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The Best Episodes of The Rich & The Ruthless

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The Rich and The Ruthless, the only black owned daytime drama, is operated by tight fisted, debonair, self-made, Augustus Barringer. When greedy studio executives tell him the show is getting booted off the sound

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #1 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    The Rich and the Ruthless owner, Augustus Barringer does whatever it takes to protect his soap opera before network executive steal it from him. With the R&R cast in turmoil over who will get cut and who won't, it's Lights, Camera, Calamity and Claws on the set.

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  2. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #2 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    The Rich and the Ruthless cast is furious that they are being kept in the dark and must shoot from the Barringer's Hollywood mansion indefinitely. Add to that threats of pay cuts. WHAT?! Jealousy and backbiting abound as Calysta deals with a fisky producer and takes the high road, supported by her non-nonsense, Grandma Jones, visiting from Mississippi.

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  3. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #3 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    Adopted daughter, Veronica Barringer, show runner of Rich and the Ruthless is on the war path. Calysta wants to do a remote R&R shoot in Montego Bay with Derrick. Competing actress, Emmy Abernathy, is having an affair with Randall Roberts, Alison's husband behind the scenes. Kitty gets bad news at brunch. Phillip is on the edge. Will he leap?

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  4. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #4 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    Randall and soap star wife, Alison scheme on how to make the Barringer's life hell. R&R's 8 year old matriarch gives advice to Calysta. Calysta and Derrick get in to a fight in hair and makeup room. Kitty confronts her husband, Augustus. Network executive, Edith Norman meets with Augustus and Randall and turns the business licensing screws tighter. Grandma Jones gets busy with an R&R soap star.

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  5. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #5 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    The Rich and the Ruthless has moved to Jamaica and is up and running, sort of. They recast Willie Turner's part with legendary Jamaican actor, Samuel Oliver. Calysta and Derrick make up. Calysta has a nightmare. Randall and network executive, Edith attempt to override Augustus and take control of the soap opera. Augustus feels the pressure and collapses on his yacht. A funeral follows.

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  6. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #6 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    The Rich and the Ruthless team rushes back to Hollywood for a funeral. Kitty hires her bad-boy son, Maximillion Max Barringer without consulting anyone, to work on the show. Kitty makes a comeback. A game changer is in store for at least one Barringer. Cliffhanger.

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  7. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    Max rehires a producer his father, Augustus fired. Kitty Barringer struggles to keep in step on the soap and at home. Siblings, Max and Veronica have secrets. Alison seeks advice from her pastor.

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  8. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #8 - Episode 2

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    Alison corners her pastor. Network executive, Larry Savenor and his mistress, work on another scheme to wrest The Rich and the Ruthless from the Barringers. Augustus Barringer gets an unwanted network exec visit on set. Augustus confronts his doctor. Max and sister, Veronica fight over the soap. Maeve, Alison and Emmy spill too much tea. Calysta has a meltdown on set.

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  9. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #9 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    Augustus and Kitty argue over his health and their son, Max's bad writing for the show. Actor, Phillip McQueen explodes on set with Calysta and Willie. Network executive, Larry Savenor and Augustus get in to a confrontation.

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  10. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #10 - Episode 4

    S2:E4

    Augustus worries about Max's sloppy writing and ratings. Veronica agrees. Grandma Jones checks on her soap star granddaughter, Calysta. Willie has a medical malfunction. Calysta hires a personal assistant. Calysta misses her man, Derrick. Kitty and Augustus try to wrangle an arranged marriage for their daughter, Veronica to a billionaire.

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  11. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #11 - Episode 5

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    80 year old Maeve is back on set on oxygen and whiskey, opposite Alison. Kitty visits an old flame for help. Willie gets more bad news. Network execs make Max an offer he may not refuse. Alison and Randall talk another wedding. Calysta and Derrick make love. Augustus and Calysta meet in secret.

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  12. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #12 - Episode 6

    S2:E6

    Alison and Randall celebrate their renewal vows with grumbling cast members looking for an escape. A party crasher breaks in with a gun holding everyone hostage. Emmy is a target. Derrick risks his life. Cory has different kind of emergency. Calysta grabs her personal assistant, Ivy, and leads her to safety but finds there may be more trouble ahead.

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  13. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #13 - Episode 1

    S3:E1

    Barringer Sound Stages are poppin after' hours with "bad boy" Max Barringer at the center, celebrating the wrap of his first adult movie. Augustus Barringer, his dad, shows up un expectedly. Mother, Kitty and Veronica have an emotional conversation over breakfast about Veronica's Bio-Parents. Augustus joins concern. R&R Studios hair and make-up room buzzes with excitement about the fan club cruise and gossip with Willie, Alison, Maeve, Emmy, Fern, and Phillip. Phillip, Willie, and Calysta are on set shooting a horror scene and are interrupted by Detectives played by Derrick and Kurt. Wardrobe mistress, Beth gripes at Calysta. Emmy commiserates over a credit card bill and blames Eva Langoria. She plots to rekindle flames with married R&R Producer Randall Roberts.

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  14. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #14 - Episode 2

    S3:E2

    Network head of Daytime, Edith Norman and Max tell Calysta her storyline will be including a grown daughter to Calysta's disappointment. Wardrobe mistress confronts Willie on set. Emmy corners Randall on set. Augustus chastises Fern for leaving the company to persue being a flight attendant.

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  15. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #15 - Episode 3

    S3:E3

    Dinner at the Barringer mansion with Augustus, Veronica, new boyfriend, Bobby Tramble, heir apparent to Trickter & Tramble detergent dynasty and Max. Excitement and problems unfold for the R&R fan club cruise. Bobby proposes to Veronica. Max tell his sister, she's moving too fast. An exhausted Kitty relaxes with hubby, Augustus, blabbing about her ballet routine for the fan club talent show on the yacht. She wastes no time contacting a wedding planner for her daughter and Bobby Tramble. Cory betrays Augustus Barringer and his art forgery business. Max throws shade on Veronica's engagement as she admires her 3-carat canary diamond ring. Disgusted, Alison finds her producer, husband konked out, hooked up to his sleep apnea machine. Calysta and Derrick share kisses over a romantic glass of wine as they prepare for the fan club cruise. A flirtatious Ivy interrupt the lovers. Derrick leaves. Ivy continues to taunt and blackmail Calysta.

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  16. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #16 - Episode 4

    S3:E4

    R&R Cast arrive to a marina parking lot on a busted school bus, pissed. Costume designer, Beth refuses to stay for the cruise and cusses them all out. Ivy and Randall announce she is joining the cast. The Barringer family wait on the yacht club deck for the fans and their R&R actors. Veronica is concerned her man, Bobby is late. Network execs, Larry Savenor and Edith Norman make a suprise appearance. Larger than life, Captain Tang introduces himself. R&R cast finally arrives on foot. Edith warns Max to get more Barringer SHARES of The Rich and the Ruthless or their deal is off. Ivy gives a fake speech of how much she admires Calysta. Augustus announces there was a mix up with the dates and most fans won't be coming. Tempers flare. Enter Grandma Jones and Gerty all the way from Mississippi, surprising Calysta and going on the cruise! Everyone boards the ship to begin the festivities - the show must go on!!!

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  17. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #17 - Episode 5

    S3:E5

    Alison wraps up the Q&A session. Willie & Phillip commiserate on deck about being under-rated as soap stars. Veronica Barringer still waits for her fiance Bobby Tramble to no avail. Kurt confronts her about her choice in men and asks why she seems ashamed of being a Latina. Ivy weasels her way in to Captain Tang's control room asking suspicious questions. Grandma Jones, BFF Gerty, Calysta, Derrick, Emmy and Kurt enjoy more sun & fun when Ivy steals the moment and eclipses Calysta's joy -- stealing more of her life and causing more drama. Bobby rushes in to Max's disappointment. R&R cast swim suit competition is on fire with the fans -- Grandma Jones and Gerty get carried away, while Kitty and Augustus make love in the afternoon, below deck. Kitty panics as she must prepare for the talent show. Later, Kurt confides in Derrick about high strung, Veronica slapping him, hard. Troublemaker, Emmy shows up, squeezing between the handsome duo, only to be caught by Calysta.

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  18. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 3 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #18 - Episode 6

    S3:E6

    Kitty struggles to pull herself together for the talent show. Kitty misses her cue. Emmy is next up with a sultry, torch song number she makes up as she goes along. Kurt is on stage pretending to be a ventriloquist. Kitty finally makes her way to the stage -- frozen with stage fright. Maeve closes the show, playing the sax. A scheming Max helps his mother, Kitty in to bed while manipulating her with more alcohol --getting her to sign over her shares to him. Augustus does not hold back this time and tells Calysta he wants her -- he's divorcing Kitty. Augustus and family return to the Barringer state room, to find Kitty passed out. The yacht shudders. Who survives this watery cliffhanger is anyone's guess -- but one thing is for sure, our The Rich and the Ruthless stars, the Barringer family and everyone on the fan club cruise, is in "Titanic" trouble! Only RR Season IV will reveal who makes it to shore safely.

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  19. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 4 Episode 1 - Episode 1
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    #19 - Episode 1

    S4:E1

    Long after the events of the cruise, the show gets creative in the face of a global pandemic, the Barringer estate becomes a bubble, and Veronica has a breakdown.

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  20. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 4 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #20 - Episode 2

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    Alison makes do while stranded on a deserted island, Bobby manipulates Veronica as she struggles with her mental health, and Max's grand plan hits some speed bumps.

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  21. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 4 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #21 - Episode 3

    S4:E3

    Emmy films a pandemic-style love scene, Willie works out a plan to come home and win a Sudsy, and Kitty does equine therapy at her rehab center.

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  22. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 4 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #22 - Episode 4

    S4:E4

    Alison makes a miraculous return, Ivy continues to stir up tension behind the scenes, and Kitty confronts Augustus about his plans.

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  23. The Rich & The Ruthless Season 4 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #23 - Episode 5

    S4:E5

    Bobby finally gets revenge on his father, Alison gets to know a new castmate, and the cancellation of the Sudsy Awards causes trouble.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "The Rich & The Ruthless". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/28/2017. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 2".