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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) abstract "The first season of the American television drama series Masters of Sex premiered on September 29, 2013 and concluded on December 15, 2013. It consists of twelve episodes, each running for approximately 55 minutes in length. Showtime broadcast the first season on Sundays at 10:00 pm (ET) in the United States. Internationally, the season aired in Canada on The Movie Network concurrently with the American broadcast, and it debuted in the UK on Channel 4 on October 8, 2013.The series was developed for television by Michelle Ashford and is based on the biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier. Masters of Sex tells the story of Dr. William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), two pioneering researchers of human sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) firstAirDate "2013-09-29".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) network Showtime_(TV_network).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) numberOfEpisodes "12".
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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Adam_Davidson_(director).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Jennifer_Getzinger.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Lawrence_Trilling.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Lesli_Linka_Glatter.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Michael_Apted.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Michael_Dinner.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Phil_Abraham.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby Tim_Fywell.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby "Jennifer Getzinger".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby "Michael Apted".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) directedby "Michael Dinner".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodeList List_of_Masters_of_Sex_episodes.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "10".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "11".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "12".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "2".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "3".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "4".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "5".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "6".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "7".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "8".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) episodenumber "9".
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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) firstAired "2013-09-29".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) lastAired "2013-12-15".
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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) network Showtime_(TV_network).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) nextSeason "Season 2".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) numEpisodes "12".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-10-06".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-10-13".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-10-20".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-10-27".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-11-03".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-11-10".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-11-17".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-11-24".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-12-01".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-12-08".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) originalairdate "2013-12-15".
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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) seasonName "Masters of Sex".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "4.73364E7".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "A young woman named Flora Banks tells Bill and Virginia that she got pregnant from her participation in the study, and wants to know the identity of the father, but Bill and Virginia disagree as to whether to maintain study confidentiality or divulge the father’s identity to Flora. Ethan learns he's been denied a future job at the hospital but wrongly assumes his breakup with Vivian is to blame. Barton informs him that it’s because he failed his performance review because some of his superiors had concerns about his professionalism and character, which Ethan interprets as Bill’s doing. This leads to a confrontation and a brief physical altercation between the two. Bill says Ethan has no idea what he’s gotten into, but Ethan says he’d do it again, even at the cost of his job. DePaul struggles to get sufficient funding for her Pap smear proposal, and tries heeding Virginia’s suggestion to use charm when speaking to University Chancellor Fitzhugh, though it does not go well. Margaret consults with a prostitute, who deduces that Barton is gay. She subsequently meets with Austin. Lester makes a romantic overture to Jane, who responds positively. Virginia finds out that the father of Flora’s child is Austin, and informs Austin of this, and gives Flora $2,000 from the study’s discretionary fund, both of which anger Bill. Before he can do anything about it, however, Virginia quits, and goes to work for DePaul as her secretary, telling her that they should try focusing on charming the Board of Trustees.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Bill and Virginia continue working at the brothel but Bill grows increasingly frustrated with the conditions. Betty recruits some men for the study but Bill is nonplussed to learn they are homosexual prostitutes. Betty blackmails Bill into reversing her tubal ligation but the procedure fails, leading Betty to commit to deceiving her fiancé. Haas takes the case of a woman carrying quadruplets but Scully reassigns it to Bill. Bill drops the homosexual men from his study on the grounds that they aren't "deviant" but "deviate", uses information gleaned from one of them, Dale, to blackmail Scully into allowing the study back into the hospital. Libby learns she is pregnant.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Bill and Virginia decide that the best way to record their study findings is to film them, but to do so they have to hire a camerman. Johnson redoubles her efforts to get a college degree, but when she learns that Dr. DePaul's Basic Anatomy class is a requirement, DePaul refuses to give her class credit for her work with Masters, though she later concedes that Johnson is one of her better students. Ethan and Austin, both unsure in their relationships, convince each other of the merits of being a married man. Margaret encounters Dale, Scully’s lover, at a bar, and after a brief conversation, in which he states that he is meeting someone there, she sees that the someone is Barton, who had told her that he had a board meeting that night, and who tries to cover by saying that Dale is a graduate student of his, though an emotional Margaret sees through this lie. Barton later tries to tell her that Dale is the pimp who supplies him with prostitutes, while also heartbreak at her infidelity. He subsequently attempts to renew his relationship with his wife, and vows never to cheat on her again, but this does not change the fact that Margaret now realizes that he has never been sexually attracted to her, and wants a divorce. Barton purloins drugs from the hospital and asks Dale to help him with aversion therapy to change his sexuality but Dale refuses. Ethan and Vivian become engaged. Libby faints during a dance lesson and learns she has become pregnant again.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Bill and Virginia decide to film external bodily reactions in the study, and hire a filmmaker named Lester to film Jane masturbating. Vivian' wants a Christian wedding, and after Ethan reveals he's Jewish, he agrees to convert to Christianity. Estabrooks expresses regret that she never spoke up to oppose the physical abuse Bill’ father inflicted upon him. She also reveals that he had a years-long affair with his secretary, and says she sees that there is something going on between Bill, making a comparison between father and son that provokes Bill’s anger. She tells him that he needs to resolve the problems in his marriage. Libby tells Bill that she’s pregnant, but his disbelief that Libby could have gotten pregnant, and her own views on the lack of humanity in his work makes it a less-than-happy revelation. Ethan tells Vivian that he will not convert to Christianity and breaks up with her. Jane sees the footage of her masturbation study, and is displeased with seeing her orgasm “from the outside”, and refuses to allow it to be used. Virginia agrees to be filmed masturbating, but only if Bill is the only other person in the room, working the camera himself. Bill, in response to his growing feelings for Virginia, attempts to distance himself by paying her for being a subject in the study. Virginia decides she needs to emotionally detach herself as well.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "In the aftermath of the miscarriage, Libby and Bill vacation in Miami, but Masters is drawn back into his work by a sexually adventurous couple next door, while bites off more than she can chew when she tries to open a dialogue with them. Virginia enlists Jane in an effort to debunk Freud's theory that a vaginal orgasm is more mature one than a clitoral one. Dr. DePaul complains to Masters about the respect given to Johnson, who is often mistaken as a doctor when Masters isn’t around, whereas DePaul is often mistaken for a member of the secretarial pool. She also accuses him of conferring legitimacy upon Johnson because of his sexual attraction to her. Langham finds an unlikely cure for his sexual dysfunction in Barton's wife, Margaret. Bill realizes that it is a disservice to call Virginia a "secretary", and says she will now be called his Research Assistant. He will also hire a secretary to help them both, which will allow Johnson to focus on the study. Virginia informs Bill that female participants in the study have shown or reported that they can orgasm without genital stimulation, and when Masters expresses skeptism at this, Johnson disrobes, attaches the electrodes to her body, and induces him to help her show this to him, initiating a sexual relationship between them.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Margaret confronts Barton about his homosexuality. He pursues electroshock treatment with the hope of curing it, but Margaret has second thoughts about the risks involved. DePaul takes a more Bill-like tact when speaking again to Chancellor Fitzhugh about funding, but he tells her that the funding Bill gets is due to the patients he brings into the hospital, which DePaul does not. When she says that patients are not referred to her, Fitzhugh says this is because most women don’t want to see a female gynecologist. Bill gives the presentation on his and Virginia's research to the hospital, but it does not get the response he had hoped. Jane, for her part, is shocked to see that the footage of her that she thought was destroyed is used in the presentation, while Chancellor Fitzhugh stops the presentation, calling the footage "smut". Ethan gets a job offer at UCLA, and proposes to Virginia. Libby later asks Bill who the second woman in the footage was, saying that the two doctors sitting beside Libby thought it was Virginia, but Bill evades her question. The other doctors also deduce that the first woman in the footage is Jane, though she denies this. They also start a petition that spurts Fitzhugh to fire Barton and Bill. Bill covers for Barton by portraying Barton as having been unaware of the study, and to complete this illusion, Barton fires Bill in front of Fitzhugh, Barton later regrets this. While Libby goes into precipitous labor and gives birth, Bill goes to see Virginia and tells her that the one thing he cannot live without is her.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Virginia has trouble telling Bill that she cannot accept his proposal, but Bill informs her that Scully has cancelled the study because he found out they were monitoring couples having sex. Bill believes it was Ethan who told Scully and fires Virginia on the spot for sleeping with him. Bill moves the study to a brothel with the help of Betty, but he and the participating prostitutes are arrested shortly after. Meanwhile, after being rejected by Virginia, Ethan tries to replicate their sexual liaison with other girls, but to no avail. Virginia coaxes some reluctant prostitutes to rejoin the study, and Bill temporarily takes her back to work with him, but refuses to commit beyond the day-to-day.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "Virginia tries to find a new secretary for Bill. Bill tries to balance the study and his affair with his home life. Austin continues his sexual relationship with Margaret Scully, while Barton Scully is stabbed by a trio of gay-bashing thugs while waiting in a car cruising for gay sex. Feeling he can't be seen at a hospital, he tries to treat himself, but Masters intervenes and stitches him up. He comes home to catch Margaret in her infidelity, but his indifference to it hurts Margaret, who believes him to be cheating on her with other women. Though Barton insists there are no other women, and that she is everything to him, a hurt Margaret concludes that he does not find her sexually attractive any more. Meanwhile, despite the fact that Bill has decided to give up trying for a baby, Libby asks Ethan to continue with the infertility treatment, in fear that without a child, Bill will grow bored of his life, and run away with another woman.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "When Bill and Virginia expand the study to include couples, they discover that the nature of sex is affected by the participants' attraction to one another. Austin is asked to participate in the study again, but is disappointed that his partner is not Jane, and cannot achieve an erection. This angers him, and he demands that the findings be thrown out and that he be paired with no one else, as Jane will only have sex with him as part of the study, due to the fact that Austin is married. Bill experiences anxiety about becoming a father. Ethan is worried about dating Barton Scully's daughter, Vivian, but she reassures him that they were meant to be together. Libby suffers a miscarriage, a loss that leads Barton to begin reconcile his relationship with Bill. Virginia deals with her son Henry's resentment and rebelliousness. Bill delivers his stillborn daughter, and later shares a moment with Johnson, during which he breaks down in tears.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) shortsummary "With the study back in the hospital, Bill and Virginia recruit new participants on campus. Virginia has a one-night tryst with her ex-husband, George, appears at the hospital, having signed up as a participant in the study. Bill begins sleepwalking, possibly due to anxiety. His mother comes to visit, and suggests that she move to an apartment close to them to spend more time with the baby, but this stirs up painful childhood memories of the physical abuse Masters suffered at the hands of his father, and his mother’s inaction in the fact of it. Libby's attempt at playing matchmaker with Virginia and Ethan doesn't go smoothly. Ethan ends up forming a relationship with Provost Scully’s daughter, Vivian. Masters snaps at Virginia's son at a dinner party, which disturbs Libby, who witnesses this.".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title Manhigh_(Masters_of_Sex).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title Race_to_Space_(Masters_of_Sex).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title Standard_Deviation_(Masters_of_Sex).
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "All Together Now".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Brave New World".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Catherine".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Fallout".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Involuntary".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Love and Marriage".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Phallic Victories".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) title "Thank You for Coming".
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- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby Amy_Lippman.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby Noelle_Valdivia.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby Tyler_Bensinger.
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Amy Lippman".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Lyn Greene & Richard Levine".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Michelle Ashford".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Sam Shaw & Michelle Ashford".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Sam Shaw".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Story by: Tyler Bensinger".
- Masters_of_Sex_(season_1) writtenby "Teleplay by: Michael Cunningham".
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