The BEST episodes written by April Smith
#1 - Letting Go
Chicago Hope - Season 6 - Episode 12
After a strain of hepatitis invades the hospital, the staff is forced to bring in a specialist in the disease -- Keith's estranged aunt.
#3 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Chicago Hope - Season 6 - Episode 6
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
#4 - Thoughts of You
Chicago Hope - Season 6 - Episode 20
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patients brain. Alberghetti tries to ignore her feelings for Miller.
#5 - Umney's Last Case
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Season 1 - Episode 3
In 1938 in Los Angeles, Clyde Umney is a divorced private eye successful with women. On the weirdest day of his life, he sees his world turning upside-down when he discovers that he is a character of a series of novels made-up by the writer Sam Landry. Sam is grieving the loss of his son and wants to swap position with Clyde.
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#6 - Autopsy Room Four
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Season 1 - Episode 7
A businessman on vacation, Howard Cottrell, is bitten by a snake while playing a round of golf. He is taken to the nearby hospital's autopsy room, but the staff is unaware that he is in a deathlike coma but not dead. Now Howard will have to be a silent but fully conscious witness to his own autopsy unless he can somehow manage to communicate with the doctors.
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Lou Grant - Season 3 - Episode 15
The paper does a series of articles on Native Americans. Animal tries to reunite a kid who ran away from a reservation with his uncle. Billie and Lou work on a story about a Native American couple who have different ideas about family.
#8 - Inheritance
Lou Grant - Season 3 - Episode 17
When Billie investigates claims that drug companies manufactured a drug that caused cancer, she finds out that her mother may have taken that drug several years ago.
#9 - Influence
Lou Grant - Season 3 - Episode 22
Lou sticks his neck out to try and help Adam, who develops a serious drinking problem. However, when Adam's drinking problems gets worse and he expects Lou to keep covering for him, Lou regrets getting involved.
#10 - Harassment
Lou Grant - Season 4 - Episode 2
When the paper decides to do a story on sexual harassment in the workplace, Billie finds that harassment is prevalent at the Tribune. A new female reporter develops a romantic interest in Lou, which creates a conflict of interest.
#11 - Strike
Lou Grant - Season 4 - Episode 13
When the Tribune is hit by a worker's strike, Lou sides with management but is sympathetic toward the union.
#12 - Survival
Lou Grant - Season 4 - Episode 14
When Lou and Rossi investigate a secret society of survivalists, who believe that the world is going to end, they become stranded in a violent storm.
#13 - Stroke
Lou Grant - Season 4 - Episode 20
Mrs. Pynchon is on the verse of buying 'Lively Arts' magazine when she suffers a stroke. Her nephew Fred Hill swiftly makes a grab for the Tribune's ownership. Lou chooses Billie over all the male reporters to cover college girls posing for 'Suave Magazine'.
#14 - Execution
Lou Grant - Season 5 - Episode 2
Kitty Larsen, a young woman on death row picks Rossi to tell her story. Although hesitant at first, he soon begins to like her. But Lou has personal feelings against her because she killed a reporter from the Trib'.
#15 - Ghosts
Lou Grant - Season 5 - Episode 10
Billie investigates the death of a woman in a house that is said to be haunted. This leads her to attend a séance and search out the owners of a Ouija board.
#16 - Obituary
Lou Grant - Season 5 - Episode 16
At the last minute, Billie is pulled from a plane that crashes. She writes the obituaries of four Tribune staffers killed. Animal has to face the dilemma of reporting the impending extinction of a moth without tipping bug collectors to its location.