Julie attempts to fit in at the School Of The Arts. She is helped along the way by Doris and Montgomery. Coco tries to get Bruno to liven up the lunch room with music.
Coco tries out for the same part as Lydia in a Broadway show. The problem is Lydia's old boyfriend is running the auditions. Danny tries to meet his idol Johnny Carson by getting a job as a waiter.
The school board decides the School of the Arts needs a gymnasium in order to meet the required physical fitness requirements. Lydia sets up an exercise challenge between her dancers and a school football team. Meanwhile, Leroy's brother shows up at the school drunk and carrying a gun.
Bruno's fear of performing in public is overcome when the lights go out at a dinner.
Bruno falls in love with a beautiful dance major, Kathy Murphy. After being asked to compose a piece for her to use at a dance audition, Kathy falls and injures her knee. But after being diagnosed with a disease it's evident she will not have a future as a dancer. Meanwhile, Julie and Danny feel uncomfortable doing a love scene cause of a height difference.
Bruno is asked to write a song for his aunt's newborn baby, but after his father breaks his synthesizer he feels he must take a job to help buy a new one and gets behind in his song writing. Also, Coco must create a choreography for a final exam and becomes rude towards Julie, who has no clue why.
The kids find out how much they depend on their teachers once they go on strike and try to put the show on by themselves. Bruno refuses to add music without Shorofsky's o.k. and Leroy is having trouble understanding Shakespeare and asks for help from Miss Sherwood.
To work out an assignment, Doris dresses as a streetwalker and meets a runaway teen who is really one. After a visit to the School of the Arts, she decides to enroll herself.
Danny's father doesn't agree with his choice to be a comedian which causes him to get a late night job at a nightclub. Only after seeing him perform at a club meeting does Mr. Amatulo finally see how funny he really is.
Montgomery's mother, Melinda McNeil a famous actress is asked to help out with the school show, but no one is happy with the old fashioned changes made. Montgomery feels she is out to rekindle her sputtering career.
Telling only the "truth" causes friction between teachers and friends alike. Bruno's little lie has Mr. Shorofsky feeling he can no longer trust him. After Shorofsky gets mugged, Bruno learns how much he really means to him.
A student teacher falls for Julie and then is overheard on the phone that he will write a sleazy article about the school and students activities. Also Julie learns a lesson about being late for rehearsal after being replaced in a show by a mannequin.
Mongomery asks Bruno to write the type music he refers to as "mindless cacophony." Doris challenges Shorofsky to play rock n roll music during their lunch period.
Miss Sherwood finds a stray dog in the school which leads her to an old man living in the basement. Finding out that he and the janitor were vaudeville singers, the kids help them put on a benefit show.
The kids help bring Leroy's mother in to see him featured in a show, while Mr. Shorofsky meets up with an old flame.
The school board decides a teacher must be fired to meet the budget. Bruno is upset after discovering a former student and now well known composer stole one of his songs.
Bruno feels the strain from everyone when each wants to be cast as the lead of a new musical he wrote and the school is producing.
A new singer proves to be exceptional in more than just his singing performances. Meanwhile, Doris is carefully scripting Danny's life to keep his love life active.
Leroy may lose the lead in a school production due to his refusal to explain why he keeps coming in tardy for school. Elsewhere, Julie hopes her parents will reconcile with a visit from her father.
Lydia begins dating a Broadway star who can't keep reality straight from his stage life.
Despite Mr. Shorofsky's opinion that Bruno is not yet prepared to audition for Juilliard, his father is pushing him to give it a try. Meanwhile, Lydia begins moonlighting as an exercise instructor, but her boss thinks she needs an attitude adjustment.
A ballet teacher is accused of being a racist towards the students. A young musical prodigy has Bruno feeling jealous.
The students become inspired by a blind teacher, but his overbearing attitude has alienated the faculty.
Coco may quit school for a chance at a movie role. Elsewhere, Doris goes overboard on her dieting.
Ms. Sherwood had finally found a student who is willing to learn, but later discovers her father is censoring her school books. Elsewhere, Coco had developed a crush on a young dancer.
When Coco's grandmother is hospitalized, she begins to question her ambition to become a star. Elsewhere, someone has stolen Julie's cello.
Doris wants her father to welcome her brother back into the family and reconcile their differences.
Danny seems unaffected by the sudden death of Mr. Crandall, his teacher and mentor. Reardon's father has returned after a six year absence.
The love bug has struck the School of the Arts as Ms. Sherwood signs up for a video dating service, Bruno falls in love with an older woman and Doris's heart is lassoed in by a singing cowboy.
An actor has come to the school to request help in a charity show, with a promise of appearing in Reardon's class. Meanwhile, an accomplished young tap dancer wishes to learn modern dance from Leroy.
Unknown to them, Bruno and Mr. Shorofsky have booked the same rehearsal hall for different reasons...Bruno in celebration of his father's 25th year as a cab driver, and Mr. Shorofsky is running a benefit for a senior citizens community center.
A mentally challenge student develops a crush on Julie, and Reardon discovers a picture of himself in a national scandal sheet which is rather revealing.
Bruno's newest musical number contains no people, and Reardon auditions for an way-off-Broadway play.
Friendship Day isn't all it's cracked up to be at school when Reardon becomes upset over Sherwood's review of his poetry, and Leroy becomes annoyed by Danny when he wishes to him to be his "John Alden" while he courts Michelle.
While rehearsing a scene for "The Wizard of Oz," Doris is knocked unconscious and dreams that she and the rest of the kids really are characters from Oz.
The kids from Fame head to Israel for a concert of song and dance.
Someone has broken into the school and trashed it, leaving behind a suicide note with no signature on it.
Lydia will not allow Danny or Leroy participate in the school's Alumni Day program unless they do the alumnus a favor...coach basketball to a group of kids.
A neighborhood school is a guest of the School of the Arts during UN Week. Meanwhile, when Lydia helps out Reardon, both the students and faculty misinterpret their actions.
A new vice principal takes over and puts academics over the arts. When Bruno's father dies unexpectedly, he decides to quit school and find a job. A new student gives Leroy a run for his money regarding dance supremacy.
Mr. Shorofsky finds Bruno a job where he can still stay in school. Leroy and Chris form an alliance after deciding both are equally as good at dancing.
With a rumor that President Reagan will be attending the next school production, Doris decides she needs a great dress, the orchestra must find a conductor, Ms. Sherwood needs a guardian and Lydia must choose a lead dancer.
The cast of Fame heads to Israel for a concert of all their favorite songs.
A former boxing opponent is looking for Chris. Elsewhere, Leroy tries to get a new dance student into the school.
Bruno catches the eye of a new student teacher. Ms. Sherwood is asked on a date by Mr. Morloch.
Leroy designs a test and Danny grades it for a class experiment and uncovers cheating.
Chris and Michael work as coaches for a pair of rival street gangs to teach them break dancing.
When Dwight keeps showing up physically bruised, Danny appoints himself as his bodyguard. Lydia finds out there is an undercover drug cop in the school.
A former professional pitcher comes to Lydia to learn how to dance and sing. Meanwhile, Holly has a romance with a friend of Bruno, who is stuck in a wheelchair.
In their first concert inside the U.S., the cast of Fame celebrates the hits that were 1983.
Holly and Chris are cast to play lovers, and seem to have taken the part seriously. A new dance student has Danny mesmerized.
A pianist returns to school after dropping out to cope with a drinking problem.
The kids' disappointment over Doris' choice of a play is made up for by an apparition seen by Doris and Lydia.
Doris conducts undercover research for a role; Morloch encourages Leroy to nurture a latent talent.
Holly's mother renews her career; Sherwood exploits Morloch's reception of a post-hypnotic suggestion.
Doris tries to convince Danny, who has been diagnosed as having treatable cancer, to cooperate with his doctor.
Leroy meets his uncle's former partner, who appears to have a drinking problem; Doris gets a makeover to impress a boy.
Substitute teacher Jim Hamilton, who is directing a school play, feels that Lydia is rebuffing his romantic gestures because he's blind.
Bruno makes a deal to save Caruso's from becoming a parking lot; Mrs. Berg's husband suspects that she and Shorofsky are having an affair.
After suffering from a freak accident, Chris loses his hearing and must transfer to a different school.
Doris confuses everyone when she refuses to perform in a benefit show for Jewish people. Also, an NBA player is asked to attend Lydia's dance class.
Chris doesn't want to discuss what is affecting his grades, and a new female student seeks advice on how best to fit in at the school.
Doris and Danny console each other over a recent breakup and find themselves in each others arms. Meanwhile, love holds a surprise for both Ms. Sherwood and for Leroy, while Holly falls for an older man.
A visiting Czech dancer has caught Chris' eye. Meanwhile, Leroy tries to avoid a secret admirer, and Doris wants to start a new trend by throwing her hat in the ring for class president.
A new directive ordering all dancing and singing in the hallways between class to cease may have a bigger effect on Leroy.
Having been let down ofter before, Leroy refuses to let his father come back into his life. Meanwhile, Danny's father won't support him wanting to become a comedian.
The cast of Fame salute the music of the 1950's in song and dance. Taped live from New York's Jones Beach Amphitheater on Long Island.
A blizzard traps some stragglers inside the school, along with a broken furnace and a burglar.
The opening night of a new show directed by Cassidy may be cursed after Mr. Morloch breaks a show-business no-no.
A famed school alumnus and Shakespearean actor agrees to appear in the school's anniversary show in hopes of making an impression and getting his career going again.
A prisoner sees a feature on the school and sends Nicole his songs for the kids to use.
Cleo's debut as the lead dancer gets a less than positive review from Chris. Elsewhere, Nicole and Jesse search the personal ads for potential romances.
Holly's mother has come for a visit. But all she has is criticism for both her daughter and Lydia, believing they lack the drive to make it in show business.
The kids try to help Jesse after the Immigration Department learns he is in the country illegally.
When Mr. Morloch starts an ROTC program in the school along with shutting down a benefit for the nuclear-freeze movement has Ms. Sherwood shakes up the student's apathy and conducts a sit-down strike.
More excerpts from the concert from Los Angeles honoring the best songs from the 1980s.
This episode features two different love triangles. First one is between Doris, Danny and Leroy, and the second has Chris, his drama teacher and the drama teacher's ex-wife.
Nicole struggles to fulfill the expectations from her parents, while Danny blames himself for his parents getting a separation. Meanwhile, Mr. Morloch believes he can change non-conformist Cassidy into a normal student.
While Danny tries to help Nicole and Jesse settle there love life, he finds himself falling in love with Nicole. Mr. Morloch is given a second chance when he meets his former college sweetheart for a date.
While Chris and Danny work together as a team, one of them takes over the spotlight putting a split in their friendship. Elsewhere, Holly and Nicole decide to move in together.
Coco makes a visit to her old school having just made it "out there," and clashes with a retired director who is helping out the kids with their production.
Ms. Sherwood is named temporary vice principal. Meanwhile, Doris experiences her dream date and Leroy goes on a game show with a shot at winning $10,000.
Everybody seems to be handling Doris' mugging worse than she is. Elsewhere, Dwight learns how to fight his emotions concerning Holly.
Holly seems to have began an eating disorder now that her parents are splitting up.
The arrival of Nicole's birth mother surprises both her and Nicole's adoptive parents.
Mr. Morloch instills Danny's pull with the kids to sign up the students for a softball game. But the guy's enthusiasm is at a low until a few ladies are added to the roster.
Jesse, Cleo and Nicole reminisce before school ends for summer vacation, as Cleo announces she is moving to Hollywood.
Dusty, the daughter of a preacher, finds it tough fitting in at the school. Meanwhile, Leroy finds a job when Lydia makes him an assistant. Danny and Chris must learn to play female parts in a show.
When Leroy's preteen niece shows up on his doorstep, he becomes her surrogate father. Leroy, Lydia and Mr. Shorofsky try to raise enough money to put on their show, and Danny discovers there is another Danny Amatulo when he attempts to get his actors equity card. Chris struggles understanding the role of Hamlet.
Danny gives aid to a former movie hero, Bronco Bob, when he discovers that he is down on his luck and may lose his prized buddy, Prince the Miracle Horse to a onscreen rival. Danny hopes to save the day and get Bronco Bob back on his feet.
When Jesse's song wins a song writing contest, he is less than enthused to the changes made by a record producer. Meanwhile, Mr. Sharofsky is being pressured to enroll a talentless jock into his music class due to his father's wealth.
Chris becomes involved with a new dancer, Julie, who has a drug habit. Meanwhile, Danny's mother becomes romantically involved with Lou, owner of the bowling alley.
Jesse feels the pressure to join a gang, the Skulls, and when his friend Hector is killed, joins their rival gang the Ravens. Nicole has visions of Jesse being injured while rehearsing a scene for Carmen.
A prince with a price on his head pays a visit to New York. The prince resembles Chris, while his fiance looks like Nicole. During a switch, prince Chris learns to deal with his feelings for Nicole.
When Danny discovers a famous talent agent frequents a local restaurant, the gang whip up a quick audition for him. The agent realizes that Danny's talent is as an agent and offers him a job, distancing him from the school and his friends.
Mr. Morloch is seen as a true "Ebeneezer Scrooge" after he enforces the school's strict rules from the board of education. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Morloch falls asleep while working on the school's budget and gets visited by three ghosts.
Mr. Morloch leaves the school to become a baseball coach of a semi-pro team, and is replaced by Mr. Dyrenforth. Meanwhile, Holly takes a role on a soap opera which is shot in Hollywood. Nicole auditions for a part in a Broadway show, but is told by the new principal that she must leave school if she takes the part. And a former neighbor of Leroy tries to get his audition vote swayed his way.
Mr. Dyrenforth believes he must be jinxed after suffering a series of accidents. Jesse breaks up with Nicole after she refuses to have sex with him and bring someone else to a school dance. Danny and Reggie attend the dance together and find they have a lot in common.
Bobby is uneasy at playing the role of Jim for the school's production of "Huckleberry Finn." He decides to set up a protest to have the play shut down and banned from the school after finding a lack of support from his fellow black students and the faculty.
Leroy's niece Tina, accidentally burns down his apartment, so Mrs. Berg takes her in while Leroy stays with Miss Grant. Meanwhile, Miss Grant's ex-boyfriend Carl returns as Tina does all she can to break them apart once again and into the arms of Leroy.
While working on a production of Sherlock Holmes, the prop pipe in the dressing room starts off a fire, causing major damage to the building. With no funds to rebuild, the property may be sold off. But Danny and Chris discover a scam involving the janitor and a contracting firm to make the school into a parking lot.
A competition for the lead role in the school's production of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde has Danny and Jesse doing everything possible to win. But once Danny catches Jesse with the answers to a biology midterm exam, Danny plans to turn him in to get the role. Meanwhile, the money for the yearbook fund is missing.
After learning that Tina has received an inheritance of $22,000, her father, Lamar, comes to claim her back. Dwight is directing a play concerning the Dewey Decimal System and creates a character based on the love of his life, Holly, which is driving the cast crazy.
Danny and Chris are enthused when their comedy act has been deemed a success. But after a comedian named Sandy Webb comes to the school to run a comedy workshop, he breaks up the duo and steals their act. Meanwhile, when Reggie learns that the kids are not taking her role as Lady Macbeth seriously, she starts playing the part as a joke.
An early entrance onto the stage has left Chris with a case of stage fright. Meanwhile, Jesse wants to set the world record for continuous tap dancing, and Kate announces she wants a transfer into Miss Turner's class, from Miss Grant's.
Nicole becomes worried when she begins receiving flowers from a secret admirer at the same time the school has been vandalized, leading her to take Miss Grant's self-defense karate class.
Jesse runs the school's radio station as a DJ, and receives a call from an anonymous 16-year old who wants to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Mr. Dyrenforth asks for Dwight's help with the school's new dress code.
Chris' relationship with Kate becomes strained when he meets Laura, an agent who mistakes him for one of her clients and falls in love with him. Elsewhere, Leroy sets up a job with the dancers to do summer stock, but rejects the offer after the producer revokes their pay.
Ms. Sherwood calls in sick so she can set up a protest against mandatory IQ tests being given to the students. Meanwhile, an eccentric substitute teacher, Mr. Quigley, fills in during her absence.
Leroy is in need of an operation and rehab after injuring his knee. Upon his return to the school, he finds himself fearful of injuring the leg again and begins taking out his frustrations on Henry Lee. Miss Grant knows she must get Leroy past his fear or he may never dance again. Elsewhere, Reggie has a romantic crush on Max.
The gang at the school try to get to the bottom of who hospitalized Jesse by hitting on the head and giving him a concussion. But with everyone coming back with a different story, the truth may never be known.
A new school year begins with a few changes in store, such as Chris has graduated and now must move on with his life, Ms. Sherwood has completed her novel and is moving to Maine, and Mr. Shorofsky decides to retire, which saddens new student Ian Ware.
Jesse and Nicole are set to dance at the wedding of Chris' cousin, but Nicole is unsure where their relationship is headed with Jesse and breaks up with him. Meanwhile, Danny and Jillian begin their own romance.
Lydia gets a job at the school for her old friend, Pete Seeger, as an acting teacher. He feels his tough methods have annoyed the kids and thinks about quitting. Meanwhile, Danny is asked to show Hannah Cooper around the school, but the 11-year old prodigy refuses to play for anyone.
Leroy's commencement as a teacher has arrived, but he doesn't feel much like celebrating after being accused of giving lead roles to blacks over all the other students. Mr. Shorofsky and Ian knock heads over musical styles.
Jesse has a 1930's style play in which Mr. Dyrenforth decides the school will fund to win the $20,000 prize from the Kimble Foundation. But when the school board rejects to fund the play, Lou steps in to get the play produced. Meanwhile, the lead in the play, Nicole, comes down with laryngitis.
Chris learns the good and bad of parenting when his siter leaves him with his nephew, Spike. Mr. Dyrenforth finds out just how important Mrs. Berg is when she leaves to attend her brother's anniversary for a day. Nicole, Dusty, Reggie, and Jullian find themselves arguing after forming their own band.
Reggie gets herself in trouble with the law and with Mr. Dyrenforth, after trying to buck conventionalism and help the homeless. Elsewhere, when Dusty's father comes for a visit, Reverend Tyler decides that she should return home to Colorado because New York is too risque for her.
Danny, frustrated from the lack of acting work decides to start his own cable-access show. While searching where to go he enters the doors of the Mr. Wacky's World, and is offered the job of playing Mr. Noodles. Although he loves the work, Danny isn't thrilled of playing a stooge. When Jesse makes a friendly gesture, Dusty misinterprets it as romance.
Tina comes back to visit her uncle Leroy, and he tries to add the Christmas spirit back inside her. But with Leroy's busy schedule, she loses the faith. Meanwhile, Mr. Shorofsky is hospitalized to remove his tonsils, leaving a pair of kids believing he is the real Santa Claus.
Nicole gets the chance of a lifetime when she's offered a job as a back-up singer for her idol, Frannie Fortune. But she quickly learns that the business is a dog-eat-dog world. that he's lonely, Danny, Jesse, and Leroy try to bolster Mr. Dyrenforth's love life by posting pictures of him all over the city.
Following a party, Miss Grant becomes frustrated when she learns Nicole and Danny missed an important rehearsal for an upcoming performance. Unknown to anyone was that Nicole and Danny were in a car accident with drunk driver Mickey Grath, killing Nicole. Everyone feels the loss of their friend, but Jesse becomes enraged and voes to kill Mickey.
Movie director Jeff Stave's new film "Kittens Go to High School," is to be shot on the site of the School of the Arts. Jillian, working as a student assistant to Mr. Stave, falls for him but quickly learns why their love can never be. The lead actress of the film, Maxie Sharp, decides to stay behind and enroll at the school.
Ms. Fleming will be replacing Mr. Dyrenforth while he is away for an appendectomy, and she quickly instills a doctrine prohibiting dancing and singing in the school hallways. Elsewhere, Miltie decides to do a good deed and takes up the persona of the Crimson Blade, performing feats of heroism.
Lydia and her high school sweetheart have rekindled their romance, that is, until she discovers how he makes his money...as a stock swindler. Meanwhile, Ian becomes jealous of his father when he becomes friendly with the kids at the school.
Duke, Lou's shifty brother, has come for a visit. After hearing Chris' singing voice, offers him a chance of recording an album. Mr. Seeger is asked to sit on the newspaper committee which includes listening to Maxie and Reggie's bickering.
The school becomes a magical location after Mr. Shorofsky receives a violin from Bavaria which he hadn't touched since 1947. He tells the students of the magic which is held inside the instrument and the legend which follows. Convinced of the story, the students clamor over who will possess the violin.
A visit from Ian's ex-girlfriend has him feeling homesick and decides to head back to England, a move which she disapproves of. Meanwhile, Mr. Shorofsky has decided to enter Ian in a competition for classical guitarists, which he refuses to attend. Also, the gang helps Lou get ready for a campaign as the President of the Metropolitan Bowling Operators Association.
Danny is excited to learn that his old friend id coming for a visit and has gotten a job with Lou. But Danny has trouble accepting the news that he is gay. Meanwhile, a local stereo store is issuing a challenge for a dance routine to appear in their TV ad, prompting a competition between Leroy and Ms. Grant with their choreography.
Chris gets caught up into international intrigue after Jillian sends some papers she was typing up for him to his home. Now he is being followed by a pair of men inside of an ice cream vehicle. Meanwhile, Reggie, Ian, and Dusty all participate in a student video contest, but find their subjects to be troublesome.
Reggie helps her close friend Rose, join a summer stock company with her. But having been kicked out of English class, she gives up on both mediums.
The National Cultural Center has chosen the School of the Arts as an organization which will be allowed to enter one item into the time capsule, but no one can decide on what the item will be. Miltie is given an ultimatum to pen an original song or fail, which leads him to plagiarize a 14th century ballad.
Mrs. Berg is caught in a lie when her old lover comes for a visit after having said she was in charge of the whole school, causing the kids to pretend she is the acting principal. Elsewhere, Gordon and Reggie attempt to get Mr. Dyrenforth to accept a computer simulator which allows virtual animal dissections, instead of destroying an actual animal.
With alumni week in session, this would be a great time to make a video yearbook. Meanwhile, Miss Grant believes Leroy should play the lead of the school showcase, in which alumni and big time producer Michael Taftner turns down feeling that Leroy can't handle the part. Also, Chris lies about his success when asked to be the guest speaker, which causes him to butt heads with Mr. Seger.