6.6/1039 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2003
Fallen soap vixen Faith Fairfield creates high drama after moving in with her straitlaced sister and her family.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
6.1/1025 votes#2 - Remembrance of Rings Past
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2003
The sisters attend the funeral of a long-forgotten aunt to pay their respects--and to swipe back the ring she took from their mom years earlier. Back at home, Charley handles an alarming situations with the home-security system and Hayley's middle-child neuroses.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.7/1031 votes#3 - The Un-Graduate
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2003
Faith goes back to high-school for her degree after it comes out that she failed French and never actually graduated. But a note passed in class leads Sydney's new beau to think more about Faith than French.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg
6.5/1025 votes#4 - Summary Judgment
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2003
Faith, in debt to her former studio because she "accidentally" set fire to a set the day she was fired, needs money, so Hope hires her as her assistant. A happy homemaker she isn't.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
5.9/1026 votes#5 - About a Book Club
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2003
Hope's book-club meeting becomes a party when Faith crashes it, and Hope turns out to be a heartier partier than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, Charley takes the kids to the arcade and turns out to be something of a pinball wizard.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jessica Kaminsky
6.3/1029 votes#6 - Hope Has No Faith
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2003
Faith meets a handsome and sensitive guy on Halloween. He's quite a treat, but Hope thinks he has a trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Haley has a "math date" with a nerdy boy named Edwin, thanks to Sydney, who arranged it (without asking Haley first).
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: David S. Rosenthal
6.7/1027 votes#7 - Car Commercial
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2003
A car dealer hires Faith for one of his wacky TV commercials. It's wackier than she would have liked. Meanwhile, Charley can't remember all of his and Hope's "cutesy, made-up anniversaries."
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.7/1031 votes#8 - Hope and Faith Get Randy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2003
A high-school flame of Hope's is single again and back in town. He and Faith begin making some music together and that rouses Hope's ire. Meanwhile, Haley and Sydney make a hole in their bedroom wall while wrestling and conspire to cover it up.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: David S. Rosenthal
6.8/1029 votes#9 - Phone Home for the Holidays
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2003
Hope and Faith's playboy father Jack arrives for Thanksgiving with his latest girlfriend. She's "out of this world," he says to his daughters. She says she was abducted by aliens. Jack also has a surprise for Charley: he has taken up shiatsu massage, and his "favorite" (read: only) son-in-law is "customer numero uno."
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel
6.8/1027 votes#10 - Anger Management
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2003
A "big misunderstanding" (it really is) with the mother of one of the boys in Charley's basketball team lands Hope and Faith in an anger-management class. But does Hope really have a "Faith-management problem"? Meanwhile, Charley might be the anti-handyman, but that's not stopping him from trying to fix the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Mark Driscoll
5.5/1026 votes#11 - Silent Night, Opening Night
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2003
A newcomer has taken over Faith's old role on "The Sacred and the Sinful." This sends Faith into a funk that's broken only when Hope tabs her to direct Hayley's holiday pageant at school. But her "artistic integrity" proves to be more than the kids can stand. Meanwhile, a bully takes Justin's winter coat, but Charley knows how to get it back.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.6/1027 votes#12 - The Wedding
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2004
Charley's brother Andrew is getting married, and their mother fears that Hope will ruin the nuptials. There's a history here: She blames Hope for wrecking Andrew's first wedding (the bride ran out of the church following a poem Hope read), and this one won't go smoothly, either.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
6.6/1031 votes#13 - Madam President
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2004
The opposition to Hope's campaign for president of the Glen Falls Neighborhood Association is Faith-based: she insulted a man, so he runs against her. He'll find a potent campaign weapon. Meanwhile, Charley tries to engineer Sydney's social life.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Mark Driscoll
6.6/1027 votes#14 - The Diner Show
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2004
A waitress becomes a colleague of Hope and Faith (they couldn't pay their bill). The reason they're in the diner in the first place: Faith wants to impress a director who's filming on location and eats there every night. Back at home, meanwhile, Charley crashes a party, only he doesn't know it, thanks to Sydney and Hayley's quick guest-disappearing act.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg
5.6/1026 votes#15 - Mismatch
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/2004
Charley's friend Kenny, who works for Doctors Without Borders in Djibouti, arrives for a visit and promptly falls in love with Faith. This is surprising to everyone and upsetting to Hayley, who has a crush on him. As for Hayley's boyfriend, Edwin, he's just crushed.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: N/A
6.2/1026 votes#16 - Charley's Baseball
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2004
Hope and Faith crash a baseball locker room to get the autograph of pitcher Roger Clemens. The reason why they're doing it involves a misdeed by Justin. Meanwhile, Hayley handcuffs herself to her tree house. It seems that the tree in which it's situated has died, and Charley must cut it down. But Hayley won't hear of it.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel
5.3/1024 votes#17 - Prom and Circumstance
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/2004
Hope and Faith "date" two doofuses from their high-school class because they have promised to repair Charley's '67 Stingray before he can find out that they (and Sydney, who was driving it) have damaged it.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
5.5/1025 votes#18 - Jury Duty
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/2004
Hope has jury duty, and that means disorder in the court, courtesy of Faith, who won't take her rejection as a juror lying down. And before the verdict is in, her soap-opera experience will come in handy.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
5.7/1024 votes#19 - Faith's Maid
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/19/2004
Faith's former maid shows up and Faith is glad to see her; everyone else has a maid they don't want. Meanwhile, Charley wants to join a "fancy schmancy" country club, and Hope, Faith and Charley do end up there.
Director: Jerry Zaks
Writer: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel
5.9/1026 votes#20 - Hope Gets a Job
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/2004
Hope gets a job as a columnist for the local newspaper, and Faith wrangles one, too, but they're not exactly "cubbie buddies": Faith is driving Hope crazy. Meanwhile, Charley and the kids must take take up the slack at home. Their first project: making pecan sandies.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Joanna Johnson
5.8/1024 votes#21 - Faith's Husband
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/16/2004
It turns out that Faith is married--to a man who lives in a trailer whom she hasn't seen in 15 years. It seems he never filed divorce papers, but now he wants to untie the knot. Not so fast, says Faith. She wants an apology before she'll sign anything.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: N/A
5.3/1031 votes#22 - Jack's Back
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/2004
Hope and Faith's dad and Faith's best friend, Mandi, share a May-December romance. This doesn't sit well at all with Hope or Faith, so Faith sets out to teach Mandi a lesson by hitting on her dad.
Director: Jerry Zaks
Writer: David S. Rosenthal
5.8/1025 votes#23 - Trade Show
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2004
Faith gets back into show business, sort of--as a scantily clad jackhammer demonstrator at a trade show. Meanwhile, Sydney gets Haley to write a science paper for her.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: Mark Driscoll
6.9/1031 votes#24 - Daytime Emmys (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2004
Faith's surprise Daytime Emmy nomination sends the Fairfields to New York City for a reunion with Faith's "The Sacred and the Sinful" colleagues. They're not her friends.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
6.5/1026 votes#25 - Daytime Emmys (2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2004
On the day of the Daytime Emmys, the "new" and "old" Ashley Storms face off during a taping of "The Sacred and the Sinful." Faith prevails, but Hope smells a rat. Meanwhile, Charley makes his soap debut, and Sydney and Hope receive the attentions of soap stars.
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Jennie Snyder Urman
The Best Episodes of Hope & Faith Season 1
Every episode of Hope & Faith Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hope & Faith Season 1!
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Hope & Faith" season 1. It scored 6.6/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by Gil Junger and written by Joanna Johnson, it aired on 9/23/2003. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Remembrance of Rings Past".