5.5/1040 votesLoading...#1 - Chapter Twenty-Eight
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/2001
A statutory-rape case entangles Ronnie with the enraged parents of the 15-year-old victim; an illicit-drug situation embroils Harper with his unsettled daughter
Director: David Semel
Writer: David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
- 6.1/1033 votesLoading...
#2 - Chapter Twenty-Seven
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/2001
Hanson is arrested after a domestic dispute, causing Harper to seriously consider firing him. Lauren is skeptical when a student decides to drop out because a record company wants to sign her, and Harper is livid when he discovers that someone close to him has been anonymously dispensing sex advice in the student newspaper.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: David E. Kelley
- 6.3/1035 votesLoading...
#3 - 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
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#4 - 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
- 6.6/1036 votesLoading...
#5 - 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
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#6 - 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
- 6.7/1034 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.7/1029 votesLoading...
#8 - 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
- 6.8/1047 votesLoading...
#9 - Chapter Nineteen
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2001
While heading to work, Lauren's car breaks downs. She gets so frustrated with it that she starts jumping up and down on it and smashing the windows with a baseball bat. Suddenly, an old student of hers appears named Daniel Evans who thanks her for changing his life. He shows her a history text book he has written and she is very impressed. He asks her out for a drink, and she immediately says yes. After, they head to her place and have a night of passion. The next day she tells Marilyn, who finds it a little immoral. Lauren cannot get past how great the sex was. Lauren admits she finds it a total turn on when Daniel calls her Ms. Davis. Marilyn is dealing with a boy named Jeremy who throws up after an anxiety attack related to his mom not being able to accept his mark of a B+. He goes to the nurse, where Marilyn notices a huge bruise on him. He says he got it playing basketball. When Jeremy's mom shows up, she says he must of got it on his scooter. Marilyn suspects abuse.
Director: Sheldon Larry
Writer: David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
- 6.8/1031 votesLoading...
#10 - Chapter Forty-Three
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2002
Lauren and Marilyn investigate a student who seems to be eating her own hair. Danny is discovered having sent letters home to the ""over-weight"" girls in his class after he is punched a girl who receives one of these letters. Marla goes to Steven and Scott about this issue, asking that he be fired. Meanwhile, Scott and Steven are continuing to have personality conflicts regarding leadership. Jamal Crenshaw's brother, Amaad, murders a store clerk and soon after, Jamal confides in Harry. Harry takes it to Ronnie, a past lawyer, who believes that Jamal's best bet is to turn himself in. However, when he doesn't; Harry and Ronnie do. Later on, Amaad comes to visit Harry at Winslow High and when things get out of hand, Harry calls the police. But before he can give them any details, he is stabbed by Amaad; three times.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: David E. Kelley
- 6.8/1032 votesLoading...
#11 - Chapter Fifty-Seven
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2003
Valentine's Day marks the arrival of Guber's watchful mother; awakens a troubled coed's feelings for Kimberly; and trifles with romances among Winslow faculty members.
Director: N/A
Writer: Constance M. Burge
- 6.9/1033 votesLoading...
#12 - Chapter Forty-Seven
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/2002
Temporary synopsis from TV Guide: Misconduct charges target Guber, who's up against a new superintendent; race issues fester between Marla and Danny; reckless student driving sparks reproach.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar
- 6.9/1037 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.0/1031 votesLoading...
#14 - Chapter Twenty-Four
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/2001
Ronnie's career at Winslow High gets off to a precarious start when Guber sees her in a compromising position. Meanwhile, Lauren tries to help a straight-A student get into Princeton, but Harper wants to transfer the student to a continuation school because she is pregnant. Also Mrs. Peters, looking very different, volunteers as a teacher's assistant at Winslow.
Director: Alan Myerson
Writer: David E. Kelley
- 7.0/1033 votesLoading...
#15 - Chapter Thirty-Four
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2002
The faculty decide to have a staff talent show to lighten the mood at Winslow. Lipschultz asks Ronnie to sing a duet with him at the talent show but she convinces him that Marylin is just waiting to be asked. Meanwhile Danny befriends one of his Cerebral Palsey kids and arranges for him to attend Winslow. The mood is severely challenged when a student finds a notebook with plans for a bombing and shooting spree at Winslow
Director: N/A
Writer: David E. Kelley
- 7.0/1033 votesLoading...
#16 - Chapter Fifty-Four
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2003
Anne Archer plays willful and sultry Patricia Emerson, whose daughter Becky is a student in an English class taught by Colin Flynn. At a home-tutoring session for Becky, Mrs. Emerson comes on to Flynn. It's an attempted seduction that really heats up when Emerson---who says she's related to the poet-essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson---begins interpreting Emily Dickinson's ""The Sea"" for him as a poem rich in sexual metaphors. Elsewhere, Winslow's basketball coach denies charges that he illegally recruited a star player---who's enamored of Harper's daughter.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Jason Katims, John J. Sakmar
- 7.0/1029 votesLoading...
#17 - Chapter Fifty-Six
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2003
Guber's speech team star has an issue, Russell decides on a college, while mixed signals rattle Colin as his affair comes to a close.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Jason Katims
- 7.0/1032 votesLoading...
#18 - Chapter Sixty-Two
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2003
Courtroom drama energizes Ronnie, who's defending two teens in a murder arraignment; high test scores by poor students prompt Guber's undercover investigation.
Director: Jonathan Pontell
Writer: Jason Katims
- 7.0/1040 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.1/1044 votesLoading...
#20 - Chapter Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/2000
Last week's bra protest has resulted in school unity. All the girls have decided to go braless in a show of solidarity with Dana Poole. As bras flap ceremoniously from every other locker, Principal Harper juggles a variety of other issues. The superintendent is breathing down Harper's neck because Lauren has rallied a few of the other teachers and they all refuse to get fingerprinted. Also, Marla, who's supposed to be on medical leave, has shown up for work, and Lipschultz, the man behind the bra debacle, has shown up on Sheryl Holt's infamous Web site -- in a bra and panties! Harper decides the two of them will co-teach a class in order to keep an eye on each other. Meanwhile, Vice Principal Guber tries to regain control by meeting with Dana Poole. He suspects that she's high, so he wants a urine sample. She protests and bolts straight to Harry -- whom she blackmails for the second time in order to avoid suspension. It seems that earlier in the year she and Senate shared a kiss, and s
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: David E. Kelley
- 7.1/1030 votesLoading...
#21 - Chapter Thirty-Nine
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/2002
Ronnie catches a student performing a crime; two female students tell Marylin about their sexual conversations online with an older man.
Director: Mark Harmon
Writer: John J. Sakmar, Douglas Steinberg
- 7.1/1036 votesLoading...
#22 - Chapter Forty-Two
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/2002
As the prom approaches, female students outrage the faculty when they auction themselves as dates, while Harper deals with angry students who oppose his allowing a gay student to compete for the queen's crown.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: John J. Sakmar
- 7.1/1029 votesLoading...
#23 - Chapter Sixty-Three
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2003
Sudden fame heartens Ronnie, credited for high exam scores posted at Winslow, yet she's also facing a romantic crisis with Zach; a student-council election tests a shy, awkward teen.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Jason Katims
- 7.2/1036 votesLoading...
#24 - Chapter Twelve
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/5/2001
As Senate approaches the school grounds, he saves a student from being attacked by gang members. After numerous attempts, Harry finally manages to get the boy to reveal that he is a member of the Crips and is attempting to leave the group because he killed a rival gang member. However, Senate is unable to help because he gave his word that he wouldn't discuss the situation with the authorities. Prevented from taking action, he reluctantly hides the truth from Lauren, his co-workers and the police. Meanwhile, Harper grows even more suspicious about Lisa and Buttle's deepening friendship, so Guber takes the reins and alerts Lisa's parents about their daughter's rumored affair. Thoroughly panicked, Milton tries to break it off, but Lisa pushes him to have sex one last time and her father catches them in the act. Buttle is immediately fired and the news rocks the halls of Winslow High. But when Riley attempts to soften the blow for Milton, Guber fires him as well for withholding informatio
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart
- 7.2/1029 votesLoading...
#25 - Chapter Thirty-Three
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2002
Ronnie and Danny discover that Brooke is dating a 27 year old man and report it to Steven. Steven is outraged at this discovery and demands Brooke stop seeing him. She disagrees at first but the next morning, her boyfriend Rupert reports to Steven that the two have broken up. Brooke later debates leaving Winslow High but Steven convinces her not to.After Harry getting sick of his students being considered dumb, he challenges Guber to a debate in preperation for a big upcoming debate for Scott's debate team. He accepts and the two teams practice to no end. When it comes debate time, both teams deliver but Scott's team comes out victourious but only by three points.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar
The Worst Episodes of Boston Public
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Chapter Twenty-Eight" is the worst rated episode of "Boston Public". It scored 5.5/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by David Semel and written by David E. Kelley, John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart, it aired on 12/3/2001. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chapter Twenty-Seven".