Powerhouse

Season

1982

8.7

The crime-fighting adventures of five members of an inner-city community center.

Episode List

With a Little Help from My Friends: Beginning

S1 • E1

With a Little Help from My Friends: Beginning

Brenda Gaines inherits a boxing gym from her late father and plans to turn it into the Powerhouse youth center, enlisting the help of local kids to do so. However, a local numbers gang that has been using the building tries to stop her.

With a Little Help from My Friends: Conclusion

S1 • E2

With a Little Help from My Friends: Conclusion

After Brenda is framed for drug possession, she and the kids try to figure out who was behind it and clear her name so that Powerhouse can finally open.

S1 • E3

Life or Breath

The son of an African nation's ambassador, who is prone to stress-related illness, comes to Powerhouse for help, but the gang must save him when he is kidnapped.

S1 • E4

Master of the Art

When a friend is replaced as a museum's head of security, the Powerhouse gang offers to help her get her job back.

S1 • E5

You Make Me Sick

When a dangerous rare illness makes Brenda sick, the Powerhouse gang must track down the reclusive carrier of the disease before it is too late.

S1 • E6

Celebration

Just before his bar mitzvah, Lolo and his grandfather are attacked by a gang of young white supremacists in front of the synagogue that they attend.

S1 • E7

Something for Nothing

With Powerhouse's license up for review, the gang is manipulated by a filmmaker who is secretly in the employ of a developer out to get the building.

S1 • E8

Cheers

Lieutenant Gambrino's son Peter has a drinking problem, and when Pepper spends time with him, she ultimately gets involved in one of his drunken binges, then is framed when Peter later steals the Powerhouse gang's money and possessions.

S1 • E9

Name of the Game

Overwhelmed by the pressure of the upcoming championship soccer game, Tony fakes a foot injury and is replaced by a player known as "El Gato", whose antagonistic behavior causes dissent among the team.

S1 • E10

One of the Gang

S1 • E11

Something Ventured

S1 • E12

Help Wanted

S1 • E13

What Have You Got to Lose?

Self-conscious of his recent weight gain, Kevin gets suckered into a fly-by-night weight-loss clinic with sinister ulterior motives.

S1 • E14

Big Devil

S1 • E15

Fit to Be Tied

S1 • E16

The Short Life of Lolo Knopke

The leader of the White Cobras, the white-supremacist gang from the episode "Celebration," plants a bomb in the cellar of Powerhouse that fatally injures Lolo. At the funeral, his family and friends remember what a great person he was. But who is that guy with the mysterious mustache, and why is an on-duty cop present at the ceremony?