The BEST episodes written by John Masius

Bye, George
star
9.56
36 votes

#1 - Bye, George

St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 15

Dr. Wyler puts Dr. Auschlander onto a new way of life; Halloran interviews Morrison's co-workers in an effort to build a case for him; Ehrlich takes the Craigs out for a disastrous dinner; and Mrs. Hufnagle loses a chance at a new life.

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Sweet Dreams
star
9.50
36 votes

#2 - Sweet Dreams

St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 8

Dr. Westphall suffers sleepless nights; a young man from the Philippines is apparently frightened to death by his dreams; Luther dreams of sweet revenge with the help of some `ZZ Top' impersonators; Ehrlich dreams of being washed up on an island of Amazon women; and Morrison suffers from nightmares of Peter White when he and some other residents take part in a dream research project.

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Cheers
star
9.47
38 votes

#3 - Cheers

St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 24

Mrs. Auschlander faces major heart surgery; Dr. Craig is disturbed to see the ravages of time on his mentor, Dr. David Domedion; Ehrlich searches for a religion; the messiah shows up for a Celtics game; and Dr. Westphall announces his resignation at a friendly little bar called Cheers.

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Addiction
star
9.45
38 votes

#4 - Addiction

St. Elsewhere - Season 1 - Episode 22

Morrison's wife goes into labor; White loses a girlfriend and gains a wife, while falling under suspicion when drugs are stolen; Dr. Craig's son Steven arrives for a period of observation and cause problems for Ehrlich; Martin casts her spell over Fiscus again; and Dr. Auschlander and an old friend get into a fist fight as they reminisce about the past.

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Hello, Goodbye
star
9.43
37 votes

#5 - Hello, Goodbye

St. Elsewhere - Season 2 - Episode 22

The residents scatter as vacation begins; Morrison meets a charming young woman; the E.R. faces major structural repairs; Steven Craig returns home after licking his drug problem; and Luther tries to find a Cheshire cat for a skeptical little girl. Dr. Auschlander collapses in an elevator. Elliot Axelrod has an interview for a position as a resident.

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All About Eve
star
9.43
37 votes

#6 - All About Eve

St. Elsewhere - Season 2 - Episode 8

Dr. Caldwell suffers for his work on Eddie Carson; Joan reveals a secret in the E.R.; Ehrlich meets a brand-new Roberta; Dr. Westphall's housekeeper announces she's returning to Italy; Eve Leighton takes a turn for the worse.

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Newheart
star
9.38
39 votes

#7 - Newheart

St. Elsewhere - Season 2 - Episode 3

The men attend a rather staid bachelor party for Kochar; White learns about the dangers of nuclear medicine; Fran Singleton refuses to see her husband, but later walks out of the hospital by his side; everyone opposes Joan's idea of including St. Eligius in a government nuclear disaster contingency plan; Martin gives Kochar a unique wedding present; and the transplant team goes into action.

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Playing God (1)
star
9.37
38 votes

#8 - Playing God (1)

St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 1

Morrison and Clancy argue over what to do about her unexpected pregnancy; Rosenthal and Dr. Auschlander fail to agree about anything as a nurses' strike looms; the emergency room receives three seriously burned firefighters; and Dr. Westphall collides with a strong-minded Mother Superior over life support for a critically ill nun.

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In Sickness and in Health
star
9.26
39 votes

#9 - In Sickness and in Health

St. Elsewhere - Season 2 - Episode 13

Joan's father enters the hospital unexpectedly; Chandler takes a practice run for the Boston Marathon that proves dangerous; and the Craigs host Ehrlich's wedding with guests such as Mrs. Craig's mother and Ehrlich's alcoholic aunt Charice.

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Playing God (2)
star
9.25
40 votes

#10 - Playing God (2)

St. Elsewhere - Season 3 - Episode 2

Dr. Westphall bans Sister Dominica from the hospital; the firefighters try to adjust to their injuries; Fiscus meets a fairy godmother; White returns to work; Clancy takes matters concerning her pregnancy into her own hands; and a Federal mediator joins the stalled contract talks.

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Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day
star
9.21
43 votes

#11 - Monday, Tuesday, Sven's Day

St. Elsewhere - Season 1 - Episode 15

Samuels operates on a hooker, who invites all her friends to visit her; Myra White gives her estranged husband some news; the racial tensions reach a climax when the truth about O'Connor's beating surfaces; and Ehrlich makes a fool of himself by drinking too much at a party given by Dr. Craig.

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Home Again
star
9.00
2 votes

#12 - Home Again

Providence - Season 1 - Episode 2

Sydney helps a woman with a bad home life; Joanie names her baby. Kyle reenters Syd's Life.

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Samuels and the Kid
star
8.49
77 votes

#13 - Samuels and the Kid

St. Elsewhere - Season 1 - Episode 5

Dr. Samuels becomes attached to a boy in for leg surgery; Fiscus surprises Martin with a romantic gesture; Chandler challenges a veteran nurse's competency; Dr. Craig receives his coveted `Surgeon of the Year' award; and Cavanero's weekend away is interrupted by a patient delivering her baby at home with just a teenage boy to help.

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Graveyard
star
8.38
72 votes

#14 - Graveyard

St. Elsewhere - Season 1 - Episode 11

Dr. Samuels breaks up a late night poker game to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim; Morrison lets a Chinese couple perform a folk healing ritual on their dying son; and Ralph's manic stage reaches a crescendo.

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Hearts
star
8.26
74 votes

#15 - Hearts

St. Elsewhere - Season 1 - Episode 10

Ralph masquerades as a doctor; an obese woman gives birth unexpectedly; an old friend of Dr. Samuels joins the staff; and Ehrlich faints during surgery.

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Time Heals (1)
star
8.14
7 votes

#16 - Time Heals (1)

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 17

St. Eligius' 50th anniversary spurs memories, including: it's opening in 1935 under the leadership of Father Joseph McCabe, the arrival of recently emigrated Helen Rosenthal and Mark's return as chief of surgery, Mark's bypass on Patrick O'Casey and the death of Maureen Westphall. Morrison struggles to diagnose a difficult patient and cope with the loss of Pete to a kidnapper.

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Santa Claus is Dead
star
8.00
7 votes

#17 - Santa Claus is Dead

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 11

Axelrod tries to keep Santa Claus alive after he collapses at a children's party; Ehrlich tries to brighten the holiday for his only obstetrical patient; Lizzie's boy friend finds the Westphalls' Christmas depressing; and Dr. Craig overindulges at his Christmas party.

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Rest in Peace
star
7.98
783 votes

#18 - Rest in Peace

Dead Like Me - Season 1 - Episode 14

On the first anniversary of George's death, Rube grants her the day off. Motivated to get her afterlife on track again, she returns to Happy Time to ask for her old job back. But after being bluntly rejected, George pouts through yet another drab day...until the universal powers-that-be intervene and inspire her to try to live her afterlife to the fullest.

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Yielding
star
7.87
226 votes

#19 - Yielding

HawthoRNe - Season 1 - Episode 3

Christina creates a makeshift ICU bed for a woman whose son isn't ready to let her go; Bobbie helps Kelly with a case involving an infant swallowing rubbing alcohol; Ray tries to spend time with Candy.

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Time Heals (2)
star
7.86
7 votes

#20 - Time Heals (2)

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 18

St. Eligius' 50th anniversary spurs memories, including: the growing up of Donald Westphall, the arrival of young Daniel Auschlander and his first meeting with Katharine, a drunken and embittered Father McCabe's departure, and the residency of Mark Craig under Dr. David Domedion. The O'Casey family's long history with St. Eligius leads Morrison to a diagnosis. Pete is returned.

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Getting Ahead
star
7.83
6 votes

#21 - Getting Ahead

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 15

Novino uncovers a pathologist selling body parts when one of her patients dies; Dr. Westphall learns that Lizzie is pregnant; Chandler and a visiting private practitioner learn something from each other, and John Doe #6 surfaces again, along with Craig's novel.

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Haunted
star
7.70
786 votes

#22 - Haunted

Dead Like Me - Season 2 - Episode 15

It's Halloween and reaper legend has it that the reapers can be seen as they were when alive. A serial killer stalks a neighborhood, the reapers collecting his victims as he goes, George getting the bad guy. Joy and Reggie pay a late night visit to George's grave. So does George.

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Come Home, Oh Sapien
star
7.67
6 votes

#23 - Come Home, Oh Sapien

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 20

Chandler does his outreach work at a crisis hotline, where he draws a suicide on his first night; Ehrlich earns Dr. Craig's approval after he performs well during an emergency; and Carol Novino renews her friendship with Dr. Westphall and his family. Ellen Craig kicks Mark out of their home.

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The Starting Line
star
7.64
190 votes

#24 - The Starting Line

HawthoRNe - Season 2 - Episode 2

Christina pays a visit to the ethics committee when she opposes the hospital's refusal to treat a heroin-addicted patient. Elsewhere, a mother reveals a game-changing secret to her adopted son; and Camille forges a bond with hospital worker Marcus.

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A Cook
star
7.64
761 votes

#25 - A Cook

Dead Like Me - Season 1 - Episode 8

When George decides to care for the beautiful golden retriever her latest victim has left behind, and Rube steps in as a grill cook to replace the man whose soul he recently took, both find themselves feeling lost and out of place. but as they boldly face their predicaments head-on, the two reapers finally figure out where they belong.

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The Idiot and the Odyssey
star
7.63
8 votes

#26 - The Idiot and the Odyssey

St. Elsewhere - Season 6 - Episode 2

Gideon and Westphall argue over an AIDS clinic, Ehrlich looks for a mysterious woman on his wedding day, Kiem experiments with hypnosis, and Joanne blames Boomer for letting her kids go back to Seattle with her ex-husband.

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Always
star
7.60
720 votes

#27 - Always

Dead Like Me - Season 2 - Episode 14

George finds out that her mother was in Happy Time looking for her file. Rube goes to see his daughter after receiving upsetting news from Penny. Ray continues to cause problems even after his death and Mason runs into a bit of trouble with Kiffany.

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Black's Magic
star
7.50
6 votes

#28 - Black's Magic

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 22

Dr. Turner returns to St. Eligius in time to deliver the baby of an old patient; Chandler has very bad luck as he searches for her all day; and Dr. Auschlander is trapped in a crack house that has been bequeathed to the hospital.

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Night Moves
star
7.49
189 votes

#29 - Night Moves

HawthoRNe - Season 1 - Episode 7

Christina gets trapped into working an overnight shift and finds herself in the middle of a potential custody battle.

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Loss of Power
star
7.43
7 votes

#30 - Loss of Power

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 10

Life goes on as the generator fails during a city-wide blackout; Caldwell takes leave to visit a dying friend; Westphall shares a stuck elevator with an Irishman; Dr. Craig and Wade perform emergency surgery; Pru returns to the hospital, as do the Valeres; Rosenthal is subpoenaed; Fiscus finds the emergency romantic; and a man who believes he's a vampire appeals to Morrison and Axelrod for help.

Where There's Hope, There's Crosby
star
7.43
7 votes

#31 - Where There's Hope, There's Crosby

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 1

A depressed Father Joseph McCabe returns to St. Eligius; Morrison receives a visitor from Seattle; Dr. Craig seeks help for his injured hand from an old classmate; one of Axelrod's patients awakens in the morgue; and Luther plays musical air conditioners.

Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball
star
7.43
7 votes

#32 - Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 23

Auschlander tries to stop the demolition of St. Eligius.

Last Call
star
7.40
742 votes

#33 - Last Call

Dead Like Me - Season 2 - Episode 13

Mason and Daisy try to keep Ray's death a secret. Mason receives a purple post-it, possibly his final reap before moving on. Roxy investigates Ray's disappearance, questioning Daisy . George attends another going-away party at Happy Time. Reggie accidentally lets J.D. out, and searches for the dog.

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Forget Me Not
star
7.38
766 votes

#34 - Forget Me Not

Dead Like Me - Season 2 - Episode 12

Ray and Mason fight for Daisy's affection, and their game turns into something worse when Daisy wants to breakup with Ray. In a hospital, George must convince an elderly woman of her death. Joy is looking for a job at Happy Time, where she finds out more information about the time George worked there. Rube seeks help from Penny, another reaper, to find his daughter.

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Remembrance of Things Past
star
7.38
8 votes

#35 - Remembrance of Things Past

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 1

The hospital review board acquires a new member from the psychiatric floor; Chandler experiences long-suppressed resentments when he treats a Vietnamese patient; and Dr. Turner counsels an upwardly mobile couple who can't conceive a child.

Send in the Clown
star
7.34
691 votes

#36 - Send in the Clown

Dead Like Me - Season 2 - Episode 1

Rube and Mason go to a kids birthday party to collect their next appointment, but Mason is about to change his mind when he learns that his reap is a little girl. George gets a job from Delores to show a dumb Brennan, who is the nephew of one of The Happy Time owners, how to work. She ends up having a little fun of her own. Meanwhile, Joy and Clancy decide to divorce.

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The Equalizer
star
7.33
6 votes

#37 - The Equalizer

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 23

Rosenthal's first husband and youngest son both return to her life; Chandler comes under fire for his activism against apartheid; Dr. Turner finds it hard to let go of the Ettings' baby; The Valeres' wish is finally granted, and everyone wants to date Novino.

E.R.
star
7.33
6 votes

#38 - E.R.

St. Elsewhere - Season 4 - Episode 24

The residents worry over who will be asked to return next year; the Craigs worry over the ""Doctor of the Year"" award dinner; Fiscus grows obsessed with opening a locked door; Martin drops by with a new look; Dr. Auschlander fears death as Halley's Comet blazes overhead; and a mugging victim named Boston Massachusetts waits for treatment in the E.R.

Slip Sliding Away
star
7.33
6 votes

#39 - Slip Sliding Away

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 22

Luther turns sleuth to find out who is responsible for the mercy-killings; Dr. Turner takes a chance doing experimental fetal heart surgery; Axelrod gets back at Novino and Griffin; Morrison buys a gun to protect his family; Yvonne Galecki Craig comes to claim her daughter, and Ehrlich and Papandrao have second thoughts about marriage when the new owners fire everyone in the hospital.

Healing Time
star
7.31
313 votes

#40 - Healing Time

HawthoRNe - Season 1 - Episode 2

A patient with dementia believes Christina is his wife.

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You Beta Your Life
star
7.29
7 votes

#41 - You Beta Your Life

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 5

Dr. Westphall helps a terminally ill teenager reach his parents; Griffin plays Birch and Novino off against each other to escape blame in a patient's death; Morrison calls Chandler on it when Dr. Turner gets involved in a dispute involving a sick child; and Dr. Craig tries to start his memoirs.

Lost Weekend
star
7.25
8 votes

#42 - Lost Weekend

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 11

Dr. Westphall tries to help an alcoholic poet he once admired; Dr. Craig puts his usual worst foot forward as he tries to persuade the Soviets to release Masha's husband; Rosenthal confronts McPhail about her drug problem; and Ehrlich makes friends with Papandrao's new boyfriend.

Pilot
star
7.04
409 votes

#43 - Pilot

HawthoRNe - Season 1 - Episode 1

Richmond Trinity Hospital's chief nursing officer Christina Hawthorne tries to stop an end-stage cancer patient's attempt at suicide.

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Pilot
star
6.83
6 votes

#44 - Pilot

Providence - Season 1 - Episode 1

Dr. Sidney Hansen returns home to Rhode Island From Los Angeles after tragedy strikes.

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A Dog And His Boy
star
6.00
1 votes

#45 - A Dog And His Boy

Ferris Bueller - Season 1 - Episode 6

Sloan leaves Lucy, the campus canine, in Ferris' care.

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L.A. Lawless
star
5.86
5 votes

#46 - L.A. Lawless

L.A. Law - Season 7 - Episode 1

McKenzie, Brackman restructures itself into a leaner, meaner firm with the arrival of new partner Daniel Morales and the departure of Grace, C.J. and Susan Bloom; after a harrowing encounter with a dissatisfied knife-throwing client, Becker swears off marital law and vows to make entertainment law his new specialty; Gwen begins her internship and expresses an interest in the widowed Daniel and his baby daughter; Zoey is released from the hospital, but not from the guilt surrounding the shooting; Becker represents an actor suing his amusement park employer for unlawful termination; as the 1992 Los Angeles riots erupt, Brackman is mistaken for a looter and arrested, while Markowitz sustains severe head trauma after being dragged from his car and beaten by an angry mob.

Christmas Stalking
star
5.20
3 votes

#47 - Christmas Stalking

L.A. Law - Season 7 - Episode 8

Kelsey represents Markowitz in court and gets the charges suspended with Mullaney's support; suspecting that Morales may be her stalker, Taylor gives him the cold shoulder until Melman sets her straight; Paros wins her child abuse case with a little behind-the-scenes help from McKenzie; after Becker gives Flicker an ultimatum about Schuller, Flicker arranges for Becker to be carjacked and abandoned in the desert, where he comes to the rescue and offers Becker a ride home and a high-level job at the studio; a caring physician uncovers that the cause of Markowitz's strange behavior is a brain cyst that can be treated with medication, and he's released from the psych ward of the hospital; after Brackman coldly rebuffs the partners' gift of a new pocket watch, Lincoln finally offers up the original, to Brackman's joy and relief; Romney unsuccessfully pursues both Taylor and a job at the firm; Mullaney and Melman ride out a few rough patches on the road to parenthood.

Good Vibrations
star
5.00
5 votes

#48 - Good Vibrations

St. Elsewhere - Season 5 - Episode 21

The representative of a foreign medical group interested in the hospital visits to absorb the psychic `aura' of the place (via flashbacks) but collapses from a heart attack before he can recommend the sale.

Helter Shelter
star
4.00
1 votes

#49 - Helter Shelter

L.A. Law - Season 7 - Episode 7

Brackman is distraught when the pocket watch he inherited from his father disappears; new associate Melina Paros joins the firm; Becker accepts an intricate assignment from Flicker, forcing him to deal with the manipulative wife of Flicker's silent partner; after Lincoln escapes from Benny and ends up at the pound, Markowitz takes extreme measures to get the dog released; Brackman gets a ghost writer for his autobiography; Taylor's pursuer sends her a gruesome gift, which only serves to alarm her further as she begins to suspect every man she encounters; Melman doesn't know how to handle Mullaney's new-found ardor; Paros prosecutes her final case for the State's Attorney's office as she attempts to prove that a woman may have abused her children.

Zo Long
star
3.75
2 votes

#50 - Zo Long

L.A. Law - Season 7 - Episode 3

Brackman sees life's underbelly from behind bars; Jonathan gets in a mudslinging contest in the final days before the election, and makes comments about the attack on Markowitz that draws the anger of the other members of the firm; Mullaney prosecutes a child abuse case in which the opposing counsel is a nun; Zoey seeks a change of venue for her life and career; Kelsey finds it difficult to work at home while taking of her husband, who is increasingly frustrated by his disability.