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All Episodes of Lifestories: Families in Crisis

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All Episodes of Lifestories: Families in Crisis

Lifestories: Families in Crisis is an American drama television series that premiered on HBO on August 1, 1992.
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Season 1

  • The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic
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    The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/1992

    Mary-Margaret lives the perfect life and when she can't deal anymore she becomes bulimic,shooping in other towns so people she knows wont run into her.Then when she goes to college she meets another bulimic who turns anorexic and begins to scare Mary and when her friend dies she decides to get help on her eating disorder.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story
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    A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/8/1992

    Robert Bierer recounts the times the he spend with his best friend the good ones and the not so good ones leading up to the tragidy that happened when his friend commited suicide and Robert talks on how you have to hold on for the sake of your friends and family.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story
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    Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/15/1992

    A pregnant 17-year-old, frustrated by Indiana's Public Law 106, which requires either parental consent or a judge's permission for an underage girl to have a legal abortion, suffers the tragic consequences of seeking one illegally.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling
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    Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/1992

    Describes the last day in the life of 10-year-old Brian Darling, who was accidentally shot to death while playing with a loaded handgun. The boy's father, John Darling, gives gun-safety tips.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story
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    Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/1992

    After an 11 yr old boy who has HIV is asked by his friends to put their hands together and share blood Joey becomes faced with telling his friends and his community ,who don't accept Joey and shune him out keeping their sons/daughters away from him fearing that their childern will also catch the virus but at the end they're blood brothers the safe way.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story
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    No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1993

    Katie a young college women who goes to a party becomes a victim of date rape twice while partying.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter
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    More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/24/1994

    Explore what happens after lesbian teens decide to go to the prom together and publically reveal their homosexuality which causes much controversy leading to them almost being kicked out of the prom because they were lesbians.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story
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    Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/1993

    A young man is wracked by guilt after killing a girl in a drunk-driving accident several days before.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Body to Die For: the Aaron Henry Story
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    A Body to Die For: the Aaron Henry Story

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/23/1994

    A high school football player starts to use steroids in his game to become a better and stronger player leading to violence with his girlfriend and enemy's then talks about how he's had two heart attacks because of the use of steroids.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story
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    Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/1994

    A Philadelphia boy decides to become an advocate for the plight of the homeless and helps out two people who in return give some love but when one of his homeless friends gets killed by a hit and run and the other from cancer he opens a local homeless canter.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story
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    A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/1994

    An altar boy is living the life but when he starts being sexually abused by the priest he finds out the other boys are too but they're to scared to tell their parents so after the boy whose 10 turns 15 he tells his parents sending him to jail and a lifetime of emotional scars for Calvin and other boys.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict
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    Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/20/1994

    A teen's friends try to help him solve his problem of drug and alcohol abuse,while dealing with problems of his own at work,home and school.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • POWER: The Eddie Matos Story
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    POWER: The Eddie Matos Story

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/12/1994

    An inner-city teen from a broken home drops out of school to become a drug dealer, and ends up confined to a wheelchair after being shot by a rival.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Dangerous Affair
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    A Dangerous Affair

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1995

    After a brief affair, a college woman discovers that she is infected with HIV.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Someone Had to Be Benny
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    Someone Had to Be Benny

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1996

    This is the story of Benny Agrelo, a terminally ill 15-year-old who fought to live the remainder of his life on his own terms. Benny decided to stop taking the drugs that helped his body accept a transplanted liver because they produced a number of excruciating side effects. After convincing his mother to let him live his last months ""without hurting,"" Benny was taken from his family by court order--and had to go to court to fight for the right to determine his own fate.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown