The BEST episodes directed by Gary Shimokawa
#1 - The Protector
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 21
Titus gets into trouble when he goes after a kid who is harassing Amy in school.
#2 - Superstition
ALF - Season 3 - Episode 19
ALF blames his streak of bad luck on a Melmac superstition.
#3 - Second Motherhood
The Golden Girls - Season 1 - Episode 19
Blanche is romanced by a wealthy suitor who she learns has several small children. This fact dampens his proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Rose go to bat with the bathroom plumbing.
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#4 - The Gambler
ALF - Season 1 - Episode 22
ALF develops a gambling habit and winds up in trouble with his bookie.
#5 - Can I Get a Witness?
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 14
ALF demands a fair trial after being accused of throwing a football through the Ochmoneks' window.
#6 - We Can Never Die
Coach - Season 9 - Episode 5
Hayden and Christine ask the Burleighs to become Tim's legal guardians, but the eccentric couple's enthusiasm causes the Foxes to reconsider their request.
#7 - Meet the Parents
One On One - Season 2 - Episode 19
Flex throws a retirement party for his father. There a nervous Natalie meets his mother for the first time. Eunice disapproves of Flex's girlfriend. Flex doesen't understand at first but when Flex's paternal grandmother still holds her grudge against his mother he starts to understand why. Meanwhile Breanna, Spirit, and Arnaz look after Eunice's dog but it dies when Breanna runs over it with her car.
#8 - The Steaks are High
Reba - Season 1 - Episode 5
The football players think they're doomed when Cheyenne serves the wrong kind of potato salad at the traditional pregame dinner.
#9 - Screech's Woman
Saved by the Bell - Season 1 - Episode 5
Zach tries desperately to find Screech a woman so that he will concentrate on their science project but keeps on failing. Zack then comes up with the brilliant idea of posing as a woman over the phone to Screech. Brilliant that is, until Screech wants to meet his mystery woman and things get a little bit out of hand.
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#10 - Running Scared
ALF - Season 3 - Episode 17
An extortionist threatens to turn ALF in to the immigration authorities for being an "illegal alien".
#11 - Still Mother's Day
Still Standing - Season 3 - Episode 21
Judy tries to stand her ground when Bill's mother tries to hone in on her Mother's Day tradition with her own mom. Judy finally convinces Bill to take Louise wherever she wants to go while she, Helen and Lauren go to their traditional tea. But chaos ensues when they all convene at the same place.
#12 - Hit Me with Your Best Shot
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 20
Willie abandons his belief in pacifism after meeting the hostile father of the bully who's been pushing Brian around.
#13 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 19
ALF, jealous of the attention a stray dog is getting, gives the pooch to a mean old woman who claims to be the owner.
#14 - Some Enchanted Evening
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 6
ALF becomes the star attraction at the Tanners' Halloween party.
#15 - Someone to Watch Over Me (2)
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 17
It's up to Willie to save ALF from the SWAT team surrounding the Ochomonek house, in which ALF had been chasing a prowler.
#16 - Someone to Watch Over Me
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 16
ALF lends a hand with the neighborhood block patrol and ends up confronting a prowler in the Ochmoneks' house.
#19 - Christmas
Sister, Sister - Season 3 - Episode 12
Grandpa Campbell returns for the holidays, and he owes $1,000 to a loan shark, which Tia, Tamera and Lisa secretly repay with money they'd been saving to buy Christmas gifts.
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#20 - Varsity Drag
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 25
ALF takes a job as a paper carrier when he learns that the cost of his upkeep is preventing Lynn from attending her first-choice college.
#21 - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 18
ALF moves in with his blind friend, Jody, and learns some important lessons about life without sight.
#22 - Fatal Distraction
Saved by the Bell - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kelly has to choose between Zack and Slater to go to a big dance Bayside is having. Zack wants to make sure that he is Kelly's choice. In order to do that, he places a microphone in Jessie's room before her slumber party, which Kelly will be attending. Soon, Jessie discovers the microphone and Kelly comes up with a plan to play a trick on Zack, making him believe that she is a very dangerous soul.
#23 - Tommy's Not Gay
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 3
Titus is determined to mend fences after Tommy rejects his father, who's just revealed he's gay.
#24 - Insanity Genetic (2)
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 20
(Part 2 of 2) As a result of the incident on the plane, Titus must face jail time or commitment. And only his friends and family can save him...which means he's in deep trouble.
#25 - Isn't It Romantic?
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 10
ALF and the Tanner kids give Willie and Kate a second honeymoon.
#26 - Take a Look at Me Now
ALF - Season 2 - Episode 3
Mrs. Ochmonek thinks she's gone crazy when she spots ALF in the backyard.
#27 - Too Damn Good
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 12
A car executive seeks a new design from Titus, who turns to Ken for inspiration when he has a creative block.
#28 - Practical Jokes
Good Morning, Miss Bliss - Season 1 - Episode 10
It's Hoosier Harvest Week and in Miss Bliss's words: "...a time for hay rides, bonfires, and practical jokes." In her eleven years at JFK, nobody has ever been able to play a successful prank on Miss Bliss, so all the kids want to be the one to get her this year. After a few unsuccessful pranks, someone does manage to get Miss Bliss. All evidence points to Screech as the culprit. Miss Bliss decides to use this as an opportunity to show how the judicial system works by putting Screech on trial. Zack is Screech's defense attorney, Nicki is the prosecutor, and Miss Bliss is the judge. Screech is found not guilty, but then who is the real culprit? It turns out that Miss Bliss played the prank on herself. Nobody was paying attention in class so she staged the prank in order to have an excuse for the trial. Everyone would have to study the chapters of their textbooks on the judicial system in order to learn the procedures for having a trial.
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#29 - Honeymoon Hotel
Laverne & Shirley - Season 2 - Episode 18
Shirley wins a vacation at a newlywed hotel. Laverne and Shirley plan to use Carmine to fool the hotel staff into letting them in, thinking they'll be left alone after the inital photos. Unfortunately they never get a moments peace and a mass party ensues.
#30 - Spy Games
One On One - Season 3 - Episode 10
When Flex falls for Sheila, an ambitious, sexy sports columnist, he is willing to do anything for her, including bribing Breanna to tutor her son Eric. But when Eric is caught stealing Flex's stories from his computer to give to his mother, Flex and Breanna team up to seek revenge.
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#31 - Deprogramming Erin
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 14
Titus tries to get Erin back, his family and friends try to help, and things turn out about as well as can be expected.
#32 - Private Dave
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 20
Titus tries to undo what he sees as damage when Dave's response to a Dear John letter is to join the Army.
#33 - Amy's Birthday
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 2
Erin throws a surprise birthday party to cheer up her troubled niece Amy but her plans backfire. When Erin finds Amy's mom passed out drunk, she quickly realizes that her niece's home environment is not suitable and decides to do something about it—much to Titus' dismay.
#34 - Hi Honey, I'm Home
Night Court - Season 1 - Episode 13
Harry has to settle the legal status of a woman who remarried after her first husband was mistakenly declared dead, and who wants her back.
#35 - The Birthday Visitor
Night Court - Season 2 - Episode 12
Billie's birthday dinner for Harry is disrupted by an insecure intruder.
#36 - Molly's Holiday
The Facts of Life - Season 1 - Episode 12
Molly is sad over her parents' divorce, so the girls help her scheme to reunite them. But her father arrives with a new girlfriend instead.
#37 - Grad School
Titus - Season 3 - Episode 5
Erin disdains, then requests Titus's help when she visits troubled teens for her first grad-school assignment as a interning social worker.
#38 - I Hear White People
One On One - Season 3 - Episode 7
After a freak accident, Duane inexplicably hears the thoughts of white people around him and becomes more aware of the racism that exists in their minds, so Flex decides to use Duane's new power to find out if his job is in jeopardy after suspecting the new station management is discriminating against the African-American employees.
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One On One - Season 3 - Episode 11
Nicole comes home announcing that she is pregnant and plans to marry her boyfriend, Jayden, shattering Breanna's hope that her parents will remarry.
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#40 - King of the Hill
Saved by the Bell - Season 1 - Episode 15
Zack Morris has always wanted to go out with Kelly Kapowski, the prettiest cheerleader in Bayside High. He tries to get near her, but transfer student A.C. Slater makes a play for her. Zack and Slater have their first little tiff about Kelly.
#41 - The Election
Saved by the Bell - Season 1 - Episode 13
Zack and Jessie are both running for class president. Zack decides to run only because he found out the winner of the election gets a trip to Washington D.C. Slater overhears Zack telling Screech about this, so Slater tells Mr. Belding about it. Mr. Belding tells Zack the trip was canceled--and that the only way Zack can prove he wasn't running just to get the trip is to stay in the election. Zack was ahead, but now he tries to lose. In the end he wins anyway, but Jessie is so upset that he confesses to her and promises to tell Mr. Belding the truth and resign the presidency in favor of Jessie.
#42 - A Love Story
Welcome Back, Kotter - Season 2 - Episode 13
When Juan's sister Carmen joines the Sweathogs, she catches the eye of Arnold, but Carmen is only interested in Vinnie. Juan, meanwhile, is displeased with the entire situation, and is ready to kill anybody who dares to lay a hand on his baby sister.
#43 - Carrie's Wedding
Alice - Season 4 - Episode 15
Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.
#44 - Archie Alone (1)
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 1
Archie and Stephanie face life after Ediths death.
#45 - Archie Alone (2)
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 2
Archie refuses to deal with Ediths death.
#46 - Barney the Gambler
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 12
Murrays gambling system causes a conflict.
#47 - Murray Klein's Place
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 13
Fed up with Archie, Murray wants to end the partnership.
#48 - Weekend Away
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 14
Archie and Murray go off to a convention. Murray soon finds himself tied up and robbed by a woman he invites over to the room.
#50 - Store Wars
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 4 - Episode 20
Murray (Martin Balsam) returns to recoup his investment in the bar. Archie gives him a hard luck story and Murray allows Archie Six more months to get his share of the bar sold.