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Red Shoe Diaries
1992 - 1998 5.8 (29 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
Showtime

Red Shoe Diaries

Trapped by a burning secret. Torn by a blazing desire.

Overview

Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.

Key Crew

Producer: Zalman King

Top Cast

David Duchovny
David Duchovny

Jake Winters

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1992)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Safe Sex
1992-06-27

When a beautiful, consummately professional woman accepts a ride in the rain from a handsome stranger, she steps into a world where nothing is forbidden... except their real identities. As their passion grows, she finds out that there is no such thing as “safe sex.”

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Double Dare
1992-07-18

A woman considers infidelity with a man in a nearby office building

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: You Have the Right to Remain Silent
1992-08-08

Lynn is a very disciplined policewoman who's obsessive about her work, her relationships and her body. She's noticed by every guy at the gym—except for Nick, a power lawyer and power athlete. Nick always gets what he wants when he wants it and always wins. Lynn has finally met her match until she decides to use her badge to her advantage. She pulls Nick over for a minor traffic violation, arrests him and takes him to an abandoned loft. Now that she has power over him, Lynn won't let Nick go until she gets what she wants.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Talk to Me Baby
1992-08-22

Ida is a beautiful and wild European. Bud, her boyfriend, loves Ida—but can't help himself when it comes to the ladies. When Ida finds him in the men's room with the winner of a wet T-shirt contest she is understandably livid. He'll do anything to win back Ida, even if it means killing them both in the process.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Just Like That
1993-04-17

Receptionist Trudie's straightforward life becomes complicated when two men fall for her on the same day. Unable to choose between bizarrely dress courier, Kyle, and businessman Phillip, she initially ignores the advances of both. Eventually she surprises herself by joining Kyle in a ""broken down"" elevator and later that same day finds herself in bed with the toe-sucking Phillip. Throughout the episode Trudie two-times the men, never knowing whether to go dancing with Kyle or dining with Phillip, and growing more attached to both. Things inevitably come to an awkward end when she runs into both men at the same time.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993-05-01

A woman obsessed with her lover's mistress is torn between sadness and desire. After watching the two rendez-vous, the wife dons men's clothing and follows her. Before you know it the husband is finding lipstick traces on her collar!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Accidents Happen
1993-05-15

Daria becomes the maid for a very in love couple but she has trouble understanding their language of love until she finds a novel way to fit into the happy household.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Auto Erotica
1993-05-29

After a late night at work, Claudia is ready to burn off some steam, and her new sports car is a perfect release. She gets more action than she bargained for when she has a near-miss accident with a foxy pedestrian. Suddenly he's behind the wheel and pursuing her through the predawn streets of L.A. and the empty highways of the Mojave desert, into the new day and a new sexual awakening.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Emily's Dance
1993-06-12

Emily is elated and terrified when she is chosen to be the lead dancer in a hot new video, the pressure builds when she meets the beautiful star of her video. She panics until he finds a way to bring Emily out of her shell and into the spotlight.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Bounty Hunter
1993-06-26

A statuesque female bounty hunter is given her toughest hands-on assignment yet. She must nab a seductive con-man who has made a career out of charming women out of their fortunes. He catches on to her game before she even rolls the dice, and works his magic on her until the two are entwined in an intense match of intelligence, psychological instinct, and pure lust.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Jake's Story
1993-07-10

Go deep into the mind of the man in search of the truth... A woman fascinated by Jake's Red Shoes personal ad makes it her mission to track him down. Once she meets him, she realizes he's too emotionally scarred to be seduced. However, Kate's direct, sensual nature breaks down his defenses. Once he opens himself up, he finds himself trapped in a situation that only serves to remind him of his painful past.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Weekend Pass
1993-07-24

A woman at an army base gets a weekend pass on Christmas Eve. Feeling alone during a most festive time of year, she gathers a couple of girlfriends to hit the town for a night of wild abandon at a local bar. Wild indeed! After a bar-room brawl, she comes into contact with a drifter named Eddie and the two end up having a Christmas they'll never forget.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Double or Nothing
1993-11-06

A formerly pampered woman is left high and dry by a skunk of an ex-boyfriend. Left to rely only on her own devices, she takes to hustling pool. She revels in her newfound independence and financial prosperity and then Tommy comes along. Threatened by the pool shark he is, it's only a matter of time before he has his eight ball in her side pocket and the duo are a smooth combo shot of passion.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: How I Met My Husband
1993-12-04

A shy dominatrix trainee meets a husband.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Midnight Bells
1993-12-18

A woman reflects on a New Year's affair.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (1994)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Night of Abandon
1994-04-23

A family crisis prompts a shy Isabelle to head for Rio de Janeiro. When there, she attends a wild pagan New Year festival during which all her wishes come true in a night of wild sensual abandon.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Naked in the Moonlight
1994-04-30

Once upon a time two lovers from opposite sides of the tracks were torn apart by the girl's disapproving father. Fifteen years later, she pulls her inheritance, dad's vintage Cadillac, into the auto shop and the hunky mechanic servicing her looks hauntingly familiar.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Hotline
1994-05-14

When Tess takes a job as a receptionist she discovers the company is actually a love hotline, unsure at first she quickly enjoys the fantasies and brings them home to her husband, bringing passion back into her dormant marriage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Runway
1994-05-21

A taxi ride leads to spiritual and sensual bliss for a fashion model upset with the limitations of her superficial career.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Kidnap
1994-06-04

An investment banker meets a cowboy during a robbery.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Burning Up
1994-07-14

A lonely lady cannot stop thinking about the Adonis-like fireman she saw rescue a woman from a burning house. She becomes completely consumed by the flames of a sultry obsession. Her searing desire leads her to set the stage of a dream seduction that is beyond too hot to handle -- it could be downright fatal for her!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Borders of Salt
1994-07-23

Claudia and Paul are strangers on a train, who, by a twist of fate end up sitting next to each other for supper. Verbal foreplay becomes the appetizer as the two engage in an intimate conversation that becomes the most truthful soul-searching exchange either one has ever encountered. Their words soon lead to touch, and an evening of utter ecstasy follows. Can this bliss be sustained?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Game
1994-08-06

Lilly talks about the Red Shoe Diaries board game - a contest of sexual fantasy and intrigue. Tell... Touch... Show... Wild Card. Lilly is caught in a whirlwind of passion and sensuality, more uninhibited... and more obsessed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Liar's Tale
1995-01-21

A journalist researches a report on prostitution.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 (1995)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: In the Blink of an Eye
1995-02-06

Kathryn's a horse trainer who's happily married to Kirk, a boxing trainer. When Rob, one of Kirk's virile boxers, enters Kathryn's stable her heart starts to trot. When Kirk discovers their tryst, he's set to deliver his own knockout blow.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Some Things Never Change
1995-02-13

After years apart, a man and a woman reunite. They try to come to terms with each other's needs and soon discover their passions haven't dampened.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses
1995-02-20

Calahan has a passion for dresses and Brandy absolutely hates them. But with a little, not so sweet, Texan persuasion, Brandy eventually relents. And she realizes that she loves the man who found the way to access her untamed heart.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Gina
1995-02-27

A married woman is attracted to a boxer.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Alphabet Girl
1995-03-06

Vanessa's a supermodel paying the price for both her beauty and fame. She's steeped in the dazzling and destructive world of the fashion industry, but one true friendship saves her. The problem is it's with the assistant to her photographer-boyfriend.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Psychiatrist
1995-03-13

Sofa, so good. Couch time becomes quality time for a doctor and a very good patient. But is it all pillow talk for this doctor?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Written Word
1995-03-27

A Sexy professor fantasizes about her favourite student

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Like Father, Like Son
1995-04-03

When Jamie first met Celeste, she was his father's lover. It was many years ago. He might have been a boy then, but he knew love and he felt it for her. When the two meet again, he is a grown man, and she is wiser still sexy after all these years. Against her better judgement, she falls for Jamie's advances, for he is impossible to resist. It is then she learns the truth to the saying "like father, like son," and what a blissful lesson it is...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Love at First Sight
1995-04-10

Harry and Cecelia, on the run in a stolen car, pick up a hitchhiking virgin bride who threatens suicide if she is not made love to immediately, but she's to inherit a fortune, if she's a virgin when she marries. Harry marries Precious.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Girl on a Bike
1995-04-17

A man falls instantly in love with a girl he sees walking down the street. When the rushed woman hops on her bike and speeds off, he can't let this vision ride out of his life. He hops on his moped and earnestly chases her throughout the streets of Paris...and straight into her heart.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Cake
1994-04-25

A woman tries to spice up her love life by turning herself into a cake for her husband's birthday

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Four on the Floor
1995-05-01

Four friends speeding through a rainfall get into a minor car accident. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, the couples run to a nearby abandoned house with no phone connection. Fortunately, the combination of each other's company, a fireplace, a lot of wine and a bed is an equation for a memorable sensual experience.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 (1996)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mercy
1996-02-03

A husband imprisoned by his inability to sexually please his wife allows her to have a tryst with an ex-con.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Art of Loneliness
1996-02-10

Bobby creeps back into the life of Elizabeth, a blind late night radio personality, and seduces her technician Francis. By sunrise Bobby is gone, Elizabeth is alone in her darkness while Francis has learned to embrace the light.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Divorce, Divorce
1996-02-17

Lily and Nick are in the middle of a nasty divorce when fate throws them together for one night. Just one night away from the everyday of their lives and this once happy couple learns to reinvent a love that they had written off as lost.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Hard Labor
1996-02-24

An advertising whiz thinks that she has it all until her boyfriend's ex-flame steps in to destroy her romance.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Luscious Lola
1996-03-02

Unable to show her true feelings for the man she loves, mild-mannered Mimi drifts into reveries in which she is the confident, sexual and brazen Lola.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Slow Train
1996-03-09

A woman relives a long ago love affair through the sexual escapades catalogued in her Grandmother's diary.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Tears
1993-03-23

A renowned choreographer is tormented by the loss of his first love. A young talented dancer tries to soft shoe her way into his life and win his heart, but finds she is trapped in a love triangle with the ghost of his former love.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Last Motel
1996-03-30

A struggling couple spends a weekend in a motel room searching for answers. What they find in this intimate setting may surprise you. One sailor. Four rooms. Five Women.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Jump
1996-04-14

An exhilarating (and romantic) sky-dive makes a young bride-to-be realize that there's a side of life she must experience before she takes the plunge.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Forbidden Zone
1996-04-21

A woman unlocks the door to the deepest recesses of her imagination to save her dwindling relationship. It is a world of heightened senses, unbridled imagination -- A place of lust and sensuality. It is...The Forbidden Zone.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Billy Bar
1996-06-01

Billy Bar and Daphna, the perfect couple or so it seems but a Mardi Gras weekend makes them see their marriage is falling apart, but then a saving miracle graces their lives and sheds a little light on the places they'd never dared travel.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Juarez
1996-06-08

A young woman visits Mexico and gets pinned by a masked wrestler...

Runtime: 30 min
Season 5 (1997)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Caged Bird
1997-03-01

Dakota is a smart, sexy tough woman who has been hurt too many times to let her guard down. In prison, she meets a guard, Charlie Parker. Dakota pulls out all her tricks trying to seduce him, to show him that he’s no different than every other man who has done her wrong. This time though, Dakota is wrong. Charlie is different.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Cowboy, Cowboy
1997-03-08

After the breakup of her marriage, Susan seeks the calm reprieve of the countryside where she was raised. While settling back into her old lifestyle, she gets roped into a romance with her high school sweetheart, a local wild boy who she has no interest in taming.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Picnic
1997-03-15

Caught in a dilemma between her jealous boyfriend and another man, a woman suggests another arrangement.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Ex
1997-03-22

After Daisy makes love to her new boyfriend Michael they find themselves hostages of her ex, who's been watching and recording and even planted a bomb, hoping to win Daisy back not realizing there's a thin line between love and crazy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Boxer
1997-03-29

Kate is a photographer who has given up on love until she falls for Max, a struggling boxer she allows to stay at her loft while they work together on a perfume ad. With Max's help, Kate learns to love again.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Swimming Naked
1997-04-05

A female lifeguard learns a thing or two about the breast stroke when a male Olympic swimmer starts to train at her pool.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Dime a Dance
1997-04-12

A trio of women work at the Stardust, the last of the dime-a-dance joints. All are grief-stricken over the loss of their father figure band leader, Arnie. Leave it to Michael, his suave Sinatra-esque replacement, to soothe their achy broken hearts and fill the void in each of their lives.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Temple of Flesh
1997-04-19

A woman promises her husband a strip tease for their one-year anniversary, but when they pick up two hippies who share their insights on life and a lot of champagne during the limousine ride to a club things get really wild.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Laundrymat

A lonely single mother's passions flare when she meets a handsome drifter late one night at the Laundromat. After a night together they go their separate ways as strangers but realizes that passion is what makes a soul survive.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Banished
1997-12-27

A condemned Angel is horrified to realize he is cursed with the treacherous power to kill with a kiss and must walk the earth alone and absent from love, forever.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: As She Wishes
1998-01-03

A suicidal sado-masochistic (yet beautiful) woman experiences a tender unconditional love with a hunky hermit who rescued her after she was washed ashore on a deserted island.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Weightless
1998-01-24

A beautiful astronaut trapped in a dying spacecraft a million miles away from home, makes tender love for the last time with her co-pilot as she ruminates about sensual path of her life that led her to the adventure of outer space.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Farmer's Daughter
1998-01-31

Out on a country road, a young cyclist is injured during a training ride and finds himself being nursed back to health by the amorous daughter of a vineyard owner.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Details
1998-02-07

A sheltered uptight businesswoman learns to relax when an Italian chef starts tooling around with her Alfa Romeo and cooks up a storm with her hormones.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Carried Away
1998-02-21

A woman flees to a country farm to rethink her crumbling relationship. When a storm knocks out all communication except carrier pigeon, soon she and her boyfriend communicate as never before rekindling the flame of their relationship.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Jealousy
1998-02-28

Two newlyweds have their honeymoon interrupted when the bride learns she has landed a dream role in a major feature film. When shešs whisked away to the set, her morose hubby becomes mired with jealous reveries envisioning her in one love scene after another with her sexy leading man.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Strip Poker
1998-04-11

A photographer spies a game of strip poker but it isn't until she joins in that she experiences the joy of being a player, a lost diary reminds a lonely woman of the ecstasy of true love and a fashion designer's designs inspires lust.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The Teacher
1998-04-18

A beautiful woman engages in an adulterous affair with a sexy stranger at her exclusive tennis club. What she doesn't realize in the midst of her amorous interludes is that her husband has arranged for this seduction in order to reap the rewards of her heightened passions.

Runtime: 30 min

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