Roseanne: Season 6

1993 · 25 episodes · ★ 8.5

What Season 6 of Roseanne

Roseanne suffers from empty nest syndrome when Darlene leaves for college. Dan, the foreman at the factory, feels terrible about having been harsh with his workers. Roseanne scolds David for smoking marijuana, but discovers that the stash hidden in the house is hers and is decades old. Jackie starts dating men again and is expecting a child with Fred, who doesn't know yet. Becky and Mark go through relationship problems, and Roseanne plans to split them up. With meager paychecks, the Conners struggle every month to make ends meet.

25episodes

Sep 14, 1993premiered

May 24, 1994latest episode

9.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Two Down, One to Go
Sep 14, 1993 · 23 min
Roseanne is suffering from empty-nest syndrome as Darlene heads for school. But after Darlene gets settled into her dorm, the two have a revealing mother-daughter chat, and Roseanne returns home with a plan.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Amy Sherman-Palladino · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x02 The Mommy's Curse
Sep 21, 1993 · 23 min
Brutally honest Roseanne suffers the consequences after telling Bev that she's had her fill of her at the Lunch Box. Meanwhile, Jackie jumps back into the dating arena.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Eric Gilliland · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Sandra Bernhard, Martin Mull, Estelle Parsons
6x03 Party Politics
Sep 28, 1993 · 23 min
Roseanne attempts to enlist Darlene's aid in taming a rebellious D.J., while scheming to reunite her with David.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Estelle Parsons, Johnny Galecki
6x04 A Stash from the Past
Oct 5, 1993 · 23 min
Foreman Dan feels lower than low for getting tough with his employees at work, while Roseanne lectures David for getting high after she finds a stash of pot in the house -- then realizes it is hers from decades ago.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x05 Be My Baby
Oct 19, 1993 · 23 min
After months of trying to get pregnant, Roseanne learns that Jackie is expecting -- and Fred is the unknowing father.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x06 Halloween V
Oct 26, 1993 · 23 min
Halloween at the diner becomes complicated when Nancy complains that Dan doesn't like her, and Roseanne discovers that Darlene and David are each dating others.
Directing: Gail Mancuso · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x07 Homeward Bound
Nov 2, 1993 · 23 min
Darlene visits, making David realize how much he misses her; Roseanne urges Dan to have a man-to-man chat with D. J. after they discover he's been spending too much time behind locked doors.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Michael Borkow · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x08 Guilt by Imagination
Nov 9, 1993 · 23 min
Dan has a hard time concealing the fact that he had lunch with an old flame.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Pat Bullard · Starring: Fabio, Vicki Lawrence, Michael O'Keefe
6x09 Homecoming
Nov 16, 1993 · 23 min
Becky and Mark return home for Dan's high school football team's 20th anniversary party. It soon becomes apparent that there's trouble in paradise, so Roseanne schemes to break them up.
Directing: Gail Mancuso · Starring: Sarah Chalke, Glenn Quinn, Mike Pniewski, James Pickens Jr.
6x10 Thanksgiving '93
Nov 23, 1993 · 23 min
The Connors' dysfunctional-family Thanksgiving finds Becky preparing the bird, Dan and Mark duking it out, and an absent-minded Nana Mary revealing Bev's secret about her marriage.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Michael Borkow · Starring: Shelley Winters, Johnny Galecki
6x11 The Driver's Seat
Nov 30, 1993 · 23 min
Leon convinces Jackie and Nancy to open the restaurant for breakfast, causing Roseanne to fear he is planning to force her out. Roseanne's car is stolen -- by D.J., and her violent reaction frightens her that she may repeat the pattern of her own abuse as a child, while Dan blames her anger on work stress.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Stan Zimmerman, James Berg · Starring: Sandra Bernhard, Martin Mull
6x12 White Trash Christmas Mid-Season Finale
Dec 14, 1993 · 23 min
Roseanne and Dan snub the neighborhood association by putting up gaudy Xmas decorations, and become furious with Becky when she gives the check they have given her for college to Mark and takes a job as a waitress in a tacky bar.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Johnny Galecki
6x13 Suck Up Or Shut Up
Jan 4, 1994 · 23 min
Roseanne joins a women's club in hopes of establishing useful contacts, leaving D.J. high and dry with a weird classmate whose mother also belongs. Meanwhile, Mark drops a bombshell on Becky when Dan discovers that he has dropped out of school.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Anthony Geary, Jim Turner, Glenn Quinn, Sandra Bernhard
6x14 Busted
Jan 11, 1994 · 23 min
Dan and Roseanne try to talk Mark into coming back to Becky; meanwhile, Roseanne finds out that David is living with Darlene and heads for Chicago to confront them.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Amy Sherman-Palladino · Starring: Ahmet Zappa, Glenn Quinn, Johnny Galecki
6x15 David vs Goliath
Feb 1, 1994 · 23 min
Guilt and Roseanne's slavedriving push David to confess to Dan that he was living with Darlene in Chicago, and Dan throws him out; Jackie refuses to take money for the baby from Fred; Roseanne and Becky try to pressure Dan to hire Mark.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Steve Pepoon · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Glenn Quinn, Sandra Bernhard, Johnny Galecki
6x16 Everyone Comes To Jackie's
Feb 8, 1994 · 23 min
Jackie's house buzzes with activity as Roseanne tries to hide David from Dan.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Johnny Galecki
6x17 Don't Make Room for Daddy
Feb 15, 1994 · 23 min
Roseanne becomes involved in a family feud as Fred sues Jackie for custody of their unborn child; Mark and D.J. tease David for being unmanly.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Glenn Quinn, Johnny Galecki
6x18 Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Mar 1, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 5.6
Roseanne is the life of the party at a gay bar, until Nancy's new girlfriend plants a disturbing kiss on her; meanwhile, back home, Becky's old flame gives Mark reason to distrust Becky.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Stan Zimmerman, James Berg · Starring: Sandra Bernhard, Mariel Hemingway, Johnny Galecki
6x19 Labor Day
Mar 8, 1994 · 23 min
Jackie is due to give birth, and has to choose between Fred and Roseanne to accompany her to the delivery room.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Jeannetta Arnette, Michael O'Keefe, Martin Mull, Tom McTigue
6x20 Past Imperfect
Mar 22, 1994 · 23 min
When Dan's father misses an alimony payment, Dan and Roseanne argue about covering it; meanwhile, Fred becomes concerned about Jackie's sexual past.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Ned Beatty, Johnny Galecki
6x21 Lies My Father Told Me
Mar 29, 1994 · 23 min
Roseanne helps Dan understand his dad's lying about his mom's mental state.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Eric Gilliland · Starring: Ned Beatty, Glenn Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Johnny Galecki
6x22 I Pray the Lord My Stove to Keep
May 3, 1994 · 23 min
Darlene discovers that D.J. has been sneaking off after to school to attend church; D.J. gives Roseanne a hard time about morals when she accepts a mistaken delivery of a second stove at the diner.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Writing: Pat Bullard · Starring: Mikey Robins, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Mull, Johnny Galecki
6x23 Body by Jake
May 10, 1994 · 23 min
Bev moves in after breaking her pelvis at the retirement home, blaming Dan for not safeproofing her shower; then Roseanne discovers that it happened while Bev and Jake were having sex.
Directing: Philip Charles MacKenzie · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Glenn Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Johnny Galecki
6x24 Isn't It Romantic?
May 17, 1994 · 23 min
Fred asks Roseanne how to propose to Jackie, then uses hints from Jackie's favourite soap opera; an enraged Roseanne demands romance from Dan, then turns to fantasy; Mark and David struggle with the concepts of feminism.
Directing: Gail Mancuso · Starring: Robert S. Woods, Michael O'Keefe, Clint Ritchie, Glenn Quinn
6x25 Altar Egos Season Finale
May 24, 1994 · 23 min
Egos clash when Jackie and Fred can't make a decision about their marriage. Fred is having what Dan calls the moment of clarity, a case of the jitters that affects some men just before the big day. But what's really bothering Fred is his belief that Jackie has feelings for someone she sees almost every day and whom she is always asking to come over and fix stuff, none other than Dan.
Writing: Eric Gilliland · Starring: Shelley Winters, Johnny Galecki