9.6/10706 votesLoading...#1 - I Feel a Cult Coming On
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1991
Marty exposes a cult and they retaliate by exposing facts about the staff. Marty becomes worried because he has one thing about him and Catherine that he hasn't yet mentioned to Hannah.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1017 votesLoading...
#2 - Those Lips, Those Thais
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/1989
If he doesn't already feel guilty enough about everything, Marty really feels guilty when his Thailanese foster daughter comes to attend college in Chicago and he is really attracted to her.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Bruce Rasmussen
- 7.4/1014 votesLoading...
#3 - It's Better to Have Loved and Flossed
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1989
A trip to the dentist for Marty also includes making a date with Robin and she is more than ready for a relationship and proves it by overreacting to a little kiss.
Director: N/A
Writer: Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore
- 7.4/1010 votesLoading...
#4 - Thirty... Something
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1990
Hannah's 30th birthday is no party for her when she takes time to reflect on her life and love. Hannah's little voice inside her head tells her that what's missing is Marty.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: Peter Noah
7.1/1015 votesLoading...#5 - Bang You're Dead
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1989
Hannah loves Marty's psychiatrist to death and Marty finds it difficult to cope with being shrinkless. Marty has a final session with his shrink casket-side.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore
- 7.0/1013 votesLoading...
#6 - Burning the Toad (a.k.a. The Jack Story)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/1989
Hannah's old boyfriend and Marty's ex-college roommate are one in the same person, and Jack tries to convince her that he has changed. Meanwhile, Hannah and Marty are working on a story that will expose a charity scam.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1012 votesLoading...
#7 - Just the Facts, Ma'am
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1989
Hannah sweet-talks Bradley, a fact checker, into letting a libelous quotation into her article, this all leads to a 10 million dollar libel suit and Hannah having to fire him.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1011 votesLoading...
#8 - Hotel of the Damned
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1990
When the magazine needs a new cover story in less than 20 hours, Hannah & Marty must go to a hotel to write the story. While searching for an angle on the story, Hannah decides the mood may be just right to check out the bed with Marty.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1013 votesLoading...
#9 - Mr. Mom
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1990
Hannah finds out that her mother had her heart donated. She finds the new owner is a depressed man, who is not living his prolonged life to its fullest, the way Hannah envisioned the recipient would.
Director: Matthew Diamond
Writer: Lloyd Garver
- 6.6/1010 votesLoading...
#10 - Love and Death
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/1989
Marty doesn't want anyone to know he is living in fear when he receives his first death threat.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1019 votesLoading...
#11 - Fear of Flying
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1989
Hannah decides to quit teaching and leave her boyfriend, Jack, and return home to Chicago to become a writer. On the flight home to Chicago, Hannah meets and helps Marty deal with his fear of flying and he tells her about a research job open at Chicago Monthly, the magazine where he is a writer. Hannah goes down the magazine to apply for the job, meets the editor and is challenged to write a 2,000 word article on ""the tortilla wars, does Chicago prefer corn or flour?"" for 9 o'clock the following morning.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1012 votesLoading...
#12 - Truth or Consequences
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1989
Catherine makes everyone take a lie detector test when she suspects someone on the staff is leaking gossip about her to an underground rag.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Bruce Rasmussen
- 6.3/1012 votesLoading...
#13 - Hearts and Bones
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1989
Hannah insists she's not jealous of Marty's new girlfriend and invites them to dinner to prove it. When his date appears to be choking, Hannah delivers the Heimleich maneuver and breaks a rib, but she's not jealous.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Alan Kirschenbaum
- 6.2/1014 votesLoading...
#14 - Three Men on a Match
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1990
Hannah and Marty go out to dinner with Robin to help her celebrate her un-anniversary. After seeing Robin's ex-husband there, each has a different perspective on how the restaurant caught fire. Everyone turned their heads when they walked across the room.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1013 votesLoading...
#15 - Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1990
Marty's girlfriend plans a surprise birthday party for him, but he surprises her and everyone else by breaking up with her, before everybody yells surprise.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore
- 5.9/1014 votesLoading...
#16 - Deadline
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/1989
Hannah's first deadline prompts her first fight with Marty when she loses his article in the computer and he doesn't have a backup, much to Pamela's delight.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1013 votesLoading...
#17 - Breast of Friends
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1989
Marty nurses a bruised ego when he sings show tunes on a news talk show and Hannah makes a celebrity out of a woman who was thrown out of a restaurant for nursing her baby.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1011 votesLoading...
#18 - This is Not a Date
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/1989
Hannah is down in the dumps and Marty gets dumped, so the two of them go out together, for her birthday and the end of his relationship with Alice- but it's ""not a date"".
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Barbara Hall
- 5.8/1012 votesLoading...
#19 - It's My Party and I'll Schvitz If I Want To
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1989
An unexpected heat wave puts a damper on a party Hannah tries throwing because she wants to warm up her relationship with Catherine.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1011 votesLoading...
#20 - Scared Straight
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1989
Marty and Hannah trade bylines to prove that Catherine is using favoritism in choosing articles for publication, and Marty winds up jail protecting ""his"" source.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1010 votesLoading...
#21 - Robin Q. Public
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1990
When Catherine gets the impression that the magazine may have become too high brow, she searches out the everyman's opinion. When she hears Robin's thoughts, she is impressed and takes her on as a consultant and the entire staff becomes on edge.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1012 votesLoading...
#22 - Ch-Ch-Changes
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1989
Hannah returns from a vacation to find that the magazine has been bought by a corporation and the hip new editor comes in and begins to stir things up, especially Marty who considers resigning. Hannah becomes a writer, the magazine is changed to a weekly format and is renamed The Chicago Weekly and an English book and theater critic is brought into review television.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Peter Noah
- 5.7/1013 votesLoading...
#23 - Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1989
Catherine's decides to become ""ordinary,"" after being snubbed of a mention in pop-culture legend's recently published diaries, and leaves Marty in charge of the magazine. The ""Squaddies"" protest Brian's review of the latest Star Squad movie and storm the newsroom to make Brian come to their convention.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/1010 votesLoading...
#24 - Dorothy Dearest
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/1989
Marty is in turmoil when his mother stops by for a visit and Hannah gets him face his relationship with her, so he can get rid of all the angst it generates.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: Barbara Hall
- 5.5/1014 votesLoading...
#25 - All About Allison
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1990
Marty is the unwitting weapon used by an aspiring young journalist against Hannah, after Hannah helped her get a chance to work for the magazine.
Director: Michael Lessac
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Anything But Love
Every episode of Anything But Love ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Anything But Love!
Anything But Love is an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from March 7, 1989 to June 3, 1992, spanning four seasons and 56...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"I Feel a Cult Coming On" is the best rated episode of "Anything But Love". It scored 9.6/10 based on 706 votes. Directed by Robert Berlinger and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/1991. This episode scored 1.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "Those Lips, Those Thais".