The BEST episodes of Rhoda

Every episode of Rhoda ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rhoda!

Rhoda which began in the fall of 1974, began each episode (at least the 1st season) with Valerie Harper stating: "My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York in December, 1941. I've always felt responsible for World War II. The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. I had a bad puberty, it lasted 17 years. I'm a high school graduate, I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches. I decided to move out of the house when I was 24, my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home. Eventually I ran to Minneapolis where it's cold, and I figured I'd keep better. Now I'm back in Manhattan. New York, this is your last chance!" Rhoda is the successful spin-off to the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Last Updated: 1/7/2023Network:CBS
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A Nice Warm Rut
star
9.72
32 votes

#1 - A Nice Warm Rut

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1975

Brenda decides to break out of her "nice, warm rut" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.

Chest Pains
star
9.54
35 votes

#2 - Chest Pains

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1975

Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.

Directors: Robert Moore
Along Comes Mary
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9.51
35 votes

#3 - Along Comes Mary

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1975

Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.

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Ida, the Elf
star
9.50
34 votes

#4 - Ida, the Elf

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1975

Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a "now" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.

Directors: Robert Moore
Whattaya Think It's There For?
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9.49
35 votes

#5 - Whattaya Think It's There For?

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1975

At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.

Directors: Jerry Belson
Rhoda's Wedding
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9.47
38 votes

#6 - Rhoda's Wedding

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1974

Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends. Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up. Note: Special one-hour episode featuring wedding guests Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), Lou Grant (Edward Asner), Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod), Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel) and Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman).

Directors: Robert Moore
Watch Now:Amazon
Pop Goes the Question
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9.28
39 votes

#7 - Pop Goes the Question

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1974

Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of "Will you marry me?" it's "How about living together?"

Directors: Robert Moore
Parents' Day
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8.74
39 votes

#8 - Parents' Day

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1974

Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.

Directors: Robert Moore
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'S Wonderful
star
8.65
34 votes

#9 - 'S Wonderful

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1974

Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.

Directors: Robert Moore
Watch Now:Amazon
Lady's Choice
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8.50
2 votes

#10 - Lady's Choice

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1977

Brenda enjoys the luxury of having two boyfriends, Gary and Benny, competing for her attention until they both show up for a date on the same night.

Writer: Sy Rosen
The Weekend
star
8.00
2 votes

#11 - The Weekend

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1977

Rhoda arranges a weekend alone with Mike.

Directors: Tony Mordente
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Brenda and the Bank Girl
star
8.00
2 votes

#12 - Brenda and the Bank Girl

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/12/1978

Brenda is in the final running for the First Security Bank Girl.

Directors: Tony Mordente
You Can Go Home Again
star
7.88
43 votes

#13 - You Can Go Home Again

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1974

Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.

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Windows by Rhoda
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7.88
34 votes

#14 - Windows by Rhoda

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1975

Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.

Directors: Robert Moore
Watch Now:Amazon
Brenda's Unemployment
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7.75
4 votes

#15 - Brenda's Unemployment

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1975

That rotten job Brenda felt she held at the bank looks like a rose garden after she quits being a teller and is faced with the thorns of unemployment.

Directors: Howard Storm
Meet the Levys
star
7.75
4 votes

#16 - Meet the Levys

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1976

Gary Levy's parents give Rhoda Gerard the once-over as a prospective daughter-in-law, which she is pretending to be only as a favor for Gary.

Directors: Doug Rogers
Don't Give Up the Office
star
7.67
3 votes

#17 - Don't Give Up the Office

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1976

Rhoda has one little problem with money; she doesn't have any, and it's forcing her window-dressing firm out of business.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Writer: Bud Wiser
Love Songs of J. Nicholas Lobo
star
7.60
5 votes

#18 - Love Songs of J. Nicholas Lobo

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1975

Against his better judgment, Joe hires Nick, Brenda's obnoxious boyfriend, to become a wrecker at his demolition firm.

Directors: Joan Darling
Friends and Mothers
star
7.60
5 votes

#19 - Friends and Mothers

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1975

Rhoda's new, delightful, vivacious middle-aged neighbor becomes a threat to mother Ida.

Directors: Bob Claver
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Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris
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7.60
5 votes

#20 - Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1976

Rhoda plans a wildly impulsive act to demonstrate to her estranged husband Joe that she's far from being a dull person.

Happy Anniversary
star
7.50
2 votes

#21 - Happy Anniversary

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1978

With Ida hinting of a party, everyone leads her to believe there won't be one.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
So Long, Lucky
star
7.50
2 votes

#22 - So Long, Lucky

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/1978

A string of bizarre mishaps plagues Rhoda.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Writer: Allan Katz
Two's Company
star
7.50
2 votes

#23 - Two's Company

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/5/1978

Gary and Benny go into business together, something friends should think twice about.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Writer: Don Reo
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As Time Goes By
star
7.50
2 votes

#24 - As Time Goes By

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1978

With a party to stir up business underway, Rhoda and Jack get locked in a bathroom.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Watch Now:Amazon
The Jack Story
star
7.50
2 votes

#25 - The Jack Story

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1978

Rhoda's boss asks her to help him out when an old chum comes into the city and wants to get together.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Allan Katz
Watch Now:Amazon

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