the syndication package.
Caroline takes Del, Annie and Richard with her to go visit her parents in Peshtigo for their wedding anniversary, but pretends that she is still engaged to Del to please her grandmother. Caroline discovers that her childhood friend Randy has moved back to Peshtigo, which makes her think about whether she wants to stay in Manhattan forever or eventually move back to Peshtigo.
Caroline's grandmother refuses to move out of her family home in Peshtigo, so Caroline flies there to convince her. She runs into Randy again, who has to help her when the washing machine overflows with suds. In the meanwhile, Richard is left in charge of a sick Annie and has to advise Del on his love life.
Richard is given an opportunity to have his work exhibited. Meanwhile Randy flies to New York for a conference and ends up spending a lot of time with Caroline.
Caroline feels her relationship is drifting and gives Richard an ultimatum. Richard gets involved in a video store robbery and ends up locked in a storeroom and unable to ring Caroline.
Richard ends up in Italy for six months and Caroline struggles without him. Meanwhile Randy shows up again and discovers that Annie and Del are sleeping together. Six months later, Richard shows up at Caroline and Randy's wedding. This episode and the entire series ends with an unresolved cliffhanger.
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