Episode 1 Information

[GoldenFamilyTies]

NEW EVOCATIVE DRAMA TELLS THE STORY OF THE PRYOR FAMILY OF PHILADELPHIA AS THEY BRACE FOR CULTURAL TURBULENCE AHEAD -- Meg Pryor's (Brittany Snow, "Guiding Light") lifelong dream is to dance on the iconic 1960s television series "American Bandstand," and along with her adventurous confidante, Roxanne Bojarski (Vanessa Lengies, "Popular Mechanics for Kids"), the 15-year-old's persistence pays off when they find themselves on camera, dancing amongst a variety of teen idols. While his younger sister realizes her dreams, JJ Pryor (Will Estes, "7th Heaven") questions his own childhood ambitions as he struggles to decide between striving for a Notre Dame football scholarship and making a life-altering change. Family patriarch Jack Pryor (Tom Verica, NBC's "Providence"), concerned with his children's defiant behavior as well as with wife Helen's (three-time Emmy nominee Gail O'Grady, "NYPD Blue") influential new friends (guest star Virginia Madsen, "The Rainmaker"), watches his idealistic family buckle under the era's social challenges on the eve of the decade's watershed event. Joe Lawrence ("Blossom") and Ethan Dampf also star.