The BEST episodes directed by Helaine Head

Ordinary Pain
star
8.20
5 votes

#1 - Ordinary Pain

Soul Food - Season 1 - Episode 13

The Joseph sisters are shocked to discover that they have a half sister that they didn't know about. Meanwhile, Ahmad prepares for the P.S.A.T.

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Beef Jerky
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7.95
38 votes

#2 - Beef Jerky

L.A. Law - Season 1 - Episode 16

Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confronting her with her husband's infidelity despite her protests; in civil court, Sifuentes and Perkins represent a family nearly destroyed by the death of a child in a car accident; when Perkins can't find an eligible escort for her cousin's wedding, Van Owen fixes her up with Handleman, who eagerly agrees to the date.

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Cheek to Cheek
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7.83
6 votes

#3 - Cheek to Cheek

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 21

Novino treats a famous cartoonist whose hands are being crippled by arthritis; Ehrlich ends his OB-GYN stint by examining Mrs. Craig; and Morrison's outreach work at a state prison ends tragically with a riot.

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Bad Luck
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7.75
8 votes

#4 - Bad Luck

Soul Food - Season 1 - Episode 8

Everyone comes up with ideas to celebrate Ahmad's 12th birthday party. Maxine becomes upset because Ahmad all of a sudden wants to have his party at Teri's house. Bird volunteers to bake Ahmad's birthday cake, much to everyone's dismay. Ahmad worries if K.C. and Reggie will accept his new friends at Lakeside Prep. Kenny searches hard to find the video game that his son wants more than anything, but when he takes Lem's suggestion to go out and buy it "hot", it lands him in jail. While in jail, he's interrogated by a harsh detective. He also ends up being the cellmate of a psychopath. After almost getting killed by his cellmate, Kenny is finally released. Upset with both Jack and Lem, Kenny refuses to accept the gift that he originally was sent to get.

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Tough Love
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7.57
7 votes

#5 - Tough Love

New York Undercover - Season 3 - Episode 3

Williams befriends a woman whose boyfriend is a leader of a gang that robs apartments. Eddie asks Nina not to go back to work. Musical performance by The Isley Brothers.

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Mother and Child
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7.35
266 votes

#6 - Mother and Child

Sliders - Season 4 - Episode 14

The Sliders discover a woman escaping from a Kromagg breeder camp and take her to her Earth, where an anti-Kromagg virus proves deadly for her half-Kromagg son.

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Hip Hop on the Gravy Train
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7.30
9 votes

#7 - Hip Hop on the Gravy Train

Wiseguy - Season 2 - Episode 17

Amber talks Winston into letting her and Isaac run Shakala at Radiance. Feeling like he's at a dead end, Vinnie urges Bobby to make his own way inside Radiance while he starts turning up the heat under Winston. Isaac agrees to dig up information for Frank. Vinnie urges Claudia to take a more active part in Radiance. Eddie is furious when the check he uses to buy his mother a house bounces. Claudia begins an affair with Eddie, and both are killed when they fall through a skylight.

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Golden Years
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7.26
237 votes

#8 - Golden Years

Law & Order - Season 4 - Episode 11

An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.

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Knight of Shadows
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7.11
132 votes

#9 - Knight of Shadows

seaQuest DSV - Season 1 - Episode 9

When a small team from seaQuest board a ancient sunken ship in order to determine why it went down, they find themselves trapped in a series of very bizarre and supernatural events.

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Blondes Have More Fun
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7.09
11 votes

#10 - Blondes Have More Fun

New York Undercover - Season 1 - Episode 12

Torres and Williams go undercover as drag queens to solve a serial killer case.

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Fetus Completus
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7.00
3 votes

#11 - Fetus Completus

L.A. Law - Season 2 - Episode 16

Feelings run high among the attorneys at the firm when Kelsey represents a doctor petitioning the court to allow him to deliver an endangered eight month old fetus by Caesarean section against the wishes of the child's father and terminally ill mother; the Brackman reconciliation collapses in a hail of pottery, and Becker's ammunition in their settlement talks backfires badly; Kuzak and Van Owen clash over trial strategy; Brackman follows in his father's footsteps when seeking solace over his divorce woes.

In Dreams
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6.39
36 votes

#12 - In Dreams

The Net - Season 1 - Episode 17

A 14-year-old girl with a photographic memory holds the key to a Praetorian code.

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Interview with an Angel
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6.22
46 votes

#13 - Interview with an Angel

Touched by an Angel - Season 2 - Episode 1

Tess tells Monica she must answer a newspaper ad looking for an angel. Monica replies and says she is an angel. Callie is someone who doubts. Monica tells Callie about a case she has worked on.

Simple Justice
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0.00
0 votes

#14 - Simple Justice

American Experience - Season 5 - Episode 8

Growing resistance to segregation, the Supreme Court decision to end it, and the life of Thurgood Marshall.