7.4/1063 votes#1 - Safe at Home
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1990
After Larry buys an expensive stereo chair, their apartment is robbed along with the chair. So Larry buys a high-tech security system but takes all the responsibilities himself and won't share them with Balki.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: Barry O'Brien
6.7/1064 votes#2 - New Kid on the Block
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1990
Balki agrees to babysit their new neighbor's daughter Tess and lets her do whatever she wants. She ends up terrorizing the apartment which disturbs Larry who is trying to write a possible front-page story for a city council expose. She also disrupts the staff at the Chronicle.
Director: Greg Antonacci
Writer: N/A
7.6/1059 votes#3 - The Break Up
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1990
Jennifer was asked out on a date by an old boyfriend and checked with Larry first. But he agreed thinking that's what she wanted but she really wanted to know here their relationship is going. Confused, She breaks up with Larry who is too scared to tell her how he really feels but they eventually end up getting engaged.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1057 votes#4 - A Horse is a Horse
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1990
Larry and Balki buy a race horse and when they race him, he comes in last. They later discover that he has an incurable disease. But Balki takes the horse back to the apartment and tries a Myposian potion to cure him.
Director: Greg Antonacci
Writer: N/A
7.4/1063 votes#5 - Family Feud
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1990
A 500 year-old feud in the Bartokomous family is back when their rival Zolton Bauchelitis is coming to fight a duel with Balki. Larry gets caught up in it and must fight Zolton himself. However, they don't try and kill each other, the winner takes the loser's ears.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1061 votes#6 - Call Me Indestructible
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1990
Larry's fear of flying resurfaces when he interviews a pilot--who invites Larry to witness his aerial maneuvers firsthand.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1064 votes#7 - The Men Who Knew Too Much (1)
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1990
Larry is sent to Los Angeles to write an article about a soap opera star's wedding and Balki goes with him. While attempting to get a better story, they get chased by mobsters after they witness and video tape Marco Madison, a big time gangster, murder an undercover drug agent and Larry and Balki are prime suspects.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.5/1065 votes#8 - The Men Who Knew Too Much (2)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1990
Larry and Balki manage to play back the tape proving their innocence, but they have trouble getting the tape to the police after they are mugged and captured by Marco's men.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.4/1060 votes#9 - The Ring
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1990
Larry buys an engagement ring for Jennifer from a street hustler unaware that he sells phony diamonds. When he discovers that the ring is fake, Larry sells his car, buys a real diamond and tries to switch the rings before she gets it appraised the next day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1057 votes#10 - Black Widow
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1990
After doing some research, Larry finds evidence that Mary Anne is a serial killer but Jennifer is very skeptical since she's known her all her life. But Larry gets scared when Mary Anne is planning on taking Balki mountain climbing, and when Jennifer gets called into work, he thinks that Mary Anne killed her. It turns out to be a total misunderstanding.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1061 votes#11 - Sunshine Boys
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1990
Larry's popular high school rival Bunky McDermott comes to see him and invites him and Balki to a formal dinner party and make him a member of his popular club. Larry is so excited and lies to Bunky about going to the Caribbean but to convince him, Larry and Balki spend some time in a tanning bed and end up getting sunburned.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1056 votes#12 - Hocus Pocus
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/1990
When Balki practices his magic tricks for the Youth Center Show, Larry refuses to go because he's been having trouble finding a story for Mr. Wainwright. But after he finds out that Margaret Thatcher will be stopping by, he sees a great interview and decides to go.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10103 votes#13 - Finders Keepers
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1991
Balki finds a box with over $50,000 cash in it. Larry wants to keep it but Balki is insistent on finding the rightful owner, which won't be easy, especially with Mr. Gorpley scheming to get it anyway he can.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1059 votes#14 - Grandpa
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1991
Grandpa Appleton comes for a visit and is quite a surprise: He's 76 years old and is acting like a wild teenager, and has a much younger girlfriend. Larry thinks he should act more his age but Balki thinks that it's okay acting as young as he feels.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.5/1061 votes#15 - Little Apartment of Horrors
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1991
During the cold season, Larry has a bad cold, along with everyone else except Balki. So Balki's mama sent a plant that cures Larry and everyone else and Larry decides to grow it big to make money off it unaware that growing it big has wacky side effects.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1069 votes#16 - I Saw This on TV
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1991
Larry manages to get tickets to go to a Bulls game with Balki on the night that Larry promised to take Jennifer to the ballet. So Larry lied to Jennifer saying that he had to work. Balki tells him a story about an old Honeymooners rerun where we see Ralph (Larry) lying to Alice (Jennifer) about having to work late when he plans on going bowling with Norton (Balki) and Alice ends up finding out about it while she was with Trixie (Mary Anne). However Jennifer found out about the basketball game and Larry is in a heap of trouble.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1065 votes#17 - Speak Memory
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1991
Jennifer's mother comes to town and wants to meet Larry, and Jennifer doesn't think that her mother will approve of her marrying him. Later on, Larry falls down the stairs at the Chronicle and gets amnesia which last during the dinner where Larry meets Mrs. Lyons.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1057 votes#18 - Out of Sync
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1991
Balki is discovered by a music promoter and he offers him a record and video contract. So Larry convinces Balki to accept and he becomes the newest rap star after shooting a video called ""Fresh Young Balki B."" But after they watch it, they notice that a different voice was dubbed in and Balki quits.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.1/1054 votes#19 - See How They Run
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1991
Balki runs for student body president and lets Larry help and as usual, Larry goes completely over the top. The students however, don't like the idea of Balki's idea of reinstating the language requirement so Larry thinks Balki should lie in order to win but he won't.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1054 votes#20 - Climb Every Bilboard
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/15/1991
Larry suggests to Mr. Wainwright that a Chronicle employee stay on a billboard until the Bull' losing streak is over. Mr. Wainwright liked the idea and assigned Larry to find someone to do it. So he tricks Balki to do it but when Balki wants to get down, Larry kicks the ladder down and they both get stuck up there until the Bulls win.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1052 votes#21 - A Catered Affair
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1991
Balki's catering business really takes off when he is catering for Texans. At Larry's advice, Balki books another party on the same night unaware that Larry already booked another party without telling him. Even with Larry helping him in the kitchen, and Jennifer and Mary Anne serving, all three parties are too much for them to handle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1057 votes#22 - Duck Soup
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 4/5/1991
Larry is going duck hunting with Mr. Wainwright and Balki wants to go to get revenge on something that happened to him when he was a kid involving a duck. Larry lets him go when he sees what a great shot Balki is but it turns into a disaster when Balki will only let them kill one kind of ducks - pterodactyls.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1057 votes#23 - Great Balls of Fire
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/26/1991
Balki convinces Larry to become a volunteer fireman but after the fire chief wore him out, Larry refuses to go back to the fire station until he discovers that Jennifer gets really turned on by firemen. However, the only fire they get to fight is in the fire station.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.8/1053 votes#24 - See You in September
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 5/3/1991
Balki and Mary Anne expect Larry and Jennifer to set a wedding date but they're too scared. To help them, Balki gives them an official marriage test to see if they're right for each other but things don't go as expected. In the end they set the wedding for September regardless of what the test says.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Perfect Strangers Season 6
Every episode of Perfect Strangers Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Perfect Strangers Season 6!
The chronicles of the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Safe at Home" is the best rated episode of "Perfect Strangers" season 6. It scored 7.4/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Rich Correll and written by Barry O'Brien, it aired on 9/28/1990. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "New Kid on the Block".