The BEST episodes directed by Alan Rafkin
#1 - 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.
#2 - Honeymoon II
One Day at a Time - Season 8 - Episode 26
Ann and Sam have a disastrous ski honeymoon.
#3 - Airport
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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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 6
Barbara's busy dating schedule backfires.
#7 - Dinner at Seven (2)
One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 7
Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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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#10 - Schneider Gets Fired
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 26
Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.
#12 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - The Accident
Alice - Season 1 - Episode 16
Mel leaves Alice and Flo his car when he goes on a trip, but Flo gets it totaled in an accident that is spread out over several blocks. Will they fix it time before Mel gets back? Nope, Mel comes home early and finds out about his car from an angry Hispanic neighbor!
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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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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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#22 - 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.
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Coach - Season 3 - Episode 19
On his first trip to Las Vegas, athletic director Howard wants to sow some wild oats.
#25 - The Horse Show
Laverne & Shirley - Season 3 - Episode 14
Shirley rescues a horse from a glue factory and put it in her bedroom. The girls try to find a new home for Buttercup before she's turned into glue. In the end it's Lenny and Squiggy who save the day by finding a farm with a nice pasture who's willing to let the horse live out the remainder of its days in contentment.
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#26 - Pressure
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 2
Barbara ponders going all the way with her boyfriend.
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#27 - 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.
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#28 - 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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#31 - 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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#32 - 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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#33 - 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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#34 - The Director
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 21
Fred becomes the director of a community theater production starring boxer George Foreman.
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Coach - Season 7 - Episode 14
Hayden refuses to go quietly when Christine insists that he head off his snoring problem with a trip to a sleep therapy clinic.
#36 - Mr. Brilliant
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 21
Jill Pembroke gives Charles two tickets for a Knicks' game. Charles is so excited about this special treat, and because Mrs. Pembroke always does such thoughtful things, that he thinks of a way to do something special in return. In a conversation with Buddy, the name Max Ziegler comes up. It does not mean much to Charles, but it does to Jill. Max and her went to high school together and she has been following his brilliant career ever since graduation. She thinks of him as a genius and Charles decides to call Ziegler, a.k.a. ˜Mr. Brilliant' to invite him for dinner. When Stan Pembroke finds out who the quest of honor is, he becomes quite upset, but decides to go along with it to make his wife happy. And, just as Stan predicted, Ziegler turns out to be an unpleasant, opinionated and condescending person, who ends up on the door step when Stan and Charles have taken as much as they think they can.
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#37 - 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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#38 - The Wrong Guy
Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 20
Charles and Buddy are excited about their very first bachelor party. At the same time, a young man whom her parents cannot stand has asked Lila out. Lila is quite desperate to date him and asks Charles for advice and for approval. Unfortunately, his support backfires on them. Lila tries to make her parents see how phony the other guy is they want her to date, and that the young man of her own choice is not trying to impress them with all sorts of lies he is honest and sincere. Douglas also has serious problems when he is kissed for the first time by a girl in his class.
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#39 - 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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Coach - Season 4 - Episode 11
Hayden halts pre-game hoopla after a star player is injured in a bizarre limo accident.
#47 - Carol
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 10
A strange man visits and claims that he and Fred robbed a bank years ago.
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#49 - 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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