1st Season
1998-1999
#1 Pilot
#2 Take These Pills and Shove 'Em
#3 Sex in the Inner City
#4 Tell Me Lies
#5 My Dinner with Becker
#6 Man Plans, God Laughs
#7 City Lights
#8 Physician, Heal Thyself
 		#9 Choose Me
#10 P.C. World
#11 Scriptus Interruptus
#12 Love! Lies! Bleeding!
#13 Becker the Elder
#14 Larry Spoke
#15 Activate Your Choices
#16 Limits and Boundaries
 		#17 Partial Law
#18 Saving Harvey Cohen
#19 Truth and Consequences
#20 Drive, They Said
#21 Lucky Day
#22 Regarding Reggie
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Co-executive producer Ian Gurvitz, Co-executive producer Russ Woody, Produced by Tim Berry

#1 Pilot: Aired Monday, November 2, 1998

Becker is concerned about an HIV-positive child. He braves calling his old friend (his ex-wife's first ex-husband) to get the kid into a special treatment program, and pays for the treatment himself. Becker doesn't appreciate Reggie now that she's inherited his favorite coffee shop from her father.

Written by Dave Hackel, Directed by Andy Ackerman

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#2 Take These Pills and Shove 'Em: Aired Monday, November 9, 1998

Jake takes a sculpting class so he can meet women. Becker's patient Mrs. Cooper comes into his office every day thinking she has whatever ailment was featured on TV the night before. Becker has trouble convincing his patient, Mr. Marino, to take his diabetes (and recently small heart attack) seriously because Mr. Marino doesn't appreciate Becker's attitude and thinks he's trying to run a scam. Becker ends up having to make a house call and talk to Mrs. Marino in order to get his point across. He also has to learn how to curb his temper.

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#3 Sex in the Inner City: Aired Monday, November 16, 1998

Becker becomes painfully aware of his lack of a sex life.

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#4 Tell Me Lies: Aired Monday, November 30, 1998

Reggie misleads the guys when they pry into her personal life.

Written by Russ Woody, Directed by Anday Ackerman
Guest starring Noam Pitlik as Mr. Schmalen, Annie Wood as Theresa Campbell. Co-starring Eugene Lee as Mr. Sutthoff.

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#5 My Dinner with Becker: Aired Monday, December 7, 1998

Becker goes on a terrible blind date, while Reggie dates a man who is just too nice.

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#6 Man Plans, God Laughs: Aired Monday, December 14, 1998

Fate intervenes when Becker agrees to attend a hockey game with one patient and help another plan her funeral.

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#7 City Lights: Aired Monday, December 21, 1998

Becker loses a battle to get a flickering street lamp outside his bedroom window fixed and takes matters into his own hands.

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#8 Physician, Heal Thyself: Aired Monday, January 11, 1999

Becker can't admit when he's wrong, even when Reggie's suggestion of acupuncture significantly helps reduce his back pain. Jake is apartment hunting, but only ends up with a pretty realtor. Margaret hopes her flirting with the mailman is not a form of cheating on her husband.

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#9 Choose Me: Aired Monday, January 18, 1999

Reggie has two tickets to a hockey game and both Jake and Becker want to attend. Becker is having trouble diagnosing a patient.

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#10 P.C. World: Aired Monday, January 25, 1999

A reporter publishes a story about Becker in which he mistake Becker's general hatred of man-kind as racism. Linda starts selling cosmetics in the office.

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#11 Scriptus Interruptus: Aired Monday, February 1, 1999

Becker finds himself suffering from writer's block and desperately searches for quiet space to compose.

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#12 Love! Lies! Bleeding!: Aired Monday, February 8, 1999

Becker scoffs at Valentine's Day, especially after witnessing a woman stab her husband with a fork.

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#13 Becker the Elder: Aired Monday, February 15, 1999

His friends are charmed but Becker chafes at a surprise visit from his estranged father.

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#14 Larry Spoke: Aired Monday, February 22, 1999

An incredulous Becker treats a man who believes he can talk to God. Another patient keeps having heart-attacks but doesn't die. Linda keeps a jacket that her dry-cleaner accidently gives her.

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#15 Activate Your Choices: Aired Monday, March 1, 1999

Becker's ex-wife cheated on him and wrote a book disparaging him, yet he still can't stay away from her when she's in town.

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#16 Limits and Boundaries: Aired Monday, March 8, 1999

Becker agrees to baby-sit a mother's two children. First he tries to dump them on Margaret and Linda, then he finds them endearing, and then he bribes them to keep quiet.

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#17 Partial Law: Aired Monday, April 5, 1999

Becker's computer is stolen from his apartment which leads him to buy another through shady sources.

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#18 Saving Harvey Cohen: Aired Monday, April 12, 1999

Becker ends up caring for a sick, stray cat that he names after the veterinarian, Harvey Cohen. Margaret tries to help Becker plan his vacation, but he hates everything she suggests. Jake has an erotic dream about Reggie, and Bob loses it when he is misled to think it was real.

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#19 Truth and Consequences: Aired Monday, April 19, 1999

Linda has a crush on the office's new toxic waste disposal guy... until she finds out he's married. An elderly patient asks for an HIV test, but really he's just scared of sex in the nineties. Becker's cousin forces him to come to dinner where Becker reveals his cousin's affair. When his cousin moves in with him after being kicked out by his wife, Becker must reconcile the two before his cousin drives him and all his friends crazy.

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#20 Drive, They Said: Aired Monday, May 3, 1999

Doug Heffernan, Ray Barone and Hilton Lucas (Kevin James, Ray Romano, Bill Cosby) visit Becker's medical office. Becker shuttles Reggie, Margaret, Jake and Linda to various engagements, but manages to strand them all in a hospital waiting room after he hits another car.

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#21 Lucky Day: Aired Monday, May 10, 1999

Becker is convinced he will experience payback when he enjoys a day filled with luck. Margaret is upset with her husband for choosing the Knicks over her.

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#22 Regarding Reggie: Aired Monday, May 17, 1999

Becker has to go to a formal dinner, and everyone suggests he take Reggie as his date.

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