The Worst Episodes of ER
Every episode of ER ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of ER!
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "ER" is "Cañon City", rated 7/10 from 364 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Cañon City" aired on 9/22/2005 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Owner of a Broken Heart".
7.0/10 364 votes#1 - Cañon City
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2005
Sam and Luka go on the search for her runaway son, Alex. Meanwhile, Pratt and Lewis guide Abby, Neela and Ray, who have become R2's, on how to teach the new interns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 303 votes
#2 - Owner of a Broken Heart
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/2008
Pratt and a new doctor on the scene disagree on how to teach the interns. Gates treats a young woman with serious heart problems. Abby heads to Croatia, and ponders whether and how to tell Luka about her unfortunate choices. Sam discovers that Julia has moved on in more ways than one.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 341 votes#3 - Reason to Believe
Season 13 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2006
A mysterious illness leaves little hope when a group of homeless kids enter the ER and one of them believes that Neela is a guardian angel in blue; Abby and Kovac clash over a possible case of domestic abuse; Pratt makes a shocking discovery about his brother, and Weaver is unexpectedly called into action when her television appearance becomes a real emergency.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 314 votes#4 - Atonement
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2008
Neela's short visit in Ortho turns into a game of hockey. Bettina wants to take her relationship with Pratt to the next level, but Pratt is not keen on the idea. Gates and Sam disagree over a patient. Julia provides some spiritual guidance in order to ease a prison doctor's bad conscience.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 332 votes#5 - Darfur
Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2006
In the Sudan, Carter and a colleague struggle to save a woman who was raped by a band of militants. Back in the ER, Clemente asks to return to work after the shooting incident, but Kovac refuses. Meanwhile, Neela and Pratt have a work dispute, and, in a related incident, K.J.'s father shows up again in the ER.
Director: N/A
Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois
- 7.3/10 314 votes
#6 - Crisis of Conscience
Season 13 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/2007
Kovac and Gates find themselves with a moral dilemma when a woman comes into the ER with acute liver failure; Neela finds herself questioning what is right when Manish decides to give up a kidney to a complete stranger. Meanwhile, Ray fights to get to the bottom of a cheerleaders accidental fall; Abby gets a prediction for her future; and Alex's troubles continue to intrude on Sam's work life.
Director: Steve Shill
Writer: Lisa Zwerling
- 7.3/10 310 votes
#7 - The Test
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2007
Morris and Pratt cram for their medical boards when Morretti brings in a new attending physician to help with the load. Sam and Abby work on an attention-hungry patient who comes into the ER with elusive symptoms.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 294 votes
#8 - Coming Home
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2007
Everyone at the ER is happily surprised to see Luka back from Croatia. Great news awaits Neela. Sarah once again needs rescuing by Tony, and patients are causing problems for Morris.
Director: Laura Innes
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 302 votes
#9 - Skye's the Limit
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2007
It's time for changes at the ER when Anspaugh makes an unpopular decision. Abby has old demons to fight with, which distance her from friends and family. Even Luka seems to be at a loss to help Abby. Love is in the air when a secret romance blooms between two doctors.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 282 votes#10 - ...As the Day She Was Born
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/2008
Neela, worn out after being on shift for over 24 hours, has to make a quick decision regarding an accident victim's torn aorta. Sarah's grandparents are in town, and Hank is rushed to the ER after collapsing during an outing. Gates tries to convey to Sam that his feelings for her are serious.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 284 votes
#11 - Truth Will Out
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/2008
Kovac is in Chicago looking for hospice-care work. Neela's aorta surgery has caused an infection in her patient. Abby treats a teen who has been beaten up. Brenner continues to cause problems for the ER staff.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 291 votes#12 - Separation Anxiety
Season 15 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2009
Alex is set to be released from the hospital. Doctors treat African-American brothers Curtis Bennet, 17, who has abdominal pain and 10-year-old Quincy Bennet who has a knee injury. Both were injured during a drug deal that went terribly wrong. There's still some residual tension between Gates and Sam. A female patient in police custody doesn't want to be examed by Morris. A 13-year-old patient named Anastasia messes with Neela's love life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 335 votes#13 - No Strings Attached
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2003
Abby's troubled brother is missing. A car runs into a crowd of teen girls. The alderman with syphilis gives Dr. Weaver a promotion. Dr. Lewis looks forward to a blind date.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan, Peggy Rajski
Writer: Bruce Miller
7.4/10 340 votes#14 - An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2004
Neela starts a new job in the emergency room after working at the convenience store near the hospital. On Neela's first day, Pratt expects the interns, Abby, Ray and Neela, to take on a large patient load during their shifts. Pratt turns processing the patients into a competition, in which Ray is clearly going to be the winner.
Director: Arthur Albert
Writer: Lisa Zwerling
7.4/10 649 votes#15 - Man with No Name
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2005
Luka has a very bad day: New nurse manager Eve Peyton notices he doesn't want to work with Sam and tells him so. At the end of the day he's drunk and Abby takes him home.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 347 votes#16 - Dream House
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2005
Pratt's half-brother tries to get him to make ends meet with his estranged father. Clemente treats an infant chimpanzee and involves Abby and Neela on the secret case. Eve promotes Sam and her first tasks is to fire a beloved nurse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 339 votes#17 - If Not Now
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2006
Neela treats a religious teenage girl who turns out to be pregnant. Abby and Kovac struggle to figure out what to do with her unexpected pregnancy.
Director: John Gallagher
Writer: David Zabel
7.4/10 308 votes#18 - Out on a Limb
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 3/16/2006
When is it time to go out on a limb? Armand Assante guest stars as a patient who makes Sam an offer she might not be able to refuse. Luka must calm Abby’s baby-related fears after an incident at the hospital places everyone at risk. Kerry makes a difficult choice, and Neela joins a support group.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Karen Maser
7.4/10 340 votes#19 - Somebody To Love
Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2006
Gates is assigned to the case of a closeted gay man whose partner clashes with his family; Neela meets her new surgical chief, Dr. Crenshaw; and Pratt must cope with the flood of new interns.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: David Zabel
7.4/10 319 votes#20 - Parenthood
Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2006
Abby and Kovac discover both the joys and difficulties of raising a newborn; Morris is wrongfully accused of being a child molester; Pratt has his trial-by-fire when he has to handle the ER alone, juggling multiple traumas, teaching duties and a troublesome intern. Neela continues to be the target of her difficult supervisor, and Sam discovers her sons latest extra-curricular activity.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
- 7.4/10 305 votes
#21 - From Here to Paternity
Season 13 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/2007
A blizzard strands a family in the snow and Abby and Pratt quickly try to save the family. A gang shooting challenges Morris and Pratt. Meanwhile, Kovac and Abby begin making wedding plans, but their engagement might not be very secret; Gates struggles with the reappearance of his father and the possibility of losing Sarah; and Neela becomes jealous when Dubenko brings in a new surgical intern.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Virgil Williams
- 7.4/10 317 votes
#22 - In a Different Light
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2007
Moretti begins to make his presence felt, as he implements changes in the way patients are seen. The ER staff differ on how procedure when a patient comes in with a bullet in him needed as evidence. Neela finds herself the object of more attention that she wants, or needs. Abby had passport woes, and struggles with the changes being made. Pratt and Morris find themselves forced to defend their actions, Hope prepares for a new mission, and Gates finds himself labeled the reject in his new assignment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 296 votes
#23 - Under the Influence
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2007
Moretti reassigns Gates back to the ER and treats a couple involved in a car accident. Morris prepares to take his written board exams. Neela is assigned a young genius intern. Kovac plans to extend his stay in Croatia while Abby struggles with single parenthood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 286 votes
#24 - Believe the Unseen
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2008
Abby is back from rehab and finds herself the object of scrutiny. She confesses to Pratt that Luka might stay in Croatia longer than planned. Harold seems to have won over Neela's cousin. Multiple victims from a fire fill the ER.
Director: Rob Hardy
Writer: Virgil Williams
7.4/10 397 votes#25 - Oh, Brother
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2008
Dr. Banfield is irritated when Morris takes Chaz under his wing and teaches him risky medical procedures; Neela is unhappy when Dr. Banfield undermines her authority with an intern.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A