Party of Five is an American television teen and family drama created by Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman that premiered on Fox on September 12, 1994, and ended on May 3, 2000.
Meanwhile, Will plays matchmaker for Bailey, who is still grieving over the death of Jill, by trying to set him up on a date with school friend Sarah Reeves.
Elsewhere, Julia sees Justin with another girl, and he is openly mean to her after learning that she has been spending time with Griffin because of his bad guy reputation.
Meanwhile, Julia joins a photography class after Justin turns it down, and she meets a boy named Ian.
They are taking pictures on the street when she spots Justin strolling with another girl, named Corey (guest star Kate Hudson).
Also, Joe arrives back in town and is worried because they might lose the restaurant after Charlie reveals that Kathleen has put together an investment group to buy the building housing it in order to close it down in retribution for their breakup.
One week later The scorned and vindictive Kathleen is still hell-bent on taking and closing down the restaurant as part of her personal vendetta to make Charlie suffer for breaking up with her.
Everyone continues to unfairly blame Charlie for dumping Kathleen which has led to her turning against the Salinger family.
Ostracized by everybody he knows, Charlie is forced to ask Jake for help to find a way to stop the restaurant from going out of business.
Meanwhile, Bailey breaks up with Sarah because he does not want her to feel sorry for him as he plans to leave town after graduation for college (without saying goodbye to anyone) to start his life over.
After thinking about it all night, Bailey reluctantly decides to save the restaurant and stay in town to be close to Sarah.
Claudia has to find a plumber to fix the pipes and gets yelled at by Charlie because it costs $3,000, but she says she's only age 13 and that was not her job.
She is devastated, but after she finds out that her mother only chose music after college, she realizes that it is too soon to decide what to do for the rest of her life.
Claudia gets overexcited and Charlie tells her not to hurry, that she still has her whole life ahead, but she is stubborn and decides to enter the conservatory.
They all try to get Bailey into an AA program, but he refuses claiming that alcoholism is a part of who he is, and he openly states he would rather die than seek treatment.
After everybody has given up, Claudia tells Bailey that if he does not face his drinking problem and look for help to stop his self-destructive lifestyle, than he will no longer be a part of the family.
Callie gets jealous because Bailey is spending much more time with Sarah--who meets a guy at her doctor's office and they hit it off--than with her.
After spending all summer in Europe, Julia has trouble adjusting to married life as she settles in with Griffin.
Meanwhile, Claudia wants to be popular during her first day of high school, so she tries out for the cheerleading squad, but ends up with the humiliating job of being the mascot.
After an editor named Evan offers Julia a book deal, she transfers to a fine arts college and moves back home.
Charlie and Bailey decide to increase production of the furniture assembly line sales when a big client offers a generous fee.
Meanwhile, Holly gets wind of Will's feelings and growing attraction to her, which leads her to think that Bailey's marriage plan was not a good idea after all.
A women's magazine offers Julia a column to write and a possible job opportunity while she rekindles and consummates her romance with Justin.
Meanwhile, Julia ponders a choice to moving to Washington, D.C. for an internship working for the National Organization for Women, and being away from Justin and the rest of the family.
After Julia tells Justin about her new job opportunity, Justin decides to transfer to Georgetown University to be near Julia in D.C. Claudia ponders about accepting a scholarship to attend the Juilliard School of Music in New York City or staying near Todd in San Francisco.
Todd hears about Claudia's scholarship offer and tells her that he too wants her to leave, even though he does love her and it might risk ending their romance.
Daphne confides in Charlie about her problems with Luke, who wants a job in Texas and leaves no time for her to be with Diana.
Charlie then decides to make Luke the new partner in his furniture factory to give him, Daphne, and Diana support after Bailey tells him about moving to Pennsylvania to go to college.