The BEST episodes written by Chuck Ranberg
#1 - I Love Lucci (1)
Hot in Cleveland - Season 2 - Episode 5
Victoria books an appearance on All My Children, and Melanie uses the opportunity to return to Los Angeles to sell her house.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 3
Allie's advertisement for part-time work ends up in the Personals Column by mistake, and the return mail brings such bizarre responses that she is appalled.
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#3 - Life with Lucci
Hot in Cleveland - Season 3 - Episode 10
Victoria's enemy Susan Lucci comes looking for support after the cancellation of "All My Children," but Victoria warns her friends that the soap star is not to be trusted. Meanwhile, Elka talks hoops with Baron Davis of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
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#4 - Everything Goes Better with Vampires
Hot in Cleveland - Season 3 - Episode 16
Melanie dates a professor who makes her feel dumb; Victoria wants to get rid of the housekeeper; Elka's frustrated by her writing partner; Joy goes out with a guy she thinks is Rick Springfield.
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#5 - The Proposal
Hot in Cleveland - Season 4 - Episode 15
Emmet, who's been married four times, asks the women to help make his wedding proposal to Victoria a special one, since it would be her sixth walk down the aisle.
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#7 - You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Desperate Housewives - Season 4 - Episode 7
Lynette's sisters Lydia and Lucy come to visit. While having dinner with Susan and Mike, Bree and Orson realize they share different views on whether their newborn baby should be circumcised. On a boat, Victor confronts Gaby about her affair with Carlos and she throws him into the ocean. Later, Bree informs Susan that she thinks Mike is addicted to drugs.
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#8 - Hate Thy Neighbor
Becker - Season 2 - Episode 9
Confined to his apartment during the recuperation period, Becker is subjected to the intruding lifestyles of those who live in his building, which has him seeing red. His mood brightens -- temporarily -- when his doctor from the hospital, Elizabeth Carson, makes a house call. Meanwhile, "good help is hard to find" takes on a new meaning when Margaret and Linda try to find a doctor to fill in for Becker.
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#9 - The Sex That Got Away
Hot in Cleveland - Season 1 - Episode 4
Victoria's old flame, musician Johnny Revere (Huey Lewis), is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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#10 - It's Not That Complicated
Hot in Cleveland - Season 1 - Episode 7
Melanie's ex-husband Anders comes to town and she starts to have feelings for him again. Meanwhile, Elka tries to juggle relationships with two senior suitors (Carl Reiner, Tim Conway).
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#11 - Mother Said
Desperate Housewives - Season 4 - Episode 15
Adele Delfino, Susan's mother-in-law, arrives for a visit. Carlos and Gabrielle find out their tenant, Elli, has a dark secret. A full scale war erupts between Bree and Edie.
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#12 - Frasier Crane's Day Off
Frasier - Season 1 - Episode 23
Frasier comes down with the flu, so food critic Gil Chesterton fills in for him. When paranoid Frasier believes both Gil and subsequent fill-in host Niles are after his job, he's more determined than ever to get back on the air.
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#14 - Look Before You Leap
Frasier - Season 3 - Episode 16
Frasier suggests that everyone should take a "leap," or go outside their comfort zone, to celebrate Leap Year. For his leap, Frasier decides to sing an Italian aria instead of his usual "Buttons and Bows" for a benefit.
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#15 - Elka's Choice
Hot in Cleveland - Season 3 - Episode 1
Elka faces a choice of three suitors: her fiancé, Fred ; her ex-boyfriend Max; and Bobby, the husband she thought was dead. Meanwhile, Victoria gets some mileage out of her marriage to Joy in a TV appearance.
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#17 - A Lilith Thanksgiving
Frasier - Season 4 - Episode 7
The Cranes pack up and visit Lilith and Frederick for Thanksgiving. Lilith and Frasier meet with the dean of a prestigious school, hoping to enroll Frederick. After their initial visit goes poorly, they return time and time again, hoping to ingratiate themselves with the headmaster.
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#18 - I Love Lucci (2)
Hot in Cleveland - Season 2 - Episode 6
The ladies' trip to Los Angeles continues, as Elka searches for the movie star of her dreams.
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#20 - A Midwinter Night's Dream
Frasier - Season 1 - Episode 17
Niles tries to patch up another disagreement with Maris with a romantic dinner, which Daphne offers to prepare. Frasier comes charging to the rescue as he realizes that Daphne and Niles are all alone on a dark and stormy night.
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#22 - The Trouble with Harry
Becker - Season 3 - Episode 12
John has his hands full when a former patient dies and leaves him his ashes, and a current patient suffers a puzzling rapid heartbeat. Elsewhere, Reggie turns a blind eye to her handsome new boyfriend's glaring flaws.
#23 - Cleveland Fantasy Con
Hot in Cleveland - Season 4 - Episode 6
Melanie's embroiled in an office love triangle. Joy learns a tidbit about Sean that threatens her fireman fantasy. Victoria's insecurity about dating a movie star leads her to extremes. Elka and Mamie have a run-in with the law.
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#27 - Call Me Irresponsible
Frasier - Season 1 - Episode 7
Frasier deals with an ethical dilemma when he begins dating a woman after he advises her boyfriend to break up with her. When the boyfriend expresses a renewed interest in Catherine, Frasier does everything he can to prevent their re-acquaintance.
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#28 - All-Star Blues
The Game - Season 1 - Episode 14
When Jason doesn't get selected for the Pro Bowl game he begins to question his future and starts planning for retirement. Meanwhile, Malik is selected for the Pro Bowl once again, but decides not to take Tasha with him to Hawaii, fearing she will embarrass him by trying to scout new clients. Tia Mowry, Pooch Hall and Brittany Daniel also star.
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#30 - Give Him the Chair!
Frasier - Season 1 - Episode 19
Frasier gets himself into trouble when he throws out Martin's old chair, rationalizing that he would actually be helping his father. Frasier searches all over Seattle, and ultimately to a high school production of "Ten Little Indians" to retrieve the chair.
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#32 - God Bless the Girl That's Got Her Own
The Game - Season 1 - Episode 17
When Melanie gives temporary shelter to a Sunbeam whose boyfriend has left her high and dry, Melanie begins to feel uncomfortable about being completely dependent on Derwin for financial security. Brittany Daniel, Coby Bell, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Hosea Chanchez also star.
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#33 - Liar! Liar!
Frasier - Season 4 - Episode 10
Frasier and Niles reminisce about an incident in their prep school days where a fellow classmate was punished for their transgression. Overcome with guilt, Frasier visits the man, now in prison, to try to pinpoint the beginning of his life of crime.
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#34 - Indecent Proposals
Hot in Cleveland - Season 2 - Episode 20
Melanie's column about casual sex sends the women in search of Mr. Right Now, which results in a proposal for Elka from an old friend (Buck Henry) and a potentially life-threatening encounter for Victoria's former rock-star boyfriend (Huey Lewis).
#35 - Away Game
The Game - Season 1 - Episode 1
Derwin invites Melanie to his first away game in Miami, but due to her heavy school load, she decides to pass. When Tasha and Kelly find out she is not going, they persuade her to change her mind by telling her away games are a play ground for cheating. Meanwhile, Derwin's teammates are upset that he invited Melanie and tell him he needs to un-invite her, fearing the other wives will use her as a spy.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 6
The kids plan a Hallowe'en haunting -- and so do their mothers.
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Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 2
Everyone has date problems: Emma has no date for the college dance and must go with Jennie and Jason & Jennie breaks up with Jason & Chip has a fight with Amy upstairs because she was drooling over Matt Dillon in the movie they rent ed & Kate's chiropractor date was a self-centered bore; and Allie has no date at all. But Emma meets someone at the dance: a self-satisfied, arrogrant business major whom everyone else hates on sight.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 6
Max sends Emma a mystery for her birthday, and Allie is soon in on it, catching up the family in an exotic world of menacing art dealers and homicidal maniacs.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 8
Kate and Allie invite a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner/disaster.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 15
A protest rally gives Allie a taste of what she missed during the '60s, while for Kate it's a march down memory lane.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 16
Jenny gets more than she bargained for in her new job: a bonus of sexual harassment.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 17
Allie jumps to conclusions when she discovers Kate with a former boyfriend who's now married.
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Kate & Allie - Season 3 - Episode 21
Chip befriends a mentally handicapped man who's homeless and invites him to sleep in the basement.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 1
Brash new transfer student Jason Crawford takes a shine to Emma and won't accept her lack of interest in him, muc h to the amusement of the rest of the family -- particularly when he showers her with gifts of food deliveries. Jennie advises Jason to back off a little, but he shows up again with flowers -- for Jennie.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 12
While Kate's away on a business trip, an ex-football player makes a play for Allie.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 16
Emma has to decide between going to college at Columbia or UCLA.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 18
Kate tries to explain love to Louis. The family meet Louis' mentally challenged friend Catherine, who clearly has a crush on him, so Kate tries to persuade Louis that a woman really likes him and he assumes she means herself.
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Kate & Allie - Season 4 - Episode 23
Emma asks Kate to talk about her work as a travel agent for her school's ""Women's Career Day,"" causing Allie to realize how much she hates her job at the movie theatre -- until it burns down. When Kate encourages her to find a job she wants, such as the museum job she has always wanted, Allie finds a position in the gift shop of the ""Museum of Contemporary Art"" -- and her happiness causes Kate to realize how much she hates her job. Kate's talk turns into a rant about needing the courage to quit her job & then Allie arrives home to say the Museum's sprinklers causes a flood and she is unemployed too.
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Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 5
After an unexplained absence, Bob Barsky calls to ask Allie out on a date and explains that he is moving back to New York -- and is also seeing someone else.
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Kate & Allie - Season 5 - Episode 12
Kate, Allie and the kids work overtime buying and wrapping gifts for the catering clients, promising themselves a skiing vacation in Vermont & but the apartment is burgled and everything stolen, leaving them to redo it all in just one day.
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