Episodes (6)

Episode #1.1
S01E01 · Episode #1.1

Jan 10, 1994

In 1976 innocent young Mary Ann Singleton comes to San Francisco and, after briefly crashing with worldlier school friend Connie Bradshaw, takes a flat at 28, Barbary Lane in a house owned by the bohemian,pot-growing Mrs. Anna Madrigal, a lady who hints at a mysterious past. Mary Ann becomes one of Anna's 'children', along with personable Brian, who has given up law for bar work, Michael, known as Mouse, a flamboyant gay, and spaced out hippie chick Mona, who gets Mary Ann a job as secretary to kindly advertising executive Edgar Halcyon. Edgar is a man with problems. ...

Episode #1.2
S01E02 · Episode #1.2

Oct 05, 1993

Whilst Anna and Edgar continue their platonic friendship Mary Ann allows herself to spend a week-end with Beauchamp at a hotel, where the promised Z-bed does not materialize and they end up in the sack, though he has virility problems. Next day he ignores her at work. Brian meanwhile has various unsatisfactory sexual encounters, including with Connie, whilst DeDe, playing Beauchamp at his own game, seduces Chinese grocery delivery boy Lionel Wong and Mouse meets Jon, a doctor, and spends the night with him. Mona quits her job as a protest against sexist ad campaigns ...

Episode #1.3
S01E03 · Episode #1.3

Oct 12, 1993

After her first night as a volunteer on a Samaritan-type switchboard Mary Ann comes back to be confronted by DeDe, holding the scarf she left in Beauchamp's car, though she successfully convinces DeDe that she has no interest in her husband. Nonetheless DeDe signs up for a fat farm to lose weight. Anna and Edgar begin their affair proper after he has hinted to Beauchamp that he will one day be boss. Mouse feels humiliated after attending Jon's dinner party where bitchy old queens score points off him though Jon tells Mouse he means more to him than all of them. Mary ...

Episode #1.4
S01E04 · Episode #1.4

May 29, 1993

Michael's parents visit and he shows them around the city, keeping a discreet silence about his sexuality. Anna and Edgar also try to keep their affair secret as he stays the night but Mona is more open, telling Mouse that she and Dorothea were once lovers. Dorothea returns to San Francisco and Mona moves in with her, Anna being unusually upset about her leaving. Mary Ann gets closer to Brian, who consoles her after she found her boss at the Crisis Cedntre had hanged himself. However she starts dating Norman, who sometimes brings a precocious little girl Lexi and asks...

Episode #1.5
S01E05 · Episode #1.5

Jun 05, 1993

Brian continues to have more disastrous pick-ups, including with two waitresses who turn out to be a mother and daughter. Mona finds it difficult to get through to Dorothea, particularly with regard to Dor's reluctance to see her parents, whom Mona rings in the spirit of reconciliation. DeDe continues her joyless affair with Callas, though at least she gets sex with him, which is more than she does with Beauchamp who,unaware of her situation,announces that he does not want children - before heading to a gay sauna where he picks up Jon. Mary Ann goes on seeing Norman, ...

Episode #1.6
S01E06 · Episode #1.6

Jun 12, 1993

Jon, who has met DeDe as her gynecologist and likes her, breaks things off with Beauchamp, informing him of his wife's pregnancy. As Christmas approaches Mary Ann confides in Mouse her suspicions of Norman's creepy behavior and snoops around his flat, finding pornographic pictures of Lexi. Mona tracks down Dorothea's parents and invites them for lunch on Christmas Eve. She is amazed to find that they are white and the tablets she found in Dorothea's cabinet were to darken her skin, as it gave her more modeling work. After initial shock there is reconciliation. Norman ...

About

Tales of the City Season 1 (1993) is released on Jan 10, 1994. Watch Tales of the City online - the English Drama TV series from United Kingdom. Tales of the City is directed by Alastair Reid and created by Richard Kramer with Olympia Dukakis and Donald Moffat. Tales of the City is available online on Hoopla and VUDU Free.

As know as:

Les chroniques de San Francisco(French), Городские истории, Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, Crônicas de San Francisco

Countries:

United Kingdom, United States

Language:

English

Production Companies:

American Playhouse, Channel 4 Television Corporation, KQED

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