The Best Episodes Directed By Rob Thompson
Every TV Episode Directed by Rob Thompson Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Rob Thompson Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Rob Thompson is "Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster" aired on 1/10/1990 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1990
Jealousy comes between Doogie and Wanda, and it also brings a silence between Dr. and Mrs. Howser.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#2 - Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1990
When Doogie's dad decides to retire, discouraged that his research failed to make a splash in medical journals, Doogie prescribes an attitude adjustment.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
10.0/10 1 votes#3 - The Grass Ain't Always Greener
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/25/1990
Now free to date other women, Doogie enjoys a few evenings with a trendy philosophy student before realizing that something's missing: Wanda.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 3 votes#4 - Cicely
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/1992
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Diane Frolov
7.8/10 16 votes#5 - Mr. Monk and the Airplane
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/18/2002
Monk's first flight proves to be harder than he anticipated when he begins to suspect that a fellow passenger murdered his wife.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 17 votes#6 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/2002
A police officer and friend of Stottlemeyer is framed for a crime he didn't commit involving a ferris wheel. Meanwhile Monk tries to convince Stottlemeyer to get him reinstated.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
7.2/10 17 votes#7 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/2002
A judge is murdered while placing a 911 call, but before she dies she names her attacker - notorious criminal Dale Biederbeck. The problem is, "Dale the Whale" is over 800 pounds and hasn't left his bed in years.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: John Romano
7.0/10 3 votes#8 - Burning Down the House
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1992
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Robin Green
7.0/10 3 votes#9 - My Mother, My Sister
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/1992
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Mitchell Burgess
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - Crime and Punishment
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1992
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - Ill Wind
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1993
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - The Big Feast
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1993
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Mitchell Burgess
6.5/10 4 votes#13 - Spring Break
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/1991
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 2 votes#14 - Blowing Bubbles
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1992
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Mark B. Perry
6.0/10 2 votes#15 - The Short Goodbye
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1989
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.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A