The BEST episodes written by Bruce Kane

Little Miss Shopping Mall
star
8.40
5 votes

#1 - Little Miss Shopping Mall

Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 18

The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

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Who's the Boss?
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8.08
12 votes

#2 - Who's the Boss?

Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 8

When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.

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Who is Mr. X?
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8.00
17 votes

#3 - Who is Mr. X?

The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 9

Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark.

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Vera's Mortician
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8.00
9 votes

#4 - Vera's Mortician

Alice - Season 1 - Episode 14

Vera's boyfriend might very well be a married man.

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Over the River and Through the Woods
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7.92
25 votes

#5 - Over the River and Through the Woods

The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 11

It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies.

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Double Wedding
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7.57
7 votes

#6 - Double Wedding

Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 24

Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

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Oooga Mooga
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7.20
4 votes

#7 - Oooga Mooga

Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 13

A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated "doll" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.

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Bride and Groom
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7.20
4 votes

#8 - Bride and Groom

Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 4

Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

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Victor/Vicki-toria
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7.14
6 votes

#9 - Victor/Vicki-toria

Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 19

To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.

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Of Mice and Men
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7.10
10 votes

#10 - Of Mice and Men

The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 16

Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.

The Old and the Beautiful
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6.83
12 votes

#11 - The Old and the Beautiful

Quark - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Head gives Quark a mission to spend an extended romantic interlude with a princess. Elated about his orders, Quark is later told by Palindrome that this is a secret mission to an unknown location. Quark and his crew set out from Perma One on the secret mission and along the trip they pick up a space baggie that they find in their way. But the bag they pickup gets jammed in the spacecraft's pickup door so Quark goes to fix the problem. When he is finished with the fix, Quark appears visibly older. This leads Ficus to conclude that Quark is aging at a rate of 2 years per hour due to a virus he encountered from the space baggie. Even though the crew attempts to cure Quark, all of their attempts fail. Quark is given final orders by Palindrome that he must complete an interlude with the beautiful and voluptuous Princess Carna in order to maintain a treaty with the dreaded Gorgons. Quark doubts that he can complete the mission, given his advancing age and senility, but he gives it a try anyway. He goes to see her and when he returns Quark has returned to his former youthful self leaving him to conclude that this was the best assignment he's ever had.

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Ronald McDonald House
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6.80
4 votes

#12 - Ronald McDonald House

Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 17

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

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Breakfast of Criminals
star
6.80
5 votes

#13 - Breakfast of Criminals

Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 10

Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals that the product isn't all it's crackled up to be.

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Goodbye, Polumbus
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6.33
9 votes

#14 - Goodbye, Polumbus

Quark - Season 1 - Episode 5

The Head has reason to believe that the dreaded Gorgons are behind a dastardly plot concerning the planet Polumbus, so he sends Quark on a suicide mission to the planet. When they reach Polumbus, the Betty's, Ficus, and Quark beam down to the planet, and strange occurrences start to happen. The Betty's become transfixed with two handsome dancing men and Quark is enchanted by a beautiful and tempting woman. They soon discover other starship commanders who are happy and content on Polumbus due to the presence of "The Limbicon." In short order, we find that Quark and his entire crew are involved in their own fantasies and adventures on Polumbus - Ficus with a math teacher, Adam with Diane from his academy days, to name a few. Adam concludes that all on Polumbus worship The Limbicon since it provides them pleasurable fantasies, which makes all of them find their own paradise, trapping them on Polumbus forever. Quark realizes that he must destroy The Limbicon, but he has to overcome his temptations to stay with Diane and all of the pleasures she can give him. He bravely musters all of his mental strength and successfully destroys The Limbicon, allowing him to find the true inhabitants of Polumbus - the Clay People. With his mission complete Quark bids goodbye to Diane and goodbye to Polumbus.

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Book-It
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5.50
3 votes

#15 - Book-It

Small Wonder - Season 3 - Episode 22

Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.I. named Rick Savage.

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If You Don't Tell Her, I Will
star
5.00
3 votes

#16 - If You Don't Tell Her, I Will

Rhoda - Season 2 - Episode 15

Two's company and three's a crowd, as both Brenda and Rhoda discover when they have uninvited guests moving in with them.