Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks’s famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling. Featuring…
Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock ’n’ roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia…
The girls experience a bevvy of obstacles on their way to the airport for a very important trip.
The girls are forced to improvise when Abbi gets her period on a plane and doesn’t have access to a tampon.
Nora gets ready for a new charity venture by getting rid of all of William’s belongings. Meanwhile, Robert begins to interview possible replacements for Kitty; Holly looks into the location…
Tommy and Julia celebrate their wedding anniversary in a magical way while Justin and Rebecca get spooked about their own romance, and Kitty’s neuroses endanger the McCallisters’ shot at adoption.
Elizabeth’s illness & her uncle’s sacrifice cause a volatile & emotional confrontation between Kevin & Tommy that could make or break their relationship as brothers; Saul reintroduces a high school…
After failing to get Chris’s attention, Reagan worries that she is losing her romantic touch. A visit to the dentist gives her a much needed confidence boost. Meanwhile, when Ava…
Larry becomes an unlikely role model for battered women. Richard Lewis’s relationship with a burlesque performer is put to the test. Leon survives a case of mistaken identity.
Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud and Elvis crashes The White House to meet President Richard Nixon.
Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during the Haymarket Riot of 1886.
John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola (from wine and cocaine!), the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.
Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear (and finds his unlikely first hit story) and Mary Ellen Pleasant supports abolitionists with her business earnings.
The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur…
Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous West.
Teddy Roosevelt makes a name for himself, hold-outs fight to the bitter end at The Alamo, and Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett.
Gene and Courtney get their big break when they are asked to be the new hosts of the morning announcements, but their romantic history threatens to get in the way….
Several weeks after her near-death experience, a recovering Izzie returns to work. Meanwhile, nervous that there will be layoffs in the hospital in the wake of an announcement from the…
The hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George’s passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief….
As Meredith, Derek and all of their friends prepare for the big wedding, a group of college students, injured in a car crash as they were heading to their graduation…
All eyes are on Derek as he is set to perform his first surgery after his breakdown; attention is also set on Izzie, whose medical condition requires her to undergo…
After his fellow surgeons try and fail to bring Derek back to work, Meredith must summon the strength to convince him. Meanwhile the hospital is abuzz as Mark attempts a…
Derek decides to quit after learning that more of his patients have died than survived; Izzie’s interns make an unsettling discovery about ”Patient X.”
Addison, Naomi and Sam rush the ailing Archer to Seattle Grace and reunite with old friends Derek and Mark to help save his life; meanwhile, Izzie employs her fellow doctors…
Bailey grows desperate as a patient’s condition becomes more and more dire. Everyone in the hospital is stepping up to try to find the boy a new organ donor, including…
The chief gives Bailey new power and responsibility. He also gives her a very difficult surgical assignment: remove a girl’s inoperable tumor. Meanwhile, new trauma chief Owen (Kevin McKidd) challenges…
Bailey heads up a ”domino procedure” in which each surgery hinges on the one preceding it. Meanwhile, Derek gets sole credit for the brain-tumor study he did with Meredith; Lexie…
Meredith is sent into a state of panic when Derek finds her mother’s diary in the house. Meanwhile, Callie stresses while preparing for her first date with Erica. Later, Cristina…
When the plumbing springs a leak, chaos breaks out at Seattle Grace as the Chief tries to put in place new teaching methods. Meanwhile, George takes his residency exam; and…
Addison visits Seattle Grace because they need skills that only she has. Rebecca/Ava returns with news for Alex. Meredith and Derek’s clinical trial experiences one or two developments.
A face familiar to one of the year-twos shows up and dredges up issues that were never really dealt with. A teen soccer player needs counseling because of his father…
The doctors meet the world’s oldest intern. Marcy brings in her son Henry because she finds his change in behavior suspicious. A patient named Connie may lose her vocal chords…
Entering their first year as residents, Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens and Alex Karev now have interns of their own to mentor. Among the new interns are George, forced…
