Episode
The Hogan Family: Dad's First Date
Overview
A nervous Michael dives into the dating pool bu doesn't make much of a splash, while David will stop at nothing to avoid immersing himself in an English assignment.
Details
- Series
- The Hogan Family
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1988-10-17
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Dad's First Date is Episode 3 in Season 4 of The Hogan Family. It aired on 1988-10-17. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 2: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
After David fools the twins with a bald-faced lie, they turn the tables on the ""master of practical jokes"" by convincing him that his hair is falling out. Meanwhile, Michael chokes under the pressure of retaking his driver's test.
Episode 4: Foiled Again
David has a crisis of conscience when he's attracted to the coed that best friend Burt has his eye on, but he's caught off guard when Burt throws down the gauntlet.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Animal House
College freshmen David, Rich and Burt have been feeling a little left out of the college social scene and decide to spark some attention by stealing a rival school's mascot, a wolverine, but when the fierce creature gets loose, it's every Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and Willie enroll Sandy in a computer dating service and she discovers this just as her date knocks on the front door.
Episode 5: Save Baby Mark
David lights a fire under his brothers to get them to help sweep out the chimney, but Mark does a slow burn when he gets wedged inside the fireplace.
Episode 6: Saturday Night Feverish
Mark worries that he and his two left feet will trip over the light fantastic when Willie tells a girl that Mark likes, that Mark is a great dancer.
Episode 7: Tobacco Road
Sandy tries to teach Willie a lesson about cigarettes, but her efforts go up in smoke when she returns to smoking herself.
Episode 8: The Big Sleep
It's a dream come true for psychology student David when Sandy, ""Queen of the All-Nighters,"" agrees to be the guinea pig for his sleep deprivation experiment.
Episode 9: Secretarial Poole
Sandy thinks she's hired ""Robo-Secretary"" after Mrs. Poole whips the entire school into tiptop shape. Meanwhile, Michael fends off the advances of an admirer.
Episode 10: Strangers On a Train
Willie is stirred by first-hand accounts of apartheid from Sandy's South African professor, so he and Mark embark on an el-train ride to a candlelight vigil.
Episode 11: The Naked Truth
Mark and Willie are barely able to contain themselves when they spot a nude portrait of Sandy hanging in an art gallery.
Episode 12: Rebel with a Cause
Tired of being ""dull and predictable,"" Mark turns into a mini-James Dean, but his cool attitude only gets his family and friends hot under the collar.
Episode 13: Boy Meets Girl (1)
David and a pretty student get off on the wrong foot, and they continue to bicker when they're fixed up on a blind date that could wind up opening their eyes to romance after all.