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18 Episodes 0 - 1983
Episode 1
Wed, Dec 8, 1982
Brenda Gaines inherits a boxing gym from her late father and plans to turn it into the Powerhouse youth center, enlisting the help of local kids to do so. However, a local numbers gang that has been using the building tries to stop her.
Episode 2
Thu, Dec 9, 1982
After Brenda is framed for drug possession, she and the kids try to figure out who was behind it and clear her name so that Powerhouse can finally open.
Episode 3
Fri, Dec 10, 1982
The son of an African nation's ambassador, who is prone to stress-related illness, comes to Powerhouse for help, but the gang must save him when he is kidnapped.
Episode 4
Mon, Dec 13, 1982
When a friend is replaced as a museum's head of security, the Powerhouse gang offers to help her get her job back.
Episode 5
Tue, Dec 14, 1982
When a dangerous rare illness makes Brenda sick, the Powerhouse gang must track down the reclusive carrier of the disease before it is too late.
Episode 6
Fri, Dec 17, 1982
Just before his bar mitzvah, Lolo and his grandfather are attacked by a gang of young white supremacists in front of the synagogue that they attend.
Episode 7
Mon, Dec 20, 1982
With Powerhouse's license up for review, the gang is manipulated by a filmmaker who is secretly in the employ of a developer out to get the building.
Episode 8
Tue, Dec 21, 1982
Lieutenant Gambrino's son Peter has a drinking problem, and when Pepper spends time with him, she ultimately gets involved in one of his drunken binges, then is framed when Peter later steals the Powerhouse gang's money and possessions.
Episode 9
Thu, Dec 23, 1982
Overwhelmed by the pressure of the upcoming championship soccer game, Tony fakes a foot injury and is replaced by a player known as "El Gato", whose antagonistic behavior causes dissent among the team.
Episode 10
Fri, Dec 24, 1982
Episode 11
Mon, Dec 27, 1982
Episode 12
Tue, Dec 28, 1982
Episode 13
Wed, Dec 29, 1982
Self-conscious of his recent weight gain, Kevin gets suckered into a fly-by-night weight-loss clinic with sinister ulterior motives.
Episode 14
Thu, Dec 30, 1982
Episode 15
Fri, Dec 31, 1982
Episode 16
Mon, Jan 3, 1983
The leader of the White Cobras, the white-supremacist gang from the episode "Celebration," plants a bomb in the cellar of Powerhouse that fatally injures Lolo. At the funeral, his family and friends remember what a great person he was. But who is that guy with the mysterious mustache, and why is an on-duty cop present at the ceremony?
Episode 17
Episode 18