The Best Episodes Written By Jule Selbo

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - R&R

   S1:E194/12/1996

   The exhausted Wild Cards are granted R&R aboard the Bacchus, a pleasure ship where it's said anything can, and does, happen.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Be My Baby

   S1:E142/21/1991

   Barry tries to help a young woman. She found out about her husband's criminal life, and is trying to escape from him. She takes their daughter with her, but he wants them back.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Unpleasantville

   S7:E273/8/1999

   Kyle and Amanda are anxious to speed up the construction on their house, but learn that it will cost them. Amanda cannot afford to bring the apartment building up to code, so she decides to sell it. Kyle joins the construction crew for the house and offers to help Jane fix up the beach house. He helps her chase away a persistent but dorky neighbor. Dr. Shulman and the hospital's new corporate ownership try to stop Michael and Peter from treating uninsured patients. Jackie is assaulted by her boss. Dr. Shulman overhears Eve discussing her prison background with Jackie. She vows to use Eve's past to destroy Peter's reputation. Jackie holds Dr. Shulman at gunpoint, but Peter stops her from killing her. Jackie steals Dr. Shulman's car, then turns herself in, as she cannot handle life on the outside. Michael begins pursuing Megan. Lexi tries to goad Megan into popping the question to Ryan, but he beats her to the punch. He suddenly leaves town. Ryan goes to a boarding house in Poughkeepsie

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   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues

   S2:E53/13/1993

   While going to college and working in a speakeasy, Indy meets up jazz great Sidney Bechet who teaches him how to play the blues. Unfortunately, Indy also crosses paths with Al Capone and it's only with the assistance of his dorm roommate, Eliot Ness, that Indy is able to solve a vicious murder and prevent himself from ending up dead.

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   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - The Shrine

   S2:E172/9/1986

   A young woman, Christine, returns home to find her mother cold and distant, and living isolated from everyone else. The woman soon discovers that her mother has summoned up...Chrissie - Christine as a young girl, before she moved away and gained a life of her own. Christine soon finds there is no way she can compete with her mother's idealized image of herself.

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   4.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Grandma's Last Wish

   S1:E226/16/1985

   Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma sees to it that her self-centered family finds out what it's like to grow old.

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   4.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Mary, Mary

   S4:E210/4/1987

   A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.

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   4.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Love Hungry

   S4:E112/21/1988

   Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the "voices" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems and the next gift is a pair of glasses that let her "see" her food as well...

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   4.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Deliver Us from Goodness

   S3:E1011/30/1986

   Valeria is a saint - literally - and finds it more then she can bear. She seeks out a way to fall from Grace but is unable to do so no matter how hard she tries.

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    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Barter

    S4:E197/17/1988

    A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia-seeking alien. Spoofs the I Love Lucy television series.

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    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Bitterest Pill

    S3:E310/12/1986

    A boy treated poorly by his parents gets the upper hand when an eccentric uncle shows up and tries to convince the parents to finance him to develop his newest invention - a pill that increases brain power and memory. He has a stroke and dies but not before the boy swallows the one and only prototype, and soon puts his parents into the same position he was before.

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    2.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Comet Watch

    S2:E131/12/1986

    Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Hailey's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Hailey himself arrives - he's been riding "his" comet all these years trying to elude Sarah, the woman pursuing him out of obsessed love.

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    2.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - I Can't Help Saying Goodbye

    S3:E210/5/1986

    A young girl develops a talent for seeing the fate of those about to die and develops the habit of saying "Goodbye" to them when she does, and her family grows increasingly upset as a result.

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    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The False Prophet

    S1:E238/4/1985

    Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace X. "Horace" is uncanny with his predictions but Cassie soon finds that Horace is demanding and possessive - despite her misgivings she enters the booth one more time...and disappears.

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