Coach (1989)
Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.
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Episode 1 - Baby on Board?
Release Date: 1993-09-14Hayden is rattled as he tries to nurse his new team to victory, even as Christine announces she wants to have a baby.
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Episode 2 - Belly of the Beast
Release Date: 1993-09-21Hayden stands up in court for Luther's defendant dog Quincy, who bit the MSU bandleader; Christine dozes during Hayden's advances.
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Episode 3 - Nice Job If You Can Get It
Release Date: 1993-09-28Hayden's overactive ego has him convinced that Christine's success is not her own doing.
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Episode 4 - The Luck Stops Here
Release Date: 1993-10-05Luther and Hayden have vastly different views on the reasons for the team's success.
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Episode 5 - If She Can Make It There...
Release Date: 1993-10-12Kelly's desire to work in New York upsets Hayden.
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Episode 6 - Uneasy Riders
Release Date: 1993-10-26Hayden and Dauber buy motorcycles.
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Episode 7 - Piece O' Cake
Release Date: 1993-11-02Luther, feeling a bit lonely, befriends a boy (Smollett) in need of a father
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Episode 8 - Running on Empty
Release Date: 1993-11-09Christine gingerly suggests that she and Hayden visit a fertility clinic.
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Episode 9 - It Came from New York
Release Date: 1993-11-16Kelly, having taken a bite out of the Big Apple, comes home for Thanksgiving a changed woman -- one that Hayden doesn't particularly like.
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Episode 10 - The Playbook
Release Date: 1993-11-30The playbook falls into enemy hands on the eve of Hayden's biggest game.
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Episode 11 - The Pioneer Bowl
Release Date: 1993-12-07On the day of the Pioneer Bowl, an accident puts Luther in the hospital with a concussion -- but the team wins the National Championship anyway.
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Episode 12 - Christmas of the Van Damned
Release Date: 1993-12-14Luther makes a nuisance of himself after tracing his family tree and learning of a large group of Van Dams living in the area.
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Episode 13 - The Babywreckers
Release Date: 1994-01-04Hayden is rattled when he and Christine agree to watch an infant for the weekend.
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Episode 14 - Coach for a Day (1)
Release Date: 1994-01-11Luther is offered the job of head football coach at nearby small Aberdeen college.
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Episode 15 - Coach for a Day (2)
Release Date: 1994-01-18Luther is embarrassed to confess his new job: managing a miniature golf course.
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Episode 16 - My Cup Runneth Over
Release Date: 1994-02-08Hayden begins wearing a special device to increase his sperm count. As a Valentine's gift he goes on Christine's TV show, where his special device leaks on camera.
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Episode 17 - Like Father, Like Daughter
Release Date: 1994-02-15Kelly can't attend when Hayden goes to New York to receive the Coach of the Year award.
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Episode 18 - The Devil in Mrs. Burleigh
Release Date: 1994-02-22While Howard and Hayden are away at a conference, Shirley confides in Christine that she's become attracted to another man.
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Episode 19 - Blue Chip Blues
Release Date: 1994-03-01The Screaming Eagles try to recruit the nations top QB. The players father roomed with Haden in college. After a one on one conversation with the blue chips QB, the player admits he only plays ball to please his eager father whose own football dreams were crushed by an injury. Haden convinces to give the young perspective time to decide his own life direction.
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Episode 20 - The Stand-In
Release Date: 1994-03-08Fed up with trying to increase his fertility, Hayden looks into getting a sperm donor -- quarterback Troy Aikman.
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Episode 21 - Something Old, Something New
Release Date: 1994-03-22An old girlfriend's visit rekindles Dauber's feelings and jeopardizes his relationship with Judy.
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Episode 22 - One of the Guys
Release Date: 1994-04-05Christine goes fishing with the guys and catches the biggest fish.
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Episode 23 - My Best Friend's Girl
Release Date: 1994-05-03Hayden and Christine have lukewarm reactions to Luther's outrageously uninhibited date.
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Episode 24 - Goodbye, Mr. Putts
Release Date: 1994-05-10In this episode Judy and three of the other woman's coaches challenge Hayden, Dauber, Howard and Luther to a game of golf with the winner getting the best athletic parking spots. The only problem for the guys is that Luther is a terrible player, after some argument Hayden finally relents to give Luther a shot against the woman. The men are poised to win on a put by Hayden, but he misses.
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Episode 25 - Head Like a Wheel
Release Date: 1994-05-17On his 49th birthday, Hayden wants to drive a race car.
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Episode 26 - Retrospective (1)
Release Date: 1994-05-24This is an unusual greatest moments episode. The format is an interview with Hayden about his life and work at Minnesota State. In the first of this two part series Mary Hart interviews Hayden about the beginnings of his relationship with Christine. Another unusual part of this episode is its absence of a laugh track, leaving the jokes to push themselves.
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Episode 27 - Retrospective (2)
Release Date: 1994-05-24In this second of the two-part interview with Mary Hart, the show explores Hayden's relationships with the other significant people in his life (i.e. Luther, Dauber, Howard, and his daughter). This two-part series is essentially a greatest moments episode from the first six seasons.