Seinfeld
Season 1
5 listed hours · 1989–1998 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Nine seasons of petty social law, bottle-episode architecture, and a 1998 closer that still starts fights — craft first, catchphrase second.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Seinfeld (1989–1998) on NBC as the first listed season of 9 — 5 listed hours, 1989-07-05–1990-06-21 from “Good News, Bad News” (S01E01) to “The Stock Tip” (S01E05). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Good News, Bad News
The contract: no lesson, no hug, an apartment already behaving like a courtroom.
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S01E01 Good News, Bad News
Jerry is excited that a woman he met on the road is coming to visit him in New York. However, he has a tough time discerning whether her intentions are romantic or platonic.
Pilot note — From the desk: Seinfeld opens its catalog run with “Good News, Bad News” (1989-07-05). Anti-lesson sitcom that rewired joke architecture. Larry/Jerry mythology, Elaine's dance, and the finale that still starts fights.
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S01E02 The Stakeout
When Jerry goes to a birthday party with Elaine, he meets a woman he'd like to ask out, but doesn't get the chance to. When she leaves before he gets a chance to find out her name, he and George stakeout her office building.
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S01E03 The Robbery
When Jerry's apartment gets robbed, he decides to move out. George shows him a great apartment, which he plans to take… that is, until George expresses his own desire for the apartment.
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S01E04 Male Unbonding
Jerry ponders a few courses of action when he sees that he no longer has anything in common with a clingy and obnoxious childhood friend. George has trouble with his latest relationship. Kramer has the idea to open a chain of pizza parlors where you make your own pizza pie.
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S01E05 The Stock Tip
Jerry and George invest based on an insider stock tip, but then lose touch with their inside source. A nervous Jerry lets the declining stock ruin his weekend away with Vanessa, while George decides he's all in.
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