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  • Sep 14, 1992
  • CBS
  • Sep 14, 1992
Hearts Afire

Summary Set in Washington, D.C., Hearts Afire focused on the professional and personal relationship of John Hartman, the legislative assistant to aging, conservative Southern senator Strobe Smithers, and Gorgie Anne Lahti, the once globe-trotting but now out-of-work liberal journalist whom John hired as the senator's press secretary. John, the ...

Created By: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

  • CBS
  • Sep 14, 1992
  • CBS
  • Sep 14, 1992
Hearts Afire
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 14, 1992
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Summary Set in Washington, D.C., Hearts Afire focused on the professional and personal relationship of John Hartman, the legislative assistant to aging, conservative Southern senator Strobe Smithers, and Gorgie Anne Lahti, the once globe-trotting but now out-of-work liberal journalist whom John hired as the senator's press secretary. John, the ...

Created By: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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Episode 1 • Sep 14, 1992 • 47 m
Bees Can Sting You, Watch Out: Part 1
Georgie is applying for a position of press secretary in Senator Smithers' office and embellished her curriculum vitae. When Georgie is kicked out of the hotel where she was staying, she moves in 'temporarily' with John.
Episode 2 • Sep 14, 1992 • 47 m
Bees Can Sting You, Watch Out: Part 2
Georgie is applying for a position of press secretary in Senator Smithers' office and embellished her curriculum vitae. When she is kicked out of the hotel where she was staying, Georgie moves in 'temporarily' with John.
Episode 3 • Sep 21, 1992 • 23 m
The Big Date
John and Georgie argue about the significance of the bath they had just had together. Senator Smithers organises for John to take Didi on a dinner date. Georgie invites George Hamilton to the date and John becomes a little jealous.
Episode 4 • Sep 28, 1992 • 23 m
Three Men and a Bed
It's the aftermath of John and Georgie's date and they're still fighting. John becomes ill with a fever and ends up in quarantine. The senator and Billy Bob both have a fight with their spouses and sleep over at John's place.
Episode 5 • Oct 5, 1992 • 23 m
John's Stallion
When George, Georgie's father, is released from prison, she wants him to stay at their place.
Episode 6 • Oct 12, 1992 • 23 m
First Time
Billy Bob and George are taking Ben and Elliot for a camping weekend, which leaves John and Georgie alone. When Elliot's snake escapes, John and Georgie move in to a hotel. Unfortunately, the neighbours are a newly married couple.
Episode 7 • Oct 26, 1992 • 23 m
Significant Others
Georgie is exercising some parenting skills on the boys but they're different than John's. Elliot knocks out a girl at school and her mother attacks John. John's ex-wife comes for a visit with her new lover.
Episode 8 • Nov 9, 1992 • 23 m
Everybody Loves My Baby
George is looking after the boys and John decides to offer him the job permanently. The men in the senator's staff are preparing for a charity talent show. John and Georgie are having trouble getting some time alone.
Episode 9 • Nov 16, 1992 • 23 m
Conversations with My Shrink
Georgie decides she wants to be a serious journalist but she has a series of very disappointing interviews. She then decides to have a meeting with an ex boyfriend who is in town, which has John on edge.
Episode 10 • Nov 23, 1992 • 23 m
The Fundamental Things Apply
The senator's wife threatens to run against the senator in the next election and so the team do their best to stop it. Georgie and Mavis ask Dee Dee to stop seeing the senator, and John has to approach Mary Fran to stop her running.
Episode 11 • Nov 30, 1992 • 23 m
Smithersgate
A reporter is trying to find out about a trip the senator and Dee Dee took together. The finger is pointed at Georgie as being the source of the information. John tries to find out if she is responsible by planting a false story.
Episode 12 • Dec 14, 1992 • 23 m
Everyday's a Holiday
Ben and Elliot are spending Christmas with their mother in The Berkshires. John thinks what he has to offer is not good enough and so decides to take them to New York. The whole office staff drive up there in Adam's RV.
Episode 13 • Dec 21, 1992 • 23 m
While the Thomasons Slept
John takes Ben and Elliot on a tour of the White House, and it's a memorable visit especially when Elliot steals the president's phone book. John struggles to find a way to return the book without being arrested.
Episode 14 • Jan 4, 1993 • 23 m
Trivial Pursuit
Billy Bob brings around a game of Trivial Pursuit and they play a competitive game. Billy Bob and John are very upset when the Senator's team win, so much so, they go out on an extremely wet night to prove that the last answer was wrong.
Episode 15 • Jan 11, 1993 • 23 m
Never Play Touch Football with the Kennedys
Georgie and John are having a disagreement over a press release about the senator's views on a health care bill. There is considerable rivalry as they both write a speech with the senator to choose which one he is happiest to go with.
Episode 16 • Jan 18, 1993 • 23 m
Miss Starr Dates Georgie Anne's Pop
Georgie fixes up her father on a date with John's baby-sitter but it doesn't go well. He ends going to the presidential inauguration with Dee Dee, which upsets Georgie. Also going is Billy Bob, who needs some dancing lessons.
Episode 17 • Feb 1, 1993 • 23 m
While the Thomasons Slept in the Lincoln Bedroom
John has lunch with the attractive manager of a new senator. The woman comes from his home town and Georgie becomes jealous of her and, without thinking, tells John to sow his wild oats. John becomes confused about the situation.
Episode 18 • Feb 8, 1993 • 23 m
Her Year with Fidel
There is a lot of discussion in the office about the comments being made about Hilary Clinton's wardrobe and coiffure. Then the commentators start talking about Georgie's past, which ends up causing problems with John at home.
Episode 19 • Feb 22, 1993
Cold Feet: Part 1
The Davis' decide to renewing their wedding vows when Adam suggest John and Georgie get married. The senator accidentally burns down his house and they all go away for the weekend. John proposes to Georgie and she accepts.
Episode 20 • Feb 22, 1993
Cold Feet: Part 2
Reporters follow Dee Dee up to where the office is staying for the weekend. John and Georgie, initially, are having doubts about the wedding. However, they decide to go through with it in front of all their family and friends.
Episode 21 • Mar 1, 1993 • 22 m
Take My Senate Seat, Please
It's the senator's 75th birthday and he is still living in a Winnebago, which is now parked in the Harman's driveway. A scantily clad Dee Dee jumps out of the senator's birthday cake, which gives him plenty of unwanted publicity.
Episode 22 • Mar 15, 1993 • 23 m
Flamingo Summer
Georgie has trouble adjusting to married life. She also confesses that she needs to finish the book she's writing so that she has $20 000 to pay back a loan. As she is feeling sick, Dee Dee, Billy Bob and John finish the book for her.
Episode 23 • Mar 22, 1993 • 23 m
Class Reunion
It's John and Billy Bob's 25th school reunion coming up but Mavis doesn't want to go. A mix up means that Billy Bob goes with an elderly woman. Georgie wears makeup and makes herself very plain to teach them a lesson about superficiality.

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83
Jun 10, 2013
Ritter and Post are skilled, likable actors, but neither of them radiates heat. What I liked best about the premiere, in fact, had nothing to do with romance: It was the opening scenes between John and his young children, Ben (Justin Burnette) and Elliot (Clark Duke)—funny, affectionate moments that carry the ring of complicated truth: family values redeemed.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
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Jun 25, 2013
This program is a little more loopy and labored than Bloodworth-Thomason's other shows and has to forage around longer to uncover its punch lines. But the leads are very adept at playing up what humor there is.
By David Hiltbrand FULL REVIEW

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