Peggy Bundy

Season 1 Episode 5: Have You Driven a Ford Lately

By David Faustino / May 3, 1987 /

Al and Steve buy a 1965 Mustang to restore, and the project consumes both of them entirely. Peggy and Marcy find their own common ground in hating it. Al’s dream sequence about escaping in the car gets undercut a week later, when the license plate turns out to be Peggy’s.

Season 1 Episode 3: But I Didn’t Shoot the Deputy

By David Faustino / April 19, 1987 /

A robber is working the neighborhood, so the Rhoades get a guard dog and Al buys a gun. Both defenses are tested on the same night and the dog comes off worst. It aired the same night The Simpsons first appeared on television, as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.