Fine Things
Bernie (D.W Moffatt) marries stunning divorcee Liz (Tracy Pollan) and for a time family life together is blissfully happy until Liz is fatally stricken with cancer soon after the birth of their son.

Kaleidoscope
Hilary (Jaclyn Smith) and her two younger sisters are torn apart after the death of their parents. Loving families take in the youngest girls, but Hilary is left behind to endure a terrible childhood of cruel abuse and desperate poverty.

Zoya
Zoya's (Melissa Gilbert) journey begins in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, when her royal upbringing is brought to a tragic end as her parents are killed in the Revolution. She escapes and is forced to flee with her Grandmother and make a new life in America.

Star
16-year-old Crystal’s (Jennie Garth) family life on a remote ranch is shattered by the death of her father. Subsequently abused by her mother and blamed for the shooting of her younger brother, she is banished and flees to San Francisco to pursue a singing career.

Daddy
Oliver (Patrick Duffy) is a top advertising executive with a beautiful wife, three great children and a lovely home. But when his wife leaves home to study at a far-away university Oliver must take on the role of both father and mother to his increasingly confused and resentful children.