10.0/101 votes#1 - Winning is For Losers
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1978
Linda Frye, a young woman determined to win a major golf tournament, is shot and the Angels are called in to find out who is trying to kill her.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votes#2 - Big Brother
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1976
When Steve Austin agrees to some promotional work for a friends' Big Brothers organization, he soon takes a difficult youth named Carlos Delgado under his wing.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Kenneth Johnson
8.7/1057 votes#3 - The Best of Both Worlds (1)
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 6/18/1990
Stardate: 43989.1 An Starfleet expert on the Borg, Lt. Cmdr. Shelby, is assigned to the Enterprise to investigate the disappearance of a Federation colony. Picard is abducted by the Borg and assimilated into the Collective, which forces Riker to attempt a rescue mission.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
8.6/1039 votes#4 - Bad Blood
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/22/1998
After Mulder chases down and kills a young man who he believes to be a vampire, the agents return to DC aware of the mistake they just made. Faced with a lawsuit from the family of the man, they recount each of their sides to the story leading up to the event. In the extremely humorous stories that follow we see how Scully and Mulder both perceive each other.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.5/1047 votes#5 - The Best of Both Worlds (2)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1990
Stardate: 44001.4. Riker must pull out all the stops in order to save Earth from a Borg invasion being lead by none other than Locutus - otherwise known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
8.2/1040 votes#6 - Small Potatoes
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/1997
Five babies in the same town are all born with tails and the local OB-GYN is blamed for tampering with fertilized eggs. However, Mulder discovers the culprit to be a simple man with a genetic deformity who may have the ability to alter his appearance.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Vince Gilligan
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Hostages
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1983
After Hooker and Romano foil an armed robbery committed by a family of robbers, which leaves the father wounded in hospital and the daughter held in custody, the two sons take the hospital wing with their father on siege, holding Hooker's ex-wife Fran, Stacy, a little girl urgently needing heart surgery, and a whole floor of patients hostage...
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Husky
8.0/101 votes#8 - The Sum of Her Parts
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/1998
Years of verbal and physical abuse take a deadly toll when its victim lashes out against his abuser. Unable to kill the actual perpetrator, his mother, the deranged man strikes those who remind him of the wretched woman. The team investigates and Sam accurately assesses the killer's pathology, but mistakenly assumes the man is actin out against his wife, not his mother. When the ages of the victims begins to rise, Sam realizes her error and theorizes that the killer is slowly working up the courage to murder his tormentor. The team then races to find the ill-fated woman before her son can exact his final revenge. B-Story- Sam realizes she and Chloe must begin a new life, and to that end, decides to move into a new home.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.9/1029 votes#9 - Dark Frontier
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1999
Stardate: 52619.2. When Janeway hatches a daring plan to steal technology from a crippled Borg ship, Seven is coerced into returning to the Borg collective.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Brannon Braga
7.7/1025 votes#10 - Red Sky at Morning
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2007
Bela gets in the way yet again as Sam and Dean are investigating multiple victims who drowned even though they were nowhere near water. Sam and Dean make the creepy discovery that the victims all saw a ghost ship right before dying. They tell Bela to stay away, but she's not so willing to leave, as someone's paying her a lot to solve the same case Sam and Dean are investigating.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Laurence Andries
7.6/1039 votes#11 - Redemption (1)
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 6/17/1991
Stardate: 44995.3. Worf must choose between his people and the Federation when a civil war threatens to destroy the Klingon Empire.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
7.5/1039 votes#12 - First Contact
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1991
Riker is abducted by a xenophobic race of aliens during a first contact mission. They believe the Enterprise is a scout for an invasion.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Joe Menosky
7.5/1041 votes#13 - Unification (1)
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1991
Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/1039 votes#14 - Unification (2)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1991
Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Berman
7.5/104 votes#15 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1992
Two thieves lose their loot under a lifeguard tower and Shauni is swept off her feet by an eccentric beach poet.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#16 - The Big Spill
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1992
Toxic waste, corporate greed, and a determined environmental spell trouble for the Baywatch lifeguards.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff
7.5/104 votes#17 - Dead of Summer
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1992
The governor holds a speech on the pier; three bad guys plan to blow the pier into pieces with a boat. Garner meets his sister's old friend Wendi again.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#18 - Thin Ice
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1988
While back in Minnesota to fill in as coach for a high-school hockey team, MacGyver tries to change the attitude of a callous player who has a shot at playing for the pros. But when this kid's ambition lands another player in the hospital, MacGyver must try and find out what or who is pushing him so hard to succeed.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Rick Drew
7.5/1028 votes#19 - Tuvix
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/6/1996
Stardate: 49655.2. A transporter accident merges Tuvok and Neelix into one new being who calls himself 'Tuvix.'
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.4/1039 votes#20 - Remember Me
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1990
Stardate: 44161.2. Dr. Crusher begins to question her sanity when members of the crew start disappearing one by one, and all evidence of their existence is erased.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Lee Sheldon
7.3/1025 votes#21 - Defiant
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1994
Stardate: 48467.3. The DS9 crew welcomes a visit from William Riker of the Enterprise, but the lieutenant’s hidden agenda leads to a tense standoff deep in Cardassian space.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
7.3/1028 votes#22 - Future's End (2)
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996
Stardate: 50312.5. While trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a gang of weapons smugglers who believe that they are from the government.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Brannon Braga
7.3/1054 votes#23 - Conspiracy
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/9/1988
Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Tracy Tormé
7.2/1026 votes#24 - Meld
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1996
Stardate: Unknown. In order to help out Lon Suder, a psychopath who killed a crewmember, Tuvok performs a mind meld. Soon after he begins showing violent tendencies, which develop until he loses control.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Sussman
7.1/1044 votes#25 - The Ensigns of Command
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1989
Stardate: 43133.3. A human colony is forced to evacuate a planet when the original inhabitants return and threaten the colonists with annihilation if they do not leave within four days.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass
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"Winning is For Losers" is the best rated episode directed by Cliff Bole. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 10/18/1978 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Big Brother".