Red Shoe Diaries
Jake, desperately trying to recover from the recent betrayal andtragic death of his beloved fiancee, attempts a novel form of therapy to overcome his great loss. He advertises in the personals, under the pseudonym 'Red Shoes', to pay top dollar to women willing to send to him diaries of their similar experiences and how they overcame them. These are those diaries...
- 1992-1996
- 5 seasons
- Showtime Networks
- Drama
- TV-MA
Jake, desperately trying to recover from the recent betrayal andtragic death of his beloved fiancee, attempts a novel form of therapy to overcome his great loss. He advertises in the personals, under the pseudonym 'Red Shoes', to pay top dollar to women willing to send to him diaries of their similar experiences and how they overcame them. These are those diaries...
Season 5 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1996
Episode 1
Weightless
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A beautiful astronaut, trapped in a dying spacecraft a million miles from home, makes tender love for the last time with her co-pilot as she ruminates about the sensual path of her life that led her to the adventure of outer space.
Episode 2
Carried Away
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A woman flees to a country farm to rethink her crumbling relationship. When a storm knocks out all communication except carrier pigeon, soon she and her boyfriend communicate as never before rekindling the flame of their relationship.
Episode 3
Jealousy
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
When a newlywed couple's honeymoon is interrupted by the bride's big film break the groom becomes obsessed with jealous thoughts of his wife and the leading man in the film only to discover his wife is playing a nun.
Episode 4
The Boxer
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
Kate is a photographer who has given up on love until she falls for Max, a struggling boxer she allows to stay at her loft while they work together on a perfume ad. With Max's help, Kate learns to love again.
Episode 5
Strip Poker
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A photographer spies a game of strip poker but it isn't until she joins in that she experiences the joy of being a player, a lost diary reminds a lonely woman of the ecstasy of true love and a fashion designer's designs inspires lust.
Episode 6
Hard Labor
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
Ad whiz Aleta passionately loves Antonio, until his unstable ex-lover appears at a fashion show for Hard Labor Jeans spinning a tale of betrayal, destroying Aleta's trust. Aleta must find courage to forgive and the grace of redemption.
Episode 7
Slow Train
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
Sally's grandmother wasn't the passionless woman she'd always thought, her diary shows a desperate young woman during the 1930's. One night she meets Mac in a boxcar. Though they only spend one night together, he would remain her true love.
Episode 8
Temple of Flesh
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A woman promises her husband a strip tease for their one-year anniversary, but when they pick up two hippies who share their insights on life and a lot of champagne during the limousine ride to a club things get really wild.
Episode 9
Juarez
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A young woman coming to terms with her mother's impending death becomes fascinated with a mysterious masked Mexican wrestler. She sets out to seduce him and they fall in love, but she is unable to separate the man from his mask.
Episode 10
Farmer's Daughter
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
The spirited and amorous daughter of a vineyard owner nurses an injured cyclist back to health. Though wary of her advances, at first, the cyclist can't help but adore her charm and in the end he falls in love with her.
Episode 11
The Forbidden Zone
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
A woman in an affair on the skids tells a story of a set far in the future, in a completely puritan world, where any of the freedoms we take for granted are all but forbidden. A world where dance and music, love and lust are the only rules.
Episode 12
Art of Loneliness
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
Bobby creeps back into the life of Elizabeth, a blind late night radio personality, and seduces her technician Francis. By sunrise Bobby is gone, Elizabeth is alone in her darkness while Francis has learned to embrace the light.
Episode 13
The Picnic
Fri, Sep 6, 1996 30 mins
Rita is torn between two lover's who are best friends that don't want to share, when a picnic turns into a comical dance of who wants who and who wants who dead until she talks them into a compromise that gets her everything she wants.
Episode 14
Banished
Mon, Jan 1, 1996 30 mins
A condemned Angel is horrified to realize he is cursed with the treacherous power to kill with a kiss and must walk the earth alone and absent from love, forever.