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The Worst Episodes of Empty Nest

Every episode of Empty Nest ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Empty Nest!

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

Worst Episodes Summary

"Under the Gun" is the worst rated episode of "Empty Nest". It scored 7.2/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Steve Zuckerman and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Good Neighbor Harry".

  • Under the Gun
    7.2/10109 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Good Neighbor Harry
    7.3/10101 votes
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    #2 - Good Neighbor Harry

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1992

    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

  • Read All About It
    7.3/10103 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • The Devil and Dr. Weston
    7.3/10102 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • A Foreign Affair
    7.3/10100 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Mad About the Boy
    7.4/10105 votes
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    #6 - Mad About the Boy

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1990

    After being dumped yet again, Carol flips out and falls in love with the first man she can find: an oddball who passes out cheese samples at the mall. Laverne decides to spice up Harry's biography for a hospital newsletter.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mismatchmaker
    7.4/1098 votes
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    #7 - The Mismatchmaker

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1992

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

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • Cruel and Unusual Punishment
    7.4/10101 votes
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    #8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1992

    After finding a man guilty during jury duty, Carol tires to clear her conscience by hiring a former criminal to work at her catering business.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • Overboard
    7.4/10100 votes
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    #9 - Overboard

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1992

    A storm strands cruise passenger Charley adrift in a raft and he returns a different man. Carol and Patrick have a chance to work together, but she becomes jealous when he gets the job and she doesn't.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • Das Boob
    7.4/10103 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • The Girl Who Cried Baby
    7.4/10104 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Superbaby
    7.4/10106 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Gesundheit
    7.4/10105 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Life Goes On (2)
    7.4/10102 votes
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    #14 - Life Goes On (2)

    Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 4/29/1995

    With the gang fretting over Laverne's elopement, Kevin comes to see Carol and the two decide to get married with Laverne's father performing the ceremony. Laverne and Matt return unhitched and the ceremony becomes a double wedding. Barbara returns home to pack her things, but Harry has second thoughts about moving...until he is confronted by his dead wife Libby's ghost.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: Dennis Snee

  • Honey, I Shrunk Laverne
    7.5/10106 votes
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    #15 - Honey, I Shrunk Laverne

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1990

    Laverne quits when Harry complains that she is making too many office decisions without him. Carol talks Barbara into letting her join her poker game.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Way We Are
    7.5/10102 votes
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    #16 - The Way We Are

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1991

    Harry looks forward to a visit from a childhood sweetheart, until a childhood rival also resurfaces. Charley wonders what FICA is when the company starts taking part of his paycheck.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • Almost Like Being in Love
    7.5/10105 votes
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    #17 - Almost Like Being in Love

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1991

    Harry's lust for his girlfriend sparks marital thoughts.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A

  • Timing is Everything
    7.5/10100 votes
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    #18 - Timing is Everything

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1992

    Harry attempts to start a relationship with an old friend. Carol tries to assemble exercise equipment she bought for Patrick, and when she can't do it she reluctantly calls on Charley for help.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: Cheryl Holliday

  • Diary of a Mad Housewife
    7.5/10103 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Mother Dearest
    7.5/10105 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Hog Heaven
    7.5/10100 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Lordy, Lordy, Landlordy
    7.5/10101 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Sayonara
    7.6/10102 votes
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    #23 - Sayonara

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1992

    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

  • Roots
    7.6/10102 votes
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    #24 - Roots

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/1992

    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

  • Take My Garage, Please
    7.6/10101 votes
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    #25 - Take My Garage, Please

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1992

    Carol begins dating Patrick, the Westons' sprinkler man. When his apartment is condemned, Carol persuades Harry to let Patrick move into the garage.

    Director: Steve Zuckerman

    Writer: N/A