The Best Episodes Written By Lydia Woodward
Every TV Episode Written by Lydia Woodward Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Lydia Woodward Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Lydia Woodward is "Getting to Know You", rated 8.7/10 from 6 user votes. It was "directed by Jonathan Kaplan". "Getting to Know You" aired on 5/20/1999 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Leave It to Weaver".
8.7/10 6 votes#1 - Getting to Know You
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1999
Carol's pregnancy becomes public knowledge as she learns that she's having twins. Lucy has problems trying to go off Ritalin. Peter learns Carla plans to move to Germany. Kerry finds an abandoned youngster and brings him to the ER. Mark and Elizabeth discuss their relationship. Jeanie and Reggie draw closer again.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.6/10 7 votes#2 - Leave It to Weaver
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1999
When Anspaugh decides to retire as chief of staff and return to surgery, he appoints Romano as his replacement. Greene expresses reservations about the decision, but Weaver does not support Greene. Romano makes Weaver the new chief of emergency medicine.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.5/10 8 votes#3 - Happy New Year
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1995
Carter fumbles his way through his first look at surgery. Dr. Lewis' nemesis, Dr. Kayson, makes her New Year's Day decidedly unpleasant. Chloe announces she's moving to Texas with her boyfriend.
Director: Charles Haid
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.4/10 5 votes#4 - A Hole in the Heart
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/1998
Ross and Hathaway's jobs are in jeopardy after their unauthorized treatment of a drug-addicted 7-month-old boy is discovered. Corday loses her sponsorship. Carter suspects Del Amico's boyfriend when drugs are stolen.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.3/10 6 votes#5 - Make of Two Hearts
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1995
Carol worries about a Russian girl with AIDS who's brought in and then abandoned by her foster mother. Kayson asks Susan to be his Valentine. Deb accidentally consumes LSD-laced chocolates.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.3/10 6 votes#6 - The Birthday Party
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1995
Dr. Hicks berates Benton when he tries to switch shifts to attend his mother's birthday party. A teenage girl, a frequent patient of the ER, is brought in for a drug overdose. Carol decides she wants to adopt Tatiana while Tag isn't so sure. Dr. Ross slugs an abusive father in the lobby. Jen accepts a job offer in Milwaukee despite Mark's offer from Morganstern. Deb and Carter await the arrival of sub-internship applications.
Director: Elodie Keene
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.3/10 7 votes#7 - Be Still My Heart
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2000
Dr. Greene and Corday bond with their parents, Lucy cares for a patient with a psychotic break, and Valentine's Day celebrations in the ER end tragically for one of the students.
Director: Laura Innes
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/10 5 votes#8 - Summer Run
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1995
Kerry Weaver manages to offend just about everyone in her first day as chief resident. Carol goes on a ride-along with paramedics Shep and Raul, sharing a ferris wheel ride with Shep. Peter and Jeanie's secret relationship comes to a head. Susan is stuck caring for Little Susie while Chloe attends school. Dr. Ross has his hands full with a young pyromaniac. Carter shows interest in med student Harper Tracy.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/10 5 votes#9 - Days Like This
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1995
Speculation runs through the ER, on a very hectic day, about Randi's possible criminal history. Mark faces an ethical dilemma when he has to decide whether to report yet another of Doug Ross's indiscretions--Doug slept with med student Harper Tracy. Carter becomes upset when Harper confesses this to him. Carol meets with a mobile notary to finish the paperwork to purchase a house. Bernstein informs Doug that he need to look for other employment. Benton is visibly upset when Jeanie begins work in the ER as a physician's assistant.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/10 5 votes#10 - Make a Wish
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1997
It's Carol's birthday, Mark is returning to work after being assaulted and Carla goes into premature labor.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/10 5 votes#11 - Choosing Joi
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1999
Ricky Abbott returns to the ER. Doug forges papers to allow Joi to treat Ricky at home. Corday decides to back out of the Romano sexual harassment investigation after he threatens to expose her relationship with Benton. Romano is later named Acting Chief of the ER. Dr. Greene treats a Nigerian janitor for back pain and impotency. Carol and the nurses watch a bunch of dogs when their owner is hospitalized. Carter diagnoses a med student with Hodgkin's disease. Kerry initiates a search for her biological parents.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/10 5 votes#12 - Ruby Redux
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2005
Jules 'Ruby' Rubadoux is back in the ER. He's still angry with Carter about the death of his wife.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 5 votes#13 - Let the Games Begin
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1996
While the whole staff is worried the ER might close, Jeanie has her own problems in dealing with being HIV-positive.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 7 votes#14 - The Long Way Around
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1997
Nurse Carol Hathaway is held hostage during a convenience store robbery, then befriends one of the gunmen.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 5 votes#15 - Something New
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1997
Carter is exited about getting his own med student and Mark and Carol interview candidates for the desk clerk position.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 5 votes#16 - Day for Knight
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1998
Third-year med student Lucy Knight reports to the ER for the first day of her rotation. Greene takes a teacherly interest in her, helping her get acquainted, but she gets off to a bad start with the irritable Carter when she speaks insensitively, and without Carter present, with a patient's wife about her husband's very serious condition. The rest of the day finds her comforting a woman who has suffered a miscarriage, getting locked out on the roof, having Carol bail her out on a simple procedure, and trying to figure out Kerry Weaver's "Tour on Tape."
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 5 votes#17 - Good Luck, Ruth Johnson
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1998
Carter plays tour guide for Ruth Johnson, who was born in the hospital 100 years ago to the day, and her large family. Carol treats a boy who was hit by a car and tells a story of being chased, his friend being shot in the process. Peter observes Kotlowitz install a cochlear implant and decides to wait before scheduling an operation for Reese. Mark dines with Dr. Lee, new ER chief. Dr. Corday proposes radical changes in scheduling at an M&M conference, and later decides to break off her relationship with Benton.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.0/10 4 votes#18 - One Coin in a Fountain
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2011
The Pan Am crew rolls the dice in more ways than one in glamorous Monte Carlo: Kate and Maggie square off for the attentions of a handsome passenger, but things get more complicated when Kate learns the sexy stranger is involved in her next covert mission; and Dean gambles with his career when an attractive, wealthy woman on the flight tempts him -- and he later discovers who her flying companion is.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.8/10 5 votes#19 - The Right Thing
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1996
Benton decides to blow the whistle on Vucelich's unethical study methods, causing Vucelich to drop him from the study. Susan treats a street couple, one of whom has passed HIV to the other. Doug receives a visit from his estranged father. Carter spreads rumors about an affair between Mark and Susan. Mark buys a motorcycle. Prostitute Loretta has cervical cancer.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.8/10 6 votes#20 - Take These Broken Wings
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1996
Susan visits a psychiatrist to cope with the loss of Little Susie. Jeanie's estranged husband Al checks in the ER complaining of flu-like symptoms, which turn out to be caused by HIV. Shep expects Carol to back his version of events during an official investigation of his behavior. Loretta takes a turn for the worse. Doug discovers that his father has disappeared with a LOT of Karen's money.
Director: Anthony Edwards
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.8/10 5 votes#21 - The Fastest Year
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2000
Carter seeks psychiatric help because he can't sleep. He then visits the wife of his attacker. Weaver returns to work after her suspension. Hathaway and Kovac share a kiss.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.6/10 8 votes#22 - Motherhood
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1995
Susan is forced into the role of parent when Chloe gives birth and both Chloe and her mother, Cookie, shirk responsibility. Doug is surprised and a bit frightened when Diane suggests they move in together. Unfortunately, Linda Farrell happens to be around to take advantage of his nervousness. Carter is offered the ER sub-I but turns it down in anticipation of receiving a surgical position. Peter receives unpleasant news; his mother has died.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.6/10 5 votes#23 - No Place to Hide
Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2006
Pratt departs for Africa with attitude to spare but makes his first contact with harsh reality before the plane lands. Abby senses something is not what is seems when she treats a 12-year-old and her grandmother, then differs with Luka over the best course of action. A prisoner is brought to the ER with what everyone thinks is a fake case of appendicitis. Morris is dressed, and ready, to impress, but Albright’s not. It’s time for Kerry to return to work and Clemente doesn’t know when it’s time to leave.
Director: Skipp Sudduth
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.5/10 4 votes#24 - White Guy, Dark Hair
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2004
A rape victim, barely able to speak, does all she can to help police find her attacker.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.5/10 4 votes#25 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2011
Ted asks Laura to help him make a woman from his past jealous; a dangerous mission puts Kate and Anderson in jeopardy; Maggie clashes with a congressman; Colette meets Dean's parents.
Director: John Fortenberry
Writer: Lydia Woodward