The BEST episodes of Red Oaks
Every episode of Red Oaks ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Red Oaks!
A young tennis player works at the prestigious and exclusive Red Oaks Country Club during the summer between his sophomore and junior years of college in the 1980s.
#1 - Labor Day Luau
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/9/2015
As the end of summer approaches, David coaches Getty for the Red Oaks tennis championship, and the Red Oaks staff say their goodbyes. But there are big changes coming for the Meyers and the Gettys.
#2 - Action!
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/2017
As summer winds down, it's the end of an era for Red Oaks Country Club - but the start of a bright future for David Meyers and friends.
#3 - Old Flames
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2016
With the pressure of his trial weighing on him, Getty turns to an unusual confidante for moral support. One of Wheeler's students gets a little too close for comfort. And while Skye struggles to find her place on the New York art scene, David and Karen reconnect.
#4 - The Verdict
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2016
Getty feels the heat as the jury verdict — and the club recall election — loom. With the summer winding down, Wheeler and Misty confront tough questions about what fall brings. David must define his own independence and make a decision about Getty's lucrative job offer.
#5 - The Anniversary
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2016
Tension bubbles as the Getty's celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at the club. Meanwhile, Sam tracks down a lost love, Skye finds out about David's secret power lunches with her father, and Wheeler goes to increasing lengths to avoid a romantic blunder with Misty.
#6 - After Hours
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/2015
David and Skye ponder their respective futures, both romantic and professional, as they spend an evening in New York City. Wheeler and Misty spend the night driving around town and discussing life.
#7 - The Bar Mitzvah
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/9/2015
David's tensions with Barry, his recent night out with Skye, and his growing distance from Karen all threaten to derail a Red Oaks bar mitzvah he's been hired to film. All while Wheeler scrambles to recover a missing package of cocaine.
#8 - The Wedding
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/2016
As Karen and Barry prepare to tie the knot, David finds himself grappling with a forlorn Nash, arguing parents, and stark choices for his future.
#9 - Paris
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2016
After revealing their feelings for each other at the end of last summer, David and Skye finally reunite in Paris to ring in New Year's 1986. But surprise guests threaten to ruin their romantic week in the City of Lights.
#10 - Lost and Found
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2016
Barry recruits David to film his bachelor party jaunt to Atlantic City, and Nash and Wheeler tag along for the most awkward road trip of their lives. Sam and Judy team up to search for his lost cat.
#11 - Doubles
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2015
David finds himself swept into a surprising hustle when he agrees to be Getty's doubles partner for an outside-work tennis match. As David gets to know Getty's daughter, Skye, Nash nurtures dreams of playing the stock market, and Wheeler and Misty bond over a parallel parking lesson.
#12 - Father's Day
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2016
Skye talks David into joining an uncomfortable Father's Day brunch with a less than thrilled Getty. Sam wants to celebrate with some father and son time of his own. Nash sets his romantic sights on a wealthy widowed club member, and Wheeler launches a new moneymaking scheme.
#13 - Memorial Day
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2016
As Red Oaks Country Club kicks off the summer season, David faces an uncertain future at school, while Wheeler tries to become something more than "just friends" with longtime crush Misty. Meanwhile, club president Getty faces a challenge to his status at the club, and Sam and Judy adjust to single life.
#14 - Swingers
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/2015
David is hired to film a sex tape for middle-aged swingers from the club, but the experience isn't quite the stuff of fantasy. Meanwhile, Karen tries her hand at modeling for Barry, and Judy throws a party for the students in her real estate class, to Sam's chagrin.
#15 - The Wedding
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2015
David talks Barry into hiring him to film a wedding at Red Oaks. While the club comes out to celebrate, Nash squares off with a rival to impress the father of the bride, and Wheeler ponders an eccentric stranger's business proposition.
#16 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/2014
In the summer of 1985, 20-year-old David Meyers takes a job as a tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey, as his parents, girlfriend, and co-workers pull him toward a future he's increasingly unsure he wants.
#17 - Fourth of July
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/2015
With Red Oaks' Independence Day party in full swing, Getty enlists David as his coach for the upcoming club tennis championship, and Wheeler catches Misty's boyfriend in a compromising position. Meanwhile, Judy struggles with conflicted feelings for her female yoga teacher.
#18 - Independence Day
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2016
Getty prepares for his trial on insider trading charges. Nash's romance with Widow Horowitz heats up. Meanwhile, David wonders if he may be too suburban for Skye's new city lifestyle.
#19 - Paroled
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2017
A newly-paroled Getty makes a last-ditch effort to save Red Oaks from the wrecking ball. Sam's side business is dealt a major setback. Misty and Wheeler separately fend off unwanted advances. And David finally makes a decision he should have months ago.
#20 - Samwich
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/2017
While David angles to get hired to direct a dog food commercial, best friend Wheeler learns of a handsome rival for girlfriend Misty's affections. Nash visits Getty in prison, bringing dire news of a threat to Red Oaks. IRS Agent Terry pitches Sam on a business venture for which neither is qualified.
#21 - A Little Business Proposition
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2017
Wheeler weighs an unusual proposition from his Columbia lit professor. Despite warnings from his ex-wife Judy, Sam decides to go into business with Terry. Getty recruits David to help save his beloved Red Oaks.
#22 - MDMA
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2015
David's romantic plans for Karen's birthday go awry, while Sam and Judy's marriage counselors give them a new "empathy" drug to tap into their romantic feelings, and Misty sets Wheeler up on the world's worst blind date.
#23 - The Bris
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2016
David takes a freelance job videoing a bris and accepts Getty's invitation to lunch in the city. Back home, Judy enjoys Ladies Night with new friends, while Sam goes on a blind date.
#24 - Memories
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2017
Sam and Shirley run into trouble during a night on the town. Following a dressing-down from his boss Derek and a fight with Wheeler, David goes in search of a friendly face.
#25 - Summer in the City
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/20/2017
Summer of 1987 finds David Meyers living in New York and working at a video production company. Unfortunately his dreams of becoming a filmmaker-and his love life-are going nowhere fast. Meanwhile at Red Oaks, tennis pro Nash learns alarming news about the future of the country club.