Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: October 8, 1988
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 170
Networks: NBC
Genres: Family, Comedy

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Empty Nest(1988)

TMDB Rating: 5.8 (25 votes)

Overview

Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood mooch Charley Dietz. Thank goodness he always finds a friendly shoulder (and a warm, wet tongue) in Dreyfuss, his enormous dog.

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Season 1

22 episodes • 1988

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Pilot	Oct 8, 1988
2	The Check Isn't In the Mail	Oct 22, 1988
3	Barbara Gets Shot	Oct 29, 1988
4	Fatal Attraction	Nov 5, 1988
5	Father of the Bride	Nov 12, 1988
6	Harry's Vacation	Nov 19, 1988
7	Tinker to Evers to Tucson	Nov 26, 1988
8	What's a Father to Do?	Dec 3, 1988
9	Harry's Friend	Dec 10, 1988
10	Libby's Gift	Dec 17, 1988
11	The First Time, Again	Jan 7, 1989
12	Full Nest	Jan 14, 1989
13	Here's a Howdy-Do	Jan 28, 1989
14	Strange Bedfellows	Feb 4, 1989
15	Tears of a Clown	Feb 6, 1989
16	Blame It on the Moon	Feb 11, 1989
17	Dumped	Feb 18, 1989
18	The More Things Change...	Feb 25, 1989
19	Man of the Year	Mar 4, 1989
20	Cyrano de Weston	Mar 18, 1989
21	My Sister, My Friend	Mar 25, 1989
22	A Life in the Day	Apr 1, 1989

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Season 2

24 episodes • 1989

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Settling	Sep 30, 1989
2	Harry Snubs Laverne	Oct 14, 1989
3	On the Interpretation of Dreams	Oct 21, 1989
4	Between a Cop and a Hard Place	Oct 28, 1989
5	Just You and My Kid	Nov 4, 1989
6	Rambo of Neiman Marcus	Nov 11, 1989
7	You Are 16 Going on 17 and I'm Not	Nov 18, 1989
8	The R.N. Who Came to Dinner	Nov 25, 1989
9	Green Eggs and Harry	Dec 2, 1989
10	Overdue for a Job	Dec 9, 1989
11	A Christmas Story	Dec 16, 1989
12	Change of Heart	Jan 6, 1990
13	Harry's Choice	Jan 13, 1990
14	Complainin' in the Rain	Jan 27, 1990
15	M.D., P.O.V.	Feb 3, 1990
16	Everything But Love	Feb 10, 1990
17	Timing	Feb 12, 1990
18	It Happened Two Nights, Four Costume Changes	Feb 17, 1990
19	Love is Blind	Feb 24, 1990
20	Goodbye, Mr. Dietz	Mar 3, 1990
21	Lessons	Mar 10, 1990
22	Take My Mom, Please	Mar 24, 1990
23	Did You Ever See a Dream Dying?	Apr 14, 1990
24	Still Growing After All These Years	Apr 28, 1990

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Season 3

24 episodes • 1990

#	Episode	Air Date
1	A Flaw is Born	Sep 22, 1990
2	Harry's Excellent Adventure	Sep 29, 1990
3	There's No Accounting	Oct 6, 1990
4	Barbara the Mom	Oct 13, 1990
5	The Tortoise and the Harry	Oct 20, 1990
6	Mad About the Boy	Oct 27, 1990
7	Honey, I Shrunk Laverne	Nov 3, 1990
8	The Boy Next Door	Nov 10, 1990
9	A Family Affair	Nov 17, 1990
10	Someone to Watch Over Me	Nov 24, 1990
11	Harry Knows Best	Dec 8, 1990
12	Whenever I Feel Afraid	Dec 15, 1990
13	A Shot in the Dark	Jan 5, 1991
14	Sucking Up is Hard to Do	Jan 19, 1991
15	The Man That Got Away	Jan 26, 1991
16	The Mentor	Feb 2, 1991
17	The Dog Who Knew Too Much	Feb 9, 1991
18	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?	Feb 16, 1991
19	All About Harry	Mar 9, 1991
20	Drive, He Said	Mar 16, 1991
21	The Last Temptation of Laverne	Mar 23, 1991
22	What's Eating You?	Apr 13, 1991
23	The Cruise	May 4, 1991
24	The Way We Are	May 11, 1991

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Season 4

24 episodes • 1991

#	Episode	Air Date
1	50 Million Men and a Baby	Sep 21, 1991
2	Almost Like Being in Love	Sep 28, 1991
3	Her Cheatin' Heart	Oct 5, 1991
4	Food For Thought	Oct 12, 1991
5	Harry's Got a Gun	Oct 19, 1991
6	The Dreyfus Affair	Oct 26, 1991
7	Country Weston	Nov 2, 1991
8	Windy	Nov 9, 1991
9	Talk, Talk, Talk	Nov 16, 1991
10	Lonely Are the Brave	Nov 23, 1991
11	If You Knew Andy Like I Know . . .	Dec 7, 1991
12	My Nurse is Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble . . .	Dec 14, 1991
13	The Son of a Preacherman	Jan 4, 1992
14	Ex-appeal	Jan 11, 1992
15	The Great Escape	Jan 18, 1992
16	The Mismatchmaker	Feb 1, 1992
17	The Return of Aunt Susan	Feb 8, 1992
18	The Unimportance of Being Charley	Feb 15, 1992
19	Sayonara	Feb 22, 1992
20	Dr. Weston and Mr. Hyde	Feb 29, 1992
21	Charley for President	Mar 14, 1992
22	Good Neighbor Harry	Mar 28, 1992
23	Final Analysis	Apr 25, 1992
24	Roots	May 2, 1992

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Season 5

26 episodes • 1992

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Why Do Fools Fall in Love?	Sep 19, 1992
2	Take My Garage, Please	Sep 26, 1992
3	R.N. On the Rebound	Oct 3, 1992
4	. . . Or Forever Hold Your Peace	Oct 10, 1992
5	The Boomerang Affair	Oct 17, 1992
6	Cruel and Unusual Punishment	Oct 24, 1992
7	It's Not Easy Being Green	Oct 31, 1992
8	Dirty Harry	Nov 7, 1992
9	Timing is Everything	Nov 14, 1992
10	Thanksgiving at the Westons'	Nov 21, 1992
11	The Body Beautiful	Dec 5, 1992
12	Overboard	Dec 12, 1992
13	Emily	Jan 2, 1993
14	The Sting	Jan 9, 1993
15	The Fracas in Vegas	Jan 23, 1993
16	Pardon My Flashback	Jan 30, 1993
17	Dog Day Afternoon	Feb 6, 1993
18	More to Love	Feb 13, 1993
19	My Dad, My Doctor	Feb 20, 1993
20	Love and Marriage	Feb 27, 1993
21	The All-American Boy - Not!	Mar 20, 1993
22	Two For the Road	Apr 10, 1993
23	Aunt Verne Knows Best	May 1, 1993
24	My Mother, My Self	May 8, 1993
25	Charley to the Rescue	May 15, 1993
26	Surprise! Surprise!	May 22, 1993

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Season 6

26 episodes • 1993

#	Episode	Air Date
1	When the Rooster Dies	Sep 25, 1993
2	Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (1)	Oct 2, 1993
3	Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (2)	Oct 9, 1993
4	Mama Todd, the Sequel	Oct 16, 1993
5	Mom's the Word	Oct 23, 1993
6	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Oct 30, 1993
7	Mother Dearest	Nov 6, 1993
8	No Volunteers, Please	Nov 13, 1993
9	Das Boob	Nov 20, 1993
10	The Girl Who Cried Baby	Nov 27, 1993
11	Superbaby	Dec 11, 1993
12	Read All About It	Dec 18, 1993
13	Love a la Mode	Jan 8, 1994
14	What's A Mother To Do?	Jan 15, 1994
15	Gesundheit	Jan 22, 1994
16	Under the Gun	Jan 29, 1994
17	Brotherly Shove	Feb 5, 1994
18	The Ballad of Shady Pines	Feb 12, 1994
19	Hog Heaven	Mar 5, 1994
20	Charley's Millions	Mar 8, 1994
21	Half That Jazz	Apr 2, 1994
22	The Devil and Dr. Weston	Apr 9, 1994
23	A Foreign Affair	Apr 16, 1994
24	Lordy, Lordy, Landlordy	Apr 23, 1994
25	Best Friends	May 21, 1994
26	Absence Makes the Nurse Grow Weirder	May 21, 1994

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Season 7

24 episodes • 1994

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Let's Give Them Something to Talk About	Sep 24, 1994
2	Mrs. Clinton Comes to Town	Sep 24, 1994
3	Just for Laughs	Oct 1, 1994
4	A Chip Off the Old Charley	Oct 8, 1994
5	The Woman Who Came to Dither	Oct 15, 1994
6	Carol Gets a Raise	Oct 22, 1994
7	The Courtship of Carol's Father	Dec 3, 1994
8	The Tinker Grant	Dec 3, 1994
9	Would You Believe . . .	Dec 17, 1994
10	Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Pain	Dec 17, 1994
11	Single White Male	Jan 7, 1995
12	Dear Aunt Martha	Jan 14, 1995
13	Goodbye Charley	Jan 21, 1995
14	Family Practice	Jan 28, 1995
15	Grandma, What Big Eyes You Have	Feb 4, 1995
16	Feelings, Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feelings	Feb 25, 1995
17	And Kevin Makes Three	Mar 4, 1995
18	Harry Weston: Man's Best Friend	Mar 18, 1995
19	The Ex-Files	Mar 18, 1995
20	Stand By Your Man	Mar 25, 1995
21	My Pal Valy-Val	Jun 10, 1995
22	Remembrance of Clips Past	Jun 17, 1995
23	Life Goes On (1)	Apr 29, 1995
24	Life Goes On (2)	Apr 29, 1995

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