A Year in the Life — Season 1, Episode 8: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Episode synopsis

Tempers flare during tryouts for a football team that Jack is coaching. A lonely Anne gives in to temptation on a business trip. Joe is reluctant with being selected as treasurer by a ladies' garden club.

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
• E7Acts of Faith
• 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