The Righteous Apples (1980)
Synopsis
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Network
PBS
Episodes
Episode 1
The Righteous Apples perform at an old-age home, in which they expose corruption in the home's management and saves the relationship of an elderly black couple consisting of a once-famous musician and his wife.
Who's the Victim?
One of the Apples is arrested on a mugging charge and must juggle his alibi in order to protect an emotionally troubled girl he had been counseling that evening.
Episode 3
Racial tensions mount at Sherman High during the Apples' investigation into the stabbing of the assisstant principal.
By Hook
A teenager is desparate for money to buy a new outfit for a recording audition
Episode 5
Battle lines form when there's a schedule clash between the Righteous Apples roller disco dance and a rally for the Knights of the White Light.
Episode 6
Unable to tell her parents that she's pregant, J. T.'s girlfriend visits an abortion clinic. The abortion accidentally leaves her sterile and to make matters complicated, the doctor is a white native of South Africa.
Episode 7
""Big Neck"" Morris runs into unexpected opposition from his girlfriend when he organizes a tribute to Martin Luther King.
Episode 8
D. C. Junior's parents accept his new girlfriends' cerebral palsy, but reject her when they learn she isn't Jewish.
Episode 9
Sandy Burns helps a terminally ill woman face death with grace.
Episode 10
Gloretta Benson's interracial romance with the son of a television producer is complicated by his disapproving mother.
Cast
Details
Original Title
The Righteous Apples
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
2
Episodes
20