The BEST episodes directed by Peter Baldwin
#1 - Feeb
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 16
An incompetent waitress is fired after Mary complains about her poor service and Mary feels obliged to hire her when she applies for an assistant's job at WJM-TV.
#2 - Rated X
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 24
After Lamont, Rollo and Fred unwittingly show up at an adult movie shoot, a police raid lands them all in jail.
#3 - Pot Luck
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 22
Lamont tries to turn a fast buck on a commode that he thinks is a valuable antique.
#4 - Card Sharps
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 6
After Lamont loses his shirt to some crooked poker players, Fred saves the day by turning the tables on them.
#5 - Romeo and Mary
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 19
Rhoda introduces Mary to a very irritating Warren Sturges, who tries everything including a giant billboard across the road from the WJM-TV offices to get her to accept his marriage proposal.
#6 - This Little TV Went to Market
Sanford and Son - Season 3 - Episode 5
Fred's new TV turns out to be one stolen from Grady, so Fred tries to unload it on Julio.
#7 - Lamont, Is That You?
Sanford and Son - Season 3 - Episode 6
After Bubba spots Lamont and Rollo mistakenly entering a gay bar, an incredulous Fred tries to find out if his son has become a homosexual.
#8 - Blood Is Thicker Than Junk
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 10
A fed-up Lamont quits the business and takes a job with a competitor while Fred tries to replace his son.
#9 - Wine, Women and Aunt Esther (a.k.a. Leaving the Nest)
Sanford and Son - Season 3 - Episode 13
After the death of a friend, Fred and his buddies throw a party to feel young again but run out of gas long before they can make time with a group of younger women.
#10 - The Return of the Barracuda
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 13
With Fred and Donna once again planning marriage, Lamont cooks up a scheme to drive them apart.
#11 - TV or Not TV
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 11
Fred fakes amnesia to get Lamont to buy him a color television.
#12 - Superflyer
Sanford and Son - Season 3 - Episode 8
To claim an inheritance in St. Louis, a nervous Fred must take his first airplane flight.
#13 - Tooth or Consequences
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 5
Fred's toothache leads him to the dental clinic, where he insists on a white dentist but soon ends up with his foot in his mouth.
#14 - Trust Me
Benson - Season 1 - Episode 2
Katie sneaks off to a rock concert while under Benson's watch.
#15 - The Great Sanford Siege
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 8
After Fred ignores all the household bills, debt collectors descend on the house from every direction.
#16 - Marcia Gets Creamed
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 7
Marcia loves her new job at the ice cream parlor -- until the shiftless Peter fouls things up and Jan outperforms her.
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#17 - Quarterback Sneak
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 9
Marcia's new beau, the quarterback of the rival Fairview team, uses her to get to Greg's Westdale playbook.
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#18 - Home Sweet Home for the Aged
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 21
With Lamont joining a tramp steamer to see the world, Fred reluctantly enters a retirement home.
#19 - The Suitcase Case
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 12
Fred and Lamont find a large sum of money in an old suitcase but are soon visited by a gunman intent on taking the treasure.
#20 - Lamont as Othello
Sanford and Son - Season 3 - Episode 1
While visiting the home of Lamont's white drama teacher, Fred surprises the woman's parents and exposes their prejudices as well as his own.
#21 - Come Fly with Me
ALF - Season 1 - Episode 25
When Mr. Ochmonek becomes sick during a flight, ALF flies the plane.
#22 - La Cucaracha
ALF - Season 1 - Episode 24
A cockroach from ALF's spaceship grows to gigantic proportions
#23 - Out of This World
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 16
After meeting an astronaut, Bobby and Peter claim to have spotted a UFO and camp out in the backyard to get it on film.
#24 - The Light Housekeeper
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 14
Lamont and Fred hire a maid who'd rather relax than work.
#25 - The Shootout
Sanford and Son - Season 2 - Episode 9
After Fred accidentally fires an antique rifle, he and Lamont become convinced that the bullet has killed their neighbor Goldstein.
#26 - The Charlotte Letter
Dream On - Season 2 - Episode 12
Martin's new girlfriend of three weeks, Charlotte, has a porn star past. Martin learns from Eddie. Charlotte reveals that her biggest secret is that she cannot drive. Martin begs to differ, and Charlotte admits to appearing in six porn videos to pay for college and is not ashamed. Martin and Charlotte try to continue their relationship despite this conflict. Martin tries to continue dating Charlotte, even though he keeps seeing her in porn star roles and settings.
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Newhart - Season 4 - Episode 22
George worries that a new girlfriend, actress Loretta Dupris is only dating him to make use of his handyman skills. TV Producer J.J. buys a Victorian mansion and plans to bulldoze it to erect a space needle.
#28 - Desk Job for a Sergeant
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 29
Carter decides to resign when he feels his platoon can get along without him.
#29 - A Visit From Cousin Goober
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 11
Goober pays Gomer a surprise visit.
#30 - The Shape of Things
Newhart - Season 4 - Episode 8
Stephanie and Joanna open an aerobics club. Problems present themselves when Stephanie appoints herself as the manager and relegates Joanna to custodial duties.
#31 - White Lies
The Wonder Years - Season 6 - Episode 6
Some people never find true love, but Kevin believes he did. He had what most people search all their lives for, but he blew it. When Winnie comes over for a study session while his parents were away, Kevin wants to relationship to go further. Winnie sees through his plan. She does stay, but they just fall asleep together. The next day, though, he tells his friends a different story. When Winnie finds out, she dumps him.
#32 - My Nightmare, the Car
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 2 - Episode 20
Since neither Val's parents nor Sabrina's aunts will allow them to have a car, the two teens cook up an ingenious scheme to share the costs and responsibilities for a single vehicle. Working their timetables to fit puts an intolerable strain on their friendship, however; and when the car conks out, Sabrina gives in to Salem's suggestion and buys a car for a ridiculously low price in the Other Realm. Trouble is, this old clunker has a mind and a voice of its own, which makes hiding it from Sabrina's aunts a real problem, particularly when it keeps transporting itself to her bedroom. Meanwhile, Hilda and Zelda are distracted by their own problems: they are being audited, and discover that their trusted accountant Marty has skipped town with all of their magic.
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#33 - A Home is Not Necessarily a House
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 1 - Episode 20
Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.
#34 - Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 15
When Sabrina is disappointed that her aunts won't let her stay out late to see a famous rock band (Violent Femmes), Hilda and Zelda decide to transform themselves into teenage chaperones as a compromise. But they're the ones causing the trouble when "Hillary" clashes with a security guard (played by Bubba Smith) and a high-school boy falls for "Zellery." After proving that even teenage aunts can be embarrassing, they apologize by giving Sabrina her very first flying lesson -- aboard a vacuum cleaner.
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#35 - To Tell a Mortal
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 2 - Episode 10
It's Friday the 13th, which Sabrina learns is the day witches can tell mortals the truth about themselves because everyone's memories will be wiped clean once the day ends. Despite warnings from her aunts about bad consequences, Sabrina decides she can trust Valerie and Harvey to take the news in stride, and grants them each a wish: Valerie gets to dance with Drew Carey, and Harvey gets to meet baseball giant Mark Langston. But there's inevitably trouble: Libby overhears the news and alerts both the PTA and the media. Happily, Valerie and Harvey save Sabrina's bacon, proving that they are true friends even though they will now forget her secret again.
#36 - The Miracle of Thanksgiving
Full House - Season 1 - Episode 9
It's the family's first Thanksgiving without Pam Tanner. Danny's mother Claire is expected to come over for Thanksgiving, but a snow storm up north, in the state of Washington, has stranded Claire at her home, so it's up to Danny, Jesse, and Joey to see to it that the girls have a good Thanksgiving, but the feast turns out to be not exactly worth gobbling, and Jesse's feelings about Pam's death resurface.
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#37 - My Fair Opponent
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 22
As a joke, Marcia's plain-looking friend Molly Webber is nominated to be hostess on Banquet Night. Marcia's mission to transform Molly into a knockout succeeds, only to discover that she is running against her friend.
#38 - Jingle Hell
Full House - Season 2 - Episode 5
Teaser: D.J. shows Michelle how to blow bubbles with gum. Main Synopsis: When Joey gives Jesse the inspiration Jesse needs to write an advertising jingle that Jesse has been having problems with, the result is that the jingle is bought. This bit of success leads to Jesse making an offer to Joey -- he now wants Joey to be his writing partner. Joey accepts the offer. When Joey gives the next jingle "the Joey treatment", and it's not bought, a feud erupts between Jesse and Joey, but they work things out and decide to remain partners. Meanwhile, D.J. and Stephanie are feuding because Stephanie is always messing up things that belong to D.J., and D.J. is out to teach Stephanie a lesson about it, starting by tying all of Stephanie's shoes together by the laces while Stephanie's not wearing them.
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#39 - Magic Joel
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 8
In an effort to get Harvey's attention, Sabrina takes a job as a magician's assistant, but things go awry when she inadvertently makes the magician disappear.
#40 - Sweet Charity
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 18
Hoping to encourage more students to join the Adopt-A-Grandparent program, Sabrina finds a mischievous way to get trend-setting Libby to participate: she impersonates her, necessitating quick Superman-style telephone booth transformation whenever the (increasingly puzzled) real Libby turns up. But Sabrina's well-meant scheme goes wrong when Libby bonds with Sabrina's adopted grandmother Nana, who claims to know most of Hollywood's young hunks personally. Meanwhile, Zelda can't decide whether to continue dating a man who is centuries younger than she is; and Hilda and Salem eat too much of a magical "hair soup" that causes their hair to grow at an exponential rate.
#41 - Trial by Fury
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 12
When Sabrina's bitter math teacher Mr. Rothwell singles her out for unfair treatment, and her aunts are unable to make him see reason, the witchly trio decide it's time to teach him a few of their own spellbinding lessons. When he's hauled into traffic court, they replace the human judge with a magical substitute who's been hibernating in a deep freeze "to prevent media bias." Meanwhile, Salem panics when his ex-girlfriend decides to pay him a surprise visit -- especially since she has no idea that he has been turned into a cat.
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#42 - They Shoot Managers, Don't They?
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 20
Ruben meets a woman and it seems like love. They talk of marriage, but she wants Ruben to stop managing the band. Shirley tells him the Partridges can find another manager and to follow his heart. Then the Partridges realize they need Ruben.
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#43 - Middle Age Crazy
Full House - Season 2 - Episode 10
Teaser: Danny, Jesse, Joey, D.J., and Michelle play with soap bubbles. Main Synopsis:Stephanie knows it's not easy being the middle child. The way things are going, Stephanie thinks that D.J. and Michelle are getting all of the attention. Jesse and Joey are working on a jingle until they start helping D.J. with a science project, ignoring Stephanie's request for them to watch her break a hula-hoop record. Danny is trying to videotape Michelle for "Wake Up, San Francisco", ignoring Stephanie's request for him to watch her break the hula-hoop record that she wanted Jesse and Joey to watch her break. Stephanie has had enough, and she believes that the only way she'll get out of this situation is if she is not living at home anymore, so she decides that she wants to marry her friend Harry, then the guys come to their senses and realize how they've made Stephanie feel.
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#44 - The Sound of Money
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 2
While parking their bus, Shirley bumps into a car. There is no damage, but when the driver finds they are famous, he fakes an injury for the insurance. Shirley and the family try to prove he is not injured by staying with him 24 hours.
#45 - Troll Bride
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 24
When Sabrina can't find her homework, she follows Salem's advice to consult a professional magic finder, but when troll Roland appears and quickly uncovers her missing notebook, he demands her hand in marriage as payment. Following him home to attempt reason she is trapped in his castle and can only be rescued by the prince she loves: Harvey. Has the moment come when he will learn the truth about Sabrina's unusual family? Meanwhile, her aunts try to break the contract with the help of a witchly lawyer "with great legs."
#46 - Kid in Play
Sister, Sister - Season 2 - Episode 13
Tia's handed the lead in the school play - after Tamera forfeits the part by being late for a rehearsal.
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Murphy Brown - Season 4 - Episode 11
Murphy volunteers the FYI staff to serve Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter.
#48 - Because She's There
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 11
Richie is put in an awkward situation when he is set up with a girl much taller than he is. Meanwhile, Howard is frustrated by Marion's ineptness at playing bridge.
#49 - A Tale of Two Cities (1)
Family Ties - Season 5 - Episode 17
The Keaton's are a house divided over a "major" domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kitchen. Elyse, Mallory and Jennifer think the time has come to leave the familiar behind and opt for a new, more modern look. Steven loves the kitchen's history, and doesn't want to change a tile. Alex only half-heartedly joins the fray. His thoughts are elsewhere, in Chicago to be exact. His employer, Leland Trust, is sending two representatives to the 15th Annual Midwest Banking and Financial Planning Seminar, and Alex is already packing his bags. But he's in for a rude awakening when his boss, Rebecca Ryan, chooses the shy and retiring Matthews over Alex to accompany her to the conference. When Matthews becomes ill, however, Alex is pressed into action. This could turn out to be the professional highlight of his young career. It could also turn out to be the end of his brief career, as he is obliged to "room" with his boss for the duration of the conference.
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#50 - Cocoa and Sympathy
The Wonder Years - Season 3 - Episode 21
When Paul is voted ""brainiest"" in Lisa Berlini's latest poll, he goes through a crisis but is helped through it by Mrs. Arnold - who he also develops a crush on.