The BEST episodes written by Fred Rubin
#1 - Hiring the Housekeeper
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 4
Archie searches for a housekeeper to look after Stephanie.
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#3 - Willis' Privacy
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 17
To get rid of his pesky little brother, Willis divides the bedroom in half and spends more time at his friend's house.
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Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 2
Archie refuses to deal with Ediths death.
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#5 - Return of the Gooch
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 20
The "Gooch" is back and this time he's terrorizing Arnold, but Arnold plans to be ready when the bully strikes. In building Arnold's confidence, Willis convinces him that his martial arts lesson has given him a "killer" foot.
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#6 - The Adoption (1)
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 8
The Drummond family celebrates the day Arnold and Willis are supposed to be officially adopted until the visit of a "relative" leaves their plans in jeopardy. Whitman Mayo guest stars as Jethro Simpson, who sees his way to go from junk to jewels in a last will and testament leaving a fortune to Willis and Arnold.
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#7 - Little Big Guy
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 1
Mischief-maker Urkel and his troublesome transformation chamber move in with the Winslows and he wreaks household havoc by shrinking both himself and Carl in an experiment gone awry.
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Two of a Kind - Season 1 - Episode 6
Mary-Kate and Ashley switch costumes with Max and Brian so that they can attend Carrie's Halloween party, from which they were banned by Kevin.
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#9 - The Adoption (2)
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 9
It appears that Mr. Drummond's attempts to adopt Arnold and Willis will be aborted by a conniving junk dealer until the boys take matters into their own hands. Whitman Mayo guest stars as "long-lost relative" Jethro Simpson who has arrived with a letter supposedly written by the boys' father, leaving Arnold and Willis in his custody.
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Two of a Kind - Season 1 - Episode 16
Trouble starts when Carrie moves into Kevin's basement.
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#11 - Prep School
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 4
When Mr. Drummond tries to get Arnold and Willis into an exclusive prep school, it turns out to be just a little too exclusive for everyone's tastes.
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#12 - Mama for Mayor (Part 2)
Mama's Family - Season 2 - Episode 17
Thelma wins the race for mayor only to find the job more challenging than she envisioned.
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#13 - The Trial
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 7
When Arnold is in trouble for putting his goldfish in Mr. Drummond's hot tub, Willis insists that it is wrong to convict him without a trial. The whole family, with Mrs. Garrett as judge, comes up with an important verdict.
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#14 - Mac Takes a Vocation
Night Court - Season 8 - Episode 21
Harry gets riled when a supreme court judge woos Mac away to serve as a vote-getting token on his staff and Dan hires an English valet in an attempt to replace Phil.
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#15 - A Closer Look
Night Court - Season 7 - Episode 23
Harry, his court and co-workers come under the sharp journalistic eye of a TV reporter doing a story on typical night court events.
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#16 - Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King
Night Court - Season 7 - Episode 4
On Halloween night, Harry loses his new bat, Tito, and an exorcist's curse resurrects the unquiet spirit of a defendant from fifty years earlier.
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#17 - Stevil
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 7
Ventriloquist Steve's look-alike dummy comes alive on Halloween.
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#18 - Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore
Night Court - Season 8 - Episode 10
Harry has to summon the courage to face a bully from his childhood who is brought before him in court, and Christine searches high and low for the perfect nanny.
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#19 - Razing Bull
Night Court - Season 7 - Episode 13
Bull chains himself to the entrance of an old theater scheduled to be demolished and the ensuring efforts to save the building reveals a secret life from Mac's past.
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Step by Step - Season 7 - Episode 12
When Carol forbids Dana from having sex before marriage, Dana decides to elope with Rich. Meanwhile, J.T. pretends to be a fitness fanatic to impress a sexy aerobics instructor.
#21 - Attachments Included
Night Court - Season 8 - Episode 16
Christine finds herself tense over finalizing her divorce, Harry is nervous about moving in with Margaret, and Bull follows his mother's advice and looks for a wife-with the help of a matchmaker.
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Step by Step - Season 7 - Episode 5
Karen has a professor (actually a teaching assistant) try to date her by influencing her with grades. Karen tells Dana about her predicament. Dana has the perfect plan to catch Jason in his own deceitful web. While a battery that does not keep going and going causes a hitch, the plan does end up working. Mark's date comes in all her glory for a date with Mark. Actually, she is repulsive to Frank and Carol, a source of comedy to Rich and JT, and a shocking match for Mark to everybody. Mark stays out past curfew, is grounded, and runs off in Frank's truck with this girl.
#23 - The Glasnost Menagerie
Night Court - Season 7 - Episode 19
Harry helps Yakov get a visa extension for his father and Mac buys a washing machine with an attitude problem.
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#24 - Amore or Less
Night Court - Season 7 - Episode 12
Christine finds everyone too busy to help her our with her new romance so she turns to two feuding advice columnists.
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#25 - Movin' On
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 4
Urkel fits in with his new college friends but pines for Laura.
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#26 - My Big Brother
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 18
Urkel volunteers as a Big Brother to a touch street kid who's mastered pick pocketing skills but harbors a secret about his reading ability. Through a charity, Steve becomes a mentor for a tough but charming inner-city nine-year-old, 3J. While tutoring him, Steve discovers that, although 3J is smart, he is illiterate. At first, 3J rejects Steve's help, preferring to survive with his natural talents as always. But Steve excites him about the wonderful worlds of imagination one can find in books, and 3J decides to make his life better by learning to read. Meanwhile, Carl finds Harriette's secret savings account book. He is upset that she hid it from him. But later, he regrets arguing with her when she gives him an expensive gift for which she was secretly saving money.
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Archie Bunker's Place - Season 2 - Episode 13
Fed up with Archie, Murray wants to end the partnership.
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Archie Bunker's Place - Season 4 - Episode 24
Gary is jealous when he learns his old school rival is dating his ex- girlfriend,Billie. Billie is concerned about Garys feeelings and he tells her he would like to start dating her again but she wants to remain just friends with Gary.
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#29 - The Squealer
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 26
Willis seeks comradeship as a member of the Tarantulas, a street gang, but finds only deceit as he gets caught in a web of misplace loyalties. Willis allows himself to be arrested rather than "squeal" on his fellow-gang members by telling the truth.
#30 - The Date
Archie Bunker's Place - Season 3 - Episode 3
Roger wants to date Archies neice Billie.
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#31 - Pound Foolish
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 22
Donna Summer reprises her role as Urkel's Aunt Oona from Altoona, who has put on weight but anticipates taking it off in her nephew's new-fangled fat-compression chamber.
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