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Season 1 Guide (2003-2004)

	1x01 Pilot Whoopi Goldberg plays sassy Mavis Rae, a former pop star who owns and runs a small Manhattan hotel. In the opener, Mavis locks horns with a TV salesman ...	Sep. 09, 2003
	1x02 Don't Hide Your Bag In the tumultuous aftermath of a bomb scare at the hotel that sends guests scurrying, Mavis confronts her worst fear: claustrophobia.	Sep. 16, 2003
	1x03 Once Bitten... A ferret bite sends Mavis to an emergency room, where she gets rabid with a nurse while waiting, and waiting, to be treated for her wound. Back at the ...	Sep. 23, 2003
	1x04 Shout City-code violations rile Mavis and Nasim, who's cited for spitting after eating a hot pepper. It's a case Mavis decides to take to court, despite Nasim's ...	Sep. 30, 2003
	1x05 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Ice-hockey buff Mavis scores a prime seat---right beside a vision-impaired, romantically inclined fan (Ruben Santiago-Hudson). The NHL's Anson Carter and ...	Oct. 07, 2003
	1x06 The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy A surprise visit to the hotel by President George W. Bush (Steve Bridges) rattles liberal Mavis, who's misquoted as being his “No. 1 fan.” Later, Mavis ...	Oct. 14, 2003
	1x07 She Ain't Heavy, She's My Partner Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Moesha”) plays a flashy member of Mavis's former pop trio, whose arrival reawakens catty jealousies and proves especially discomforting ...	Oct. 21, 2003
	1x08 Rita Plays Poker Luck is a lady for Rita at a poker game with Mavis and her cronies, while Courtney makes a big deal of her “misbehavior.” When he acts like what his ...	Oct. 28, 2003
	1x09 Sticky Fingers On this episode, Mavis is a shoplifter? No way. Still, she's riled by the bogus charge and seizes the chance to clear her name on TV. Big mistake. Keith ...	Nov. 11, 2003
	1x10 Mother's Little Helper Diahann Carroll plays Mavis's mom Viveca, whose mood swings from sweet to sour when she's off her antidepressant medication. Carl Gordon (“Roc”) portrays ...	Nov. 18, 2003
	1x11 The Fat and the Frivolous On this episode, a lawsuit ensnarls Mavis with the emotional-distress claims of a hotel guest, represented by a hotshot lawyer (Michael Emerson) who intimidates ...	Dec. 09, 2003
	1x12 American Woman On this episode, Eli Wallach plays a pot-smoking hotel guest, using marijuana medicinally with his free-spirited caretaker, Marian (Rue McClanahan). Their ...	Jan. 06, 2004
	1x13 Airplane! Fear of flying besets Mavis, who's forced to confront her phobia at a flight-simulating school. She tangles with the psychologist in charge and has a telling ...	Jan. 13, 2004
	1x14 Is Rita Pregnant? When Rita suspects she's pregnant, Courtney decides to get a job, and a ring. Rita: Elizabeth Regen.	Feb. 03, 2004
	1x15 The Last Dance Patrick Swayze, Whoopi's costar in “Ghost,” plays Mavis's former choreographer, a onetime party animal who has “found Jesus” and drastically changed ...	Feb. 24, 2004
	1x16 No Sex in the City On this episode, It's party time for the girls, all dolled up, boozing it up and whooping it up at a trendy nitery to celebrate Soo Lin's upcoming wedding, ...	Mar. 02, 2004
	1x17 What Child is This? A bratty boy pesters Mavis, who's further piqued by the lad's pesky dad, a GOP functionary (Scott Bryce) who offers Courtney a job with President Bush's ...	Mar. 16, 2004
	1x18 Don't Hide Love A gay marriage troubles Mavis because one of the parties is her cousin (Portia), who wants to hold the event at the hotel on a booked night. Seems that ...	Mar. 23, 2004
	1x19 The Squatter Celeste Holm plays an addled, testy hotel resident who provokes Mavis and is relocated to an assisted-living facility that is far from cozy.	Mar. 30, 2004
	1x20 Identity Crisis (a.k.a. Identity Theft) After becoming a victim of idenitity theft, Mavis starts to secretly suspect Rita (Elizabeth Regen), who has a secret of her own about a poker game she ...	Apr. 06, 2004
	1x21 Strange Bedfellows A dating service lures Nasim, whose matchup bears a startling similarity to his tormenting nemesis: the smart-alecky Jadwiga. Also, Rita's insouciance ...	Apr. 13, 2004
	1x22 Sins of the Sister Dirty politics entangle Mavis with an old crony, an assemblyman who's smearing an opponent, Courtney, who hasn't a clue about how to retaliate. Mavis, ...	Apr. 20, 2004

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Season 1 Characters

Jadwiga	played by Gordana Rashovich
Sophia	played by Mary Testa
Mavis Rae	played by Whoopi Goldberg
Rita Nash	played by Elizabeth Regen
Danielle	played by Danielle Lee Greaves
Soo Lin	played by MaryAnn Hu
Rita	played by Elizabeth Regen
Courtney Rae	played by Wren T. Brown
Nasim	played by Omid Djalili
Hotel Guest	played by Jaclynn Tiffany Brown
Woman	played by Kristine Zbornik
Cassandra	played by Tammy Morris
Bartender	played by Vinny DeGennaro
Stan	played by Scott Bryce
Farzad	played by Rock Kohli
Partygoer	played by Ames Adamson
Pedestrian	played by Craig Syracusa
Phil Collins	played by Phil Collins
Nurse	played by Vinny DeGennaro
Pilot	played by Christopher Evan Welch
Marshall	played by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Marian	played by Rue McClanahan
Paramedic	played by Asa Somers

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Season 1 Trivia

Episode 02 - The premise of the show was inspired, in part, by the series "Fawlty Towers" (1975). "Fawlty Towers", in turn, was inspired by a real hotel in Torquay called the Gleneagles which was owned and managed by a Mr. Sinclair (who was the inspiration for the character of Basil Fawlty). On ...

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