7.7/10126 votes#1 - The First Picture Show
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1999
Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Richard Whitley
7.8/10128 votes#2 - The Big Prank
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1999
The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Gregg Taylor
7.4/10127 votes#3 - Hustler's Apprentice
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1999
Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Katy Cooper, Ned Teitelbaum
7.6/10131 votes#4 - The Spy Who Came In from the Playground
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/1999
The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Michael L. Kramer
7.3/10128 votes#5 - Gus' Fortune
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/1999
The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Phil Walsh, Ron Birnbach
7.2/10125 votes#6 - Rumor Mill
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/1999
The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girl's bathroom.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: David Pitlik
6.9/10126 votes#7 - Recess is Cancelled
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 9/22/1999
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Jeff Haber
7.1/10122 votes#8 - Tattletale Heart
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 9/22/1999
The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.
Director: Brenda Piluso
Writer: Matt Rosenberg
7.0/10122 votes#9 - The Madness of King Bob
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 9/26/1999
King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Gregg Taylor
7.1/10125 votes#10 - Call Me Guy
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/1999
Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn't wear them. Too bad "Guy" can't see a thing.
Director: Brenda Piluso
Writer: Ford Riley
7.3/10122 votes#11 - Prickly is Leaving
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1999
Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle School. But the kids try to make him stay after they meet the new Principal Slicer.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Bart Jennett, Julie Ann Sipos
7.3/10125 votes#12 - Randall's Friends
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 10/3/1999
Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Milton Chassman
7.2/10126 votes#13 - The Biggest Trouble Ever
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 11/7/1999
The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Mark Drop, Steve Bannos, Phil Walsh
8.0/10128 votes#14 - The Rules
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 11/7/1999
The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Etan Cohen, Bart Jennett
7.2/10122 votes#15 - Gus and Misdemeanors
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 11/8/1999
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Holly Huckins
6.7/10123 votes#16 - A Science Fair to Remember
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 11/8/1999
Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis, Bart Jennett
7.3/10124 votes#17 - Mikey's Pants
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 11/14/1999
The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: Phil Walsh, Scott Redman
7.1/10129 votes#18 - Here Comes Mr. Perfect
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 11/14/1999
Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Phil Walsh, Ron Birnbach
7.2/10119 votes#19 - Good Luck Charm
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 11/19/1999
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: David Pitlik
6.9/10127 votes#20 - Diggers Split Up
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 11/19/1999
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Cary Okmin
7.7/10125 votes#21 - Schoolworld
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 11/21/1999
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Scott Shelley
7.2/10120 votes#22 - Bachelor Gus
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 11/21/1999
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis
7.7/10130 votes#23 - The Dude
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 11/28/1999
T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Richard Whitley
7.2/10119 votes#24 - Partners in Crime
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 11/28/1999
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Bart Jennett
7.3/10124 votes#25 - The Candidates
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 11/29/1999
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: Etan Cohen, Mark Drop
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The First Picture Show" is the best rated episode of "Recess" season 4. It scored 7.7/10 based on 126 votes. Directed by Chuck Sheetz and written by Richard Whitley, it aired on 9/12/1999. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Big Prank".