Becker - Episode Guide

Becker proves he has a conscience when he shows compassion for an HIV-positive patient.

Becker must make a house call after a patient has an adverse reaction to his bedside manner.

Becker is plagued by sex talk, from the patient who requests a prescription for Viagra to M.J., who wants to learn the facts of life.

Reggie gives Jake and Becker the run-around when they try to get to know her better; Margaret barters for medical supplies.

After meeting Reggie's new paramour, Becker decides he should dive back into the dating pool.

Becker's attempt at friendship is short-lived; with Margaret at home, Linda tries to run the office.

Becker copes with a pesky street light, and accepts an invitation to attend a concert with Reggie.

Becker explores the world of alternative medicine after his back goes out; and Margaret flirts with the mailman.

Jake and Becker battle when Reggie announces that she has an extra hockey ticket.

Becker's latest tirade lands him in hot water when a columnist prints a story accusing the doctor of being a racist.

Becker struggles to write a medical-journal article; Jake is pressured to commit by the woman he's dating.

On Valentine's Day, Becker ministers to a 16-year-old who wants a vasectomy; and a woman who's allergic to roses.

Becker is convinced that whenever he sees a little person, it means bad luck. Meanwhile, after years of not being a part of his life, John receives an unwelcome visit from his estranged father, a charming salesman.

Becker treats a lonely shoe salesman who believes God is speaking to him; Linda hits the jackpot at the dry cleaners.

Becker is less than thrilled when his ex-wife comes to town hawking a self-help book that paints a less-than-flattering picture of the good doctor.

Becker's paternal skills are tested when he is asked to look after M.J., his HIV-positive patient, and the boy's sister, Keisha.

A burglary leaves Becker in need of a new computer, so he reluctantly agrees to let Bob hook him up with a deal, "no questions asked." 

Becker strays from his hostile views on animals when a sick cat wanders into his office; Jake has an erotic dream about Reggie. 

Becker is introduced to a different kind of misery after he goes to the suburbs to have dinner with his cousin Barry and his wife.

Reggie, Jake, Margaret and Linda endure a terrifying car ride with Becker after he reluctantly agrees to drop them off on his way to a Mets-Cardinals game. To make matters worse, Becker rear-ends another car.

Becker experiences the luckiest day of his life, but is consumed with dread because he believes something horrible is going to happen next.

Becker balks at asking Reggie to a formal fund-raising dinner, even though everyone else thinks it's a great idea.

Becker saves a woman from choking and then fears for his life when he takes her continual gratitude for stalking.

Becker is grumpier than usual after he decides to quit smoking, but he gets a lift from Reggie's friend, an ex-smoker who tells him the only substitute that worked for her was sex.

Reggie tells Becker he doesn't know anything about women, but unbeknownst to her, Becker is giving dating tips to her new beau. Meanwhile, Linda becomes a big sister to an obnoxious teen.

Linda quits her job after she makes a mistake on a patient's prescription, and Becker hires what seems like an ideal replacement. Meanwhile, Reggie, Jake and Bob wonder why a nicely dressed man keeps pacing back and forth outside the diner.

Reggie goes out with an old flame who is building a hospital in the area. Meanwhile, John fumes over his former research partner's patent for anti-wrinkle cream.

John accidentally receives two plane tickets to Chicago when he agrees to speak at a conference, so he takes Reggie with him. Meanwhile, Bob takes over as cook at the diner in Reggie's absence.

John isn't too pleased when a friend of a friend looks him up, but he changes his tune when he sees her and he realizes that she accepts him just as he is.

John gets a taste of his own medicine when he is accidentally shot and has to put up with obnoxious doctors and nurses at a hospital.

Becker is released from the hospital and is surprised---and pleased---when his attractive doctor makes a house call that is strictly personal. Meanwhile, Margaret tries to find a suitable physician to temporarily replace Becker.

John thinks Liz is lying when she claims she doesn't have any aspirin, even though he knows she has some---because he went through her purse.

Jake's old friend, who was responsible for the car accident in which Jake lost his sight, pays him a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Margaret tries to get out of an annual road trip with some nursing school friends.

Becker is his usual bitter self as Christmas rolls around, until a department-store Santa drops dead in his waiting room.

John's waiting room turns into a maze of boxes when Linda orders too many supplies; Reggie becomes attracted to a much younger student and Margaret learns that a former patient died and has included her in her will.

A rumor starts that John is dying when he suddenly begins eating healthy food and tries to control his temper. 

A judge sentences John to attend an anger-management class after he insults two police officers. Meanwhile, Linda invites Bob to move in with her---much to everyone else's dismay. 

John buys a motorcycle in a vain attempt to recapture his youth, after some people make comments suggesting that he's getting old.

Liz wants to throw a party and John reluctantly agrees to host it, but they have trouble finding anyone who wants to attend a party at John's place. Meanwhile, Reggie fears that her new boyfriend from college is too young for her.

John is determined to have the phone company remove a long-distance charge on his bill that he claims shouldn't be there; Reggie is upset when she isn't invited to a friend's wedding; Bob listens to motivational tapes in order to land a job.

John agrees to take on a vacationing doctor's patients and one of them dies. Meanwhile, Linda tries to comfort a friend who won't leave the office, and Reggie and Jake trade barbs during a slow time in the diner.

John fumes when he can't get out of jury duty and then can't get picked to actually serve on a jury; Jake gets a dog.

Jake asks out a friendly young woman, only to break up with her after he learns that she's also blind; Margaret tries to discover why a grouchy patient likes everyone but her.

John gets into an argument with a priest over whose hands a patient is really in---God's or the doctor's; Reggie, Jake and Bob take a gamble on the stock market.

Liz is offered a job in Chicago, which prompts John to tell her how he feels about her. He quickly regrets doing it, fearing he'll lose his freedom.

Reggie's celebration after earning an A in her psychology class turns to panic when she considers her uncertain future; and John entertains one of his neighbors, who turns out to be a hooker.

John attempts to enjoy a movie at a theater, but he walks out when the patrons keep annoying him. He then tries again...and again...and again. Elsewhere, Jake agrees to help Reggie get into a college course, but soon regrets it.

The tenants in John's building believe he killed their super, and Bob starts looking for a job when Linda throws him out of her apartment.

A string of unfortunate happenings takes place when John varies his daily routine and eats at a new Chinese restaurant.

John tries to impress a high-schooler who is following him around to see what a day in the life of a doctor is like.

Someone trashes John's office over the weekend and a clueless cop is assigned to the case.

John's college girlfriend pays a visit and invites him to her hotel room, but since she's married, John isn't sure he should go.

John is asked by a patient to commit insurance fraud to help him get benefits for his sick brother; Reggie's date proposes to her on their first evening out.

John announces that he has quit smoking, but Jake bets him that he can't even go a day without a cigarette.

John becomes part of a department-store Christmas display when he throws his back out and can't move; Reggie competes against a rival businesswoman to see who can collect more toys for kids; Linda persuades Margaret to let her pose as the office manager so she can impress her parents.

Margaret makes the mistake of telling Linda that she had a sexy dream about John, which, of course, Linda can't keep to herself. At the diner, Reggie is stuck with a keg of beer when Jake unknowingly signs for it, so they decide to just drink it all themselves.

Everyone makes fun of John when he starts dating an attractive 27-year-old lawyer and even he begins to wonder if everything is fine after he experiences chest pains when the subject of sex comes up.

John has his hands full when a former patient dies and leaves him his ashes, and a current patient suffers a puzzling rapid heartbeat. Elsewhere, Reggie turns a blind eye to her handsome new boyfriend's glaring flaws.

Linda tries to make it up to John after she mistakenly books him on a gay cruise; Jake's new girlfriend finds his blindness appealing.

John's former flame appears unexpectedly at his door and announces that she has left her husband and wants to move in with John.

John is honored when he's asked to fill in for the mayor and be the commencement speaker at his old high school, until he discovers why the mayor dropped out.

Jake's grandmother insists she has a heart murmur and gets angry at John when he declares her to be in good health; Reggie goes through an old high-school yearbook and gets more depressed by the minute; Margaret becomes concerned about Linda's relationship with a young boy.

Reggie secretly conducts a psychology experiment on John to see if he treats attractive patients the same as unattractive ones. Also, Jake gets into a jam when he's accidentally sent a driver's license.

John doesn't know what to do when he accidentally learns that Linda and Reggie are dating the same guy; Bob tries in vain to figure out who the hooker is in his building.

John, for once, is at a loss for words when his godson seeks his advice on how to tell his father that he is gay; Reggie gets caught up in a game of one-upmanship with a snooty acquaintance.

John is crankier than normal when he suffers a bout of insomnia, which he believes can be cured by watching mindless TV shows. Unfortunately, his TV set is broken and he refuses to buy a new one.

John is excited when he learns that his favorite college professor from Harvard is coming to town. But when John meets him, he's shocked to discover that the man doesn't remember him.

John takes an out-of-shape patient to a gym to work out, but the man has a heart attack there and then sues John; Linda dyes her hair blonde and suspects that's the reason people think she's dumb.

John refuses to settle a lawsuit against him, despite the advice of his lawyer, because it would imply guilt.

John is taken to court by a patient who claims the good doctor caused him to have a heart attack by taking him to a gym.

John is ordered by a judge to see a therapist to help him work on his problem with authority. Also, Jake grows weary of his new girlfriend's annoying habit of describing every little thing she's doing.

John is more irritable than usual when he tries to quit smoking; Reggie believes a friendly customer stole all of her good luck and left her with his bad fortune.

Everyone's shocked when Jake announces that he got married over the weekend to a woman he met at a friend's wedding.

Reggie and Jake help a man who claims to be homeless, but John thinks he's a con artist; Margaret takes a second job caring for a wealthy woman's dog.

John takes Reggie's advice that he should tell women that he's sorry when he disappoints them, only to have it backfire; Jake and Bob switch jobs for the day.

John hurts his shoulder and is afraid to have an MRI, so Reggie goes with him for support; Linda dates identical twins.

Jake encounters a depressed man who is about to hang himself, so he takes him back to the diner to cheer him up; John learns that a patient's wife is pregnant by another man.

Reggie becomes attracted to a married man and considers having an affair; Linda starts bossing everyone around after she takes assertiveness classes.

John believes his no-strings, no-pressure relationship with his latest girlfriend is perfect---until she leaves him for another man. At the diner, Bob boasts about finding a Super Bowl ring in the backseat of a cab. And at John's office, Linda tries to talk her parents out of getting a divorce.

John reluctantly agrees to buy a poor child a Christmas gift and then discovers that he has to deliver it as well; Bob visits his mother who still treats him like a kid.

John's day is filled with wacky people, from two guys who want a prescription for marijuana to a man who is upset when he learns that he isn't dying. Meanwhile, Jake challenges Bob to a game of scrabble.

Reggie starts dating one of John's recently divorced friends, but she can't stop obsessing about the guy's former wife.

John agrees to give free medical care to Bob, Reggie and Jake in exchange for repairs, food and magazines.

John tells a discerning bartender about his horrible day and tries to get out of going to his ex-wife's wedding on Valentine's Day.

John worries that women no longer find him attractive after Jake's girlfriend makes a disparaging remark to him; Linda fears that a pretty temp is going to replace her.

Parents are enraged when they learn that John's talk on nutrition to a class of 8-year-olds turns into a discussion about sex; two cops use the diner for a stakeout. 

John is infuriated when an unflattering picture of someone else is published alongside his article in a national medical journal, so he pays the editor a visit; Arnoldo asks Linda out on a date.

When a patient loses the ability to speak, John gets him a machine that talks for him, but the man uses it to lash out at people; Bob turns into an environmentalist to impress a girl; Linda accuses Margaret of stealing her bracelet.

Reggie is obsessed with helping Jake achieve some of the goals he set for himself in sixth grade, but her good intentions backfire; Linda saves a man's life and then drives everyone crazy with her superior attitude.

John is a reluctant sex therapist for a couple in their 80s; Reggie is harassed by a man trying to sell her a new freezer.

John grows paranoid after his laundry, mail and apartment are tampered with, and the sunny disposition of a new woman (Nancy Travis) at the diner only makes him feel worse.

John receives eight expensive steaks from a patient and is compelled by his new neighbor into throwing a party.

Reggie gets jealous when she assumes John has feelings for a new neighbor and tries to tell him how she feels; Linda sublets her job to a woman even more incompetent than she is.

The fourth season concludes with a romantic cliffhanger as Reggie and a new neighbor each vie for John's affection. Also, Linda takes Margaret out for a night on the town, which Margaret lives to regret.

John tries to figure out whether he'd rather be with Reggie or Chris, having been kissed by both women. A passionate evening with Reggie doesn't make things any clearer for the commitment-impaired doc.

John tries desperately to persuade Chris that he chose to be with her before he learned that Reggie was leaving town, but Chris doesn't believe him. Also, Jake and Bob decide to follow in Reggie's footsteps and get out of town, and Margaret and Linda try to find out the identity of a man who claims he is a former patient.

Neighbors John and Chris do whatever they can to annoy each other, from smoking cigars to using a sander at 4 A.M. to strip a floor; Linda pretends she is from L.A. to impress a new guy she is dating; Jake worries that Amanda is decorating his apartment in an overly feminine fashion.

A grumpy patient who claims he's dying insists that John visit him in the hospital every night. Also, Bob accidentally sees Chris naked in her apartment, but what really upsets her is that he doesn't brag to the guys about what a beautiful body she has.

John becomes jealous when Chris turns down his offer to watch a movie with him and instead goes out with another man. Later, in an awkward attempt to show Chris his true feelings, John shows up at her job and inadvertently gets her into trouble.

John gets jealous and lies to a friend who expresses interest in Chris by telling him that she is gay. Unfortunately, the man acts on John's information and sets Chris up with a lesbian acquaintance. Also, Bob tries to deepen his friendship with Jake and buys a pair of walkie-talkies so that the two of them can stay in constant contact with each other.

John treats a man who displays three distinctive personalities, all of whom drive John crazy. At the diner, Chris and Jake annoy each other with their irksome habits, and Bob becomes a big brother to a 10-year-old boy.

John enjoys a few laughs at Chris's expense after she does favors for several people only to discover they were all done in vain.

Jake begins to believe his blindness makes him less of a person after he allows a thief to walk right past him with cash stolen from the diner. Chris and John's attempts to cheer him have the reverse effect, so John takes Jake to a hockey game to take his mind off of the matter. But Jake thinks he hears the robber's voice at the game and wants John to make a citizen's arrest. At John's office, Margaret is hit on by a smooth-talking salesman.

Chris gets jealous when she hears from John that he is dating an editor at a leading magazine and is going to spend Christmas with her in Vermont. Also: Bob fears that a street-corner Santa is out to get him, and Margaret tries to cheer up Linda by having her go caroling with a church group.

Margaret looks back 10 years to her first meeting with John. She recalls persuading him to hire her and keep his practice open instead of closing shop and returning to Boston. At the diner, Bob hides from an angry tenant who wants him to fix a clogged drain.

Jake and Bob misinterpret one of Chris's phone conversations and assume that she and John are sleeping together. At the office, John tries to persuade a promiscuous teen to use condoms.

John's former college roommate at Harvard visits to seek forgiveness for past offenses, but John refuses to pardon his old friend. Meanwhile, at the diner, Bob becomes convinced that he is going to die soon; and at the office Linda accuses Margaret of having an affair.

John gets upset when a patient refuses to take any more medication because he believes God is healing him through prayer. At the diner, Bob brags that he is part Native American and tries to cash in on his newfound heritage, and Linda attempts to keep up the charade in her "long-distance" relationship with a fellow New Yorker.

John is stalked by an elderly but frisky neighbor who is determined to make him her man. Also: Linda decides to tell her boyfriend, who thinks she lives in L.A., the truth about where she resides.

Fed up with his practice, John applies for a research position in Baltimore---without telling his friends. His suspicious behavior then leads them to believe he's either sick or on drugs.

John feels like climbing the walls after Chris bans smoking from the diner and Margaret won't let him light up in the office. Elsewhere, Bob convinces Jake that Amanda is cheating on him after Jake unwittingly walks into the diner wearing lime green pants that are too small for him; and Linda persuades John to treat a friend's dog.

Jake is devastated when his girlfriend Amanda moves out of their apartment to marry another man. But he doesn't get much sympathy from John, who is trying to quit smoking.

John gets worried after he reluctantly consents to having his palm read by a self-proclaimed psychic and she suddenly turns pale and runs away. He gets so freaked out that he goes to another seer to get a second opinion.

John gets frustrated when a childless couple who come to him for advice on getting pregnant misconstrue everything he says. Elsewhere, Chris flirts with a fire marshal to get out of a ticket, but Bob's attempt to charm a police officer who is about to write him up for jaywalking backfires.

John gets jealous when Chris's all-too-friendly ex-husband unexpectedly shows up and stays at her apartment. The good doc tries everything he can to keep the divorced duo apart because he fears they will get back together if he doesn't intervene.

The fifth season comes to a close with John realizing that he still has feelings for Chris after a series of romantic dreams about her. But he fears she doesn't feel the same way about him. Also: Linda thinks that something bad is going to happen to her after she is involved in an accident on her way to work.

John and Chris reluctantly confront their feelings for each other in the sixth-season opener. Meanwhile, Chris is furious over an outrageously high hospital bill and tries to get some of the charges dismissed in a meeting with an unsympathetic hospital administrator.

Chris pressures John into setting a time and a place for their first date, only to have it interrupted by a medical emergency; Hector talks Jake into making some extra money by participating in a drug test that goes terribly awry; Linda makes Margaret feel guilty about getting out of paying a traffic ticket.

John tries to plan a romantic first date with Chris, but unforeseen obstacles keep cropping up; Jake gets shocking news about his grandmother after she dies in a retirement home.

John and Chris want to make love to each other, but unforeseen obstacles keep popping up to spoil the mood; Jake bores everyone with his constant grieving over his late grandmother.

Chris gets frustrated when John repeatedly refuses to hold up his end of a conversation; Linda claims that she has met "the one," but she soon gets a big surprise; and Hector tries to persuade Jake to invest in his latest get-rich-quick scheme.

Chris tries to get John to be more considerate of her feelings, but he's not sure he can do it; Hector tricks Jake into selling porn magazines; Margaret takes a night job with a telemarketer and is shocked when she learns that it's a phone-sex operation.

Everyone gets nervous when Chris's younger sister, who was recently released from prison for attempted murder, joins them for Thanksgiving dinner at John's apartment.

John's office and the diner are overrun with homeless people after a nearby residential-care facility is closed, so John goes to city hall to complain. Also: Jake receives a large check from his late grandma's estate and must decide what to do with the money.

Chris gets upset when John gets a free trip to Las Vegas to speak at a medical convention, but doesn't invite her to go along because he refuses to trade in his first-class airline ticket for two coach seats. Back at the office, an uppity plastic surgeon takes over John's practice while he's away.

Margaret gets depressed and refuses to work after she learns that a long-time friend is now worth millions. The information leads her to ponder whether she could have made it as a professional singer if she had pursued her dream. Back at the office, John tries to train Linda to give flu shots.

Chris wants to escape the cold weather, so she convinces John to go to Bermuda with her. But a snowstorm threatens to keep them stuck in New York, which is just fine with John.

John tries to help an elderly woman on a subway find her way downtown, while Chris entertains the doctor's out-of-town friends with whom he is supposed to have dinner. At the office, Linda accidentally deletes some important insurance files.

In the series finale, Chris fears that John is going to break up with her after he invites her to dinner at a nice restaurant; Linda starts a torrid romance with a guy she meets on the subway who doesn't speak English; Jake surprises everyone with an announcement on how he is going to invest the money his grandmother left him.