Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a single-cam comedy drama format.
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| - Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a single-cam comedy drama format. (en)
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- The focus is on Kitty after one of her dresses is worn to a wedding that gets front-page coverage, but she has trouble dealing with her instant "celebrity" status. (en)
- Martin dreams up a scheme to help improve business, but Kitty has a plan of her own. (en)
- Kitty romances a bagpiper; Virginia romances Martin's father. (en)
- Kitty evaluates her relationship with Tim after she meets an artist at Martin's party. (en)
- Kitty's loses her self confidence after her designs are rejected by a buyer. (en)
- Kitty asks Angela for help with a creativity block; Angela has a job setback. (en)
- Kitty launches her own fashion business despite her grandfather's interference. (en)
- Kitty worries how her mother will react when she learns of an impending visit by her father, who left Virginia years ago for another woman. (en)
- Kitty gets involved in an AIDS benefit fashion show and meets a gay man who has the disease. He ends up in the hospital. (en)
- Kitty's sweet dreams turn into nightmares when she wakes up next to Tim and shortly afterward her mother and Angela arrive on the scene. (en)
- Kitty and Angela track down Kitty's first boyfriend; Martin tries to prevent his father's marriage proposal to Virginia. (en)
- Kitty is shocked to learn she has a second mother; Martin agrees to take care of his girlfriend's pet ferret. (en)
- Surprise guests, distressed friends and a frozen roast spoil Kitty's careful plans for a perfect dinner party. (en)
- Kitty's new teenage employee, Lucy, alarms the customers with her candid honesty. (en)
- Kitty and Angela spend a week together. (en)
- Kitty and Tim turn to each other on the rebound. (en)
- Kitty confides in Bernice. (en)
- Kitty is attracted to Tim, who is dating Pam. (en)
- Kitty visits a wholeness guru. (en)
- Kitty confesses to Tim that she kissed another man. (en)
- Kitty struggles to accept the sudden news that her beloved grandfather has died. Adding to her struggle is the fact that her mother kept his serious illness a secret. (en)
- Upset that she's turning 49, Virginia waxes nostalgic about Kitty's 13th birthday. (en)
- Kitty hopes that taking on a new partner will resolve some of her financial problems, and then struggles with her decision when he insists that she lay someone off. (en)
- Martin develops a cologne and names it for Kitty; Tim quits teaching. (en)
- Kitty has to face up to life in the urban jungle when Angela's apartment is broken into. Things go from bad to worse when Kitty and Angela discover a rapist is on the loose in their neighbourhood and the cops have been keeping it from the public. (en)
- Martin's cologne smells awful; Kitty learns that she is pregnant. (en)
- A top fashion writer puts Kitty on a new TV show. Kitty learns that currying the friendship of a fashion columnist can be life-threatening. (en)
- Kitty's mother interferes with her possible success as an international fashion designer. (en)
- Kitty is terrified by the discovery of a lump in her breast, and doesn't know whom to turn to for comfort. (en)
- Kitty sells Classy Fashions and opens a fashionable Queen Street boutique called Material World, with an apartment above that she and Angela share. Meanwhile, Virginia starts a dating service. (en)
- Kitty becomes jealous when her mother arranges a date for Angela with a medical doctor; Martin spies on his wife. (en)
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