Free Ride (TV series)
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Free Ride is a Fox
partially improvised
sitcom starring Josh Dean
as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri
. The pilot
episode aired on March 1, 2006.
Fox canceled the series after just 6 episodes.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
partially improvised
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
sitcom starring Josh Dean
Josh Dean
George Joshua Christian Dean is a Canadian actor and improvisor. He hails from Edmonton, Alberta, where he performed in the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty and toured with improv company Rapid Fire Theatre...
as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
. The pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
episode aired on March 1, 2006.
Fox canceled the series after just 6 episodes.
Cast
- Nate Stahlings — Josh DeanJosh DeanGeorge Joshua Christian Dean is a Canadian actor and improvisor. He hails from Edmonton, Alberta, where he performed in the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty and toured with improv company Rapid Fire Theatre...
- Amber Danwood — Erin CahillErin CahillErin Jessica Cahill , is an actress best known for her role as Jen Scotts on the television series Power Rangers: Time Force. Appeared at Power Morphicon 2010 in Pasadena, CA....
- Mark Dove — Dave Sheridan
- Bob Stahlings — Allan HaveyAllan HaveyAllan Havey is an American stand-up comic and actor. He started his career as a comedian in New York City in 1981. He made his national debut in 1986 on Late Night with David Letterman and made many appearances on the show throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
- Margo Stahlings — Loretta Fox
- Steve Moss — Dan Wells
- Dylan Hudney — Kirby HeyborneKirby HeyborneKirby Heyborne is an actor, musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian known for his work in LDS films.-Biography:Heyborne graduated from Alta High School in 1995 where he was student body president. He served a full time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican...
Season 1: 2006
This seasons viewer count was 7.1 million viewers.| Episode | Production | Title | Airdate | Original # Viewers | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1SAB01 | "Missouri Loves Company" | March 1, 2006 | 14.4 million | Nate Stahlings decides to move home after graduating from college, but finds surprises: his parents are now in therapy, his old room has been changed into his parents' gym, and could that strange guy at Kash Kutters become his new best friend? |
| 02 | 1SAB03 | "Up the Aunty" | March 12, 2006 | 5.51 Million | Nate gets a job at a themed restaurant and then, with his co-worker, goes out on a double date with Dove and a family friend. |
| 03 | 1SAB04 | "Colon Blow to the Head" | March 19, 2006 | 5.37 Million | When Nate takes his dad to the hospital for a routine colonoscopy, the exam becomes a life-endangering ordeal for Bob and Margo. |
| 04 | 1SAB02 | "Procrasti-Nating" | March 26, 2006 | 4.89 Million | Forced by his parents to stop partying with Dove all night and get a job, Nate finds work at a construction site, but then goes berserk when he finds out the site is the future home of his crush Amber and her fiance Steve. |
| 05 | 1SAB05 | "Amber Alert" | April 2, 2006 | 4.23 Million | Nate believes he finally found a way to get closer to Amber when he begins a friendship with her brother. Also, Nate's friend Dove enters a freestyle fighting tournament with only internet karate training. |
| 06 | 1SAB06 | "Who Let the Nate Dog Out" | April 9, 2006 | 4.88 Million | In the series finale, Nate's future is put at risk when he decides to help Amber look for her cat instead of going to his job interview in Kansas City. Also, Nate's parents have an odd way of making their marriage work. |