The BEST Episodes of Home Improvement
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Nov 8, 2019
Network: ABC (US)
Home Improvement is a family sitcom about Tim "The Tool man" Taylor (Tim Allen), the host of a local cable home improvement show called "Tool Time." Home Improvement looks at Tim at work, and at home, as the husband of Jill (Patricia Richardson) and the father to three teenage boys. Having been married for almost 20 years, Tim and Jill have had their share of fights, but with the help of their wise, mysterious neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr. (Earl Hindman), things often turn out all right.
#1 - The Kiss and the Kiss-Off
Season 6 - Episode 25
Lisa, the old Tool Time girl, returns and Tim gives her her old job back without consulting Heidi, the current Tool Time girl.
8.03 
#2 - The Long and Winding Road (3)
Season 8 - Episode 27
Tim records his finale Tool Time, with a host of guests - and a pregnant Heidi. Morgan offers Tim more money and an executive producer credit to stay with the show, but Tim rejects his offer. Jill makes a decision about the Indiana job offer. Wilson and Tim take down their fence to make more room for Al and Trudy's wedding. Harry and Delores return for the happy occasion, while Benny, Marty and Jeff bet on the outcome. The Taylor's decide to go to Indiana, taking their house with them in the ultimate home project - or is it just a figment of Tim's imagination?
8.00 
#3 - The Tool Man Delivers
Season 6 - Episode 9
Heidi goes into labor at the Classic Car Man of the Year awards and Tim and Jill help deliver the baby, while receiving instructions from Wilson on the phone.
7.97 
#4 - The Feminine Mistake
Season 6 - Episode 23
Jill makes Tim act like an equal partner once she finds that Brad's girlfriend does whatever he tell her to. Tool Time does a 3D show.
7.93 
#5 - The Long and Winding Road (2)
Season 8 - Episode 26
As Tim and the Boys drive to school, they reminisce about some of the memories they have over the past eight years.
7.92 
#6 - A Night to Dismember
Season 7 - Episode 5
It's Halloween at the Taylor's house. Mark decides to do a horror video for his class using different scenes from old horror shows and movies, but Jill and Tim don't like the idea when they sneak a preview at Mark's video.
7.92 
#7 - An Older Woman
Season 7 - Episode 13
Brad's getting MARRIED... well, maybe not after Tim and Jill get through with him. The Taylor parents try to make Brad realize that he's not ready for the commitment of marriage to a college girl he just recently met at a party.
7.91 
#8 - Taps
Season 6 - Episode 24
To keep her father away because of the pressure she's under, Jill fakes an illness only to find out that he died shortly after she lied to him.
7.89 
#9 - The Great Race II
Season 3 - Episode 25
After Bob Vila raises more money than Tim for Jill's library fundraiser, Tim challenges him to a race... in his unfinished hot rod.
7.88 
#10 - Jill's Passion
Season 7 - Episode 7
Ian, a man Jill met at the YMCA gym, asks her out mistaking Tim for her brother. That night Jill has a dream about him, but after talking to Patty, a friend, and Tim she straightens it out.
7.88 
#11 - Games, Flames and Automobiles
Season 5 - Episode 26
Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene, but the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.
7.86 
#12 - Futile Attraction
Season 7 - Episode 18
Tim becomes suspicious that Heidi and Al are having a hot affair when he finds out she has separated from her husband; he sets out to find out exactly how much of an affair they are having. On Tool Time, Tim adds a little MORE POWER to his golf swing when golf-pro Payne Stewart guests.
7.85 
#13 - My Dinner with Wilson
Season 4 - Episode 9
At Thanksgiving dinner with the Taylors, Wilson announces he is moving, but Tim gives him advice in the hopes Wilson will decide to stay.
7.85 
#14 - Home for the Holidays
Season 8 - Episode 11
Randy returns from Costa Rica for Christmas only to discover the changes that have taken place in his absence and that life has gone on without him.
7.85 
#15 - I Was a Teenage Taylor
Season 6 - Episode 7
It's a battle of Halloween pranks. First Tim scares Al, then Brad and Randy scare Jill, then a strange man shows up at the door asking to see the basement. Jill, Tim and Wilson tell the boys that years ago a man named Clifford Warren was accused of killing his brother, but because of his mental problems he was put in an insane hospital. Little do the boys know that it's a Halloween prank. They invite Al to help them pull a prank on their own, but Al and Wilson pull a prank on the Taylors.
7.84 
#16 - Ye Olde Shoppe Teacher
Season 4 - Episode 10
Mr. Leonard, Tim's high school shop teacher, comes to visit, but gets angry and leaves after guest starring on an episode of Tool Time.
7.84 
#17 - Yule Better Watch Out
Season 1 - Episode 12
Tim competes in the neighborhood Christmas light competition. Mark writes his Christmas list to Santa, but Brad and Randy tell him Santa is dead.
7.84 
#18 - Too Many Cooks
Season 3 - Episode 19
When Irma can't host her show (Cooking with Irma) for a week, she asks Al to fill-in as host and Tim to be his assistant. Tim has a hard time not being the center of attention, but when Jill shows him that he can assist her he decides to continue to help Al. Randy finds it hard to talk to a girl in his class named Beth.
7.83 
#19 - What a Drag
Season 7 - Episode 16
On Tool Time, Tim and Al show viewers how to prepare for a severe winter storm. When Tim falls through the gazebo he discovers a small bag of marijuana taped to the underside of the swing. Jill and Tim stake out their backyard from Wilson's to catch the culprit... to everyone's surprise, Brad is caught red-handed with the goods.
7.83 
#20 - Say Goodnight, Gracie
Season 7 - Episode 15
Tim begins to want to have more children after Marty asks him to babysit one of the twins. After some discussions about his vasectomy with Jill, and some words of wisdom from Wilson, he decides that being able to return the twins after playing with them is the best idea. Mark is still wearing black, but with an added touch (of lipstick) for this episode.
7.83 
#21 - The Naked Truth
Season 4 - Episode 19
When Marty and Nancy are staying with the Taylors, Tim walks in on Nancy in the shower thinking she is Jill. Meanwhile, Randy goes to a Bar Mitzvah and must come home after he splits his trousers.
7.83 
#22 - The Write Stuff
Season 7 - Episode 20
On Tool Time, Tim manages to throw himself out a window while doing renovation work. Jill tries to get Tim to help prepare for a tax audit. Brad and Randy become rivals when Brad's article "Hey Yo!" takes the spotlight away from Randy's "Genetic Mutations in the Second Half of the 20th Century."
7.82 
#23 - Be True to Your Tool
Season 3 - Episode 8
Wes Davidson, the president of Binford, makes Tim promote a bad tool on Tool Time. Meanwhile, the boys go shopping and find a way to save money.
7.82 
#24 - Room at the Top
Season 7 - Episode 3
Jill wants Tim to build her an office in the attic, and then changes her mind at the last minute; Tim makes a big deal about it.
7.82 
#25 - My Son, the Driver
Season 6 - Episode 20
Jill's worst fears come true when she predicts something bad will happen on the night Brad is first driving. He gets into a small accident, but little do they know the accident is a lot more serious than he admits.
7.82