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The Best Episodes Directed By James Burrows

Every TV Episode Directed by James Burrows Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    After a hard day's work collecting garbage, Roc Emerson looks forward to relaxing at home with his family. Instead he argues with his live-in father, Andrew, and finds his wife, Elanor, leaving for her job as a nurse at the local hospital. Worse, his younger brother, Joey, whom Roc hasn't seen for five years, arrives at the door penniless, homeless, and unemployed.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Prison Blues

    S4:E4

    After Stan is arrested for tax evasion, Grace and Karen timidly visit him in prison. Grace is so moved to help her worried friend that she moves right into Karen's deluxe apartment-in-the-sky, where she becomes a demanding guest who's soon hooked on servants, bubble baths and an extravagant lifestyle. Meanwhile, as Stan's attorney, Will struggles with stage-fright when he babbles on during a TV news interview, so Jack convinces him to polish his communication skills by attending an acting class ruled by an imperious teacher.

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  3. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Stakin' Care Of Business

    S4:E11

    At the gym, Will spies another guy who looks maddeningly familiar, while Jack gets a workout as he keeps repeating one of his nonsensical catchphrases in hopes of seeing it become popular among the sweat set. Meanwhile, Grace gets some bad advice from Karen when she seeks a loan to expand her company so she stoops to asking her wealthy employee herself for the money—even if she has to resort to drastic measures to get the point across.

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    Director:James Burrows
  4. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Saving Grace, Again (2)

    S7:E9

    The group go on a road trip for Grace's get away weekend -- a weekend devoted to not mentioning the name ""Leo."" Jack and Karen hate the car ride and decide to bail on the plan. Elsewhere, when Jack spots Peter a ""sinfully delicious"" man who Jack remembers from a cocoa commercial when he was a kid, he recruits him to be the new face of ""Out TV,"" much to the surprise of Rip Taylor who also wants the gig

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  5. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Chicken & Stuffing

    S1:E2

    Joe and Louis bicker about who takes better care of whom when Louis discovers that Joe and Ali haven’t been “romantic” lately.

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  6. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Jeter Exception

    S1:E3

    After Joe uncovers sexy photos of Ali with famous baseball player Derek Jeter and tells Louis about it, Ali questions Joe’s ability to keep a secret from his partner.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  7. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Key

    S1:E4

    Joe is stuck in the middle after Ali finds out that Louis has a key to Joe’s apartment and she does not.

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  8. 9.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Free-spirited Dharma and straitlaced Greg break the news to their respective parents, none of whom are especially thrilled with the match.

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    Director:James Burrows
  9. 9.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Gypsies, Tramps and Weed

    S3:E7

    Will reluctantly decides to use a birthday gift certificate from Grace to consult a psychic about his future and encounters an absent-minded fortune teller whose frighteningly personal predictions leave him reeling. Elsewhere, a guilt-ridden Grace hires a lackadaisical waiter whom she helped to get fired while Jack, who forever idolizes music, TV and film legend Cher, stumbles onto the real deal and meets the Oscar winner herself -- whom he mistakes for a drag queen.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  10. 9.2/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Abnormal Psychology

    S5:E4

    Diane tries to help Lilith, the lady psychologist attracted to Frasier, to soften her appearance and surprise Frasier during their television debate.

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    Director:James Burrows
  11. 9.1/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Dinner at Eight-ish

    S5:E20

    Frasier and Lilith invite Sam and Diane over for dinner to celebrate their first week of cohabitation. But things start going wrong when Lilith finds out Frasier and Diane were engaged, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Then Sam and Diane have an argument as well. Meanwhile Cliff agrees to babysit Carla's kids.

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  12. 9.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - One for the Road

    S11:E25

    Whilst watching the National Cable Ace Awards, the gang sees ex-waitress Diane Chambers winning the award for best writing in a mini-series. This leads to Sam calling Diane to congratulate her, and to find out that she is married and has children. Sam tells her Diane that he too has a wife and kids, and invites Diane and her husband to visit them. Sam strongly believes Diane is lying and becomes really shocked when she walks into Cheers the following day to meet Mrs Malone. Meanwhile Rebecca's boyfriend Don proposes to her and she accidently says no, ends up heartbroken and agrees to play Sam's wife to fool Diane. Sam and Rebecca have dinner with Diane and her husband, Reed Manchester. During the dinner Don arrives and proposes to her again, and this time she manages to say yes! They leave the dinner, and Sam thinks he must look like a fool. Then Diane's husband turns out to be a fake when *his* husband Kevin appears!

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  13. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Das Boob

    S2:E3

    A deceiving, but flattering, newspaper photo makes Grace look more ""endowed"" than she really is and gains her the attention of a former high school heartthrob who was never one to keep abreast of her before. Jack is destroyed to learn that Will had a fling with Walter, Jack's ex-boyfriend.

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  14. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Homo For The Holidays

    S2:E7

    Will and Grace are shocked to learn that Jack never told his mother he was gay and encourage him to open up to her at Thanksgiving. The evening brings a revelation for Jack as well: his father isn't who he thinks it is.

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  15. 8.9/10(57 votes)

    #15 - The One with the Prom Video

    S2:E14

    After getting his big break, with Days of Our Lives, Joey pays Chandler back. Monica is unemployed and hard up for money. Monica and Rachel's prom video reveals Monica's former girth, Rachel's former nose and the way Ross has always felt about Rachel.

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    Director:James Burrows
  16. 8.8/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Pick a Con... Any Con

    S1:E19

    Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.

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  17. 8.8/10(5 votes)

    #17 - The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter

    S3:E14

    The guys take Frasier on a ""snipe"" hunt in the woods after Diane asks them to include the psychologist in their masculine pursuits.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  18. 8.8/10(5 votes)

    #18 - Thanksgiving Orphans

    S5:E9

    The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.

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  19. 8.8/10(5 votes)

    #19 - The Innkeepers

    S2:E23

    On a whim, Frasier and Niles decide to buy one of Seattle's oldest and finest restaurants.

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    Director:James Burrows
  20. 8.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - An Old-Fashioned Wedding

    S10:E25

    Woody and Kelly's wedding faces some funny obstacles, before and during the ceremony, including Sam's flirtation with a German guest who turns out to be married, the priest dying and Kelly's Uncle Roger having to perform the ceremony - but only if he is drunk, Rebecca having to ice the cake after insulting the kitchen staff, and Lilith having to sing to the guests in order to stop them, and Woody and Kelly, from finding out the disasters going on behind the scenes.

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    Director:James Burrows
  21. 8.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - All You Need is Love

    S1:E1

    Harold T. Stone becomes a night court judge and settles a dispute involving a woman threatening her husband with gunfire.

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  22. 8.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Young Dr. Weinstein

    S5:E7

    Stung by Diane's attitude, Sam tries to impress her by getting reservations at the most exclusive restaurant in Boston.

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  23. 8.6/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Everyone Imitates Art

    S5:E10

    Diane becomes obsessed with tracking down a poem she's sure Sam plagiarized and had published in a literary magazine that has repeatedly turned her work down.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:N/A
  24. 8.6/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Norm, is That You?

    S7:E6

    Norm tries to hide the fact that he's become an interior decorator.

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  25. 8.6/10(44 votes)

    #25 - The One with the Morning After

    S3:E16

    Ross tries to prevent Rachel from learning his disturbing secret. She finds out anyway and they go back to her apartment to have a fight. The other four friends are trapped in Monica's bedroom, forced to listen in.

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James Burrows Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode directed by James Burrows. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 8/24/1991 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Prison Blues".