As of July 2026, Hope & Faith Season 1 aired in 2003 with 25 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Hope & Faith Season 1

2003 25 Episodes Comedy ⭐ 5/10

Right now you can watch Hope & Faith Season 1 on streaming — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. 38 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Faith Ford sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Hope & Faith Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Sharp writing and a well-matched ensemble are what separate Hope & Faith Season 1 from the crowd. Season 1 of Hope & Faith includes 25 episodes. It aired from September 2003 to May 2004. This season stars Faith Ford, Kelly Ripa and Ted McGinley. Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2003. The timing in Hope & Faith Season 1 is precise enough that even the throwaway lines land on a second watch. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Hope & Faith Season 1 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Faith Ford's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 Hope & Faith Season 1 — Episode Guide

Fallen soap vixen Faith Fairfield creates high drama after moving in with her straitlaced sister and her family.

Remembrance of Rings Past

The sisters attend the funeral of a long-forgotten aunt to pay their respects--and to swipe back the ring she took from their mom years earlier. Back at home, Charley handles an alarming situations with the home-security system and Hayley's middle-child neuroses.

The Un-Graduate

Faith goes back to high-school for her degree after it comes out that she failed French and never actually graduated. But a note passed in class leads Sydney's new beau to think more about Faith than French.

Summary Judgment

Faith, in debt to her former studio because she "accidentally" set fire to a set the day she was fired, needs money, so Hope hires her as her assistant. A happy homemaker she isn't.

About a Book Club

Hope's book-club meeting becomes a party when Faith crashes it, and Hope turns out to be a heartier partier than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, Charley takes the kids to the arcade and turns out to be something of a pinball wizard.

Hope Has No Faith

Faith meets a handsome and sensitive guy on Halloween. He's quite a treat, but Hope thinks he has a trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Haley has a "math date" with a nerdy boy named Edwin, thanks to Sydney, who arranged it (without asking Haley first).

A car dealer hires Faith for one of his wacky TV commercials. It's wackier than she would have liked. Meanwhile, Charley can't remember all of his and Hope's "cutesy, made-up anniversaries."

Hope and Faith Get Randy

A high-school flame of Hope's is single again and back in town. He and Faith begin making some music together and that rouses Hope's ire. Meanwhile, Haley and Sydney make a hole in their bedroom wall while wrestling and conspire to cover it up.

Phone Home for the Holidays

Hope and Faith's playboy father Jack arrives for Thanksgiving with his latest girlfriend. She's "out of this world," he says to his daughters. She says she was abducted by aliens. Jack also has a surprise for Charley: he has taken up shiatsu massage, and his "favorite" (read: only) son-in-law is "cu...

Anger Management

A "big misunderstanding" (it really is) with the mother of one of the boys in Charley's basketball team lands Hope and Faith in an anger-management class. But does Hope really have a "Faith-management problem"? Meanwhile, Charley might be the anti-handyman, but that's not stopping him from trying to...

Silent Night, Opening Night

A newcomer has taken over Faith's old role on "The Sacred and the Sinful." This sends Faith into a funk that's broken only when Hope tabs her to direct Hayley's holiday pageant at school. But her "artistic integrity" proves to be more than the kids can stand. Meanwhile, a bully takes Justin's winter...

Charley's brother Andrew is getting married, and their mother fears that Hope will ruin the nuptials. There's a history here: She blames Hope for wrecking Andrew's first wedding (the bride ran out of the church following a poem Hope read), and this one won't go smoothly, either.

Madam President

The opposition to Hope's campaign for president of the Glen Falls Neighborhood Association is Faith-based: she insulted a man, so he runs against her. He'll find a potent campaign weapon. Meanwhile, Charley tries to engineer Sydney's social life.

A waitress becomes a colleague of Hope and Faith (they couldn't pay their bill). The reason they're in the diner in the first place: Faith wants to impress a director who's filming on location and eats there every night. Back at home, meanwhile, Charley crashes a party, only he doesn't know it, than...

Charley's friend Kenny, who works for Doctors Without Borders in Djibouti, arrives for a visit and promptly falls in love with Faith. This is surprising to everyone and upsetting to Hayley, who has a crush on him. As for Hayley's boyfriend, Edwin, he's just crushed.

Charley's Baseball

Hope and Faith crash a baseball locker room to get the autograph of pitcher Roger Clemens. The reason why they're doing it involves a misdeed by Justin. Meanwhile, Hayley handcuffs herself to her tree house. It seems that the tree in which it's situated has died, and Charley must cut it down. But Ha...

Prom and Circumstance

Hope and Faith "date" two doofuses from their high-school class because they have promised to repair Charley's '67 Stingray before he can find out that they (and Sydney, who was driving it) have damaged it.

Hope has jury duty, and that means disorder in the court, courtesy of Faith, who won't take her rejection as a juror lying down. And before the verdict is in, her soap-opera experience will come in handy.

Faith's former maid shows up and Faith is glad to see her; everyone else has a maid they don't want. Meanwhile, Charley wants to join a "fancy schmancy" country club, and Hope, Faith and Charley do end up there.

Hope Gets a Job

Hope gets a job as a columnist for the local newspaper, and Faith wrangles one, too, but they're not exactly "cubbie buddies": Faith is driving Hope crazy. Meanwhile, Charley and the kids must take take up the slack at home. Their first project: making pecan sandies.

🎭 Cast of Hope & Faith Season 1

Faith Ford

Kelly Ripa

Faith Fairfield

Ted McGinley

Charley Shanowski

Nicole Paggi

Sydney Shanowski

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