Episode
Cybill: Cybill Discovers the Meaning of Life
Overview
Disturbed by feeling that her family all have lives separate from her own, Cybill drags Maryann into the desert in search of spiritual insights and, receiving an urgent psychic message from the universe, rushes back just in time for the birth of her grandson.
Details
- Series
- Cybill
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 1995-09-17
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Cybill Discovers the Meaning of Life is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Cybill. It aired on 1995-09-17. The runtime is 30 min.
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