6.5/1035 votes#1 - Chapter Sixty-Seven
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2003
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
- 6.9/1037 votes
#2 - Chapter Sixty-Eight
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2003
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: N/A
Writer: Jason Katims
- 7.6/1038 votes
#3 - Chapter Sixty-Nine
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2003
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: N/A
- 7.4/1034 votes
#4 - Chapter Seventy
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2003
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1040 votes
#5 - Chapter Seventy-One
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2003
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1036 votes
#6 - Chapter Seventy-Two
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2003
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: N/A
- 6.7/1034 votes
#7 - Chapter Seventy-Three
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2003
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
Writer: Jason Katims, Douglas Steinberg
- 6.6/1038 votes
#8 - Chapter Seventy-Four
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/2003
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: N/A
- 6.7/1029 votes
#9 - Chapter Seventy-Six
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/2003
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
Writer: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
- 6.3/1035 votes
#10 - Chapter Seventy-Five
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2004
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: N/A
Writer: Jason Katims
- 7.5/1039 votes
#11 - Chapter Seventy-Seven
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2004
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: N/A
- 7.5/1031 votes
#12 - Chapter Seventy-Eight
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/2004
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: N/A
- 7.4/1036 votes
#13 - Chapter Seventy-Nine
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/2004
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
- 7.7/1043 votes
#14 - Chapter Eighty
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/1/2005
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
- 7.6/1037 votes
#15 - Chapter Eighty-One
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2005
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
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.
Genre:Drama
Network:FOX
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Chapter Sixty-Seven" is the best rated episode of "Boston Public" season 4. It scored 6.5/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Jonathan Pontell and written by David E. Kelley, it aired on 9/19/2003. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Chapter Sixty-Eight".