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Boston Common
1996 - 1997 6.9 (7 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
NBC
Created By
David Kohan
Max Mutchnick

Boston Common

Overview

After moving to Boston from Virginia, to spy on his sister who just started college, Boyd finds himself working for the student union where he raises hell more often than he should.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1996)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1996-03-21

Boyd arrives in Boston with his sister Wyleen. While she is attending Randolph Harrington College, he gets a job as a handyman at the Student Union.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Out, Out, Damn Jack!
1996-03-28

Boyd uses Leonard to get Jack to take an offer from Stanford, so he can have Joy to himself. Wyleen finds another student who's also having trouble adjusting to college life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: I Thee Endow
1996-04-04

Wyleen is the subject of a student film, showing her daily life. When Jack doesn't seem to want to make the effort, Boyd takes the challenge of raising the funds to keep the school's non-essential programs alive, including Joy's storytelling program.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Relationship of Fools
1996-04-11

Joy asks Boyd to double-date with Jack and her friend Anna. Boyd uses the chance to get closer to Joy. Meanwhile, Wyleen tries to have a relationship with Morgan.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Boyd Gets Shrunk
1996-04-18

At Jack's suggestion, Wyleen see the school therapist to help with her problems with Boyd. The therapist suggests bringing Boyd in for a session. Leonard's brother is coming for visit and he isn't prepared to see him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Virginia Reeling
1996-04-25

Boyd plans a group outing for line dancing at a country bar. Wyleen gets the opportunity to be a country singer. Leonard confesses to having a dream about Liz and is nervous about making another date.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Hope Springs a Leak
1996-08-11

Joy wants to break up with Jack after kissing Boyd. Tasha offers to manage Wyleen's singing career. Leonard is asked by the college president to sponsor a Russian student.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Autumn 'Foilage'
1996-08-18

Wyleen gets a job working for Professor Reed. When Boyd wants to take Joy on a ride in his car, he encounters some trouble getting his car out of the impound lot. Tasha wants her overdue raise.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Everybody's Stalking
1996-09-08

Wyleen gets hooked on fat-free cookies. Leonard wins free groceries and the ensuing publicity photo gets him a disciple who thinks he's the messiah. Boyd tries to follow Joy's wish that they take a break from each other.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: A Streetcar Named Denial
1996-09-15

Boyd starts a side-business selling Tuna sandwiches with Tasha and Leonard's help. Wyleen has a hard time pleasing her drama teacher.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (1996)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Everything's Coming Up Sub-Rosas
1996-09-29

Wyleen discovers a there is a secret woman's society on campus and decides she needs to join them. Butterfield schedules to meet with Leonard about something.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Conspiracy of Dunces
1996-10-06

Tasha detects that Joy might be a bit jealous of Boyd. Wyleen learns about conspiracy theories and hidden agendas from Professor Reed. Leonard gives up his job at the cafeteria to go on unemployment and spend his time in the park, where he makes new friends.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco ...
1996-10-13

Tasha suggests to Jack that he recruit Boyd to organize a surprise party for Joy's birthday, a date he'd forgotten. President Butterfield tries to inform Leonard that his funding has been cut.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Mercury Retrograde
1996-10-20

Tasha sets Boyd up on a blind date. Joy accidentally calls Jack "Boyd". Leonard helps Tasha move into her newly painted office. Wyleen, still working for Professor Reed, must listen to him deal with losing Joy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The War Room
1996-10-27

Wyleen decides to run for president of the freshman class.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Trustee and Sympathy
1996-11-03

Boyd searches for the name of the landlord of their building, since the heat has been off for the past two days. The college entertains an obnoxious alumnus, who is funding the establishment of a new media center.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: A Triage Grows in Boston
1996-11-10

Boyd and Wyleen host the Pritchett family barbecue. Joy seems to get very tired, every time her pending wedding to Jack is mentioned. Leonard has a part-time job delivering meals to shut-ins and his first stop won't let him go. Wyleen is struck on the head by a flying pork chop that brings them to the hospital.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Gobble, Gobble, Aggch!
1996-11-17

Wyleen and Boyd decide to hold a get-together for Thanksgiving. Wyleen invites Cookie in hopes of getting a part in the spring play. Jack and Joy try to spend their holiday working at a homeless shelter that is filled mostly with yuppie volunteers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Coming Clean
1996-11-20

Boyd struggles to pay Wyleen's tuition for next semester. To raise funds, he gets a part time job working as a janitor. Leonard and Wyleen also take janitorial positions. Jack learns about the finer points of the student body and relationships from Professor Weaver.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Arts and Craftiness
1996-12-08

Leonard is traveling home to his mother's for the holidays and his joke about a bomb at airport security gets him and Wyleen held for questioning. Tasha performance review is coming up. Jack would like Joy to take her art work a little more seriously.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Finals Curtain
1996-12-15

Trying to study for her finals, Wyleen is fighting a cold, Boyd's interruptions and Jack's cryptic messages about the content of the final. Boyd cons the campus radio station manager into letting them use the station equipment. Instead of cutting a tape, Boyd lets Leonard rave out over the air about the blues he's feeling.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Soup to Nuts
1997-01-05

Everybody wants to have lunch with Boyd so they can get his advice. Wyleen wants to him to be there when she has lunch with the newly reformed Cookie. Joy wants advice about her pending wedding to Jack. Tasha wants assistance with her husband Darrell. Leonard worries about talking about radio in front of Jack's students.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: A Night in Camelot
1997-02-16

Boyd and Jack discover a pair of shoes that might have once belonged to JFK. After displaying their lack of knowledge, Tasha tells Boyd they should try to get some culture. Everyone else is imagining what they can do with the money from the sale of the shoes.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Commander-in-Grief
1997-03-09

When a new president is selected for the college, Boyd loses a job. Cookie expresses an interest in Leonard.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: His and Herpes
1997-03-16

Wyleen develops a large cold sore on her upper lip. Boyd frets over the color of his teeth as he begins to work his new job. The crisis center is in danger of losing its funding, Boyd's first case as student liaison. Joy and Jack discuss their relationship.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Extra Credit
1997-03-23

The college rolls out a new credit card program that it locates in the student union. Wyleen's been approved and begins to spend and spend. Leonard is caught in the middle of Jack and Joy's separation as well as Boyd and Tasha's disagreement about their need for office space.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Occidental Purists
1997-04-06

Wyleen gets the lead in the play The Tea Ceremony. Joy arranges a date for Tasha and also tries to fix her hair. Leonard reluctantly agrees to become the editor for Jack's new book, but becomes a replacement for Joy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Heres to You, Mrs. Byrnes
1997-04-07

Joy's mother comes for a visit and takes more of a liking to Boyd than is comfortable for him. Leonard needs an insurance physical and gets an appointment with Tasha's gynecologist. Wyleen is also going there because she is thinking about making the next step in her relationship with Drake.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: I.D. Endow
1997-04-13

Boyd and others are against a tuition increase proposed by Cross. Wyleen wants to borrow money to obtain a fake ID. Leonard's guest for his radio show is Tasha's estranged grandfather.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: To Bare is Human
1997-04-14

A men's magazine want to do a layout featuring the women of Harrington. Leonard gets a date with a former centerfold. Cross takes Joy out to dinner at the same time Jack takes the editor of the men's magazine.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: A Cross to Bear
1997-04-20

Cross is going to be featured on a public television program called American Mind as a prominent educator. Boyd is tired of paying for everything and wants Wyleen to get a job.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Sophomore's Choice
1997-04-27

Cross gets on Tasha for disciplining the son of a major college benefactor. Wyleen tells Boyd it is time for him to move out. He looks for a place to stay and winds up with Tasha. Joy is hired by Cross as a professor in Jack's department.

Runtime: 30 min

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