The BEST episodes written by Jill Gordon
#1 - Fire
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 4 - Episode 14
A fire traps Drummond and his family in their penthouse and has him "working" overtime trying to protect them without letting on that there's anything wrong.
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Heartbeat (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 10
Alex fights to save the lives of Jesse, Pierce and Ji-Sung when a mysterious and deadly illness sends the hospital into lockdown. Meanwhile, Millicent must pick up the pieces when Alex disobeys the orders of the CDC, and an elderly man searching for his missing wife leads Alex to make a drastic decision in her love life.
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Heartbeat (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 3
When a young man is only able to speak sentences backwards, Alex sees this as the perfect opportunity to test out some new technology. While Jesse agrees this is the best course of action, Millicent believes otherwise. This tension within their department might stem from past history which could further complicate things between Alex and Pierce.
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#4 - The Accident
The Wonder Years - Season 4 - Episode 20
Kevin sees Winnie for the first time since they broke up. He discovers that she a Roger have split up, too. When Winnie is in a car accident, Kevin rides over to see her at home, but her parents say she doesn't want to see him. Kevin leaves, but returns and climbs up to Winnie's bedroom window. They tell each other, ""I love you.""
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#5 - Ninth Grade Man
The Wonder Years - Season 4 - Episode 2
Winnie is nervous about starting a new school, so she gets Kevin to promise to think about her every hour on the hour. Kevin finds this promise harder to keep than he thought when he loses his locker to Tony Barbella, is enrolled in shop class and meets a new girl in French Class, Madeleine.
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Heartbeat (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 2
When conjoined twins arrive at the hospital with a cancer diagnoses, Alex recommends a very risky surgery, resulting in a major ethical debate within the department. After spending time with the twins and observing their unique relationship, Alex also begins to question her relationship with Pierce.
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#7 - Pilot
Lipstick Jungle - Season 1 - Episode 1
Three longtime friends - Victory, Nico, and Wendy - are challenged with keeping up with complicated business and personal lives. For Wendy, being a big shot film executive, a wife and a mother proves to be a heavy daily juggle. Victory, meanwhile, is struggling to revive her once top notch fashion career. Finally, Nico must deal with serious marriage issues besides a stressful working life. For these three powerful women, the road to success in all aspects of their lives can be quite bumpy. Luckily, they have each other for support along the ride.
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#8 - Separate Rooms
The Wonder Years - Season 4 - Episode 18
When Kevin and Wayne decide it's too cramped for two grown boys in their bedroom, they decide one of them should be allowed to move into Karen's room, now that she's away at college. The trouble is, who is going to be the one to go?
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Heartbeat (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 1
When a new patient is in desperate need of a heart transplant, we are introduced to the life of world-renowned heart transplant surgeon Dr. Alexandra Panttiere. There is nothing conventional about Alex. She is as cutting edge and unorthodox in the OR as she is with the two men in her life. Her approach to medicine is without boundaries, as is her approach to everything else in her world, which is always full of surprises.
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#10 - Buster
The Wonder Years - Season 4 - Episode 15
Kevin's dog Buster needs to get fixed to stop his incessant barking, but the dog wants to avoid that at all costs.
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#11 - Moving
The Wonder Years - Season 3 - Episode 23
When Jack begins to complain about dry rot in the house, Kevin begins to think that his father might consider moving. When it is revealed that the Arnolds are staying put and it is the Coopers who are moving out, Kevin buys Winnie a ring as ""insurance."" Kevin decides to attend Karen's graduation from high school rather than watch Winnie leave.
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#12 - Lucky Strike
90210 - Season 1 - Episode 3
Harry and Debbie plan a family bowling night, but find their plans interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Annie and Dixon's friends. Meanwhile, Annie finds herself torn between Ethan and Ty, Naomi experiences a difficult evening with her father, and Kelly and Silver learn that Jackie's drinking is beginning to spiral out of control.
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Silver Spoons - Season 3 - Episode 14
Rick finds out that he can't ""save the world"" when he gets involved with a peer-counseling program.
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#14 - Chapter Three: Pink Poison
Lipstick Jungle - Season 1 - Episode 3
Wendy's rival, Janice Lasher, makes Wendy looks bad as a mother when she is preparing to release her new book. Wendy tries to proves the claims incorrect by bringing her daughter to a "Women in Media" luncheon. On the other hand, Nico tries to slow down on her affair with Kirby. Victory introduces Mr. Joe Bennett to Wendy and Nico, which leads to a major change in which direction the relationship will go.
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#15 - Strangers in the House
My So-Called Life - Season 1 - Episode 8
Sharon's dad has a heart attack that causes Graham to question his own mortality and puts stress on his marriage while the event mends the broken friendship between Sharon and Angela.
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#16 - Chapter Two: Nothing Sacred
Lipstick Jungle - Season 1 - Episode 2
Wendy enjoys the success of her company's most recent movie, but only for now. Wendy finds out that her nemesis, Janice Lashera promoted a novel for publication, defacing her as an empowered businesswoman and, even worse in her eyes, a bad mother. Elsewhere, Nico's relationship with Kirby heat's up, and instills Nico with this liberating mentality to shake things up around the office. Meanwhile, Victory has a problem with the downsizing of her company to just one employee, herself. However, she is very intrigued by her new man, Joe Bennett, who turns out to be a very different person than the one she though.
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Laverne & Shirley - Season 8 - Episode 9
Laverne's plan to restore her cowardly boyfriend's self-confidence backfires.
#18 - The Monastery Show
Laverne & Shirley - Season 8 - Episode 11
Laverne, upset with the way her life has been going, asks if she can stay at a convent for a couple of weeks to try and sort things out. The Mother Superior lets her stay but then asks her to leave when she has trouble keeping the vow of silence that all the other Sisters have taken.
#19 - The Rock & Roll Show
Laverne & Shirley - Season 8 - Episode 14
Laverne talks her wacky friend Chuck into forming his own band after he plays Beethoven on his harmonica. Laverne is also on a special diet for her ulcer and back at the flat Carmine is trying to stop Laverne from eating all the wrong foods. Chuck shows Laverne his new band, a bunch of geeky looking guys enter and proceed to put Laverne to sleep with their classical playing. Laverne tells Chuck he has to play rock music if he wants to make big money. The guys trust Laverne so much that they've quit their jobs to become big musicians. Laverne tries to show them how to jazz up their act a little, but the results are still terrible. To make things worse, Squiggy has just gotten the band their first job. He tells them that they are to perform in 20 minutes. Laverne has to read out to the massive crowd that the Rolling Stones won't be performing and that instead her friend Chuck's band will be playing instead. Amazingly to everyone, the band plays extremely well and goes over a smash. It
#20 - Betrayal
My So-Called Life - Season 1 - Episode 17
Angela realizes she is over Jordan and is in to someone else. But Brian Cracow catches Rayanne and Jordan on tape having sex.
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#21 - Halloween
My So-Called Life - Season 1 - Episode 9
Angela finds herself in 1963 during a mystical Halloween experience; Graham and Patty create some magic of their own with the help of medieval Halloween costumes.
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#22 - Mr. Right
Thirtysomething - Season 3 - Episode 3
CAPSULE: Ellyn and Melissa try using a video dating service. Melissa is unexpectedly attracted to a younger man she meets. Ethan must kiss a girl in the school play. Ellyn and Melissa are talking about using a video dating service, and despite the misgivings of others, they go in and give interviews at the service. They go through the books of available guys and find a cute one, William, whose profile and interview they like. Melissa is afraid to ask for his number, though; she'll wait, hoping he will contact her. Later when they return to the service, Melissa is dismayed to find that the list of guys interested in Ellyn is much longer than hers, and it includes William. Meanwhile, a good-looking young man named Lee Owens has come to paint Melissa's loft. He's spending a lot of time there, and there seems to be an attraction between the two. Also, Ethan is upset about having to learn to dance for the school production of ""Cinderella"" he's starring in. Even worse, he's supposed to kiss
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#23 - Good Sex, Bad Sex, What Sex, No Sex
Thirtysomething - Season 3 - Episode 17
CAPSULE: Against the background of an examination of the characters' sex lives, Melissa and Lee break up. Melissa and Lee's sex life is going great and she tells the other women about it, to their envy and amazement. They seem to be doing it all the time, unlike Gary and Susannah who are having a hard time fitting sex into their schedule with a new baby to take care of; in fact, he gets injured when he slips on a toy while attempting an encounter while Emma sleeps. Melissa and Lee are out with a couple of Lee's friends of his age, Stephanie and Robert. They end up going to a late-night rock club where a girl throws up on Melissa's shoes. At DAA the next day Melissa is worn out after the late night out. She tells Michael that the nightlife with Lee is boring. She begs off going out on the town with Lee again which causes some tension for a while which is succeeded by--sex! At the Weston's house, Nancy is concerned when she finds copies of Playboy under Ethan's bed. Elliot makes a candle
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One Day at a Time - Season 8 - Episode 6
Ann is jealous when Francine takes Alex for a fun-filled weekend.
#25 - The Wedding
Thirtysomething - Season 4 - Episode 17
Ellyn and Billy get married. Predictably, all does not go smoothly, as Ellyn gets a bad case of pre-wedding jitters.
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