8.0/10130 votesLoading...#1 - Caroline and the Ex-Wife
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/28/1996
Del and Caroline's vacation takes an unexpected turn when they run into Del's bitter ex-wife Jill at his cabin. Meanwhile, Annie's brother Pete decides to quit the family business, which doesn't sit well with his parents.
Director: Tom Cherones
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1052 votesLoading...
#2 - Caroline and the Wayward Husband (3)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/13/1997
Conclusion. Julia arrives at ""Richard and Caroline's"" apartment in tears, announcing that her engagement is over and demanding to spend the night on the sofa - which means Richard and Caroline have to spend the night together in her bedroom. A nude Julia reveals that seeing the happy couple has revived her feelings for a non-plussed Richard; meanwhile, Caroline consults Del about the possibility of a relationship with Richard, and an uncharacteristically thoughtful Del advises her to follow her heart. Annie's first day on the set of the Shadoe Stevens series doesn't go well, as she is totally unable to master her complicated medical lines, until the director and writer agree to switch her to the part of the hard-bitten female cop (resulting in even more unspeakable jargon). Del is in despair over the impending loss of his company, until Charlie bails him out with the trust find his father has maintained for him all these years - on condition that he becomes Del's partner. Caroline phon
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Kim Friese
- 7.5/1095 votesLoading...
#3 - Caroline in the City
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1995
Caroline hires Richard as her new colorist, and takes Annie's advice to try getting a date by throwing fruit out her window.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette, Dottie Dartland Zicklin
- 7.5/1063 votesLoading...
#4 - Caroline and the Proposal
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1996
When Richard learns of Del's proposing to Caroline, he goes searching for another job, and is seduced by his just-divorced employment counselor; Remo and Annie try to convince a skeptical Caroline that she's oblivious to Richard's feelings for her - and hers for him.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette
- 7.4/1062 votesLoading...
#5 - Caroline and the Gift
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1996
Del's unexpectedly generous Christmas gift - a pair of ugly but valuable earrings - makes Caroline question his intentions. Richard paints a commissioned nude portrait of a beautiful woman (Udenio) who has a well-connected husband - well -connected in ""the Family,"" according to a frightened Remo. And Annie can't remember her New Year's Eve party at which she met a man who has since telephoned her to confirm their date.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Bill Prady
- 7.4/1061 votesLoading...
#6 - Caroline and the Wedding
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/1996
An ominous dream, an inexperienced priest and a surprising love letter threaten Caroline's wedding.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Bill Masters
- 7.4/1055 votesLoading...
#7 - Caroline and Richard & Julia (2)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/1997
Richard's long-lost love arrives with bad news: she's getting married in two days, to arrogant and insanely jealous fashion designer Marcello. Not to be outdone, Richard concocts a coupling of his own - to Caroline, much to her astonishment. Meanwhile, Del's business is going bankrupt, so he reluctantly arranges a midnight meeting at Remo's with his arrogant father, who refuses to help him but does buy Del's Porsche at an instant profit to teach him a lesson. Annie is offered a part in a pilot for a new series starring Shadoe Stevens, and instantly calls New York to resign from Cats.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Bill Masters
- 7.3/1071 votesLoading...
#8 - Caroline and the Christmas Break
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1995
Botched attempts to plan a holiday trip with Del lead Caroline to reconsider their relationship; Annie brews an elaborate scheme to help Richard break up with Shelly.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1062 votesLoading...
#9 - Caroline and the Cat Dancer
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1996
Richard tries to adjust to his new apartment, where he is plagued by noisily amorous neighbors; Joe tries to adjust to the fact that Caroline plans to remain friends with Del; and Annie frantically tries to adjust her financial records when she is notified that the IRS is auditing her for 1993, a year she barely remembers. Her bad-tempered auditor is under fire for being too lenient with his clients, but when he learns she is a dancer in Cats, he strikes a deal: she'll ""never have to pay taxes again"" if she can get him an audition for the show. Enter 'producer' Del and 'director' Charlie. Meanwhile, disturbed by Joe's jealousy, Caroline makes up her mind to break a date with Del by telling him she's been called out of town.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove
- 7.2/1066 votesLoading...
#10 - Caroline and the Watch
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1996
Caroline finds a watch in her new antique desk and tries to find its previous owners; meanwhile, Del learns that a deceased employee was an embezzler.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Mark Wilding
- 7.2/1057 votesLoading...
#11 - Caroline and the Nice Jewish Boy
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1996
Joe refuses to accompany Caroline to an award ceremony because one of the sponsors uses animal products; so she calls former date Willard, whom she dumped because he was fat and balding. After Charlie takes him to a Jewish singles event by mistake, Del lies about his background to date an attractive woman who parents will only allow her to date Jewish men. Willard shows up a reformed hunk who only came to tell Caroline to go to hell - ""And I'm rich, too!"" Aghast that Del plans to tell Risa the truth only after they spend a weekend together, Caroline points out delicately that if they sleep together Risa will know only, because Del is a ""turtleneck kind of guy."" So Del books himself into hospital, telling Risa he needs his ""tonsils"" removed; but she shows up to confess that she is eloping with her former boyfriend, who isn't Jewish either. A reluctant Richard escorts Caroline and even more reluctantly dances with her. Just as they seem about to have a tender moment, Joe appears, having
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Tom Leopold
- 7.2/1054 votesLoading...
#12 - Caroline and the Comic
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1996
Richard's father asks for his son's help in reviving an old comedy routine.
Director: Howard Deutch
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette
7.2/1050 votesLoading...#13 - Caroline and the Booby Trap
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1998
After Annie is beaten out in an audition by an untalented but well endowed rival, she announces her intention to have breast augmentation surgery during a Thanksgiving dinner already complicated by Del's turning up with a frozen rather than pre-cooked turkey and the bizarre behavior of mailroom Dave. Unable to talk Annie out of it, Caroline then beats her to the doctor's office to consider treatment herself after Richard's ill-timed admission that he has fantasized about her with larger breasts. A fantasy sequence in which Caroline imagines special treatment aboard a plane convinces her to stay with what she's got. Meanwhile, Richard has taken Caroline's riposte (that she has imagined him with darker, sexier hair) to heart, but when Del's current girlfriend shows up to rescue him from the effects of an amateurish home dye job, she realizes Del stood her up for Thanksgiving and storms out, leaving Richard to deal with a bad case of chemically induced hair loss.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1067 votesLoading...
#14 - Caroline and the Gay Art Show
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1995
Richard takes his paintings out of the closet when Caroline and Annie convince a gallery owner to consider them for an exclusive show - which turns out to be for gay artists only; Annie becomes entangled in Caroline's search for a new hair dresser - and her old hairdresser (Lerner) spots her at the gallery opening party.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1079 votesLoading...
#15 - Caroline and the Folks
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1995
Caroline must face dinner at Remo's with Del's parents alone when Del doesn't show up; Del is trapped on a stalled subway with Charlie, who insists on sharing his ideas for greeting cards for pets; and Richard's non-plans for his 30th birthday change when Annie visits to exchange swapped video rentals.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette
- 7.1/1054 votesLoading...
#16 - Caroline and Victor/Victoria
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1996
Annie poses as a man to prepare for a ""Victor/Victoria"" audition.
Director: Howard Deutch
Writer: Bill Masters
- 7.1/1058 votesLoading...
#17 - Caroline and the Singer
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1997
Annie's sister Donna, who has come to town in hopes of reviving her singing career, discovers Richard's secret love letter to Caroline (inside Annie's diary) and uses it as inspiration for a new song, to Richard's horror and Annie's fury, since she has been using the letter to blackmail Richard into taking her mother to electrolysis appointments. Caroline is preoccupied with her perfect plain black pumps, which she left in Joe's apartment; after a fruitless quest to replace them, she sneaks in to retrieve them, and is found by a repentant Joe. Meanwhile, Del and Charlie get snowed in - inside Del's Porsche, with the keys and his cell phone locked in the trunk by Charlie.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove
- 7.1/1055 votesLoading...
#18 - Caroline and the Monkeys
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1997
Del hopes to spark up romance with Annie's neurotic friend Cassandra, who plans on lighting a fire of her own - she's a compulsive pyromaniac just of an institution. Meanwhile, Caroline spends a night out on the town ""alone,"" crashing the restaurant where Richard is trying to enjoy a quiet meal and ultimately being forced by him to attend a movie on her own. Meanwhile, Charlie keeps spotting monkeys throughout Manhattan, and becomes convinced they are taking over the city.
Director: Andrew Tsao
Writer: Donald Todd
- 7.1/1053 votesLoading...
#19 - Caroline and the Reception (4)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1997
An anxious Caroline, not aware that Julia intercepted his message, waits for Richard's response but isn't prepared for his ""Oh, why is it so difficult to say three words - I got married!"" Devastated, Caroline calls Del in the middle of the night and he rushes over - still handcuffed to his date Kristin, and must be released by an amused Annie with one of her collection of keys. Caroline impulsively throws a reception to honor the happy couple, at which she gets drunk, but things turn serious when Julia's wealthy father's chauffeur arrives and summons her to talk - and for the first time in her life Julia turns down her father's money and announces she will stay married to the man she loves.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1048 votesLoading...
#20 - Caroline and the Used Car Salesman
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1997
Caroline becomes convinced that Richard is having an affair - but he is really moonlighting as a used car salesman to earn extra Christmas cash. Enter Del and Charlie in search of a used Porsche.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1054 votesLoading...
#21 - Caroline and the Love That Dares Not Speak its Name (2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1998
Caroline is aghast that Annie blabbed to Richard about her feelings for him, and tries to avoid his questions by inviting in a hyper-anxious knife salesman. When Richard discovers the truth about the answering machine message Caroline left for him (and which Julia erased), the two finally confess their mutual attraction, but quickly agree that they have both moved on. But a dinner double date at Caroline's turns into a competition for happiest couple between Caroline & Trevor and Richard & Julia - until they all wind up in an emergency ward with food poisoning from Caroline's fish chowder. Meanwhile, Annie tries a song and dance routine to help Del and Charlie defend their greeting card trade show turf against Del's evil brother Garner.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jack Kenny, Brian Hargrove
- 7.0/1070 votesLoading...
#22 - Caroline and the ATM
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1995
Being too picky could cost Caroline the chance to reclaim money she lost at a malfunctioning ATM, since she doesn't really want to bank staff to see her picking her nose on the videotape record of the transaction. Meanwhile, Richard may end up in the doghouse after he attempts to dump the clinging Shelly on the pretext that he is allergic to her beloved dog.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: Mark Wilding
- 7.0/1066 votesLoading...
#23 - Caroline and the Opera
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1995
Caroline is annoyed that Del refuses to accompany her to the opera; then her interfering Aunt Mary arranges a blind date with an old high school classmate of Caroline's, who turns out to be handsome, successful and rich.
Director: Tom Cherones
Writer: Fred Barron, Marco Pennette
- 7.0/1065 votesLoading...
#24 - Caroline and the Balloon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1995
Caroline is blown away by an opportunity to march in the Thanksgiving Day Parade - something she had dreamed of since high school mononucleosis kept her out of her marching band - when the giant balloon of her character Caroline escapes, injures parade marshal Florence Henderson, and threatens Staten Island.
Director: Tom Cherones
Writer: Bill Prady
- 7.0/1068 votesLoading...
#25 - Caroline and the Movie
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/1996
Caroline, Richard and Annie are cast as extras in a film, leading to some surprising developments for its star (Benson) and director (Landis) when Annie turns out to be a Benson fanatic - and Richard becomes insanely jealous of the extra who is to kiss Caroline. Meanwhile, Del's Porsche is towed, and when he claims it from the DMV, he gets someone else's Gremlin instead. When he tracks down the Gremlin's owner, the poor man pleads for more time - he's got a hot date with a woman who was really only impressed by the Porsche.
Director: Tom Cherones
Writer: Bill Prady
The Best Episodes of Caroline in the City
Every episode of Caroline in the City ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Caroline in the City!
Caroline in the City is an American situation comedy that ran on the NBC television network. It stars Lea Thompson as cartoonist Caroline Duffy, who...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Caroline and the Ex-Wife" is the best rated episode of "Caroline in the City". It scored 8/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by Tom Cherones and written by N/A, it aired on 3/28/1996. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Caroline and the Wayward Husband (3)".