Sam helps Max settle in to her first days of college life in Chicago and has an unsettling return journey back to Los Angeles.

Sam is disappointed that Frankie has been missing from home for eight days without contacting her. Show more

Sam has some girl time with friends but is less than happy when a husband returns home early. At home, Duke is concerned about the presence of her late grandfather in her bedroom.

Sam asks medium Toby D'Angelo to investigate the presence of her late father in the house and chaparones Frankie to her appearance at the Get Lit poetry slam finals.

Sam tries to teach her daughters to drive and cannot stop herself from complaining about the conditions on the blockbuster movie she is working on.

Sam is feeling the strain of her menopause and general mum stuff. After a night with the girls, Sam decides a trip to her doctor is in order.

After a hard day's work in a monster movie in the desert, Sam takes Duke to a science evening at her school, where she finds it hard to keep her temper.

It is another full house at Sam's as she cooks risotto for guests invited and uninvited. Phil arrives with her new boyfriend and Jeff arrives with his new girlfriend, and a monkey.

Sam has her first session with her medically prescribed mental therapist and heeds his advice on the need for closure with her relationship with Xander.

Phil is disappointed when Sam says she is not accompanying her to Walter's Easter egg party, but she takes Duke instead and tells her some wildly inappropriate family information.

Sam is stressed by having to prepare for a colonoscopy and has her last session with therapist Doctor Miller.

Sam is at the Hamletville theatre festival trying out a new play for Broadway.