The Hogan Family (1986)
The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar Television. The show was originally titled Valerie and starred Valerie Harper as a mother trying to juggle her career with raising her three sons by her often-absent airline-pilot husband. Harper was written out of the series after the second season because of a dispute with the show's producers. Sandy Duncan joined the cast as the boys' aunt, who moved in and became their surrogate mom. During the show's third season, the series was known as Valerie's Family: The Hogans, then simply as The Hogan Family.
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Episode 1 - Animal House
Release Date: 1988-10-03College freshmen David, Rich and Burt have been feeling a little left out of the college social scene and decide to spark some attention by stealing a rival school's mascot, a wolverine, but when the fierce creature gets loose, it's every Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and Willie enroll Sandy in a computer dating service and she discovers this just as her date knocks on the front door.
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Episode 2 - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Release Date: 1988-10-10After David fools the twins with a bald-faced lie, they turn the tables on the ""master of practical jokes"" by convincing him that his hair is falling out. Meanwhile, Michael chokes under the pressure of retaking his driver's test.
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Episode 3 - Dad's First Date
Release Date: 1988-10-17A nervous Michael dives into the dating pool bu doesn't make much of a splash, while David will stop at nothing to avoid immersing himself in an English assignment.
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Episode 4 - Foiled Again
Release Date: 1988-11-14David has a crisis of conscience when he's attracted to the coed that best friend Burt has his eye on, but he's caught off guard when Burt throws down the gauntlet.
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Episode 5 - Save Baby Mark
Release Date: 1988-11-21David lights a fire under his brothers to get them to help sweep out the chimney, but Mark does a slow burn when he gets wedged inside the fireplace.
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Episode 6 - Saturday Night Feverish
Release Date: 1988-11-28Mark worries that he and his two left feet will trip over the light fantastic when Willie tells a girl that Mark likes, that Mark is a great dancer.
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Episode 7 - Tobacco Road
Release Date: 1988-12-05Sandy tries to teach Willie a lesson about cigarettes, but her efforts go up in smoke when she returns to smoking herself.
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Episode 8 - The Big Sleep
Release Date: 1988-12-12It's a dream come true for psychology student David when Sandy, ""Queen of the All-Nighters,"" agrees to be the guinea pig for his sleep deprivation experiment.
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Episode 9 - Secretarial Poole
Release Date: 1989-01-09Sandy thinks she's hired ""Robo-Secretary"" after Mrs. Poole whips the entire school into tiptop shape. Meanwhile, Michael fends off the advances of an admirer.
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Episode 10 - Strangers On a Train
Release Date: 1989-01-16Willie is stirred by first-hand accounts of apartheid from Sandy's South African professor, so he and Mark embark on an el-train ride to a candlelight vigil.
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Episode 11 - The Naked Truth
Release Date: 1989-01-23Mark and Willie are barely able to contain themselves when they spot a nude portrait of Sandy hanging in an art gallery.
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Episode 12 - Rebel with a Cause
Release Date: 1989-02-13Tired of being ""dull and predictable,"" Mark turns into a mini-James Dean, but his cool attitude only gets his family and friends hot under the collar.
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Episode 13 - Boy Meets Girl (1)
Release Date: 1989-02-20David and a pretty student get off on the wrong foot, and they continue to bicker when they're fixed up on a blind date that could wind up opening their eyes to romance after all.
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Episode 14 - Boy Loses Girl (2)
Release Date: 1989-02-27Love-struck David's girlfriend, Sara, receives a great job offer in Australia, so David decides to take the plunge and propose marriage, but Sandy and Michael think he's all wet.
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Episode 15 - Viva Las Vegas
Release Date: 1989-03-06David, Burt and Rich wager they'll have a wild weekend in Las Vegas, but they don't bet on ending up in jail. Meanwhile, Mrs. Poole displays some unusual talents.
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Episode 16 - Double Date
Release Date: 1989-03-13Sandy and Michael endure twice the torture on a ""double date"" with the perfect prospective mates, while David decides to spend the evening bonding with his brothers.
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Episode 17 - The Long Goodbye
Release Date: 1989-03-20David chafes under the Hogan house rules, so he moves into an apartment with Burt and Rich, who make Felix and Oscar seem like ideal roommates.
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Episode 18 - Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Release Date: 1989-03-27The numbers 4 and 0 add up to a midlife crisis for Michael, and Sandy only multiplies his distress when she throws him a surprise birthday party.
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Episode 19 - Slapshot
Release Date: 1989-04-03David puts himself in the penalty box over his guilt about injuring an opponent in a hockey game, and Mark threatens to body-check Willie for not paying a debt.
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Episode 20 - Private Lessons
Release Date: 1989-04-23Willie wants to teach Mark a lesson in brotherly love when Willie's girlfriend decides she likes her tutor Mark better.
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Episode 21 - Coming to America
Release Date: 1989-05-08It's amore at first sight for David when Sandy's friend arrives from Italy to stay with the Hogans.