Gimme a Break! - Season 5 - Eps 8: Sam's Little Girl
Sam is taking the role of a big sister to a girl named Pam, a kid from a single-parent home. When Pam arrives at the house, Sam has other ideas of her own, when the new neighbor Chip shows up and asks her to light his pilot light on the stove. Nell is then stuck taking care of Pam, and she is a nuissance to her. Nell then finds out from Sam that Pam's mother left her father for a computer repair man, and Nell finds a way to make Pam like her in the end.
About Gimme a Break!

Title: Gimme a Break!
First Air Date: 1981-10-29
Last Air Date: 1987-05-12
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.7/10 (from 27 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 6
Total Episodes: 137
Network: NBC
Genres: Comedy, Family
Production Companies: Reeves Entertainment Group, Alan Landsburg Productions, Mort Lachman & Associates
Synopsis
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
Cast

Nell Carter
Nell Harper

Lara Jill Miller
Sam Kinisky

John Hoyt
Stanley Kanisky

Joey Lawrence
Joey Donovan

Telma Hopkins
Addy Wilson

Matthew Lawrence
Matthew Donovan

Paul Sand
Marty

Rosie O'Donnell
Maggie O'Brien

Rosetta LeNoire
Maybelle Harper