Pilot. Hotel  

First aired: 8/21/1982

The bearded manager of a posh San Francisco hotel solves crisis for it's owner. Including a visting king, a rape of a prostitute by college boys staying in the hotel, a runaway husband, and a man who dies while eating his dinner.

1. Blackout  

First aired: 9/21/1983    Production Code: 001

A stalker threatens Christine, prompting Peter to move her into the hotel and assign her a 24-hour guard. Christine's stalker causes an electrical blackout in the hotel, gets into her room and tries to overpower her.

2. Choices  

First aired: 10/5/1983    Production Code: 004

The hotel is host to a beauty contest. Among the contestants is Miranda Harding, whose mother Barbara, a former beauty contestant herself, has entered her reluctant daughter in pageants since the age of three.

3. Charades  

First aired: 10/19/1983    Production Code: 002

Security is tightened when rumor of an assassination attempt by a Middle-Eastern terrorist group threatens Israeli minister Jacob Ben-Goz, who is preparing for a press conference at the hotel, unaware that Troy, a would-be assassin, has targeted Ben-Goz's advisor Evan Paige, a state department diplomat.

4. Secrets  

First aired: 10/26/1983    Production Code: 003

Eight-year-old Amy is molested while staying at the hotel. Her stepfather, Phil Jamison, blames Hank Miller, a male college student working as the hotel baby-sitter. Frightened, Amy goes along with Phil's accusation, but Hank vehemently denies it.

5. Relative Loss  

First aired: 11/2/1983    Production Code: 006

Senator Tom Andrews has an opportunity to run for President, but his affair with newswoman Carly Knight stands in the way. Senator Andrews's wife, Gwen Andrews, knowing a divorce now would cost her husband the presidency, tells Carly that if Tom had to choose between Carly and the presidency, Tom would grow to hate Carly.

6. Flashback  

First aired: 11/9/1983    Production Code: 005

Peter is torn between fear and desire when his ex-wife Janet arrives at the hotel and is determined to reconcile and prove she is no longer an alcoholic.

7. Confrontations  

First aired: 11/16/1983    Production Code: 008

A convention of white supremacists led by Russell Slocum antagonize two elderly African-Americans, Carrie and Garland Fisk, who are on a long-delayed honeymoon.

8. Faith, Hope, & Charity  

First aired: 11/23/1983    Production Code: 007

Nick Tomasino, the son of a poor family whom Mrs. Cabot has allowed to stay at the hotel after a fire destroyed their home, befriends Donna Corry, a young woman from a wealthy family. Donna showers Nick with gifts shoplifted from the hotel's stores.

9. Deceptions  

First aired: 11/30/1983    Production Code: 010

Junior hotel executive Hillary Lindamont becomes starry-eyed over Michael Robson, which depresses Mark, who has a crush on Hillary. Michael videotapes sex with Hillary and threatens to use it to accuse the hotel of running a brothel.

10. The Offer  

First aired: 12/7/1983    Production Code: 009

Leslie DeVeer, the owner of a hotel chain, seeks revenge against Mrs. Cabot; Leslie has never forgiven Mrs. Cabot for marrying the man Leslie loved. Leslie offers to make Peter the top executive of her six Caribbean luxury hotels.

11. Christmas  

First aired: 12/21/1983    Production Code: 012

Christmas draws near as Susan Walker, a divorcee, checks in with her daughter, Lisa, at the same time that Paul Manning is rehearsing his ingenious robot, Tim. Lisa decides Paul should marry her mom.

12. Designs  

First aired: 12/28/1983    Production Code: 013

Fashion designer Nolan Miller and his fashion show director, Sally, set up for a gala. Diana Aikins, a model who is losing her youthful look, runs into wealthy Australian rancher Cody Blake, with whom she once had a brief romance.

13. Reflections  

First aired: 1/4/1984    Production Code: 011

When Lauren Chapman gives her daughter, Darcy, a weekend at the hotel as a birthday gift, Darcy secretly invites her dad, Dr. Frank Chapman, to join the celebration.

14. Tomorrows  

First aired: 1/11/1984    Production Code: 014

Prince Eric, a handsome and young member of Scandinavian royalty, has a chance meeting with Kathleen, the Irish maid traveling with the wealthy Jenks family. Entranced by her beauty, he invites her to a charity ball.

15. Passages  

First aired: 1/18/1984    Production Code: 015

The spoiled daughter of a tycoon, Brooke Whitfield phones her father, E.G. Whitfield, and asks for money. Instead of wiring cash, her father sends Bill Tillery to escort her back to New York. However, heavy fog closes the airport, and Bill is forced to share Brooke's room.

16. Mistaken Identities  

First aired: 2/1/1984    Production Code: 018

Ed Curwin, owner of a trucking company, has little time for his bookish, 16-year-old son Ron. Worried about his son's manliness, Ed sets Ron up with Claire Thompson, a prostitute. Ron rebuffs the hooker, who arranges for him to meet a younger prostitute in the hotel lounge. However, Ron accidentally approaches a vice-squad officer, and Ed ends up sharing a jail cell with his very angry son. Peter bails them out and convinces Ron to work things out with his father. Christine discovers that Karen and Sam, two bickering hotel boutique employees, are old pen pals and don't know it. Mark inherits an unclaimed diamond bracelet worth $50,000, which he found three months ago and turned in to hotel security. Mark gloats about how he'll spend the money, until a woman arrives at the St. Gregory Hotel and claims the bracelet. Mark reluctantly hands it to her.

17. Wedding  

First aired: 2/22/1984    Production Code: 019

The St. Gregory Hotel prepares for the elaborate wedding of Maggie Blackwood, daughter of an aristocratic San Francisco family, and Jeff Strider, adopted son of Gil Strider, a computer manufacturer. However, prenuptial jitters set in and Jeff tries to deal with the anger he feels toward the mother he never knew who gave him up for adoption. On the eve of the wedding, Maggie's father, Lewis Blackwood, is caught by his wife Eleanor with a Blackwood Company Executive, Paula. Meanwhile, the groom's father is facing financial ruin as a result of his business partner's illegal stock manipulations. When Gil asks Mrs. Cabot for a temporary secretary, she arranges for the services of Teresa Clayborne, whose expensive clothes seem out of range for a secretary. When the wedding rehearsal falls apart from all sides, Teresa intervenes to bring Maggie and Jeff back together and save the wedding.

18. Memories  

First aired: 2/29/1984    Production Code: 017

Jennifer and Brad Koburg are in town so that Jennifer can be artificially inseminated because Brad's sperm count is too low. After one too many glasses of wine at dinner, Brad suggests to their old college friends, Dana and Skip Peterson, that Skip donate sperm.

19. Encores  

First aired: 3/7/1984    Production Code: 016

A former girlfriend, Lacey Grant, informs Peter that he is the father of her four-year-old son; she wants Peter to assume custody. Lacey has Lou Gehrig's Disease and may die soon.

20. Prisms  

First aired: 3/14/1984    Production Code: 020

Actress Anna Bronti, wearing the Star of Kasmir necklace, meets former lover, Adam Vidocq, an international playboy and jewel thief. Peter knows Vidocq and instructs Billy to keep an eye on him.

21. Trials  

First aired: 5/2/1984    Production Code: 021

Adele Ellsworth, her two sons Luther and Brendon, and another family member, Edgar, hold Mrs. Cabot, Peter and Christine at gunpoint and demand justice for Adele's husband, Ellis, a workman who died at the hotel two years before.

22. Lifelines  

First aired: 5/9/1984    Production Code: 022

Movie producer Steve Cutler blackmails Lauren Webb with the fact that Lauren appeared in some of his soft-core pornographic films many years ago. Steve threatens to reveal Lauren's past if she doesn't find money to back his next film.