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The Righteous Apples

  • 1980
  • Returning Series
  • ~30m / ep
  • 2 seasons
  • 5.0/10

Latest: Season 1 · 1980

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  1. E1. Episode 1

    May 15, 1980 · 30m

    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.

  2. E2. Who's the Victim?

    May 22, 1980 · 30m

    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.

  3. E3. Episode 3

    May 29, 1980 · 30m

    Racial tensions mount at Sherman High during the Apples' investigation into the stabbing of the assisstant principal.

  4. E4. By Hook

    Jun 5, 1980 · 30m

    A teenager is desparate for money to buy a new outfit for a recording audition

  5. E5. Episode 5

    Jun 12, 1980 · 30m

    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.

  6. E6. Episode 6

    Jun 19, 1980 · 30m

    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.

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