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The Best Episodes of Lifestories: Families in Crisis Season 1

Every episode of Lifestories: Families in Crisis Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lifestories: Families in Crisis Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Lifestories: Families in Crisis Season 1

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

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  1. 8.5/10(33 votes)

    #1 - POWER: The Eddie Matos Story

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    S1:E13

    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.

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  2. 8.1/10(30 votes)

    #2 - No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story

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    S1:E6

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

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  3. 8.0/10(66 votes)

    #3 - Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story

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    S1:E5

    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.

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  4. 8.0/10(24 votes)

    #4 - Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict

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    S1:E12

    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.

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  5. 7.5/10(48 votes)

    #5 - A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story

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    S1:E11

    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.

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  6. 7.5/10(55 votes)

    #6 - Someone Had to Be Benny

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    S1:E15

    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.

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  8. 7.4/10(54 votes)

    #7 - The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic

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    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.

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  9. 7.4/10(66 votes)

    #8 - More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter

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    S1:E7

    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.

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  10. 7.3/10(60 votes)

    #9 - Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story

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    S1:E8

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

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  11. 7.2/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling

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    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.

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  12. 6.6/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story

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    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.

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  13. 6.2/10(12 votes)

    #12 - A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story

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    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.

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  14. 6.2/10(115 votes)

    #13 - A Body to Die For: the Aaron Henry Story

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    S1:E9

    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.

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    #14 - Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story

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    S1:E10

    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.

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    #15 - A Dangerous Affair

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    S1:E14

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"POWER: The Eddie Matos Story" is the best rated episode of "Lifestories: Families in Crisis" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/12/1994. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story".