About this season
The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar Television. The show was originally titled Valerie and starred Valerie Harper as a mother trying to juggle her career with raising her three sons by her often-absent airline-pilot husband. Harper was written out of the series after the second season because of a dispute with the show's producers. Sandy Duncan joined the cast as the boys' aunt, who moved in and became their surrogate mom. During the show's third season, the series was known as Valerie's Family: The Hogans, then simply as The Hogan Family.
Episodes (21)
1. Animal House
Aired 3 October 1988 • 30 min
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.
2. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Aired 10 October 1988 • 30 min
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.
3. Dad's First Date
Aired 17 October 1988 • 30 min
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.
4. Foiled Again
Aired 14 November 1988 • 30 min
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.
5. Save Baby Mark
Aired 21 November 1988 • 30 min
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.
6. Saturday Night Feverish
Aired 28 November 1988 • 30 min
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.
7. Tobacco Road
Aired 5 December 1988 • 30 min
Sandy tries to teach Willie a lesson about cigarettes, but her efforts go up in smoke when she returns to smoking herself.
8. The Big Sleep
Aired 12 December 1988 • 30 min
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.
9. Secretarial Poole
Aired 9 January 1989 • 30 min
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.
10. Strangers On a Train
Aired 16 January 1989 • 30 min
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.
11. The Naked Truth
Aired 23 January 1989 • 30 min
Mark and Willie are barely able to contain themselves when they spot a nude portrait of Sandy hanging in an art gallery.
12. Rebel with a Cause
Aired 13 February 1989 • 30 min
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.
13. Boy Meets Girl (1)
Aired 20 February 1989 • 30 min
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.
14. Boy Loses Girl (2)
Aired 27 February 1989 • 30 min
Love-struck David's girlfriend, Sara, receives a great job offer in Australia, so David decides to take the plunge and propose marriage, but Sandy and Michael think he's all wet.
15. Viva Las Vegas
Aired 6 March 1989 • 30 min
David, Burt and Rich wager they'll have a wild weekend in Las Vegas, but they don't bet on ending up in jail. Meanwhile, Mrs. Poole displays some unusual talents.
16. Double Date
Aired 13 March 1989 • 30 min
Sandy and Michael endure twice the torture on a ""double date"" with the perfect prospective mates, while David decides to spend the evening bonding with his brothers.
17. The Long Goodbye
Aired 20 March 1989 • 30 min
David chafes under the Hogan house rules, so he moves into an apartment with Burt and Rich, who make Felix and Oscar seem like ideal roommates.
18. Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Aired 27 March 1989 • 30 min
The numbers 4 and 0 add up to a midlife crisis for Michael, and Sandy only multiplies his distress when she throws him a surprise birthday party.
19. Slapshot
Aired 3 April 1989 • 30 min
David puts himself in the penalty box over his guilt about injuring an opponent in a hockey game, and Mark threatens to body-check Willie for not paying a debt.
20. Private Lessons
Aired 23 April 1989 • 30 min
Willie wants to teach Mark a lesson in brotherly love when Willie's girlfriend decides she likes her tutor Mark better.
21. Coming to America
Aired 8 May 1989 • 30 min
It's amore at first sight for David when Sandy's friend arrives from Italy to stay with the Hogans.