9.5/102 votesLoading...#1 - Where or When
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/11/1998
After Gary is injured in a fall, he becomes housebound while his broken leg heals. In a "Rear Window" style plot, he watches people in the apartment building across the street and is attracted to a new neighbor who seems to have been the victim of a murder almost 50 years ago.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votesLoading...#2 - March in Time
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1997
After learning that a leader of a racist movement will be assasinated during a march, Gary begans to debate whether he should save his life or let him die. Marissa manages to convince him to save him, but the dilemma is further compromised when the leader's comrades attack and vandalize McGinty's. Now Gary has to stop the sniper from killing the leader of the movement. The situation is further complicated when the leader's son befriends a young African-American kid.
Director: Robert Ginty
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - The Return of Crumb
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1998
Three weeks before he is due to retire, Detective Crumb comes under investigation by the city's District Attorney under suspicion that he may be corrupt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votesLoading...#4 - Show Me the Monet
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/1998
Gary learns that a British man who assisted him with a mission is actually a forger with many enemies.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
9.0/10104 votesLoading...#5 - Time
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2000
Gary finds out why he was chosen to receive the paper.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#6 - Redfellas
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1997
The newspaper arrives with an article written in Russian. Gary saves a cab driver in a seemingly unrelated article written in English. The cab driver is able to read the Russian article to Gary. Gary then must save a beautiful Russian violinist from being murdered and brings her together to her long lost father.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#7 - A Regular Joe
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1997
Gary is stressed out and just wants a regular life. He is having recurring dreams about a psychiatrist who encourages him to take Sundays off from the paper. Gary decides to take that advice. However, he finds out that he needs to convince a famous quarterback to stop playing in order to avoid a serious injury.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#8 - A Minor Miracle
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1998
Gary's search for a missing child makes him a suspect. When the police won't listen to him, he goes into the flooding underground sewer to try to rescue the little girl before it's too late.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#9 - Romancing the Throne
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1998
Gary must deal with a stowaway princess who hid in his trunk.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#10 - Mum's the Word
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/1998
Gary takes Marissa, who poses as an Egyptian princess, to gain admission to an exclusive museum exhibition so that he can save an archeaologist from being killed by an ancient Egyptian stone artifact. Gary pushes the man out of the way only to see that someone wanted the archeaologist killed. The day after, Gary reads in the newspaper that there'll be a fire in the museum, so he checks up on a journalist who was at the museum the night the archeaologist was almost killed. When the eyes are stolen from a cat mummy, a curse is released, causing everyone involved, including Marissa, to fall seriously ill.
Director: John Patterson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#11 - Don't Walk Away, Renee
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/1998
Gary helps Renee, a woman who is being targeted by thieves.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#12 - Second Sight
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/23/1998
Marissa sees a vision and thinks her sight is returning. Chuck witnesses a mob murder, and is in trouble. Gary, Chuck, and Crumb are taken hostage, and Marissa must save them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/1083 votesLoading...#13 - Fatal Edition (1)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1999
When Frank Scanlon, a Chicago Sun Times columnist famous for his exposes, meets Gary during one of his daily saves, Gary piques the interest of the reporter, who believes that the rescues are more than coincidental. Intent on investigating Gary further, Scanlon demands that Sun Times cameraman Miguel Diaz hand over the confidential file he's been collecting on Gary. Meanwhile, when Gary reads in the paper that Scanlon is about to be murdered, he rushes to save him but the paper lists the wrong time of death - leading Gary to be found at the scene by police and subsequently arrested. Mounting circumstantial evidence even has Detective Toni Brigatti convinced of Gary's guilt. After escaping his arraignment, with Marissa's help, Gary becomes a fugitive desperate to find Scanlon's murderer.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Jeff Pinkner
8.3/1078 votesLoading...#14 - Fate
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1999
A homeless man plummets to his death while Gary tries to save him. Gary is rattled by his inability to prevent the tragedy and questions his involvement with the paper. When Gary refuses to prevent the next day's bad news, he winds up being forced to confront his own fate when he reads his obituary in the paper and must figure out what he's done wrong so he can save his life.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.3/1083 votesLoading...#15 - Fatal Edition (2)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1999
When Gary's own investigation leads him to one of Scanlon's informants, he learns that at the time of Scanlon's death, the reporter was about to break a story on a murder-for-hire ring. With the help of Sun Times photographer Miguel Diaz, Gary obtains a printout of Scanlon's notes for his story that identifies six murders that were made to look like accidents. Meanwhile, Detective Brigatti uncovers some evidence of her own, which proves Gary's innocence and implicates someone with whom she works closely in the department. When Brigatti is subsequently taken hostage and about to be murdered, Gary must save her before the real killer sets him up a second time.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Doris Egan
8.2/1071 votesLoading...#16 - Snow Angels
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/26/2000
While out in the snow, Gary encounters two men, Earl Camby, a reformed criminal who now devotes his life to helping those less fortunate than himself, and Cliff Mourning, a sleazy motel operator. As Gary tries to save Earl's life when a building collapses on him, he reads that Cliff is going to succumb to a heart attack. Torn between leaving Earl alone to die while he saves an ungrateful human being, Gary contemplates a decision that could ultimately tie the two men's lives together.
Director: Sandor Stern
Writer: N/A
8.1/10181 votesLoading...#17 - The Choice
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1996
Gary must choose between stopping a fatal plane crash or saving the life of one girl.
Director: Michael Dinner
Writer: Bob Brush, John Romano
8.1/1068 votesLoading...#18 - Gifted
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/4/2000
After saving a playmate of Nikki's and then preventing her from being injured in a school bus accident, Gary meets the tough-talking 13-year-old and learns that she also knew about the accidents before they almost happened. While most would consider Nikki's clairvoyance to be a gift, she is racked with guilt because she was unable to save her own parents from dying in a car crash three years earlier -- an event Gary also failed to stop.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: James Stanley
8.0/102 votesLoading...#19 - Home
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1997
Gary's hotel room burns in an electrical fire. While wondering where he is going to live, Gary also finds out that a greedy businessman wants to purchase McGinty's and an orphanage in order to demolish them and build a parking lot. Gary and Chuck must save McGinty's and the orphanage, and Gary must find a new place to live.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#20 - The Medal
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1997
Gary must help a Vietnam vet who has the Congressional Medal of Honor when a ceremony in his honor triggers feelings of guilt because of a mistake he made in Vietnam.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#21 - Jenny Sloane
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1997
Gary must help a young boy who is ill with leukimia, but is refusing treatment. Gary wants him to meet Jenny Sloane, Chicago's sweetheart who is ill with cancer. A Sun-Times columnist writes a column about Jenny Sloane.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#22 - A Bris is Just a Bris
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1997
Gary comes between his cook and an accident-prone librarian. Chuck turns truthful while dating a Rabbi.
Director: Scott Paulin
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#23 - Walk, Don't Run
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1998
Gary tries to use his nomination to a public job to get a light put at a dangerous crossroad.
Director: Richard Heus
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votesLoading...#24 - The Quality of Mercy
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/1998
The paper sends Gary to save a man, John Hernandez, from getting killed in a road accident. After doing that, the paper changes and it states that Hernandez is going to kill Rachel Stone, the prosecutor who sent him to prison. Gary can't help but wonder why the paper sent him on such an errand. Gary then goes to the courthouse to stop Hernandez; Hernandez gets away and Gary is arrested and brought to Ms. Stone. When he tries to warn her about Hernandez; she doesn't believe him because Gary won't reveal the source of his information. Hernandez gets away by knocking Chuck out and taking his car. While Gary waits at the hospital, the paper now says that Hernandez is going to try again this time at her home. Gary goes there and gets him and Ms. Stone taken as hostage.
Director: Fisher Stevens
Writer: N/A
8.0/1076 votesLoading...#25 - Run, Gary, Run
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1999
When Gary ignores Marissa's repeated requests to help her manage the workload at McGinty's, the paper plays a dangerous trick on him: he reads that his friend will be struck and killed by a car. Gary finds himself in a daily replay of the same 24 hours, � la the film Groundhog Day, when, unable to save her the first time around, he awakens to find history repeating itself -- twice. Failing to prevent the accident a second time, Gary is given one more chance to learn from his mistakes so he can save Marissa's life.
Director: Scott Paulin
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Early Edition
Every episode of Early Edition ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Early Edition!
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaComedy
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Where or When" is the best rated episode of "Early Edition". It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by David Grossman and written by N/A, it aired on 4/11/1998. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "March in Time".