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The Best Episodes of Boston Public Season 4

Every episode of Boston Public Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Boston Public Season 4!

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Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Boston Public Season 4 Episode 1 - Chapter Sixty-Seven
    6.7/10(37 votes)

    #1 - Chapter Sixty-Seven

    S4:E1

    Ronnie witnesses an attempted rape, then receives a shock when she presses for legal action on behalf of the victim (guest star Amanda Fuller); Hanson tries to prevent a student from being expelled for drugs.

    Director:Jonathan Pontell
    Writer:David E. Kelley

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  2. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 2 - Chapter Sixty-Eight
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #2 - Chapter Sixty-Eight

    S4:E2

    After a cheerleader is attacked, blame falls on another student's mother (Sean Young); Carmen goes head to head with a ""bad boy"" student (Milo Ventigmilia); Hansen copes with a student who says he is the son of God.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jason Katims

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  3. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 3 - Chapter Sixty-Nine
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #3 - Chapter Sixty-Nine

    S4:E3

    A female student files a serious sexual-harassment charge against Danny; a classroom debate over the U.S. involvement in Iraq turns violent; the tension between Harper and Guber over Marylin reaches the boiling point.

    Director:Mike Listo
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 4 - Chapter Seventy
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #4 - Chapter Seventy

    S4:E4

    An enraged student slaps Marla's face in front of the class, and Marla slaps her back; Hanson discovers Allison behaves like a bully at school; Carmen asks Harper to remove Jake from her class.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 5 - Chapter Seventy-One
    7.2/10(42 votes)

    #5 - Chapter Seventy-One

    S4:E5

    An investment banker, convicted of securities fraud, avoids jail time by agreeing to community service: teaching math at Winslow High. A sexy and eccentric woman smashes into Guber's car and then crashes her way into his life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 6 - Chapter Seventy-Two
    6.8/10(38 votes)

    #6 - Chapter Seventy-Two

    S4:E6

    A student discovers Harper and Marilyn have been secretly dating and threatens to go to the school board; Hanson and Claire try to assist a student who is having trouble with his dad.

    Director:Jonathan Pontell
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 7 - Chapter Seventy-Three
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    #7 - Chapter Seventy-Three

    S4:E7

    Charlie Bixby (Dennis Miller) takes an unconventional approach when volunteering at a teen hotline; Marla decides to try in vitro fertilization and asks Harper to be the donor; Carmen reveals a secret from her past.

    Director:Allison Liddi-Brown
    Writers:Jason Katims, Douglas Steinberg

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  8. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 8 - Chapter Seventy-Four
    6.7/10(40 votes)

    #8 - Chapter Seventy-Four

    S4:E8

    Harper decides to call the FBI when he learns that a student has been accessing a terrorist recruitment web site from the school library; Ronnie learns that one of her students has HIV.

    Director:Mike Listo
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 9 - Chapter Seventy-Six
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    #9 - Chapter Seventy-Six

    S4:E9

    Guber contends with a student who thinks he is Jesus and is using school funds to feed the homeless; Marla mistakenly books R.E.M. for a school fund-raiser.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writers:Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner

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  10. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 10 - Chapter Seventy-Five
    6.4/10(37 votes)

    #10 - Chapter Seventy-Five

    S4:E10

    Guber discovers the high-school drum line's freshman hazing involves physical abuse; a student-produced TV documentary about Ronnie worries her; a father is sentenced to being handcuffed to his son for a week.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jason Katims

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  11. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 11 - Chapter Seventy-Seven
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Chapter Seventy-Seven

    S4:E11

    An overachieving student sues the school when she has to share presidency of the honor society with a black student in a wheelchair; Marlo begins her in-vitro process.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 12 - Chapter Seventy-Eight
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #12 - Chapter Seventy-Eight

    S4:E12

    Views on affirmative action divide the students; the teachers hope to quell the resulting tensions by debating the subject in front of the student body.

    Director:Bethany Rooney
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 13 - Chapter Seventy-Nine
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #13 - Chapter Seventy-Nine

    S4:E13

    Henry gives bad advice to a brainiac student who wants to become an artist; Marla has a miscarriage; Rainy is thrown out of her foster home.

    Director:Patrick R. Norris
    Writer:Jason Katims

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  14. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 14 - Chapter Eighty
    7.8/10(45 votes)

    #14 - Chapter Eighty

    S4:E14

    A former student of Winslow High dies in Iraq while serving the U.S. Army. Principal Harper receives a letter from the deceased student which brings back old memories back to the days when he took care of him and pulled him away from a life in the gutter. Danny Hanson struggles with a student in his class who's been hacking into the school's computer base; finding out about the teachers' private lives and upcoming tests.

    Director:Michael Rapaport
    Writer:Douglas Steinberg

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  15. Boston Public Season 4 Episode 15 - Chapter Eighty-One
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #15 - Chapter Eighty-One

    S4:E15

    Ronnie catches a male teacher hugging a female student; Hanson worries that he may be a control freak following an incident in his Drivers' Education class; several students are caught photographing themselves nude with only words written across their bodies.

    Director:Mike Listo
    Writer:Jason Katims

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Chapter Sixty-Seven" is the best rated episode of "Boston Public" season 4. It scored 6.7/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by Jonathan Pontell and written by David E. Kelley, it aired on 9/19/2003. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Chapter Sixty-Eight".