Tales of the City - Season 1 (1993)

Michael's parents visit and he shows them around the city, keeping a discreet silence about his sexuality. Anna and Edgar also try to keep their affair secret as he stays the night but Mona is more open, telling Mouse that she and Dorothea were once lovers. Dorothea returns to San Francisco and Mona moves in with her, Anna being unusually upset about her leaving. Mary Ann gets closer to Brian, who consoles her after she found her boss at the Crisis Cedntre had hanged himself. However she starts dating Norman, who sometimes brings a precocious little girl Lexi and asks...

Brian continues to have more disastrous pick-ups, including with two waitresses who turn out to be a mother and daughter. Mona finds it difficult to get through to Dorothea, particularly with regard to Dor's reluctance to see her parents, whom Mona rings in the spirit of reconciliation. DeDe continues her joyless affair with Callas, though at least she gets sex with him, which is more than she does with Beauchamp who,unaware of her situation,announces that he does not want children - before heading to a gay sauna where he picks up Jon. Mary Ann goes on seeing Norman, ...

Jon, who has met DeDe as her gynecologist and likes her, breaks things off with Beauchamp, informing him of his wife's pregnancy. As Christmas approaches Mary Ann confides in Mouse her suspicions of Norman's creepy behavior and snoops around his flat, finding pornographic pictures of Lexi. Mona tracks down Dorothea's parents and invites them for lunch on Christmas Eve. She is amazed to find that they are white and the tablets she found in Dorothea's cabinet were to darken her skin, as it gave her more modeling work. After initial shock there is reconciliation. Norman ...