Episode
Empty Nest: Her Cheatin' Heart
Overview
Laverne meets another man at a banquet and goes out to dinner with him while Nick is out of town. Meanwhile, when Carol confesses that she stole Barbara's first boyfriend at camp years ago, Barbara vows to extract revenge when Carol least expects it.
Details
- Series
- Empty Nest
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1991-10-05
Episode context
Her Cheatin' Heart is Episode 3 in Season 4 of Empty Nest. It aired on 1991-10-05.
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Episode 1: 50 Million Men and a Baby
Laverne's cousin leaves her baby behind and runs off to find her husband, who left after a fight. So while Laverne looks for her, the Westons take care of the baby. The experience makes Barbara want her own child and she considers artificial insemination.
Episode 5: Harry's Got a Gun
The Westons buy guns after their house is burglarized, a choice they later regret when Carol gets a little trigger happy. Charley decides to head to the woods to do some serious thinking about his life.
Episode 6: The Dreyfus Affair
Harry hires a world-famous vet to operate on Dreyfuss. Charley contemplates a career change when he is offered a job at Uncle Buzzy's Pirate World.
Episode 7: Country Weston
Country music star Garth Brooks offers Barbara a job as security chief on his tour. Charley moves in with the Westons while his house is being fumigated.
Episode 8: Windy
A hurricane hits just as the Westons decide to sell their house. Laverne's mother-in-law visits.
Episode 9: Talk, Talk, Talk
Harry becomes host of a call-in radio show; Carol, Barbara, and Charley enter a chili cook-off.
Episode 10: Lonely Are the Brave
Just as Carol conquers her emotional problems, she becomes jealous of Barbara, who is up for a medal of honor for saving a man's life (something she did by accident). Laverne upsets Harry when she asks for a second opinion after he diagnoses her visiting niece's symptoms as allergies.
Episode 11: If You Knew Andy Like I Know . . .
Harry hires an old friend's son as an associate, but isn't pleased with the way he practices medicine. Meanwhile, Carol begins a relationship with the new associate and realizes he is arogant and self-absorbed.
Episode 12: My Nurse is Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble . . .
Harry's old nurse Winifred returns to fill in while Laverne goes out of town, and a war erupts between the two ladies when Winifred reveals that she's out to get Laverne's job. While on a trip to New York with Barbara, Carol manages to annoy the entire planeload of passengers (including a nun).
Episode 13: The Son of a Preacherman
As a favor to a minister friend, Harry takes in his brilliant young son as an observer, but becomes distressed when the boy confesses it's only his father's pressure that makes him want to be a doctor. Carol is excited about catering her friend Suzanne's posh Palm Beach wedding, until the groom gets excited by Carol.