The BEST episodes directed by Steve Zuckerman
#1 - 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.
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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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
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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.
#8 - Diary of a Mad Housewife
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 6
Carol reads her mother's old diary and thinks she wasn't wanted. Maxine is annoyed by a mime and a hypochondriac at the clinic.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Superbaby
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 11
When the baby starts ""singing Beethoven,"" Carol fears the hospital has given her the wrong child.
#11 - What's a Mother to Do?
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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Charley's Millions
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 20
After receiving an inheritance, Charley assembles a group of people who have meant a lot to him over the years (which includes Harry, Carol, Sophia, and Don Adams from Get Smart) and takes them all on a trip to Mardi Gras. Laverne's hideous looking cat dies.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Absence Makes the Nurse Grow Weirder
Empty Nest - Season 6 - Episode 26
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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Mrs. Clinton Comes to Town
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 2
Reporter Carol tries her best to meet Hillary Clinton, who is visiting the clinic, but only ends up getting thrown in jail along with Laverne and Charley.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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.
#28 - 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.
#29 - 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.
#30 - 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.
#31 - 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.
#32 - Sucking up is Hard to Do
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 14
Carol advises Barbara on how to suck up to get a job promotion. Laverne plays matchmaker for Harry.
#33 - The Man That Got Away
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 15
Barbara tries to get a man she likes to ask her out. Laverne must cast the deciding vote on an important Hickory issue.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#36 - 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.
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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.
#38 - 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.
#39 - 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.
#40 - Country Weston
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 7
Country music star Garth Brooks offers Barbara a job as security chief on his tour. Charley moves in with the Westons while his house is being fumigated.
#41 - If You Knew Andy Like I Know...
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 11
Harry hires an old friend's son as an associate, but isn't pleased with the way he practices medicine. Meanwhile, Carol begins a relationship with the new associate and realizes he is arogant and self-absorbed.
#42 - The Sting
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 14
The FBI wants Emily to help them nab her bookie boyfriend. Laverne teaches Charley CPR.
#43 - 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.
#44 - 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.
#45 - 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.
#46 - The Way We Are
Empty Nest - Season 3 - Episode 24
Harry looks forward to a visit from a childhood sweetheart, until a childhood rival also resurfaces. Charley wonders what FICA is when the company starts taking part of his paycheck.
#47 - 50 Million Men and a Baby
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 1
Laverne's cousin leaves her baby behind and runs off to find her husband, who left after a fight. So while Laverne looks for her, the Westons take care of the baby. The experience makes Barbara want her own child and she considers artificial insemination.
#48 - Her Cheatin' Heart
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 3
Laverne meets another man at a banquet and goes out to dinner with him while Nick is out of town. Meanwhile, when Carol confesses that she stole Barbara's first boyfriend at camp years ago, Barbara vows to extract revenge when Carol least expects it.
#49 - Food for Thought
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 4
Carol quits her job at the library and buys a catering business.
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Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 5
The Westons buy guns after their house is burglarized, a choice they later regret when Carol gets a little trigger happy. Charley decides to head to the woods to do some serious thinking about his life.