8.5/102 votes#1 - Romancing the Throne
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1998
Gary must deal with a stowaway princess who hid in his trunk.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#2 - Don't Walk Away, Renee
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/1998
Gary helps Renee, a woman who is being targeted by thieves.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#3 - Halloween
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1998
Gary is abducted by two witches that he saved from a fire. The witches believe that Gary is a warlock, and that Gary can help them free their sister who has been locked up for close to 200 years.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Bob Brush
8.5/102 votes#4 - Nest Egg
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1998
To his surprise, Gary runs into his mother in the middle of Chicago. Later he shadows her and sees her drinking champagne with a strange man. Gary first suspects an affair, but learns that the stranger has tricked her into investing in a fictive company.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Bob Brush
8.5/102 votes#5 - Just one of Those Things
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1999
Gary decides to tell Erica about the paper but she does not believe him until she witnesses him saving the life of a little girl trapped in a refrigerator. Unfortunately, Patrick, who is looking for an apartment, accidently takes Gary's paper.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#6 - Fate
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1999
A homeless man plummets to his death while Gary tries to save him. Gary is rattled by his inability to prevent the tragedy and questions his involvement with the paper. When Gary refuses to prevent the next day's bad news, he winds up being forced to confront his own fate when he reads his obituary in the paper and must figure out what he's done wrong so he can save his life.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#7 - The Out-of-Towner
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1999
Gary meets a man, Sam Cooper, that also receives tomorrow's paper (the New York Daily). However, unlike Gary, Sam hires others to complete the rescues and uses the paper's knowledge to make money.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#8 - Fatal Edition (1)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1999
When Frank Scanlon, a Chicago Sun Times columnist famous for his exposes, meets Gary during one of his daily saves, Gary piques the interest of the reporter, who believes that the rescues are more than coincidental. Intent on investigating Gary further, Scanlon demands that Sun Times cameraman Miguel Diaz hand over the confidential file he's been collecting on Gary. Meanwhile, when Gary reads in the paper that Scanlon is about to be murdered, he rushes to save him but the paper lists the wrong time of death - leading Gary to be found at the scene by police and subsequently arrested. Mounting circumstantial evidence even has Detective Toni Brigatti convinced of Gary's guilt. After escaping his arraignment, with Marissa's help, Gary becomes a fugitive desperate to find Scanlon's murderer.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Jeff Pinkner
8.5/102 votes#9 - Fatal Edition (2)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1999
When Gary's own investigation leads him to one of Scanlon's informants, he learns that at the time of Scanlon's death, the reporter was about to break a story on a murder-for-hire ring. With the help of Sun Times photographer Miguel Diaz, Gary obtains a printout of Scanlon's notes for his story that identifies six murders that were made to look like accidents. Meanwhile, Detective Brigatti uncovers some evidence of her own, which proves Gary's innocence and implicates someone with whom she works closely in the department. When Brigatti is subsequently taken hostage and about to be murdered, Gary must save her before the real killer sets him up a second time.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/102 votes#10 - Performance Anxiety
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2000
The former recipient of the New York paper decides to relinquish his duties by turning over the next day's news to his friend Clams, but the paper suddenly stops coming after Clams meets with a mysterious man asking questions about his satisfaction with his special subscription. When Gary is involved in a similar meeting, Clams warns him that he too could lose his paper if he makes any wrong decisions. Desperate to get his own paper back, Clams steals Gary's edition so he can convince the powers-that-be to give him another chance. But even as he tries to make amends, Clams continues to abuse the paper and winds up putting the life of a down on-his-luck computer genius in jeopardy. When Gary reads that Clams and the computer wiz will perish in a dangerous explosion, he must race to save their lives before it's too late.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/102 votes#11 - Everybody Goes to Rick's
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2000
Gary travels back in time to 1929, and is the proprietor of a speakeasy at the location where McGinty's is currently located. He must try to prevent the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: James Stanley
8.5/102 votes#12 - Luck o' the Irish
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/2000
A young Irish woman loses her chance at a million dollar lottery when Gary swipes her dollar that she was going to buy the winning ticket with. To repay her he ends up caught up in a wild scheme that has them pretending to be engaged while Kate looks for a man she loves.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votes#13 - Jenny Sloane
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1997
Gary must help a young boy who is ill with leukimia, but is refusing treatment. Gary wants him to meet Jenny Sloane, Chicago's sweetheart who is ill with cancer. A Sun-Times columnist writes a column about Jenny Sloane.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#14 - The Fourth Carpathian
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/1998
Gary's parents receive the paper when Gary is trapped in an absndoned theater trying to save a monkey. Gary's parents and Crumb accidentally bring together a family of Letonian trapeze artists in Chicago.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#15 - Hot Time in the Old Town
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/16/1998
Gary reads in the paper that a pylon at a construction site drops and knocks over a nearby building killing thousands. He goes to try and prevent it from happening only to get knocked out and wakes up 2 days before the Great Chicago Fire. He meets Morris, who looks like Chuck. He also meets Jesse, a young boy who is the brother of a woman, Elanor, who is a singer at a saloon, and looks exactly like Marissa, and is a victim of racism. Gary must help Jessee and Elanor, and try to stop the fire from happening.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#16 - Blackout
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1998
During a blackout in Chicago, Marissa attempts to save two trapped teenagers.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#17 - Play It Again Sammo
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1999
Gary does his usual routine to help others, and finds himself involved with the robbery of an ancient Chinese helmet that was stolen from LA. Detective Sammo Law from the Los Angeles police department is in Chicago looking for the missing helmet. After investigating Gary's involvement with the case, Sammo and Gary find out Gary accidentally bought the helmet as a piece of an art decoration object. Unfortunately the helmet is stolen again, forcing Sammo and Gary to team up to get it back, while trying to stop the man who stole it and his niece from being murdered by international smugglers who want the helmet.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votes#18 - The Dead Spy Scrawls
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1966
CONTROL tries to find the location of a KAOS communications center, which turns out to be in a pool hall.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#19 - Physical Fatness
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/8/1965
Gilligan and the Skipper plan to join the Navy when they are rescued. However, when weighing themselves, they discover that Gilligan must gain weight, while the Skipper must diet.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#20 - Gilligan Gets Bugged
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1965
Gilligan's thinks he is doomed after being bitten by a yellow and green bug. Soon, the other castaways are also bitten by the same bug.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#21 - Court-Martial
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1967
The Castaways hear on the radio that the Maritime Board of Inquiry has blamed the Skipper for the Minnow crash. In an attempt to disprove the board's verdict, they reenact the shipwreck themselves, only to find out that the cause appears to be Gilligan's ineptness. Later, a radio update reports that the Board of Inquiry has cleared the Skipper of the charges, as the Weather Service mistakenly read the wrong forecast that morning causing the crew to be unaware of the impending storms.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
6.0/102 votes#22 - Kisses for KAOS
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1966
After several buildings are inexplicably blown up, Control follows the trail to an art gallery where a former chemist, debonair Rex Savage, has teamed up with painter Mondo to produce a series of explosive paintings. 99 disguises as an art expert with Max as her driver/butler as they try to get Savage's fingerprints and photograph, something that turns out to be a little more complicated than expected.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
5.0/101 votes#23 - Mr. and Mrs.???
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/21/1966
A radio bulletin states that the minister who married Thurston and Lovey Howell (the Reverend Buckley Norris of Boston) was a fraud, and that the Howell's marriage is actually null and void. The stress causes disagreements and separations between the Howells. In the end, it turns out that the radio announcer was at fault: While he mistakenly reported that "Buckley Norris" was the fraudulent minister, he was supposed to say "Borris Nuckley."
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
5.0/101 votes#24 - The Secret of Gilligan's Island
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1967
Gilligan discovers some ancient stone tablets that the Professor thinks may contain the secret of getting them off the island. That night, Gilligan dreams that he is a caveman chiseling a story on a stone tablet three million years ago.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
5.0/101 votes#25 - It's a Bird, It's a Plane
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 3/27/1967
A U.S. Air Force jetpack washes ashore in the lagoon. After close inspection of the jetpack, the Professor determines that the tanks contain just enough fuel to carry Gilligan to Hawaii. However, that determination was made before Gilligan wasted most of the fuel while proceeding to goof-up several attempts to be discovered and rescued. While flying the jetpack near where Navy search vessels are reported to be lurking, Gilligan is so scared by a radio report of an ""Unidentified Flying Object in the area"" that he blasts higher and hides in a cloud, not realizing that the UFO the Navy ships see is actually him with the jetpack!
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Sam Locke
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"Romancing the Throne" is the best rated episode directed by Gary Nelson. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 1/17/1998 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Don't Walk Away, Renee".