The Best Episodes of Empty Nest Season 4

Laverne's cousin leaves her baby behind and runs off to find her husband, who left after a fight. So while Laverne looks for her, the Westons take care of the baby. The experience makes Barbara want her own child and she considers artificial insemination.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Harry's lust for his girlfriend sparks marital thoughts.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Laverne meets another man at a banquet and goes out to dinner with him while Nick is out of town. Meanwhile, when Carol confesses that she stole Barbara's first boyfriend at camp years ago, Barbara vows to extract revenge when Carol least expects it.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Carol quits her job at the library and buys a catering business.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

The Westons buy guns after their house is burglarized, a choice they later regret when Carol gets a little trigger happy. Charley decides to head to the woods to do some serious thinking about his life.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Dave Richardson

Harry hires a world-famous vet to operate on Dreyfuss. Charley contemplates a career change when he is offered a job at Uncle Buzzy's Pirate World.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Rob LaZebnik

Country music star Garth Brooks offers Barbara a job as security chief on his tour. Charley moves in with the Westons while his house is being fumigated.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

A hurricane hits just as the Westons decide to sell their house. Laverne's mother-in-law visits.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Arnie Kogen

Harry becomes host of a call-in radio show; Carol, Barbara, and Charley enter a chili cook-off.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Dave Richardson

Just as Carol conquers her emotional problems, she becomes jealous of Barbara, who is up for a medal of honor for saving a man's life (something she did by accident). Laverne upsets Harry when she asks for a second opinion after he diagnoses her visiting niece's symptoms as allergies.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Harry hires an old friend's son as an associate, but isn't pleased with the way he practices medicine. Meanwhile, Carol begins a relationship with the new associate and realizes he is arogant and self-absorbed.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Lyla Oliver

Harry's old nurse Winifred returns to fill in while Laverne goes out of town, and a war erupts between the two ladies when Winifred reveals that she's out to get Laverne's job. While on a trip to New York with Barbara, Carol manages to annoy the entire planeload of passengers (including a nun).

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

As a favor to a minister friend, Harry takes in his brilliant young son as an observer, but becomes distressed when the boy confesses it's only his father's pressure that makes him want to be a doctor. Carol is excited about catering her friend Suzanne's posh Palm Beach wedding, until the groom gets excited by Carol.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Rob LaZebnik

Carol starts dating Barbara's ex-boyfriend, but Barbara realizes she still has feelings for him.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

While Harry and Laverne are en route to a medical seminar, an escaped convict takes Barbara and Carol hostage.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Arnie Kogen

Harry tries to reconcile a friend and his wife. Barbara hires Carol to cater a police party.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

"The Return of Aunt Susan" is the title of the 17th fourth season episode of the hit NBC sitcom and Golden Girls spin-off Empty Nest. The episode first aired on February 8, 1992.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Dave Richardson, David Richardson

Charley poses as captain of his ship to impress his visiting parents. Worried that Harry favors Barbara over her, Carol decides to keep track of how many times he does so.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Nick leaves Laverne for a woman in Japan. Barbara goes undercover at a college sorority to catch a computer hacker.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Rob LaZebnik

The full moon on Leap Day causes strange things to happen: after throwing his back out, Harry begins to act very unusual; a series of odd occurrences leads Barbara to believe that a neighborhood repairman is actually Dreyfuss; Charley cancels a date to stay home and watch The Sound of Music.

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Carol persuades Charley to run for president of the home owner's association. While on undercover assignment at the hospital, Barbara tries to fool Harry with a number of disguises, but he sees through every one.

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A good deed backfires on Harry when a neurotic woman refuses to leave him alone. Carol's new boyfriend seems perfect except for his hideously annoying laugh.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: N/A

Just as Carol nears a breakthrough, her psychiatrist dies. Harry's new patient enjoys making jokes and smart alack remarks.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Arnie Kogen

The Westons (and Charley) travel to England to their ancestral home Weston Castle, where Harry is to receive the Sword of Weston in a ceremony. Unfortunately he gets locked in a dungeon after following a secret passage. Meanwhile back home, Laverne tries to teach Dreyfuss to ride a skateboard. Richard Mulligan plays three roles in this episode: the usual Harry, a butler named Basil, and a relative Baroness Daphne Weston.

Director: Steve Zuckerman

Writer: Dave Richardson