Hang Time

The basketball team is thrown into chaos when new transfer Julie Connor tries out for the boys varsity basketball team, prompting resentment from Team Captain Chris Atwater and jealousy from Head Cheerleaner Mary Beth. Meanwhile Coach Bill Fuller adjusts to his new job, and his new team manager, the enthusiastic Samantha. Danny, Earl and Michael are also introduced.

Its Julies first game with the Deering Tornadoes and the press are having a field day due to the fact that she is the first female on a boys basketball team - but when Julies attention turns to her own fame, her teammates begin to resent her. Meanwhile, Earl gives Mary Beth a pig in return for saving his life!

When Coach Fuller introduces a different line-up to improve the teams performance, Chris quits as captain becasue he doesnt like his new lower scoring guard position - only to be replaced by Danny who lets it go to his head! Meanwhile, Michael takes a job at Earls farm with... disappointing results.

Chris and Mary Beth dont seem to agree on anything in their relationship, and the situation only becomes worse when Mary Beth goes out on a date with an old schoolmate without telling Chris! Meanwhile, the team heads to Coach Fullers to watch a Tyson fight on a Saturday, which presents a problem for Danny who usually goes out on a date with Sam on Saturday nights.

After an unexpected loss, the gang argue with one another but when a blizzard hits, everyone, except Michael, gets trapped in the gym over the weekend, including Mary Beth who is the ""parent"" of a baby doll for a class project. Meanwhile, Julie tries to cool things off with Chris because ""teammates cant be together""!

Dannys parents are out of town so he stays with Coach Fuller... Unfortunately for Coach Fuller, Danny ends up inviting nearly the whole school over!

Julie is annoyed when Chris resorts to an old habit to play well in the championship tournament... A good luck kiss from Mary Beth! Meanwhile, Danny is having a hard time saying the ""L"" word to Sam.

Julie has a crush for new teammate Josh Sanders, but when she begins to think that boys dont notice her, an identity crisis means she quits the team! Meanwhile, when Danny, Teddy and Michael insult the cheerleaders, Mary Beth and Amy punish them by getting all the other girls at Deering to stop talking to them until they apologize.

At tryouts, Teddy takes a liking to one of the girls there, Tracy. Josh, Danny, and Vince sense this but Teddy tells them that theres one drawback. Hes never asked out a girl before because he thinks hes ""the fat kid whose everybodys friend"". So, the gang try to help him build up his confidence. Meanwhile, Julies constant ""baby"" talk to Josh is driving him nuts!

When Vince hears about a basketball training camp hosted by Coach Fuller and NBA star Muggsy Bogues, he is willing to do anything to get in... including taking steroids!! Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are filming an alien invasion movie called ""Zeltoid Hunters"".

The gang decide to each sacrifice an important personal item for a charity drive - when Mary Beth gets mugged for her efforts, her (somewhat justifiably) uncharatable comments cause Josh to go ballistic.

When Mary Beth begins to resent the fact that her father is not spending enough time with her, she starts dating Vince to get his attention. Her plan backfires however when Vince begins to fall for her! Meanwhile, the team is pysched out when they have to play (and beat) undefeated Remington High to get into the play-offs.

Julie gets jealous of a new waitress called Nicole. Meanwhile, Mary Beth tries to teach Vince how to dance, with painful results.

After Amy and Josh leave Deering, a new cheerleader, Kristy Ford, and a new player, Michael Manning, come to Deering. Michaels a great player, but Julie expects to be elected team captain and is extremely hurt when the rest of the team choose Michael over her. Meanwhile, Mary Beth reveals that she kissed Ryan Parker while at space camp.

The Tornadoes are up against Lynwood for the first game of the new season, and Deering has a new Vice Principal, Ms. Williams, who turns out to be Coach Fullers ex-fiance. After Michael encourages the team to skip Study Hall to practice, they are given detention two days before the game. Then after losing his temper with Ms. Williams, Michael gets suspended from the game. Coach Fuller tries to work out a solution with Ms. Williams so that while the team gets punished, they can still play.

Teddy has secretly started smoking, using the excuse that it wants to use it to curb his appetite. But when Coach Fuller and Teddys teammates catch him smoking, hes kicked off the team. However, when Teddy sees his little brother carrying the same brand of cigarettes that hes been smoking, he makes up his mind to try and quit. But kicking the habit doesnt prove to be such an easy task. Meanwhile, Kristy scoffs at superstitions when she walks under a ladder in the gym. But immediately afterward she has a run of bad luck that makes her think she really may be cursed.

When her teammates discover that Julie is dating Jason Redman, a player from a rival team, Mary Beth tries to arrange a get-acquainted dinner with all of the guys. However, things dont go smoothly when the Deering guys practically refuse to get to know Jason. Meanwhile, Teddy tries to teach Kristy how to drive in preperation for her driving exam.

After Vinces little brother, Nicky, returns from a year in France, hes changed. He used to share interests with Vince, but now likes writing poems and other hobbies that Vince doesnt find suitable for a DAmata. After Vince tries everything that he can think of to get his brother to return back to normal, Nicky thinks that he should just go back to France where hell be accepted.

In California, Julie and Teddy end up being the only ones practicing when the rest of the team go with Mary Beth to watch for celebrities at their hotel. When Julie and Teddy take on two guys in a two-on-two basketball game, an onlooker makes a bet on Julie and Teddys team and ends up winning. Looking to pay for their room service bill, Teddy and Julie go back and bet a $100 that they can win another game. Not only do they lose their money, but they find that they were being set up all along. Meanwhile, Vince finds Mel Gibsons wallet at the hotel.

When Mary Beth enters a modeling contest, she becomes very self-concious about her looks. And when she doesnt win, she starts talking about plastic surgery to make herself look perfect. Kristy goes to the doctors office with her. While theyre having their consultation, Vince goes into the waiting room and sees a girl whose face is wrapped up in bandages and thinks its Mary Beth. He tells her that she perfect the way she is and doesnt need surgery, while the real Mary Beth listens on.

Danny starts to date a girl and after she seems to have to leave every one of their dates in a hurry, he starts to think that she might be seeing someone else on the side. It turns out that hes somewhat right. She has a baby. After discovering this, he decides to propose. Meanwhile, Kristy gets addicted to a video game at the Stadium and misses the photo shoot that would put the girls on the cover of Girls in Sports Magazine.

At the ski lodge, it doesnt turn out to be a very happy birthday for Mary Beth when she finds out that her parents are divorcing. She cooks up a scheme with the gang to try and get her parents to fall back in love.

Julie runs into her ex-boyfriend, Paul, at the lodge. She decides to tell Michael about him, but is convinced by Mary Beth to keep quiet. After finding out who Paul is on their own, Michael and Vince befriend him and try to keep him busy so that he cant chase after Julie. Meanwhile, Teddy, Danny, Kristy, and Coach Fuller rescue a millionaire out on the slopes. Since shes rich, they expect a reward and start spending before they actually receive any money.

While hanging out with Julie, Michael, Mary Beth, and Vince, Kristy starts to feel like a fifth wheel, so she borrows Julies jacket and heads off to get some pizza. While wearing the jacket, she meets a cute guy whos immediately impressed that shes Julie Connor from Deering. Kristys interested in him and doesnt have the heart to tell him that shes not actually Julie. Meanwhile, Vince gets Coach Fuller to buy hamburger for the big camp cook out from his uncle. They get a little bit more meat than they expected when an entire, live cow shows up at the camp and the guys try to keep it hidden from the coach.

To win tickets to a concert, the gang enter Teddy in a pizza-eating contest. But when he cant get up the hunger to eat for the first time in his life, Kristy fills in and wins the pair of tickets. After receiving the prize, the gang is dissapointed to find out that the tickets are for a day that they have to work. But since Coach Fuller is going to be away for the day, they decide to bring the kids to the pizza parlor and take turns going to the concert. Everything goes smoothly until the coach shows up at the pizza parlor and after hurrying to get back to camp, Teddy, Kristy, and the kids get stuck outside during a tornado. Also, Vince uses a quarter worth $5,000 in the camps soda machine and Mary Beth wont let him rest until they get it back out.

Coach Fuller sets a curfew for the team before the big game. However, Teddy meets a girl and is invited to her sororitys party. He goes to the party with the idea that hell only stay for a little while and get back in time for Coach Fullers head count at curfew. But when the gang notice that hes not back yet, Julie, Michael, and Vince go to the party to get Teddy. After Coach Fuller shows up at the sorority looking for them, all four of them dress up like members of the opposite sex and sneak out. But Teddy still isnt finished talking with the girl that hes met, and everyone but Teddy makes it back before curfew. When Coach Fuller greets him, he lets him know that hes benched from the game.

New Coach, Mike Katowinski, replaces Coach Fuller - sadly the new team, which includes new team members Kenny Silk Hayes, Rico Bosco, and Nick Hammer, isnt coming together so well. Julie notices that the new coach is treating her differently from the guys and is making her do less work, so she tries different methods of getting the coach to realize what hes doing. Also, Kristy gets a letter from Teddy saying that he and Vince are at the University of Southern Florida with Coach Fuller, Vince is dating Miss Florida Orange Juice, and that Danny is currently working on his stand-up at NYU!

After finding out that the rival team of an upcoming game has a player thats HIV-positive, everyone but Michael wants to cancel. Michael brings his friend Joe to the Stadium to meet some of the Deering players, later revealing that Joe is the guy thats HIV-positive. After meeting Joe and finding out how normal he is, the Deering team decide that they want to play in the game. However, parents of other students complain and get the school board to cancel the game again. So the two teams try to have an unofficial game behind the school boards back and Julie tries to get over her fears about guarding Joe.

After scoring low on the S.A.T.s, Hammer finds out that his scores arent good enough for him to be able to be admitted into any of the colleges that hes planned on applying to. But when he learns that Duke University is sending a scout to watch him play basketball, he thinks that they wont pay attention to his academic achievements after seeing him on the court. Kristy tries to convince Hammer to take the S.A.T.s again, without much luck. Meanwhile, Julie and Michaels anniversary is coming up and when Mary Beth overhears Michael talking about buying a Ruby guitar, she mistakenly thinks that hes buying Julie a ruby.

After being mugged in the parking lot of the Deering Plaza after work, Kristy gets nervous about being out alone. Not only does she take a self-defense class with Mary Beth and Julie, but she arms herself with pepper spray. However, after leaving work early and not waiting to walk out of the mall with Julie and Michael, Kristy mistakenly thinks Michael is a mugger and attacks him with her pepper spray. Meanwhile, Rico, Silk, and Hammer all try to get Coach Katowinski to use his extra Pacers ticket on one of them.

After discovering that Kristy has a romantic interest in Hammer, Mary Beth tries to set the two up on a blind date. Hammer agrees to go on the date, but only because he thinks that Mary Beth is trying to set herself up with him. Hes caught off guard when he finds that Kristy is his date for the evening and later tells Mary Beth that hes not interested in Kristy, but in her. Mary Beth agrees to go on a non-date with Hammer, planning on using the time to convince him that he likes Kristy. Things dont go the way shed planned when Mary Beth finds out that she returns Hammers feelings. However, at the same time, she doesnt want to hurt Kristy. Meanwhile, Coach Katowinski tries to organize a school dance with the help of the team.

Mary Beth learns that if she wants to attend her dream college, California University, she needs to participate in more extra curricular activities. Aside from managing the basketball team and keeping up with school work, she joins the marching band, the debate team, and also takes a spot on the cheerleading squad. Shes already incredibly busy, but after finding out that a new student council president is needed, she decides to run in the election. Trying to do so much proves to be a little too much for Mary Beth and she starts to crack under all of the pressure. Meanwhile, the Coach gets a new hot tub to be used only for sports injuries. When the Julie and the guys break the rules and use it for fun, Rico accidentally drops Coachs NBA championship ring down the drain.

Mary Beth and Hammer start having relationship problems when they disagree on their plans. So Mary Beth gives herself a make-over to look more like a biker to surprise Hammer. She and Kristy go to a biker hangout to find Hammer, only to find that theyre at the wrong club and are alone with a bunch of tough bikers. Meanwhile, Coach Katowinski thinks about buying the Stadium. However, his new plans have the place full of senior citizens. Looking to get their hangout back, the gang try to convince him not to buy.

Rico meets a girl at the Stadium and asks her out. Hes excited about their upcoming date until he starts to get self-conscious about being with a girl thats taller than him. Meanwhile, Mary Beth accidentally gets throws Hammers lucky jacket away and its up to her and Kristy to find it before Hammer finds out.

Julie needs to get a good grade on her upcoming math exam or be benched from playing. She aces her exam, thanks to Kristy who spent all of her extra time tutoring Julie. However, Kristy starts to feel jealous and underappreciated after everyone misses her decathalon because theyre celebrating Julies grade.

After getting a bad report card, Michael is afraid to tell his dad because he might not be allowed to play basketball anymore, even though the teams one game away from the playoffs. Michael becomes unbelievably frustrated and not only is his relationship with his father strained, but his attitude costs him his spot on the team. Meanwhile, Kristy and Mary Beth compete in a one-on-one basketball competition in order to win a car, straining their friendship.

The tornadoes head to the sate basketball championships, only to find that their first game is against the team with the best player in Indiana. Meanwhile, Mary Beth convinces Kristy to play in a pool tournament to win a team present for Coach, only to end up facing him in the finals.

After the Tornadoes make it to the sate championship, Hammer gets benched when his drug test results come back positive for steroids. Even though Hammer swears that hes never taken steroids, Silk and Rico refuse to believe him and blame him for losing the game. Meanwhile, Kristy meets an artist who asks her to pose for him. She does, but only to find that hes painted her head on a naked body. Kristy and the girls plan to alter the painting before its featured in a show.

Hammer is offered an out of state scholarship and is forced to leave the team and Mary Beth. Meanwhile, Antonio moves to Texas to be with Kristy, and Rico has already left the team to persue wrestling. Replacing him is new player Eugene Brown.

Julie starts dating an older guy named Jason. He continually encourages her to do more mature things, like stay out late on school nights. Because shes still a high school student and hes not, Julie feels like she cant say no because Jason will think that shes too much of a kid. While they attend a school dance together, Jason blows off the actual dance and ends up drinking in the hallway. When hes ready to leave and wants to drive Julie home, Kristy and Mary Beth dont think its a good idea because hes been drinking. Julie goes anyway because shes afraid to say no. She and Jason end up getting into a car accident. Luckily, neither of them are hurt badly, but Julie injures her shoulder and cant play in Deerings game.

Michael meets a man at a pickup basketball game and gets not only a loan from him, but a job as well. After Julie finds out that the man is a college recruiter, theyre worried that Michael may have become ineligible to play basketball in college.

Eugene and Silk both get jobs co-managing a new dance club. Theyre faced with a difficult decision when they find that a classmate and a great customer is dealing dope. Meanwhile, Kristy and Mary Beth decide to buy drugs from the dealer undercover in order to win spots on the newspaper.

After becoming lab partners with Syd, a grote (what teens from Deering call goths), Kristy tries to befriend her and close the gap between their cliques a little. As part of Kristys plan to get to know some of the grotes a little better, she dresses up just like one, with the white makeup, black clothing, and piercings. She also tries to get Mary Beth and Julie to realize that other social groups arent so different, but Kristys other friends cant seem to make the effort to get to know them. However, while dressed up like a grote, Kristy and some of Syds friends get beaten up by a pack of guys. Meanwhile, Eugene starts dating a college student after he lies to her and says that hes also attending college. However, he gets himself into a hard situation when she starts subbing at Deering.

The team travel to yet another state final. Antonio meets up with some friends of his that are in a fraternity. Kristy becomes jealous when she finds out that other girls were at a party hosted by the fraternity, so she and Mary Beth come up with a scheme in which they dress up as guys and head on over to the fraternitys next event in order to spy on Antonio. Meanwhile, Michaels temper flares on the court when he continually gets harassed by a guy in the stands.

Antonio is offered a scholarship from the University of Kentucky. However, he gets injured and decides to give up on taking the scholarship. Coach and the other team members try to convince him to overcome his injury and go to Kentucky.

Eugene starts gambling online and racks up a huge debt. He decides to keep it a secret, but when Silk finds out, he tells the Coach. Meanwhile, Kristy has a dental problem (and a ""hump"" on her back- an ice pack) that makes it difficult to speak. Shes supposed to be interviewed by Stanford University, so she has Mary Beth take her place.

Silks aunt is a singer in a gospel choir, in which Silk himself also sings. At first he keeps it a secret from the others, but they find out and everyone gets along really well with his Aunt Charlotte, who is a great basketball player! However she gets very sick, and although Silk prays really hard, she dies. He begins to lose his faith, but his Aunt appears to him and tells him to keep believing. Meanwhile, Mary Beth and Coach Katowinski both compete in a fundraising competition where the person who can stay for the longest time inside a VW Beetle wins it.

Silk receives a basketball scholarship from Temple University. At first hes psyched about the opportunity to go to Temple. However, after losing a game against two of Temples players, Silk worries that he wont be able to keep his grades up and be a successful player against the competition in college. Meanwhile, fed up with getting rides from their parents, Julie and Kristy decide to buy a car together. But after constantly arguing with each other over their car, Julie and Kristys friendship starts to get a little strained.

Mary Beth finds out that Hammer is finished with Duke after dropping out. He decides that hed like to attend UCLA with Mary Beth and Kristy. However, he cant get accepted, forcing Mary Beth to choose between Hammer and Kristy. Meanwhile, the guys take Coach Katowinskis dog, Killer, for a walk but accidentally lose him in the mall, where hes picked up by an Adopt-A-Pet volunteer.

Though the team is nearing the conclusion of an undefeated season, Coach is concerned that their playing has become tentative and that they fear losing more than they desire to win. He tries to get them to remember what it was like when they played basketball for fun. Also, Julie gets accepted by the University of Connecticut.

In this clip show, Mary Beth and Kristy work on their final journalism project to capture the most important things that they learned in high school. They interview the rest of the gang, discussing the best and worst moments during their time spent at Deering.