The BEST episodes directed by Alan Rafkin
#1 - Honeymoon II
One Day at a Time - Season 8 - Episode 26
Ann and Sam have a disastrous ski honeymoon.
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#2 - Back to School
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 1
Ann tries college and ends up in a course with Barbara.
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 7
Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 6
Barbara's busy dating schedule backfires.
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#5 - The Married Man (Part 1)
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 14
In the first of a three-part story, Ann and a sportswriter begin a promising romance.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 2 - Episode 9
Ronnie suspects that Alec wants to quit Veronica's Closet to work elsewhere. Olive looks for ways to end her May-December relationship so she can start dating her boyfriend's father. Leo is turned off by his girlfriend's name, Peri.
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#7 - Farewell, My Suite
One Day at a Time - Season 6 - Episode 5
Ann and Barbara return from a weekend trip to find they've been robbed with Schneider's assistance.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 2 - Episode 11
Veronica's book about surviving through divorce, ""When Love Goes,"" is published to favorable reviews. Josh's parents, who are in town for his birthday, read it and agree - they tell Josh it inspired them to get divorced. Josh hates Veronica after hearing this news and guilts her into convincing his folks that her book was a sham, she's a fraud, and they should stay together. When Ronnie meets with the constantly sparring couple and sees how much they hate each other, she goes against Josh's wishes and reaffirms that they were right to call it quits. While Perry and Leo hunt for affordable apartments, Olive tells them that her friend is giving up a great one for a budget price and they can move right in. The catch is that it's an illegal sublet so the landlord can't find out. Perry and Leo love the apartment - until they meet a quartet of mean-spirited old neighbors who blackmail the two into doing gross favors for them or else be reported to the landlord. Unable to stand rubbing senior
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 2
Alex, Barbara and Schneider await Ann's flight by flirting at the airport.
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#10 - Mad for Each Other
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 22
Julie falls for an egotistical filmmaker whose temperament exactly matches her own.
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#11 - Teacher's Pet
One Day at a Time - Season 6 - Episode 1
Barbara seeks justice when a professor makes unwelcome advances.
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#12 - Schneider Gets Fired
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 26
Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.
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#13 - The Dating Game
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 7
Ann pursues a man with advice from her daughters.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 7
Olive's college roommate, Karen, is the C.E.O. of a toy company that wants to create a posable Veronica Chase doll as part of a collection of real-life, contemporary female role models. Ronnie longs to be depicted as a Barbie, and doesn't see eye-to-eye with Karen's and Olive's role model vision when the Veronica Chase prototype doll rolls off the assembly line with hips bigger than Cleveland. Leo warns Perry about ""dating a family"" in regards to Suzanne, though Perry insists he's ready to be a father. Pat and Ronnie have it out when Ronnie gets jealous after he starts dragging Louisa along with him on Ronnie's rides. Olive convinces Ronnie not to back out of her agreement by convincing her that little girls are going to love her doll, and will learn to be strong and independent from it. But that couldn't be further from the truth when a focus group of children hates playing with the miniature Ronnie. As evidenced by the fact that she's having a bastard baby in the first place, Suzanne
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#15 - Mel's in Love
Alice - Season 1 - Episode 15
Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.
#16 - The Pain of No Return
Alice - Season 1 - Episode 19
Alice might be in trouble with Uncle Sam when she learns that her recently deceased husband never paid his back taxes.
#17 - Retrospective (1)
Coach - Season 6 - Episode 26
This is an unusual greatest moments episode. The format is an interview with Hayden about his life and work at Minnesota State. In the first of this two part series Mary Hart interviews Hayden about the beginnings of his relationship with Christine. Another unusual part of this episode is its absence of a laugh track, leaving the jokes to push themselves.
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#18 - Snowed In
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 17
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke went to the movies and, on their way out to the car, they realize that in the meantime an incredible blizzard hit the city, leaving them unable to return to their home. There, Charles, the kids plus a bubbling group of Lila's girlfriends are trapped with no food in the refrigerator and no heating. Gwendolyn and Buddy come to Charles' rescue to entertain these starving kids and teenagers with a game of monopoly and some scenes of "Romeo and Juliet" which need to be rehearse for school anyway. But the pleas for spaghetti and other nutritious foods become more and more insistent and nobody knows for certain when their ordeal will end.
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#19 - Meet Grandpa
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 22
As usual, the Pembroke house is buzzing with activity. Charles and Buddy are trying very hard to find themselves summer jobs and are ecstatic when their summer job applications are accepted by a hotel at a summer resort in Pennsylvania. Jason, in the meantime, is brought home by his parents after undergoing knee surgery. At the hospital all he did was watch soap operas, which now affects his life in a very dramatic way. Douglas is trying to change his image of "skinny kid" by putting on some weight and is eating everything in sight. And, in the middle of all this coming and leaving, Jill's father "drops in" from Alaska, announcing to everyone that he is thinking of retirement, and for some reason he is having a very difficult time recognizing all the children in the Pembroke household.
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Love, American Style - Season 1 - Episode 30
A man tries to expose a female athlete.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 3 - Episode 6
June arranges a 10K charity walkathon for needy children to be sponsored by Veronica's Closet. The prospect of the media being there makes Veronica suddenly want to ""help the children"" by taking part in it, though her plan backfires when she's caught on national television taking a taxi to the finish line. Veronica blames this on her shoes, but June doesn't buy it and thinks Veronica was just too old to walk. To show her, Veronica accepts June's dare to double the stakes - by walking 20K. As a joke, Perry and Leo write a sheet filled with $10,000 of faked celebrity pledges, which poses a problem when Olive discovers it and takes it for real. Josh lets Chloe stay at his place after a pipe bursts in her apartment and has second thoughts when he finds out Chloe likes to help herself to his wardrobe.
#22 - Pressure
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 2
Barbara ponders going all the way with her boyfriend.
#23 - The Man on the Couch
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 6
To get some rarefied air, Martin goes atop a water tower. Passersby, including the police, think he's a jumper and he's promptly sent to the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Martin thinks he can quickly exit the hospital by reading the psychiatrist's mind and tell him what he wants to hear. However the psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey Bonnett, has other things on his mind, like his troubled marriage. Ultimately, Dr. Bonnett becomes the patient and Martin the doctor.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 3 - Episode 12
Veronica's muscular romantic interest, Mark, seems to be perfect in every way. This makes Josh wonder what's really wrong with this one since something's wrong with every man Veronica has ever dated. Nothing ... except the fact that he was previously involved with Olive. Once Ronnie finds that little tidbit out, she wants to wash her hands of the guy (whom she now considers tainted) but Olive convinces her there's nothing left between them and Ronnie shouldn't feel uncomfortable sharing something she previously did the lowdown and dirty with. Veronica takes Olive's advice to heart and tries to make out with Mark but something kills the mood -- a gigantic tattoo of Olive's face on his chest. Perry and Leo become the targets of a pair of practical jokes from payroll and need Josh to help them out in the comeback department. Josh needs some help of his own after June buys a pony to cheer herself up and uses Veronica's Closet as a temporary stable. As it turns out, Josh has a phobia of the
#25 - Veronica's Wedding Bell Blues
Veronica's Closet - Season 2 - Episode 13
The photographer's story (episode 27) turns out to be for real when Bryce announces he's getting remarried and invites Ronnie to his wedding. She decides to go just to start trouble. Bryce has a little trouble of his own in mind - he comes on to Ronnie. Seeing Bryce is up to his old tricks again, Ronnie pays a visit to his soon-to-be wife at her hotel room to inform the woman that the man she's planning to marry is a no-good womanizer. The bride is horrified and calls things off. Later, Ronnie discovers she went to the wrong hotel room, wrecked some other couple's wedding, and didn't stop Bryce from marrying his fiancée. Leo's pet snake eats a kitten Olive planned to give to her nephew.
#26 - Veronica's Best Buddy
Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 6
Ronnie and Bryce have a custody battle over Buddy. Bryce's secretary, Pepper, cures Buddy's handicap. Ronnie thinks Pat is senile.
#30 - A Date with Enid
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 9
Charles has his hands full. It is pouring rain outside and everyone in the Pembroke household is confined to the house. Stan gave everyone assignments, and he is trying very hard to catch up on all those things that get postponed. There is the fireplace that needs cleaning, the bathroom that has to be re caulked. However, all these projects get interrupted when Douglas thinks he has found the love of his life in Enid, Lila's friend. The two young girls are very busy with Enid's beauty treatment. Enid d thinks she needs a great deal of improvements. But these beauty treatments can become sticky, and Charles must lend a helping hand, It is time for Stan to have a man to men talk with his son about the woes of first love and when Enid triumphantly comes down the stairs, Douglas realizes that the "new" Enid is not the girl he has a crush on. In the end, Jason's wish comes true, the entire family goes to Pizza Play land to conclude an activity filled day.
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#32 - Man or Amoeba
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 5
Renowned scientist Professor Newton Jennings posits that life no more advanced than amoebas or jellyfish can exist on Mars. Martin helps Angela write a report refuting Jennings claims, which quickly gets her a failing grade. When Martin's attempts to reason with Angela's teacher, Miss Weaver, fails, Martin figures the only way to regain the upper hand and Angela's trust is to speak to Jennings and expose him as a fraud. However Jennings is brilliant but has one minor flaw in his calculation. So Martin, with Tim's help, plants a seed in Jennings brain to correct the calculation, which Martin hopes Jennings will pick up. The brilliant professor does and restates his theory, which in turn leads to vindication for both Angela and Martin.
#33 - Pink Pills and Purple Parents
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 10
In a flashback to when they were first married, Laura is nervous about meeting Rob's parents. Millie gives her some pills that could help her relax, but Laura doesn't really want to try them.
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#34 - The Man with the Golden Wrist
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 1 - Episode 17
Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.
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#36 - Don't Go to Bed Mad
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 1 - Episode 8
Bob wants to watch football every Monday night. Emily feels this is unfair: their other activities allow the couple only two nights each week to be together, and she thinks they should do something that they both enjoy. This leads to an unresolved, all-night argument that ends only when the two participants become exhausted.
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Coach - Season 6 - Episode 19
The Screaming Eagles try to recruit the nations top QB. The players father roomed with Haden in college. After a one on one conversation with the blue chips QB, the player admits he only plays ball to please his eager father whose own football dreams were crushed by an injury. Haden convinces to give the young perspective time to decide his own life direction.
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#38 - Gopher's Greatest Hits/The Vacation/One Rose a Day
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 6
Julie is in a bind when the scheduled singer takes ill just before the ship sails. Isaac and Doc overhear Gopher singing in the shower, and Julie tries to persuade him to fill in as the entertainment. Two married sisters continue their tradition of taking a yearly cruise together. However, one of them brings along her uptight husband, who cramps their style and expresses suspicions that his wife has been cheating on him during the previous excursions. A widow finds romance with her longtime florist.
#39 - Carol
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 10
A strange man visits and claims that he and Fred robbed a bank years ago.
#41 - My Husband Is Not a Drunk
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 2 - Episode 6
Rob falls under a hypnosis spell meant for Buddy - he keeps acting drunk every time a bell rings.
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#42 - I Want to Be Alone
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 1 - Episode 11
Bob decides that for his own mental well-being, he needs some peace and quiet. He moves into a hotel room by himself, leaving a confused Howard Borden thinking that Bob and Emily have split up.
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#43 - A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine and Peaches
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 7
Martin allows himself to experience an emotion foreign to Martians: love at first sight. He falls hard for Peaches Ancream (Kathie Brown), that being her real given name since her father had a sense of humor. It is also an appropriate name as she is an exotic dancer. Peaches and Martin hit it off, so much so that Martin wants to marry her after their first date. Peaches admires honesty more than anything else in life, the reason that she broke up with her last boyfriend, Police Officer Thorp, who is still harboring strong feelings for Peaches. Martin decides to tell Peaches the truth about himself, which Peaches doesn't believe. When Officer Thorp confesses about the reason for his lies - he told her 6 different places where he was from since in reality he is an orphan who doesn't know - Peaches goes back to the man she feels is being more truthful.
#44 - Is This Your First Time on the Riverboat, Miss Watkins?
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 4
Hayden reluctantly allows archrival Watkins to sit in on his poker night.
#45 - Retrospective (2)
Coach - Season 6 - Episode 27
In this second of the two-part interview with Mary Hart, the show explores Hayden's relationships with the other significant people in his life (i.e. Luther, Dauber, Howard, and his daughter). This two-part series is essentially a greatest moments episode from the first six seasons.
#47 - The Kick-Off and the Kiss-Off
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 1
Hayden's photograph appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated after his team is ranked in the top 20.
#48 - The Pineapple Bowl (2)
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 11
Hayden halts pre-game hoopla after a star player is injured in a bizarre limo accident.
#49 - The Playbook
Coach - Season 6 - Episode 10
The playbook falls into enemy hands on the eve of Hayden's biggest game.
#50 - Oldies but Goodies/The Grass Is Always Greener/Three Stages of Love
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 3
An older couple finds its attempts at romance complicated by the presence of her obnoxious, golddigging daughter and his overprotective manservant. Julie's roommate from cruise director training takes a cruise with her young son. Julie and Tina each envy the life the other has chosen for herself. When Tina offers some ideas for an upcoming party, Julie resents her friend for moving in on her territory. A young couple's romance begins to fall apart because the man is obsessed with analyzing the relationship and comparing even the most minor developments to the "stages" he went through with past girlfriends.