Season 1
15 episodes · Sep 11, 1985
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- S1E1
Let My Jenny Go
Sep 11, 198560mFather Hardstep Rivers attempst to save Jennie, a young prostitute from a fate worse than death. Jennie doesn’t know that her pimp Ric (George Chakiris) is really her father, or that her mother Sara (Bibi Besch) is doing time in the pen. Hardstep tries to affect a miracle by having the former lovers meet at the church altar. He gets Sara out of the pen on a pass, then watches as the woman implores Ric to free their daughter from sexual bondage. Even the resident wino could have seen what was coming. Not Hardstep. Eric refuses the mother’s request, and she murders him in cold blood with a knife.
- S1E3
Fast Louie
Sep 25, 198560mFather Hardstep loses his cool when an old con man shows up and tells the orphans he’s the priest's real father.
- S1E6
I Will Abide
Oct 23, 198560mA veteran pimp returns to Hell Town and resumes his old ways, prompting Hardstep to push a disillusioned cop (Guy Stockwell) into action.
- S1E9
The One Called Daisy
Nov 13, 198560mSister Daisy is brutally attacked and raped and subsequently discovers she is pregnant, and it is now Father Hardstep's difficult work to support her in the agonizing decision whether to keep the baby.
- S1E10
Love and Four Corners
Nov 20, 198560mFather Hardstep deals with a group of women who threaten to leave their husbands blaming a corner bar where the men are accused of not only drinking too much but losing their money gambling.
- S1E12
A Wedding in Hell Town (a.k.a. A Simple Wedding)
Dec 4, 198560mTown’ Father Hardstep has his hands full when Kathy, former Hell Town resident, marries David, son of Beverly Hills socialites. Problems arise when Kathy's father, Phil, out on leave from jail, wants to skip out to settle an old score, and David's father is an embarrassment with his snobbish behavior.
- S1E13
The Rat Man Cometh (a.k.a. Poor No More)
Dec 11, 198560mFather Hardstep saves a young girl, Meg, from a life on the Sets and pornography films, only to discover she is further harassed by a faceless corporation terorizing tenants in her newfound home and life.