Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
| Production | Alan Berger | Casting |
| Editing | Wendy Greene Bricmont | Editor |
| Art | Charles Rosen | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Shelley Komarov | Costume Design |
| Sound | Cliff Eidelman | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Howard Zieff | Director |
| Camera | Paul Elliott | Director of Photography |
| Production | Brian Grazer | Producer |
| Writing | Janet Kovalcik | Writer |
| Writing | Laurice Elehwany | Characters |
| Production | Devorah Moos-Hankin | Associate Producer |
| Production | Joseph M. Caracciolo | Executive Producer |
| Production | David T. Friendly | Executive Producer |
| Production | Howard Zieff | Executive Producer |
| Art | Diane Yates | Art Direction |
| Art | Mary Olivia McIntosh | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linda Arnold | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | June Brickman | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Griffin | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frances Mathias | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | David B. Miller | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Joseph M. Caracciolo | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | Jerry Sobul | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Alan Brimfeld | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Betty A. Griffin | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | David Boyd | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Scott Andrew Ressler | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Debra Dotts-Sladek | Second Assistant Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | Norman A. Burza | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elaine Maser | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marilyn Madsen | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Lighting | Patrick Reddish | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Lighting | Steve Venetis | Assistant Chief Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Thaddeus Wadleigh | Key Grip |
| Camera | Charley Gilleran | Grip |
| Camera | Dwight Joseph Lavers | Dolly Grip |
| Directing | David Ticotin | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Kathy Sarreal | Production Coordinator |
| Production | Tracy L. Kettler | Production Secretary |
| Production | Carole Wattles | Production Accountant |
| Production | Mary E. Fox | Assistant Accountant |
| Production | Charles Harrington | Location Manager |
| Production | Sara Burton | Assistant Location Manager |
| Art | Mark Wade | Property Master |
| Art | Randy Gunter | Assistant Property Master |
| Art | Harold Fuhrman | Set Designer |
| Crew | John Orlebeck | Transportation Captain |
| Crew | David Severin | Transportation Co-Captain |
| Editing | Brent Brooks | First Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Carolyn Calvert | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Julia Evershade | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Michael J. Benavente | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Paul Timothy Carden | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Susan Dudeck | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Simon Coke | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Donald Ortiz | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Josephine Nericcio | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Oscar Mitt | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Donald Sylvester | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Jonathan Klein | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Kenneth Karman | Music Editor |
| Sound | Mark McKenzie | Orchestrator |
| Sound | Bill J. DiDonna | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Sergio Reyes | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | John J. Stephens | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Rick Kline | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Crew | Ted Yonenaka | Craft Service |
| Crew | Anne S. Reilly | Unit Publicist |
| Camera | Gemma La Mana | Still Photographer |
| Crew | Pia Mehr | Studio Teacher |
| Production | Shane Liem | Casting Associate |
