Hot in Cleveland (season 1)
Episodes

Hot in Cleveland (season 1)

Section Title: Episodes
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)

1	1	"Pilot"	Michael Lembeck	Suzanne Martin	June 16, 2010	101	4.75

Three friends from Los Angeles named Melanie (Valerie Bertinelli), Joy (Jane Leeves) and Victoria (Wendie Malick) board a plane to Paris only to run into Melanie's estranged husband Anders, who is newly-engaged to another woman.

2	2	"Who's Your Mama?"	Andy Cadiff	Suzanne Martin	June 23, 2010	102	3.37

While at the bar immediately following the events of the pilot, Joy is picked up by a younger man (David Giuntoli), Elka gains the phone numbers of three elderly suitors, and the next morning Melanie happily begins extending her lease to the house for a permanent move to Cleveland.

3	3	"Birthdates"	Andy Cadiff	Vanessa McCarthy	June 30, 2010	103	3.07

The girls each pick a date for one another. Elka has more luck with her date (Carl Reiner) and announces her engagement.

4	4	"The Sex That Got Away"	David Trainer	Anne Flett-Giordano & Chuck Ranberg	July 7, 2010	105	2.93

A legendary rock singer (Huey Lewis), who was also a former flame of Victoria's, shows up in Cleveland for an event at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

5	5	"Good Neighbors"	David Trainer	Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil	July 14, 2010	106	2.99

Melanie throws a party to meet some new friends and comes off as insulting to one of her next-door neighbors (Wayne Knight), a columnist for The Plain Dealer, leading Melanie to fear that he'll write something negative about her.

6	6	"Meet the Parents"	Andy Cadiff	Liz Feldman	July 21, 2010	104	2.44

It's a family reunion the trio would rather forget when Melanie's overprotective mother Loretta (Shirley Knight), Victoria's womanizing actor father Alex (Hal Linden) and Joy's criticizing mother Philippa (Juliet Mills), who just became Elka's new buddy via the internet, pay the ladies a visit.

7	7	"It's Not That Complicated"	David Trainer	Anne Flett-Giordano & Chuck Ranberg	July 28, 2010	107	2.97

During a visit to New York City to see her daughter perform on Broadway, Melanie runs into her ex-husband Anders (Bil Dwyer), who follows her back to Cleveland claiming that he and his new girlfriend Kim have broken up.

8	8	"The Play's the Thing"	Gil Junger	Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil	August 4, 2010	108	2.57

Melanie's romance with her cop boyfriend Pete (David Starzyk) is annoying Joy, Victoria and Elka in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Victoria meets a young fan (Mark Indelicato), who wants her to help out with his school production of "Romeo & Juliet" because their new drama teacher is also the soccer coach and is treating them like a sports team.

9	9	"Good Luck Faking the Goiter"	Gil Junger	Suzanne Martin	August 11, 2010	109	2.72

When Melanie's secretive son Will (Joe Jonas) comes to visit on his way back to college, she invades his privacy and learns a little too much when she discovers that he did not tell her about getting engaged.

10	10	"Tornado"	Gil Junger	Vanessa McCarthy	August 18, 2010	110	3.40

A tornado hits Cleveland and the women find something shocking in the storm cellar as they discover that Elka has been hiding a roomful of stolen goods for years.

Sentence(s)

Hot in Cleveland (season 1) series debuted to 4.75 million viewers.

final_sentence: Hot in Cleveland (season 1) series debuted to 4.75 million viewers.