Episode list for
"This American Life" (2007)

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Episode Count: 12
Season: 1 | 2
Year: 2007 | 2008

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Reality Check

Original Air Date: 22 March 2007

Season 1, Episode 2: My Way

Original Air Date: 29 March 2007

Season 1, Episode 3: God's Close-up

Original Air Date: 5 April 2007
Stories where the faithful and the not-so-faithful cross paths, and where unexpected things happen when people try to get closer to God through pictures: hundreds of Polaroid camera-toting believers gather in the Mojave Desert each month hoping to see God. And an artist, his Jesus model, the model's atheist girlfriend, and her religious father face off on The Last Supper.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Cameraman

Original Air Date: 12 April 2007
This episode is devoted to a single story by way of G.J. Echternkamp. G.J. spent years filming his mother and stepfather. In the '80s, his stepfather, Frank Garcia, was the bassist in a briefly-famous band called OXO. G.J.'s mom, Cindy Brown, met him at the height of his success, when the band's one Top 40 hit, "Whirly Girl," was on the charts. Twenty years later, they're still together, but living a life they probably wouldn't have imagined back then. G.J. started filming them as a joke, but over time, his reasons changed, and the way he saw both his parents changed as well.

Season 1, Episode 5: Growth Spurt

Original Air Date: 19 April 2007

Season 1, Episode 6: Pandora's Box

Original Air Date: 26 April 2007

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Escape

Original Air Date: 4 May 2008

Season 2, Episode 2: Two Wars

Original Air Date: 11 May 2008

Season 2, Episode 3: Going Down in History

Original Air Date: 18 May 2008

Season 2, Episode 4: Fighters

Original Air Date: 25 May 2008

Season 2, Episode 5: Scenes from a Marriage

Original Air Date: 1 June 2008

Season 2, Episode 6: John Smith

Original Air Date: 8 June 2008

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