The Best Episodes Written By Richard Vaczy

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - The Fourth Time Around

   S2:E193/21/1987

   When Lester goes to watch the game at a friend's house, Mary and the ladies decide to have a girl's night out. They go to a club/bar where Pearl meets man. They hit it off. When Pearl comes home, she tells Mary that she and Felix are engaged. Mary seems to be the only one concerned about it, while Rose and Sandra want to throw her a bridal shower. Mary thinks that he is after Pearl's money. Pearl doesn't care what Mary thinks, and she and Felix get married any way. When she returns from her honeymoon, Mary apoligizes, but Pearl has bad news. Felix passed away. She admits to Mary that they knew that he was dying. Because she loved him and didn't want him to be lonely, they married so soon.

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   8.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Mrs. George Devereaux

   S6:E911/17/1990

   Blanche has a secret admirer and is shocked when she meets him, her supposedly dead husband, George. Meanwhile, Dorothy is being wooed by two men, Sonny Bono and Lyle Waggoner.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Older and Wiser

   S6:E182/16/1991

   Wanting someone to watch after Sophia during the day, Dorothy gets Sophia a job under false pretenses. Meanwhile, Blanche and Rose are all excited about being hired as models for a Penny Saver.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - The Commitments

   S7:E161/25/1992

   Dorothy gets wrapped up in "Beatlemania" and begins dating a Beatle impersonator. Meanwhile, Blanche begins to worry about her looks after she pulls out all the stops to get a certain man into bed, but to no avail.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Love Me Tender

   S4:E142/6/1989

   When Sophia sets Dorothy up on a blind date, Dorothy secretly falls for the seemingly simple man, claiming "he's the greatest lover she ever had." Meanwhile, Blanche and Rose join the "Be a Pal" and become pals to two motherless girls.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The Wheel of Misfortune

   S2:E110/4/1986

   Mary and Sandra become contestants on ""Wheel of Fortune"" and wind up competing against each other.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Slam Dunked

   S1:E202/22/1986

   Sandra begins dating a basketball player who rubs Mary the wrong way from their first meeting. He comes across as rude and arrogant. Calvin idolizes him and mimics his attitude. Brenda doesn't like hanging around the ""new"" Calvin. When Calvin hears how the Rocketman talks to Sandra in an argument, and hears the Rocketman call him ""some dumb kid,"" he changes his opinion of Rocketman and realizes that he was acting like a jerk.

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   8.3/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Clinton Avenue Memoirs

   S5:E162/3/1990

   Dorothy becomes alarmed when Sophia forgets the date of her wedding anniversary. This leads Dorothy to face the fact that Sophia is becoming more and more forgetful with age. After visiting a doctor, Sophia decides to regain some of the memories she has lost and decides to take a trip to Brooklyn and their old apartment.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Ro$e Love$ Mile$

   S7:E1011/16/1991

   Rose has had it with Miles' penny pinching ways and decides to take Blanche's advice and go out with her and some big spenders. Meanwhile, Blanche has been left in charge of Sophia while Dorothy is away, and Sophia decides this would be the best time to take a trip to Sicily.

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    #10 - Room Seven

    S7:E1111/23/1991

    Sophia has an after-life experience, seeing her late husband in heaven, while choking on a piece of candy. Meanwhile, Blanche is distraught over the demolition of her grandmother's plantation, so the girls travel to Atlanta. Once there, Blanche handcuffs herself to the radiator.

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    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Till Death Do We Volley

    S4:E193/18/1989

    Dorothy's old friend, Trudy comes for a visit and this revives their old rivalry between each other. However, the visit turns tragic when Trudy suddenly dies and Dorothy blames herself.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Voroniny Season 1 Episode 1

    S1:E111/16/2009

    Kostya's parents quarrel. His mother moved him. If Kotsya not reconcile the parents, he faces a big fight with his wife

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - The Great Manhunt

    S2:E411/8/1986

    After Sandra sees her neighbors (a married couple) interact with each other and with their daughter, Sandra decides that she wants a husband and a child. She goes out on a series of dates which end in disaster becasue of Sandra's openness about wanting to be married and have a child. She finally decides that since she can't find a suitable husband that she'll just get artificially insiminated. Mary and Rose try talk her out of it. But nothing is more of a rude awakening than when Sandra witnesses Cathy going into labor and she sees how Jim was there for her every step of the way. Then Mary and Lester talk about the night Brenda was born and how they really needed each other then. Sandra changes her mind and decides that when she does have a baby she would like to be married so she can have a husband that loves her and loves their child.

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    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Sophia's Choice

    S4:E224/15/1989

    Sophia goes into action to break her friend, Lillian out of ""the worst nursing home in the city."" However, Lillian proves to be too much of a handful for Sophia to handle. Meanwhile, Blanche considers having her breasts enlarged.

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    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #15 - 72 Hours

    S5:E192/17/1990

    Rose discovers that she may be carrying the HIV virus after learning the blood they used in her gallbladder operation may have contained HIV antibodies. What really gets to her though is the 72 hours she must wait before hearing the test results. Meanwhile, Dorothy organizes a Save the Swamplands charity.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)

    S6:E244/27/1991

    The deathbed confession of an ex-patient at Shady Pines, means bad news for Sophia, since in her confession she stated that Sophia and her stated the 1985 Shady Pines fire.

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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Snap Out of It

    S6:E410/13/1990

    Dorothy decides to help Sophia with the Meals on Wheels program and runs across a reclusive man who hasn't stepped out of his apartment since the 1960's. Meanwhile, Blanche's birthday is coming up and Rose becomes determined to find out her real age.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)

    S6:E254/27/1991

    Sophia cannot recall the events that lead to the Shady Pines fire.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Mary's Christmas

    S1:E1312/14/1985

    When their church loses their land lease, the tenants must find another lot to place their church on. They enlist Lester's company's help to move the church to its new spot. Everything is ok, until the church comes up missing. Everyone is worried because they will have no place to have their Christmas pageant. They decide to build a large manger on the empty lot to hold the service. They later find out that the church was placed at the wrong lot.

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    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Love Under The Big Top

    S5:E510/28/1989

    Dorothy is in a serious relationship with a lawyer and jumps to the conclusion that he's on the verge of proposing. However, his announcement is a shocker, he's leaving law to become a circus clown. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche put together a protest to save some dolphins.

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    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (2)

    S2:E610/18/1987

    A stripper shows up at Al's with Marcy's wedding ring. Al convinces Steve to make Marcy feel guilty about losing it, and confronts Peg about what she was doing at the strip club.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Family Hero

    S1:E39/28/1985

    For an assignment that requires her to write about her "Most Interesting Relative", Brenda asks her parents for help. Lester suggests his aunt Lucy who was a woman brakeman. After Mary hears about Sandra's supposed relative who was a Moroccan prince, she searches through an old trunk to find information about an interesting relative of hers. What she finds is that she had an uncle, Corporal Mortecai Hurley, who was in the Civil War's 54th Infantry. She persuades Brenda to re-write her paper on Mortecai.

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    6.7/10(18 votes)

    #23 - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1)

    S2:E510/18/1987

    Marcy and Steve have a fight, which leads to Marcy joining Peggy and her friends going to a strip club, where Marcy accidentally loses her wedding ring ... down a stripper's pants.

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