The Life and Times of Young Sonny Tompkins, Part 2

A compilation of The Life and Times of Young Sonny Tompkins, Parts 1 and 2. Young Sonny Tompkins left his boyhood behind at age He became a skilled.
Table of contents

Sonny is offered a recording contract and abruptly quits the restaurant hoping that he'll make it big Jan falls for a fan repairman Richard Kline , but the romance accelerates to when he asks Jan to marry him. Meanwhile, Amy, taking advice from Dot, tries to lie to Nancy to get a day off so she can go to a rodeo. A Russian decides to defect to the United States after he falls for Cassie and takes refuge in her locker. When the entertainment for a prom fails to show up at the restaurant, Dot takes charge with help from Sonny and Amy.

Meanwhile, Jan is not so sure about marrying Richie after learning that he wants to have a child with her. A wedding day for Jan and Richie is about to hit a snag when the judge is a no-show and the honeymoon brings along a third wheel. The President is expected to come to the restaurant. There's only one problem: Lead chef Howard isn't cleared by Secret Service after they check his background. Dot serves jury duty and ends up being the only holdout. Meanwhile the waitresses hold out for Dot's return as they pick up her slack. Nancy is forced to hire an obnoxious waiter after the restaurant is hit with a Sex Discrimination lawsuit.

Cassie's dreamy one-night stand just became her nightmare when she is humiliated by the wife of the guy she slept with. After Nancy suffers a hernia during a date, her physician insists that she have an operation immediately.

The Saga of Sonny Tompkins

But when she begins to relive her phobia about being in a hospital, she refuses to seek treatment. Meanwhile, Amy convinces the waitresses to invest in a vacation property venture. Terrorists target the restaurant when they learn that a visiting princess will be dining there and will be wearing a necklace that they want badly. Too bad that Dot accidentally takes a drugged napkin that was meant for the princess, leading to a mad scramble by a drugged Dot to stop the crooks from making their getaway.

While they are forced to stay at the restaurant to take inventory, the waitresses swap their tales of the worst guys that they had ever dated. Cassie reluctantly moves in with Sonny while she attempts to find a place. But this pairing also has everyone at work guessing about this arrangement. Dot replaces her dead cat with a noisy puppy. Meanwhile, Sonny decides to quit his job so he can date a roller derby skater. Jan is not looking forward to a visit from an old friend who has always outclassed her. Cassie is stunned as to why a customer constantly refuses to leave her tips, only to learn that he works for the IRS and he has to audit her.

Meanwhile, Dot's boyfriend decides to threaten suicide by jumping off the building if she doesn't continue to date him. Dot learns that her cartoonist boyfriend Jeff Altman is using her as a model for a new character in his comic strip. Sonny learns the girl he's dating is a mobster's moll. The staff find themselves trapped on the roof, while Amy, Nancy and Howard must deal with an unruly crowd at the restaurant. Sheryl Lee Ralph joins the cast as Ginger St. James on the show. The girls decide to cheer up a lonely Amy by taking her to a singles bar.

But the ladies are discovering that the place is full of Mr. Jan learns that an old boyfriend still carries a torch for her while she attends her high school reunion. Meanwhile, Nancy comes up with a plan to trick Howard into coming home with her. Amy believes that Richie is having an affair with Ginger, and is not so sure whether to tell Jan just days before her birthday party.

Nancy is not happy when her sister Gloria shows up, especially when Nancy is convinced that she'll go after Howard. A Psycho -themed episode, which finds the ladies and Sonny checking into a hotel run by a mysterious man and his unseen mother after their car breaks down en route to Las Vegas. Dot's divorced mother and Jan's divorced father become an unlikely item while visiting their daughters.

Rumors start flying after Dot and Howard start going to social events together as friends. A murder mystery party just got a lot more murderous for Sonny after he becomes a prime suspect. When Howard receives a visit from a rival, who happens to be a food critic who is doing a review of the restaurant, he find his job and his relationship with Nancy could be in jeopardy in more ways than one.

Richie allows a new sculpture that he borrowed from someone else be displayed at the restaurant, only to have Jan accidentally sell it to a tourist. Sonny convinces the ladies to join him on his oil investment venture.

Nancy drops hints about her birthday party that she believes the waitresses will be throwing for her. Meanwhile Jan and Richie have a marital fight and Sonny wants to join Dot's carpool. After Ginger is evicted from her apartment because she is withholding rent money until the landlord repaints the place thanks to Jan's advice, Ginger moves in with Amy at her women's-only apartment complex. But after Ginger's boyfriend walks into the place unannounced, Amy and Ginger are both kicked out, and both now must find a place to stay.

Patty Duke makes a cameo as a customer who wasn't impressed with Sonny's critique of her —66 sitcom after he plays the show's theme song. Ginger is left holding a baby after she agrees to babysit the child. Meanwhile, Sonny agrees to babysit a friend's car, only to take the wrong one Howard is not happy about Sonny dating his niece after she falls for him.

Amy decides to reunite with an old flame after she feels guilty for not having been married. Meanwhile, Dot starts selling skin care products. Dot learns that her former boyfriend is about to join the priesthood and questions his commitments. A former children's show hosts' fan club dinner conflicts with Nancy's meeting with the restaurant chain's vice president.


  1. Michael E. Benson.
  2. The Golden Years...the Florida Legislature, the 70s and 80s.
  3. Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life.

Howard is worshiped by South Pacific natives as a supreme being. Meanwhile, Nancy holds a contest for the waitresses. Dot quits the restaurant to become a full-time unemployed actress; Sonny decides to write a musical based on Attila the Hun; Ginger's fetish for footwear has a hypnotic effect on Amy. Ginger must choose between two guys based on their merits, while Howard must choose between competing restaurant who want to hire him. The staff are ruining what supposed to be a romantic evening alone for Jan and Richie. Ginger feels like she's been taken for a ride after she buys Jan's car, while Amy asks Dot to play matchmaker between her and a new male employee.

A psychiatrist asks Nancy to review her relationships with her staff. Sonny is hoping her fiancee will make it to their wedding. Meanwhile, Howard's high school flame visits. In this Back to the Future -themed episode that pre-dates the sequel , Nancy dozes off during a wedding reception and dreams that everyone has done well for themselves ten years into the future When Dot's production of Little Red Riding Hood is hit with a case of chicken pox that quarantines the children in the cast, the staff step in to fill their roles.

Recent Posts

Dot lands a part in a soap opera, until she learns that her character is expected to be killed off the show. Nancy demands Howard to accompany her to a square dance as a way to break him out of a mid-life crisis. When Nancy is ordered by hotel management to search her staffs' lockers, Howard draws the line on her invading her waitresses' privacy.

Nancy is invited by singer Jack Jones to go with him to Las Vegas for a long weekend. As the staff follow Nancy to Las Vegas, a jealous Howard finds Nancy at the gambling table with a lounge lizard, while a surprise event awaits the gang upon their arrival. Sonny learns that his mother, who never forgiven him for not pursuing a career in classical music, is coming to visit him.

Dot's personal ad doesn't seem to attract any potential responses from readers. Amy's prison pen pal is about to be released from prison. So guess what he plans to do — and plans to spend the rest of his life with — after his release?

List of It's a Living episodes - Wikipedia

Feminists set their sights on Sonny during their visit at the restaurant. Meanwhile, Dot dates one of Amy's exes. Nancy decides to get a face lift after she notices Howard flirting with a younger woman. Dot gets jittery when her journalist boyfriend is assigned to review her new play. Thanks to newfound wealth, Richie buys Jan a mink coat. But money doesn't buy happiness, as they're about to find out. Nancy's visiting cousin shows up with her whole body tattooed, shocking Nancy. Jan's hope to reconciling her divorced parents is dashed when her father tells her that he is newly engaged to another woman.

Ginger's grandmother shows up to tell Ginger that son won't let her drive anymore. Meanwhile, Sonny makes a music video at the restaurant. Dot gets her visiting friend, who came to Los Angeles to seek fame and fortune, a job as a dishwasher at the restaurant. Sonny becomes jealous when Amy asks his friend Louie out on a date. Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Download The Saga of Sonny Tompkins

Please try your request again later. Benson was born in a small coal mining town in Kansas. He moved to the deserts of Utah when he was twelve and there he learned to hunt and to survive in the wilderness. It was there he also learned of his affinity with horses.

Later, he moved to Kansas City. After high school, he joined the United States Coast Guard. When he returned home, he worked at many occupations. Eventually, he became a private detective and later a police officer. He became a member of the faculty at Longview Community College in Lee's Summit, Missouri, where he stayed for the next twenty-five years teaching American History and Criminal Justice. After his retirement, he began his writing career in earnest.

Today, Michael lives in south Texas with his wife Barbara. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Learn more at Author Central. Popularity Popularity Featured Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Avg. Openers Jul 15, Available for download now. Blackthorn Manor Dec 23, Epiphanies Jan 15,