A Year in the Life — Season 1, Episode 7: Acts of Faith

Episode synopsis

Joe believes David's social studies teacher has gone overboard to instill a fear of nuclear disaster in his students. Sam thinks his new mother-in-law is an aging hippie and fears Kay could follow in her footsteps. Lindley invents an infant walker.

About A Year in the Life

Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Don't I Know You From Somewhere?
• E2Things You Should Know Before and After
• E3What Do You Think Love Is?
• E4What Do People Do All Day?
• E5Dixie Chicken
• E6E.M. 7 Grizzlies Minus 3 1/2 for a Nickel
• E8In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
• E9So Much Water, So Close to Home
• E10I Think You Know Something I Don't Know
• E11While Someone Else is Eating or Opening a Window
• E12The Little Disturbance of Man
• E13Sometimes It's Hard to Remember