A visiting pro baseball team is staying at the hotel where Above The Top is situated at and since they are playing in a championship series, the team is dining at Above The Top every night, which causes problems for the waitresses as a few of the ballplayers start hitting on Jan and Cassie.  Meanwhile, Dot befriends the Costa Rican pitcher on the team who's afraid that his village will hate him if he loses the big game the following night. Note: Cast changes occur on this, the second and, ultimately, final season of It's A Living on the ABC television network, as Susan Sullivan("Lois Adams"), Wendy Schaal("Vicky Allen"), and Bert Remsem("Chef Mario") were let go from the program in order to revamp the series and help it increase its ratings.  Louise Lasser, of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman(1976-78) fame, joins the cast as Maggie McBurney, the newest waitress at Above The Top, along with long time character actor Earl Boen, who plays Dennis Hubner, the new chef at the restaurant.  Also, the show's name is changed to "Making A Living" in another effort to attract audiences, and, the show is placed on the Saturday night schedule instead of Tuesday nights as it had been since episode No. 12, "Kids," the next-to-last episode of Season 1.  Later on, ABC places the show on their Friday night lineup, beginning with episode No. 10, "The Garden Of Countess Natasha"(February 12, 1982), where it will remain for the rest of the 1981-82 television season. 

Starring:

Ann Jillian, Crystal Bernard, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Louise Lasser, Earl Boen, Susan Sullivan, Wendy Schaal, Bert Remsen, Marian Mercer, Richard Stahl, Barrie Youngfellow, 2 more, Gail Edwards, Paul Kreppel

Genre:

Comedy