A Minute with Stan Hooper

Season

2003

USA

6.7

Stan Hooper does a popular network TV minute every week out of a Manhattan studio. He decides to move to Waterford Falls, Wisconsin with his wife Molly, where they find a quirky band of locals.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

Believing he needs to get back in touch with the simple life and common everyday folk, Stan Hooper and his wife move to a small town where Stan can continue his minute-long national news segment. But Stan's newly planned simply life quickly becomes a complicated mess.

S1 • E2

Stan Hooper Goes to Washington

Once Stan discovers it's election time and that the same man has been mayor for over twenty years with no challenger, he decides to run for mayor as well. He soon discovers how corrupt things really are.

S1 • E3

The Hustler

Stan tries to enjoy a boy's night out while the women play Bridge but unexpectedly wins a game of pool, putting Lou into debt.

S1 • E4

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Stan decides to join the guys on the annual turkey hunt for Thanksgiving and in the process creates havoc. Chelsea must keep Molly from cooking any of her horrible meals, including turkey stuffing with chunky peanut butter.

S1 • E5

Fear Finds the Falls

Stan burglarizes the diner to prove Waterford Falls is not inviolable to crime.

S1 • E6

Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie

Stan's obsession over an apple pie at the diner made by a frail old lady who is sickly and out, brings him to new lows in the quest for more pie. Molly and Chelsea join a men-only singing club after a group vote, ticking Fred off.

S1 • E7

Stan's Biggest Fan

Stan discovers his biggest fan lives nearby and enlists the help of a cranky mailman to find him.

S1 • E8

Good Golly, Miss Molly

A typo in the "Cheese Quarterly" magazine naming Molly as Fred's mistress brings the tabloids and press down on Stan.

S1 • E9

Snow Job

Norm inadvertently enrages Aggie Parmenter, who essentially has the run of the town during the winter being that she's the only person with snow plowers.

S1 • E10

The Milkman

Stan is told the boat house out back is haunted by the Anderson family, who died in a fire a year earlier, but Stan tries to convince everybody the Andersons are not ghosts, but freeloaders.

S1 • E11

Dead Family Robinson

S1 • E12

The Good Doctor

Since Molly thinks every year Stan will forget their wedding anniversary, Stan decides this year to pretend like he actually forgot, to surprise her. A friendly small-town doctor catches Stan's attention and he soon discovers that Dr. Goldman may in fact not be a real doctor at all.