Best Friends Forever (season 1)

Best Friends Forever (season 1)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	29
Broadcast
Original channel	Disney Channel, ABC Kids
Original run	October 13, 2006 – August 24, 2007
Home video release
DVD release date	Best Friends Forever DVDs
Season chronology
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List of Best Friends Forever episodes

The first season Best Friends Forever, aired on Disney Channel on October 13, 2006 to August 31, 2007, with 29 episodes. It introduces six ordinary students developing a true friendship with each other. The complete season were released on DVD May 19, 2009.

Development

Best Friends Forever premiered Friday June 29, 2006 at 7 pm. The show is 23 minutes long, with 29 episodes just includes without commercials, with 30 minutes, it was included with commercial breaks. All of the episodes were in color.

Opening sequence

Best Friends Forever's opening theme song is "Friends Forever" written by Ami & Yumi. The opening title has only started showing the show's logo, and it's 11 second theme song. The actual theme song is nearly 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.

Closing sequence

Best Friends Forever's closing credits appears when it starts up at some of the scenes of the show. And some does have plot or not.

Casting

Main articles: List of Best Friends Forever characters and Best Friends Forever#Characters

The six principal stars of the show - Josh Hutcherson, Keke Palmer, Dylan Patton, Dakota Fanning, Alyson Stoner and Jason Dolley - has portrayed their roles as Nick (Hutcherson), Sasha (Palmer), Zack (Patton), Cassie (Fanning), Amy (Stoner) and Chris (Dolley).

Supporting characters; Shanicia Knowles (Rebecca Adams), Paige Hurd (Crystal Jones), Calum Worthy (Fred Walker) and Taylor Horn (Maria Anderson) - appeared into most of the episodes and nearly can make it almost all of the episodes.

Guess stars of the show - Taylor Lautner as newcomer Ben Brown, but does not appear until the season finale.

Episodes

By the time the show has been aired, the plot rates the highest-rated series of the most watched episode of the children's premiere, and basically of NBC and Lifetime for "Pilot", the first episode of the show, with 8.5 million viewers, and expecting a 12-Week of New Episode Release, kept on getting higher rating of the show.

• Josh Hutcherson, Keke Palmer, Dylan Patton, Dakota Fanning and Jason Dolley appear in all episodes.
• Alyson Stoner is absent in five episodes.

Best Friends Forever Season 1 episodes

Season #	Series #	Title	Original airdate	Directed by	Written by	Prod. Code	Rating (million)
1	1	"Pilot"	October 13, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	101	8.5
Nick and Amy began flirting with each other as they begin middle school together, where the two began dating. Sasha became jealous of Amy being flirted by boys, so the two became enemies. Later, Sasha gets upset that Amy steals Nick away from him that she is secretly in love with him, but the two only become good friends back in elementary. However Amy overhears it and decides to tell Nick. Amy cancels her date with Nick, and told Sasha that she belongs to Nick. At the end, Nick and Sasha are not ready to date each other.
2	2	"Team Maria"	October 20, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	102	5.5
Maria lies to Cassie onto becoming friends with her, till she gave her a braclet. After Amy finds out about it, she became upset of Cassie becoming friends with her, because of Maria, she was their enemy back in Elementary school. Guess Star: Taylor Horn as Maria Anderson
3	3	"Mr. Cheater McCheaterPants"	October 27, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	103	5.2
After being on punishment for failing class, Sasha sneaks out with Rebecca and Crystal to a live Usher concert until they saw her dad and hide. While they are hiding, they spot him with another woman, possibly meaning that he is cheating on her mom. Sasha became furious at him for hurting her mom. He revealed that the woman he met was his childhood friend, and Sasha accepts it. Guess Star:Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Carpenter
4	4	"Zack and the Chocolate Madness"	November 10, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	104	4.6
Nick, Sasha, Cassie and Amy forbids Zack to eat sweet, because of him need to exercise more, in order to him to get healthy, when he lies of him buffing up, and assitance to a help of training. Guess Star: Brad Johnson as Trainer Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
5	5	"The Best and Worst in Both World"	November 17, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	105	5.1
Cassie became upset because she is moving far away because of her mother's new job. And Zack is heart broken, because he revealed to Nick that he has a secret crush on her. In the end, Cassie's mom did not get the job, but instead she already had a job at him, meaning that she is staying with her friends. Zack told Cassie that he is in love with her, but sees Tristan and gets romantically involve with him. Guess stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
6	6	"Back to Action"	December 8, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	106	6.2
Zack and Cassie were still fighting each other, because of their relationship were not going too well. They must get a way to get them back together, set them out to dinner, till Cassie will never forgive Zack until Nick spots Tristan cheating on her again, kissing a girl in the cafeteria. Guess stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
7	7	"Team Tristan"	December 15, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	107	4.6
As Cassie is celebrating her birthday, she had a birthday party at her house. She invites her friends, except for Zack. There, Nick told a secret about Tristan cheating on Cassie to Sasha, Amy and Chris, so they told Cassie. However, she doesn't believe them and kicked them out of her party. Guess stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
8	8	"Team Zack"	December 29, 2006	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	108	3.9
Cassie has not been spoken to her friends for thinking that they are trying to hurt her feelings for trying to let her relationship with Tristan to fall apart. However, Nick decides to spend some quality time with Cassie, until they spotted Tristan kissing another girl. Desperated Cassie apologies for not believing Nick, Chris, Amy and Sasha, and she admits that she missed hanging around with Zack. The two share a kiss, and the two started dating where Amy secretly spotted them surprising her. Guess Star: Taylor Horn as Maria Anderson
9	9	"You're The Zack"	January 5, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	109	3.3
Nick broke his ankle while playing basketball. So Zack replaces him on the team. However, Nick thinks that Zack has never played basketball until he found out that he actually good at it. But Nick gets attractive by girls because of his basketball skills. Nick gets furious and jealous that Zack is taking over his job. Meanwhile, Amy is keeping a secret to herself about Cassie dating Zack. Guess Star: Shaquille O'Neal as Himself Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
10	10	"That's What Friends For"	January 12, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	110	3.3
Zack and Cassie are building up a romantic interest with each other, but Amy still knows so she decides to spend time with each other. Meanwhile, the two ended up in an argument over their favorite movie and they broke up, leaving Amy in seperated ways. To get them back together, Amy plays a video tape that causes Cassie and Zack to forgive each other and resume dating. Meanwhile, Sasha fears on having acneing to make Nick impressive with smooth appearance. Guess Star: Shanica Knowles, Paige Hurd
11	11	"We Were Making Our Move"	January 19, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	111	3.2
Maria befriends with Sasha, and has invited her along with Becky and Crystal to her house party, instead of Amy and Cassie, because of their rude behavior of the way they dressed. Meanwhile, Nick, Zack and Chris are joining the skating club, which indeed became a disaster. Guess Star: Taylor Horn as Maria Anderson, Justin Bieber as Johnny Bark, Malcolm David Kelley as Mark Cornwell
12	12	"Hubba Hubba Alert"	January 26, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	112	3.7
Nick, Zack and Chris has a crush on a single hot girl Jessica, but Sasha, Cassie and Amy got heated with jealousy. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Crystal battle each other for a 24 hour record of jump roping, which each will lose, one of them will win, but the both were almost 24 hours made. Guess Star: Nathalia Ramos as Jessica Co-Stars: Justin Bieber as Johnny Bark, Malcolm David Kelley as Mark Cornwell, Ali Lohan as Amanda Hudson, Emma Lockhart as Brenda Thompson
13	13	"White History Month"	February 16, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	113	3.2
Sasha gets invited by Tiana into a dance party in celebration of Black History Month, as well as her Rebecca and Crystal. Sasha also tries to invited Nick, Zack, Cassie, Amy and Chris to the party but they did not get invited. Sasha overhears that Tiana is racist and only allows black people to the party. Sasha refused to enter the party because it was no fun without Nick, who still has a crush on him, so they let Zack, Amy and Cassie get to the bottom of this. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan Guess star: Somaya Reece as Tiana
14	14	"Team Chris"	February 23, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	114	4.2
Amy and Chris appears to be developing a romantic relationship with each other, but the both denied being togeter. However, Nick, Sasha, Zack and Cassie believe that the two should be together. The two got tired of their friends acusing them that they are dating, so they decided to pretend to get out on a date. In the meatime, the two are actually forming a romantic interest until Chris finds himself with another girl. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
15	15	"Team Amy"	March 16, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	115	5.5
Amy is upset that Chris already find himself a girlfriend, and does not want to speak to him again, and her friends does not know it. Meanwhile, they did found out that he is with another girl, and they have already found out the reason why Amy does not want to be with him. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
16	16	"To Cheat Or Not To Cheat"	March 23, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	116	3.3
Zack gets the copy sheets from a student, so that he can used them to cheat on his spanish test. Amy and Cassie discovers and refused to cheat other wise he will get kicked out of school for it, but he devours his friendship with them. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
17	17	"Where It Begins"	March 30, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	117	3.2
Despite that the two do not have interest with each other since the first day of middle school, Amy and Nick's romantic relationship is beginning to rebuild all over again, at this time they began dating. Meanwhile, Chris realizes that he is now romatically involve with Amy, and Sasha is romantically involve with Nick, but the two denied it. Afterwards, Nick and Amy realizes that the two may possibly belong together. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
18	18	"When This Happen"	April 13, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	118	3.3
Nick and Amy are both still having trouble of trying to sta as friends besides dating, so they just are going to accept that the two are madly in love with each other. Meanwhile, Cassie and Zack are trying to make up their own show after watching one of the TV shows on television. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
19	19	"Nick vs. Amy"	April 27, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	119	4.2
As Nick and Amy are dating, Amy decides that it's time that she should just become friends with Nick, but he denies that there just going to be dating and will never seperate from each other. She reunited with Chris and the two began dating. At the end, Nick heard about talking about Amy being back together. Later, Nick and Amy got into an argument ending their friendship. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
20	20	"Friends Don't Fight"	May 11, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	120	4.6
Nick and Amy have not been spoken to each other for days, until they are being told to spend quality time with each other with their friends. After trapping them in a jail cell, Nick and Amy forgive each other and decided to become friends. Amy resumes dating Chris. As for Nick, he gets romantically involved to Sasha, and share their first kiss. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
21	21	"Where They Went?"	May 25, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	121	2.7
Nick start making up their most amazing science project that they both worked together making a shrink machine, when the teacher gave him an A on his project. When Nick let Zack to play with the shrink machine, someone has stat pushed them to the laser and shrunked them and broke it. They have to unshrunk themselves. Meanwhile, Cassie, Chris, Amy and Sasha will have to fix the machine to unshrink them. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
22	22	"The Bully"	June 8, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	122	3.6
Brat has entered as a powerful strong fighter, which beaten up other little kids, and the biggest kid. Meanwhile, Nick and Zack must beat over him to let him out of school for life. Meanwhile, Nick and Zack were trained by Cassie's aunt to become tough, which they are having a tough time. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
23	23	"Amy's Away"	June 15, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	123	4.4
As she prepares to go out of town, Amy gets typed on the newpaper. But it appears that they newspaper has mistyped Amy's apperance. Football player Dustin, also Amy and Brooke's childhood crush invited Amy to his party after looking at the newspaper. Thinking that he only invited her into the party because of her look from the newspaper, Becky gives Amy fake booty implants to look like the way she looked from the picture. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
24	24	"Possible Way"	June 29, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	124	3.2
Meanwhile, the gang prepares of Amy's leaving while Jeffery and Kevin has an argument over basketball having hard time. Within Amy went, Brooke starts when missing her too much, day dreaming about her, even her friends missing her. While dreaming, still thinking about Amy. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan Absent: Alyson Stoner
25	25	"Cassie's Adventure with her Family"	July 13, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	125	4.2
Cassie when spending her relationship with her family, Zack also spending the day with her. But, she only want to spent the time with her friends. Meanwhile, also starts to take medicine. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan Absent: Alyson Stoner
26	26	"Me with My Best Friend, The Dream!"	July 27, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	126	4.4
Nick, Sasha and Cassie discovers that Zack is having trouble falling asleep because of nightmares. As he falls asleep in class, he suffers sleeping disorder, which causes problems. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan Absent: Alyson Stoner
27	27	"Marriage on Vacation"	August 10, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	127	2.2
Cassie's aunt is prepare to start having a marriage onto Kentucky. She invited her friends to join be invited. Absent: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey and Alyson Stoner Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan Notes: The episode was the lowest rated episode for season 1, but for the franchise to date.
28	28	"The School Escape: Part 1"	August 17, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	128	10.4
After Amy returns from vacation, Chris has completely forgotten about their 5 month anniversary and she dumped him for not knowing her. While vacation to The School Escape, she fell in love with a boy named Ben. Meanwhile, Cassie and Zack are attempting to expell bully Brat after treating them with disrespect for years. Sasha's grandmother is visiting her, and Nick is losing his baskteball mojo. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan
29	29	"The School Escape: Part 2"	August 24, 2007	Duke Johnson	Chris Turner Alex Wilkerson	129	10.5
Amy and Ben are happily in love, and Chris is wanting to win her back, but appears to be too late. Still a chance, Chris decides to do something very romantic for her while trying to win her back, which she accepts it and dumps Ben, who became jealous and still madly in love with Amy. Meanwhile, Cassie and Zack are being blaimed by bully Brat that they cause a wreck in The School Escape. And Sasha helps Nick to get his basketball mojo back. Co-stars: Shanica Knowles, Sahara Garey, Taylor Horn, Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart, Ali Lohan

See also

• List of Best Friends Forever episodes

Notes

1. ^ Duke Johnson, Chris Turner and Alex Wilkerson personal life attendances
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3. ^ Duke Johnson, Chris Turner and Alex Wilkerson personal life attendances
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