The Best Episodes Directed By Sanford Bookstaver

Every TV Episode Directed by Sanford Bookstaver Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - End of the Tunnel
    8.9/10(41 votes)

    #1 - End of the Tunnel

    S1:E13

    With Lincoln's execution scheduled for the following day, Veronica comes out of hiding to contact him and gains an ally. Kellerman makes the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the conspiracy. Michael looks for a way to get Lincoln out of solitary confinement in time for the escape that evening. The inmates risk everything as they attempt their escape.

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  2. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - It Isn’t the Fall That Kills You
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #2 - It Isn’t the Fall That Kills You

    S3:E3

    When Walter is accidentally launched into space in a rocket, he hallucinates about Paige as his oxygen runs low, and Team Scorpion works feverishly to find a way to bring him home before he suffocates.

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 20 - The Graft in the Girl
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #3 - The Graft in the Girl

    S1:E20

    The team helps Deputy Director Sam Cullen's daughter, Amy, when she contracts a rare form of lung cancer after receiving a bone graft. Booth and Brennan learn she is not the only victim with this rare form of cancer.

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  4. undefined Season 7 Episode 16 - Out of the Chute
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    #4 - Out of the Chute

    S7:E16

    The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Boy in the Shroud
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #5 - The Boy in the Shroud

    S2:E3

    When the body of a young man, who's been missing for nearly three weeks, is discovered, the investigation leads them to his girlfriend, who is a foster child. Bones becomes emotionally involved in the case since, she too, became a foster child after her parents disappeared.

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  6. undefined Season 7 Episode 6 - Office Politics
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #6 - Office Politics

    S7:E6

    It’s election season, and in the midst of a tight campaign, an incumbent New Jersey senator’s campaign manager falls ill with liver failure and temporary paralysis. Cuddy pushes House to add a female doctor to his team by hiring brilliant third-year medical student Martha Masters in Thirteen’s absence.

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  7. undefined Season 8 Episode 4 - Risky Business
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Risky Business

    S8:E4

    A CEO falls mysteriously ill just days before he signs a contract that would relocate his company's entire labor force to China. House attempts to make an underhanded business transaction with his wealthy patient, but when the patient's condition worsens, the team must work around the clock to save his life. Meanwhile, Park prepares for her hearing with the Princeton Plainsboro Disciplinary Committee chaired by Foreman, and Adams' outlook on her patient's business venture reveals her deeper feelings about loyalty.

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 17 - Dumbster Fire
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #8 - Dumbster Fire

    S4:E17

    The geniuses of Team Scorpion turn into knuckleheads and Paige must simplify the science for them, when their mental faculties are impaired during a job to prevent the creation of a black hole. Also, Florence and Sylvester grow closer when she helps him with a special project.

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - The Woman in the Garden
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #9 - The Woman in the Garden

    S1:E13

    Booth and Brennan investigate when a dug up corpse is found in the back of a gang member's car. While being questioned, a drive-by shooting allows him to escape. Booth and Brennan follow the clues, which lead them to an empty grave and another body in a grave at a wealthy senator's house, where the gang member used to work.

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Girl in the Fridge
    7.5/10(18 votes)

    #10 - The Girl in the Fridge

    S1:E8

    Brennan is about to go out for dinner with her old professor and ex-lover when Booth asks her and her team to help identify the remains of a young woman found in a refrigerator.

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  11. undefined Season 4 Episode 8 - Faire Is Foul
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Faire Is Foul

    S4:E8

    For Sylvester’s birthday, Team Scorpion visits a renaissance festival, but the revelry is cut short when a group tries to rob a nearby police evidence locker. Also, Paige grows weary of Walter’s play-by-play of all the historical inaccuracies at the festival

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  12. undefined Season 6 Episode 14 - Private Lives
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #12 - Private Lives

    S6:E14

    House and the team take on the case of an avid blogger admitted with sudden bruising and bleeding. From her hospital bed, the patient blogs about her symptoms, doctors and prospective diagnoses to her dedicated band of followers and solicits their advice on a course of treatment. Such openness leads the team to contemplate the value of privacy, especially after House and Wilson uncover secrets from one another 's past. Meanwhile, Chase is coaxed into testing out the dating scene.

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  13. undefined Season 8 Episode 10 - Runaways
    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #13 - Runaways

    S8:E10

    When a runaway teen requires hospitalization, Adams butts heads with House when she insists they contact Social Services. Meanwhile, Taub has trouble forming a personal connection with his baby daughters and Foreman's relationship with a married woman comes out.

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - War Without End
    6.8/10(50 votes)

    #14 - War Without End

    S2:E9

    Facing a life-changing decision, Danny and Colleen debate their next move. Meanwhile, Davos's contempt for mercy grows stronger.

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Sanford Bookstaver Ratings Summary

"End of the Tunnel" is the best rated episode directed by Sanford Bookstaver. It scored 8.915/10 based on 41 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 11/28/2005 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "It Isn’t the Fall That Kills You".