Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: July 8, 1990
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 120
Networks: HBO
Genres: Comedy

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Dream On(1990)

A life like in the movies.

TMDB Rating: 6.8 (42 votes)

Overview

The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.

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Season 1

14 episodes • 1990Avg: 5.5Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The First Episode	Jul 8, 1990	5.5
2	Death Takes a Coffee Break	Jul 15, 1990	0.0
3	Sex and the Single Father	Jul 22, 1990	0.0
4	Sole Sister	Jul 29, 1990	0.0
5	Angst for the Memories	Aug 5, 1990	0.0
6	...And Sheep Are Nervous	Aug 12, 1990	0.0
7	Over Your Dead Body	Aug 19, 1990	0.0
8	Martin Gets Lucky	Aug 26, 1990	0.0
9	Three Coins in the Dryer	Sep 2, 1990	0.0
10	Trojan War	Sep 9, 1990	0.0
11	Up the River	Sep 16, 1990	0.0
12	555-HELL	Sep 23, 1990	0.0
13	Doing the Bossa Nova	Sep 30, 1990	0.0
14	Premarital Ex	Oct 7, 1990	0.0

Season 2

15 episodes • 1991

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Second Greatest Story Ever Told (1)	Jul 7, 1991
2	The Second Greatest Story Ever Told (2)	Jul 7, 1991
3	And Your Little Dog, Too	Jul 14, 1991
4	The 37-Year Itch	Jul 21, 1991
5	Calling the Kettle Black	Jul 28, 1991
6	Futile Attraction	Aug 4, 1991
7	No, I'm Just Happy to See You	Aug 11, 1991
8	What I Did for Lust	Aug 18, 1991
9	Play Melville for Me	Aug 25, 1991
10	To Have and Have and Have and Have Not	Sep 1, 1991
11	Pants on Fire	Sep 8, 1991
12	The Charlotte Letter	Sep 15, 1991
13	The Name of the Game Is Five-Card Stud	Sep 22, 1991
14	So Funny I Forgot to Laugh (aka Stop It, You're Killing Me)	Sep 29, 1991
15	Toby or Not Toby	Oct 6, 1991

Season 3

26 episodes • 1992

#	Episode	Air Date
1	And Bimbo Was His Name-O (1)	Jun 6, 1992
2	And Bimbo Was His Name-O (2)	Jun 6, 1992
3	Nightmare on Bleecker Street	Jun 13, 1992
4	For Peter's Sake	Jun 20, 1992
5	Terms of Employment	Jun 27, 1992
6	For Richard or for Poorer	Jul 4, 1992
7	Bad Girls	Jul 11, 1992
8	Here Comes the Bribe	Jul 18, 1992
9	May Divorce Be with You	Jul 25, 1992
10	Come and Knock on Our Door...	Aug 1, 1992
11	B.S. Elliot	Aug 8, 1992
12	What Women Want	Aug 15, 1992
13	Red All Over	Aug 22, 1992
14	The Rocky Marriage Picture Show	Aug 29, 1992
15	Martin Over Medium	Sep 5, 1992
16	Theory of Relativity	Sep 12, 1992
17	Up All Night	Sep 19, 1992
18	The Guilty Party	Sep 26, 1992
19	The Son Also Rises	Oct 3, 1992
20	Domestic Bliss	Oct 10, 1992
21	It Came from Beneath the Sink	Oct 17, 1992
22	No Deposit, No Return	Oct 24, 1992
23	To the Moon, Alex!	Oct 31, 1992
24	The Undergraduate	Nov 7, 1992
25	Dance Ten, Sex Three	Nov 14, 1992
26	Key for Two	Nov 21, 1992

Season 4

25 episodes • 1993

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Oral Sex, Lies, and Video Tape	Jun 2, 1993
2	The French Conception	Jun 9, 1993
3	Depth Be Not Proud	Jun 16, 1993
4	Pop Secret	Jun 23, 1993
5	Reach out and Touch Yourself	Jun 30, 1993
6	Home Sweet Homeboy	Jul 7, 1993
7	A Midsummer Night's Dream On	Jul 14, 1993
8	The Book, the Thief, Her Boss and His Lover	Jul 21, 1993
9	Super Freak	Jul 28, 1993
10	One Ball, Two Strikes	Aug 4, 1993
11	Portrait by an Artist on the Young Man	Aug 11, 1993
12	And Bobby Makes Three	Aug 18, 1993
13	Silent Night, Holy Cow (1)	Dec 18, 1993
14	Silent Night, Holy Cow (2)	Dec 18, 1993
15	Brother of the Bride	Jan 19, 1994
16	Blinded by the Cheese	Jan 26, 1994
17	Hey, Nanny Nanny	Feb 2, 1994
18	The Second Coming	Feb 9, 1994
19	Martin Tupper in Magnum Farce	Feb 16, 1994
20	Where There's Smoke, You're Fired	Feb 23, 1994
21	Blame It on Reo	Mar 2, 1994
22	From Here to Paternity	Mar 9, 1994
23	A Face Worse Than Death	Mar 16, 1994
24	Felines ... Nothing More Than Felines	Mar 23, 1994
25	Stone Cold	Mar 30, 1994

Season 5

13 episodes • 1994

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Taking of Pablum 5-2-3 (1)	Jun 22, 1994
2	The Taking of Pablum 5-2-3 (2)	Jun 29, 1994
3	'Tis Pity She's a Neighbor	Jul 6, 1994
4	Steinway to Heaven	Jul 13, 1994
5	Judy and the Beast	Jul 20, 1994
6	The Homecoming Queen	Jul 27, 1994
7	I'm with Stupid	Aug 3, 1994
8	Attack of the 59-Inch Woman	Aug 10, 1994
9	Those Who Can't, Edit	Aug 17, 1994
10	Off-Off Broadway Bound	Aug 24, 1994
11	Hack Like Me	Aug 31, 1994
12	I Never Promised You Charoses, Martin	Sep 7, 1994
13	The Courtship of Martin's Father	Sep 14, 1994

Season 6

27 episodes • 1995

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Try Not to Remember	Jul 19, 1995
2	Bess You Is Not My Woman Now	Jul 26, 1995
3	Long Distance Runaround	Aug 2, 1995
4	Significant Author	Aug 9, 1995
5	9 1/2 Days	Aug 16, 1995
6	Beam Me Up, Dr. Spock	Aug 23, 1995
7	Take Two Tablets, and Get Me to Mt. Sinai	Aug 30, 1995
8	Music in My Veins (1)	Sep 13, 1995
9	Music in My Veins (2)	Sep 20, 1995
10	Tie Me Sister Lu Down, Sport	Sep 27, 1995
11	She Won't Do It, But Her Sister Will	Oct 4, 1995
12	Flight of the Pedalbee	Oct 11, 1995
13	Am I Blue?	Oct 18, 1995
14	Home Is Where the Cart Is	Nov 1, 1995
15	Little Orphan Eddie	Nov 8, 1995
16	Toby's Choice	Nov 15, 1995
17	The Weekend at the College Didn't Turn Out Like They Planned	Nov 22, 1995
18	Second Time Aground	Jan 24, 1996
19	The Spirit of 76th & Park	Jan 31, 1996
20	All About Louie	Feb 7, 1996
21	The Way We War	Feb 14, 1996
22	Springtime for Tupper	Feb 21, 1996
23	Hey Diddle Diddle	Feb 28, 1996
24	Cupid Is as Cupid Does	Mar 6, 1996
25	Tenants, Anyone?	Mar 13, 1996
26	Finale (1)	Mar 20, 1996
27	Finale with a Vengeance (2)	Mar 27, 1996

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