Living with Fran (2005–2006)

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Plot

A mother of two ends up falling in love with a man half her age as she tries to make him part of the family.

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Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes2005AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Living with Fran S01E01The PilotApril 8, 2005After having a nervous breakdown, 25-year-old Josh Reeves gets booted from medical school. So he decides to go back home. So when he arrives
  2. S01E02Living with Fran S01E02Riley's ParentsApril 8, 2005Fran invites Riley's parents over for dinner. Donna and Tom (Riley's mom & dad) are shocked when they meet Fran. Apparently, Riley has never
  3. S01E03Living with Fran S01E03The Ex FactorApril 15, 2005When Fran is planning a family vacation her ex-husband Ted pays the family a visit. Ted comes beacuse he is trying to buy is family back by,
  4. S01E04Living with Fran S01E04The ReunionApril 22, 2005Fran's worries about impressing Riley's high school friends at Riley's high school reunion, but at the high school reunion Fran is being wor
  5. S01E05Living with Fran S01E05Oh, BabyApril 29, 2005Fran wants Riley to feel like part of the family, so she decides to start their own family album and is taken aback when Riley mentions addi
  6. S01E06Living with Fran S01E06Who's the Parent?May 6, 2005Allison's new boyfriend Kurt makes alarm bells to go off for both Josh and Riley. So that causes Fran to re-think her trust in Allison's abi
  7. S01E07Living with Fran S01E07Carriage RideMay 13, 2005Disapproving of Riley's plans for their first Valentine's Day together, Fran makes a few changes with out consulting Riley, making him feel
  8. S01E08Living with Fran S01E08The ConcertMay 20, 2005Josh's latest girl-friend Gina's phone number became partially illegible after Fran washed his trousers complete with his wallet, but he tri
  9. S01E09Living with Fran S01E09Josh Works for RileyMay 27, 2005After 'family night' charades were a walkover for the girls, Fran is eager to find something Riley and Josh can do - in order to grow closer
  10. S01E10Living with Fran S01E10Riley's ExJune 3, 2005Josh has a date with an ex of Riley.
  11. S01E11Living with Fran S01E11PlasteredJune 10, 2005
  12. S01E12Living with Fran S01E12Girl TalkJune 17, 2005
  13. S01E13Living with Fran S01E13School TiesJune 24, 2005Ryan built a shoe-carousel for his six months anniversary with Fran, so what can she give him? She goes for strip- classes, from obviously q

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes2005–06AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Living with Fran S02E01A Year of Living with FranSeptember 16, 2005Unlike Fran, who still can't admit she needs glasses, Riley remembered it's the first anniversary of his moving in with the Reeves family. S
  2. S02E02Living with Fran S02E02Going to the Bar Mitzvah with FranSeptember 23, 2005After Fran embarrassed Josh by telling his former schoolmate Barry Regal, now in Wall Street, the med school drop-out is the video store's a
  3. S02E03Living with Fran S02E03Sweet Sixteen Again with FranSeptember 30, 2005Although Allison screamed she didn't want any fuzz for her 'sweet sixteenth' birthday, both parents decide to give her a memorable one. Fran
  4. S02E04Living with Fran S02E04Learning with FranOctober 7, 2005When Fran tells Ryan she is has no clue about all financial aspects of her interior decorating business, he suggests she should consider tak
  5. S02E05Living with Fran S02E05Ahead of the Plan with FranOctober 14, 2005When Fran and Riley find 'adult' son Josh has brought a girl, Taylor Urbanski, over in his bedroom, ever scantier dressed, that's okay, but
  6. S02E06Living with Fran S02E06Going Crazy With FranJanuary 13, 2006Riley's mother Donna called five times before his naive kid sister Jenny arrives, and she sure is a pot-plant, still engaged to Jeremy, her
  7. S02E07Living with Fran S02E07Coupling With FranJanuary 20, 2006Riley and Fran realize they don't have many common friends because of their generation gap, but find her friend Becca and his Danny ideal fo
  8. S02E08Living with Fran S02E08Healing With FranJanuary 27, 2006Fran insists till Riley allows reporter Catherine Johnson to write a piece on them as a couple, supposedly as publicity for their businesses
  9. S02E09Living with Fran S02E09The Whole Clan with FranFebruary 3, 2006Fran's parents Hal and Cookie, full-blood Jews who retired to Miami, are visiting her. Riley get to feel barely subtly that he is considered
  10. S02E10Living with Fran S02E10Masquerading With FranFebruary 17, 2006It's Halloween, so Josh is eager to get Riley and Fran out of the house, so he can entertain his present girlfriend Tina. It goes great, til
  11. S02E11Living with Fran S02E11Going To Bed With FranFebruary 24, 2006Fran flirts with Riley's boss to get a job.
  12. S02E12Living with Fran S02E12Dreaming with FranMarch 17, 2006When a waitress flirts with Riley at Fran's birthday dinner, adding she can see where Josh got his good looks, Fran is down and gets nightma
  13. S02E13Living with Fran S02E13Reuniting with FranMarch 24, 2006Now Fran has dumped her true love Riley and thrown him out 'for his own good', both of them are miserable enough to become impossible to liv

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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