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Trying Times Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

6 Episodes 1987 - 1987

Episode 1

A Family Tree

Sun, Oct 18, 198730 mins

A man takes his well-meaning but extremely klutzy fiancee to meet his family. They arrive announced just in time for family dinner and she inadvertently ends up wreaking havoc, which helps his family face their pent-up issues.

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Episode 2

Drive, She Said

Sun, Oct 25, 1987

A history professor takes driving lessons in her attempt to win back her guy, who fell head over heals for a TV actress known due to her racing skills as the Duchess of Hazzard (in-jokingly played by Dukes of Hazard's Catherine Bach).

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Episode 3

Get a Job

Sun, Nov 1, 1987

A proud thirtysomething slacker falls for a career woman.

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Episode 4

Bedtime Story

Sun, Nov 8, 198730 mins

Insomniac is being kept awake by everything, both real and surreal, which even somehow includes his girlfriend's biological clock.

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Episode 5

The Visit

Sun, Nov 15, 198730 mins

Jim's high school sweetheart Wanda is coming to visit, which makes his annoyed wife Marsha jealous. However, as soon as she arrives, Wanda starts boring them with her entire crazy life story, but they're too polite to interrupt her.

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Episode 6

Moving Day

Sun, Nov 22, 1987

It's moving day for big city girl Barbara who can't wait to leave her old house. She plans to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico and open an art gallery with her old friend, a divorced woman. Fred, Barbara's sweet elderly father who may be suffering from an early stage of dementia asks her to leave the house to him, but she plans to take her dad to live with her. However, what she doesn't know is that him and their aging African-American maid Mildred have another reason to stay. To make things more complicated, Barbara's tomboyish daughter Jennifer arrives to inform her that she's quitting college and opening a garage, since she wants to be a car mechanic. That's when the movers arrive. It's a family outfit run by depressed fifty-something ex-cabby Harry who's suffering from midlife crisis and can't climb a flight of six stairs without getting tired, his goofy son Joey who secretly wants to be a ballet dancer and Harry's friend Bruno, who's always drunk. Complications don't end there, either. Barbara's cheating ex husband, Charlie, arrives to try and get back together with her, their other daughter, a teenage punk girl who's single and nine months pregnant, arrives to prepare for her delivery date, Joey and Jennifer seemingly have a crush on each other, and Barbara's favorite piano ends up being the first victim in the hands of her well-meaning but incredibly incompetent three movers. This tense and unusual situation forces everyone to face each and come clean about their wants and needs, which may just be exactly what they all need.

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