Here is the complete episode list for Boston Common. It includes original air dates, episode numbers, episode titles, and brief episode descriptions. The first column of this table indicates the episodes of Boston Common we currently have in our archive. (All episodes were recorded in standard play on VHS tapes.) The entries for this column are defined as follows:
| CLEAN | Episode was recorded off a commercial-free satellite feed |
| ORIG | Episode was recorded from its original broadcast |
| RERUN | Episode was recorded from a rerun (no known cuts) |
| SYND | Episode was recorded from a syndicated rerun (several minutes are typically trimmed from these by the syndicators to make room for more commercials) |
| RERUN | 21-Mar-1996 | Episode 1 | Season 1 Number 1 | Pilot | A Virginia handyman (Anthony Clark) escorts his sister to college and decides to stay. |
| RERUN | 28-Mar-1996 | Episode 2 | Season 1 Number 2 | Out, Out, Damn Jack! | Boyd's plot to send Professor Reed to California backfires. |
| RERUN | 4-Apr-1996 | Episode 3 | Season 1 Number 3 | I Thee Endow | Boyd heads a fund-raising campaign to save a campus program. |
| SYND | 11-Apr-1996 | Episode 4 | Season 1 Number 4 | Relationship of Fools | Boyd agrees to a double date with Joy's friend (Leah Lail). |
| ORIG | 18-Apr-1996 | Episode 5 | Season 1 Number 5 | Boyd Gets Shrunk | Boyd and Wyleen see a family counselor. |
| RERUN | 25-Apr-1996 | Episode 6 | Season 1 Number 6 | Virginia Reeling | Boyd and Leonard hesitate to ask out the women they want to date. |
| ORIG | 11-Aug-1996 | Episode 7 | Season 1 Number 7 | Hope Springs a Leak | Joy discovers Jack's fears in couples therapy. |
| ORIG | 18-Aug-1996 | Episode 8 | Season 1 Number 8 | Autumn "Foilage" | Unpaid parking tickets hinder Boyd's plans for a weekend trip with Joy. |
| ORIG | 8-Sep-1996 | Episode 9 | Season 1 Number 9 | Everybody's Stalking | Obsessed Boyd spies on Joy; a flower-bearing admirer stalks Leonard. |
| ORIG | 15-Sep-1996 | Episode 10 | Season 1 Number 10 | A Streetcar Named Denial | Boyd starts a sandwich business; a drama teacher (Margot Kidder) devastates Wyleen. |
| ORIG | 29-Sep-1996 | Episode 11 | Season 2 Number 1 | Everything's Coming Up Sub-Rosas | Wyleen wants to join a secret women's society on campus. |
| ORIG | 6-Oct-1996 | Episode 12 | Season 2 Number 2 | Conspiracy of Dunces | Boyd's plan to make Joy jealous backfires when he misleads Wyleen's friend. |
| SYND | 13-Oct-1996 | Episode 13 | Season 2 Number 3 | This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco... | Jack enlists Boyd's help throwing a last-minute surprise birthday party for Joy. |
| ORIG | 20-Oct-1996 | Episode 14 | Season 2 Number 4 | Mercury Retrograde | Tasha sets Boyd up on a blind date; Joy and Jack make a surprising decision. |
| ORIG | 27-Oct-1996 | Episode 15 | Season 2 Number 5 | The War Room | Boyd manages Wyleen's campaign for class president; guest James Carville. |
| ORIG | 3-Nov-1996 | Episode 16 | Season 2 Number 6 | Trustee and Sympathy | Boyd's rich landlady (Shelley Long) decides to give the building to her alma mater. |
| ORIG | 10-Nov-1996 | Episode 17 | Season 2 Number 7 | A Triage Grows in Boston | Boyd's indoor picnic sends everyone to the hospital; guest Peg Phillips. |
| ORIG | 17-Nov-1996 | Episode 18 | Season 2 Number 8 | Gobble, Gobble, Aggch! | Boyd and Wyleen invite friends for Thanksgiving dinner; with Margot Kidder. |
| ORIG | 20-Nov-1996 | Episode 19 | Season 2 Number 9 | Coming Clean | Wyleen confesses to Jack that she cheated on his exam. |
| SYND | 8-Dec-1996 | Episode 20 | Season 2 Number 10 | Arts and Craftiness | Worried about her upcoming job review, Tasha demands slacker Boyd buckle down. |
| ORIG | 15-Dec-1996 | Episode 21 | Season 2 Number 11 | The Finals Curtain | The campus radio-station manager (Danny Bonaduce) helps Leonard cut a demo tape. |
| SYND | 5-Jan-1997 | Episode 22 | Season 2 Number 12 | Soup to Nuts | All seek out Boyd's help with their individual problems. |
| SYND | 16-Feb-1997 | Episode 23 | Season 2 Number 13 | A Night of Camelot | Boyd and Jack find and sell tennis shoes that once belonged to John F. Kennedy. |
| ORIG | 9-Mar-1997 | Episode 24 | Season 2 Number 14 | Commander-in-Grief | Boyd clashes with the ruthless, new college president (Roger Rees). |
| SYND | 16-Mar-1997 | Episode 25 | Season 2 Number 15 | His and Herpes | President Cross wants to slash the crisis center's budget; Wyleen has a cold sore. |
| SYND | 23-Mar-1997 | Episode 26 | Season 2 Number 16 | Extra Credit | President Cross' plan for the student union upsets Boyd and Tasha. |
| SYND | 6-Apr-1997 | Episode 27 | Season 2 Number 17 | The Occidental Purists | Wyleen lands the lead role in a play; Tasha dates Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. |
| ORIG | 7-Apr-1997 | Episode 28 | Season 2 Number 18 | And Here's to You, Mrs. Byrnes | Jack gets upset when Joy's mother meets and obviously likes Boyd. |
| SYND | 13-Apr-1997 | Episode 29 | Season 2 Number 19 | I.D. Endow | President Cross threatens to expel Wyleen for getting a fake ID. |
| ORIG | 14-Apr-1997 | Episode 30 | Season 2 Number 20 | To Bare Is Human | A men's magazine wants to do a pictorial of campus women; guest Wendie Malick. |
| CLEAN | 20-Apr-1997 | Episode 31 | Season 2 Number 21 | A Cross to Bear | Boyd exposes the identity of Cross' secret visitor to the media. |
| ORIG | 28-Apr-1997 | Episode 32 | Season 2 Number 22 | Sophomore's Choice | Wyleen makes Boyd move out, so he moves in with Tasha. |