In 2002, there were 25 This American Life episodes.
- Act 1: Love Story â Ira Glass
- Act 2: War Story â John Brasfield
- Act 3: Special Effects Story â Kevin Murphy
- Act 4: Buddy Picture â Jonathan Goldstein
- Show description: Devoted entirely to Alix Spiegel's feature on the removal of homosexuality as a form of mental illness from the DSM-II during the 1973 meeting of the APA. Spiegel won the 2002 Livingston Award for National Reporting for this episode.
- Act 1: Untitled â Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Untitled â Alix Spiegel
- Act 1: It's Another Tequila Sunrise â John Hodgman
- Act 2: Why Talk? â Starlee Kine
- Act 3: Kidnapping as Plan B â Ira Glass
- Act 4: A Fate Most of Us Fear â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 5: The Accursed Items â J. Robert Lennon
- Act 1: Untitled â Wendy Dorr, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass
- Act 1: Get on the Mic â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Black Hole Son
- Act 3: Walkout â Veronica Chater
- Act 1: Hang In There Kitty Cat, It's Almost Friday â Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Sheetcakes in the Conference Room, Whiskey After Dark â David Rakoff
- Act 3: When the Job That Takes You Off the Streets Is On The Streets â Julie Snyder
- A story about the culture and politics of street vendors and panhandlers in New York City
- Act 1: The chronicle of a family that unravelled â Debra Gwartney and Sandy Tolan
- Act 2: Untitled â Brent Runyon
- Act 1: Hawks and Rabbits â Shane DuBow
- Act 2: Snitch
- Act 1: How Britain Nearly Saved America â Jon Ronson
- Act 2: One Crucible Leads to Another â Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
- Act 3: Beating the Erasers â Susan Drury
- Act 1: Psychic Buddha, Qu'est-ce Que C'est â Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: The Jackson Two â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Mr. Fun â Jonathan Goldstein and Heather O'Neill
- Act 1: It's Fun to Make Hell on Earth â George Ratliff
- Act 2: Sixteen Candles Can Lead to a Lot of Fire â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Devil in Angel's Clothing, or Is It the Other Way Around? â Sarah Koenig
- Act 1: Occam's Razor â Cris Beam
- Act 2: The Trajectory and Force of Bodies in Orbit â Jon Ronson
- Act 3: Conservation of Energy and Matter â David Sedaris
- Act 1: An Epidemic Created by Doctors â Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Not Stella Adler, Just Stellllaaah â Jod Kaftan
- Act 1: Let Them Eat Cake, Wedding Cake â Ira Glass
- Act 2: God Shed his Grace on Thee â Jack Hitt
- Act 3: Have Paint, Will Travel â Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Dorn
- Act 4: Handing People Their Dreams â Ali Davis
- Act 5: What Daddy Wants â Curtis Sittenfeld
- Act 1: Life Indoors â Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Here and There in the Land of Israel â Ira Glass
- Act 3: What's a Moderate? â Nancy Updike
- Act 1: Act Five, Scene 1 â Jack Hitt
- Act 2: Act Five, Scene 2 â Jack Hitt
- Act 1: Cowboys and Indians, Part 1 â Susan Burton
- Act 2: Cowboys and Indians, Part 2 â Susan Burton
- Act 1: Life at Zero â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Infinite Gent
- Act 3: Contest-osterone
- Act 4: Learning to Shut Up â Miriam Toews
- Act 1: Pole Vault â Ira Glass
- Act 2: This Blessed House â Jhumpa Lahiri
- Act 3: The Lie that Binds â David Sedaris
- Act 1: No Receipt, No Surrender â "Jen"
- Act 2: The Stereo Type â Shane DuBow
- Act 3: Suckers in the Promised Land â Adam Davidson
- Act 4: Mother Sucker â Heather O'Neill
- Centered on classified ads appearing on the same day in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader
- Act 1: Lost and Found Ads â Todd Bachmann
- Act 2: Help Wanted â Joe Richman
- Act 3: Musicians Classifieds â Starlee Kine
- Act 4: Personal Ads â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 5: For Sale â Jay Allison
- Act 1: Show Me the Monet â Alex Blumberg and Davy Rothbart
- Act 2: Stuck inside of Memphis
- Act 3: What it Takes to Tromp Through the Desert â Wendy Dorr
- Act 1: The Big Night â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: The Kids Stay in the Picture â Ira Glass
- Act 3: A Half-Million Home Videos Can't be Wrong â Ira Glass
- Act 4: The Cinema of Upward Mobility â Susan Burton
- Act 5: Untitled â David Sedaris
- Act 1: Action! Action! Action! â Starlee Kine talks about Trent Harris' Beaver Trilogy
- Act 2: Marriage as Rerun, featuring John Hodgman and Robert Krulwich â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Reruns at the back of the Bus â Sarah Vowell
- Act 1: Senator's Proxy â Ira Glass
- Act 2: When Firas Comes Marching Home Again â Adam Davidson
- Act 3: Realism 101 â Ira Glass
- Act 4: Who Cares?
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