Hope and Gloria — Season 1, Episode 9: Love With an Improper Stranger

Episode synopsis

A lonely Hope spends the night with a handsome stranger, but it's possible that she's in for more of a relationship than she bargained for - he may be her brother. Distraught Hope does the unforgivable: she forgets to enter Dennis in the local Emmy Award competition, which he is sure he will win after 23 years of being passed over.

About Hope and Gloria

Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from March 9, 1995, through June 22, 1996. The show was canceled after 35 episodes. It starred Cynthia Stevenson and Jessica Lundy, respectively, as the titular characters, both working in an office environment in downtown Pittsburgh. The program also starred Alan Thicke as a local talk show host and featured Enrico Colantoni in one of his first regular roles on television. The series was broadcast in Britain on ITV during the 1996 summer holiday, going out Monday to Friday for seven weeks.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Are We Having Fun Yet?
• E2No Degrees of Separation
• E3Salon, It's Been Good to Know You
• E4A Fine ROM-ance
• E5Falling in Bed Again
• E6I Never Sang for Our Father
• E7My Mamma Done Told Me (1)
• E8Who's Poppa? (2)
• E10The Face with Two Men
• E11Sisyphus, Prometheus and Me
• E12Don't Take Any Wooden Elephants
• E13A Midsummer Night's Trim