Fame: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Fame Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
And the Winner Is...
Sep 30, 1982
Bruno's script is chosen to be produced by the school and he is given the chance to be a voice in the audition process. Unfortunately he can't make up his mind who is better and if
Feelings
Oct 14, 1982
Julie's dad is getting remarried, and Julie does not like it one bit. Also, Leroy tries out for a touring dance troupe.
Class Act
Oct 21, 1982
A guest speaker to the school becomes sweet upon Lydia, and gives the kids an assignment so he can come back to see her. He takes her out but she's not impressed by his flashy life
Teachers
Oct 28, 1982
When Bruno gets the chance to audition for Julliard, he finds himself caught between the desires of his father and Shorofsky. Shorofsky feels that Bruno isn't ready for Julliard ye
Beginnings
Nov 4, 1982
The kids suspect the ballet teacher is prejudiced against black students. They protest by stopping whatever they are doing and standing silent. It isn't til Miss Grant talks with t
Solo Song
Nov 11, 1982
Lydia teaches a blind substitute teacher to dance. Doris developes a crush on the substitute teacher, Jim Hamilton.
Winners
Nov 18, 1982
Coco tries to impress a producer with an audition in a diner. She manages to get a screen test, and tells the gang it all went well. Later she comes clean and admits she was terrib
Words
Nov 25, 1982
Sherwood discovers that her favorite student has a father who censors the books she is given to read. Because he will be leaving soon, Coco's boyfriend pressures her to have sex wi
Childhood's End
Dec 2, 1982
When her grandmother dies, Coco questions her decision to become a performer. The kids attempt to find Julie's stolen cello.
Homecoming
Dec 9, 1982
Doris' draft dodging brother comes back and she tries to get him and her father to talk to each other. Lydia tries to sneak ballet moves into a jazz dance number when she discovers
A Tough Act to Follow
Dec 16, 1982
Danny's grief over the death of Mr. Crandall threatens to cause his expulsion, but help comes from an unexpected source.
Relationships
Jan 6, 1983
Doris falls in love with a singer she meets at a dance club where her, Bruno and Leroy go to observe the country western scene. They are looking to make a "unique" version of Romeo
Star Quality
Jan 13, 1983
Leroy befriends a boy who wants to be a dancer. After which, he learns that this boy's father was a rather famous dancer once. Leroy has to write a report for Sherwood and decides
Sunshine Again
Jan 20, 1983
Shorofsky and Bruno both promise a show's dress rehearsal to different people. Doris is worried that her grandmother may move into her parents' home.
Love is the Question
Jan 27, 1983
Troy Phillips falls in love with Julie. When they fall asleep studying, he tells everyone that they slept together but he didn't realize what he was telling everyone was being take
Blood, Sweat and Circuits
Feb 10, 1983
Bruno accepts a challenge from Miss Sherwood to try to create "art" from a computer and when the school acquires one, he's delighted, until he learns that the machine's purpose is
Friendship Day
Feb 17, 1983
Doris alienates her friends when she becomes obsessive over the planning of this year's "Friendship Day". Bruno's father and Julie's mother mistakenly believe that Bruno and Julie
Not in Kansas Anymore
Feb 24, 1983
Doris is auditioning to star in a show. She falls and bumps her head and has an elaborate dream sequence in which she is on a quest to become a star. The school campus is set up
The Kids from Fame in Concert
Mar 3, 1983
This episode is comprised of excerpts from the Kids from Fame live concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Help From My Friends
Mar 10, 1983
After a series of school lockers are vandalized, Dwight finds a suicide note and Doris tries to enlist her friends in helping her find the note's author.
Ending on a High Note
Mar 31, 1983
In order to appear in a show with a famous actor, Leroy and Danny become involved coaching a boys' choir in basketball.
U.N. Week
Apr 7, 1983
Students from "a more academically prestigious" school visit the School of the Arts for U.N Week and act snobbishly towards the kids.