The Best Episodes Directed By Bob Balaban

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - The Lost Hour

   S1:E1012/1/1991

   Marshall goes on daylight-saving time, but everyone else doesn't.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #2 - The Astonishing

   S3:E85/16/2011

   Jackie accuses Kelly of being inappropriate with two flirty high school girls; Coop begins to let go of childish things; Thor counsels Akalitus on her new phone system and some deeper matters; Jackie is unexpectedly delayed getting to Grace's pageant.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #3 - No-Kimono-Zone

   S4:E65/13/2012

   Jackie has a disturbing dream about using; Zoey loses her ring.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - One-Armed Jacks

   S4:E55/6/2012

   Missing her family and adjusting poorly to single life, Jackie invites Kevin to meet her at a cafe but finds herself served with divorce papers instead of lunch; an attempted double suicide trauma case comes into the E.R.; Cruz institutes a draconian new dress code that is not a hit with his staff; Zoey looks for a new roommate and finds one in the lonely Jackie.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Orchids and Salami

   S3:E75/9/2011

   Kelly wins over the All Saints staff; Kevin finds pills in a dental floss dispenser; a patient soothes Coop's depression; Jackie pockets drugs.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - Marshall's Theory of Believability

   S1:E112/2/1992

   A "faked" extraterrestrial landing produces genuine alien debris.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Zombies in P.J.s

   S1:E174/12/1992

   A capitalist comes to Eerie and converts the townsfolk into easily led consumers.

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   7.3/10(14 votes)

   #8 - Great Men

   S2:E37/27/1998

   Alvarez knows who raped Glynn's daughter, but refuses to tell the warden. Wangler is making progress at school, but his cellmate, Adebisi, isn't a fan of higher education. When Augustus Hill's judge is convicted of accepting bribes, Said takes up Hill's case to get him a second trial. Diagnosed with cancer, O'Reily goes to a hospital to get a prison-paid lumpectomy, which is cheaper than a mastectomy. The Aryans are losing credibility in Oz, so Schillinger arranges to have a tough named Vogel killed with Beecher being the next on the hit list. Finally, the prison is filled with excitement as a woman, Shirley Bellinger, arrives on death row to be executed.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #9 - The Pharaoh's Curse

   S1:E364/23/2003

   A young magician becomes the protégé of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.

   Director:Bob Balaban

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    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Fine Tuning

    S1:E711/10/1985

    Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.

    Director:Bob Balaban

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    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Future Trade

    S1:E2011/27/2002

    A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with his trophy wife.

    Director:Bob Balaban

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