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Season guide

Hope and Gloria: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Mar 9, 1995
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Season 1 Episodes

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Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Mar 9, 1995

Hope and Gloria strike up a tentative friendship, complicated when Gloria realizes that the man coming on to her in the laundry room of their apartment building is Hope's husband.

S1·E2 Core

No Degrees of Separation

Mar 15, 1995

The presence of Dennis, a spiked cake, and Louis's amorous cousin Pete snuff out Hope's birthday plans for a quiet dinner party, her first since her separation.

S1·E3 Core

Salon, It's Been Good to Know You

Mar 23, 1995

Hope's plan to get Gloria a job as hair stylist on the show becomes complicated as the temperamental Isaac first quits to move to South America, then returns unexpectedly - just af

S1·E4 Core

A Fine ROM-ance

Mar 30, 1995

Goaded by Dennis into finding a men man via computer, Hope drags a reluctant Gloria on a double blind date - and finds Gloria's match more to her liking.

S1·E5 Core

Falling in Bed Again

Apr 6, 1995

Gloria convinces Hope not to see her ex-husband again, inspiring Hope to help another spurned wife do the same, but then Gloria herself succumbs to temptation. Meanwhile, Dennis tr

S1·E6 Core

I Never Sang for Our Father

Apr 13, 1995

An embarrassed and shy Louis secretly joins Hope's church choir, but Gloria isn't singing Hope's praises when she suspects that her friend and ex-husband are having an affair. Mean

S1·E7 Mytharc

My Mamma Done Told Me (1)

Apr 20, 1995

Hope has not told her parents she is divorcing Jeffrey, but when he turns up during their visit, the truth comes out. Big time, as it happens, because Hope's mother then reveals to

S1·E8 Core

Who's Poppa? (2)

Apr 20, 1995

Hope becomes convinced that her father is Bill Anderson, the real name of actor Adam West of Batman fame, unaware that her mother insists it was another actor. Meanwhile, Dennis's

S1·E9 Core

Love With an Improper Stranger

Apr 27, 1995

A lonely Hope spends the night with a handsome stranger, but it's possible that she's in for more of a relationship than she bargained for - he may be her brother. Distraught Hope

S1·E10 Core

The Face with Two Men

May 4, 1995

The new station manager orders Hope to arrange a Growing Pains reunion show, but there's a problem - Dennis refuses to be in the same room with his rival, Alan Thicke. Meanwhile, S

S1·E11 Core

Sisyphus, Prometheus and Me

May 11, 1995

Gloria learns she's pregnant and contemplates a third marriage to Louis - a decision that could be advantageous for new station manager Gwillem who persuades them to have the cerem

S1·E12 Mytharc

Don't Take Any Wooden Elephants

Aug 10, 1995

Hope's upset when Gwillem 'asks' her to care for his pampered poodle, so she attempts to play a practical joke on him - which, of course, backfires big time when she steals one of

S1·E13 Mytharc

A Midsummer Night's Trim

Sep 7, 1995

Gloria finds Hope's lack of faith in her the unkindest cut of all after Hope reveals she's having recurring nightmares of Gloria ruining her hair. They agree to consult a therapist

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