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Jan 10, 1993

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Jan 10, 1993

Summary Meet the Thatchers, Drew, Libby, Becca, and Corky. Corky suffers from Down Syndrome. The show dealt with many issues. Some of which included drinking, sex, and HIV in the third season when Becca started dating a man that was HIV positive. Drew also had a daughter from a previous marriage, whose name was Paige.

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Directed By: R.W. Goodwin

Written By: Scott Frost

TV-14
ABC
Jan 10, 1993

TV-14
ABC
Jan 10, 1993

S4 • Episode 11

Incident on Main

Air Date: Jan 10, 1993

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Summary Meet the Thatchers, Drew, Libby, Becca, and Corky. Corky suffers from Down Syndrome. The show dealt with many issues. Some of which included drinking, sex, and HIV in the third season when Becca started dating a man that was HIV positive. Drew also had a daughter from a previous marriage, whose name was Paige.

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Episode 1 • Sep 20, 1992 • 1 h

Bec to the Future

A 40-something Becca looks back on the summer of '92 and Jesse's return from Arizona, but their reunion is bittersweet; Becca's avoiding Jesse to be with her new friends who don't know that Jesse is HIV-positive.

Episode 2 • Sep 27, 1992

Jesse paints a nude painting of Becca, who decides to let it be shown in the Nevermore Bookstore, leading to a nice scandal and endless date proposals on her answering machine.

Episode 3 • Oct 4, 1992 • 1 h

Premarital Syndrome

Corky and Amanda's "trial marriage" gets off to a rocky start--or at least a crunchy one like their macaroni-and-cheese dinner.

Episode 4 • Oct 18, 1992

The Whole Truth

Paige fends off an attempted rape by Becca's poetry teacher. Their accounts differ and Becca believes her teacher at first, but later confronts him when his story contains some holes.

Episode 5 • Nov 8, 1992 • 1 h

Becca and her friends find old World War II letters at the bookstore, which leads to Eric getting cozy with Becca and Jesse doing the same with Jill, a woman from an art gallery.

Episode 6 • Nov 22, 1992 • 1 h

Amanda's angry parents vow to annul her marriage to Corky and regain custody of her. The newlyweds then run off to a motel, further angering the Swansons and their attorney. Elsewhere, Becca and Jesse are mad at each other.

Episode 7 • Nov 29, 1992 • 1 h

Babes in the Woods

Episode 8 • Dec 13, 1992

Ray nominates Becca--against her wishes--for Homecoming Queen while Goodman nominates a cow in protest of beauty pageants in general. Also, Artie and Paige redo the restaurant with a bovine motif, which leads to a business partnership.

Episode 9 • Dec 20, 1992 • 1 h

The holidays take on a whole new meaning for Corky, who's celebrating his first Christmas as a married man and now has the wishes of a wife and in-laws to consider.

Episode 10 • Jan 3, 1993 • 1 h

Paige is delighted to find that she is carrying Michael's baby, and so is the whole family. Then Michael returns and decides that he doesn't want the baby.

Episode 11 • Jan 10, 1993

Incident on Main

Fear befalls Jesse and Becca when gay-bashing skinheads beat up Jesse outside the AIDS hospice leaving Becca with his blood on her hands after the beating.

Episode 12 • Jan 24, 1993

In her quest to get Becca out of her shell, Goodman takes her and Jesse on a double date. Meanwhile, Grandma Teresa stays overnight at the Thatchers' after her husband breaks their furnace.

Episode 13 • Feb 14, 1993

Shortly after his 18th birthday, a feverish Jesse collapses in extreme pain at school and is rushed to the hospital, where he dreams of Becca. When he wakes up, he finds that his AIDS-Related Complex has progressed to AIDS.

Episode 14 • Feb 21, 1993

Five to Midnight

Jesse's insurance runs out and he gets transferred to County Hospital where he nearly dies of AIDS-related cardiac arrest; Becca discovers a haunting self-portrait of Jesse's that he doesn't remember painting.

Episode 15 • Feb 28, 1993

A hospitalised Jesse is challenged to fight his disease by an irrepressible AIDS patient who refuses to passively accept his condition.

Episode 16 • Mar 7, 1993

Becca and Jesse go to see the ocean when Jesse says that it's something that he wants to do, but jealousy of Ray, who's been seeing Becca lately, dampens the outing for him.

Episode 17 • May 23, 1993

Life Goes on (and On and On)

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