Radio Free Roscoe (2003)
Radio Free Roscoe was a Canadian television series filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The show was produced by Decode Entertainment, and it first aired on 1 August 2003 on Family, in Canada. It has also been dubbed in French in the province of Quebec and aired on VRAK.TV. The show was later aired on The N in the United States, where the show received funding for a second season. The series ended on 27 May 2005 because The N decided to stop funding the show, and Family, along with Decode Entertainment, could not fill the gap in the production budget. The show was shown on Family until 2007, when it was replaced. In early 2008, The N began rebroadcasting reruns. The pilot was first filmed in New Jersey, with an entirely different cast. Then, the show was going to be based in Nutley, New Jersey and was titled Radio Free Nutley. The show was never picked up until Decode Entertainment decided to move production to Toronto and change the cast and title of the show. However, the show was still set in suburban New Jersey.
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Episode 1 - You Choose, You Lose
Release Date: 2004-08-27Friendships hang in the balance at Henry Roscoe High. Lily is torn between sheltering her strong friendships with Ray and Travis, and opting for romance. Travis reins in his affections for Lily when she pulls back from their near kiss, leaving Ray free to pursue Lily with an invitation to a ""special dinner"". Although the date turns from tragedy to triumph, Lily fears that a kiss could sour her friendship with Ray. Lily makes it clear that romance will not be in the air for either Travis or Ray, but the two suitors secretly throw down the gauntlet in pursuit of Lily's affections. And speaking of kissing… a rumor about Kim Carlisle snuggling up to a ninth grader races through the halls of H.R. High and reaches the ears of Principal Waller who squelches Kim's radio show with some super dull ""approved copy"". Kim's unhappiness strikes a chord in Robbie who persuades Waller to put the Carlisle ""You and Hello"" back in Cougar Radio.
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Episode 2 - A Class, A Semester, A Lifetime
Release Date: 2004-08-27Lily's friendship with Audrey seems to be on the upswing. Although they reunite and find common ground once again, Audrey's snobby attitude and elite posse, whose pastimes include ridiculing others, does not mesh well with Lily's kindhearted sensibilities. Lily suffers twinges of sadness when she opts for integrity and breaks off her friendship with Audrey but discovers a silver lining and new camaraderie in the hilarious and engaging Parker. Ray and Travis haggle over the gentleman's rules of romance that they are trying to establish in their pursuit of Lily, though each is only using ""the list"" to gain footing on the ever slippery slope to Lily's heart. Both Travis and Ray appeal to Robbie who is surreptitiously leads them to see that their sparring over Lily may in fact be the beginning to a beautiful friendship.
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Episode 3 - One Steps Forward, Two Step Back
Release Date: 2004-09-03Ray and Travis both try to be lily's number one fan.Lily enters an open mic contest but fears she will do bad.when she gets on stage she's nervous,but will lily be able to go through with it? Meanwhile Kim and Question mark(robbie) continue fighting with one another.
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Episode 4 - These Bossy Boots are Made for Walking
Release Date: 2004-09-10**** The band that Lily likes is called ""The PETTIT Project"", not petite. It's pronounced ""pet-it""
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Episode 5 - Scheming and Dreaming
Release Date: 2004-09-17Ray and Travis are still at each others throats over who Lily is really in love with. They are given another opportunity to try and prove their loyalty in this episode when lily starts having peculiar dreams as to who she is really in love with. She shares her dreams every day on RFR and Travis (aka smog) tries to impress her by analyzing her descriptions of the dreams and trying to help her figure out that she is really in love with him. But, as you probably guessed, ray won't stand by and let that happen. So he begins to read up on dreams and possible meanings of the things that happen to Lily in them. Lily's dreams are: 1. Lily is walking down a foggy Roscoe High hallway and everybody is wearing boxing gloves. She walks up to her dream guy, who she can't see the face of, and smiles at him, only to find that she is ""a few teeth short of a smile."" 2.Lily is walking down a foggy Roscoe high hallway, and she hears a lion roar. Then she realizes that all the people passing her in the hal
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Episode 6 - Lie vs. Lie
Release Date: 2004-09-24Lily and Ray's friendship is really put to the test when Lily decides that maybe it's time for her to start hanging out with her girlfriend Parker more. To avoid hurting Ray's feelings when she blows him off, Lily begins to lie. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize what lying can lead to until she has Parker lying for her and one of her best friends not talking to her anymore. Robbie and Travis are too busy to get involved...Ed and Ted are trying harder and harder to become ""RFR correspondants"" (go to concertys and shows and send RFR a review afterward). Travis and Robbie can't think of a polite way to say, ""heck no!"" So they begin to tell small fibs. but hey, a little white lie never hurt anyone...right?Right?:?
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Episode 7 - Bridget Over Troubled Water
Release Date: 2004-10-01Travis...the walking unsolved mistery of Radio Free Roscoe. Why does he say so little about his past? The places he's been, the things he's seen, the people he's met? In this episode the RFR gang is puzzled when Travis's old friend Bridget unexpectedly shows up at Roscoe High, and seems to know a lot more about him then the three friends know put together. So Ray uses his intuition and whiny voice to get Bridget to spill the beans...so they can find out exactly what Swami...ahem...smog is hiding. Robbie and Lily are having trouble holding together their friendship too. Lily just isn't interested in childish poems about cat's bums, and Robbie couldn't give a care for super duper bouncey balls. Will they decide to call it quits on the whole ""best friend thing""? or can they remember what brought them together in the first place?
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Episode 8 - I'm With Cupid
Release Date: 2004-10-08Is Lily jealous of Bridget? Has Lily finally picked between the life long compadre Ray or the enigmatic Travis? All will be revealed when Lily has a little chat with Bridget about the relationship she and Travis have.
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Episode 9 - You've Got E-Mail
Release Date: 2004-10-15Ray is yet again attempting to win over Lily's heart. Will he win it over? Or will his heart end up being....crushed?
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Episode 10 - River Deep, Roscoe High
Release Date: 2004-10-22With flailing ratings, it may be the end of Cougar Radio and Kim's radio career... especially when Principal Waller puts hot guy River Pierce into the DJ seat. Meanwhile, Lily's become Ray and Travis' love shrink, making her feel completely left out of their lives.
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Episode 11 - Lil' and Grace
Release Date: 2004-11-26Lily finds herself still in deep regret for pushing Ray away and out into the dating world, as he seems to have completely forgotten about ever liking Lily in the first place. Trying to win him back, Lily tells Ray that she knows a girl ""a lot like her that is interested in a guy like him that is looking for more then just a friend."" Ray responds that he knows ""a guy a lot like him that is also looking for more then a friend and would love to go out with lily"" So they agree to a date, and Lily thinks that Ray was talking about himself (since she was talking about herself) But it turns out Ray meant his church buddy mark and Lily has to frantically run around Mickey's trying to find someone that will go out with Ray. Meanwhile Robbie is jealous of Travis's worldly experience. note: this episode ends with Travis SINGING KARAOKE!
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Episode 12 - Daddy Dearest
Release Date: 2004-12-03Kim invites Robbie to dinner to meet her dad and at the dinner, River Pierce shows up. Lilly is having trouble finding inspiration to write a song for the bands performance and when she does she accidently remakes a bands old song.
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Episode 13 - There Will Be No Encore
Release Date: 2004-12-10Kim wants to be open about her and Robbie's relationship... Lilly is ready to express in her song, how she feels about Ray, thinking that Ray may like her and Grace. Bridget returns from Hong Kong and dumps Travis at the open band night. SPOILER WARNING!! Bridget tells Travis that she's been doing some thinking and that she feels its unfair that she completes him when he ignored her for a year. she says she has to leave him for a while and they both say I love you to eachother. When Lilly's band performs she says ""Ray this song is for you"" and after the song she see's Ray and Grace kiss, as the song gave Ray the wrong message. When Ray and Grace are leaving the performance Lilly tries to yell Ray I love you but she accidently broke her Microphone connection. As a last ditch effort, she yells ""RAY I LOVE YOU"" and it echoes... Ray turns around while Lilly is being mobbed by people after her outstanding performance. Did Ray hear her??? A kind of Cliffhanger is left as the ending cr
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Episode 14 - Unbreak My Heart
Release Date: 2005-02-25While Ray discovers that finding love is sometimes as easy asking for it, Lily, Travis and Robbie each come to terms with their aching hearts.
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Episode 15 - We'll Always Have Roscoe
Release Date: 2005-03-04Robbie comes to the harsh realization that sometimes love means letting go, while Travis and Lily come to discover that letting go is the only way to maintain their friendship.
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Episode 16 - Musical Influences
Release Date: 2005-03-11Lily gets close to the new guy at Roscoe High, but this guitar player may have more in mind than just Lily.
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Episode 17 - Rah, Rah Revenge
Release Date: 2005-03-18After the Roscoe cheerleaders insult Lily and Parker, they team up with Travis to write a scathing song.
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Episode 18 - On a Wingman and a Prayer
Release Date: 2005-04-01While Robbie fights Lily's debut on Cougar Radio with the ever slippery River Pierce, Ray uses Travis' worldly background to secure his flailing social status.
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Episode 19 - The All-Nighter
Release Date: 2005-04-08Parker and Travis camp out while waiting in line for Trews tickets. Ray, Robbie, and Lily discover stuff from old sleep overs.
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Episode 20 - In the Key of F
Release Date: 2005-04-15While Travis and Parker struggle to work out their newfound love, Lily tries to deal with her ruthless music teacher.
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Episode 21 - Stand Up and Deliver
Release Date: 2005-04-22Lily gets jealous of Parker because she (Parker) wrote a really good song in a couple of days. Lily tells Parker that she could help ""tune up"" the song...when all she does is make it worse so she feels better. Parker gets fed up and threatens to leave the band. Ray does stand up comedy at Mickey's and makes jokes about his brother. His brother gets angry at first and then he's just plain hurt. Ray gets advice from Travis who tells him that he should stop the comedy about his brother.
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Episode 22 - In Charm's Way
Release Date: 2005-05-06While Ray comes to the shocking realization that River Pierce has been using him to woo Lily, Robbie loses all his senses when he falls head-over-heels for The Oracle's hot editor, Blaire.
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Episode 23 - Truth or Conquests
Release Date: 2005-05-13Rumors run wild when River accidentally sleeps over at Lily's house and Ray catches them in the act, inadvertently spreading gossip.
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Episode 24 - The Trews About Rock & Roll
Release Date: 2005-05-20While No Man's Land rises to the top with a sweet gig opening for the Trews, Lily comes to realize that the truest friends are those that are around when you need them most.
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Episode 25 - Dance Around the Truth
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Episode 26 - The Last Dance
Release Date: 2005-05-27Radio Free Roscoe comes to an end with a special hour-long finale. Lily becomes disenchanted with the perfect River; Ray struggles unsuccessfully to convince Grace that he's not in love with Lily anymore; and everyone wonders if they've outgrown Radio Free Roscoe altogether.