The Best Episodes Directed By Jim Johnston
Every TV Episode Directed by Jim Johnston Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jim Johnston Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Jim Johnston is "Point of No Return", rated 8.667/10 from 9 user votes. It was "written by J. Michael Straczynski". "Point of No Return" aired on 2/26/1996 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Babylon Squared".
8.7/10 9 votes#1 - Point of No Return
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/1996
Clark has just declared martial law, and while Nightwatch prepare to take control of the station, Zack has to decide whose side he's on. In an exercise of bad timing, the prophetic widow of emperor Turhan finally comes to the station, granting Londo the visit he's been begging her for, for a long time.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.9/10 11 votes#2 - Babylon Squared
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/10/1994
Babylon 4 reappears at the same place it disappeared four years before, and Sinclair and Garibaldi lead an expedition to evacuate its crew. Meanwhile, Delenn is summoned by the Grey council. They inform her that they have selected a new leader - her.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.7/10 3 votes#3 - Evan
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1985
Crockett and Tubbs join forces with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ... including Crockett's old partner Evan Freed. Tubbs tries to understand their troubled relationship.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Edward di Lorenzo
7.3/10 9 votes#4 - Acts of Sacrifice
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/22/1995
G'Kar struggles to control the Narns on Babylon 5 as he asks the different ambassadors for help in the war against the Centauri. Ivanova shows a representative from a new species around the station, so he may decide if humans are worthy of their presence.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.3/10 13 votes#5 - Soul Hunter
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/1994
A badly damaged ship is brought into the station and the strange alien inside is identified as a soul hunter - an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.3/10 3 votes#6 - Boot
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/1996
Meg goes under cover as a Marine recruit in order to investigate the mysterious death of a female private in a boot camp. The facts point at the two drill instructors SSgt. Carrington and Sgt. Gonzales. But a newspaper clipping found by Lt. Austin changes the situation completely. Locations: Parris Island; Washington D.C.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Lucian Truscott IV
7.2/10 9 votes#7 - A Race Through Dark Places
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/25/1995
Bester returns to Babylon 5 to shut down an underground organization that smuggles rogue telepaths out of the PSI Corps' reach. Meanwhile, Sheridan has some disagreements with Earth Force over the rent of his quarters.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.2/10 10 votes#8 - A Distant Star
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1994
A giant explorer class ship comes to Babylon 5 for re-supply - its captain an old friend of Sheridan. Dr. Franklin gets on the command staff's nerves when he starts handing out "food plans".
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.1/10 9 votes#9 - Revelations
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/1994
Sheridan's sister comes to visit him at his new command, G'Kar returns with grave tidings from the rim of known space, Dr. Franklin tries to wake Gribaldi from the coma with the alien healing device obtained from Dr. Rosen, and something is happening in Delenn's quarters.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.1/10 9 votes#10 - GROPOS
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1995
Babylon 5 gets considerable space problems when 25,000 Earth Force soldiers arrive. Led by General Richard Franklin, Stephen Franklin's father, they are to use Babylon 5 as a staging point for a risky military operation.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.0/10 3 votes#11 - Hemlock
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/27/1996
Due to the transposition of two digits of a phone number, Lt. Austin receives a fax with the itinerary for a person with the codename 'Shepherd'. Later, a Commander from the Royal Navy shows up demanding that paper. After receiving it he shoots Meg, seriouly wounding her. Trying to find out who this 'Shepherd' is and why this document is so important, they end up chasing an assassin named 'Hemlock' apparently working for Russian hardliners and trying to kill the man behind 'Shepherd' - Boris Yeltsin who is due in the US for a secret treaty signing. Locations: Washington, D.C.; Bethesda; Leesburg, Va.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Jack Orman
6.9/10 10 votes#12 - By Any Means Necessary
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/11/1994
The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike after an accident in the docking bays. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony, but must find a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant that was destroyed in the accident.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Kathryn M. Drennan
6.8/10 10 votes#13 - The Parliament of Dreams
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1994
Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a week-long festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their dominate religious beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
6.7/10 3 votes#14 - Brig Break
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1995
Harm and Meg investigate the theft of stolen missiles at the SEATAC Naval Base. While interrogating PO1 Quinn of the theft, a prison-break takes place and Lt. Austin is taken hostage. Contrary to the Major in charge, Lt. Rabb thinks that this is a well-planned breakout with a big goal. Locations: SEATAC Island Naval Base and surrounding areas
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Robert Cochran
6.6/10 9 votes#15 - Survivors
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/1994
There is an explosion in one of the fighter bays just days before the president is to visit Babylon 5. A dying man implicates Garibaldi, which is just what the head of presidential security wants to hear, as she blames him for her father's death.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.6/10 9 votes#16 - Eyes
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/13/1994
Sinclair's decisions the last year catch up with him, when an internal affairs investigator arrives to test the crew's loyalty to Earth Force with the help of a telepath. And Lennier shows great interest in Garibaldi's attempt at assembling a 1990's motorcycle.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Larry DiTillio
6.5/10 2 votes#17 - Desert Storm
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1996
The Sliders land on a world with little water and come to the aid of a mysterious young woman whose gift to find water is being exploited by a group of thugs.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Matt Dearborn
6.5/10 2 votes#18 - Paradise Lost
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1997
The Sliders arrive in a small community, where the citizens are all young and fearful of outsiders. They don't expect much trouble, until they uncover a deadly secret.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Steve Stoliar
6.0/10 2 votes#19 - Whatever Works
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1985
Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to help find the link between ritualistic killings of officers and a group of drug traffickers. Crockett and Izzy try to get the Ferrari back after a city accountant re-possesses it.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 2 votes#20 - Hell Hath No Fury...
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1988
The highly publicized release of a convicted rapist makes Trudy fear that the man's victim may have revenge on her mind.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 2 votes#21 - Smoked
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/20/1996
After a lightning strike, a damaged Tomcat flying over Cuba is forced to land by the Cuban air force. Harm and Meg, accompanied by Cdr. Krennick and undersecretary of state Bair go to Cuba to negotiate the return of the pilot and aircraft. The main goal is to prevent the download of the Tomcat's classified software. But the CIA's actual plans are totally different ... Locations: Washington,D.C.; Cuba
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
5.7/10 3 votes#22 - Free Verse
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/1986
The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Daniel Pyne
5.5/10 2 votes#23 - Slither
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/25/1997
While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find themselves stuck in the middle of no where surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Tony Blake
5.5/10 2 votes#24 - This Slide of Paradise
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/16/1997
The Sliders track Rickman to a world where a mad scientist has been experimenting with genetic testing and has created a race of human hybrids.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Nan Hagan
5.5/10 2 votes#25 - Sons and Lovers
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1986
The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs is the father of her child.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: N/A