The Best Episodes Directed By Timothy Busfield
Every TV Episode Directed by Timothy Busfield Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Timothy Busfield Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Timothy Busfield is "Nevada Day (2)", rated 10/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by Aaron Sorkin". "Nevada Day (2)" aired on 11/13/2006 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Harriet Dinner (1)".
10.0/10 2 votes#1 - Nevada Day (2)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2006
Jack pleads with the local Nevada judge to free Tom so he can make it back to the Friday night show. Meanwhile, tension heats up between Matt and Harriet on the set.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
10.0/10 2 votes#2 - The Harriet Dinner (1)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2007
Danny and Jordan cannot get down from the roof of the theater; staff members attend a dinner honoring Harriet; Harriet and Matt's relationship begins to unravel.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
10.0/10 2 votes#3 - K & R (1)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/7/2007
Jordan is rushed into surgery as the situation with Tom's brother grows more grim.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
10.0/10 2 votes#4 - K & R (3)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/21/2007
The long day's journey into night continues as we learn more, in flashback, about how Matt and Danny came to be fired. Jack tries to convince Simon to apologize for his statement to the press. Matt continues to explore paying a ransom to free Tom’s brother over the objections of Captain Boyle. Harriet sits with and act as a distraction for Danny who is keeping vigil for Jordan at the hospital.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
9.7/10 3 votes#5 - The West Coast Delay
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
Matt fabricates a response to a gift sent by one of Harriet's fans while the show attempts to recover from 90 seconds of questionable material. An article about the show is approved by Jordan.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - Facing Demons
Season 20 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/2019
Benson and the SVU investigate the death of a man they believe to be a pedophile. When they dig deeper, they realize things are not what they seem and that the case actually hits really close to home.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Richard Sweren
9.0/10 3 votes#7 - What You See Isn't Always What You Get
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2023
Halstead and Cuevas struggle to diagnose a patient with a rare disorder. CFD and Med staff work to free a paranoid father trapped in the MRI suite. Tanaka-Reed gets an ego check.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Danny Weiss
8.7/10 3 votes#8 - Check Your Head
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/2006
The team tries to track down a reclusive columnist who hadn't left her apartment in months and was communicating with numerous prisoners.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Diego Gutierrez
8.7/10 3 votes#9 - Decriminalized
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/29/2022
The team gets called to Vermont after a married couple who grow illegal marijuana massacres their employees. Also, Barnes begins to regret not taking any time off to bond with her new baby.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.2/10 25 votes#10 - The Hawke
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2018
Nolan and the team must help capture a cop and his former mentor from the academy after he becomes a fugitive following an assault. Bradford needs Chen to learn to predict the moves of criminals in order to capture them.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Fredrick Kotto
8.2/10 4 votes#11 - Know Thyself
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2021
The team hunts for a serial killer who is targeting young, homeless men. Also, Tiffany and Scola don’t see eye to eye on how to handle the case or the difference between partners and co-workers.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jen Frosch
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#12 - Upstairs Downstairs
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2004
When a nanny, and the child she took care of, disappear from her employers' home after being fired by them, the team must determine if the nanny is a kidnapping victim, or a kidnapping suspect.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Doppelgänger: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2004
When a homeless woman disappears from a shelter, the team is forced to re-examine the case of twin brothers Greg and Rick Knowles. Five months earlier (Doppelganger), Greg Knowles had confessed to a series of brutal murders, but the team was always convinced that it was Rick who had actually performed the killings. When Greg is released from jail and exonerated of the crimes, the team has to work against the clock to prove that Rick is the guilty party and to save one twin from the other.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#14 - Neither Rain Nor Sleet
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2005
After postal worker Rosie Diaz goes missing during what seemed to be a regular workday, the team initially connects her disappearance to her cargo, which include $12,000 worth of the game Demon Storm, which all the kids were after. But when the team gets in touch with child protective services, they learn that Rosie recently had her foster children taken away after an anonymous abuse call. A search of her home uncovers a DVD containing child pornography, and the team starts to look at the case from another angle. Danny comments on Martin and Sam's obvious closeness, and wonders why they're keeping it quiet.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#15 - Transitions
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2005
When Stephanie Healy doesn't show up for choir practice, the team heads in to investigate and soon learns Stephanie had recently had a fight with her boyfriend. While speaking with Eddie, the team is shocked to learn that Stephanie used to be Stephen Patrick Healy. Convinced that the truth to what is happening in Stephanie's present lies in her past, the team investigates who Stephen was. Vivian has trouble hiding her worsening problems from the team, and is upset that Martin has been talking to Sam about his suspicions.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#16 - From the Ashes
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2005
The team adds a new member who already as a connection to one of the team as they search for a missing prostitute.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#17 - Patient X
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2006
After therapist Gina Hill disappears, the team investigates and initially suspects that one of her patients may be involved. After discussions with Gina's fiancé and her own therapist, the team follows the trail of clues to a bartender named Vince with an unusual ability to get good women to do whatever he wants them to. Martin continues to struggle with his recovery.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: David Amann
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#18 - More Than This
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/2006
After Breck Mulligan goes missing from the women's shelter he had been working at, the team is called in to investigate. Breck was originally assigned to work at the shelter as part of a his probation for drug related offences, but the plight of the women and children seeking help had gotten to him and he had continued to work for the shelter, even going so far as to sleep with rich older women to get donations to help the shelter. The team is surprised to learn how little faith Breck's family and friends had in him, discovering that his friends had staged in 'intervention' the night he went missing, trying to convince him to walk away from his new life.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#19 - Savior Complex
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/2015
As Charlie and Jakes close in on Germaine, Mike's drug addiction reaches a breaking point when he and Gusti are caught in a dangerous situation.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jessica Brickman
8.0/10 1 votes#20 - Fire and Rain
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/2017
Juliette helps Maddie navigate the wave of attention she receives after her performance at the CMT Music Awards. Zach demands the masters from Rayna and Deacon's unfinished album.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jesse Zwick
8.0/10 2 votes#21 - The Thing with Feathers
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2016
TC and Scott fight to save a boy and his mother who were injured in a car accident, yet it becomes clear there's more to the family dynamic than meets the eye. Deployed in Afghanistan, Drew and Syd face the aftermath of an OR shooting.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jeff Judah
8.0/10 2 votes#22 - A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2021
Crockett helps Dr. Blake replace a patient’s liver. Vanessa tries to prove herself. Will continues to pursue the truth about Cooper. Ethan gets closer to returning to life in the E.D.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Stephen Hootstein
7.5/10 4 votes#23 - You Were His Little Monkey
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/12/2010
Patty and Ellen set out to tear the Tobin family apart. When Tom Shayes' job and marriage unravel, he strikes up a deadly alliance.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Glenn Kessler
7.5/10 8 votes#24 - Flip of the Coin
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/2009
Peter thinks he’s in for it when Elizabeth shows up at the office with her friend Dana in tow. But Peter isn’t the one in trouble this time; it’s Dana’s husband, Captain John Mitchell, who is in the hot seat.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jeff Eastin
7.4/10 9 votes#25 - Honey
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2009
Eric Matheson (Garret Dillahunt) is determined to prove that he didn't murder his wife. Torres is assigned to investigate the murder, and goes to the house of the victim's sister. Matheson finds Torre's car and gets into it after she forgot to lock the door. When Torres returns, Matheson holds her at gunpoint, instructing her to drive to the Lightman Group offices. Cal makes a deal with Mattheson, asking him to let all the employees go as long as he helps prove Mattheson's innocence. Mattheson complies, and Foster, Loker, Reynolds and Torres attempt to solve the case, while Loker has second thoughts about not calling the authorities. Cal and the team find out that Mattheson was actually innocent, and that his wife was actually killed by a creditor. Mattheson demands that he sees the creditor, saying he will either take his life or Cal's. Cal pleads for Mattheson to kill him, but Foster, Loker and Reynolds trick Mattheson into letting his guard down after a disguised Loker pretends to recount the last moments of Mattheson's wife's life. As Mattheson is in a moment of rage before killing Loker, Reynolds draws his gun and shoots Mattheson, disarming him. The episode ends with Lightman at Foster's home, asking if he could sleep in her spare room for the night.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: N/A