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The Best Episodes of Nurses Season 1

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Nurses is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 14, 1991, to May 7, 1994, created and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest, which itself was a

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Nurses Season 1 Episode 1 - Son of a Pilot
    7.6/10(17 votes)

    #1 - Son of a Pilot

    S1:E1

    The newest nurse, Julie, doesn't exactly inspire her co-workers with confidence. Meanwhile, Sandy is shocked to learn her ex-husband is planning to marry a very young patient.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Susan Harris

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  2. Nurses Season 1 Episode 2 - A Lesson in Life
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    #2 - A Lesson in Life

    S1:E2

    A patient helps Julie with her phobias; Laverne convinces Sandy to go on a date; Gina helps a patient reunite with his brother; and the doctors try to cure Greg's bad attitude.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Susan Beavers

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  3. Nurses Season 1 Episode 3 - This Joint is Jumpin'
    8.7/10(15 votes)

    #3 - This Joint is Jumpin'

    S1:E3

    A new doctor frames Greg for the theft of some missing drugs; Sandy gets made at a patient who is ignoring her mother; and Annie worries she may be pregnant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Nurses Season 1 Episode 4 - Coming to America
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Coming to America

    S1:E4

    Gina's father is coming to visit and worried that he might disapprove of her life alone, she tells him that she has a boyfriend. Little does she know that he excepts her to get married before he leaves the country.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Nurses Season 1 Episode 5 - Reversal of Grandpa
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Reversal of Grandpa

    S1:E5

    The staff take turns talking to an accident victim in hopes he will come out of his coma.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jane Milmore, Billy Van Zandt

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  6. Nurses Season 1 Episode 6 - Mother, Jugs, and Zach
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Mother, Jugs, and Zach

    S1:E6

    sandy must look after her ex-husband's new fiancée; Annie's son is getting into trouble at school; Gina sneaks a dog onto the floor to comfort a burn victim; and Julie helps a senile patient.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jane Milmore, Billy Van Zandt

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  7. Nurses Season 1 Episode 7 - Dead Nurse
    8.8/10(13 votes)

    #7 - Dead Nurse

    S1:E7

    Annie's boss tells her she has to drop her plans and cover a shift, so Annie tells her to drop dead -- and she does.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Susan Harris

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  8. Nurses Season 1 Episode 8 - Kind, Konsiderate Kare
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Kind, Konsiderate Kare

    S1:E8

    A high-ranking member of the Klu Klux Klan check into the hospital with a medical condition, then collapses in the hallway, leaving Annie to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him. Another patient is a sexist construction worker who sat on a nail gun – so the female staff finds a way to get even with his snide remarks. Greg is smitten with a lady patient he's seeing… until her husband shows up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Nurses Season 1 Episode 9 - Begone with the Wind
    9.4/10(19 votes)

    #9 - Begone with the Wind

    S1:E9

    Chaos breaks out in the hospital during a hurricane – the kitchen's flooded, the phones are out, and the roads are closed. So when Rose Nyland shows up to help, she's immediately stuck with Julie and the duo are assigned to gathering food from the patients – food that they later give to Laverne for the pediatrics ward. When the news arrives that the roof collapses in a burning building, Annie fears that her husband, a fireman, may have been killed. Sandy runs into a man with a broken leg, whom she dumped. Hank and Gina get trapped in an elevator and share a romantic moment. Two rival gangs start a knife-fight in front of the nurses' station (and threaten Rose) so it's Paco to the rescue.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Nurses Season 1 Episode 10 - An Intern-al Affair to Remember
    9.0/10(12 votes)

    #10 - An Intern-al Affair to Remember

    S1:E10

    Sandy must decide if she wants to move to Minnesota with her new boyfried; a patient confuses her medicine because she can't read; and Greg overacts in a training video.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Nurses Season 1 Episode 11 - Seize the Date
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Seize the Date

    S1:E11

    Hank's brother visits and falls in love with Gina; Julie makes friends with a selfish patient; and a hospital administrator tries to prove Dr. Riskin isn't billing poor patients for their tests.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Nurses Season 1 Episode 12 - Friends and Lovers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Friends and Lovers

    S1:E12

    Annie nearly died in a car accident, so she decides if anything ever happens to her and Fred, she's leaving the kids to Sandy. Sandy is initially taken with the idea… until Annie starts criticizing her habits and lifestyle. Meanwhile, Julie falls for a doctor who turns out to be an escaped mental patient. Greg announces that he has the ability to shapeshift.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Nurses Season 1 Episode 13 - Love, Death, and the Whole Damn Thing
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Love, Death, and the Whole Damn Thing

    S1:E13

    Julie's first lover, Peter, checks into 3 West, and the two immediately start catching up on old times, with Peter revealing all the women he's slept with. But when Dr. Risken arrives to break the news that Peter's indiscriminate bed-hopping has left him a brief time to live with AIDS, he's enraged and Julie's freaked out. Julie, deathly afraid of catching AIDS, first avoids him but later lets him know that he won't have be alone when he dies. Meanwhile, Annie's mother-in-law moves in with her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Susan Harris

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  14. Nurses Season 1 Episode 14 - No Hiding Place
    9.4/10(15 votes)

    #14 - No Hiding Place

    S1:E14

    A mentally unstable patient (Larry Linville) is told that he has to cut sulfites out of his diet, so he responds by taking the staff hostage at gunpoint... Which doesn't sit well with Sandy, who was supposed to be off on a big date.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Nurses Season 1 Episode 15 - Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow

    S1:E15

    Hank gets testy with everyone when he discovers a lump in his scrotum... and then accidentally announces his news over the P.A. Dr. Riskin takes Julie's advice and stands up to the medical director, who then quits leaving her to fill his position.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Nurses Season 1 Episode 16 - The Truth Shall Screw You Up
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Truth Shall Screw You Up

    S1:E16

    Sandy's mother arrives for a visit and immediately starts to complain; Gina is upset to learn Hank is dating other women.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Nurses Season 1 Episode 17 - Married to the Mop
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Married to the Mop

    S1:E17

    Paco becomes indebted to a mob boss; Gina tries to make Hank jealous by dating another man, unaware that he is gay.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Nurses Season 1 Episode 18 - Eat Something
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Eat Something

    S1:E18

    When a patient is killed by an ambulance, Annie begins to question her faith in God.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Nurses Season 1 Episode 19 - Catch a Fallen Star
    8.6/10(12 votes)

    #19 - Catch a Fallen Star

    S1:E19

    A former child star, Chet ""Poofie"" McGuire (Stephen Furst), comes to the hospital to research his new role for the sitcom ""Poofie McGuire, Nurse for Hire."" Greg's star-struck, but everyone else is annoyed – particularly Annie, who has to take Chet on rounds with her. But Chet's attitude changes when he witnesses the staff revive a dying man. Meanwhile, Julie goes on a ""holy quest"" to track down the brother of that dying man and Dr. Riskin fends off an obnoxious mother who's giving her son high blood-pressure.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Nurses Season 1 Episode 20 - Moon over Miami
    9.4/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Moon over Miami

    S1:E20

    The entire staff is pulled in to cover a double-shift during the full moon. Julie tells her co-workers about her grandmother's theory on the full moon – how it's a chance to make up for missed love opportunities. Sandy finds herself falling for Charlie Deitz. Paco decides that he's going to ask out Gina. Hank wants to ask out a slut… but he changes his tune when Gina attacks him and sticks her tongue down his throat in the elevator. A hernia-surgery patient makes repeated attempts at escaping; a former astronaut arrives with a bump on the head; and Blanche Devereaux tracks down Dr. Riskin because she can't get a man to bed her.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Nurses Season 1 Episode 21 - Rude Awakenings
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Rude Awakenings

    S1:E21

    When a patient comes out of a 38-year coma, Dr. Riskin shocks the staff by telling them she was once engaged to the man, and that they had a son.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Nurses Season 1 Episode 22 - The Ex-Factor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Ex-Factor

    S1:E22

    Gina realizes Hank is still carryin a torch for his ex-wife; Greg is trapped in the elevator with a cannibal.

    Director:Terry Hughes
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Son of a Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Nurses" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Susan Harris, it aired on 9/14/1991. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "A Lesson in Life".