The BEST episodes directed by David Trainer
#1 - The Junies
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 12
Charlene becomes a part-time saleswoman for "Lady Jun" cleaning products, and when she repeatedly succumbs to psychological pressure from her friend Libby despite her stated intention to quit, Julia determines to rescue her from this "cult" -- and winds up taking on Lady Jun herself. Meanwhile, Anthony receives an unusual nomination from his junior college -- as homecoming queen -- and gets unexpected support from Suzanne.
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#2 - Stranded
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 10
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
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#3 - Dash Goff, the Writer
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 6
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
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#4 - Anthony, Jr.
Designing Women - Season 2 - Episode 3
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Birthin' Babies
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 18
Grace brings Rob home to meet her kids just as Nadine announces that the baby's on its way.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - My Dinner With Alan
Retired at 35 - Season 2 - Episode 5
Amy pushes her father to be more friendly toward Jared, but later regrets it when Alan convinces Jared to move his huge massage chair into his and Amy's apartment. Elsewhere, David is annoyed when Alan replaces him with Jared on the community's softball team, even giving David's old uniform to Jared.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - How Long Has This Been Going On?
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 15
Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
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#8 - The Rowdy Girls
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 6
While she is helping the Sugarbakers women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvertently reveals that she is a victim of domestic violence.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Waiting for Peugeot
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 17
Jimmy goes against Grace's wishes when he buys Quentin a car. Grace runs into an old boyfriend who wants to renew their relationship.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - A River Runs Through Him
Grace Under Fire - Season 5 - Episode 5
Jean is upset, complaining that the new bridge will cut off Emmet's (grave) view of the river, so Grace suggests that she move the grave site. Jimmy and Quentin attempt to do that and Russell takes Dot to the gambling boat, but won't gamble.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Finders Keepers
Grace Under Fire - Season 5 - Episode 6
During a tornado, a sack of money ends up at Grace's house. When she returns it to the owner, $20k is missing, and everyone accuses Grace of stealing it.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Jimmy Moves in
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 20
Jimmy offers to move into the garage apartment.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - The Emperor's New Nose
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 16
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Pearls of Wisdom
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 13
Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
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#15 - Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 23
A former beauty queen and current television weather forecaster announces her "coming out," causing a confused Suzanne to think she means she's the world's oldest debutante -- and to accept Eugenia's invitation to join her at a television industry dinner.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Grace of Wrath
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 14
Grace rents her garage apartment to a classmate who also moonlights as a stripper to pay for her classes.
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#17 - There She Is
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 3
While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, the Sugarbakers women are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants for Miss Georgia. Due to a clerical error discovered in the 1975 balloting, Suzanne must relinquish the crown she won 15 years earlier.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Fore!
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 23
Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Sam's Dad
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 22
Sam's dad has a crush on Grace.
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#20 - E.P. Phone Home
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 3
While touring Graceland on VIP tickets, Julia is touched when a truck driver tells how the King influenced his life.
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Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 19
Jean gets invited to Las Vegas to view a timeshare and Grace joins her. While there, Grace spends time with an older man and Jean gets jealous.
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#22 - Foreign Affairs
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 24
When her maid Consuela is threatened with deportation, Suzanne puts Anthony in a dress and pays him to impersonate the terrified woman. But he performs too well, awakening romantic interest in the Immigration and Naturalization Service examiner.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Grace's New Job
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 25
Grace gets a new job at an advertising company and shockingly, her misery brings something new and improved.
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#24 - Full Moon
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 15
A full moon coincides with strange occurrences, including Mary Jo's sudden conviction that Claudia and her boyfriend are up to no good.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - The Victory Tree
Grace Under Fire - Season 5 - Episode 8
Libby and her class protest the bridge construction to save the town's historic tree causing the project to be halted until a town meeting vote. Russell puts an ice cream parlor in the pharmacy.
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#26 - Manhunt
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 10
Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.
Watch Now:Amazon#27 - Blame it on New Orleans
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 19
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
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#28 - The Fugitive
Boy Meets World - Season 1 - Episode 17
Shawn is forced to stay in Cory's room, in secrecy, because of a cherry bomb prank gone wrong in Alan's grocery store mailbox, which keeps him from going home. Cory keeps it a secret the best he can, but Amy and Alan know something is up because Mr. Feeny saw Shawn climb up to Cory's window. They play along until Shawn leaves and Cory comes clean with them. Shawn finally comes clean and goes back home. Shawn and Cory both learn valuable lessons. Shawn learns that he is not forced to be a bad kid and can be on Cory's "side of the line."
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Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 14
Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
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#30 - Getting Married and Eating Dirt
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 4
Bernice asks the ladies to be her wedding attendants when she receives a marriage proposal from a TV pitchman -- who habitually proposes to every woman he meets.
Watch Now:Amazon#31 - Grace Under-Funded
Grace Under Fire - Season 5 - Episode 9
The government doesn't send a payment to the construction company causing paychecks to be held and Grace with no money. Wade stakes out the pharmacy to catch a burglar.
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#32 - Have Faith
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 25
When Mary Jo attends church with Julia and Suzanne, she ends up dating Gene Chapman, the minister, but feeling guilty about her sexual interest in him.
Watch Now:Amazon#33 - Keep the Home Fires Burning
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 10
With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
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#34 - Love Is Blind
Hot in Cleveland - Season 3 - Episode 9
Victoria's daughter, Emmy, arrives for a visit with the news that she and Melanie's son, Will, are engaged. Meanwhile, Joy's blind boyfriend thinks she's 26; and Elka has a ball prank calling the New York Yankee's third baseman.
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#35 - Odd Milo Out
Men at Work - Season 3 - Episode 10
Tyler and Jude try to keep their new relationship a secret. Milo, already feeling left out since quitting Full Steam, has his traditional movie night taken away from him. Gibbs is hurt when Neal finds a new apartment. PJ tells a paranoid Myron to expect big changes in the office.
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#36 - Bernice's Sanity Hearing
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 7
The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece Phyllis attempts to have her declared legally incompetent because she sings Bobbie Gentry songs to strangers on the street and introduces Anthony as her illegitimate son.
Watch Now:Amazon#37 - And Now, Here's Bernice
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 12
After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
Watch Now:Amazon#38 - Nowhere to Run To
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 8
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
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#39 - Spousal Support
Happily Divorced - Season 1 - Episode 5
A wealthy client monopolizes Peter's time; Fran becomes a regular at a support group for the wrong reasons.
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#40 - Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 8
While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.
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#41 - Band on the Run
Boy Meets World - Season 2 - Episode 8
Cory and Shawn lie to impress girls, saying that they are in a band called The Exits, but they are exposed when Mr. Feeny books them to play at the school dance.
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#43 - The Wilderness Experience
Designing Women - Season 3 - Episode 8
The women embark on a wilderness survival course designed to build leadership -- but it's first-time camper Bernice who ultimately takes command.
Watch Now:Amazon#44 - I'll See You in Court
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 20
Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
Watch Now:Amazon#45 - Grace Graduates
Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 23
Grace graduates college and is asked to give the commencement speech.
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#46 - Career Day
Boy Meets World - Season 2 - Episode 22
When Shawn's mother runs away - with his and his father's trailer home, Shawn must stay at Cory's while his father hunts her down. This happens on career day, on which Cory is feeling embarrassed because he feels his Dad's job is too boring.
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#47 - One Night With You
Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 2
A terminally-ill high school classmate's last wish is to spend one night with the girl of his dreams -- Julia. The catch is, she doesn't remember him at all.
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#48 - Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets World - Season 1 - Episode 21
When Cory's class watches a film on puberty and how it can affect your emotions, Shawn gets his first date, and Cory's jealousy toward the subject.
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Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 4
Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
Watch Now:Amazon#50 - The Big Circle
Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 21
Julia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a client couple on an extended vacation.
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