Fame

- Season 1

(1982)

Julie tries her best to fit in at the New York School for the Performing Arts, with a little bit of help from Doris and Montgomery.

Coco and Lydia vie for a part in a show. Danny wants to meet Johnny Carson and becomes a waiter.

The school board has come to evaluate the school. Each of the kids are interviewed and we get a glimpse of their background.

Bruno is afraid of performing in public and must learn to overcome his fears.

Bruno is in love with a dance major named Kathy Murphy. When he is to write a piece of music for her, she performs for him and gets injured. It turns out that she has Multiple Sclerosis.

When Bruno's dad buys him a new synthesizer, Bruno feels the need to get a job to help pay for it. Meanwhile, Julie wonders why Coco is suddenly so rude to her while they are doing a very important number together.

The School Of The Arts is plagued by a teachers' strike just as the kids are set to work on a musical production of Othello. Meanwhile Leroy is cast for the part of Othello, but feels he just can't speak the way the script was written.

Doris, while pretending to be a hooker, meets a real hooker named Tracy, and tries to help her out.

Danny starts taking caffeine pills to juggle school and his new midnight gig at a comedy club. Meanwhile Doris has her first screen-test for a hamburger commercial.

Montgomery's mother, a famous movie star, has agreed to direct the school variety show. The only problem is she wants to use it to showcase herself.

Doris learns that sometimes honesty is not always the best policy. When Shorofsky is hospitalized, Bruno realizes that he is important to his life.

When Julie gets replaced by a mannequin in a production number, she feels unimportant until a reporter threatens to do an expose on her.

Montgomery tries to get Bruno to cash in on his songwriting abilities.

The janitor has a secret. He was a famous Broadway dancer and he is hiding a friend (also a famous dancer) and a dog in his office.

Leroy wants his mom to come to the last show of year but she is in Detroit. Shorofsky's old flame visits and tells the students about the Holocaust.

Budget cutbacks prompts the School Board to fire one of the school's teachers.