Focusing on Muncie's mayoral race and closely following the personalities, strategies, and pressure involved in an American political contest, this episode examines the sharply contrasting styles and backgrounds of the Democratic and Republican candidates.
As the basketball teams of Muncie Central and Anderson High prepare to meet in an annual game charged with the spirit of long-established rivalry, this episode focuses on what this competition and the sport itself means to the community, the coaches, and most of all to the players themselves.
This film examines faith in the lives of a family whose fundamentalist beliefs are revealed in how they deal with both the emergencies and the ordinary problems and strife of daily life.
Although they differ in their attitudes toward work and its rewards, all ten members of the Snider family struggle to keep ex-marine Howie Snider's Shakey's Pizza Parlor franchise from sliding into bankruptcy.
Through focusing on the pre-wedding arrangements of David and Elaine, an engaged couple who each had a prior marriage and divorce, the film presents a picture of the issues and complexities of contemporary marriage.
In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtle toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. Dealing with interracial dating, drinking, drug use, and teenage pregnancy, Seventeen caused a controversy which led to its cancellation from broadcast and its separate release in theaters.