First Time Out

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| camera = Multi-camera

| runtime = 30 minutes

| genre = Sitcom

| creator = Shawn Schepps
Diane Wilk

| starring = Jackie Guerra
Leah Remini
Craig Anton
Tracy Vilar
Roxanne Beckford
Mia Cottet
Harry Van Gorkum

| composer = Matt Ender

| producer = Gail Parent

| executive_producer = Marc Sotkin
Jon Spector

| theme_music_composer = John Benitez
Ed Terry

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| country = United States

| language = English

| network = The WB

| company = Columbia Pictures Television

| first_aired = {{Start date|1995|09|10}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1995|12|17}}

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 16 (4 unaired)

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First Time Out is an American sitcom television series that aired on The WB. Originally holding the working title Girlfriends and described as a "Latino Living Single",{{cite news |author=Greg Braxton |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23327045.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105131106/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23327045.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |title=WB Lines Up Second Season |work=The Columbian |location=Vancouver, Washington |date=May 25, 1995 |access-date=2016-02-27}} the series premiered on September 10, 1995, and last aired an original episode on December 17, 1995, after which time it was put on hiatus by The WB,{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/features/wb-net-revamps-sunday-slate-99123531/ |title=WB Net Revamps Sunday Slate |magazine=Variety |date=December 17, 1995 |access-date=February 27, 2016}} leaving four episodes unaired.

Plot

The sitcom followed energetic, ambitious, chubby Jackie (Jackie Guerra), a Yale University graduate who now has a trendy hair salon in Los Angeles, California, attends law-school classes at night, and longs to find a man. She shares an apartment with her friends Dominique (Leah Remini), a cynical assistant at Ventura Records, and Susan (Mia Cottet), who's about to get her psychotherapist license and is neurotic herself. She's good friends with her co-workers at the salon, Rosa (Tracy Vilar) and Freddy (Harry Van Gorkum), an obnoxious, womanizing English hairstylist. Rounding out the cast are Madeline (Roxanne Beckford), a yuppie executive who lives across the hall, and Nathan (Craig Anton), Jackie's klutzy, sex-obsessed childhood friend.

The WB network called Jackie Guerra "the first Latina to star in her own series".

Cast

Episodes

Only 12 episodes of First Time Out aired on The WB. 4 episodes were still unaired.

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