The Best Episodes Directed By Rob Thompson

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   #1 - Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster

   S1:E151/10/1990

   Jealousy comes between Doogie and Wanda, and it also brings a silence between Dr. and Mrs. Howser.

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   #2 - Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway

   S1:E213/14/1990

   When Doogie's dad decides to retire, discouraged that his research failed to make a splash in medical journals, Doogie prescribes an attitude adjustment.

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   #3 - The Grass Ain't Always Greener

   S1:E254/25/1990

   Now free to date other women, Doogie enjoys a few evenings with a trendy philosophy student before realizing that something's missing: Wanda.

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - It's a Mad, Mad, Madeline World

   S4:E510/24/1990

   Kevin has to cancel a date with Winnie to finish a homework assignment with Madeline, who has already kissed him once. To make matters worse, when he flees Madeline's, he drops a bracelet that Winnie had engraved for him.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Who's Aunt Rose?

   S4:E132/6/1991

   Kevin learns the importance of family when Grandpa Arnold returns to town for Aunt Rose's funeral.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Crime and Punishment

   S4:E1012/14/1992

   Chris is taken into custody for an extradition trial to bring him back to West Virginia, where he currently has a parole violation. Chris knows he is guilty and really isn't interested in his defense. Mike comes up with an angle that he can prove to the judge that the Chris Stevens that skipped bail is different from the Chris Stevens standing before her.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Cicely

   S3:E235/18/1992

   Joel meets an old man who's returned to Cicely after many years. The man tells him the story of two remarkable women, Roslyn and Cicely, whom transformed the town into ""the Paris of the North"" back in 1909.

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   #8 - Ill Wind

   S4:E162/15/1993

   After breaking his nose, twice, Joel and Maggie have a wild fling in her barn. Chris saves Maurice's life, a debt that he is set on repaying. After witnessing that event and surrounded by psychic instability, Ed thinks about death in its many forms. A shepherd's flock wanders into town and he talk to the locals about his problems, Ruth-Anne thinks he is having a mid-career crisis.

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   7.8/10(18 votes)

   #9 - Mr. Monk and the Airplane

   S1:E1210/18/2002

   Braving his fear of flying and of enclosed areas, Monk boards a plane with Sharona and solves the murder of a passenger's wife.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Burning Down the House

    S3:E142/3/1992

    Maggie receives an unexpected visit and some unwanted news from her mother. Meanwhile, Chris searches everywhere for just the right cow to fling for his conceptual art piece and Joel becomes obsessed with a local chimney sweep that he believes is a former pro golfer.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Big Feast

    S4:E213/22/1993

    When Maggie distributes the invitations for Maurice's 25th Anniversary Bash for Minnifield Communications an event "everyone" is attending Joel doesn't get one. Shelly accidentally breaks one of Maurice's expensive bottles of wine and tries to find a way to replace it. Adam and Eve return with the baby, Aldrich, and Adam takes over the food preparation of a special dish.

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    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #12 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival

    S1:E48/2/2002

    Monk, who suffers from vertigo, investigates the death of a police detective murdered on a ferris wheel.

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    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale

    S1:E37/26/2002

    An 800-pound recluse, aka Dale the Whale, is the number one suspect in a murder case. But how can a man who can't even fit through his bedroom door be a murderer?

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - My Mother, My Sister

    S3:E183/16/1992

    An abandoned baby gets attention from the whole town and helps awaken Adam's paternal instincts while Shelly's life is unsettled by a visit from her youthful, giddy mother and her new boy friend.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Placenta Claus Is Coming to Town

    S4:E712/14/1989

    Kuzak makes a last-ditch try to have his client's sentence lightened; Markowitz panics when Kelsey goes into labor early; Benny has a holiday surprise for Alice; the holidays could be lonely for Becker.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Blowing Bubbles

    S4:E511/2/1992

    Cicely's newest resident, Mike Monroe, is confined to live in a plastic bubble because of M.C.S. (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), which makes him allergic to nearly everything manufactured in the twentieth century. After Maggie meets Mike she becomes interested in him. Ruth-Anne's son Matthew, the investment banker, comes to Cicely to try to get away from it all when he is fired from his job. Maurice's prospectus on making Cicely a place for sick people to move to and recover from their illnesses draws Matthew back into thinking about money.

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    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Spring Break

    S2:E55/6/1991

    Things get a little crazy as the town waits for the annual ice breakup and the annual ""running of the bulls"" down the streets of Cicely. Joel and Maggie find themselves irresistibly drawn together, Maurice is attracted to a dominating state trooper sent to uncover the villain behind the annual rash of petty thefts and Holling challenges all the customers to a fight.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Short Goodbye

    S1:E510/11/1989

    Moving out of his parents' house proves to be an eye-opening experience for Doogie. Meanwhile, a rock star is admitted to the hospital for vocal-cord surgery.

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