The BEST episodes written by David Tyron King
#1 - I Never Invested for My Father
Parenthood - Season 1 - Episode 4
Gil volunteers to help untangle his father's finances; Patty freezes during a ballet recital.
#2 - M.D., P.O.V.
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 15
Harry tries to avoid a reporter who is doing a story on him. A young patient is on the verge of death and no one can figure out why.
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Parenthood - Season 1 - Episode 2
Garry hopes his dad will appear at his baseball team's championship game, but Helen doubts her indifferent ex will show up; Marilyn gives Susan's childhood stewardess doll to Patty.
#4 - Fun for Kids
Parenthood - Season 1 - Episode 12
Tod's stripper mother visits; Frank locks horns with Nathan over child-rearing.
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Parenthood - Season 1 - Episode 10
A Thanksgiving to remember at the Buckman house.
#6 - Just You and My Kid
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 5
An old patient returns and asks Harry to be the father of her child.
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#7 - The R.N. Who Came to Dinner
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 8
Laverne moves in with the Westons after a fight with Nick and proceeds to take control of the house. A young patient who can't get a date for a school dance asks Harry to take her.
#8 - Tinker to Evers to Tucson
Empty Nest - Season 1 - Episode 7
When husband Nick is traded to a Japanese baseball team, Laverne is forced to quit. A sick Charley camps out on Harry's couch.
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#9 - Architect's Apprentice
Family Ties - Season 5 - Episode 16
Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents when they invite him to compete with other local artists to create a sculpture for the lobby of Steven's television station. Hired to re-design the lobby of the WKS building where Steven works, Elyse is busy pouring over architectural drawings one evening when Nick arrives at the Keatons. As he studies her work, he begins to suggest some of his own ideas and takes Elyse completely by surprise with his immediate grasp of what she is trying to achieve. When Steven comes home and announces that the station has agreed to sponsor a local art competition to produce the sculpture for the lobby, Mallory instantly suggests that Nick be allowed to compete, especially when she and Nick learn of the $2,500 winning prize. A somewhat open-minded Elyse and a very skeptical Steven finally agree to interview Nick and allow him to enter the contest. When Steven ends up casting the deciding vote in anothe
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#10 - A Life in the Day
Empty Nest - Season 1 - Episode 22
Harry sees five patients: a week-old baby, a five-year-old whose father denies the boy's onset diabetes; a seven-year-old curious about sex; an eleven-year-old having the cast removed from his arm; a belligerent 14-year-old who uses drugs; and an 18-year-old picking up his medical records before going away to college. The end of the episode reveals that all of these have been the same patient at different ages.
#11 - It Happened Two Nights, Four Costume Changes
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 18
Laverne is told that Nick is having an affair so she tells him she is dating Harry. When she finds out she was misinformed, Nick refuses to believe that she made up the story about her affair. Meanwhile, Carol and Barbara disagree on how to get rid of a mouse in the house.
#12 - Strange Bedfellows
Empty Nest - Season 1 - Episode 14
Carol falls in love with a South American freedom fighter and announces she's going away with him. Jeffrey Millstein falls in love with Laverne.
#13 - Take My Mom, Please
Empty Nest - Season 2 - Episode 22
Carol and Barbara hire a maid, and then realize the family silver is missing. A young patient in need of a father sets Harry up on a date with her mom.
#14 - The Breakfast Club
Growing Pains - Season 2 - Episode 10
Grounded liar Mike hears Maggie fibbing to her boss.
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#15 - A Reason to Live
Growing Pains - Season 3 - Episode 13
A troubled student named Jill (Kellie Overbey) volunteers to work on a school project with Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Boner (Josh Andrew Koenig). This, however, is a subterfuge: Jill has been contemplating suicide due to some very serious problems at home, and she hopes to get some free counseling from Mike's psychiatrist dad Jason (Alan Thicke). But as it turns out, Jason is presently weighed down with a few self-pity issues of his own.
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Newhart - Season 5 - Episode 10
Dick and Joanna have an opportunity to shed their 'town newcomer' status when Dick's asked to run a fundraiser for the local library. Dick, the former advertising executive, finds it a hard pill to swallow when his idea is rejected and Joanna's is unanimously applauded.
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Newhart - Season 5 - Episode 9
Dick convinces a reluctant George to live a little and spend some of his $50,000 fortune. Meanwhile the town believes Dick to be destitute after a check bounces due to a bank error.
#21 - Big Brother is Not Watching
Growing Pains - Season 3 - Episode 6
Ben asks Carol's advice on getting a new bike from their parents.
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