10.0/101 votes#1 - Seven Deadly Sins
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 4/9/1994
Two aliens in a flying saucer (voices of Joey Lawrence and Michael Stoyanov) choose the Russo home as the site for their observations of earthling behavior, particularly their susceptibility to the seven deadly sins, which are illustrated in encounters between the various characters. (This being a family sit-com, sloth gets the most airtime.)
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/101 votes
#2 - Sex, Lies and Mrs. Peterson
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 4/2/1994
Blossom and Anthony scheme to fix up a lonely Buzz with Anthony's cantankerous EMT partner Mrs. Peterson; meanwhile, Joey takes notes from Nick on a school project.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#3 - Barney Fife, Realtor
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1965
Andy catches Opie trying to sell his broken bike to a friend and teaches him a lesson in honest dealing. But when Barney talks Andy into selling his house, the lesson comes to haunt him as Opie points out all the faults of the Taylor house to Barney's potential buyers.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Bill Idelson
8.0/101 votes#4 - Goober Takes a Car Apart
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1965
Andy is horrified to find Goober has brought a car into the courthouse after being left in charge while Andy was away at a sheriff's conference. That's when he learns that a couple of law-enforcement friends from the conference are coming for a visit.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Bill Idelson
8.0/101 votes#5 - Message for Maureen/The Acapulco Connection/Gotcha
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1977
A tennis star, temporarily confined to a wheelchair due to a back injury, rekindles an old romance with a sportswriter who had been critical of her recent performances. A woman with singing aspirations stows away on the ship in the hopes of making it to America and providing for her large family. A man annoys his wife and other passengers by constantly playing practical jokes.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: David Garber
8.0/101 votes#6 - Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1972
Howard "floats" into Bob's office on Cloud Nine after having a tooth pulled. He is so poetic that Carol tells Emily, "I want him." Emily agrees to help Carol get him, and the two have an up-and-down romance.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#7 - Mutiny on the Hartley
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1973
Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Jay Tarses
8.0/101 votes#8 - T. S. Elliot
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1973
Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer—which is ""yes.""
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Gerry Renert
8.0/101 votes#9 - The Modernization of Emily
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1974
Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#10 - The Miracle of Thanksgiving
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1987
Everyone teams up to prepare the Thanksgiving feast--and the results aren't worth gobbling.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Russell Marcus
8.0/101 votes#11 - Triple Date
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1988
Teaser: Stephanie, Michelle, Danny, and the "Bicycle bus". Main Synopsis: Danny has a new girlfriend named Denise, and he invites Denise and her two friends Zoey and Cheryl over to the house so Zoey and Cheryl can meet Jesse and Joey while D.J. is upstairs keeping an eye on Stephanie and Michelle. It turns out that Denise is a woman that Jesse once dated, and this has Danny wondering if there could possibly be a woman in San Francisco that Jesse hasn't dated. Zoey doesn't like Joey's jokes, but Joey and Cheryl get along with each other just fine. Danny is depressed because Denise is still hung up on Jesse and she can't get her mind off of Jesse because she thinks she and Jesse have an opportunity to get back together, until a talk with Jesse finally has Denise coming to her senses. Meanwhile, Stephanie causes D.J. to accidentally drop Danny's wedding ring down the drain in the upstairs bathroom sink. With a little work, Denise and the guys help D.J. and Stephanie get the ring back.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#12 - Middle Age Crazy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/1989
Stephanie knows it's not easy being the middle child. The way things are going, Stephanie thinks that D.J. and Michelle are getting all of the attention. Jesse and Joey are working on a jingle until they start helping D.J. with a science project, ignoring Stephanie's request for them to watch her break a hula-hoop record. Danny is trying to videotape Michelle for "Wake Up, San Francisco", ignoring Stephanie's request for him to watch her break the hula-hoop record that she wanted Jesse and Joey to watch her break. Stephanie has had enough, and she believes that the only way she'll get out of this situation is if she is not living at home anymore, so she decides that she wants to marry her friend Harry, then the guys come to their senses and realize how they've made Stephanie feel.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#13 - Working Mothers
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1989
Jesse and Joey's latest jingle is such a success that they are offered a fixed job composing jingles for Mr. Malatesta. D.J. and Stephanie fear that if Jesse and Joey take this job, knowing that Danny works at the TV station every day, then no one will be home to take care of them, especially during the three month summer break from school. D.J. and Stephanie's fears go away when Jesse and Joey decide to take the job, but do their work from the house, with their office being in the attic.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#14 - Little Shop of Sweaters
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1989
It's Valentine's Day, and Danny has bought D.J. the royal blue sweater that D.J. wanted. D.J. puts on the sweater with a shirt under it, and goes to school. At recess, D.J. takes off the sweater so she won't sweat all over it, and after she puts the sweater on the ground, the school's gardener runs over it with a lawn mower, and the sweater is shredded. D.J. doesn't want Danny to know about this, so she, Kimmy, and Stephanie go to the mall to buy a replacement sweater, which is priced at $80, which was the cost of the shredded sweater. Stephanie sees a sign on the checkout counter that says ""buy now, pay later"". Not realizing that a credit card is required to do what the sign says, Stephanie grabs the sweater in an effort to help D.J., and this gets Stephanie accused of shoplifting.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#15 - Baby Love
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1989
Becky's sister Connie Anderson has arrived for a visit, and she has brought her son Howie, who is Michelle's age, with her. Michelle and Howie become best friends, but when it comes time for Connie and Howie to go back home to Valentine, Nebraska, it gives Michelle what seems like an incurable case of heartbreak. The guys try to cheer Michelle up, but to no avail. On the next day, Jesse takes Michelle to his bedroom, and he plays a song for Michelle, and manages to coax a smile out of her, but she still misses Howie, but Becky takes care of that by videotaping Howie talking into the camera at the airport, and when Michelle watches the tape, the tape makes it look Like Howie is talking to Michelle. Howie misses Michelle just as much as Michelle misses Howie. After watching the tape, Michelle feels a lot better, and Jesse comments that Becky would be a great mother. Meanwhile, Step
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#16 - TV or Not TV
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/1972
Fred wants a new color television set and Lamont wants a new car. The problem is that they cannot afford both of them, so Lamont buys the car. However, after Fred discovers Lamont's purchase, he comes up with a scheme that involves him pretending to have amnesia until Lamont will buy him a color television.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#17 - The Suitcase Case
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/1972
While collecting junk, Lamont runs across an old suitcase and decides it could be worth something. However, once he gets it home, Fred makes a shocking discovery when he opens the case to discover that it is stuffed with money. Lamont wants to turn the money in and Fred wants to keep it and locks in a safe. Just then a gunman shows up wanting the money.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#18 - Jingle Hell
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1988
Teaser: D.J. shows Michelle how to blow bubbles with gum. Main Synopsis: When Joey gives Jesse the inspiration Jesse needs to write an advertising jingle that Jesse has been having problems with, the result is that the jingle is bought. This bit of success leads to Jesse making an offer to Joey -- he now wants Joey to be his writing partner. Joey accepts the offer. When Joey gives the next jingle ""the Joey treatment"", and it's not bought, a feud erupts between Jesse and Joey, but they work things out and decide to remain partners. Meanwhile, D.J. and Stephanie are feuding because Stephanie is always messing up things that belong to D.J., and D.J. is out to teach Stephanie a lesson about it, starting by tying all of Stephanie's shoes together by the laces while Stephanie's not wearing them.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Dennis Rinsler
7.1/107 votes#19 - Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1997
Aunts Hilda and Zelda experience growing pains when they turn into teenagers for the night.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Nell Scovell
7.0/101 votes#20 - His Busiest Season
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1972
Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season"" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Lorenzo Music
7.0/101 votes#21 - A Home is Not Necessarily a House
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1973
Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Lorenzo Music
7.0/101 votes#22 - Fit, Fat, and Forty-One
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1973
Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#23 - I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1973
Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Jay Tarses
7.0/101 votes#24 - The Jobless Corps
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1974
Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his ""out of workshop,"" a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Jay Tarses
7.0/101 votes#25 - By the Way... You're Fired
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1974
When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
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"Seven Deadly Sins" is the best rated episode directed by Peter Baldwin. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 4/9/1994 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Sex, Lies and Mrs. Peterson".