8.5/102 votes#1 - Baby Love
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/1997
WYOMING(?) - After a close call with getting caught by Miss Parker, Jarod stumbles upon a baby who was thrown into a dumpster. Jarod takes the child and nurses it until he can find his parents while avoiding sinister authorities. At the same time, Miss Parker, Sydney and Broots all follow clues that Jarod has dug up in reference to the meaning of SL-27.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votes#2 - Scott Free
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1997
MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE - Jarod intercepts the role of a real safecracker to help a man who's being forced to participate in one more heist. Jarod also starts to feel the need of a father figure and turns to Sydney. Meanwhile, Brigitte tries to take control over Miss Parker's role in the capture of Jarod.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Tommy Thompson
8.1/1013 votes#3 - The Woman in the Tunnel
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2006
Brennan and Booth stumble upon a subterranean world of homeless people when they find the remains of a filmmaker in the ventilation shaft of an underground tunnel.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Steve Blackman
8.0/102 votes#4 - Deep in the Heart of Dixie
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/5/1993
Brisco and Dixie find romance while on the run from an assassin in pursuit of Dixie, who has incriminating evidence against a politico.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Brad Kern
7.9/1055 votes#5 - Darkness Falls
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/15/1994
When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Carter
7.8/104 votes#6 - The Leap Home (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1990
November 25, 1969: As himself at the age of 16, Sam has the opportunity to both win the high school basketball championship and save his family from their sad fates.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.8/104 votes#7 - Shock Theater
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1991
October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.5/104 votes#8 - Black on White on Fire
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1990
August 11, 1965: Sam leaps into a black med. student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.5/104 votes#9 - The Last Gunfighter
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1992
November 28, 1957: Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.5/104 votes#10 - Moments to Live
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/1992
May 4, 1985: Sam is a soap opera heart surgeon and the obsession of a love-struck, if somewhat deranged fan. He must escape from the woman and her husband who kidnap him for reproductive purposes
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Tommy Thompson
7.5/104 votes#11 - The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/1992
March 2, 1957: It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.2/104 votes#12 - Heart of a Champion
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/1991
July 23, 1955: The heart of a champion belongs to Ronnie, a professional wrestler, who will die if he competes in the title match. Sam, as his brother and new partner Terry, must convince him of his hidden health problem, while avoiding his own health problem - the jealous wrestler-husband of a woman who has taken an amorous interest in Sam.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Tommy Thompson
7.2/104 votes#13 - The Wrong Stuff
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1991
January 24, 1961: The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Paul Brown
7.0/102 votes#14 - Silence
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/4/1998
EL PASO, TEXAS - Jarod becomes a child psychologist to help a little boy, who witnessed the murder of a DEA agent, break out of his wall of silence. Back at the Centre, Mr. Raines is under tower review, thanks to Miss Parker. Things get worst for him when an old patient / project comes back to haunt him.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
7.0/104 votes#15 - Play Ball
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1991
August 6, 1961: A pitcher on a minor league baseball team, Sam must decide if he's there to help a fellow team member, get his host back into the major leagues, or baby-sit the porcine team mascot, all while resisting the amorous advances of the women in his life.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Tommy Thompson
7.0/101 votes#16 - Love's Labour Mislaid
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1993
Maggie forgets about having sex with Joel. Holling and Ruth-Anne go out to find a Siberian Tit, a bird rarely seen in Alaska. Ed's uncle arranges a marriage for Ed; however the bride already has a boyfriend.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
6.8/108 votes#17 - Pool Hall Blues
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1990
September 4, 1954: In order to help his granddaughter save a small bar from the slimy loan shark holding a note on the place, Sam has to play pool like a pro...with a little help from Al and Ziggy.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.8/104 votes#18 - The Boogieman
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1990
October 31, 1964: Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
6.8/1066 votes#19 - The Jersey Devil
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1993
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Carter
6.3/103 votes#20 - Desert Son
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1995
During a maneuver, transposed digits lead to a fatal bombing of a unit's own men. This causes several seriously wounded and eventually one dead soldier. Lt. Rabb and Lt. Austin are assigned to investigate this case because the responsible man is none other than Jay Williams, the son of Gen. Williams. But it seems the case is clear since Jay confesses that this mistake was his fault. Locations: MCB Twenty-Nine Palms
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Evan Katz
6.0/107 votes#21 - Sea Bride
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1990
June 3, 1954: Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Deborah Pratt
6.0/102 votes#22 - Recovery
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1996
An evacuation training for a Space Shuttle team ends with a dead pilot caused by a broken cable. Harm and Meg investigate and soon determine that the cable was sabotaged. Harm's first suspect is promoted pilot Lt.Cdr. Lowry. As this is an important mission (repairing a spy satellite monitoring Southwest Asia) it can't be canceled. And since there isn't another eligible pilot, Lowry cannot be removed from the team. A training flight with Lowry and Harm on board has a fatal system malfunction - again sabotage. Lowrey can now be crossed out but the person responsible for these incidents must be found as the scheduled mission must proceed as planned. It is highly possible that there will be another 'unpleasant surprise' to stop this mission. Locations: AFB Vandenberg; Space
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Jack Orman
6.0/101 votes#23 - Washington Holiday
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1997
Harm is assigned to escort a rambunctious and ravishing Romanian princess, whose life has been threatened if her father petitions to join NATO. Meanwhile, Bud wrestles with starting a romance with Ens. Harriet Sims.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#24 - Against All Enemies
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1997
International tensions mount as Harm, Mac and Bud board an aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan to investigate the accidental shooting down of a North Korean civilian airline by Navy jets. While negligence on the part of the Navy fliers is indicated, Harm and Mac uncover evidence of a spy aboard the carrier. Meanwhile, the threat of war becomes real when a U.S. salvage vessel is sent to the site to help with the investigation and two North Korean warships threaten to sink it if both U.S. ships don't leave the area immediately.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Alex Davidson
6.0/101 votes#25 - Subject: Still I Rise
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/2001
Folks start seeing "Elvis-like" sightings of a rapper believed to have been gunned down. Derek and the group investigate and learn the rapper is really alive and faked his death to avoid supernatural pursuers. The group try to solve the mystery and protect the rapper at the same time. They must discover whether there is truth in his claims or whether this rapper is his own worst enemy.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
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"Baby Love" is the best rated episode directed by Joe Napolitano. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 5/10/1997 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Scott Free".