The Best Episodes Directed By Jonathan Kaplan
Every TV Episode Directed by Jonathan Kaplan Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jonathan Kaplan Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Jonathan Kaplan is "A Man in Blue", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Tim Kring". "A Man in Blue" aired on 12/4/2005 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Orion in the Sky".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - A Man in Blue
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/2005
With a cop killer on the loose, Woody is flooded with memories. It is left to Woody to find a killer…at any cost. Meanwhile, aliens spark Nigel’s interests.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Tim Kring
9.0/10 4 votes#2 - Orion in the Sky
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/4/2002
As Dr. Greene's brain tumor begins affecting his coordination, he becomes concerned that his fate will be similar to the terminally ill patients he treats.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel
9.0/10 4 votes#3 - Alone in a Crowd
Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2005
A soccer mom finds herself completely aware of everything going on around her, but is unable to move or speak after suffering a stroke.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Dee Johnson
8.8/10 4 votes#4 - The Crossing
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2001
In the series' 150th episode, a massive train wreck mobilizes the emergency room doctors. Corday, Carter and Kovac rush to the scene. Corday falls and injures her back, bringing on contractions in only her 25th week of pregnancy. While amputating the legs of a fallen firefighter, Corday stops because of her pain.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.8/10 4 votes#5 - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2001
Benton commits perjury on the witness stand in order to gain custody of Reese. When Romano refuses to give him a more even schedule, Peter resigns and seeks a job at the clinic where Cleo is newly employed. Benton is granted custody of Reese and he and Cleo decide to move to the suburbs together. Meanwhile, Carter's father visits for Christmas with the news that he's getting divorced, Weaver and Sandy Lopez finally go on a date, and Abby catches Nicole in the maternity ward, recovering from an abortion.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Meredith Stiehm
8.7/10 6 votes#6 - Getting to Know You
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1999
Carol's pregnancy becomes public knowledge as she learns that she's having twins. Lucy has problems trying to go off Ritalin. Peter learns Carla plans to move to Germany. Kerry finds an abandoned youngster and brings him to the ER. Mark and Elizabeth discuss their relationship. Jeanie and Reggie draw closer again.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.7/10 3 votes#7 - The Longer You Stay
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2001
Carter is overwhelmed by patients from a rock concert riot. Benton's former girlfriend is killed in a car accident. Newly promoted to chief resident, Chen panics and misdiagnoses a patient. Kovac angers Abby by flirting with a waitress.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.6/10 7 votes#8 - Night Shift
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1997
Carol has to fire two of the nurses. Meanwhile, Gant feels Benton is too hard on him.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Paul Manning
8.6/10 7 votes#9 - Leave It to Weaver
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1999
When Anspaugh decides to retire as chief of staff and return to surgery, he appoints Romano as his replacement. Greene expresses reservations about the decision, but Weaver does not support Greene. Romano makes Weaver the new chief of emergency medicine.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.5/10 4 votes#10 - Good Touch, Bad Touch
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1997
Carol would like to have a women's and children's health care clinic within the ER. Benton has trouble combining work and fatherhood.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Mills
8.5/10 6 votes#11 - Middle of Nowhere
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1999
Peter accepts Romano's suggestion and takes a two-week job in Minnesota to earn some extra money. Unfortunately, before he gets a chance to leave, he's transferred to backwoods Mississippi, where the hospital is only a two-room building. Peter battles local racism, delivers a difficult infant while battling the grandfather's concerns that the child might be black, and uses unorthodox methods to save two shrimp boat workers. Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Jeanie's condition worsens.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Carol Flint
8.5/10 6 votes#12 - The Visit
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/2000
Corday rushes through a surgical procedure in order to take off on a romantic weekend with Greene. She is later called back to the hospital after her patient suffers complications. Abby's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder (manic-depressive) and refuses to take her medication, unexpectedly visits Abby at the hospital and wreaks havoc on Abby's life.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: John Wells
8.5/10 4 votes#13 - Rampage
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2001
The ER is flooded with foster care home residents, attacked by a shooter bent on tracking down his son, who , with the help of Dr. Green, was put into the foster care system amid allegations he was being abused by his father.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.4/10 5 votes#14 - Random Acts
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1997
Jeanie asks Greg to help Al get into a special AIDS-program at the hospital. Olbes brings in her grandfather, who had a stroke.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Carol Flint
8.4/10 5 votes#15 - A Thousand Cranes
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2003
The police question Drs. Pratt and Gallant about a rampage at the diner across from the ER. Dr. Lewis befriends her teen admirer, a cancer patient.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 5 votes#16 - Out of Africa
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2003
Ben Hollander is a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel
8.3/10 10 votes#17 - All in the Family
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2000
Carter and Lucy are discovered and the staff struggles to save them and go on with normal patient care.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/10 7 votes#18 - May Day
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2000
As the result of a school shooting, Kovac and Benton care for the gunman and his victims. Abby discovers that Carter has been illegally injecting pain relievers. Greene and Weaver confront Carter about his problem, and Weaver orders him to enter a drug rehabilitation center or leave the hospital permanently.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/10 6 votes#19 - Chaos Theory
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2002
Dr. Carter, Abby and other staff of the ER are quarantined as the CDC investigate a mysterious, deadly outbreak.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
8.3/10 3 votes#20 - Fade-Away
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/2006
When 17-year-old Ted Soros goes missing after a basketball game, the team begins an investigation, soon learning that Ted was an emancipated minor who was living on his own to attend a school with an exemplary basketball program. Learning he had recently contacted his mother with a request for legal advice from an uncle, the team begins to suspect that Ted may have done something that he could face criminal charges for, and realise that Ted's secret is connected to a university recruiting party. While the team works Ted's disappearance, Jack learns from Ann that she lost the baby, and waits for her at the clinic while she seeks medical attention.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10 3 votes
#21 - Voir Dire
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/2009
While working on a high profile civil case, a trial consultant vanishes. Jack and Sam learn how to make adjustments as Brian and Finn spend more time together.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 5 votes#22 - Hazed and Confused
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1998
Dr. Corday commits a deadly error after being on-call for nearly 36 hours straight. Peter visits Dr. Kotlowitz and receives encouragement regarding a cochlear implant for Reese. Dr. Amanda Lee, a prospective new ER chief, visits. In the wake of a failed pregnancy attempt, Carol lashes out at a mother using abortion as a means of selective birth control. Carter and Lucy feud when Carter accidentally uses her palm computer and finds out what she thinks of him. Mark panics during a paramedic initation.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Mills
8.2/10 5 votes#23 - Humpty Dumpty
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1999
Weaver tries to save the life of a rape victim while Corday struggles with feelings of disdain as she is forced to save the rapist. Cleo treats a teenage alcoholic boy whose alcoholic mother refuses to recognize her problem or his.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Neal Baer
8.2/10 4 votes#24 - Lockdown
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2002
Just when the ER is understaffed and swamped, two children who were brought in turn out to have full blown smallpox. The entire ER must be locked down. The staff needs to improvise while they battle not only the disease but also frayed tempers.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/10 5 votes#25 - Foreign Affairs
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/2003
Dr. Carter tries to prevent a grieving gang member from going after vengeance. Dr. Kovac races against time to save a Croatian boy's life. A baseball player gets treatment for a heart problem.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: David Zabel