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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!

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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 Hollywood life as a soap opera star before her character

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.0/10(51 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Fallen soap vixen Faith Fairfield creates high drama after moving in with her straitlaced sister and her family.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Joanna Johnson

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  2. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 2 - Remembrance of Rings Past
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    #2 - Remembrance of Rings Past

    S1:E2

    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

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  3. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 3 - The Un-Graduate
    7.2/10(41 votes)

    #3 - The Un-Graduate

    S1:E3

    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

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  4. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 4 - Summary Judgment
    7.1/10(35 votes)

    #4 - Summary Judgment

    S1:E4

    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

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  5. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 5 - About a Book Club
    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #5 - About a Book Club

    S1:E5

    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

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  6. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 6 - Hope Has No Faith
    6.7/10(39 votes)

    #6 - Hope Has No Faith

    S1:E6

    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

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  7. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 7 - Car Commercial
    7.4/10(37 votes)

    #7 - Car Commercial

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 8 - Hope and Faith Get Randy
    7.1/10(42 votes)

    #8 - Hope and Faith Get Randy

    S1:E8

    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

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  9. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 9 - Phone Home for the Holidays
    7.2/10(40 votes)

    #9 - Phone Home for the Holidays

    S1:E9

    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
    Writers:Kat Likkel, John Hoberg

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  10. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 10 - Anger Management
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #10 - Anger Management

    S1:E10

    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

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  11. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 11 - Silent Night, Opening Night
    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #11 - Silent Night, Opening Night

    S1:E11

    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

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  12. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 12 - The Wedding
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    #12 - The Wedding

    S1:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 13 - Madam President
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #13 - Madam President

    S1:E13

    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

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  14. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 14 - The Diner Show
    7.4/10(36 votes)

    #14 - The Diner Show

    S1:E14

    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

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  15. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 15 - Mismatch
    6.4/10(35 votes)

    #15 - Mismatch

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 16 - Charley's Baseball
    6.9/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Charley's Baseball

    S1:E16

    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
    Writers:Kat Likkel, John Hoberg

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  17. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 17 - Prom and Circumstance
    6.2/10(33 votes)

    #17 - Prom and Circumstance

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 18 - Jury Duty
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    #18 - Jury Duty

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 19 - Faith's Maid
    6.5/10(33 votes)

    #19 - Faith's Maid

    S1:E19

    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
    Writers:Kat Likkel, John Hoberg

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  20. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 20 - Hope Gets a Job
    6.6/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Hope Gets a Job

    S1:E20

    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

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  21. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 21 - Faith's Husband
    6.2/10(31 votes)

    #21 - Faith's Husband

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 22 - Jack's Back
    6.0/10(38 votes)

    #22 - Jack's Back

    S1:E22

    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

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  23. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 23 - Trade Show
    6.3/10(32 votes)

    #23 - Trade Show

    S1:E23

    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

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  24. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 24 - Daytime Emmys (1)
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    #24 - Daytime Emmys (1)

    S1:E24

    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

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  25. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 25 - Daytime Emmys (2)
    6.8/10(33 votes)

    #25 - Daytime Emmys (2)

    S1:E25

    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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Hope & Faith" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Gil Junger and written by Joanna Johnson, it aired on 9/23/2003. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Remembrance of Rings Past".