The BEST episodes directed by Robert Berlinger
#1 - Secrets and Lies
The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1 - Episode 19
Bernie takes Jordan to a Clippers' game but tells Wanda that Jordan has had an asthma attack and had to go to the hospital. Wanda tries to help Jordan 'feel better'. He feels guilty and asks Bernie if he can admit his wrongdoing. Bernie explains that it is occasionaly ok to lie, but Jordan takes it to a whole new level. He manipulates his sisters, aunt, school, and even Bernie. When the family has dinner a slew of lies are admitted by everyone in the family.
#2 - The Reconcilliation
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 8
Juanita Titus comes to visit for a family visit with her new boyfriend, but Ken is less then happy to see her having a happy life.
#3 - Handle Your Business
The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1 - Episode 13
Bernie is booked on a popular morning radio show, and he gets himself into trouble with the whole family when he draws from his private life to bring comedy to the public airwaves.
#4 - Window of Opportunity
Ed - Season 1 - Episode 19
Ed is dismayed when a couple decides to marry at Stuckeybowl simply because the man bowled a strike. In court he helps a man get a restraining order against his overzealous brother who is trying to help him stick to his diet; Warren fears that he's missed his chance with Donna.
#5 - Taking the Lead
Men in Trees - Season 2 - Episode 19
The First Annual Elmo Talent Show begins as Marin receives a large check for her latest book. Sam's frugality annoys Jane when he decides to drive to Elmo from New York Patrick redoubles his efforts to win back Annie.
#6 - Charity Case
Men in Trees - Season 2 - Episode 9
Cash brings a shocking secret with him as he returns to Elmo, and Sara and Eric work together to rebuild his church. Buzz tries to help Patrick regain his memory, but his efforts result in disastrous consequences. Sam learns more about Jane's personality after she throws away one of his favorite shirts.
#7 - The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 11
A southern African American football player and five other students refuse to play at a Tennessee college where the Confederate flag is hung. Luther Sachs the owner of CSC and alumnus of the college sides with the college, but Isaac disagrees and says so on the show. Casey goes on "The View" and takes credit for his wardrobe, which he doesn't deserve and this leads Dan and another staffer to teach him that the show is a team.
#8 - Previously on Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg - Season 5 - Episode 12
Greg proposing to another woman? Dharma bringing another man home to meet the folks? This landmark flashback episode takes place six months prior to the series pilot and shows Dharma and Greg's lives before they met and married on their first date. Share in Kitty's chagrin as Greg breaks up with his debutante fiancée, and join Larry as he watches Dharma leave a great guy who ""refuses to get a job.""
#9 - Napoleon's Battle Plan
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 22
Gordon has proposed to Dana, and Casey is seething, but tells Dan he plans to "take the high road" and follow Napoleon's Battle Plan: Show up and see what happens next. Dan reminds Casey that Napoleon lost at Waterloo and died in exile, and announces his intention to "step in". So Dan tells Natalie about Gordon's fling with Sally. Natalie runs straight to Dana, who confronts Gordon who, in turn, tells Dana about Casey's fling with Sally. Then Dana confronts Sally, who reveals she has been sleeping with Casey for months. Confused? You won't be on the tonight's episode of . . . oh wait, that's another show!
#10 - Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 10
Trouble's brewing when Titus' success at a custom-car show goes to his head, threatening his friendship with Tommy and Dave.
#11 - The Star Witness
Dirty Sexy Money - Season 2 - Episode 3
When Nick agrees to defend Letitia in the murder case of Dutch George, he is shocked to learn that his mother is on the prosecutor's witness list. Meanwhile, Jeremy plans a surprise concert for Nola; Patrick tries to clear his mind of his wife's death; and Brian heads to Brazil to kidnap Brian Jr.
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#12 - 18th and Potomac
The West Wing - Season 2 - Episode 21
The staff prepares for the worst as they make arrangements for the public announcement of the President's condition; Sam and Babish grill Abbey about her medical treatment of the President's MS; a crisis erupts in Haiti; Josh deals with two Democratic senators who won't support the administration's suit against tobacco companies; The staff think that Mrs. Landingham paid too much for her first new car.
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#13 - World's Greatest Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 8
Fueling his own ego, Dick forces Tommy into a special school for gifted students; Sally is mistaken for a drag queen; Harry dabbles in magic.
#14 - Sally
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 16
When Casey has a one-night stand and does not tell anyone, the entire staff, led by Dan, prods him for details. After Gordon cancels a date with Dana, she questions the status and future of their relationship. Jewish Jeremy, panics when he is set to visit Natalie's parents for a Catholic holiday, he knows nothing of.
#15 - Qualities and Difficulties
Parenthood (2010) - Season 2 - Episode 18
Adam and Kristina find it difficult to talk to Max about his Asperger's Syndrome and come to Dr. Pelickan for guidance. Sarah revisits her relationship with Mark Cyr when she goes to him for help with her latest project. Elsewhere, Crosby attempts to mend his relationship with Jasmine, while Julia and Joel prepare to celebrate their eight-year anniversary.
#16 - Camel Filters and Pheromones
Two and a Half Men - Season 1 - Episode 12
When Berta is forced to bring her granddaughter Prudence to work with her, the boys find themselves a little preoccupied with her.
#17 - Richie's Song
The King of Queens - Season 1 - Episode 4
Doug can't figure out why Carrie refuses to go on a double date with Richie and his wife, Marie.
#18 - Fat City
The King of Queens - Season 1 - Episode 2
Stunned by an old photograph of Carrie's mother, Doug convinces Carrie to go on a diet and must pretend he is going on one too.
#19 - Angry Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 13
The Solomons learn about the give and take necessary to human friendships when they turn their anthropological gaze to the next-door neighbors.
#20 - Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 4
Relationships are in jeopardy: Sally and Mr. Randall are fighting, and Dick suggests that sex will solve their problem; Harry goes on a video blind date; and August tests Tommy's loyalty.
#21 - Dharma Does Dallas
Dharma & Greg - Season 4 - Episode 15
Dharma gets to know Greg's dysfunctional cousins and in-laws just in time to keep Edward from making a huge mistake in choosing his successor as head of the firm.
#22 - Lonely Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 7
Dick's one lonely guy when Dr. Albright goes on vacation; Sally and Harry are lured by skin-care products that promise eternal youth.
#23 - Jolly Old St. Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 12
The Solomons experience their first Christmas. Dick is disillusioned but finally gets the Christmas spirit. Sally gets a job wrapping presents at the mall. Harry takes a job as a mall Santa's assistant and discovers that he isn't the real Santa. Tommy tries to find the perfect present for August. Albright gets drunk on rum balls.
#24 - Why Shant This Be Love
Glory Daze - Season 1 - Episode 5
While the boys prepare for the upcoming intramural flag football tournament, the Omega Sigs are brought to the brink of war against the Zeta Rhos over a series of pranks. Joel finds it increasingly difficult to juggle his many commitments, especially as he starts working for the campus’ landscaping service.
#25 - Dick Jokes
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 11
A jealous Dick decides to show Mary how funny he is after she asks another professor to emcee a college fund-raiser she's organizing. Meanwhile, Harry loses his beloved coat, and Sally builds a shelf to hold her shoes, providing lots of unnoticed slapstick humor.
#26 - Proud Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 13
Because of his pride over a parking space, Dick quits his job at the university and gets one at Rusty's Burgers. Harry loses his memory and becomes paranoid thinking aliens are taking over the world.
#27 - Dharma and the Horse She Rode In On
Dharma & Greg - Season 2 - Episode 15
It's Dharma's birthday, but the surprise she gets isn't what Greg was planning. First his parents take them on a mock foxhunt, and the uncontrollably wild stallion at the stables becomes meek as a lamb as she as he meets Dharma (who nicknames him ""Steve""). Groom Joaquin swears it's because the horse has fallen madly in love with Dharma -- and sure enough Steve starts showing up unexpectedly (and inexplicably) at the apartment. Meanwhile, Greg's old flame Barbara (guest Coyle reprises her role from episode five) is assigned to work with him on a case with an overnight deadline, but has to go home to deal with a plumbing emergency, so Greg accompanies her, and over several hours of hard work they both fall asleep. When Dharma gets back from returning Steve to the stables, it's 3:00 am and Greg is missing, so she calls Pete, who assumes the worst and swears that Greg is passed out drunk on his floor. When Greg is late leaving work for Dharma's party and still has to stop off at the jewele
#28 - Even Grandmas Get the Blues
The Golden Girls - Season 6 - Episode 20
While babysitting for her granddaughter, a man mistakes Blanche as being the baby's mother and Blanche does nothing to set him straight. Meanwhile, Sophia gets ready for the Festival of the Dancing Virgins, a celebration of mothers and daughters but Dorothy wants no part of it.
#29 - When Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 2
Rumors abound that a "ratings guy" is being brought in to raise the show from its third place status. To Dana's suprise, Isaac announces the rumors are true. Dana has an "epiphany" that she and Casey should date other people for six months. Dan is invited to a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, and in his efforts to impress the First Lady, confuses secular with non-secular in a conversation about schools. This causes him no end of distress, and he proceeds to obsess about it to Casey.
#30 - A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Gilmore Girls - Season 2 - Episode 13
The annual Stars Hollow charity picnic basket lunch auction sparks controversies among couples throughout town; Jess outbids Dean for Rory's basket, causing Dean and Rory to quarrel.
#31 - Dick, Smoker
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 5
While Sally does a slow burn at being the often-overruled second in command, Dick lights up his life by taking up smoking.
#32 - Shane
Sports Night - Season 2 - Episode 6
Natalie obsesses over the loss of hell. In a nod to real-life racist John Rocker, Casey interviews an old friend, Shane McArnold, who heaps disdain on his new home city of New York and all its inhabitants. Casey promises to "fix it" out of loyalty, but Dana knows it's good television and leaves it as is. Meanwhile, Dan's therapist Abby is opening up Dan's true feelings about his family, making him more and more dysfunctional.
#33 - Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 4
Sally's exploration of the life style of a young adult woman proceeds: Dick assigns her to go out on a date and, not surprisingly, the guy turns out to be a jerk.
#34 - Dick's First Birthday
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 3
Dick confronts the harsh realities of middle age when he's introduced to the earthly concept of birthdays - and it dawns on him that he's getting old.
#35 - Mandatory Minimums
The West Wing - Season 1 - Episode 20
Andrea Wyatt insists that mandatory minimums be added to a new drug policy the staff is developing; C.J. makes a mistake and sets them back.
#36 - Cold Hearts
Chicago Hope - Season 6 - Episode 17
Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using steroids.
#37 - The Bad Guy
Dirty Sexy Money - Season 2 - Episode 13
Nick finds out his father is alive while Karen loses Simon's baby which she was pregnant with. Nick and Karen finally get together while Jeremy Proposes to Nola who is finally about to find her brother.
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#38 - Much Ado About Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 5
When Albright is afraid to be seen with Dick in public as a couple, the Solomons discover the human obsession with what other people think. In the end, Dick and Albright come out with their relationship at a faculty party. Meanwhile, sparks once again fly when Sally runs into Officer Don and decides she is going to be a cop, but Dick forbids it; and Tommy is frustrated by not having transportation.
#39 - Dick Behaving Badly
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 19
When the family accuses Dick of being "whipped" by Albright, Harry helps him become his own man. Sally and Tommy have a showdown with the game Monopoly.
#40 - See Dick Continue to Run (2)
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 2
With the help of the other aliens, Dick escapes from the box and vanquishes Evil Dick, who is escorted back to his planet by Dennis Rodman, revealed as another alien.
#41 - Smoky
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 12
Certain employees try to position themselves for a promotion when rumors of Isaac's leaving start to circulate.
#42 - Father Knows Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 18
Dick decides the reason Harry's"odd" is because he lacks a father, and sets out nurture the suddenly rebellious Harry -- who then learns that he has a"thing" in his head, a communications device the others knew about all along. Meanwhile, sparks fly when Sally meets the hostile mother of her boyfriend.
#43 - Dick the Vote
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 6
When Harry runs for city councilman, Dick discovers the complexity of the democratic system and struggles to make the right vote.
#44 - Dick Like Me
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 16
The Solomons discover that everyone on Earth has roots but them. During a chat with Tommy's teacher Mr. Randell, Dick learns that the teenage isn't "fitting in" at school. "Of course I'm not fitting in," snaps Tommy, "to fit in, you have to be something." The question is, what to be? Dick grabs an anthropology book for the answer. "It's loaded with every possible genre of human," he marvels. "It's like a catalogue. We can take our pick." Dick picks the Italians because, according to a swooning Dr. Albright, they're the sexist people on the planet. Meanwhile, Sally's swooning, too -- for Mr. Randell.
#45 - I Brake for Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 2 - Episode 18
Consumed with guilt after running over a chipmunk, Dick becomes an animal rights activist, forcing his views on Albright and the family. Tommy writes a letter to an advice columnist after neglecting to ask August to the Spring Dance.
#46 - Frozen Dick
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 1 - Episode 12
A snowstorm -- the Solomons' first -- spoils Dr. Albright's trip to Chicago, leaving her stranded in a truck stop with Dick.
#47 - Eli's Coming
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 19
Dan's day is not shaping up to be a good one as Bobbi Bernstein returns to the broadcast, and he discovers Rebecca's husband hasn't quite reached "ex" status. Meanwhile, Casey and Dana's bickering escalates until news that Isaac has suffered a stroke reaches the staff.
#48 - Tommy's Girlfriend
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 7
Tommy reintroduces himself to his ex-girlfriend...by crashing into her car and claiming Titus did it.
#49 - Last Noelle
Titus - Season 2 - Episode 9
Titus attends the funeral of an ex-girlfriend, Noelle, and Erin forces him to confront his past with her.
#50 - Ten Wickets
Sports Night - Season 1 - Episode 21
Jeremy can't figure out how to report a great story no-one understands. Natalie doesn't accept Jeremy's attempts to break up with her. Rebecca gives Dan her decision. Dana starts losing things and Casey doesn't want to stop the Jerry Falwell jokes.