8.5/1011 votes#1 - Stairway to Heaven
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2009
Bailey grows desperate as a patient's condition becomes more and more dire. Everyone in the hospital is stepping up to try to find the boy a new organ donor, including Meredith, who considers a death row patient's wish to die before execution. Meanwhile, an injury leaves Mark in a compromising position in the OR and Cristina awkwardly avoids Owen.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Mark Wilding
8.4/108 votes#2 - 17 Seconds
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2006
George and Derek work together, Denny still doesn't have a heart, and Meredith gets paired with Callie. A 12-week pregnant girl dies in the O.R. and her parents try to keep the baby alive. This causes tension between Derek and Addison. One doctor's overreaction unites two bickering patients. Finn is still treating Doc for medical problems.
Director: Daniel Minahan
Writer: Mark Wilding
8.0/101 votes#3 - Heart Breaker
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2001
Everyone makes fun of John when he starts dating an attractive 27-year-old lawyer (Angela Shelton) and even he begins to wonder if everything is fine after he experiences chest pains when the subject of sex comes up.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.9/1010 votes#4 - Owner of a Lonely Heart
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/2005
Cristina Yang has little sympathy for Constance Ferguson (special guest star Rosanna Arquette), a prison inmate who jeopardizes her health just to get out of solitary confinement. Meanwhile the interns all keep careful watch on the family of premature quintuplets with a variety of serious health challenges, Izzie's anger at Alex reaches boiling point, and Dr. Addison Shepherd decides to teach Izzie a very painful lesson.
Director: Daniel Minahan
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.8/108 votes#5 - Where the Boys Are
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2006
The men of Seattle Grace go on a camping trip together, Addison and Callie must team up to work on a patient, Meredith assists Sloan with a procedure unlike any she has experienced, and, suspicious of her recent actions at the hospital, Bailey confronts Cristina. A 9-year-old is seen by Cristina after he swallowed Monopoly game pieces. A pregnant 25-year-old, is brought in after she slipped in the shower. She doesn't want medicine to take away the pain from her injury so not to put her baby's growth in jeopardy. Doctors take care of Daniel, a man who wants a sexual reassignment surgery and who now goes under the name Donna. Accompanying Daniel is his wife of the past 10 years, who was surprised to see him want that surgery but, after much struggling, decided to stay by his side.
Director: Daniel Minahan
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.8/106 votes#6 - Migration
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/2012
The residents determine their future as they make their final decisions regarding post residency positions; Mark admits to Derek that he is torn between his love for Lexie and the fact that Julia can give him everything he's ever wanted; Ben plans something extra special for Bailey, but she is preoccupied with her work; and Arizona encourages her childhood friend, Nick, to have surgery. Meanwhile a couple on their third honeymoon come to the hospital complaining of mysterious symptoms.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.7/108 votes#7 - Life During Wartime
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2008
The chief gives Bailey new power and responsibility. He also gives her a very difficult surgical assignment: remove a girl's inoperable tumor. Meanwhile, new trauma chief Owen (Kevin McKidd) challenges the attendings' methods and the residents' skills.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.7/103 votes#8 - Dave
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2021
Phoebe inches closer to the trio's entire operation, which allows the Secret Service to make an interesting deal with Beth. Stan's boss forces dangerous errands. Ruby imagines a new life for them. Annie struggles with the possibility that her son no longer needs her.
Director: Michael Weaver
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.6/108 votes#9 - Desire
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/26/2007
The attendings vie to be Chief. Two people who haven't slept together before, will. McSteamy's 60-day vow of chastity has a conclusion. We meet a boss, his assistant, and his wife. We also get to see someone being treated in the clinic. Derek has more questions about his relationship with Meredith. The chairman of the hospital board is admitted as patient. Callie confronts Izzie about her relationship with George.
Director: Tom Verica
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.6/108 votes#10 - Let the Truth Sting
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2007
The doctors meet the world's oldest intern. Marcy brings in her son Henry because she finds his change in behavior suspicious. A patient named Connie may lose her vocal chords unless Mark and Richard can perform a radical new surgery. George impresses the other interns at work but at home he is trying to deal with his guilt about having sex with Izzie.
Director: Daniel Minahan
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.5/104 votes#11 - Cheaper by the Coven
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/2004
When Paige and Phoebe summon Grams for Chris's wiccaning, Grams puts a spell on the children to try to end their sibling rivalry, but instead it reverts the sisters back to bickering teenagers. Meanwhile Phoebe, still acting like a teenager, attends an award ceremony with Les, and Leo consults a demonic seer to find out who is behind the attack on Wyatt.
Director: Derek Johansen
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.3/1010 votes#12 - Forever Young
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2007
There has been a bus crash and the patients are in the ER. Meredith and Derek's relationship gets more complicated when he dates a fellow doctor. Meredith's dad goes to visit her at the hospital.
Director: Tom Verica
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/104 votes#13 - Witches in Tights
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/2002
When a demon coerces a boy into turning him into an evil comic book villain so he can steal an Elder's powers, the boy transforms The Charmed Ones into comic book heroes with superhuman strengths to prevent this from happening.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/103 votes#14 - Ordinary Witches
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2005
When Piper switches powers with Phoebe, to allow her to see the vision of the utopian world, Zankou interferes, and causes their powers to be transferred to innocent bystanders, who run amok. Meanwhile, Brody's murderious desires prompt Paige to take him on a journey back to his childhood to learn the truth about his parents' death.
Director: Jonathan West
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/106 votes#15 - Invasion
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2009
The residents of Seattle Grace and Mercy West vie for surgeries and their careers as day one of the hospital merger begins. Meanwhile, Arizona stands by an enraged Callie when her father, Mr. Torres, employs a priest to help convince her to date men, and Izzie experiences the brunt of her new surgical competition.
Director: Tony Phelan
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/106 votes#16 - Superfreak
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2010
Issues surface when Derek's estranged sister, Amelia (Caterina Scorsone), visits unexpectedly; Meredith and Derek continue to try to ease Cristina back into surgery.
Director: Michael Pressman
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/107 votes#17 - Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2011
Derek breaks ground on his Alzheimer's clinical trial and Meredith can't help but feel left out; Bailey's attempt to take the hospital into the age of new media with live tweets from the OR does not go over well with the Chief; and Callie, Mark and Arizona must learn to navigate through the pregnancy together, which starts off with Callie driving her new obstetrician crazy.
Director: Kevin McKidd
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/107 votes#18 - Jeff
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/19/2019
As Dean explores a new beginning, the ladies unpack Mary Pat's dark past. Meanwhile, Annie digs deeper into her own suspicion.
Director: Andrew McCarthy
Writer: Mark Wilding
7.0/104 votes#19 - Broken Toys
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 5/9/2021
Flashbacks reveal the road that led Rio to his present life. Beth gets a surprise visit from Nick, who warns her against a relationship with Rio. Dean is roped into a pyramid scheme by his biker gang.
Director: Michael Weaver
Writer: Mark Wilding
6.7/103 votes#20 - Freaky Phoebe
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2005
A powerful sorceress switches bodies with Phoebe, who ends up trapped in the Underworld. Meanwhile, Paige faces a big problem when her new charge refuses her help.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Mark Wilding
6.7/1013 votes#21 - Shutdown
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/16/2018
Rio’s feeling the heat from the FBI investigation, so he abruptly shuts down operations, cutting off Beth, Ruby, and Annie's money supply. Their attempt to go back to being ordinary housewives is short-lived when Mary Pat puts the financial squeeze on them -- forcing the three women to commit another heist.
Director: Nzingha Stewart
Writer: Mark Wilding
6.3/103 votes#22 - We're Even
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 7/22/2021
The girls are forced into a heist by the Secret Service. Ruby tries to repair Beth and Stan's relationship. Rio offers an unexpected proposal. Stan and Dean form an alliance.
Director: Sara Zandieh
Writer: Mark Wilding
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"Stairway to Heaven" is the best rated episode written by Mark Wilding. It scored 8.5/10 based on 11 votes. It was directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. It aired on 1/22/2009 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "17 Seconds".