The BEST episodes of Home Improvement season 1
Every episode of Home Improvement season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Home Improvement season 1!
Home Improvement is a family sitcom about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, 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 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., things often turn out all right.
#1 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1991
After Jill explicitly tells Tim not to touch the dishwasher, he breaks it in an attempt to make it more powerful; more of a "man's" dishwasher. Jill has a job interview, but she doesn't get it and when Tim tries to comfort her, he only makes matters worse. After talking to Wilson, Tim tries again and succeeds.
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#2 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1991
Tim decides to put in another sink in the bathroom so his shaving junk won't be in Jill's way, but the project takes longer than he expects.
#3 - Stereo-Typical
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1992
Tim and Jill have a fight over the volume of the stereo, until the speaker blows.
#4 - Look Who's Not Talking
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1991
Jill gets stage fright when she has to deliver a speech in front of women at the Library Association. Tim and Mark dress up as women to help her get over her fear.
#5 - Flying Sauces
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1991
The K&B Construction guys are invited on Tool Time to show how to make hot gourmet meals while on the job site. They use the tools of their trade to make meals anyone would be proud of. At home, Jill is fed up with Brad and Randy excluding Mark from their games so she has a talk with them. Brad and Randy tell Mark that they, along with Tim and Jill, are aliens from outer space.
#6 - Up Your Alley
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1992
Tim and Jill have a bowling match against each other and try not to make it competitive, until the K&B Construction guys show up. The boys get in trouble at an arcade.
#7 - Al's Fair in Love and War
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1992
Al tries to ask Greta Post out, but when he does he screws up. After Jill finds her old diary, Tim wants to read it. Tim notices that Brad acts different around Jennifer.
#8 - Off Sides
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1991
When she can't find a babysitter, Jill has a magician watch the kids while she and Tim go on their romantic dinner. However, Tim is too distracted by a football game to pay attention to her. Meanwhile, the kids accidentally lock the magician in a trunk.
#9 - Mow Better Blues
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1991
After breaking one of Tim's tools that has been in the family for twenty years, Mark fears that he will be traded in after Brad and Randy make up a story about "Peter", their former brother that was traded in after he broke one of Tim's flashlights.
#10 - Adventures in Fine Dining
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1991
Tim bets Jill that he can teach the boys some table manners.
#11 - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1992
Mr. Binford ruins Tim and Jill's romantically planned weekend by making them go camping to present Binford's new line of winter camping gear.
#12 - A Battle of Wheels
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/1992
Tim accidentally breaks one of Jill's pottery projects when she leaves it in the garage. Tim lets Al host Tool Time for a day after blaming him for one of his mistakes.
#13 - Luck Be a Taylor Tonight
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1992
Al and Jill's sister, Robin, ruin Tim's poker night.
#14 - Forever Jung
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1992
Karen visits and Tim must stand up to her. Jennifer invites Brad to her parents' anniversary, so Jill teaches him how to dance.
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#15 - Yule Better Watch Out
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1991
Tim competes in the neighborhood Christmas light competition. Mark writes his Christmas list to Santa, but Brad and Randy tell him Santa is dead.
#16 - Reach Out and Teach Someone
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1991
Tim decides to do a Tool Time special for women to teach plumbing. After being called an idiot by Randy, Brad worries that he will do bad on a test. Tim starts his hot rod.
#17 - Unchained Malady
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1992
Tim gets bad luck after throwing a chain letter from Al out. Randy wrecks his new bike after being dared to do a trick.
#18 - Nothing More Than Feelings
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1991
After Jill drove while her oil light was on, Tim shares this with the Tool Time audience and the other guys say their wives don't respect their tools.
#19 - Wild Kingdom
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1991
While working in the basement, Tim hears some strange noises. Is it a mouse or is it a creepy crawly snake?
#20 - What About Bob?
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1992
Tim cheats to beat Tool Time guest Bob Vila at a trivia game. Randy pulls a prank on Curtis, a geek at school.
#21 - Satellite on a Hot Tim's Roof
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1991
Tim becomes green with envy while putting up a new satellite dish on the roof when Jill's teacher visits.
#22 - Jill's Birthday
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1992
Tim gets Jill a lifetime membership to a health care club, until she says she will never exercise again. Brad and Randy spend all of their money on a baseball card, so they make Mark give them a "brother tax" to get Jill a present.
#23 - Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1992
Jill tells Tim that he is a bad listener when he doesn't remember her mentioning the opera fundraiser. Brad and Randy try to get Mark to eat a worm while working on a birdhouse.
#24 - For Whom the Belch Tolls
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1992
Jill doesn't want Stu Cutler, Tim's old college friend, in the house. So Tim tries to keep him away, but when he gives in and Stu comes to the house he insults Tim and Jill and belches with the boys.