American Dreams - Season 1 Episode 1 Pilot
It's November 1963 and Meg Pryors dream is to appear on the Philly Based American Bandstand.Thanks to her best friend Roxanne, Meg finally gets the chance to appear, but her hopes are dashed when at dinner that night, Jack refuses to let her go on. While at the same time J.J. drops a bombshell on his dad and announces he doesn't wanna play football anymore, so he quit the team. Jack blames his girlfriend Beth and she storms out. Defying her father, Meg goes and does the show, in place of seeing Patty's spelling bee. Jack sees her on TV and when she's asked back as a regular, he refuses to let her appear. Meanwhile Helen struggles with her decision to stop having kids, of which Jack doesn't wanna hear,but finally accepts it.J.J. tells his coach he doesn't wanna play fottball, because he's being forced too and that took the fun out of it, but his coach says he should play anyway.Helen tries to talk Jack into letting Meg appear on the show,but he's made his decision. Which surprises and d
Year: 2005
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Studio: NBC
Director: Jonathan Prince
Cast: Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Brittany Snow, Will Estes, Jonathan Adams, Vanessa Lengies
First Air Date: Sep 29, 2002
Last Air date: Mar 30, 2005
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 61 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 4.90/10 by 12.00 users
Popularity: 23.047
Language: English
Episode
Pilot
The End of the Innocence
New Frontier
Pryor Knowledge
The Fighting Irish
Soldier Boy
Cold Snap
Black and White
The Home Front
Silent Night
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Great Expectations
The Pursuit of Happiness
Heartache
False Start
Act of Contrition
Past Imperfect
The One
Where the Boys Are
The Carpetbaggers
Fear Itself
Secrets and Lies
Down the Shore
High Hopes
City on Fire