The Best Episodes Directed By Howard E. baker
Every TV Episode Directed by Howard E. baker Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Howard E. Baker Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Howard E. Baker is "Aunt Miriam", rated 7.5/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by Peter Gaffney". "Aunt Miriam" aired on 11/22/1992 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Baby Commercial".
7.5/10 2 votes#1 - Aunt Miriam
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/22/1992
Aunt Miriam and Lou were not nice to each other. They always did and acted like Angelica and Tommy are today. Tommy and Chuckie go in the bathroom and find a hair dryer, a radio and a wig. They think Aunt Mirian is an alien and investigate.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#2 - Baby Commercial
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/8/1991
Betty tells the story of how Phil and Lil got placed in a diaper commercial where the twins preferred exploring and destroying the set rather than sticking to the script.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Steve Viksten
7.0/10 1 votes#3 - Little Dude
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/8/1991
Didi brings Tommy to her work place - the local high school, for use as a visual aid. But when Tommy gets free and roams around campus, he becomes friends with a rebellious biker.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: M.S. Freeman
7.0/10 1 votes#4 - Grandpa's Teeth
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/1991
Grandpa is supposed to play his trumpet at a Veteran's Picnic, but Spike runs off with his dentures. Tommy and Chuckie set out to get them back in the craziest wild-duck chase in the history of dental rescue.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Ben Herndon
7.0/10 1 votes#5 - Momma Trauma
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/17/1991
After Tommy is found drawing on walls at the Pickles' house, Stu and Didi take him to a psychiatrist name Dr. Lepetomaine. When Tommy breaks free and has an adventure around the medical office building, Stu ends up being the one psychoanalyzed.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Steve Viksten
7.0/10 1 votes#6 - Candy Bar Creep Show
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1992
The Pickles family sets up a haunted house for Halloween, and Angelica is determined to find all the Reptar Bars. But when the Rugrats go searching for them as well, will they end up scaring her off?
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Tom Abrams
7.0/10 1 votes#7 - Weaning Tommy
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1992
On advice from Dr. Homer, Tommy's dentist (Didi prefers calling him a "tooth fairy"), Stu and Didi want Tommy to start drinking from a cup. Tommy, however, wants to stick with the baby bottle.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton
7.0/10 1 votes#8 - Sand Ho
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1992
The Rugrats act out the pirate story Grandpa told them before he fell asleep (as usual).
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#9 - Reptar On Ice
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 11/8/1992
Bored at home, the grown-ups decide to take the Rugrats to see "Reptar On Ice" - but when they find Reptar's baby, the Rugrats decide to be part of the act.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - The Case Of The Missing Rugrat
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 12/13/1992
Grandpa comes out of the supermarket with Tommy and puts him in the back of a car for a moment. When he returns, the car has vanished with Tommy in it. Two women took Tommy as a son and Grandpa tries to take him back.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - Chuckie's First Haircut
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1993
Chuckie is scared to get a haircut so the rugrats try to make him get over this fear.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Grandpa Moves Out
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1993
After ruining dinner, making Tommy cry and Spike growl, Grandpa gets out of everyone's way by moving to Flushing Waters Retirement Home, which is luxury, (so it says in the commercial), which turns out to be your run-in-the-mill retirement home.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
7.0/10 1 votes#13 - The Baby Vanishes
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 10/31/1993
Playing doctor (not THAT kind of playing doctor) with her ""Binks McGill"" doctor kit (based on the TV show), Angelica diagnoses Chuckie with the entirely ficticious ""Rhinoceritis"", in which Chuckie will turn into a rhino. The signs of ""Rhinoceritis"" includes a bump on a head (where ""a horn is growing in""), scaly skin (actually, scabs), and ornery behavior. Meanwhile, Drew helps Stu and Didi with their income tax, with some sound advice for those who don't file properly.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Rachel Lipman
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - The Last Babysitter
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 11/14/1993
The babies, Angelica, and Grandpa have a campout outside. Grandpa tells the legend of the Satchmo, which leads to Chuckie using the restroom, and Tommy figuring out where Chuckie is. Angelica Scares them, Stu is scared to let them sleep outside because of a campout when he was 34. He calms himself down and sleeps with the kids.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - Give And Take
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 11/28/1993
Tommy ""accidently"" lets Chuckie borrow his Boppo toy. Chuckie then relizes it's a clown toy. Angelica finds a switch on it and Chuckie pulls it, deflating Boppo. Then Tommy comes over and sees the deflated Boppo, Then Stu inflates it again.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Rachel Lipman
7.0/10 1 votes#16 - The Blizzard
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 12/12/1993
Chuckies favorite toy bus that he got from Santa gets broken after Stu steps on it, and whats worse is a blizzard is going to hit them. After the blizzard when playing in the snow Lou says that it looks like the North Pole. And so Chuckie gets an idea and says to the rest of the Rugrats that if the North Pole is near than so is Santa, and he can fix Chuckies toy. And so they go on an adventure to find Santa braving the blizzards, and harsh coldness of the North Pole (Tommys back yard). On the way they meet Angelica (Angelanik of the North) whos only going along to get toys. Later the Rugrats find out they went the wrong way and ended up at the South Pole. While the others are dissapointed Tommy thinks it's great that they managed to find the South Pole. And so Lou fixed Chuckies bus and the Rugrats had a fun adventure in the blizzard.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Samuel S. Williams
7.0/10 1 votes#17 - The Odd Couple
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 12/26/1993
Tommy is staying over at Chuckie's house for a long weekend while his parents go to Wisconsin for a cheese tasting tour. Tommy and Chuckie think they're going to get along great, but soon they start fighting about their different ways of doing stuff.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Under Chuckie's Bed
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 1/9/1994
Grandpa Lou tells the story of how much Stu and Drew fought as babies and try to get th eold tv working so they can watch the TV show, ""Blocky and Oxwinkle"".
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Joe Ansolabehere
7.0/10 1 votes#19 - In The Dreamtime
Season 3 Episode 35 - Aired 2/20/1994
After having vivid dreams at night, Chuckie is having trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. His difficulty, however, almost had disasterous results when he wanders into the next yard, where a bulldog is sitting.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Peter Gaffney
5.0/10 2 votes#20 - Tommy's First Birthday
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/1991
Stu and Didi strive to make Tommy's first birthday a memorable one. They did, but under the wrong circumstances. Meanwhile Tommy wants to eat dog food so he can be just like Spike, eventually selling the other Rugrats on the idea.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Craig Bartlett
2.0/10 1 votes#21 - Road Apples
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/1994
Ren & Stimpy pose as roadkill so they can get a ride to the desert.
Director: Howard E. Baker
Writer: Ron Hauge