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Episode 20
A Class Act Special
aired: Mon, Nov 22, 1993
Actress-comedienne Tracey Ullman stars in the one-off comedy special, Tracey Ullman: A Class Act. The special studies and skewers the British class system.
Episode 19
New York Special
aired: Sat, Jan 8, 1994
Actress-comedienne, Tracey Ullman stars in the one-off comedy special Tracey Ullman Takes On New York.
Episode 18
Season 3 Special
aired: Wed, Jun 3, 1998
Chic on Sports, Ruby on Sports, Trevor on Loss, Janie on Loss, Kay on Smoking, Hope on Smoking, Janie on Sports, Sheneesha on Age, Sydney on Culture, Birdie on Man's Best Friend, Fern on Age.
Episode 17
Season 2 Special
aired: Tue, May 27, 1997
Mrs. Noh on Food, Ruby on Mothers Chic on Crime, Trevor and Fern on Race Relations, Fern and Jobie on Sex, Birdie on Politics, Sydney on Sex, Kay on Movies, Janie on the Supernatural, Rayleen on Childhood.
Episode 16
Season 1 Special
aired: Tue, Apr 2, 1996
Linda's car crash. Rayleen acts as Linda's stunt double. Midge has problems showing her affections for Chris publicly. Mrs. Noh Ning compares romance to the donut. Chic recalls the 70's complete with platform shoes, pooka beads and mood rings.
Episode 15
Ruby, Part 2
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Ruby Romaine, Hollywood makeup artist.
Episode 14
Ruby, Part 1
aired: Sat, Dec 19, 1998
Ruby Romaine, Hollywood makeup artist.
Episode 13
Chris
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Chris Warner, "nutritionist" and lover of pro golfer Midge Dexter.
Episode 12
Sydney
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Sydney Kross, high-profile attorney.
Episode 11
Trevor
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Trevor Ayliss, flight attendant.
Episode 10
Rayleen
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Rayleen Gibson, Australian stunt woman.
Episode 9
Virginia
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Virginia Bugge, wife of a member of Parliament.
Episode 8
Hope
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Hope Finch, college student.
Episode 7
Fern & Harry
aired: Sat, Dec 19, 1998
Fern Rosenthal, Long Island and Boca Raton matron.
Episode 6
Fern: The Early Years
aired: Sun, Dec 20, 1998
Fern Rosenthal, Long Island and Boca Raton matron.
Episode 5
Mrs. Noh Nang Ning
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Mrs. Noh Nang Ning, Asian of unspecified origin, though she's not Chinese owner of a donut shop.
Episode 4
Janie
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Janie Pillsworth, fashion magazine editor.
Episode 3
Kay
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Kay Clark, employed at an S&L and caregiver to ailing mother.
Episode 2
Chic
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Chic, cab driver of unspecified Middle Eastern origin.
Episode 1
Linda
aired: Fri, Nov 20, 1998
Linda Granger, actress, singer and author.
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Episode 12
The End of the World
aired: Tue, Mar 16, 1999
Tracey describes how she would like the world to end. A meteor is about to hit Earth and all the characters take action!
Episode 10
Hype
aired: Tue, Mar 2, 1999
Tracey talks about an incident at Fox. Pip tries to get HRH to talk to a spin doctor. Ruby enters Buddy into a truck competition. Madam Nadja talks about hype in America. Fern shows off her caskets. Sheneesha hates the hype in the airport.
Episode 9
Road Rage
aired: Tue, Feb 16, 1999
Tracey hates driving behind old people. Sydney buys a hummer. Ruby gets carjacked. Linda rides in a helicopter with a traffic reporter. Fern and Jobie visit LA and rent a car. Chris and Midge get cut off by a driver.
Episode 8
Erotica
aired: Tue, Feb 2, 1999
Tracey Ullman reveals the most erotic thing she ever did. Madam Nadja talks the most erotic part of a woman. Why Hope took Spanish in college. Janie accepts a piece of erotic art. Fern's sculpture. Chic's "Taxi Cab Confessions".
Episode 7
Obsession
aired: Tue, Mar 9, 1999
Tracey admits that she has obsessions. Chic tries selling perfume. Hope talks about America's obsession with age. Sydney goes to her high school reunion. Madam Nadja talks about her "girls"' obsession. Trevor and Barry take up dancing.
Episode 5
Drugs
aired: Tue, Jan 12, 1999
Tracey talks about employing actors who are known to have drug problems. Ruby's hip was put in backwards. Erin helps a drug dealer who is at a crossroad. Chic discusses junkies in his home country.
Episode 4
Hair
aired: Tue, Jan 19, 1999
Tracey Ullman opens the show with her theory about Elton John's hair. Kay's hair cut. Linda returns to the stage in "Hair". Ruby explains the four hair colors. Trevor remembers when he got his Beatle's haircut.
Episode 2
Scandal
aired: Tue, Jan 19, 1999
Tracey Ullman opens the show by revealing a scandal from her past. Fern is fondled by a dentist. Hope talks of a scandal at school. Sydney finds a hair in her bed. Madam Nadja can prevent scandals. Janie is nearly seduced by a boy.
Episode 1
Dating
aired: Sat, Jan 30, 1999
Tracey reveals that she didn't go out on many dates in her youth. Janie dictates her idea of the perfect date. Kay discusses post-dating checks. Sydney tries a dating agency. Rayleen gets asked out by a co-worker on the set.
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Episode 10
Sports
aired: Sat, Mar 7, 1998
Running is Tracey's sport. Chic talks about sports in his homeland. Linda talks about competing in a celebrity sporting event. Ruby spends a day at the track. Fern has never been good at sports. Janie is forced to reunite with a school rival.
Episode 9
Culture
aired: Sat, Feb 28, 1998
Tracey takes us on a tour of London. Ruby remembers seeing "Miss Saigon", with Buddy. Birdie teaches the children the three R's. Hope falls for a has-been Scottish poet. Sydney Riverdances. Chic shows off his art. Linda does her part for the arts.
Episode 7
Religion
aired: Sat, Feb 14, 1998
Tracey loves religious television! Hope thinks about 'A' god. Ruby had a religious experience. Sydney thinks about her biblical prosecuting life. Chris is kidnapped and sent to a homosexual-deprogramming camp.
Episode 6
Age
aired: Sat, Feb 7, 1998
Tracey talks about getting older. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning proclaims that donuts are loved by all age groups. Rayleen doesn't know how old she is. Sheneesha talks about how black women age better than white women. Hope is taken by a professor.
Episode 5
Agents
aired: Sat, Jan 31, 1998
Tracey talks about the agents she's had. HRH meets Pierce Brosnan. Fern finds out that Harry is alive. Birdie is a registered agent. Linda decides it's time to get a new agent. Trever talks about his time as a travel agent.
Episode 4
Loss
aired: Sat, Jan 24, 1998
Tracey Ullman recounts losing Mabel's umbilical cord. Ruby lost the remote control once. HRH meets The Rolling Stones. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning discusses weight loss. Janie talks about her experience being on anti-depressants.
Episode 3
Smoking
aired: Sat, Jan 17, 1998
Tracey reveals why she gave up smoking. Hope gets caught smoking. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning puts nicotine in donuts. Kay smokes her mother's marijuana. Linda finds that her first "puff" leads her down a path of destruction.
Episode 2
Hollywood
aired: Sat, Jan 10, 1998
Tracey talks about Hollywood. Chic finds a script left in his cab by Penny Marshall. Chic decides to try and make it in Hollywood. Fern wins a hair contest and gets a part on "Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman".
Episode 1
Marriage
aired: Sat, Jan 3, 1998
Tracey remembers her wedding. Chic talks about his views on gay marriage. Hope is a bridesmaid. Sydney convinces Kay to marry her prison penpal who's on death row. Erin would never marry a badmate. Buddy's mail-order bride ends up on Ruby's doorstep.
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Episode 15
Music
aired: Sun, Mar 16, 1997
Tracey sees viewers as shareholders. HRH meets Shaquille O'Neal. Chic get audited. Ruby tries to buy cigarettes and alcohol with food stamps. Fern and Harry go into ostrich farming. Birdie talks about her husband who's in the tobacco industry.
Episode 14
Politics
aired: Tue, Apr 22, 1997
Tracey reveals that all the top positions of her show are run by women. Chic doesn't understand why people freak out when a politician is involved in a sex scandal. Virginia explains that Margaret Thatcher was the last Prime Minister fit for the job.
Episode 13
Supernatural
aired: Tue, Apr 15, 1997
Tracey would like to be abducted by aliens. Trevor saw something reminiscent to "The Twilight Zone" on the wing of the aircraft. Janis has psychic abilities. Chris makes a pact with the devil to help Midge win a golf tournament.
Episode 12
Race Relations
aired: Tue, Apr 8, 1997
Tracey doesn't want to offend anyone – she wants to offend everyone! Virginia is furious with the Blacks. Fern talks of the conflict between blacks and Jews. Linda does a stage version of "Driving Miss Daisy". Kay is part of a jury.
Episode 11
Money
aired: Tue, Apr 1, 1997
Tracey sees viewers as shareholders. HRH meets Shaquille O'Neal. Chic get audited. Ruby tries to buy cigarettes and alcohol with food stamps. Fern and Harry go into ostrich farming. Birdie talks about her husband who's in the tobacco industry.
Episode 10
Movies
aired: Tue, Mar 25, 1997
Tracey discusses her favorite type film. HRH meets Demi Moore. Fern remembers a date in her youth. Ruby gets lost at a giant movie theater. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning learned everything about America from movies.
Episode 9
Crime
aired: Tue, Mar 18, 1997
Tracey is arrested. HRH meets OJ Simpson. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning reveals the justice system in her homeland. Kay is suspected in a bank robbery. Chic has a little business on the side. Linda reunites with her stalker.
Episode 8
Food
aired: Tue, Mar 11, 1997
Tracey cooks for the crew. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning cooks eel. Ruby has vintage TV dinners. Janie becomes upset when her table at a restaurant has been given to another couple. Fern eats foods that make her gassy. Chic's cab cafe.
Episode 7
1976
aired: Tue, Mar 11, 1997
Tracey gets her platform shoes out of her closet, and wears them to work. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning bought her first donut machine in 1976. Janie's magazine plans a retro issue. Hope acts as PA to Janie at the firm.
Episode 6
Childhood
aired: Tue, Mar 4, 1997
Tracey opens the show by exhibiting two of her childhood dolls. Chic remembers arriving in America as a boy and Sydney explains why she sued her mother. While sorting through old photographs Ruby tells of her start as a Hollywood make-up artist.
Episode 5
Secrets
aired: Sun, Feb 23, 1997
Tracey opens the show by revealing a secret. Kay remembers smuggling a cocktail home that wreaked havoc on her bed-ridden mother. Chic explains why everyone tells him intimate details of their lives.
Episode 3
Mothers
aired: Fri, Feb 7, 1997
Tracey introduces her mother. Ruby talks about how she reared her children. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning spends time with her granddaughter. Janie fears that she isn't spending enough time with her children. Birdie talks about her son's birthday.
Episode 2
Fantasy
aired: Sat, Feb 1, 1997
Tracey recalls seeing the Beatles. Jobie reveals her fantasy to Fern. Trevor wants to work on a space shuttle. Sydney fantasizes about killing a priest. HRH meets Tracey Ullman. Ruby gets abducted by aliens.
Episode 1
Sex
aired: Fri, Jan 24, 1997
Tracey won't discuss "shagging." Men can't see Sydney as a sexual being. Hope knows what her first time is going to be like. Birdie discusses sex education. Linda has sex with the cable repairman. Fern and Jobie discuss sex.
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Episode 10
Fame
aired: Tue, Mar 12, 1996
Chic reveals how he convinced Andrew Lloyd Webber to do a musical version of "Phantom Of The Opera". Sydney tells us how lawyers are celebrities. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning talks about all the famous celebrities that have visited her store.
Episode 9
Health
aired: Tue, Mar 12, 1996
Kay's mother tells her that she's the only one who has the right to be sick. Chic tells us that he has the body of a younger man. Sydney is advised by her co-workers to take a vacation; she decides to go to a health spa.
Episode 7
Vanity
aired: Tue, Mar 5, 1996
Chic plucks his eyebrows. Fern's vanity license plates. Virginia thinks Americans think this show is about them. Kay gets a makeover for a wedding. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning compares sprinkles on donuts to vanity.
Episode 5
Family
aired: Tue, Feb 27, 1996
Mrs. Noh Nang Ning has legal problems. Hope talks about her roommates who were kleptomaniacs. Sydney takes on a case of a woman who burnt her buttocks on a cup of soup. Ruby tries to talk Buddy into faking a fall for money.
Episode 4
Royalty
aired: Tue, Feb 13, 1996
Fern told her daughter that having children ruined her life. Virginia talks about beating children. Kay's mother told her never to marry. Rayleen discusses future children with, Mitch.
Episode 3
Nostalgia
aired: Tue, Feb 6, 1996
Rayleen is pissed-off that royals don't have names that show their real character. Fern's idea of royalty is Steve and Edie, the King and Queen of good, clean music.
Episode 1
Romance
aired: Tue, Jan 23, 1996
Rayleen says goodbye to her "little person" husband who's off to play a raisin in a commercial. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning compares romance to donuts. Virginia tells of her one great romance, which was with her horse.

