The BEST episodes directed by Steve Zuckerman
#1 - The Dog Who Knew Too Much
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 17
The Westons each pour their hearts out to Dreyfuss when the girls decide to move out after two years at home.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Life Goes On (2)
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 24
With the gang fretting over Laverne's elopement, Kevin comes to see Carol and the two decide to get married with Laverne's father performing the ceremony. Laverne and Matt return unhitched and the ceremony becomes a double wedding. Barbara returns home to pack her things, but Harry has second thoughts about moving...until he is confronted by his dead wife Libby's ghost.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Let's Give Them Something to Talk About
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 1
Rumors fly after Charley and Laverne begin spending a lot of time together, but the two swear they are just friends. Carol is excited about her new job at a local newspaper, until she finds out that she has been hired merely as a driver for the paper's teenage reporter.
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#4 - M.D., P.O.V.
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 15
Harry tries to avoid a reporter who is doing a story on him. A young patient is on the verge of death and no one can figure out why.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Mama Todd, the Sequel
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 4
Laverne's mother-in-law visits, unaware that Nick and Laverne are divorced. Charley tries to persuade Carol to make him godfather of the baby.
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#6 - All About Harry
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 19
Harry dates a newspaper writer who begins writing about their relationship in her column. Charley is rendered impotent after a medical experiment backfires.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Lordy, Lordy, Landlordy
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 24
When their good-for-nothing landlord refuses to repair the problems at the clinic, Laverne threatens a rent strike and ends up getting the gang evicted. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Carol to spend some time away from baby Scotty but she can't seem to bring herself to let him out of her sight.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Mom's the Word
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 5
Carol is afraid to tell a date that she is pregnant. Laverne and Maxine disagree when trying to plan a baby shower.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#9 - The All-American Boy -- Not!
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 21
Harry befriends a young shoplifter while volunteering at a free clinic and brings him home. The boy, an uncontrolled diabetic, later runs away, taking the Westons furniture with him.
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#10 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 18
Harry dates a 28 year old, which upsets Carol, Barbara, and the girl's parents. Laverne shapes up a nurse trainee.
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#11 - A Flaw is Born
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 1
Harry is uncomfortable dating a more successful woman, a world-famous brain surgeon; Carol and Barbara plot revenge on an inconsiderate man who met Carol on a plane and promised to phone but never did.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Under the Gun
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 16
Harry gets shot when a young boy brings a gun to the clinic. Carol has a date with a famous anthropologist, who opts instead to go party with Charley.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Bye-Bye, Baby...Hello (1)
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 2
Carol throws Patrick out when she realizes that he'll never grow up, but later learns that she's pregnant. Laverne goes too far when trying to organize things at the clinic.
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Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 14
Carol joins a mother-daughter support group and ends up feeling that she is the worst mother in the world, especially after locking the baby in the car. Laverne thinks Maxine is dying when she mysteriously asks for time off after a check-up.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - When the Rooster Dies
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 1
Harry sells his pediatrics practice to another doctor, who ends up firing Laverne. When the hospital sends Harry to check out an inner-city clinic, he ends up teaming up with the owner, Dr. Maxine Douglas, to keep the place open. Laverne joins them as nurse. Meanwhile, Sophia Petrillo moves back into nearby Shady Pines retirement home and drops by the Weston house.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Ballad of Shady Pines
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 18
Laverne fills in for a friend at Shady Pines, where Sophia's boyfriend hits on her. Sophia catches the two together and thinks Laverne is stealing her man.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - South Side Story
The Hughleys - Season 3 - Episode 17
After Darryl donates vending machines to the community center where he hung out as a teenager, Michael starts spending time there too. While Yvonne worries about the effect it's having on Michael, Darryl is pleased about his son's interest in the community center... until an old acquaintance reveals a secret about Darryl's past as a gang member.
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#18 - The Mentor
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 16
Harry realizes his mentor is getting too old to practice medicine, but is afraid to tell him. Meanwhile, Carol and Barbara prepare for a piano recital.
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#19 - Harry's Excellent Adventure
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 2
Harry looks forward to his golf game until he has to cancel to help Barbara with her taxes and Carol with her car. Tired of having no time for himself, he follows a globe-trotting friend to Pamplona for the running of the bulls.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - My Dad, My Doctor
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 19
Emily upsets Harry when she tears a ligament in her knee and needs surgery, but chooses instead to follow a therapy program recommended by another doctor. Meanwhile, Patrick goes camping and Charley tags along.
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#21 - Green Eggs and Harry
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 9
Harry enlists the help of Carol when he is asked to write a children's book, but he soon finds out that Barbara has better ideas. Charley is smitten with another juror during jury duty.
#22 - Superbaby
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 11
When the baby starts ""singing Beethoven,"" Carol fears the hospital has given her the wrong child.
#23 - And Kevin Makes Three
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 17
Carol is jealous over Kevin's quick bonding with Scotty. Harry and Maxine help Laverne learn to speak Spanish.
#24 - Love a la Mode
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 13
Charley plans to marry a waitress from a pancake house. When she finds out they have the same birthday, Laverne thinks that explains why she and Maxine are so much alike, which Maxine thinks is ridiculous.
#25 - Absence Makes the Nurse Grow Weirder
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 25
Harry fills in at his old practice and becomes smitten with the nurse. Laverne is upset because Harry forgets the anniversary of the day they started working together.
#26 - Family Practice
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 14
Maxine agrees to take care of a patient's children while the lady has gall bladder surgery. Sophia invites Harry to a Shady Pines square dance.
#27 - Bye-Bye, Baby...Hello (2)
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 3
Carol can't decide how to tell Patrick about her pregnancy. Laverne refuses to tell Maxine a secret.
#28 - Love and Marriage
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 20
Carol is upset when cousin Little Carol visits and announces her wedding plans. Charley is sentenced to community service at the hospital and gets some helpful tips from Jack Trenton.
#29 - A Foreign Affair
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 23
Maxine's boyfriend, an African cultural attache, proposes marriage. Sophia and Charley get Carol (who meanwhile has started to play the guitar again) hooked on the dog races.
#30 - The Perfect Person Episode (2)
Committed - Season 1 - Episode 13
Nate wakes up in Natalie's bed, and quickly gets out of there. He later tells Marni, and about a kiss shared between Nate & Natalie. Marni decides she needs to kiss a guy to be even, which leads to Nate and Marni "breaking up". However, Marni is reluctant to give up, and chases Nate down, who says his speech was only to say he is sick of Marni's behavior, and that they will be together forever.
Watch Now:Amazon#31 - The Tinker Grant
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 8
When the clinic applies for a grant, a man comes to evaluate their request and leaves his notebook behind, which Maxine reads. Charley seeks Sophia's help when trying to impress an Italian girlfriend's parents.
#32 - The Devil and Dr. Weston
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 22
A wealthy philanthropist eyes Harry. Carol tries to help shy Doris (who once volunteered at the clinic but now sales roll-on moose door-to-door) come out of her shell.
#33 - Grandma, What Big Eyes You Have
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 15
Harry is attracted to a woman he meets in the park, but soon finds out she is married. Laverne keeps a parrot at the office while waiting for it's owner to claim it, which annoys Maxine. Carol goes overboard when shopping at a value size discount club.
#34 - Hog Heaven
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 19
Laverne's old biker boyfriend returns and the two rekindle their romance, which annoys Harry, who doesn't think the guy is good enough for her. Carol makes a memory video for baby Scotty.
#35 - Harry Weston: Man's Best Friend
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 18
Harry becomes Carol's boss' new best friend, which makes Charley jealous. Laverne auditions for a commercial in which she'll play the voice of a cartoon owl.
#36 - The Girl Who Cried Baby
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 10
Maxine and Harry compete to sell opera tickets. After a series of false alarms, Carol gives birth to son Scotty while at the opera.
#37 - The Boy Next Door
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 8
During a moment of weakness, Carol and Charley sleep together. Thinking perhaps their hate for one another is actually masking love, they attempt to build a relationship.
#38 - Mother Dearest
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 7
Maxine's mother visits and drives her crazy, but then finds out she may have glaucoma. Charley finds out the sex of Carol's baby, something she didn't want to know. Harry and Casey MacAfee try to make a date.
#39 - Drive, He Said
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 20
Harry is supposed to get Charley back to the house for a surprise party, but instead the two end up searching for Charley's old girlfriend whom he never got over. Meanwhile, Carol, Barbara, and Laverne try to entertain the party guests.
#40 - A Christmas Story
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 11
The Westons prepare for their annual holiday skiing trip until Dreyfuss runs away. Laverne refuses to accept Christmas gifts from Harry.
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#41 - The Reunion
Happily Divorced - Season 2 - Episode 1
Fran has no interest in facing her old nemesis at her college reunion, until she runs into Elliot and he agrees to be her faux fiance for the night. What could go wrong? After all, they're just friends... or are they?
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#42 - Between a Cop and a Hard Place
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 4
Barbara finds out that her new police partner, whom Carol is dating, is married.
#43 - The Gift of the Maggies
Instant Mom - Season 1 - Episode 9
Stephanie surprises the family with a visit from her father at Christmas; Stephanie is surprised by Maggie's reaction to her father's visit.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#44 - Aunt Verne Knows Best
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 23
Laverne is too controlling on her nephew, who is in town to attend college. Carol is convinced her relationship with Patrick will be over before their nearing six month anniversary because no other relationship (except her doomed marriage) has lasted past six months.
#45 - The Sting
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 14
The FBI wants Emily to help them nab her bookie boyfriend. Laverne teaches Charley CPR.
#46 - Rambo of Neiman Marcus
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 6
Carol and Barbara are witnesses to a mall robbery and surprisingly it's Carol who nabs the thief, not police officer, Barbara. Neighbor Rose hits Harry's car and offers to pay for the damages.
#47 - The Body Beautiful
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 11
Harry discovers that a patient is using steroids. Upset that Patrick is using a nude model in his work, Carol starts thinking she's not attractive enough and attempts an exercise regimen. Laverne is put in charge of fire drills.
#48 - Gesundheit
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 15
When the baby can't stop sneezing, Carol hires Studs With Suds to clean the house from top to bottom, and Sophia charges her friends to come and see them in action. But when they think it may be Dreyfuss causing the allergy, Harry takes him to stay with Charley, who doesn't want to give him back. Meanwhile, strange noises from upstairs make Laverne think the clinic is haunted by the ghosts of men who were murdered there years before.
#49 - There's No Accounting
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 3
Carol is drawn to Barbara's sensitive, intelligent new boyfriend and can't figure out why he would be interested in Barbara. Harry is bored by his new girlfriend, a lady who seems perfect for him. Laverne grows attached to a dog that Nick brings home.
#50 - The Last Temptation of Laverne
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 21
Laverne's aunt Retha will lend a house down payment only if Laverne, though innocent, will assume blame for a car accident. Carol and Barbara meet an old man in the park who is moving into a retirement home and try to make his last day of freedom something to remember.