Hidden Hills

📊 Series Specifications

Network NBC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 18
Original Language EN

Hidden Hills (2002)

Created by Ric Swartzlander , Peter Segal
⭐ 4.0 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 18 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Hidden Hills is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 2002-2003 TV season. Based on the book Surviving Suburbia, the series was created by Peter Segal and Ric Swartzlander. The theme song was "Pleasant Valley Sunday", made famous by The Monkees.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Pilot

In the opener, Doug Barber is lamenting a lack of time for intimacy with his wife, Janine --and the fact that news of his predicament is traveling fast around the neighborhood. In fact, his friend Zack learned of the situation from his wife Sarah in the shower. But before long it's Doug who may need a shower (the cold kind) when the neighborhood's newest arrival---a sexy, single mom with her own porn Web site---becomes his assistant coach for softball.

E2 The Mark of Manolo

Sarah's got a new trainer. A good-looking guy named Manolo. Pam immeadiately starts drooling over him. This of course makes Doug jealous.

E3 The Affair

In need of a little time away from home, Doug accepts Zack's invitation to play basketball on Sunday mornings.

E4 The Vasectomy

Janine decides shes had enough with the side effects of birth control pills. This leads Doug on embarrassing trips to get condoms. Finally they give up and decide that the days of havin kids are over for them. So they decide that Doug is gonna get a vasectomy.

E5 The Getaway

Doug outbids everyone at an auction for a getaway, only to find, once they are there, that five other Hidden Hills couples are also there. Meanwhile, Zack and Sarah enjoy themselves at Doug and Janines house watching both couples children.

E6 Halloween

During Halloween week, Doug becomes uneasy when Janine's friend Pam makes a move on him or so he thinks. Feeling flattered and confident, Doug's imagination goes into overdrive -- only to have Janine burst his bubble when she explains that Pam is not interested in him. Meanwhile, Sarah must decide whether a breast enlargement would help her chances of being re-signed to a new contract at her job.

E7 The Shocker

Janine sees Pam being intimate with Manolo. It gets her wondering (once again) if Doug and her have enough romance in their lives. So Janine asks Sarah for help. Sarah tells Janine about a trick she uses on Zack called the shocker, but when she does it to Doug, he jumps right out of the bed. This makes Janine fear they will never be intimate again.

E8 Coach Doug

Doug asks Manolo (Cristian de la Fuente) to be his assistant soccer coach.

E9 The Birth

Doug and Janine ask the Timmermans to be their children's legal guardians in the event of their deaths, but they are offended when their friends do not reciprocate.

E10 Christmas

As Christmas approaches, Pam dumps her boyfriend (Cristian de la Fuente) and reconciles with her ex-husband (Brian Baker).

E11 The Visit

Doug's mother-in-law (Joanna Cassidy) moves in for three months while she looks for a house in the area.

E12 The Concert

Doug and Janine discover they can't party like they used to when he rents a limo and takes her to a rock concert in an attempt to revisit their youth.

E14 The Feud

Doug and Janine battle with their next-door neighbors, while Pam panics about meeting Manolo's father.

E15 The Reunion

Doug's high school reunion ends bitterly after he spends time away from Janine to flirt with a girl he never knew liked him.

E16 The Birthday

While Doug discovers Botox and waxing, Janine struggles with her upcoming birthday.

E17 The Housewife

Janine takes a sabbatical from work, fulfilling Doug's fantasy of her becoming a 50's-style housewife.

E18 The Motorcycle

Doug gets a motorcycle, although resists the thought of it stemming from a mid-life crisis.