The BEST episodes directed by Alan Rafkin
#1 - Veronica's From Venus; Josh's Parents are From Mars
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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Coach - Season 3 - Episode 2
When Hayden has to miss a game because of a bad tooth, Luther must coach via phone instructions from him.
#3 - Coaches Conference
Coach - Season 2 - Episode 12
Hayden meets his idols at a conference, but his dreams of swimming with the big fishes drown in a sea of anonymity.
#5 - The Pineapple Bowl (1)
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 10
Hayden is beaten before he plays his first bowl game when he learns the opposing coach is his former mentor.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Blue Chip Blues
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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#9 - 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.
#10 - When Hayden Met Christine
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 11
Dateless for a charity ball, Hayden flashes back four years to when he first met Christine, at the same affair.
#11 - A Real Guy's Guy
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 4
Hayden pressures Kelly to date his star player, whom she finds very attractive -- until he tells her he is gay.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Dauber Graduates
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 13
When Dauber finally graduates after eight years, Hayden promotes him to full-time coach, and their relationship changes.
#14 - Veronica's Cheating Partners
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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#15 - The Curley O'Brien Award
Coach - Season 2 - Episode 10
Hayden plans a victory party for an anticipated award.
#16 - The Playbook
Coach - Season 6 - Episode 10
The playbook falls into enemy hands on the eve of Hayden's biggest game.
#17 - That Shouldn't Happen
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 1
Hayden, ecstatic about his team being ranked top-20 for the first time, meets Christine's mother, then is shattered when his star player Bo is hurt and put on the injured list.
#18 - Frequent Flyers, Crossed Wires
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 21
Hayden and Christine have conflicting commitments when a network premiere party is scheduled the same night as Hayden's sports banquet, at which he hopes to receive the coveted Curly O'Brien award. Out of the confusion arise a pair of resolutions: Christine decides to stay in Minnesota, while Hayden decides to move to New York to be with Christine.
#19 - 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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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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#21 - Home for the Holidays
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 11
It is Christmas Eve and the Pembroke household is buzzing with activity. Grandma Irene, Stan's mother, is expected for her yearly three-week-stay with her grandchildren. Jill is cleaning an already immaculate house and wonders why her mother-in law's visit still upsets her in the same manner it did fifteen years ago! Charles is trying to console Jason who is depressed and sad to see him go. Charles plans to go home for the holidays; he will spend his vacation with his parents in Vermont. The phone rings, and Charles' dad informs him that they are completely snowed in. This news makes Jason suddenly feel much better, but Grandma Irene becomes more and more jealous of Charles. She has a long conversation with her son, Stan, and both explain their feelings to each other. Stan succeeds in helping his mother accept that Jill has her career,
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#22 - 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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#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Break-Up
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 7
Hayden forsakes football with the guys to meet Christine's antique-dealer friend.
#27 - Since My Beaver Left Me
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 2
Hayden tries to console Kelly, who would rather tell it to Christine.
#28 - Hurley-Burleigh
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 19
On his first trip to Las Vegas, athletic director Howard wants to sow some wild oats.
#29 - Men Don't Heal
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 10
Irritable over his breakup with Christine, Hayden attends a self-help group.
#30 - Hayden's in the Kitchen with Dinah
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 5
Hayden promises to stay with a bedridden Christine, rather than attend a long-awaited team victory celebration.
#31 - Hayden and Luther's Excellent Adventure
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 6
Hayden and Luther get stranded out of town the night Hayden is to escort Christine to an awards banquet in her honor.
#33 - Requiem for a Groundskeeper
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 6
Hayden receives an oddball inheritance from an acquaintance.
#34 - Loonstruck
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 9
The call of the loon forebodes more than Hayden expected when he agrees to speak at Burleigh's Fraternal Order of the Loon.
#35 - Cabin Fever
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 9
Christine wants all her belongings out of Hayden's house, and Luther might move in next door.
#36 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 16
When an arrogant chauvinist millionaire insults his girlfriend in public, Hayden and Christine come to her defense.
#37 - I Hate Barbara
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 8
Hayden regrets his honesty when he tells Christine he hates her friend.
#39 - Hayden Fox for Universal Jocks
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 20
When Hayden discovers Christine's salary dwarfs his own, he decides to make extra cash as a spokesperson for an athletic supporter company.
#40 - Diamonds Are a Dentist's Best Friend
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 22
Cash-poor Hayden buys Christine's engagement ring from a cut-rate jeweler/dentist.
#41 - Christmas Brains
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 12
Grinch Hayden's ex-wife unexpectedly shows up at his holiday party with a gift idea that will make all his Christmases merry: she helps him decide to reunite with Christine.
#42 - Kelly Girl
Coach - Season 2 - Episode 18
Hayden is pleased when Kelly volunteers to fill in for his vacationing secretary.
#43 - The Iceman Goeth
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 8
Even at a victory party, and with Elaine trying to seduce him, Hayden remains depressed over his breakup with Christine.
#44 - Any Place I Hang Myself is Home
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 5
Hayden grudgingly agrees to go house hunting with Christine, then buys a house without consulting her.
#45 - The Marion Kind (2)
Coach - Season 3 - Episode 16
When Luther's old friend steals his girlfriend again, Hayden and Peter try to spare Luther's feelings by hiding the fact.
#46 - 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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Coach - Season 4 - Episode 12
Hayden vies with Watkins for a benefactor's favor and her donations by leading an exercise class for seniors.
#48 - If That's Opportunity, Don't Answer
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 20
A network job offer poses Christine a dilemma: to stay in Minnesota with Hayden or move to New York.
#49 - The Old Fish and the Shoes
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 18
Christine sells Hayden's Johnny Unitas-autographed football shoes; Luther catches the biggest pike in the lake only to lose it.
#50 - War of the Dopes
Coach - Season 4 - Episode 14
A careless comment results in a food fight when Dauber moves into Luther's apartment building.