The BEST episodes of Fame
Every episode of Fame ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Fame!
In this TV series adaptation of the 1980 motion picture, students at the School of the Arts pour their hearts and souls into their training to become stars in their chosen field.
#1 - The Crimson Blade
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1987
Jesse's role as a swashbuckling hero is being played for real in the hallways by an unlikely masked crusader fighting a substitute principal's "code of conduct."
#3 - Gonna Learn How to Fly (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1983
Mr. Shorofsky finds Bruno a job as a waiter at "Caruso's," a coffee house where he is free to play his music. After settling their feud with a fist fight, Leroy works with Christopher to improve Chris' dancing skills after Miss Grant decides to downgrade him to a different class.
#4 - Gonna Learn How to Fly (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1983
Changes abound with the start of the new school year: Bruno, with no means of funding his schooling after his father dies, is forced to drop out; Coco, Danny and Doris find out that even though her mother still lives in New York City, Julie is married and now living in Texas; new students Christopher Donlan, a dance major, and Holly Laird, a drama major, find difficulty in being accepted, most notably by their more seasoned competition, Leroy and Doris, and new vice-principal, Quentin Morloch, intends on ruling with an iron fist.
#5 - Go Softly Into Morning
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1987
Danny struggles with guilt and Jesse with revenge when the School of the Arts loses one of their own in a drunken-driving accident.
#6 - The Deal
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1984
Caruso's landlord threatens to turn the coffee house into a parking lot unless Bruno gets his young opera singer friend accepted into the School of the Arts. Meanwhile, Mr Shorofsky has a secret meeting with Mrs Berg.
#7 - Break Dance
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1983
Danny enlists Christopher and Michael to coach rival gangs in a "break dance" competition. Meanwhile, Doris has trouble ridding herself of "Snake," a gang member who has a crush on her, and Coco, inspired by Bruno's life out of school, contemplates leaving the School of the Arts to pursue her career.
#8 - Consequences
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1983
When Mr. Morloch announces that all students participating in any school production must have a minimum C average, Miss Sherwood, despite Morloch's objections, assigns Leroy and Danny the responsibility of teacher, leaving Danny forced to make a tough decision when he suspects a friend has cheated.
#9 - Secrets
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/7/1984
When Dwight shows up to school with severe bruises on his body, Danny appoints himself as Dwight's bodyguard when he, along with the rest of the school, believe Dwight is a victim of bullying. Meanwhile, Miss Grant is not pleased when rumored drug trafficking brings an undercover cop to the School of the Arts, posing as a dance student.
#11 - Street Kid
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1982
When Mr. Crandall's assignment requires an improv scene portraying a character far removed from themselves, Doris pretends to be a teenage prostitute to "research" her role, and encounters a real 16-year-old prostitute, whom she tries to help; Shorofsky asks Miss Sherwood to teach him to drive.
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#14 - Rules
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1983
Love is in the air as Bruno unwittingly falls for Lisa Connors, a student-teacher for Mr. Shorofsky, and Morloch expresses a romantic interest in Miss Sherwood.
#19 - Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1987
The kids hustle up a pocketful of miracles for Mrs. Berg, who has misrepresented her position to an old friend who's on his way to visit; Reggie helps a student with an aversion to frog dissection.
#20 - Dreams
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1985
After it comes to light that Jesse is an illegal alien, the staff and students at the School of the Arts band together and fight to keep him from being deported.
#22 - Equals
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/1984
Holly falls for Billy Christiansen, a new piano player who plays at "Caruso's." Upon getting ready to ask him out, she learns that he is a physically handicapped, wheelchair bound, paraplegic. Mr. Morloch tries to get Miss Grant to give his friend and former baseball star, "Lefty" Rogers, in pursuit of a career in recording jingles for television commercials, singing and dancing lessons.
#23 - The Home Front
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/27/1984
With his father unemployed, Christopher is forced to take on the role of a parent to his young siblings, which ends up effecting his performance in school. Meanwhile, when the students fall behind in their efforts in class, Mr. Morloch holds a class on a Saturday.
#24 - Heritage
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1984
Mr. Shorofsky is disappointed with Doris rejecting her heritage when she turns down the opportunity to perform at a Holocaust Survivors benefit. Meanwhile, Lydia is hired to teach dance to a basketball team.
#25 - Signs
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1984
While showing off for a girl in class, Christopher back flips and hits his head, resulting in a loss of his hearing, and a forced transfer to a school for deaf students. Meanwhile, Miss Grant and Mr. Shorofsky try mixing singers and dancers in the same production.