The Best Episodes Written By Erik Richter
Every TV Episode Written by Erik Richter Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Erik Richter Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Erik Richter is "Pilot", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull". "Pilot" aired on 4/5/2021 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Free Magilla".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2021
30-something Judy Ken Sebben inherits her father's company, which would be great if that company weren't built around the most socially irresponsible 20th Century products and practices.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#2 - Free Magilla
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/11/2005
Animal Rights activists break into Peebles' store to free Magilla and later sue him as well. Phil, Potamus and his nephews go on a fishing trip.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#3 - Mindless
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/2005
Mentok loses Spyro's mind after a mind-swap, and must watch over Spyro's body during his date. Harvey brings Top Cat home, who gets Harvey implicated in gambling schemes.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Sebben and Sebben Employee Orientation
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 10/16/2005
An insight look into working at Sebben and Sebben.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - Incredible Hippo
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2006
Peter Potamus consumes radioactive pellets that transform him into "the creature," turning him green and tripling his waist size. Meanwhile, Atom Ant is charged with having high radiations levels in his home.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#6 - Babysitter
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2006
Peter Potamus takes over Sebben & Sebben in Phil's absence. Reducto babysits Peanut on his birthday. Birdgirl/Judy is searching for her father Phil. Birdman goes to his highschool reunion.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#7 - Birdnapped
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2006
Harvey decides to temporarily run the law firm, which leads to a full scale revolt, naturally. Armed with standard office supplies like staplers, manila envelopes and an occasional hand grenade, Sebben & Sebben employees form a massive uprising. Meanwhile, X, distraught over being ignored by Harvey, kidnaps Birdgirl to capture his attention - and his dinner plans.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - The Death of Harvey Birdman
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/22/2007
Harvey is upset when he must redo all of his cases. He soon realizes he has a much bigger problem to deal with, and he'll need Peanut and Judy's help.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.2/10 4 votes#9 - LGBSteve
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2015
Hayley is dying to be on a roller derby team, but they only will let her play if her 'sister' Steve gets to play. Meanwhile, a magical carpenter visits Stan and Francine, and Roger runs the roller rink.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - The Devlin Made Me Do It
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2004
Washed up motorcycle stuntman Ernie Devlin is sued when a kid injures himself trying to imitate his deep ravine jump. Harvey's legal strategy -- to attack the fractured, wheelchair bound child on the witness stand -- backfires. Pill-addled Devlin is a less than sympathetic defendant, so Harvey must scramble to salvage the case. Meanwhile, Avenger seems to have laid an egg.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - SPF
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/9/2004
After years of getting his powers from the sun, Harvey notices a suspicious spot on his skin. When his dermatoligist insists he stay out of the sun and use sunblock, the now droopy Birdman turns to a self-tanning cream for a pick me up. It isn't long before he's addicted to the stuff, using more and more to stay awake. All the while, he attempts to help out Ding-A-Ling in his case against the porn industry.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Droopy Botox
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 7/18/2004
After winning a case against a deformed Droopy, Birdman finds himself in much success at the office. But is conflicted over the nature in which he won, and tries to set things right in his life.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#13 - Guitar Control
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/2/2004
When Quick Draw McGraw pulls out his trusty six-string in an attempt to put the El Kabong kibosh on the Dalton Gang, he gets hauled off to the hoosegow. So he turns to noted constitutional law expert Harvey Birdman to defend his right to keep and bear guitars. Meanwhile, Harvey's boss, Phil Ken Sebben, takes $12 billion from the powerful guitar lobby to fund his presidential campaign. Not that that would make him beholden to them. And Peanut and Baba Looey get into trouble when they get their hands on Quick Draw's private guitar arsenal.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - Harvey's Civvy
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2005
Murro the Maurader sues Harvey for injuries suffered in 1967. Murro's lawyer, the psychically bombastic Shado the Brain Thief, not only litigates Murro's case, but he introduces a class action lawsuit as well. Harvey begs Potamus to take the case and the hippo litigates on Harvey's behalf.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - X Gets The Crest
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2005
After 30 years of failed attempts, X the Eliminator acquires the crest on Birdman's helmet. Convinced that he's powerless without his crest, Harvey falls apart, stops shaving and loses a case defending Ricochet Rabbit from charges of wanton and willful destruction. X, on the other hand, turns his life around. He starts fighting for the cause of all that is good, winds up in newspaper headlines and on afternoon talk shows. With X hanging around with rock stars, Harvey running around in his skivvies plotting revenge and Ricochet on psychotropic drugs, things look pretty bleak.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 2 votes#16 - Bird Girl of Guantanamole
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2005
Phil brings his daughter to work and Birdgirl is desperate to be part of the Birdteam. She sets out to prove her superhero and litigating and superhero litigating skills. She also arrives just in time to help Harvey defend Morocco Mole on charges of being an enemy combatant. Phil has the hots for Birdgirl.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#17 - Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/28/2005
When the whirlpool in Potamus' office sucks them back into pre-history, Harvey, Potamus, Peanut and Phil must find their way back to the office. Or rather, Harvey needs to find his way back, as the rest want to stay.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Return of Birdgirl
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/2005
Bird Girl returns.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#19 - Identity Theft
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 10/23/2005
Harvey runs into an old nemesis, The Deadly Duplicator, who unintentionally creates an army of Harveys.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - Mufti Trouble
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2006
Avenger inexplicably starts talking. Peanut discovers a vase that, when rubbed, releases Shazzan, now in servitude to Peanut. Shazzan accuses Mentok of having imprisoned him in the vase centuries ago for gazing on the king's intended. Mentok was a genie called Mufti the Mizwa of Muzzy Tah in those days, one of several identities he has had over the years. Shazzan insists on Peanut representing him, and Mentok, after he is captured, manipulates Harvey into representing him. Mentok insists that Shazzan is attempting to frame him, and escapes from court to retrieve the halves of a magic disk that, when put back together and the magic word thus revealed is spoken (by Avenger), imprisons Shazzan in the vase again.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#21 - Grodin
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2006
X attempts to take charge of his life and transform into his best evil self, hiring Perfectionist the Life Coach to help him to become more evil in just 4 easy steps. Meanwhile, Devlin blazes in on his hog, forcing Harvey to defend him (again). This time, a kid sues him for being injured from one of Devlin's toys.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
7.0/10 1 votes#22 - Harvey Birdman, Juror In Court
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/15/2007
Harvey suffers a mental breakdown in court, leading to the loss of a juror. At the same time, he's summoned to serve as a juror. On the same trial. But problem solved when Duplicator creates a 2nd Harvey to perform his civic duty. Can two Harveys win over a jury, when it's relatively clear that just one Harvey who tries really, really hard barely makes any substantial impact whatsoever? Meanwhile, Potamus claims sexual harassment at the hands of Judy Ken Sebben. Emotionally scarred, he finds comfort in support groups and hot interns.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
6.5/10 8 votes#23 - A Boy Named Michael
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2014
Greg and Terry decide to adopt a 10-year-old Russian boy named Michael. At a party celebrating the decision, Roger is jealous of Greg and Terry's fabulous lifestyle of culture and sophistication. Roger rejects the Smith family as trashy and impersonates Michael, successfully integrating into his new home.
Director: Joe Daniello
Writer: Erik Richter
6.5/10 2 votes#24 - Evolutionary War
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/4/2005
When Cavey Jr.'s school refuses to teach evolution, Captain Caveman turns to Harvey to defend the hairy little boy's right to an education. Harvey does not only have to prove evolution but also explain the existence of a talking caveboy. As if that's not enough, Harvey also suffers his latest existential crisis at the hands of Reducto.
Director: Richard Ferguson-Hull
Writer: Erik Richter
6.0/10 1 votes#25 - Shaggy Busted
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/2002
Shaggy and Scooby are being held on possession. Harvey defends the two in an entirely circumstantial case brought against them by Spyro.
Director: Vincent Waller
Writer: Erik Richter