The WORST episodes of The Hogan Family
Every episode of The Hogan Family ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Hogan Family!
Valerie was the wife to Michael Hogan, an airline pilot. His job took him away from home quite regularly so Valerie was left to raise their three sons, David, and the fraternal twins, Mark and Willie. David was the oldest and girl crazy, Mark was the brain and a perfectionist and Willie was the carefree clown who seemed to always be in trouble.
#1 - Foiled Again
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1988
David has a crisis of conscience when he's attracted to the coed that best friend Burt has his eye on, but he's caught off guard when Burt throws down the gauntlet.
#2 - Coming to America
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1989
It's amore at first sight for David when Sandy's friend arrives from Italy to stay with the Hogans.
#3 - Private Lessons
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/23/1989
Willie wants to teach Mark a lesson in brotherly love when Willie's girlfriend decides she likes her tutor Mark better.
#4 - Slapshot
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/1989
David puts himself in the penalty box over his guilt about injuring an opponent in a hockey game, and Mark threatens to body-check Willie for not paying a debt.
#5 - Oh Dad, Poor Dad
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/27/1989
The numbers 4 and 0 add up to a midlife crisis for Michael, and Sandy only multiplies his distress when she throws him a surprise birthday party.
#6 - The Long Goodbye
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/1989
David chafes under the Hogan house rules, so he moves into an apartment with Burt and Rich, who make Felix and Oscar seem like ideal roommates.
#7 - Viva Las Vegas
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/1989
David, Burt and Rich wager they'll have a wild weekend in Las Vegas, but they don't bet on ending up in jail. Meanwhile, Mrs. Poole displays some unusual talents.
#8 - Boy Loses Girl (2)
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/1989
Love-struck David's girlfriend, Sara, receives a great job offer in Australia, so David decides to take the plunge and propose marriage, but Sandy and Michael think he's all wet.
#9 - Boy Meets Girl (1)
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/1989
David and a pretty student get off on the wrong foot, and they continue to bicker when they're fixed up on a blind date that could wind up opening their eyes to romance after all.
#10 - The Naked Truth
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/1989
Mark and Willie are barely able to contain themselves when they spot a nude portrait of Sandy hanging in an art gallery.
#11 - Strangers On a Train
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/1989
Willie is stirred by first-hand accounts of apartheid from Sandy's South African professor, so he and Mark embark on an el-train ride to a candlelight vigil.
#12 - Secretarial Poole
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/1989
Sandy thinks she's hired ""Robo-Secretary"" after Mrs. Poole whips the entire school into tiptop shape. Meanwhile, Michael fends off the advances of an admirer.
#13 - The Big Sleep
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/1988
It's a dream come true for psychology student David when Sandy, ""Queen of the All-Nighters,"" agrees to be the guinea pig for his sleep deprivation experiment.
#14 - Saturday Night Feverish
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1988
Mark worries that he and his two left feet will trip over the light fantastic when Willie tells a girl that Mark likes, that Mark is a great dancer.
#15 - Tracks of My Tears
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1989
Willie becomes obsessed with being number one on the track team and enlists David's help training him. However, Willie quickly finds that he doesn't have the will for training. Meanwhile, Sandy's ex-husband persuades her to dog-sit for a Cujo-like pooch who takes up permanent residence on the ankle of anyone who comes by.
#16 - Dad's First Date
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1988
A nervous Michael dives into the dating pool bu doesn't make much of a splash, while David will stop at nothing to avoid immersing himself in an English assignment.
#17 - Animal House
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1988
College freshmen David, Rich and Burt have been feeling a little left out of the college social scene and decide to spark some attention by stealing a rival school's mascot, a wolverine, but when the fierce creature gets loose, it's every Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and Willie enroll Sandy in a computer dating service and she discovers this just as her date knocks on the front door.
#18 - Close Encounters
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1988
Michael experiences close encounters of the most embarrassing kind when his friends find out he saw a UFO. Meanwhile, the twins' refusal to give David an extra Springsteen ticket sends his high hopes plummeting to earth.
#20 - Help Wanted
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/1988
The boys recruit an enchanting if ditsy housekeeper for Sandy, but she turns out to be ""a lust cause"" for David.
#21 - Skip III: The Bailout
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/1988
Man's man Skip returns and takes Michael and David for a ride in a small plane, but when they're forced to bail out all of their lives are put in jeopardy.
#22 - The King and I
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1988
Sandy's dreaded blind date turns out to be a ""King"" while David is ready to crown his brothers when they horn in on his date.
#23 - A Restaurant Named Desire
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1988
Restaurant worker David smells trouble and it's coming from the kitchen as he tries to fend off the amorous advances of his boss's fiance. Meanwhile, Michael teaches Mark how to defend himself.
#24 - Mark and Willie's Day Off
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1988
An eager Willie and a reticent Mark ditch school for the day, but when Mark gets caught, Willie feigns ignorance about the whole scheme.
#25 - Mother Poole's Visit
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1988
David's advice to Mrs. Poole to vent her anger against her overbearing mother-in-law backfires when Mother Poole moves in with the Hogans.