The BEST episodes written by Chris Thompson

#1 - Old Ties

Heartbeat - Season 8 - Episode 22

An old friend visits Gina, and Aunt Mary fears trouble. Two brothers open a restaurant, and they are surprised by more than a brick through the window. An archaeologist inspires Greengrass to dig for a treasure.

#2 - Give It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 3

CeCe and Rocky go to entertain the elderly at a retirement home, but one of them dislikes Rocky. Rocky tries to get the lady to be nice to her, but it doesn't work. CeCe tries to convince Rocky to ingest energy drinks that have more caffeine than three cups of coffee, but CeCe doesn't care. Flynn drinks them instead and the girls get tired of trying to calm him down all night. The girls also get light-up clothing from Deuce, who wants them to advertise the clothing. CeCe and Rocky then dance on the show, but when Ty gets a mistake of paying on twenty bucks to donate, he tries to stop them from dancing. The girls are then in the final battle against Gunther and Tinka, but the twins fall down as the light-up clothing repeatedly shocks the girls. Gary then announces that CeCe and Rocky are the last one standing, but they fall asleep as soon as Gary says they have a spotlight dance.

#3 - Kick It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 5

Cece and Rocky join karate class. Meanwhile, Ty notices he could be getting fat. He decides to go on a special diet but he just keeps getting fatter.

#4 - The New Producer

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 1 - Episode 5

A friend of Larry's temporarily replaces Artie as producer but schemes to make the job permanent.

#5 - Hook It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 8

CeCe and Rocky invite their friend Deuce to videotape them for a school project and he overhears Gary Wilde deciding whether or not to fire two dancers. Fearing that it could be CeCe and Rocky, he shows them the footage and the two set out to prove to Gary Wilde that they should get as much recognition as the dancers who have been on the show before. Little that they know that they weren't the last ones hired and that Gary wasn't planning to take them off the show. Meanwhile, Ty teaches Flynn how to do some dance steps to impress an older girl.

#6 - Meatball It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 2

CeCe and Rocky get their second paycheck from "Shake It Up, Chicago!" and open up a checking accounts at Chicago Savings Bank. They decide to go shopping at a thfift store with their new debit cards. Seeing that they were selfish with their money, they decide to treat Ty and Deuce to lunch at the Olive Pit. However, they aren't able to pay because their checking accounts are overdrawn. In order to get their meals for free, the girls participate in the restaurant's challenge of eating a 10-pound meatball over a heaping plate of spaghetti. It is also revealed that Rocky is a vegetarian. Meanwhile, Gunther and Tinka babysit Flynn.

#7 - Re-Enter the Dragon

Action - Season 1 - Episode 2

Peter hires Wendy as the vice president of production. When her pimp gets word of this he goes to see Peter to talk things over, so Peter hires him as the co-executive producer of ""Beverly Hills Gun Club"".

#8 - Add It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 4

CeCe finds herself in trouble when she learns that she is failing algebra class. So, Deuce hires a tutor for her. When the tutor shows up at CeCe's house, CeCe finds out that the tutor is a small fry genius in college. Flynn then breaks CeCe's tutor when Henry (the tutor) is playing video games with Flynn. Henry then reveals a secret Rocky never knew about CeCe, CeCe is dyslexic. Meanwhile, Ty goes on a date with Tinka and Gunther bets Deuce his various objects playing arm wrestling.

#9 - Start It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 1

Best friends CeCe and Rocky audition for the show, "Shake it Up Chicago". Unfortunately, CeCe did not get it because she froze in the middle of her audition (she usually pictures everyone else naked that is why she is never nervous). Rocky did well and got in. Rocky did not want to go to the show because CeCe was not on it. CeCe forces Rocky to go to the show. On Rocky's first show, she brought CeCe and handcuffed each other, and they ended up dancing together. The host thought that they have the "it" factor so, CeCe got in as well. In the end, the girls get $40 each but only $2 was left for them because they had to pay for new handcuffs, thrift store dance clothes, and transportation.

#10 - The Performance Artist

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 2 - Episode 14

In an effort to freshen up the guest list, Larry agrees to have a controversial performance on, then chickens out when he sees the guy's routine.

#11 - Wild It Up

Shake It Up - Season 1 - Episode 9

Rocky tries to change her image when she reads a blog about how she is a goody-two-shoes. However, Rocky ends up in the Vice Principal’s office (played by Cat Deeley) after she goes a bit too far trying to change her image. Also during the episode Deuce and Flynn try to catch a mouse that is loose in CeCe’s apartment.

#12 - An Affair to Forget (1)

Laverne & Shirley - Season 3 - Episode 6

Shirley is waiting anxiously for Laverne to come back from the bank with their savings for their cruise holiday that they have been planning on for weeks. When Laverne comes in, she tells Shirley that they have $50 less than they thought, and now they're not going to be able to take the cruise as they only have two days until the ship sets sail. The girls get depressed until Laverne says that they shouldn't give up hope, that they still have two days left and that they'll think of something to come up with the money. The girls go see Carmine who gets them a job at J&J Shoes. Carmine tells the owner he'll bring all his tap dance students over to his store to buy their shoes if he hires Laverne and Shirley for the weekend. The guy hires the girls and tells them to go and get changed into their uniforms. When we see Laverne and Shirley again, Shirley is dressed as Jack and Laverne is dressed as Jill from the nursery rhyme. The store owner tells them they'll get $2 for every pair of shoes

#13 - The Bully Show

Laverne & Shirley - Season 4 - Episode 8

Lenny and Squiggy are forced to make a date between Laverne and their foreman. After fighting feelings of guilt since they know that the guy is a real jerk, they come to Laverne's rescue just in time.

#14 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show

Laverne & Shirley - Season 5 - Episode 12

Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called "I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing "Yankee Doodle" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's

#15 - Testing, Testing

Laverne & Shirley - Season 5 - Episode 13

Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.

#16 - The Breakdown (1)

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 2 - Episode 1

Larry is a wreck as he faces sinking ratings, no Emmy nominations, and a divorce suit from Jeannie. So Hank and Artie try to fix him up with attractive women. But the only one he really connects with is Francine, his first wife.

#17 - 2001: A Comedy Odyssey

Laverne & Shirley - Season 3 - Episode 22

Laverne dreams she and Shirley are in their 80's still living together and still single. Laverne and Shirley are old and single but so are Lenny and Squiggy which leads to them going to marry each other finally so they can have some fun.

#18 - The Feminine Mistake

Laverne & Shirley - Season 4 - Episode 21

Laverne asks Shirley if she can make her more feminine to impress Joey. This leads to Laverne acting 'froo-froo' and doing impressions of a southern belle.

#19 - The Rewrite

Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 15

Kip tries to help Henry spice up a story documenting Ruth nearly discovering the duo's alternate identities.

#20 - The Driving Test

Laverne & Shirley - Season 3 - Episode 19

The show starts with Laverne and Shirley chatting away in the Shotz brewery canteen when Lenny and Squiggy come in. Upon opening their pay checks, Squiggy discovers a letter from Max Shotz himself. He reads it aloud and the gang discovers that Squiggy failed his written driving test and he must retake it this Saturday and pass or lose his truck driver's licence and his job. We next see Laverne and Shirley spring cleaning their flat, Shirley is pouring soapy water on the floor while singing "Twist Again" as Laverne with sponges on her feet does the twist to clean the floor. Lenny comes in all upset and asking the girls if they'll help him help Squiggy to pass his test as Squiggy is getting very depressed. The girls reluctantly agree as if they don't, Lenny says he'll have to move in with them as he won't be able to afford the rent on his own. Laverne is asking Squiggy some highway code questions in which his answer is "Here chicky, chicky, chicky". After a few minutes of this, Laverne j

#21 - Airport '59

Laverne & Shirley - Season 3 - Episode 1

Laverne & Shirley go on their first plane trip and end up flying it when their pilot faints at the controls.

#22 - The Breakdown (2)

The Larry Sanders Show - Season 2 - Episode 2

#23 - Kip and Sonny's Date

Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 6

Kip's date with Sonny turns into a disaster, thanks to his nervousness and Henry's date, Cecily - Ruth's niece and a recent devotee of punk rock.

#24 - What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?

Laverne & Shirley - Season 5 - Episode 5

Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.

#25 - There's No Business

Bosom Buddies - Season 2 - Episode 2

Henry reluctantly agrees to spend the money that he and Kip are saving for a T-Bill on his Uncle Mort's commercial production company, unaware that Mort owes $17,000 to loanshark Victor.

#26 - The Slightly Illustrated Man

Bosom Buddies - Season 2 - Episode 9

Amy and Kip decide they will get tattoos to show their devotion to Henry and Sonny.

#27 - Bosom Buddies

Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 1

Henry Desmond and Kip Wilson are imaginative young admen who solve an acute housing problem by donning wigs and dresses to qualify for residence in the Susan B. Anthony hotel for women.

#28 - My Brother, My Sister, Myself

Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 2

When Kip is discovered in the apartment without his Buffy disguise, Lilly Sinclair, the new manager of the hotel, decides to have the other residents vote on whether Buffy and Hildegarde are evicted or not.

#29 - Pilot

Action - Season 1 - Episode 1

When his movie ""Slow Torture"" fails at the box office, everyone kisses his ass and tells him it was great, except for a prostitute named Wendy who got stuck in his car door and attended the premiere with him posing as a stuntwoman. His studio accidentally buys the wrong script and Peter can't stand the writer. He spends the week with Wendy, the prostitute, and tells her to read the scripts on his counter and tell him which ones are good. The only good one is called ""Beverly Hills Gun Club"" and it's the one that the studio wrongly bought. So now Peter has to pretend to like the writer.

#30 - Best Friends

Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 18

Henry feels left out when Kip renews his friendship with a rock and roll star.

#31 - Episode 3631 (Fri 9th Jan 2004)

Emmerdale - Season 33 - Episode 8

Marlon is distraught following Tricia’s death, just wanting to be left alone. The Dingles pull together to support their grieving family member, but worry about how Marlon is dealing with his loss.

#32 - Episode 3773 (Wed 23rd June 2004)

Emmerdale - Season 33 - Episode 147

Lisa and Sam return home to a smug Cain, who has been released following police questioning. However, Sam cries out in horror when he goes to his chicken coup to discover Cain has taken spiteful revenge and slaughtered his beloved chickens.