The BEST episodes written by David Lloyd

#1 - Chuckles Bites the Dust
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 7
Chuckles the Clown is crushed to death by a rogue elephant in a parade, which leaves all the newsroom staff in hysterics except Mary.

#2 - Louie Bumps into an Old Lady
Taxi - Season 3 - Episode 16
Louie, driving a cab in order to give pointers to a new driver, accidentally runs into an old lady pedestrian. Louie starts catering to the old lady, in the hopes of avoiding being sued, but soon learns she is still going to sue him for a million dollars. Alex notices that the old lady looks familiar, and recognizes her as a con artist, who pulls scams like this on cab drivers all the time (faking injuries in order to sue them). Alex makes a deal with Louie to find some of her previous victims to testify against her, if Louie agrees to treat Alex with more respect. It turns out, however, that this time, the woman really has broken her leg this time, and is indeed confined to a wheelchair legitimately (she tells this to her lawyer without any of the gang around). At the trial, Alex shows up alone because he couldn't get anyone to testify in Louie's behalf, so Louie gets a bright idea. In an attempt to prove that the woman is faking an injury, in front of the court, Louie pushes he

#3 - Ted's Wedding
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 9
Out of pity for Ted, Mary invites him & Georgette over for brunch. While he as an onion ring in his mouth, he proposes to Georgette...again. When, for the first time, Georgette says no, she & Ted have a talk and decide they want to get married now. They invite all their friends: Lou, Murray (with mud on his sweatshirt from his son's football game), and Sue Ann (who, in a spectacularily comedic enterance, brings a veil, flowers, and rice, among several other things). Ted's mom can't make it (she's washing her hair), but the incompetent minister comes straight from his tennis match. Best man Lou helps Ted calm his wedding day jitters. When the minister asks Ted if he takes Georgette to be his lawfully wedded wife, he pauses for a moment. Finally, with a smile on his face, he says, "I do." When they are pronounced husband & wife, Sue Ann sings the wedding march...very poorly, of course. Once the wedding ends and Lou, Murray, & Sue Ann leave, Ted asks, as if nothing had happened,

#4 - Mary Midwife
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 1
Georgette gives birth at Mary's dinner party. With the hospital and doctor too far away, Lou and Mary help deliver the baby.

#5 - Mary's Insomnia
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 11
Mary is having trouble sleeping and resorts to pills, which has Lou concerned that she's become addicted to them.

#6 - Happy Birthday, Lou!
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4 - Episode 15
Mary plans a surprise party for Mr. Grant's birthday, only to find out too late that he hates birthday parties.

#7 - Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4 - Episode 23
Ted joins Mary at a night-school class in creative writing, and winds up plagiarizing her assignment.

#8 - Mary Richards: Producer
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 16
Mary doesn't feel she deserves the title of producer and asks Lou that she be given the chance to produce The Six O'clock News alone.

#9 - What's Wrong with Swimming?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 4
Mary hires a new sportscaster who refuses to cover any sports but swimming and is faced with the prospect of firing her.

#10 - The House that Bled to Death
Hammer House of Horror - Season 1 - Episode 5
Emma and William Peters and their young daughter, Sophie, move into an old house that has been empty for many years. Unknown to them, Number 42, Colman Road, has not been lived-in since an old man murdered his wife there. As severed hands and kukris materialize, echos of the house's grisly history begin to terrorise the new occupants.

#11 - Sue Ann's Sister
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 3
Sue Ann becomes deeply depressed when her sister arrives and gets an offer to do a competing homemaker show in Minneapolis.


#13 - Elaine's Strange Triangle
Taxi - Season 3 - Episode 4
At Mario's, while Elaine is complaining about problems with her love life, a handsome man named Kirk approaches. Tony then plays matchmaker for Elaine and soon she and Kirk are dating happily. Kirk later tells Tony in private that he has a problem: he is interested romantically in someone else-- Tony! Tony, who is not gay but does not want to see Elaine hurt over this, tells Alex and although he doesn't really want to get involved, Alex agrees to meet Tony and Kirk at a gay bar to help smooth over the situation. Alex arrives at the bar before Tony and is nervous, but relaxes after Kirk tells him he knows Tony isn't interested and he's already gently broken things off with Elaine. Alex begins to feel more at ease, but soon he is asked to dance by a large man. Alex is then pulled on to the dance floor and is eventually chased on to the bar itself by a chorus of gay dancers and unable to escape, begins dancing on the bar, when Tony arrives..

#14 - Mary Moves Out
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 2
Mary, wanting some change in her life, makes the decision to move to a new apartment.

#15 - Nina Loves Alex
Taxi - Season 4 - Episode 13
Alex is strangely rejecting the advances of a cute, bubbly, young African American cab driver named Nina. Alex is growing more and more annoyed until he decides to invite Nina over to his apartment to talk to her and try to explain why she shouldn't be so interested in him. Although he succeeds with a fatherly talk where he comes off very dull, they kiss goodnight. After the kiss, Nina is convinced there's no spark between them after all, while Alex seems to change his tune also, but it's too late.

#16 - A House to Die For
Wings - Season 6 - Episode 22
The gang sees opportunities to benefit from Carlton Blanchard's impending death as his nephew invites them to Carlton's house to start selling off the old man's items.

#17 - Louie Moves Uptown
Taxi - Season 5 - Episode 13
Louie decides to buy a luxury co-op apartment with some help on the down payment from the newly wealthy Jim. Unfortunately, Louie first has to convince a snooty co-op board that he is right for their building (as he comes in, they are rejecting actress Penny Marshall because they don't approve of the actress lifestyle). Bringing Alex for support, Louie has his work cut out for him when he sees that the board is bigoted. Alex goes on a tirade against their discriminatory process, and the board accepts Louie just to spite Alex.

#18 - The Key to Alex
Wings - Season 4 - Episode 18
Joe and Brian, in heated competition, pull out all the stops in a transparent attempt to get closer to Alex.

#19 - Exclusively Yours
Wings - Season 5 - Episode 17
Brian's exclusive commitment to Alex is sorely tested when Joe flies in a group of models for a photo shoot. Helen's decision to name food items on her menu after the people in the airport doesn't go as well as she hoped.

#20 - Boys Will Be Girls
Wings - Season 5 - Episode 20
When the football coach who belittled Joe and Brian in high school returns to Nantucket to be honored in a gym dedication, they plan a practical joke that gets way out of hand.

#21 - Like Father, Like Son
Taxi - Season 4 - Episode 6
Alex's estranged father contacts Alex and reluctantly, Alex agrees to have lunch with him. At first, Alex lays into his father about having deserted his family, but eventually they start having a nice conversation. Alex's father, a real ladies' man, even sets him up with an attractive woman sitting at the table next to them at Mario's. When Alex leaves Mario's, Alex's father makes a date with the woman as well. Evidently, both men continue dating the woman, but when Alex learns that his father has double crossed him, he becomes furious and confronts his father. Ultimately, Alex's father lays on the charm enough with Alex that Alex forgives him and they are seen having dinner together.

#22 - The Wrong Stuff
Wings - Season 6 - Episode 10
To counteract Roy's Aeromass promotions, the Hacketts' woo a famous astronaut as a spokesman for Sandpiper.


#25 - This Old House
Wings - Season 3 - Episode 15
The news that the Hacketts' old house has been condemned due to storm damage has the two brothers reminiscing about their childhoods.

#26 - An Old-Fashioned Wedding (1)
Cheers - Season 10 - Episode 25
Woody and Kelly's wedding faces some funny obstacles, before and during the ceremony, including Sam's flirtation with a German guest who turns out to be married, the priest dying and Kelly's Uncle Roger having to perform the ceremony - but only if he is drunk, Rebecca having to ice the cake after insulting the kitchen staff, and Lilith having to sing to the guests in order to stop them, and Woody and Kelly, from finding out the disasters going on behind the scenes.
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#28 - A Kiss is Still a Kiss
Cheers - Season 6 - Episode 10
Rebecca asks an eager Sam to escort her to a company function to correct a false impression held by her boss.

#29 - The Stork Brings a Crane
Cheers - Season 8 - Episode 6
Lilith spoils Rebecca's elaborately planned celebration of Cheers' 100th anniversary by going into labor.

#30 - The Visiting Lecher
Cheers - Season 7 - Episode 22
Rebecca accuses a respected authority on marital fidelity of making a pass at her.

#31 - Sam Ahoy
Cheers - Season 8 - Episode 12
Robin lends Sam and the gang his yacht race in a regatta, but the motley crew discovers a bomb in the refrigerator, right next to the beer.

#32 - Bidding on the Boys
Cheers - Season 6 - Episode 8
Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new "owners".

#34 - Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (2)
Cheers - Season 11 - Episode 24


#37 - How to Recede in Business
Cheers - Season 7 - Episode 1
Rebecca's life suffers a further disruption when Evan Drake's replacement makes Sam the new manager of Cheers.

#38 - Diane's Nightmare
Cheers - Season 4 - Episode 5
Diane spends a dark and stormy night worrying that Andy Schroeder has escaped and is out to kill her.

#40 - The Innkeepers
Frasier - Season 2 - Episode 23
Frasier and Niles open their own restaurant, "Les Frères Heureux" (The Happy Brothers). When Opening Night arrives, everything that can go wrong does.

#41 - Send in the Crane
Cheers - Season 7 - Episode 9
Sam finds himself attracted to both an old girlfriend and her grown daughter while Woody volunteers to be the clown at the boss' kid's birthday party Rebecca is planning.

#42 - Homicidal Ham
Cheers - Season 2 - Episode 4
Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.

#43 - The Fortune Cookie
Wings - Season 4 - Episode 2
Joe's future is up in the air when Sandpiper Air is grounded by his insurance company, but Brian's plan to save the airline doesn't fly right with Helen.

#44 - My Brother's Keeper
Wings - Season 3 - Episode 6
The arrival of a wealth woman has Fay, Roy, and Helen eager to tap into her wealth. But she only has eyes for Brian and he soon enjoys the lavish gifts and lifestyle she heaps upon him.

#45 - Frasier Grinch
Frasier - Season 3 - Episode 9
Frederick's Christmas visit to Seattle appears to be a disaster after the shipping company sends a Barbie and a Homemade Casserole set instead of a "Living Brain". Frasier heads to the mall for some last-minute shopping.

#47 - Decoys
Frasier - Season 6 - Episode 16
Devastated by Daphne's blossoming relationship with Donny, Niles plans for a Crane Boys vacation to his newly acquired (from Maris in the divorce settlement) cabin. Upon learning Roz is still pining for Donny, Niles invites both Roz and Donny to the cabin, hoping to split up Daphne and Donny. When Frasier and Martin arrive earlier than expected, Niles and Roz are forced to pretend to be lovebirds to protect their scheme.

#48 - Crane vs. Crane
Frasier - Season 3 - Episode 19
Niles and Frasier face off when they take opposite sides in a courtroom hearing over an old man's sanity. Niles believes Harlow Safford to be as crazy as a loon, while Frasier interprets his quirks as eccentricities.

#49 - Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (1)
Cheers - Season 11 - Episode 23
After Woody, Kelly and her father Lloyd arrive at Cheers talking about classical music (they'd been to a symphony), Rebecca joins in the conversation and impresses Lloyd. He invites her to a society function. Rebecca thinks it is a date and is thrilled to bits - but is in for a shock when she arrives. Meanwhile Esther Clavin has been put in a retirement home by Cliff, but whilst Cliff feels guilty, the others think he has murdered his mother.

#50 - Martin Does It His Way
Frasier - Season 3 - Episode 3
While digging through boxes, Frasier finds an unfinished song written by Martin specifically for Frank Sinatra.





