
Providence (1999)
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Jon Hamm as Burt Ridley
Episodes 15
Love Is in the Air
Joanie meets a firefighter who she knew before, Jim falls in love with Monica and feels things are going to fast and misses Syd's call about Joanie being hurt in a fire. Robbie continues feel lucky on a game show and has no idea that he is being tricked.
Syd treats a patient who once owned an Ice Cream place where Syd worked. Robbie gets the feeling he is being tricked Syd & Joanie don't like Monica. Syd and Jim set things right.
Read MoreSyd in Wonderland
Syd's family notice her having a headache & thinking she is stuck in ""Alice in wonderland"" Mrs. Hansen takes on the life of her daughter to help figure out is wrong. Jim goes with Monica to an exhibit, and heads home. Robbie continues to study for a game show.
Read MoreParadise Inn
Syd's CAT Scan is being looked at her doctor & Jim the scan shows no damage to her brain. Syd wonders if she is dead her mom tells her she isn't, Syd learns that her reason for being at Paradise Inn is to find if out her life is ""finished"" and in order to go back to her life she needs to use her heart, mind, & soul.
To find comfort Jim watches a tape to her his daughter's voice, as she tries to sign the register for Paradise Inn Syd has a seizure. Bert is called to a fire. Jim thinks Syd was bitten by something that could have caused the seizure.
Lynda (Syd's mom) takes her to meet the girls. Joanie tells Syd she loves Bert and plays a song that makes Syd want to leave the Inn.
Lynda doesn't want her daughter to leave, Joanie learns the fire Bert is fighting got worse and fears Bert is dead. Jim begs for his daughter's return.
Syd can go back to her life and squeezes both Jim & Joanie's hands
Read MoreSafe at Home
Syd is about to go and will need therapy to help her leg heal from Encephalitis. Syd finds out her therapist is a man not big on machines. Syd begins working out and over works. Jim takes in dogs that came from Chicago because the owner wasn't found.
Andi is stalking Robbie because he wouldn't cheat for her, Syd ignores her body's needs to rest while driving Izzy home and hit a tree. Joannie learns that Bert has girl friend. Syd doesn't feel normal and thinks about quitting medicine.
Read MoreTrick or Treat
Syd awaits her fate on ""Survivor"" (in a dream.) Syd returns to work & Dr. Roberts's questions Syd's reason to come back so soon, She nearly kills a young girl with seizures after giving a large dose of medicine. Robbie can't seem to get rid of Andi who may have burned the ""Down on Your Luck"" Set.
Syd feels Dr. Roberts may take over the clinic. Dr. Roberts wants take over the Clinic by showing Syd the plans for the clinic and something bothers Syd about the Doctor. Sarah's mom wants to sue her for malpractice. In a dream Lynda helps her daughter find the answer she needs.
Doctor Roberts gave the little girl an adult dosage of the medicine to make Syd loose her job.
Read MoreThe Good Doctor
John Hemming asks Syd to look at former patient of his who wants to be a ballerina. Rebecca wants Syd to clear her for the Providence Ballet. Jim hires someone to train Fearless, later wishing he hadn't done it. Rebecca's problem could be more serious. Joanie finds out Burt has a problem.
Syd learns that John may be in love with Rebecca, she made it up to get Syd off her back.
Read MoreRescue Me
Robbie offers Andi a place to stay with Heather. Burt goes to the hospital for surgery for his problem, As Syd tries to help sew up a laceration she has trouble closing the cut up, due to a seizure. She sees Carlos who has cleft palate (meaning people who have this can't smile.)
Syd asks another doctor to the surgery for free. Syd tries to find her patient to let him know about the surgery, she learns that INS took her patient and his son. Jim works on trying to get Howard the bird quiet. Syd will need to do the surgery herself because the doctor who offered to do it had an emergency.
Read MoreThe Unsinkable Sydney Hansen
Syd dreams she is on The Titanic with john Hemming, Syd's mom thinks she knows why her daughter's relationship with men is bad. Syd finds out more about John. She also treats Jamie Rohan for a broken wrist & finds out he is taking Ratalin. Robbie tries to help Andi in court.
Joanie and Syd go for a night out and see John dancing with a blonde woman. Syd learns that Scott died and his brother Jamie may have ADHD.
Syd runs to find Jamie who is thought to have taken Scott's medicine. John tells about Cheryl who his was to marry.
Read MoreThe Thanksgiving Story (1)
Syd meets John Hemming's mom and later learns Mrs. Hemming doesn't like Syd. Syd takes in a little girl who leaves the hospital to find her parents. Robbie gives a homeless man a chance to money. Mrs. Hemming doesn't like Syd's way of helping people.
Jim takes care of a monkey who scratches his head and uses sign language to talk. Joanie wonders if she is pregnant again. Jim buys a sign language dictionary and learns that Rocket (the monkey) is ill & asks for help. Susan Fuller comes by to help Jim & Heather to understand why he scratches his head. Susan Fuller tells them Rocket is homesick.
Read MoreThe Thanksgiving Story (2)
Syd continues to find the parents of a little girl but Syd learns Mrs. Hemming disapproves of her job. Syd learns she is up for a new job and wonders if Mrs. Hemming was behind it. Meanwhile Rocket still has no home until he paints the Logo of his research center.
Jonaine feels bad about being a mom again because everyone treated badly as Hannah came. Anchee's parents are found working at a sweatshop as they shop Syd & Anchee a reward poster posted at $25,000.
Read MoreThe Gift
Syd meets Abby Franklin who has a Mass on her neck thinking it could be Cancer. Joanie pregnant with a second baby feels her dad hates her. Syd learns that Abby already knows of the Mass on her neck but thinks it will go away.
Syd finds Abby at church teaching a choir how to sing for a Christmas concert on Sunday. Abby's Granddaughter finds out her Grandmother may have Cancer but won't know until a Biopsy is preformed. Joanie is angry that Burt didn't come with her to see pictures of the baby.
Syd dreams she is Joanie lawyer on ""Lynda's Law."" Joanie begins to believe her dad is right about not thinking what her actions do to others. Burt has a surprise waiting for Joanie
Read MoreThe Gun
Syd initially believes her troubled teenaged paper boy when he is seriously shot and hospitalized but he tells her that the wound is self-inflicted -- even though his older brother's behavior indicates otherwise -- and she's unaware that one of them has hidden a gun in a box of toys at the Hansens. Elsewhere, a fed-up Joanie hires an industrious clutter cleaner who systematically relieves the Hansens of their useless but memorable bric-a-brac and organizes a yard sale while Robbie meets an infomercial wizard and is inspired to create something that everyone needs.
Read MoreSaved by the Bell
Reminded of a former school chum with muscular dystrophy, Syd reaches out to help a reclusive young man whose face is hideously scarred while she runs afoul of Joanie who's suddenly in overdrive as she prepares for a whirlwind marriage to Burt in just a few days. In addition,, it doesn't help to have Burt's voyagebound parents around as they pull up in their RV and can barely hide their mutual resentment. Meanwhile, Robbie once again gets in over his head when he agrees to be a bookie to accept bets placed on the games of an adolescent hockey league, and a stammering Jim fends off the advances of an aroused married woman.
Read MoreIt Was a Dark and Stormy Night
When a dangerous storm strands Syd after an emergency in a remote lighthouse with the mysterious and hermit-like Graham (guest star Alastair Duncan), she begins to understand the source of his unspeakable pain, while Joanie and Burt impulsively decide to elope -- with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Robbie goes to court for arranging betting on pee-wee hockey games, and as punishment, is ordered to coach the most-dreadful team, where he encounters one player's cute single mom (guest star Maria Pitillo) as well as the hostile father (guest star Michael McGrady) of another of his worst skaters.
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