Fame — Season 2
Fame·Season 2·1982·23 episodes

Season 2

Fame

You've got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying in sweat.

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Season 2

Synopsis

Fame (1982), Season 2 is a New York performing-arts musical drama you can watch online on iFILM — 23 episodes built on the 1980 film about teenagers chasing the stage.

The second season heads back into the halls of the High School for the Performing Arts, where a fresh year asks for the same currency: sweat. Debbie Allen returns as Lydia Grant, the unbending dance teacher, and a teenage Janet Jackson turns up among the students. Some crack under an audition, others face a real crowd for the first time, and the school's promise stays blunt — talent alone won't carry you.

The show was huge in Britain, spinning off cast tours and chart records. Where the first run leaned on the musical numbers, this one gives its characters more room to breathe. Stream Fame Season 2 online on iFILM.

Season 2

23 episodes

  • And the Winner Is...
    S2·E1

    And the Winner Is...

    September 30, 1982 · 60 min

    Bruno's script is chosen to be produced by the school and he is given the chance to be a voice in the audition process. Unfortunately he can't make up his mind who is better and if someone isn't as good he (with his soft heart) feels the need to let the person try again, to give them that extra chance to get it right. All his friends are excited that he can choose who will star in it, because of course, they want it to be them. Things start to heat up after everyone finds out that Bruno cast himself in the lead. After which he enlists the help of Doris to teach him to ""act"". Doris begins to fall in love with Bruno.

  • Your Own Song
    S2·E2

    Your Own Song

    October 7, 1982 · 60 min

    Coco tries to get long with a learning disabled student.

  • Feelings
    S2·E3

    Feelings

    October 14, 1982 · 60 min

    Julie's dad is getting remarried, and Julie does not like it one bit. Also, Leroy tries out for a touring dance troupe.

  • Class Act
    S2·E4

    Class Act

    October 21, 1982 · 60 min

    A guest speaker to the school becomes sweet upon Lydia, and gives the kids an assignment so he can come back to see her. He takes her out but she's not impressed by his flashy lifestyle, and is even less so when he criticizes the work the kids do for the assignment, and is especially tough on Leroy. He also criticizes the education they receive at the school. Shorofsky teaches Bruno how to conduct.

  • Teachers
    S2·E5

    Teachers

    October 28, 1982 · 60 min

    When Bruno gets the chance to audition for Julliard, he finds himself caught between the desires of his father and Shorofsky. Shorofsky feels that Bruno isn't ready for Julliard yet. During the audition, Bruno chooses to play his mother's favorite song instead of the piece he originally chose, even though he knew it would destroy his chances of being accepted to Julliard.

  • Beginnings
    S2·E6

    Beginnings

    November 4, 1982 · 60 min

    The kids suspect the ballet teacher is prejudiced against black students. They protest by stopping whatever they are doing and standing silent. It isn't til Miss Grant talks with this teacher that they know for sure that she feels black dancers don't have what it takes to be great. She is shown how wrong she's been during a performance by Stephanie. Bruno must escort a young musical prodigee around the school.

  • Solo Song
    S2·E7

    Solo Song

    November 11, 1982 · 60 min

    Lydia teaches a blind substitute teacher to dance. Doris developes a crush on the substitute teacher, Jim Hamilton.

  • Winners
    S2·E8

    Winners

    November 18, 1982 · 60 min

    Coco tries to impress a producer with an audition in a diner. She manages to get a screen test, and tells the gang it all went well. Later she comes clean and admits she was terrible. Doris tries to loose weight and be perfect (like Coco) and collapses in Miss Sherwood's class. In telling Doris the truth about her screen test, Coco manages to come to terms with herself.

  • Words
    S2·E9

    Words

    November 25, 1982 · 60 min

    Sherwood discovers that her favorite student has a father who censors the books she is given to read. Because he will be leaving soon, Coco's boyfriend pressures her to have sex with him.

  • Childhood's End
    S2·E10

    Childhood's End

    December 2, 1982 · 60 min

    When her grandmother dies, Coco questions her decision to become a performer. The kids attempt to find Julie's stolen cello.

  • Homecoming
    S2·E11

    Homecoming

    December 9, 1982 · 60 min

    Doris' draft dodging brother comes back and she tries to get him and her father to talk to each other. Lydia tries to sneak ballet moves into a jazz dance number when she discovers her old ballet teacher is coming to watch the performance.

  • A Tough Act to Follow
    S2·E12

    A Tough Act to Follow

    December 16, 1982 · 60 min

    Danny's grief over the death of Mr. Crandall threatens to cause his expulsion, but help comes from an unexpected source.

  • Relationships
    S2·E13

    Relationships

    January 6, 1983 · 60 min

    Doris falls in love with a singer she meets at a dance club where her, Bruno and Leroy go to observe the country western scene. They are looking to make a "unique" version of Romeo and Juliet for dance class. Bruno dates a 30 year old woman he meets at the same club. Sherwood meets someone through a dating service.

  • Star Quality
    S2·E14

    Star Quality

    January 13, 1983 · 60 min

    Leroy befriends a boy who wants to be a dancer. After which, he learns that this boy's father was a rather famous dancer once. Leroy has to write a report for Sherwood and decides to write about the once famous dancer. Coco reacts to a small-time commercial actor who visits the school. She criticizes his ability as an actor.

  • Sunshine Again
    S2·E15

    Sunshine Again

    January 20, 1983 · 60 min

    Shorofsky and Bruno both promise a show's dress rehearsal to different people. Doris is worried that her grandmother may move into her parents' home.

  • Love is the Question
    S2·E16

    Love is the Question

    January 27, 1983 · 60 min

    Troy Phillips falls in love with Julie. When they fall asleep studying, he tells everyone that they slept together but he didn't realize what he was telling everyone was being taken in the wrong way.(Inspiring Bruno's classic line, "You're supposed to be tutoring him on the joys of harmony, not sex!") A picture of Mr. Reardon is printed in a gossip tabloid magazine by a "so called" friend of Reardon's who will do anything to sell a story, even steal the photo from David.

  • Blood, Sweat and Circuits
    S2·E17

    Blood, Sweat and Circuits

    February 10, 1983 · 60 min

    Bruno accepts a challenge from Miss Sherwood to try to create "art" from a computer and when the school acquires one, he's delighted, until he learns that the machine's purpose is to replace Mrs. Berg.

  • Friendship Day
    S2·E18

    Friendship Day

    February 17, 1983 · 60 min

    Doris alienates her friends when she becomes obsessive over the planning of this year's "Friendship Day". Bruno's father and Julie's mother mistakenly believe that Bruno and Julie plan to have sex.

  • Not in Kansas Anymore
    S2·E19

    Not in Kansas Anymore

    February 24, 1983 · 60 min

    Doris is auditioning to star in a show. She falls and bumps her head and has an elaborate dream sequence in which she is on a quest to become a star. The school campus is set up with a ""yellow brick road"" path ""Dottie"" must follow and encounters several interesting characters (her fellow classmates in costume) along the way. Debbie Allen (the dance instructor/choreographer) plays the ""good witch"" and Mrs. Sherwood is the ""wicked witch.""

  • The Kids from Fame in Concert
    S2·E20

    The Kids from Fame in Concert

    March 3, 1983 · 60 min

    This episode is comprised of excerpts from the Kids from Fame live concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

  • Help From My Friends
    S2·E21

    Help From My Friends

    March 10, 1983 · 60 min

    After a series of school lockers are vandalized, Dwight finds a suicide note and Doris tries to enlist her friends in helping her find the note's author.

  • Ending on a High Note
    S2·E22

    Ending on a High Note

    March 31, 1983 · 60 min

    In order to appear in a show with a famous actor, Leroy and Danny become involved coaching a boys' choir in basketball.

  • U.N. Week
    S2·E23

    U.N. Week

    April 7, 1983 · 60 min

    Students from "a more academically prestigious" school visit the School of the Arts for U.N Week and act snobbishly towards the kids.

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