9.0/101 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1987
After Firebase Ladybird suffers heavy casualties, Sgt. Anderson goes to division headquarters to make a report and recruit replacements. He selects the best from a group of new recruits and meets fir the first time their new leader, 2nd Lt. Goldman.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Steve Duncan
9.0/101 votes#2 - Slither
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/2006
After Russ Corbett and his wife are found in a seedy hotel room, Russ dead of an overdose, Eames and Goren follow the trail of evidence to Bernard Fremont, a professional partier. With his beautiful blonde companions, Fremont insinuates himself into the lives of couples who don't know the city very well, then robs them blind. While investigating Fremont's past in Asia, Goren realises that he is the mastermind that turned Nicole Wallace into a murderer, and his most successful pupil.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Marlane Meyer
9.0/102 votes#3 - The End of the World
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2000
An older Max travels from the future (2014 to be exact) to tell Liz that their relationship will imperil his planet and together they devise a plan to change the future: by making present Max fall out of love with Liz.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Jason Katims
8.5/102 votes#4 - Control
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/2001
Max, with the help of Kal Langley, undertakes a dangerous journey as he seeks to learn of the fate of Tess and his son. Meanwhile, back in Roswell, Isabel and Jesse must face the negative reactions of their parents and friends to their impending marriage.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Gretchen J. Berg
8.4/1014 votes#5 - Two to Go (1)
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2002
Fueled by black magic, Willow targets Andrew and Jonathan, leading to a battle between Buffy and Willow; Spike fights an unstoppable foe.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Douglas Petrie
8.3/103 votes#6 - Coded
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/2005
Allison's daughter Ariel dreams that she is a young girl named Sarah being held captive by an ogre in a castle. While Joe agonizes over the possibility that both of his daughters have inherited their mother's psychic abilities, Allison tries to help Ariel and interpret the dream. However, Allison's advice provokes Ariel to run away from a field trip in order to follow up a clue.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Moira Kirland
8.2/104 votes#7 - Calvary
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2003
After learning the doomsday beast may be working for something bigger and badder than itself, Angel's friends cast a spell to return his soul to Angelus' body.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Mere Smith
8.0/103 votes#8 - A Priest, a Doctor and a Medium Walk into an Execution Chamber
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/2005
The girlfriend of a convicted drug lord is killed on the night of his execution. The drug lord's ghost is seen at the crime scene, and Allison is brought in to investigate. Also, Allison discovers a dark secret about the mother of a boy that Ariel has a crush on.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Chris Dingess
7.6/105 votes#9 - That Vision Thing
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2001
Lilah coerces Angel to help in securing the release of a prisoner the powers that be have locked in a fiery prison.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
7.5/104 votes#10 - Life of the Party
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003
Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Ben Edlund
7.5/104 votes#11 - Hope and Mercy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/2005
In a hospital, Melinda encounters a woman who wants to determine what caused her death during a surgery.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: John Wirth
- 7.5/102 votes
#12 - Ex Stasis
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/20/2005
When a young woman is shot at an appointment she never should have been at, Goren and Eames investigate her death and learn she had received a kidney transplant a few years earlier. Initially they believe that Vanessa Nikos may have been killed so that her organs could be harvested, but soon learn that her death was more closely connected with the organ she initially received from living donor Boyce Wainwright. When her shooter, also awaiting an organ transplant, is also found dead, the police realise they're on to something.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Diana Son
7.2/104 votes#13 - Pulse
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/2005
As the signal from the Big Horn invades a Miami rave, the team investigates who have been infected, trying to prevent the signal from spreading to the population.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.2/104 votes#14 - Supersymmetry
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2002
Fred discovers her old physics professor is the one who exiled her to Pylea; Cordelia can't get comfortable with Connor and begins to wonder more about her history with Angel.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Sarah Fain
7.0/101 votes#15 - Past Imperfect
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2002
When skeletal remains are found at a construction site, the ownership is traced to a man who is a dead ringer for John.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Russel Friend
7.0/102 votes#16 - Monsters!
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 1/24/1986
A young boy becomes fascinated with the new neighbor next door. The neighbor, Mr. Bendictson, warns him that he cannot stay long, as he is a vampire! The boy is still intrigued, but soon finds out the truth.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Robert Crais
7.0/103 votes#17 - Brothers and Sisters
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1993
The seaQuest is ordered to entomb a munitions depot thought to be abandoned. However, when the crew discovers children living inside, Bridger must convince them to follow him to safety.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Art Monterastelli
7.0/104 votes#18 - Provider
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2002
Fred solves a puzzle for a group of demons who literally want to buy her brain; Angel is hired to clean out a vampire nest by a man who can't afford to pay for Angel's services; Wes and Gunn help a woman whose dead boyfriend is stalking her.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: N/A
6.8/105 votes#19 - Happy Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2001
Angel and The Host search for a physicist who, with the aid of to Lubber demons, plans to freeze time so the he and his girlfriend will live in eternal happiness. Meanwhile, Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn start their first official case.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: David Greenwalt
6.0/101 votes#20 - Subject: Sunrise at Sunset Streams
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2001
To secure money for Chloe, Derek lies and denies the potential presence of a mythical creature at a retirement community. Then, a sudden death forces him to come clean.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Russel Friend
5.7/103 votes#21 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1993
As the seaQuest undergoes inspection, Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg has a close encounter with an unknown life form while in a seaCrab in the Tonga Trench. When the creature lets him go, Krieg discovers a treasure trove of mysterious glowing stones; stones that may mean big money. However, is the bigger threat to seaQuest the greed that overtakes the crew or the unknown life form?
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: John J. Sakmar
5.5/102 votes#22 - Second Chance
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/1995
The crew members travel through a ""space-time sphere"" that rockets them back in time to October 1962. This places them in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis where they have to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
5.0/102 votes#23 - Teacher's Aide
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/8/1985
A teacher on a violent and gang infested high school has trouble controlling her students. The building is warded by some mysterious gargoyles, which give some special powers to the teacher.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Steven Barnes
- 4.5/102 votes
#24 - Country Crossover
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2006
Logan and Wheeler must sort through multiple motives as they investigate an award-winning music producer's death.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Warren Leight
Popular searches:
The Best Episodes Directed By Bill L. norton
Every TV Episode Directed by Bill L. norton Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Bill L. Norton Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode directed by Bill L. Norton. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Steve Duncan. It aired on 9/24/1987 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Slither".