Lifestories: Families in Crisis - Season 1

Lifestories: Families in Crisis - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes15
DatesAug 1, 1992 - Feb 8, 1996

Episodes

The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic
Season 1Episode 130 min

The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic

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.
Aug 1, 1992
A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story
Season 1Episode 230 min

A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story

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.
Aug 8, 1992
Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story
Season 1Episode 330 min

Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story

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.
Aug 15, 1992
Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling
Season 1Episode 430 min

Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling

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.
Sep 19, 1992
Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story
Season 1Episode 530 min

Blood Brothers: The Joey DiPaolo Story

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.
Sep 26, 1992
No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story
Season 1Episode 630 min

No Visible Bruises: The Katie Koestner Story

Katie a young college women who goes to a party becomes a victim of date rape twice while partying.
Jan 12, 1993
More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter
Season 1Episode 730 min

More Than Friends: The Coming Out of Heidi Leiter

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.
Jan 24, 1994
Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story
Season 1Episode 830 min

Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story

A young man is wracked by guilt after killing a girl in a drunk-driving accident several days before.
Mar 15, 1993
A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story
Season 1Episode 930 min

A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story

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.
Mar 23, 1994
Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Brotherly Love: The Trevor Ferrell Story

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.
Mar 31, 1994
A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story
Season 1Episode 1130 min

A Child Betrayed: The Calvin Mire Story

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.
Apr 11, 1994
Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict

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.
May 20, 1994
POWER: The Eddie Matos Story
Season 1Episode 1330 min

POWER: The Eddie Matos Story

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.
Jul 12, 1994
A Dangerous Affair
Season 1Episode 1430 min

A Dangerous Affair

After a brief affair, a college woman discovers that she is infected with HIV.
Jan 1, 1995
Someone Had to Be Benny
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Someone Had to Be Benny

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.
Feb 8, 1996

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