Episode
The Hogan Family: Liars and Other Strangers
Overview
Rich and Burt assume more than they should after David has a study session with the new girl in school and he lets them assume that they are much more involved than they actually are. Quickly he learns he's inadvertently destroying a reputation.
Details
- Series
- The Hogan Family
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1987-09-28
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Liars and Other Strangers is Episode 2 in Season 3 of The Hogan Family. It aired on 1987-09-28. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 1: Movin' On
After Valerie's sudden death, Sandy, Michael's sister, moves in, and finds her school-counseling job a breeze compared with what she faces at home: David tries to be a ""supermom,"" while Willie and Mark are at odds over a science project.
Episode 3: Burned Out
While moving in some of Sandy's belongings, the boys dig up old stuff in the attic, one of which is an old lamp David made as a gift for Michael. However, unaware to anyone, the lamp sparks a fire causing the house to go up in smoke and the Hogans to temporarily move in with the Pooles next door.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Take My Wife, Please
There's a hitch in the twins' school project on marriage when Willie goes after Mark's wife while David tries to best Sandy at anything.
Episode 5: You've Got to Believe
David reexamines his belief in God after his history teacher has a heart attack and David saves him with CPR.
Episode 6: A Room With No View
David risks losing his best friend when he locks him in a closet to keep him from driving while drunk. Meanwhile, Sandy, Michael, Mark and Willie pay a visit to a resort that Sandy had invested in.
Episode 7: You Bet Your Life
David's on a roll at predicting football games and decides to bet some real money, but he could be wearing cement sneakers when he loses big.
Episode 8: School of Hard Knocks
Mark brakes David's fast times at high school when a special program puts Mark in the middle of David's classes and his love life.
Episode 9: Nightmare on Oak Street
The boys are all set for an evening of terror, watching a horror movie. However, when it's over each one of them is scared stiff and go on to experience their own version of ""Nightmare at Zombie High.""
Episode 10: Poetic Injustice
Fresh from his triumphant A-plus in English, Willie crumbles under the pressure of composing a poem, while Sandy and David lose it when they lose Mrs. Poole's beloved dog.
Episode 11: Love with the Proper Hogan
Crushed by a girl's rejection, David's pal Burt falls hard for Sandy, while Sandy thinks her principal's the one with romance on his mind.
Episode 12: Faulty Attraction
Sandy's ex-husband makes a move to get back in her life. Meanwhile, David moves into Michael's poker game.
Episode 13: Teacher's Pet
There's a certain chemistry between David and his science teacher, while Sandy has a solution for a depressed Mrs. Poole, who's without her husband on their anniversary.