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The Worst Episodes of Life Goes On

Every episode of Life Goes On ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Life Goes On!

Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Pets, Guys and Videotape" is the worst rated episode of "Life Goes On". It scored 5.6/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Mel Damski and written by N/A, it aired on 12/10/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Return of Uncle Richard".

  • Pets, Guys and Videotape
    5.6/1018 votes
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    #1 - Pets, Guys and Videotape

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1989

    Paige goes to work for a veteranarian who is very kind with suffering animals but kind of insufferable with humans. The vet is divorced and has a child. Meanwhile, Becca videotapes a hectic day in the life of her working mother.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: N/A

  • The Return of Uncle Richard
    5.6/1017 votes
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    #2 - The Return of Uncle Richard

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1990

    Drew's younger brother Richard, a lovable family black sheep, breezes in at a time when Corky is beginning to wonder who'll look after him when his parents die. Drew and Richard don't get along, but needless to say, the kids love him. The culmination of Drew's mending relationship with Richard comes when Libby and Drew entrust the care of Corky to Richard if something were to happen to them.

    Director: Kim Friedman

    Writer: N/A

  • Hearts and Flowers
    5.8/1013 votes
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    #3 - Hearts and Flowers

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1992

    Inspired by her grandparents' upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, Becca proposes to Jesse, and he agrees! But then they think twice. Part of the problem with Jesse and Becca is that one of the guys at the hospice is about to die from AIDS. This guy doesn't want to have any thing to do with his wife- doesn't want her to see him in the pain he's in, etc. Jesse does the same thing to Becca and breaks things off completely, saying she doesn't know what she's in for, and she should live a normal life. The man dies and Jesse talks to his wife, who makes him realize that maybe Becca can handle this. Becca is also worried about handling it, but Libby tells her about finding the strength to raise Corky. They get back together, but marriage is put off. Subplot: Kenny wants Paige to marry him, but Paige isn't so sure. What's more, a remark he makes about Corky ticks her off. Michael acts as psychiatric help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Love Letters
    5.9/1015 votes
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    #4 - Love Letters

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1992

    Becca and Co. find old World War II letters at the bookstore. (Martin, Smitrovich, and Burke read selected letters while they palyed, respectively, soldier's girlfriend working at a factory, a soldier working a machine gun in a trench, and another soldier reading a letter in a tent.) Eric gets cozy with Becca, and Jesse does the same with a woman from an art gallery named Jill. Becca returns the letters to the woman who wrote them. I think this is where Corky and Amanda got officially married.

    Director: Georg Fenady

    Writer: N/A

  • Call of the Wild
    6.0/1017 votes
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    #5 - Call of the Wild

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1989

    Drew works on a construction project at an Indian burial ground. A wolf who mysteriously gaurds the grounds saves Corky from Dobermans pursuing him in a nearby wooded area.

    Director: Georg Fenady

    Writer: N/A

  • Isn't It Romantic
    6.0/1015 votes
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    #6 - Isn't It Romantic

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1991

    Cupid is shooting arrows at almost everyone. First Hans gets a crush on a lady that delivers newspapers whose husband just died. Kent, Paige's motorcycle man returns and aings ""Wild Thing"" to her at the Grill and they get back together. Becca has to dissect a frog in biology and her partner is a boy named Matt. They have an up and down relationship but still end up together rather than as friends. Tyler catches them smooching in the hall and becomes jealous. He sneaks into Becca's room that night and proclaims his feelings to her only to find out that it is Zoe he is talking to...Becca is out with Matt. Jerry develops a crush on Gina and they go out on a date provided that only the human part of Jerry is allowed on the date and if Jerry shows up, the date is over.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Loaded Question
    6.0/1012 votes
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    #7 - Loaded Question

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1991

    The thatcher household is burglarized. Suspicions center on an Africa-American welder named Marquis ( another aquaintance of Paige's, he taught her how to weld.) Drew and Libby debate over whether having a gun is the best thing to do. Corky and Arnold are alone watching (what else, a cop show) when Corky hears sounds from outside. He gets the gun, goes outside in that sneaky cop fashion (emulating the show) and fires. Turns out Marquis was returning something, and the family realizes how much they overreacted.

    Director: David Carson

    Writer: N/A

  • Paige's Date
    6.1/1018 votes
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    #8 - Paige's Date

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1989

    Drew sets up Paige with a charmer whose head is in the clouds; unfortunately his sense of responsibility seems to be mired in quicksand.

    Director: Jerry Jameson

    Writer: N/A

  • Dueling Divas
    6.1/1012 votes
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    #9 - Dueling Divas

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1991

    Libby's vivacious cousin Gaby ( also played by Patti Lupone) breezes in from Sicily like a whirlwind, touching everyone's lives-and turning Libby green with envy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Paige's Mom
    6.2/1018 votes
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    #10 - Paige's Mom

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1989

    Paige's mom comes back. They have a great time, and make plans for a trip to New England. Paige's mom winds up living without Paige. A lot of flashbacks to when Paige's mom, an actress, originally left. Tearful ending with Paige calling Libby mom.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

  • Incident on Main
    6.2/1021 votes
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    #11 - Incident on Main

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1993

    Gay-bashing skinheads beat up Jesse outside the AIDS hospice. Becca gets his blood on her hands after the beating. She gets tested and comes up negative, but has to get tested again in six months. ( This loose end was left untied, but it is generally assumed that she stayed negative.) Jesse draws a sketch of one of the skinheads, which is displayed at Drew's restautrant. It is trashed by the skinheads after one of them sees it at the cashier. Jesse sees one of them in a lineup as well but cannot, perhaps out of fear, pick him out.

    Director: R. W. Goodwin

    Writer: N/A

  • Bedfellows
    6.2/1015 votes
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    #12 - Bedfellows

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/28/1993

    A fellow AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to live rather than give up and die. He holds game shows with the other patients, makes fun of the sugar-coated remarks doctors make every time a new patient comes in, and sings, too. Jesse objects to Becca's inclination not to go to Brown University, saying that he would be too much of a burden to her. Chester dies when he races Jesse on the hospital roof.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Wish
    6.2/1015 votes
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    #13 - Last Wish

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/7/1993

    Becca and Jesse go to see the ocean, after Jesse says that i's something that he wants to do. Jesse is not exactly on top of the world, however, as he is jealous of Ray, who has been seeing Becca lately. During an arguement, they flash back a few Glen Brook weeks ( not from old episodes, but stuff that would have occurred during the course of other episodes). Ray bought them the plane tickets that they needed to get there. This episode shows the development of the relationship between Ray and Becca.

    Director: Joe Pennella

    Writer: N/A

  • Arthur
    6.3/1015 votes
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    #14 - Arthur

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1991

    Corky befriends an older man with Down Syndrome who leads a kind of life that Corky would like to lead.

    Director: Michael Nankin

    Writer: N/A

  • Consenting Adults
    6.3/1012 votes
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    #15 - Consenting Adults

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1992

    Paige has a great heart-to-heart with Drew about her upcoming marriage with Kenny. Drew takes matters into his own hands and convinces Michael to get Paige. Then behind both their backs, he hires Michale's band to play at the wedding. Paige and Kenny break up at the altar; Paige runs off with Michael instead. Corky proposes to Amanda. Jesse leaves for Arizona with his mom, but later comes back, saying that Becca is his family now.

    Director: Michael Nankin

    Writer: N/A

  • Babes in the Woods
    6.3/1015 votes
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    #16 - Babes in the Woods

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1992

    Becca, Goodman, Ray Nelson Jr., Jesse and two other students from their English class go on a weekend camping trip, chaperones by Harris. Things get bad when Becca gets sprayed by a skunk, knocks over a kerosene lantern, starting a fire at the barn where they are staying, and worse when they find a note from Harris saying they must fend for themselves. And then it rains! Becca also learns that she tends to want to be in control to much: With Jesse and with Goodman ( she went behind her back to try and get Goodman into high school). Goodman does return to school at the end.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Choices
    6.3/1016 votes
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    #17 - Choices

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/1993

    Paige finds that she is carrying Michael's baby, and is at first delighted to know this. So's the whole family. But Michael comes back, and decides he does not want the baby. Paige is undecided on whether or not to abort, and Corky and Amanda want to adopt the baby. This all conviently ends with a miscarriage.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost Weekend
    6.3/1014 votes
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    #18 - Lost Weekend

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/1993

    In her quest to get Becca out of her shell, Goodman takes her and Jesse on a double date. But Jesse and Becca get pissed off as Goodman and her date, Norman Bates, get kinky at the table. Jesse and Becca decide to test the limits of their passions and try to have ""safe sex"". But their sleepover at his apartment is more like a slumber party, as Jesse keeps balking at going farther. Becca tells Drew and Libby about that night, that she slept in Jesse's arms, and they get pissed off. Drew tells Jesse that he's concerned the starcrossed couple will go too far. Subplots: Paige, not realizing how much of a need she has for Artie, becomes jealous of an acquaintance of his; Gradma Teresa stays over a night at the Thatchers' due to her husband breaking the furnace, then goes back because someone's gotta keep Granpa Sal's feet warm.

    Director: Lorenzo DeStefano

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Stand in Glen Brook
    6.4/1013 votes
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    #19 - Last Stand in Glen Brook

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1991

    Becca organizes a '60s-style protest in support of a record store owner (Quincy Jones) arrested for selling allegedly obscene material. She begins having nightmares of ""Thought Police"" (censorship cops) storming through Glenn Brook.

    Director: Larry Shaw

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wall
    6.4/1012 votes
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    #20 - The Wall

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1992

    It's just a graffiti-covered wall that the students are ordered to repaint, but it becomes a symbol of the future for Jesse, who's awaiting his medical test results. Meanwhile Corky feels that finders should be keepers when he finds an abandoned baby in the theatre.

    Director: Michael Lange

    Writer: N/A

  • Five to Midnight
    6.4/1018 votes
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    #21 - Five to Midnight

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/1993

    Jesse's insurance runs out, and he gets transferred to County Hospital (which is like being transferred to the Recieving Hospital in Detroit!)Becca goes with him. Jesse nearly dies of AIDS-related cardiac arrest, and doctors apply the ol' shock therapy at-you guessed it-five to midnight. Becca discovers a haunting self-portrait of Jesse's that he doesn't remember painting. Jesse has a dream where he and Becca plan on going to Paris, but the taxicab stops at the hospital with a tab of $11.55- another interpretation of 11:55.

    Director: Michael Nankin

    Writer: N/A

  • Save the Last Dance for Me
    6.5/1016 votes
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    #22 - Save the Last Dance for Me

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/15/1990

    Becca's aged dance teacher (Viveca Lindfors) must enter a nursing home.

    Director: Larry Shaw

    Writer: N/A

  • Libby's Sister
    6.5/1013 votes
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    #23 - Libby's Sister

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1990

    Tension between Becca and Drew isn't helped by the arrival of Libby's sister Gina (Mary Page Keller) and neice Zoe ( Leigh Ann Orsi).

    Director: Rick Rosenthal

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bigger Picture
    6.5/1013 votes
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    #24 - The Bigger Picture

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1991

    Gina despairs when nothing she does is right in the eye of her mother, and Corky despairs when his special-ed substitute suddenly takes leave.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghost of Grandpa Past
    6.5/1013 votes
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    #25 - Ghost of Grandpa Past

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1991

    Drew is having doubts about the restaurant and keeps having conversations with his Grandfather. I think in the end he decides on the new look for the restaurant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A