The BEST episodes of Early Edition
Every episode of Early Edition ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Early Edition!
Gary Hobson was a regular Chicago stockbroker. One day his wife dumped him and he was forced to move into a hotel room. The next morning, at 6:30 am, a mysterious yellow cat showed up at his front door with tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. From that day on his life was never the same. At first skeptical, Gary started to try saving people's lives and stop disasters from happening. With the help of his friends Chuck and Marissa, Gary became a man with a mission, even though he doesn't know why or how the paper gets to him every morning.
#1 - False Witness
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/25/2000
While stealing cars for a chop shop, Jose (Joey) encounters Gary, who is brought in by police to ID the teenager in a criminal lineup. When Gary realizes that Joey is Miguel's little brother, he denies knowing him in order to protect his friend. Although Joey promises Gary that he will go straight, his accomplice pressures him into pulling another job, a heist in which the owner of the car is shot and Gary is taken hostage. While trying to convince Joey to give up his life of crime, Gary is wounded by gunfire and left to ponder whether or not he should have acknowledged Joey's involvement the first time around before people were seriously hurt.
#2 - Angels and Devils
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1997
A young boy who is part of a youth basketball camp at a church is influenced by his older brother, recently released from prison. Gary works with a sister to keep the boy on the right path. Chuck struggles to find a new head chef for McGinty's and falls for a female applicant whose dishes are a little too unconventional.
#3 - March in Time
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1997
After learning that a leader of a racist movement will be assasinated during a march, Gary begans to debate whether he should save his life or let him die. Marissa manages to convince him to save him, but the dilemma is further compromised when the leader's comrades attack and vandalize McGinty's. Now Gary has to stop the sniper from killing the leader of the movement. The situation is further complicated when the leader's son befriends a young African-American kid.
#4 - Blowing up Is Hard to Do
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1999
Gary saves a woman from drowning in a pool at a women-only gym, who turns out to be Detective Armstrong's wife. The Armstrongs invite Gary and Erica to dinner at their house; Det. Armstrong is suspicious about Gary saving his wife, and accuses him of trying to kill her. Erica decides to end her relationship with Gary, and leave Chicago. Meanwhile, Gary has to prevent two places from blowing up after a manifesto is sent to the Sun Times and the TV station, both of which refuse to read or publish it, and then are targeted by the people who wrote it.
#5 - The Fourth Carpathian
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/1998
Gary's parents receive the paper when Gary is trapped in an abandoned theater trying to save a monkey. Gary's parents and Crumb accidentally bring together a family of Latvian trapeze artists in Chicago.
#6 - Camera Shy
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1999
While covering the opening of a local pickle factory, Miguel winds up in the middle of one of Gary's saves, when he falls head first into a barrel of kosher dills. After Miguel's pickled puss winds up in all the papers, he loses his job and must take a position at a museum, where he's forced to photograph uncooperative school children. When Gary reads that one of the kids at the museum will be injured, he races to prevent the tragedy - only to cost Miguel another job. To make matters worse, while at the museum, Miguel inadvertently takes a photo of Bruce Bryce a vicious criminal thought to be dead. When he realizes he has evidence that could potentially get him his newspaper job back, Miguel heads over to the Sun Times with the film. But Bryce tracks him down and threatens him with bodily harm if he doesn't hand over the photos. With Miguel's life in jeopardy, Gary must figure out how to save him before his days as an inquiring photographer are over.
#7 - The Cat
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1997
Gary takes the cat to the vet after the cat appears lethargic. He begrudgingly leaves the cat overnight, but returns the next morning to see that the cat is gone, with no sign of the paper.
#8 - Snow Angels
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/26/2000
While out in the snow, Gary encounters two men, Earl Camby, a reformed criminal who now devotes his life to helping those less fortunate than himself, and Cliff Mourning, a sleazy motel operator. As Gary tries to save Earl's life when a building collapses on him, he reads that Cliff is going to succumb to a heart attack. Torn between leaving Earl alone to die while he saves an ungrateful human being, Gary contemplates a decision that could ultimately tie the two men's lives together.
#9 - Everybody Goes to Rick's
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2000
Gary travels back in time to 1929, and is the proprietor of a speakeasy at the location where McGinty's is currently located. He must try to prevent the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
#10 - Don't Walk Away, Renee
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/1998
Gary helps Renee, a woman who is being targeted by thieves.
#11 - Where or When
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/11/1998
After Gary is injured in a fall, he becomes housebound while his broken leg heals. In a ""Rear Window"" style plot, he watches people in the apartment building across the street and is attracted to a new neighbor who seem to have been the victim of a murder almost 50 years ago.
#12 - A Regular Joe
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1997
Gary is stressed out, and just wants a regular life. He is having recurring dreams about a psychiatrist, who encourages him to take Sundays off from the paper. Gary decides to take that advice. However, he finds out that he needs to convince a famous quarterback to stop playing in order to avoid a serious injury.
#13 - Downsized
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1997
An old work friend of Gary and Chuck's plans to have plastic surgery to impress his girlfriend. Gary and Chuck learn that the procedure will kill him, and they plan to make him reconsider.
#14 - The Quality of Mercy
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/1998
The paper sends Gary to save a man John Hernandez from getting killed in a road accident. After doing that the paper changes and it states that Hernandez is going to kill Rachel Stone the prosecutor who sent him to prison. Gary can't help but wonder why the paper sent him on such an errand. Gary then goes to the courthouse to stop Hernandez; Hernandez gets away and Gary is arrested and brought to Ms. Stone. When he tries to warn her about Hernandez; she doesn't believe him cause Gary won't reveal the source of his information. Hernandez got away by knocking Chuck out and taking his car. While Gary waits at the hospital, the paper now says that Hernandez is going to try again this time at her home. Gary goes there and gets him and Ms. Stone taken as hostage.
#15 - The Iceman Taketh
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1999
As Brigatti carries out her plan to entice the thief with an expensive diamond pendant, her relationship with Gary grows more personal since they are forced to spend several days and nights together. When it appears that the case has been solved, Gary reads that the diamond will turn out to be a fake -- putting Brigatti's career in jeopardy. Armed with tomorrow's news, only Gary can save Brigatti's job by finding the true thief and returning the diamond to its owner.
#16 - Show Me the Monet
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/1998
Gary learns that a British person who assisted him with a mission is actually a forger with many enemies.
#17 - A Bris Is Just a Bris
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1997
Gary comes between his cook and an accident-prone librarian. Chuck turns truthful while dating a Rabbi.
#18 - Mum's the Word
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/1998
Gary takes Marissa who poses as an Egyptian princess to gain admission to an exhibition so that he can save an archaeologist from being struck in the head by an ancient Egyptian stone. At the museum, Gary pushes the man out of the way only to see that someone wanted the archaeologist killed. The day after, Gary reads in the newspaper that there'll be a fire in the museum, so he checks up on a journalist who was at the museum the night the archaeologist was almost killed. When the eyes are stolen from a cat mummy, a curse is released causing everyone involved, including Marissa, to fall seriously ill.
#19 - Occasionally Amber
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/2000
When Chuck returns to Chicago to get married, Gary recognizes Chuck's bride as Amber, a jewel thief. She is now calling herself Jade. Gary confides in Marissa who tells him that he must inform Chuck. Gary confronts Jade, who tells him that she truly loves Chuck and that she is really Jade. He decides not to tell Chuck what he knows. The next morning's paper says that a large diamond will be stolen from an auction. Gary and Marissa throw a private rehearsal dinner for Chuck and Jade to keep Jade there while the theft is suppossed to happen. Jade hires two female strippers to handcuff both Gary and Chuck. She then leaves and steals the diamond. When she returns to her apartment Gary confronts her. Jade tells Gary that she had to steal the diamond because it was once a national treasure of her country. Gary doesn't believe her story. He takes the diamond from her and puts it into the curator's mailbox with a letter warning them to tighten security.
#20 - Romancing the Throne
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1998
Gary must deal with a stowaway princess who hid in his trunk.
#21 - Redfellas
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1997
The newspaper arrives with an article written in Russian Cyrillic text. Gary saves a cab driver from an accident (as seen in an English article), and finds that the cab driver can read Russian. They learn of an assassination attempt on a female Russian violinist who is playing at the Chicago-based Russian consulate.
#22 - Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2000
Gary must keep rescuing an accountant who is determined to become a bounty hunter.
#23 - The Play's the Thing
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2000
While at the theater, Gary runs into his old friend, ex-Chicago police detective Marion Crumb, who joined the Shakespearean troupe after the play's director, Bonnie Rousseau, convinced him to pursue his natural born acting talents. While pooling the cast's money to put on the production, Bonnie recruits Gary to replace one of the leads who has had an accident. As Gary throws himself into his new role, the production is threatened -- first by a producer claiming to have rights to the theater and then by an arsonist. As Gary and Marion work together to put out all the fires, damaging evidence arises against Bonnie that reveals she's a scam artist. With hours left before show time, it's up to Gary to stop Bonnie from deserting her devoted troupe -- or else it's curtains for everyone.
#24 - Walk, Don't Run
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1998
Gary tries to use his nomination to a public job to get a light put at a dangerous crossroad.
#25 - A Minor Miracle
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1998
Gary's search for a missing child makes him a suspect. When the police won't listen to him, he goes into the flooding underground sewer to try to rescue the little girl before it's too late.
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