- 7.7/10107 votes
#1 - When the Rooster Dies
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1993
Harry sells his pediatrics practice to another doctor, who ends up firing Laverne. When the hospital sends Harry to check out an inner-city clinic, he ends up teaming up with the owner, Dr. Maxine Douglas, to keep the place open. Laverne joins them as nurse. Meanwhile, Sophia Petrillo moves back into nearby Shady Pines retirement home and drops by the Weston house.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10105 votes
#2 - Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (1)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1993
Carol throws Patrick out when she realizes that he'll never grow up, but later learns that she's pregnant. Laverne goes too far when trying to organize things at the clinic.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10106 votes
#3 - Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (2)
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1993
Carol can't decide how to tell Patrick about her pregnancy. Laverne refuses to tell Maxine a secret.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10102 votes
#4 - Mama Todd, the Sequel
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1993
Laverne's mother-in-law visits, unaware that Nick and Laverne are divorced. Charley tries to persuade Carol to make him godfather of the baby.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10102 votes
#5 - Mom's the Word
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1993
Carol is afraid to tell a date that she is pregnant. Laverne and Maxine disagree when trying to plan a baby shower.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10103 votes
#6 - Diary of a Mad Housewife
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1993
Carol reads her mother's old diary and thinks she wasn't wanted. Maxine is annoyed by a mime and a hypochondriac at the clinic.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Bob Tischler
- 7.5/10105 votes
#7 - Mother Dearest
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1993
Maxine's mother visits and drives her crazy, but then finds out she may have glaucoma. Charley finds out the sex of Carol's baby, something she didn't want to know. Harry and Casey MacAfee try to make a date.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10104 votes
#8 - No Volunteers, Please
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1993
A shy woman volunteers at the clinic and starts sending Laverne flowers and cooking her dinner, which prompts Maxine to think the lady is a lesbian. Carol tries to get her unborn child enrolled in a posh preschool.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10103 votes
#9 - Das Boob
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1993
Harry and Charley get stranded at sea. Maxine tries to overcome her fear of public speaking.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Dennis Snee
- 7.4/10104 votes
#10 - The Girl Who Cried Baby
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1993
Maxine and Harry compete to sell opera tickets. After a series of false alarms, Carol gives birth to son Scotty while at the opera.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Susan Beavers
- 7.4/10106 votes
#11 - Superbaby
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1993
When the baby starts ""singing Beethoven,"" Carol fears the hospital has given her the wrong child.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10103 votes
#12 - Read All About It
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1993
When Maxine has a dental emergency, Harry steps in and gives an interview in her place, but the journalist makes the article sound as though Harry deserves all the credit for the clinic's success. Meanwhile, Charley falls for Dreyfuss' vet.
Director: Dinah Manoff
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10103 votes
#13 - Love a la Mode
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1994
Charley plans to marry a waitress from a pancake house. When she finds out they have the same birthday, Laverne thinks that explains why she and Maxine are so much alike, which Maxine thinks is ridiculous.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10103 votes
#14 - What's A Mother To Do?
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1994
Carol joins a mother-daughter support group and ends up feeling that she is the worst mother in the world, especially after locking the baby in the car. Laverne thinks Maxine is dying when she mysteriously asks for time off after a check-up.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Cindy Chupack
- 7.4/10105 votes
#15 - Gesundheit
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1994
When the baby can't stop sneezing, Carol hires Studs With Suds to clean the house from top to bottom, and Sophia charges her friends to come and see them in action. But when they think it may be Dreyfuss causing the allergy, Harry takes him to stay with Charley, who doesn't want to give him back. Meanwhile, strange noises from upstairs make Laverne think the clinic is haunted by the ghosts of men who were murdered there years before.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Dennis Snee
- 7.2/10109 votes
#16 - Under the Gun
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1994
Harry gets shot when a young boy brings a gun to the clinic. Carol has a date with a famous anthropologist, who opts instead to go party with Charley.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10104 votes
#17 - Brotherly Shove
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1994
Charley ends up working at his brother's used car lot, but when he makes a big sale his brother takes all the credit. Maxine and Laverne become competitive when they start jogging to get in shape.
Director: Dinah Manoff
Writer: Drake Sather
- 7.6/10103 votes
#18 - The Ballad of Shady Pines
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1994
Laverne fills in for a friend at Shady Pines, where Sophia's boyfriend hits on her. Sophia catches the two together and thinks Laverne is stealing her man.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10100 votes
#19 - Hog Heaven
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/5/1994
Laverne's old biker boyfriend returns and the two rekindle their romance, which annoys Harry, who doesn't think the guy is good enough for her. Carol makes a memory video for baby Scotty.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Bob Tischler
- 7.7/10105 votes
#20 - Charley's Millions
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/1994
After receiving an inheritance, Charley assembles a group of people who have meant a lot to him over the years (which includes Harry, Carol, Sophia, and Don Adams from Get Smart) and takes them all on a trip to Mardi Gras. Laverne's hideous looking cat dies.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10103 votes
#21 - Half That Jazz
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/1994
Harry persuades his old jazz idol Sonny Baxter to come out of retirement and play at a benefit. Strange things start happening after Sophia vows revenge on Charley for dumping her niece.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dennis Snee
- 7.3/10102 votes
#22 - The Devil and Dr. Weston
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 4/9/1994
A wealthy philanthropist eyes Harry. Carol tries to help shy Doris (who once volunteered at the clinic but now sales roll-on moose door-to-door) come out of her shell.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Kari Lizer
- 7.3/10100 votes
#23 - A Foreign Affair
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/16/1994
Maxine's boyfriend, an African cultural attache, proposes marriage. Sophia and Charley get Carol (who meanwhile has started to play the guitar again) hooked on the dog races.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10101 votes
#24 - Lordy, Lordy, Landlordy
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 4/23/1994
When their good-for-nothing landlord refuses to repair the problems at the clinic, Laverne threatens a rent strike and ends up getting the gang evicted. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Carol to spend some time away from baby Scotty but she can't seem to bring herself to let him out of her sight.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1099 votes
#25 - Best Friends
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 5/21/1994
Carol is upset when her childhood friend returns and starts dating Harry. A patient at the clinic turns out to be a member of the family which has feuded with Laverne's for years, which sparks a mini-war between the two.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Tischler
The Best Episodes of Empty Nest Season 6
Every episode of Empty Nest Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Empty Nest Season 6!
Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people...
Genres:FamilyComedy
Network:NBC
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"When the Rooster Dies" is the best rated episode of "Empty Nest" season 6. It scored 7.7/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by Steve Zuckerman and written by N/A, it aired on 9/25/1993. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (1)".