The BEST episodes directed by Michael Lessac
#1 - Movin' on Down
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 2
Downsizing becomes a problem for Grace as she discovers that her job was not eliminated but usurped by her boss.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Daddy's Girl
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 13
The title refers to Rick's daughter, Amy, who is rather ill-mannered and not Grace's cup of tea, but controls Rick.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Good Neighbor Sam
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 15
A neighbor's son starts hanging out at Grace's house and she finds he is escaping from a 'perfect' mother. Meanwhile, Wade discovers his name has been engraved on a veterans' memorial.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - No Help Wanted
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 14
Grace's fear of being dependent causes her to turn down offers of help from her family and friends.
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#5 - Tony's Comeback
Taxi - Season 4 - Episode 19
Tony begins working out with a new cabbie, Lucius, who is a former football player. Tony is in great shape all of a sudden and Lucius inspires Tony to try to get his boxing license reinstated. Tony is not hopeful that the boxing commission will reinstate him, so he is surprised when he gets his license back. In addition, he getes a major fight scheduled with a promising young fighter. Meanwhile, Lucius goes away to Miami to try out for the Dolphins. Without Lucius around, Tony loses his motivation and his training suffers. At the fight, he is getting pummelled until Lucius, who has learned that he has made the Dolphins, arrives to inspire him. With Lucius' support, Tony turns the fight around and knocks out his opponent.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Grace Really Under Fire
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 8
A disgruntled ex-employee takes the gang hostage at the refinery.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Positively Hateful
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 16
When the nasty janitor is about to be fired for being HIV+, Grace is reluctant to help him. Rick instructs Quentin on how to behave on his first date.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Jimmy's Girl
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 5
Jimmy's new girl friend comes to Grace for advice and Grace gives her the bitter truth. Otherwise, Grace has problems with her credit card.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Why Buy the Bull?
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 17
Grace is just about set to move in with Rick when he loses his job.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Matthew Gets Busted
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 7
Grace and Matthew's adoptive mother get in a hassle after Grace bails him out when he is arrested for a college prank.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - A Night at the Opera
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 20
Grace plans to go to the opera in St. Louis alone. Meanwhile, Russell visits his dad.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Things Left Undone
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 20
It is Mother's Day and mother comes to visit. Faith gives them an earful.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Daycare
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 6
Grace demands that a day care center be provided at work when she can't find a suitable sitter.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Grace Under a Wig
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 5
Grace is tired of kids, so she puts on a wig and goes to a bar where she assumes another identity.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Emmet, We Hardly Knew Ye
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 12
The Kelly's Christmas celebration is dampened when Emmet dies suddenly and his 'significant other' appears at the funeral and shocks everyone by announcing that fact.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - A Car and a Kiss
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 22
Grace's car is on its last legs and she goes shopping for a replacement. A neighbor is irate when she catches Libby kissing her son.
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#17 - Brother
Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 2 - Episode 3
At the urging of his parents and Debra, Raymond reluctantly takes Robert for a night out, on the anniversary of his brother's divorce. The brothers begin a newfound bonding experience until Robert wants to get in touch with Ray's feelings.
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Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 2
Grace tries to smooth things over when a new female employee charges Bill with sexual discrimination.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Up on the Roof
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 2
Quentin's bad moods are puzzling to Grace. Perhaps he needs a male role model. Grace tells Russell that she is not ready to have a new relationship. These serious discussions take place up on the roof.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - With this Ring
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 12
When Great Grandma Kelly leaves her heirloom ring in the keeping of Grace, the Kelly clan blows a fuse.
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#21 - Father Knows Least
Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 2 - Episode 2
Ray gets to use the "active technique" he and Debra learned in parenting class on his parents when their stubbornness goes too far. Ray doesn't realize how much he's mastered the technique learned in class until he uses his skills first on his parents and then on Ally, both with surprising results.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#22 - Simply Grace
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 13
Grace turns down the advances of a guy, but welcomes a gal who is a 'battered wife' needing help.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Pitch and Woo
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 4
Grace dates a minor-league ballplayer while Faith wants a major commitment from Russell who backs off.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Grace at the Campfire
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 17
The kids get into trouble with neighboring campers when Grace takes them into the woods.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Emmet Bypass
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 18
Jimmy's father has chest pains and Jean is a pain of a different kind, when Grace insists he be taken to the hospital.
Watch Now:Amazon#26 - Aging Gracefully
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 15
Grace has an relationship with her masseur, but doesn't like his need to be in control.
Watch Now:Amazon#27 - Dear Grace
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 8
Acting somewhat like Abby, Grace tries to reconcile her boss with his estranged pregnant daughter. Meanwhile, Quentin seems embarrassed to go out in public with his mother.
Watch Now:Amazon#28 - Grace Under Oath
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 8
Watching a talk show on tv, Grace sees her ex-husband brag about how his lawyer got him thousands for an injury and Grace decides to push for child support.
Watch Now:Amazon#29 - A Picture's Worth ... $9.95
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 7
Grace and Russell make plans for a double blind date; Libby is harassing baby Patrick.
Watch Now:Amazon#30 - Tears of Joy
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 18
Quentin is totally out of control and getting into fights at school, so Grace takes him to a child psychologist.
Watch Now:Amazon#31 - Hello, I'm Your Mother
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 16
Matthew, Grace's first son, who was given up for adoption, contacts Grace and puts her in a quandry. He wants to know who is his father for starters.
Watch Now:Amazon#32 - Sticks and Stones
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 22
Quentin has a fight at school and Grace is angry when she discovers that Quentin used a racial slur that started it.
Watch Now:Amazon#33 - Grace vs. Wade
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 11
Grace slips on the icy walk at Wade and Nadine's house, then visits a therapist who helps her decide how she feels about their marital dispute.
Watch Now:Amazon#34 - Grace Under Water
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 1
Grace and the kids are set to wait out the big storm and rising flood when her ex arrives.
Watch Now:Amazon#35 - Grace Undergraduate
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 3
Grace and Nadine take a night out and flirt with some frat boys, while Russell and Wade try to steal Russell's dog which his ex-wife got as part of the property settlement.
Watch Now:Amazon#36 - The Agony, the Ecstasy, and Bill Mazeroski
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 14
Needing her own space, Grace turns to the basement to create a room for herself and get some privacy.
Watch Now:Amazon#37 - June 15, 1997
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 3
Grace lets Quentin and Libby care for themselves while she goes to work. Her new boss makes it clear that he is only concerned with himself and his retirement.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#38 - Grace and Beauty
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 17
Libby is entered in a beauty pageant with a friend. The two mothers don't hit it off very well. Libby sings "Tomorrow".
Watch Now:Amazon#39 - Emmet's Secret
Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 11
Grace accidently learns something about Emmet and Wade considers running for city council.
Watch Now:Amazon#40 - The Holidays
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 12
Grace has to contend with her 'down-in-the-dumps' ex-mother-in-law and an invitation to a Christmas dance with Dougie.
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#41 - Louie Goes Too Far
Taxi - Season 4 - Episode 10
When Louie spies on Elaine changing in the garage bathroom, she enlists a NOW representative's help and gets Louie fired. Louie appeals to Elaine at her apartment one evening though and begs her forgiveness (and her help getting his job back). After Louie exhibits actual remorse and demonstrates through a touching story that he knows how it feels to be violated, Elaine accepts his apology (and presumably gets him rehired at the garage).
Watch Now:Amazon#42 - The Good, the Bad and the Pharmacist
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 4
Grace is angry when her paycheck is attached to pay the back taxes of her ex-husband; Russell's ex-wife upsets a date with Grace when she decides to return to him.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#43 - Keeping Faith
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 11
When Grace brings her depressed sister, Faith, home for the holidays, she learns that Faith has been having an affair with a married man.
Watch Now:Amazon#44 - When You Wish Upon a Star
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 15
A romantic weekend in the Windy City is blown away when Ryan fails to show up at the airport on time.
Watch Now:Amazon#45 - Second Time Around
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 5
The 'nice' guy Grace meets, at the behest of Nadine to attend a 'second time around' meeting, turns out to be Nadine's first husband (of three, she married the second twice. Wade is #4).
Watch Now:Amazon#46 - Sister, Sister
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 6
Faith asks Grace to talk to Evie, their wild younger sister, but when the three get together, Grace refuses.
#47 - Cold Turkey
Grace Under Fire - Season 2 - Episode 9
It is a lonesome Thanksgiving when her ex takes the kids to the grandparents for the feast, but Libby escapes and the Kelly clan swoops down on Grace.
#48 - It Happened One Week
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 19
Grace and Ryan have time for themselves when Faith takes the kids to visit their grandparents and the refinery is closed.
#49 - Grace in the Middle
Grace Under Fire - Season 1 - Episode 9
Wade gets fed up with his job at the phone company and takes a new job as the 'in the air, on the air' reporter.
#50 - Norm Dates a Client
Norm - Season 1 - Episode 2
Norm meets a woman in a bar while trying to help a pathologically shy guy. He starts dating her but finds out she's one of Laurie's clients. Dating a client can get you fired so she stops her sessions. Laurie warns Norm that this is still a bad idea but he doesn't listen until it's too late. Danny has to help a client who has a phobia about water.
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