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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

"A Man in Blue" is the best rated episode directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Tim Kring. It aired on 12/4/2005 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Orion in the Sky".

  • A Man in Blue
    9.0/101 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

  • Orion in the Sky
    9.0/104 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

  • Alone in a Crowd
    9.0/104 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

  • The Crossing
    8.8/104 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

  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
    8.8/104 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: Dee Johnson

  • Night Shift
    8.8/108 votes

    #6 - 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

  • Getting to Know You
    8.7/106 votes

    #7 - 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

  • The Longer You Stay
    8.7/103 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Leave It to Weaver
    8.6/107 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

  • Good Touch, Bad Touch
    8.5/104 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

  • Middle of Nowhere
    8.5/106 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

  • The Visit
    8.5/106 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

  • Rampage
    8.5/104 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

  • Random Acts
    8.4/105 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

  • A Thousand Cranes
    8.4/105 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

  • Out of Africa
    8.4/105 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

  • All in the Family
    8.3/1010 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

  • May Day
    8.3/107 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

  • Chaos Theory
    8.3/106 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: Jack Orman

  • Fade-Away
    8.3/103 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

  • Voir Dire
    8.3/103 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

  • Hazed and Confused
    8.2/105 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

  • Humpty Dumpty
    8.2/105 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

  • Lockdown
    8.2/104 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

  • Foreign Affairs
    8.2/105 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