The BEST episodes written by Sy Rosen
#2 - Birth of a Salesman
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 22
The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.
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#3 - Double Double Date
The Wonder Years - Season 5 - Episode 16
Kevin wants to date Inga and he uses Winnie to help him get a date. Winnie does the same thing to Kevin, getting set up with new guy Matt Stevens. They end up double-dating at the Spring Dance, bringing some tension to the evening. But when Matt and Inga begin to dance together, Winnie and Kevin rediscover their feelings for each other.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 12
Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
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#5 - Triangle
The Wonder Years - Season 5 - Episode 6
Kevin does not understand why Wayne's new girlfriend, Sandy, is with him. The tables are turned when Sandy approaches Kevin behind Wayne's back and kisses him. In fact, they kiss all over the school. But when Sandy breaks up with Wayne to be with Kevin, Kev can't bring himself to betray his brother.
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#6 - Private Butthead
The Wonder Years - Season 5 - Episode 14
While Kevin is asked to consider his future, Wayne makes a decision to leave school and join the army. Jack and Norma try to talk Wayne out of it, but he won't listen. Wayne and his friend Wart go together to the army testing station. Jack follows and apologises to Wayne for not being a better father to him.
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#7 - Wayne and Bonnie
The Wonder Years - Season 6 - Episode 7
Wayne has fallen head-over-heels for Bonnie, a 23-year-old divorcee who has a child. Norma and Wayne fight about him wanting to move in with her. Kevin, meanwhile, is feeling lonely and wants desperately to talk with Winnie - to apologize and because he realizes he really needs her.
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#9 - Unpacking
The Wonder Years - Season 6 - Episode 14
Kevin's new friend, Jeff, was the first kid he ever knew whose parents were divorced. Winnie has Kevin set Jeff up with Ann, but Jeff is feeling guilty about the girlfriend he moved away from. Ann is upset that Jeff doesn't want anything to do with her and Winnie blames Kevin! To sort everything out, Kevin drives Jeff to talk it all over with Julie.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 8
Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.
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#11 - Summer
The Wonder Years - Season 6 - Episode 21
It is summer and Kevin is working for his dad in the furniture factory. He is getting frustrated and wants to take off with Jeff and Chuck on a road-trip, but he can't. Winnie, what's more, is working away from town and Kevin wants to visit her - so he quits his job and leaves town. When he gets there though, he finds that he is not wanted and that Winnie has fallen for a lifeguard named Eric.
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#12 - Nose
The Wonder Years - Season 6 - Episode 16
When Kevin and friends are asked to write down the ways they feel inferior, they have trouble thinking of something. They don't have any problems picking on the new girl with the big nose. Ricky decides to ask her to an upcoming dance anyway, but all his friends laugh at him - none of them realising how insensitive they are being.
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#13 - Mutilation Ball
Tripping the Rift - Season 1 - Episode 2
The crew is enlisted by the Confederation to kidnap Malik, a sports superstar who retired from the game of Mutilation Ball (a fast-paced but violent sport where players use chainsaws to disable their opponents), and bring him into the big game as a ringer. The crew then kidnaps Malak and brings him back to the ship, where T'Nuk inadvertently kills him - only to find out that he is a robot! Now they must find the real Malak and get him into the big game before the Confederation finds out.
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#15 - Nurse Doctor
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 7
A beautiful and ambitious young nurse, Harris, who plans to become a doctor when she leaves the Army, finds herself in a misunderstanding with Father Mulcahy. Meanwhile, the camp's water supply is depleted, and the rest of the 4077th is more concerned about where their next shower will come from.
#16 - The Heartbreak Kidd
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 18
Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
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#17 - Guaranteed Not to Shrink
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 21
Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.
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#18 - On Your Own
Northern Exposure - Season 4 - Episode 6
The ever-quiet Bob returns to Cicely, with "The New Perception Players" and still hopes to win Marilyn's affection. Maurice receives a package from his son and it reminds him that he needs to adjust his will to cover his Korean offspring. Maggie tries to develop her relationship with Mike, by helping him with the revisions to Maurice's will. Ed is suffering from a creativity block and finds a ring with the initials F.F. engraved on the inside, and then he begins to have Fellini-like visions.
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#19 - My Boy Guillermo
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 19
Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.
#20 - Taxation Without Celebration
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 20
Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadline—and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.
#21 - Shrinking Violence
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 23
Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
#22 - Death Be My Destiny
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 19
Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.
#23 - My Husband, the Hero
Maude - Season 6 - Episode 15
A fire breaks out at a restaurant, and Walter must face what kind of person he is.
#24 - Katie the Crook
Gimme a Break! - Season 1 - Episode 1
Katie resorts to shoplifting in her grief over her mother's death.
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Gimme a Break! - Season 1 - Episode 16
Katie has dreams of stardom with her singing group.
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