As of July 2026, Too Close for Comfort Season 2 aired in 1981 with 22 episodes — streaming now on Peacock Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Too Close for Comfort Season 2

1981 22 Episodes Comedy ⭐ 6/10

Too Close for Comfort Season 2 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on and . A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Ted Knight sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason Too Close for Comfort Season 2 keeps coming up in conversation. The jokes in Too Close for Comfort Season 2 land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. Season 2 of Too Close for Comfort includes 22 episodes. It aired from October 1981 to May 1982. This season stars Ted Knight, Nancy Dussault and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. Ted Knight and Nancy Dussault lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1981. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Too Close for Comfort Season 2 holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, Too Close for Comfort Season 2 respects your intelligence. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Ted Knight's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 Too Close for Comfort Season 2 — Episode Guide

E1
Guess Who's Coming to Burp?
1981-10-13
A doctor informs Muriel that she's pregnant after she faints at a restaurant while celebrating her 42nd birthday with her family. While she and Henry are initially elated, they find themselves faced with a serious decision as they begin to realize all of the implications of having another child at t...
E2
Your Guest is As Good As Mine
1981-10-27
Henry's free-spirited niece, April, shows up on his doorstep after moving from Delaware to start a song writing career, and he reluctantly allows her to stay in the guest bedroom of his apartment until she's able to get established. However, their relationship starts off on the wrong foot, and Henry...
E3
Who's Sara Now?
1981-11-03
Muriel and Henry read a newspaper article about a nurse who had switched babies in the maternity ward of the hospital that Sara had been delivered at. They quickly set out to find if indeed Sara had been switched at birth. However, they aren't too pleased when they discover the only other baby girl ...
E4
The Prince and the Frog
1981-11-10
Jackie openly dreads a visit from an annoying, nerdy guy who had a crush on her when she was a kid. However, when Sara is the first to discover his physical appearance has changed completely and starts dating him, Jackie becomes extremely jealous and vindictive.
E5
What's Our Rush?
1981-11-17
Muriel goes in for an amniocentesis, but she and Henry decline to learn the sex of the baby. This doesn't sit well with Henry's mischievous father Huey, who is in town to bury his deceased friend. In the meantime, Jackie makes an unexpected decision after taking part in a successful strike at her ba...
E6
Rafkin's Bum
1981-11-24
An older man dressed like a bum shows up at the Rushes' doorstep looking for the transvestite persona of Rafkin, their deceased former tenant, because they always got together for Thanksgiving dinner. Feeling bad for him for several obvious reasons, they invite him to join their own disastrous get t...
E7
Where There's a Will
1981-12-01
Hearing a story about a man who died intestate causes Henry to have a terrible nightmare, which compels him to finally make out his will. However, he soon regrets his decision to follow Monroe's advice to do it on videotape in the presence of his family.
E8
The Remaking of Monroe
1981-12-08
Monroe enrolls in an assertiveness class on the advice of the Rush girls after being pushed around at a concert, but the class proves to work a little too well. Meanwhile, one of Henry's colleagues suggests Henry demand a raise from Mr. Wainwright.
E9
When the Bough Breaks
1981-12-15
Muriel unwisely commits herself to do a coveted helicopter photo shoot, which Henry demands she cancel due to her pregnancy. The back and forth fighting cause a big headache for the girls, who are forced to change their minds several times whether to cancel an elaborate surprise 25th anniversary par...
E10
Cop-Out
1982-01-05
Jackie falls madly in love with a police officer who responds to a false burglary report at the apartment due to April sneaking in late one night after getting stuck on Alcatraz with her boyfriend. She immediately accepts his marriage proposal after just a few dates, refusing her parents' plea to co...
E11
April and September
1982-01-12
Henry is going up the wall with April keeping such late hours, spending time with her latest boyfriend. However, Henry and Muriel are in for a shock when they discover her boyfriend, Don is old enough to be her father. Henry puts his foot down and that's when Don asks April to move in with him, whic...
E12
A Fan for Henry
1982-01-19
A fan of Henry's Cosmic Cow comic strip who has been sending him increasingly bizarre fan mail breaks into the apartment one night through the unlocked front door, kidnapping his puppet and vowing in a note to return before the end of the weekend. Interpreting the note as a threat on his life, Henry...
E13
Brotherly Hate
1982-02-02
April secretly arranges for her father Bill to meet face to face with his brother Henry, so they can attempt to reconcile after a petty childhood dispute caused them to stop speaking forty years ago. The effort may be for naught, however, when Bill eats a piece of cheesecake baked by Monroe, who did...
E14
Charlie's Last Hurrah
1982-02-09
Henry is contacted by a rival cartoonist who has perpetrated several practical jokes on him over the years, and Henry schemes with Monroe to pay him back during a dinner visit. However, when Henry is unable to stop the prank after the man claims he is dying, Henry feels obligated to assist him in an...
E15
The Last Weekend
1982-02-16
Upon realizing the birth of his third child is only six weeks away, Henry feels a sense of guilt for not spending enough time with his two daughters. He decides to invite them on a weekend ski trip, but the experience doesn't turn out quite the way he envisioned when the girls meet a couple of broth...
E16
My Unfavorite Martin
1982-02-23
Muriel secretly asks her mother Iris stay with her until she recovers from childbirth, much to the chagrin of Henry, who has always found her to be overbearing. When Muriel unexpectedly takes a stand against her mother's nonstop criticism, it's up to Henry to straighten out the mess, and he learns a...
E17
Seventh Month Blues
1982-03-02
Henry's generous offer to arrange a job interview for an attractive art student backfires when she begins showing affection for him, which puts him in the doghouse with an increasingly insecure Muriel and causes him to panic when Monroe tells him that she tried to jump out a window after her last br...
E18
As the Cookie Crumbles
1982-03-09
Just before heading off on a Las Vegas vacation, Henry reluctantly lends $100 to Sara, April, and Monroe so they can start a business selling home-baked cookies using Grandma Rush's recipe. However, a promising and profitable start quickly turns into a disaster that includes a trashed kitchen, hefty...
E19
Foreign Exchange
1982-03-16
In order to reduce the cost of a trip to Europe, Jackie and Sara swap apartments with an English couple who wants to visit America. Henry's misgivings are confirmed when he accidentally opens a piece of their luggage that contains a high powered rifle, and concludes they are on a mission to assassin...
E20
A Matter of Degree
1982-03-23
Henry refuses to accept Sara's decision to drop out of college to become the weather announcer on a local television station, which causes her to announce that she's moving out in protest. Meanwhile, Monroe's clumsy method of wallpapering the baby's nursery has an unexpected outcome, and a wealthy f...

🎭 Cast of Too Close for Comfort Season 2

Ted Knight
Ted Knight
Henry Rush
Nancy Dussault
Nancy Dussault
Muriel Rush
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Jackie Rush
Lydia Cornell
Lydia Cornell
Sara Rush
Jim J. Bullock
Jim J. Bullock
Monroe Ficus
DF
Deena Freeman
April Rush

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