6.9/10132 votesLoading...#1 - Hoops
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1996
Gary tries to stop a popular basket-baller with a medical condition from risking his life on the court.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Bob Brush
6.9/1067 votesLoading...#2 - Up Chuck
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1998
A surprise visit from Chuck makes Gary suspect an ulterior motive.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: N/A
6.9/1064 votesLoading...#3 - Two to Tangle
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1999
A couple is fighting with each other over their lingerie company, and Henry befriends their daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1085 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.1/10139 votesLoading...#5 - Thief Swipes Mayor's Dog
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1996
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.
Director: Susan Seidelman
Writer: Bob Brush, John Romano
7.1/10115 votesLoading...#6 - Gun
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1996
Gary poses as a social worker in order to stop a little boy from shooting his brother, but he gets more involved with the family than he should. Gary steals the gun, but has to give it back after the paper announces that the wife will be beaten to death. When the husband drops by, Gary shows up with the police, but little Tommy had already stolen the gun and almost killed his brother. Meanwhile, Chuck has a really hard time trying to get rid of the cat's fleas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1071 votesLoading...#7 - Halloween
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1998
Gary is abducted by two witches that he saved from a fire. The witches believe that Gary is a warlock, and that Gary can help them free their sister who has been locked up for close to 200 years.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Bob Brush
7.2/10125 votesLoading...#8 - After Midnight
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1996
Gary has to stop a 17 year-old single mother from abandoning her child. But as always, Gary gets more involved with her than he should, and finds out she left home pregnant and now works for a drug dealer. Meanwhile, Chuck uses the paper to get a date with an attractive woman he had to share a cab with.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine
7.2/1086 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.2/1068 votesLoading...#10 - Lt. Hobson, USN
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1998
To stop an explosion, Gary poses as a Navy Lieutenant, but before he can get off the base, he attracts the attention of an admiral who wants Gary to take his daughter to a dance. However, things don't go as planned and Gary ends up imprisoned in a Naval Jail. Worse yet, Gary receives the paper while in jail and learns that McGinty's is going to blow up.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: N/A
7.2/1065 votesLoading...#11 - Number One with a Bullet
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1999
Marissa's old friend, Julius aka C-Roc, is in town for a cd signing and Gary has to prevent him from being killed.
Director: David Petrarca
Writer: N/A
7.3/10113 votesLoading...#12 - Mob Wife
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/1997
Gary and Chuck get mistakenly involved with the mob after they save a gangster's ex-fiancé from being shot. They spend days trying to escape from trouble and death themselves, and to make it easier Chuck falls for the woman.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Dusty Kay
7.3/10103 votesLoading...#13 - Bat Masterson
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1997
Gary meets an ex-cop who took the identity of Bat Masterson to continue his work against crime. The guy seems to be crazy, but helps Gary with his paper duties. As he learns more about Bat (or Mike Killebrew, his real identity), Gary discovers that he went crazy after his partner died.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Dusty Kay
7.3/1078 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.3/1064 votesLoading...#15 - A Horse Is a Horse
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1998
After Henry witnesses Gary rescue a clown from a falling bucket, nothing can stop the child from finding out about the paper. However, Henry misuses the information contained within the paper, but things get worse when Henry's father sees his child's "gift" as a way to make a quick buck.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1068 votesLoading...#16 - Saint Nick
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1998
Erica reunites with a childhood friend, Nick Sterling, who seems to be the perfect guy. Gary is jealous of their relationship and reads in the paper that Nick is going to propose to Erica. Gary also reads that the hospital that Nick just got done building is going to catch on fire at the opening party so he goes to the party but the building still catches on fire and he has to save Nick and Erica.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1068 votesLoading...#17 - In Gary We Trust
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1998
Gary is in danger after preventing a spa worker from being shot in the sauna. Turns out that the people who were going to kill him are mobsters and the spa worker is actually an FBI agent working on a case to bring the mobsters down.
Director: Ian Barry
Writer: N/A
7.3/1064 votesLoading...#18 - Slippity-Doo-Dah
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1999
Gary catches a snake that was going to bite a bingo player who faints and knocks her head. However, she's incapable of her next doings: babysitting Henry. Gary takes over, but Marissa warns him that he can't handle both the paper and Henry. While babysitting for Henry, Gary's intervention with one accident sets off a chain reaction of accidents.
Director: Fisher Stevens
Writer: N/A
7.3/1069 votesLoading...#19 - Rose
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/19/2000
Although Crumb cautions Gary that Rose may appear sweet and innocent but is probably trouble, Gary ignores his warning, even when evidence surfaces that she has a criminal record. When he believes her explanation that an old boyfriend is after her, Gary agrees to loan Rose $25,000 to get rid of him and is stunned when she suddenly runs off with his money.
Director: Julia Rask
Writer: N/A
7.3/1068 votesLoading...#20 - Occasionally Amber
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/2000
When Chuck returns to Chicago to get married, Gary recognizes Chuck's bride as Amber, a jewel thief. She is now calling herself Jade. Gary confides in Marissa who tells him that he must inform Chuck. Gary confronts Jade, who tells him that she truly loves Chuck and that she is really Jade. He decides not to tell Chuck what he knows. The next morning's paper says that a large diamond will be stolen from an auction. Gary and Marissa throw a private rehearsal dinner for Chuck and Jade to keep Jade there while the theft is suppossed to happen. Jade hires two female strippers to handcuff both Gary and Chuck. She then leaves and steals the diamond. When she returns to her apartment Gary confronts her. Jade tells Gary that she had to steal the diamond because it was once a national treasure of her country. Gary doesn't believe her story. He takes the diamond from her and puts it into the curator's mailbox with a letter warning them to tighten security.
Director: Kyle Chandler
Writer: Lawrence Meyers
7.4/10148 votesLoading...#21 - Baby
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1996
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.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Bob Brush
7.4/10114 votesLoading...#22 - His Girl Thursday
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1996
Meredith is back. She wants to pick things up with Gary where they left last time they met. But the paper seems to be in the way of Gary developing anything deeper with her, since he doesn't want her to have access to it. She promises not to read it, but Chuck walks in on her reading the paper. They make a deal, and Chuck wins over 15 million in the stock market. He gets in trouble and steals the paper to lose the 15 million, but Gary thinks Meredith stole it. After reconciliation, Meredith leaves for Washington.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: N/A
7.4/10121 votesLoading...#23 - Christmas
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Brush
7.4/10123 votesLoading...#24 - Frostbit
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1997
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Brush, Deborah Joy LeVine
7.4/10104 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Early Edition
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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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Hoops" is the worst rated episode of "Early Edition". It scored 6.9/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by Rick Rosenthal and written by Bob Brush, it aired on 11/2/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Up Chuck".