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Sex and the City Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
Sex and the City
Sat, Jun 6, 199827 mins
Columnist Carrie Bradshaw introduces her narrative style by a short story about a British girl who thought the Manhattan manner would be the same. Characters and extras on screen do some of the philosophizing about modern sex life and the life of both sexes she usually does off-screen in her column-style.
Episode 2
Models and Mortals
Sat, Jun 6, 199825 mins
Miranda discovers she was invited at Nick's, where all guests are asked with which movie star in the prime they would have loved to do it, to make a change with all those brainless models he keeps dating. The girlfriends see models as a living nightmare as those terribly demanded competitors actually walk around in Manhattan.
Episode 3
Bay of Married Pigs
Sun, Jun 21, 199824 mins
Carrie is invited to stay with a married friend and her husband, Peter, at their beach house. Her trip is unexpectedly cut short when she walks in on Peter who is naked in the kitchen. Back in Manhattan, she contemplates whether there is a secret war going on between the singles and the married.
Episode 4
Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
Sun, Jun 28, 199824 mins
Carrie and Mr. Big keep bumping into each-other till they date at Samantha's hot restaurant PR-opening, but he cancels last minute. The cook, just Jon, is reserved for Samantha's bed, but his hot friend Sam, also twenty-something flirts with Carrie; Big turns up saying he was on time but couldn't find her, time to leave town.
Episode 5
The Power of Female Sex
Sun, Jul 5, 199825 mins
After Samantha walks out of hottest restaurant Balzac, furious minor celebrities like her and Carrie can't get seated in 45 minutes, Carrie's credit card is cut in half at the shoe-shop, but 'Eurotrash' friend Amalita, a kept party-girl, picks up the bill, at her rich older Argentinian boyfriend Carlo's expense.
Episode 6
Secret Sex
Sun, Jul 12, 199824 mins
Carrie put asides her misgivings about a photo session for a promotional picture for her columns, to go on buses, because she was allowed to keep the sexy dress, which she wears on her first 'official' dinner date with Big, and has sex against Charlotte's Victorian restraint rules.
Episode 7
The Monogamists
Sun, Jul 19, 199825 mins
When she discovers that Big is dating other women, Carrie realizes that she desires a monogamous relationship with him. In the meantime, Samantha is having trouble being monogamous with her realtors. Charlotte dislikes the sexual desires of her new boyfriend.
Episode 8
Three's a Crowd
Sun, Jul 26, 199825 mins
Architect and amazing lover Jack, an ideal catch for princess Charlotte, whom she met at many disease benefits, strongly suggest a trio with another woman- the friends are divided if or how. Samantha does it with married 37-year old wine importer Ken Shear.
Episode 9
The Turtle and the Hare
Sun, Aug 2, 199824 mins
Carrie is presented to Stanford Blatch's adored, classy grandmother, but comes to the conclusion his being gay cancels all his qualities on her bottom line and probably in her last will. Miranda is losing her self-respect after many rejections, but turns to blind dating - just to walk out on the first man who's still willing to give it a go when they meet.
Episode 10
The Baby Shower
Sun, Aug 9, 199823 mins
As neither of the four friends has a solid prospect of engagement, they hate feeling obliged to attend a formerly bizarre socialite's baby shower - when it turns out she even 'stole' Charlotte's years ago made-up unique baby-name Shayla, they march out 'scandalized'.
Episode 11
The Drought
Sun, Aug 16, 199826 mins
After weeks sharing a bed, Carrie feels comfortable actually sleeping with M. Big, yet mortified when she farts in bed, but really worried when he stops to want sex every night. It really hits her when he prefers to watch a boxing match to kissing, so she paints her apartment.
Episode 12
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Sun, Aug 23, 199827 mins
Miranda dates rising playwright Thomas John Andersen, whose only flaw is he needs to shower immediately after sex, which he blames on nun teachers; her uttering sex is not sinful gets her thrown out forever. Carrie observes churches draw classy dressers- as her Mr. Big.
