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7th Heaven Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
The Tattle Tale Heart
Mon, Sep 20, 199944 mins
Mary and Lucy selfishly make Matt feel 'guilty' he hasn't moved out yet, although Annie still hopes to keep him home in a garage apartment. They even get Hank to find him a menial morning job in the hospital cafeteria. But Simon feels desert when Matt takes an apartment with John Hamilton. Eric and Annie worry about the Colonel's attitude to Julie's marriage, but the grandparents have gone soft after an around-the-world trip, as George's crazy hairstyle illustrates. But the stress gives already-overworked Eric a mild heart attack.
Episode 2
Life Is Too Beautiful
Mon, Sep 27, 199945 mins
Eric is released from hospital but drives everyone crazy with his enjoyment of every imaginable 'small blessing'. Simon man feels his stepping in as in the house is undermined when Matt joins the ridicule of him shaving and is tricked by Ruthie. Simon makes a commiserating friend, Jim. Matt still tries to get used to his early morning job and Shana is jealous about him spending most time there and with his roommate.
Episode 3
Yak Sada
Mon, Oct 4, 199945 mins
Annie and Lucy get involved in an organized protest about the treatment of women in Afghanistan. A young couple talks to Eric about sexual equality in their own marriage. Ruthie wants to play on the school's football team.
Episode 4
Come Drive with Me
Mon, Oct 11, 199944 mins
Simon lets school friends convince him he should kindly handle a crazy girl who signed his first name all over a notebook but keeps sending mixed or rather contradictory signals. When his roommate gets a cool job, Matt is fed up with his menial one in the cafeteria. Kid patient Adam's attempts to help seem to backfire. The Camdens really need a new car, but when Eric is seen test-driving a sports-car and Lou sees furnishings arrive for the extra bathroom Annie helps the girls install for their 'attick suite', the board votes against his annually scheduled raise.
Episode 5
With Honors
Mon, Oct 18, 199944 mins
Matt tutors silver spoon James Potter in history, refuses to help him cheat but is still in trouble when the professor smells a rat. Simon's new classmate Lee Patterson boasts his cool dad works with FBI and even NASA, but actually is an unemployed ex-con and petty marijuana dealer. Lucy regrets taking a school secretary job, is flattered when older hunk Tyler asks her for a dance, but that bubble bursts when he actually wants the password to enter the school computer.
Episode 6
Just You Wait and See
Mon, Oct 25, 199945 mins
Simon sees no harm in accepting a 'non-date' with Diane until his girl Deena and her pa see them in the pool-hall. Lucy's joy to get her drivers license is spoiled by the silly picture. Cute, car-less Andrew Nayloss's proposal to pick him up for a movie cheers her up, but he expects the whole courteous, generous treatment girlfriends usually expect, plus a grilling from his dad. An apparently stray kitten seems to choose Ruthie to provide a home, but after lots of hiding the truth catches up. Matt tags along when Eric comes to hospital and takes Hank to dinner to discuss why pregnant Julie is with Annie, jealous about the gynecologist's female patients, including a supermodel. Thus they are out of reach when contractions start weeks early.
Episode 7
Sin...
Mon, Nov 8, 199945 mins
Simon is in absurd trouble just because his mother and the principal make a huge drama of a finger-gesture among schoolboys. Matt tries to explain, but Simon feels he's robbed of another part of his childish innocence. Matt wrestles with domestic problems among his roommates and considers moving back home on account of Eric's cardiac condition. Basketball coach Jason Cleary decides the girls' continuing grades slip warrants drastic action: a team lockout, which makes the local TV news and because of official secrecy starts a rumors circuit.
Episode 8
...And Expiation
Mon, Nov 15, 199945 mins
The whole community is shocked to see Mary and half her Wildcats team meanly vandalized the school's gym. Simon and Ruthie feel guilty for not telling they overheard her planning 'something extreme', so they seek redemption in Catholic confession, a synagogue and a Buddhist temple. Matt feels guilty enough to move back in and resume his task as big brother, only to find that o longer requires his presence and return to his house-mates. Eric calls a marker on lawyer Bill Mays, he gets her in to a trial-avoiding parole office 'last chance' program.
Episode 9
Dirty Laundry
Mon, Nov 22, 199945 mins
Reading about hunger puts Simon off his food, and his gloom spreads through the family. Matt is worried sick when Shana says they need to take their relationship slowly after doing their laundry together at the Camdens' triggers her: she wonders if she can have a healthy relationship and a happy homelife when she isn't coming from one. The parish receives a §20,000 check from elderly Sachiko Ishida, who refuses to touch it because it's blood money for her family's World War II internment, so Eric asks veteran Henry Muranaka's help. Students shun not only Mary but also her sister Lucy; Ruthie demonstrates the power of passive abuse in kindergarten.
Episode 10
Who Nose?
Mon, Nov 29, 199945 mins
In order to get extra credit, model pupil Simon reluctantly joins a of voluntary mural painting project. He instantly feels unwelcome, and is threatened to keep silent after witnessing them using and sniffing spray paint. He sees Pete get a nose bleed and cues dad to guess and tell him how dangerous the addiction is after Pete is hospitalized. Lies add to Simon's endurance. During community service, Mary meets and instantly falls for Robbie Palmer, a gentleman who was convicted without blame and impresses the Camden parents. Matt feels twice betrayed because Shana didn't tell him she applied for an NYU scholarship and dad recommended her behind his back.
Episode 11
Forget Me Not
Mon, Dec 13, 199944 mins
Robbie fears Eric will never give him a chance when told, now his and Mary's community service goes so well they can meet, but only at home. Super hot Brad Landers finally asks Lucy on a date, but she stresses over a time-clashing girls project. Simon looked forward to the 'guys night like it used to be' Matt promised him, but his sleepover proves a testing marathon of witnessing stressing over Shana's New York dorm. Annie's step-ma arrives reporting Charles has Alzheimer, he claims it's the other way around. Schoolmate Ben's family inspires Ruthie to fear an apocalyptic millennium bug.
Episode 12
All by Myself
Mon, Jan 24, 200045 mins
Matt spends the night with Shana--on the couch--while packing for New York, which just makes the farewell harder. Simon is depressed because Deena bugs him about color-matched outfits and his sisters bug him about pointless phone calls. Lucy is unfair to movie-date Brad Landers and better kisser Andrew Nayloss. While Annie takes a weekend off alone, Eric lets the house get into disorder and fails to keep promises.
Episode 13
Who Do You Trust?
Mon, Jan 31, 200044 mins
Robbie and Mary get to go to the movies on a double-date with his brother Rick and Lucy, but that unwilling couple ends up cheating on their partners, while Robbie has another secret. Simon and Nigel buy cigarettes illegally for a school project, yet Eric waits even while they ponder about smoking 'just one'. Matt is a wreck after Shana fails to call once, worse when she does too cheerfully, but his very despair attracts both girl neighbors his house-mate invited.
Episode 14
Words
Mon, Feb 7, 200045 mins
New parishioners Carver's son Bobby has a condition, allegedly ADD, but former Tourette's-patient Louis Shea, MD recognizes that's the problem. Only pa Bill Carver can't cope with the diagnosis on account of the family past. Simon sticks up for Bobby against the bully jocks captain, while Mary is upset over an insensitive remark from Simon. Matt is in a stage where he refuses to take calls from Shana, the next bodes even more trouble for their long-distance relationship.
Episode 15
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Mon, Feb 14, 200045 mins
The parents insist on spoiling the kids' Valentine's day by celebrating the baby twins' birthday and demanding presents. Robbie gets permission afterward to drive Mary to the coffeehouse where his parents met. Matt puts off telling Shana his ex Heather transferred to his college, but Mary spills the beans. Simon's first passionate kiss caused a love-bite, which Deena meanly insists to return, causing disastrous discovery. Matt sees Robbie with 'his brother's date', sees through it but isn't believed that's cheating, until the romantic trip's hidden agenda is revealed.
Episode 16
Say a Little Prayer for Me
Mon, Feb 21, 200045 mins
Eric's reading of an anonymous letter, the juvenile author of which he later shamelessly tracks down, asking for prayer, the power of which he praises blindly, starts an epidemic of selfish praying. Matt and his roommate want female companionship, but Raven of mixed exotic extraction only complicates their lives. Simon hopes to mend with Deena's family, Mary to undo the break-up with Robbie. Lucy secretly wants Andrew but only if he loves her, and gets to meet his namesake in church.
Episode 17
Twelve Angry People
Mon, Feb 28, 200044 mins
Rev. Camden is called to serve as a juror on a murder trial. Once the deliberations start, he's surprised to discover that even though the defendant is obviously guilty, all the other jurors are voting "not guilty" -- some because of past racial discrimination they or their family members have suffered in the judicial system. One by one Rev. Camden works to convince them to rise above their bitterness and distrust of the system so they can do the right thing in this case. (It flips "Twelve Angry Men" on its head and was inspired by the Los Angeles Rampart police scandal when jurors were in fact acquitting defendants because they didn't trust the police after the scandal.)
Episode 18
Hoop Dreams
Mon, Apr 10, 200044 mins
Simon and Lucy talk about their parents lives. When Eric and Annie overhear them, they are hurt by the discussion. Mary has dreams of being a basketball star and a talent scout contacts her.
Episode 19
Talk to Me
Mon, May 1, 200044 mins
After Eric is approached by a mystery girl he can't identify, who won't tell her problem, the Camden parental paranoia extends to preventive preying, so the kids assume one of them must be in trouble. After Lucy launches the theory her siblings may invent colorful friends to 'test' their own fib stories, pointless palavers abound. Simon proves his funny classmate Luke is real, Mary is keeping an outsider's secret. Hank blames Matt for his marital crisis just for accidentally giving jealous aunt Julie the impression Hank shares a secret with Matt, who thus gets a wealthy lodger on top of his roommate till further notice.
Episode 20
Liar, Liar
Mon, May 8, 200044 mins
Eric is very proud when newspaper reporter Sam Robbins offers to cover his reverend's family. Despite warnings from the kids, the parents force all to collaborate, and but they end up betraying all the dirty laundry they warned their siblings not to betray. Matt meanwhile thinks that new orderly Elisabeth admires him, but in fact she only spreads malicious lies.
Episode 21
Love Stinks: Part 1
Mon, May 15, 200045 mins
Robbie Palmer is finally back and convinces Mary he's a better man, but gets no credit from Eric and his spiteful ex Cheryl promises to paint a grim picture of him. Simon's Deenah cowardly avoids breaking up honestly. Lucy dates Robbie's step-brother Ronnie, meanly discarding Andrew Nayloss, who won't just take that. Matt must choose between Heather and Shana, who is back from New York for a summer job, but so is her enterprising NYUC date Brett. The parents plan to dissuade Mary from skipping college by charging her board, but her answer is worse then they could fear. Ruthie's perfect classmate Bert Miller generously offers to be her boy-friend, but she just greedily asks for more presents.
Episode 22
Love Stinks: Part 2
Mon, May 22, 200044 mins
Robbie beats the Camden parents at their board blackmail game by offering Mary free use of his college room, yet in time the lovers agree that their precipitous wedding plan just isn't smart. Matt needs forever to find the courage to break up with Shana, then sees from their divested state that she already went further with persistent Brett than he plans to with Heather. Simon discovers that Deena staged a break-up because she must move because of her father's new job, so he asks Eric to help, but the root cause is an impending divorce. Just seeing Andrew dating another girl makes Lucy jealous enough to desert Ronald. Generous Bert and greedy Ruthie, helped by their mothers, reconsider a more honest friendship.