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.
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#4 - 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,
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#5 - Murray Can't Lose
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 10
Lou learns from a source on the Teddy Award's panel that Murray will finally win an award for his news writing.
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#6 - The Last Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 24
WJM-TV has some personnel changes in the executive department (again), and everyone except Ted Baxter is fired. The new station manager wants to see the WJM News the highest-ranked in Minneapolis, and for some reason feels that Ted can help him make it happen. (Seems a little odd, eh?) The gang says goodbye to each other in the form of a long, hard cry. Mary thanks them all for being her surrogate family, and Lou finally sentimentally says, "I cherish you people." They bravely march out the office doors singing, "It's a long, long way to Tipperary." At the last moment, Mary leans back through through the WJM-TV doors and turns out the light. So long, WJM-TV.
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#7 - 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.
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#8 - Lou and That Woman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 4
Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
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#9 - 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.
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#10 - You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 3
Lou finally loses his temper with Ted when he endorses a political candidate on The Six O'clock News and throws him through the office doors. Lou feels guilty, and Ted takes advantage of him.
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#11 - 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.
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#12 - 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.
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#13 - 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.
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#14 - Murray Ghosts for Ted
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 20
Ted offers Murray $200 to write an article on his behalf. The article becomes a success, but Ted refuses to share the credit with Murray.
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#15 - 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..
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#16 - Lou Dates Mary
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 23
Mary has another disastrous date and worries she'll never meet the right man, until Georgette points out that every quality she seeks can be found in Lou Grant.
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#17 - 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.
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#19 - 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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#20 - 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.
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#21 - 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.

#23 - Mother Wore Stripes
Wings - Season 2 - Episode 20
The brothers' estranged mother returns to Nantucket after Brian sees her at a sporting event on TV. Brian is thrilled but Joe feigns apathy to hide his anger for having to be the responsible one of the Hackett household.


#25 - 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.


#30 - A New Sue Ann
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 7
A young fan, Gloria, persuades Sue Ann to hire her for The Happy Homemaker. Sue Ann is less than pleased when Gloria plays up to the station manager and gets a larger role on the show at the expense of her own.
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#31 - 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.

#32 - 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.

#33 - Lou Proposes
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 9
Lou realizes that he has feelings for Mary's Aunt Flo, a journalist with a similar pride and passion in the news profession.
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#34 - Jim Gets a Pet
Taxi - Season 2 - Episode 14
The gang goes to the track and Jim falls in love with horse racing. Jim starts gambling at the track every day, until Alex tells him of the evils of gambling. Meanwhile, Jim turns out to have already won $10,000 at the track, and what's more, he bought the long-shot horse that he won most of the money on. Jim renames the horse Gary and keeps him in his apartment. However, when the gang comes over to check on Gary, they found he has died. When a depressed Jim returns to the garage, the gang convinces him to hold a funeral service for Gary (since Jim is an ordained minister, after all). Jim gives a touching eulogy that leaves everyone in tears.


#40 - 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.
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#44 - 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.
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#45 - 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

#46 - 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.
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Amen - Season 1 - Episode 15
While testifying in the church, Lorenzo admits to having an affair with an unnamed sister in the church, which starts the congregation speculating and gossipping, and turns member against member. In order for the church to get back to normal, and for people to stop speculating, the woman must come forward and also confess her illicit affair with Lorenzo. However, in an uncharactistic move, the congretation gels when the guilty party stands before them.
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Amen - Season 1 - Episode 8
A woman bequeaths the church members her eatery (a French restaurant) — providing they continue its successful operation. But the church runs into trouble meeting it's next balloon mortgage payment, which is due immediately. So, in order to save the church, they decide to sell the restaurant, but the terms of the will state that as long as it is a success, they can never sell it. What will the church do in order to meet its obligation to the bank?
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