Deborah Walley

When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine.

Eve and Kaye resort to domestic spying when they become jealous of the gorgeous new secretary their husbands hired to work at home: Kaye bugs Roger's den and Eve listens to Herb's sleep-talking.

At auditions for the lead role in their club's opera production, would-be divas Eve and Kaye smugly approach their competition, Marni Nixon, who they mistakenly believe is an amateur.

Eve and Kaye torment the hospital staff by crashing the maternity ward in various disguises to see Suzie, and when she has twins, fights erupt over the babies' names.

Suzie and Jerry go away for a weekend of rest, and their mothers gladly abandon their own homes for nursery duty – which isn't as simple as they expected.

Eve and Kaye cause a string of calamities as they both try to wangle a spot in Don Rickles' act for the lodge benefit show.

The Hubbards and the Buells, battling over two theater tickets they got in the mail, carry their feud to the theater, where their antics provide a livelier show than the one on the stage.

Flashbacks show how the Hubbards and Buells met 22 years earlier, when Kaye and Roger moved in next door. With no lights, phone, or water, the Buells also had no worries – they just mooched off the Hubbards' facilities.

Producer Owen Sinclair – alias bandleader Ozzie Snick – is in town, and the Hubbards arrange a surprise visit between him and Kaye, who's been bragging for years about her singing success with his old orchestra. Eve, Kaye, and Ozzie Nelson sing "North Dakota Moon."

When the men cancel their wives' charge accounts, the mothers decide to overcome their forced recession by getting jobs as department store saleswomen.