The Best Episodes Directed By Gwen Arner

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Parental Guidance Recommended

   S3:E202/3/1993

   Iris flies in from Hawaii, and Dylan and Jack try to soften her up to convince her to approve the dissolution of the trust. She is leery of Jack's motives, but elects not to stand in their way. Jack makes a clandestine phone call and promises someone that he will get the money. Brenda mopes around in her room and discards all mementos of Dylan. A visit from Iris convinces her to get past her pain, and she talks to Kelly at school. Steve helps David get a meeting with a record company. The record company executive threatens to call off the deal unless David fires Steve, and he agrees. Andrea is hesitant to attend a tea for future Yale students. Music: ""Losing My Religion"" by R.E.M.; ""Kansas City"" by Wilbert Harrison (#1, 1959); ""Action Speaks Louder Than Words"" by Tara Kemp (from the 90210 soundtrack); ""So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star"" by

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Return Engagement (2)

   S2:E275/21/1994

   Mike is torn between two lovers when, in a blast from the past, her presumed-dead Civil War fiance, David Lewis, whirls into town to reclaim Mike from the arms of Sully, her current fiance. Also, Horace keeps ""losin' the mood"" when it comes time to consummate his marriage with Myra.

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   #3 - Return Engagement (1)

   S2:E265/14/1994

   When ""Andrew Strauss""—really David Lewis—the fiancé whom Mike had presumed was killed in the Civil War, visits Colorado Springs. Mike is forced to choose between him and Sully. Also, Horace and Myra experience pre-nuptial tension when townsfolk start taking over the planning of their wedding for them. Andrew Strauss/David Lewis: Maxwell Caulfield.

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   #4 - For Better or Worse (2)

   S3:E295/20/1995

   While Sully is off thinking and doesn't return for several days, Mike gets worried. Although Mike continues to believe in their love. When Sully finally returns, Mike realizes she just wants Sully as her husband. Mike and Sully marry on May 20, 1870. Brian, feeling left out, has a surprise for the newlyweds.

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   #5 - For Better or Worse (1)

   S3:E285/20/1995

   Mike's mother arrives with elaborate wedding plans; Custer puts a bounty on best man Cloud Dancing.

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   #6 - Long Live the King

   S3:E203/25/1978

   Jaime poses as a Middle Eastern king's social secretary in order to prevent his assassination during his visit to New York City.

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   #7 - I've Got a Secret

   S4:E112/2/1996

   Lewis and Kellerman try to subdue a large man who's gone on a rampage. The large man is finally subdued and they find him digging up his mother. This case brings out some information about Meldrick's family, and he tries to see his brother, who doesn't want to see him. Kay tries to keep the identity of her new boyfriend a secret, mainly from John, which drives him crazy. Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the death of a man whose body is found in a car. Scheiner says he died from internal bleeding, not the gunshot wound to the groin he was treated for at an emergency room earlier that day. They discover that the doctor may have had a motive for doing a less than adequate job treating her patient.

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   7.5/10(10 votes)

   #8 - Renunciation

   S2:E911/19/1991

   A hit-and-run investigation leads to the discovery of a schoolteacher carrying on an affair with one of her students. Cerreta and Logan suspect that she may have manipulated him into killing her husband.

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   7.1/10(9 votes)

   #9 - A Death in the Family

   S1:E131/15/1991

   Police start a citywide manhunt for a man suspected of killing a cop during a rooftop pursuit.

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