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The Worst 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...

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  1. Background image for Baby
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #1 - Baby

    S1:E3

    Gary helps Chuck deliver twins in an elevator after Chicago has a blackout due to Gary's inability to stop street workers to keep a water pump turned off. Meanwhile, Gary keeps chasing for a mysterious blonde woman while his ex-wife attempts to get back together.

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    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Bob Brush
  2. Background image for Weathergirl
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Weathergirl

    S4:E9

    With Gary as her guide, Rebecca becomes renowned for her accurate forecasts, until the paper shows up at his doorstep one morning without a trace of the next day's weather. Searching for a way to save his budding relationship, Gary reads a story in the paper about a group of construction workers who are killed when a gale force wind knocks over a Christmas tree they're trying to put up. Racing to the television studio, Gary attempts to get Rebecca to warn the workers about the potential disaster. Meanwhile, Gary's old friend Uncle Phil (guest star Fyvush Finkel, reprising the role) winds up in a series of jobs and disasters that Gary must prevent.

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    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Redfellas
    7.1/10(91 votes)

    #3 - Redfellas

    S2:E7

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for March in Time
    7.2/10(93 votes)

    #4 - March in Time

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Director:Robert Ginty
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Thief Swipes Mayor's Dog
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #5 - Thief Swipes Mayor's Dog

    S1:E5

    Lottery fever grips Chicago with the jackpot climbing every night. Meanwhile, Gary tries to understand why someone would want to steal the Mayor's dog.

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  6. Background image for Home Groan
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Home Groan

    S3:E21

    While Gary is able to prevent a robbery attempt by the dangerous criminals, he is unable to convince the local sheriff that the convicts are hiding out in his little town. It turns out that Joe is an envious old high-school classmate of Gary's who decides to throw him in jail for causing a raucous. While behind bars, Gary reads in the paper that his mother will be killed by the convicts. When he's unable to convince Joe to stop by his parents house to prevent the impending tragedy, Gary's dad, Bernie, comes to his rescue and they both rush to save Gary's mom.

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    Director:Scott Paulin
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Play It Again Sammo
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Play It Again Sammo

    S3:E22

    Gary does his usual routine to help others, and finds himself involved with the robbery of an ancient Chinese helmet that was stolen from LA. Detective Sammo Law from the Los Angeles police department is in Chicago looking for the missing helmet. After investigating Gary's involvement with the case, Sammo and Gary find out Gary accidentally bought the helmet as a piece of an art decoration object. Unfortunately the helmet is stolen again, forcing Sammo and Gary to team up to get it back, while trying to stop the man who stole it and his niece from being murdered by international smugglers who want the helmet.

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    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Hoops
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Hoops

    S1:E6

    Gary tries to stop a popular basket-baller with a medical condition from risking his life on the court.

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    Writer:Bob Brush
  10. Background image for Home
    7.4/10(108 votes)

    #9 - Home

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Jenny Sloane
    7.4/10(99 votes)

    #10 - Jenny Sloane

    S2:E4

    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.

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    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Downsized
    7.4/10(90 votes)

    #11 - Downsized

    S2:E5

    Gary and Chuck must stop an old friend of theirs from their former job from having fatal plastic surgery to impress his girlfriend and enhance his career.

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    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Angels and Devils
    7.4/10(94 votes)

    #12 - Angels and Devils

    S2:E6

    Sister Mary works with inner-city youths but begins to question her effectiveness and faith after witnessing too many young people ruin their lives through crime and violence. Gary tries to help her keep a young boy named Marcus on the straight and narrow path after his older brother, Kareem, is released from prison. Kareem has plans to tutor Marcus in the ways of crime and he has no patience for Gary's interference.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for A Regular Joe
    7.4/10(83 votes)

    #13 - A Regular Joe

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Mel Damski
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Dad
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Dad

    S1:E22

    Gary's father, Bernie, temporarily moves in with his son after his wife kicks him out. After learning about the paper, and enjoying helping others, Bernie decides to stay permanently.

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    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Bob Brush
  16. Background image for The Wedding
    7.5/10(88 votes)

    #15 - The Wedding

    S2:E3

    McGinty's is asked to cater the wedding of Gary's ex-girlfriend, his high school sweetheart. Her romantic feelings are still somewhat directed at Gary, and what's worse, her father has been under police's witness protection for three weeks and the paper warns of criminal and violent actions at the wedding.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Second Sight
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #16 - Second Sight

    S2:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Take Me out to the Ballgame
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Take Me out to the Ballgame

    S4:E3

    After Gary reads that Pedro Mendoza, a rookie pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, is going to pitch a no-hitter. Chuck convinces him to attend the game. But when Chuck inadvertently changes the course of the day's events by taking a cab meant for the ballplayer, the story is replaced by an item about the pitcher being injured while on his way to Wrigley Field. After preventing Pedro's impending accident, Gary races to protect a restaurant owner from being seriously injured by a loan shark. When it turns out that the man is Pedro's brother, Gary and Chuck find themselves in the middle of another potential tragedy. They read that the brother will be killed and the ballplayer's arm will be broken by the menacing thugs. With only a few hours left, the duo must try to save the day so Pedro can pitch the game and still make the history books.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for False Witness
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - False Witness

    S4:E15

    While stealing cars for a chop shop, Jose (Joey) encounters Gary, who is brought in by police to ID the teenager in a criminal lineup. When Gary realizes that Joey is Miguel's little brother, he denies knowing him in order to protect his friend. Although Joey promises Gary that he will go straight, his accomplice pressures him into pulling another job, a heist in which the owner of the car is shot and Gary is taken hostage. While trying to convince Joey to give up his life of crime, Gary is wounded by gunfire and left to ponder whether or not he should have acknowledged Joey's involvement the first time around before people were seriously hurt.

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    Director:Ian Barry
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Blind Faith
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Blind Faith

    S4:E17

    Gary loses his sight while he is trying to prevent three teens from being blown up by an old cannon ball. While at the hospital, Gary meets a yong kid named Nate Calvin, whose mother is ill. The next day, without being able to see, Gary must save Nate Calvin, who is trapped in an abandoned building.

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for Pilot
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    After being kicked out of his house by his wife, Gary Hobson is forced to move into a hotel room. It's a regular Monday morning - apart from a mysterious newspaper that is delivered to his door by an even more mysterious orange cat. At first, Gary doesn't pay much attention to the newspaper but, after a while, he realises that it isn't a regular newspaper, it's tomorrow's.

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    Writer:Bob Brush
  22. Background image for The Paper
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #21 - The Paper

    S1:E4

    While searching for answers about the paper, Gary becomes involved with a reporter who is suspicious of his apparent knowledge of a certain story.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Wrong Man
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - The Wrong Man

    S1:E10

    Gary has to stop a man from his old office from killing himself. Marcia visits him with the news that she's getting married. She won't reveal the identity of her soon-to-be husband, but Gary finds out it's Phil Pritchard, his old jerky boss. Gary is not happy about it and a series of accidents make it look like he's trying to purposely hurt Pritchard and get in the way of their wedding. When the paper brings the headline that Pritchard is going to be murdered, Gary refuses to help him, but Chuck convinces him to do so. He also must stop Sam (the office mailboy for the past 9 years) from killing Pritchard.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Christmas
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Christmas

    S1:E11

    Gary has to stop a bomb from killing 20 ice skaters on a park. He goes to Det. Crumb for help, who still doesn't quite believe Gary. The headline on the paper changes to a department store, but still the bomber seems to be ahead of them. Meanwhile, Chuck is arrested for not paying 106 parking tickets. In his cell there's a man who thinks he's Santa, and he convinces Chuck to escape from jail and steal a car to deliver the gifts.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bob Brush
  25. Background image for Frostbit
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Frostbit

    S1:E12

    It's 20 below zero in Chicago but Gary still has to rescue people around the city, even if the paper doesn't bring any important news. Plus, Chuck temporarily moves in to Gary's place after the heat in his place goes down, which is just another reason for Gary to be out of the house. He keeps running into a homeless kid, who is later featured in paper saying he froze to death. Now Gary has to find the kid, who got stuck under a pipe of an abandoned building. They both get locked there after the door is blocked, and now they rely on Chuck to save them from freezing to death.

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  26. Background image for The Medal
    7.6/10(99 votes)

    #25 - The Medal

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Baby" is the worst rated episode of "Early Edition". It scored 7/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Randall Zisk and written by Bob Brush, it aired on 10/12/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Weathergirl".