The BEST episodes directed by David Trainer

The Junies
star
9.53
39 votes

#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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Stranded
star
9.30
45 votes

#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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Dash Goff, the Writer
star
9.28
42 votes

#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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Anthony, Jr.
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9.17
41 votes

#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.

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My Dinner With Alan
star
9.00
3 votes

#5 - 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.

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Birthin' Babies
star
9.00
9 votes

#6 - 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.

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Finders Keepers
star
8.88
8 votes

#7 - 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.

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Waiting for Peugeot
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8.88
8 votes

#8 - 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.

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A River Runs Through Him
star
8.88
8 votes

#9 - 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.

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The Rowdy Girls
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8.86
12 votes

#10 - 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.

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Jimmy Moves in
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8.86
7 votes

#11 - Jimmy Moves in

Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 20

Jimmy offers to move into the garage apartment.

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The Emperor's New Nose
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8.75
7 votes

#12 - 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.

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Grace of Wrath
star
8.67
9 votes

#13 - 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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How Long Has This Been Going On?
star
8.67
5 votes

#14 - 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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Sam's Dad
star
8.63
8 votes

#15 - Sam's Dad

Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 22

Sam's dad has a crush on Grace.

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There She Is
star
8.62
11 votes

#16 - 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.

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Vega$
star
8.60
10 votes

#17 - Vega$

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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Grace's New Job
star
8.56
9 votes

#18 - 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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The Victory Tree
star
8.50
8 votes

#19 - 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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Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend
star
8.50
9 votes

#20 - 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.

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Fore!
star
8.44
7 votes

#21 - 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.

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The Fugitive
star
8.42
176 votes

#22 - 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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E.P. Phone Home
star
8.40
14 votes

#23 - 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-Funded
star
8.38
8 votes

#24 - 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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Manhunt
star
8.36
10 votes

#25 - 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.

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Foreign Affairs
star
8.36
12 votes

#26 - 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.

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Love Is Blind
star
8.32
276 votes

#27 - 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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Odd Milo Out
star
8.31
301 votes

#28 - 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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Nowhere to Run To
star
8.30
9 votes

#29 - 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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I'll See You in Court
star
8.29
6 votes

#30 - 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.

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Full Moon
star
8.27
10 votes

#31 - 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.

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Have Faith
star
8.27
10 votes

#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.

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Blame it on New Orleans
star
8.25
7 votes

#33 - 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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Pearls of Wisdom
star
8.25
7 votes

#34 - 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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Spousal Support
star
8.20
168 votes

#35 - 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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Band on the Run
star
8.20
175 votes

#36 - 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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The Bachelor Auction
star
8.18
10 votes

#37 - The Bachelor Auction

Designing Women - Season 5 - Episode 5

When organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluctantly try to make the best of a very awkward situation.

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Career Day
star
8.17
128 votes

#38 - 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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Grace Graduates
star
8.17
6 votes

#39 - Grace Graduates

Grace Under Fire - Season 4 - Episode 23

Grace graduates college and is asked to give the commencement speech.

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Getting Married and Eating Dirt
star
8.17
11 votes

#40 - 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.

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Keep the Home Fires Burning
star
8.14
7 votes

#41 - 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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Boy Meets Girl
star
8.14
184 votes

#42 - 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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Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)
star
8.11
577 votes

#43 - Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)

The Ranch - Season 1 - Episode 20

Colt realizes what he wants for his future, Beau and Maggie find some closure, and the gang celebrates Christmas at the bar.

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Cory's Alternative Friends
star
8.07
277 votes

#44 - Cory's Alternative Friends

Boy Meets World - Season 1 - Episode 4

Cory becomes friends with his school's outcasts when he changes his hair and finds that the consequences are very fatal.

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Moon Over Point Place (1)
star
8.07
1156 votes

#45 - Moon Over Point Place (1)

That '70s Show - Season 2 - Episode 26

Eric hates it when he finds a picture of Donna mooning the camera in the yearbook, and has to deal with his jealousy in the matter. Fez thinks that the white man is keeping him down because there are no pictures of him in the yearbook, and takes out his anger in a Foosball game. Jackie wants to spend time with Hyde, but when he won't go to roller disco with her, she decides to see what life is like on his side of the tracks.

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Back 2 School
star
8.02
194 votes

#46 - Back 2 School

Boy Meets World - Season 2 - Episode 1

It appears that Cory has a tough school year ahead of him in junior high, when he learns that Mr. Feeny is the school's new principal, and he also gets on the bad side of the school's bully, Harley.

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Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
star
8.00
10 votes

#47 - 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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The Big Circle
star
8.00
7 votes

#48 - 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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Tough Enough
star
8.00
9 votes

#49 - Tough Enough

Designing Women - Season 4 - Episode 21

A redecorating job for a sports account is right down Sugarbakers' alley when it pits the women against a macho, over-confident designer from an all-male firm. They determine to steal one of his prized clients, Cherokee Lanes Bowling Alley, but discover they must pose as regular bowlers.

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And Now, Here's Bernice
star
8.00
8 votes

#50 - 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.

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