The Best Episodes Directed By Kim Manners

Every TV Episode Directed by Kim Manners Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for Death Machine
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Death Machine

    S2:E18

    A couple of young punks rip off the house of Lucky Lacy, an underworld jewelry connection, and get away with $2,000,000 in jewels. But when Lacy hires Lincoln, a huge punk killer to find them, dead bodies start piling up and Hunter and McCall are up against their biggest foe yet!

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  2. Background image for Pilot (1)
    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Pilot (1)

    S1:E1

    Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

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  3. Background image for Pilot (2)
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Pilot (2)

    S1:E2

    Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

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  4. Background image for In the Custody of a Clown
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - In the Custody of a Clown

    S2:E1

    The Jump Street unit discovers that a boy who was being used as a pawn by his feuding parents faked his kidnapping with the aid of his grandfather to get away from his parents.

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  5. Background image for Flashes and Ashes
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Flashes and Ashes

    S1:E6

    Walter's friend and fellow cop, Frank Cooney is killed during the theft of police weaponry. But when the Internal Affairs agent believes Frank was involved, Walter is suspended when he and Auto interfere trying to prove his friends' innocence.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  6. Background image for Club Ten
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Club Ten

    S1:E13

    The Club Ten resort is a center of diamond smuggling. One of the gang, Felipe, has double-crossed his cohorts and they are after him. Golf pro Ted and henchman Randy catch him, and when he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of the diamonds he stole, they capture his companion, Laura Ferguson, in the act of making a call for help.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  7. Background image for Mystery Spot
    8.8/10(38 votes)

    #7 - Mystery Spot

    S3:E11

    Dean is killed after looking into a case about the disappearance of a man with Sam. The next morning, Sam is shocked to find Dean alive and is hit with the realization that he is reliving the day before.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  8. Background image for Lazarus Rising
    8.8/10(41 votes)

    #8 - Lazarus Rising

    S4:E1

    Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?

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    Director:Kim Manners
  9. Background image for No Rest for the Wicked
    8.8/10(34 votes)

    #9 - No Rest for the Wicked

    S3:E16

    Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  10. Background image for All Hell Breaks Loose (2)
    8.7/10(38 votes)

    #10 - All Hell Breaks Loose (2)

    S2:E22

    After the fight between Jake and Sam, Dean has to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother. Meanwhile the Yellow-Eyed Demon has his new servant and plans to unleash the hordes of Hell.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  11. Background image for Jus in Bello
    8.7/10(36 votes)

    #11 - Jus in Bello

    S3:E12

    FBI Agent Henricksen finally captures Sam and Dean, but is caught in the middle when a horde of demons descends on the small-town jail to eliminate the brothers.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  12. Background image for Bounty Hunter's Convention
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Bounty Hunter's Convention

    S1:E16

    Brisco and Bowler joins other bounty hunters at an island lodge, where the hunters become the hunted.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  13. Background image for In My Time of Dying
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #13 - In My Time of Dying

    S2:E1

    In the aftermath of the car crash, the surviving Winchesters go to the hospital, where one is stalked by a Reaper while another must consider sacrificing himself to save the others.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  14. Background image for War of the Coprophages
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    #14 - War of the Coprophages

    S3:E12

    Widespread panic is caused in a small community after numerous deaths are linked to killer cockroaches, and a government agricultural agency is discovered to have set up a secret experiment involving insects.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  15. Background image for Devil's Trap
    8.3/10(41 votes)

    #15 - Devil's Trap

    S1:E22

    When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  16. Background image for Scarecrow
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #16 - Scarecrow

    S1:E11

    Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:N/A
  17. Background image for Dreamland II (2)
    8.2/10(38 votes)

    #17 - Dreamland II (2)

    S6:E5

    Mulder is thrown in jail at the Area 51 compound but is released when it is discovered that the flight data recorder he stole was a fake. Scully comes to her senses and realizes that the Mulder she sees isn't who he really is and heads back to Nevada to help the real Mulder. Meanwhile, the mechanism that caused the body swap is rapidly snapping back, undoing everything in its wake, and Mulder and his alter ego must race to put themselves back where they belong.

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  18. Background image for Dreamland (1)
    8.2/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Dreamland (1)

    S6:E4

    While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.

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  19. Background image for Field Trip
    8.1/10(42 votes)

    #19 - Field Trip

    S6:E21

    When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.

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  20. Background image for Humbug
    8.1/10(54 votes)

    #20 - Humbug

    S2:E20

    Mulder and Scully travel to Gibsonton, Florida, a town built and populated by circus and sideshow performers to investigate the death of Jerald Glazebrook, The Alligator Man. While searching for leads on the killer, the agents come across many bizarre characters including the local sheriff who was once known as Jim Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  21. Background image for Fresh Blood
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #21 - Fresh Blood

    S3:E7

    The brothers capture a female vampire named Lucy who has no idea how she became one, which leads them to Dixon, a male vampire who is a little too giving. Gordon returns with a vengeance leaving Sam in danger.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  22. Background image for Heart
    8.1/10(35 votes)

    #22 - Heart

    S2:E17

    Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  23. Background image for The Magnificent Seven
    8.0/10(34 votes)

    #23 - The Magnificent Seven

    S3:E1

    Seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, are released into the world and the brothers must combat them with the aid of a married Hunter couple.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  24. Background image for Home
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #24 - Home

    S4:E2

    A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:James Wong
  25. Background image for Redux II (3)
    8.0/10(43 votes)

    #25 - Redux II (3)

    S5:E2

    The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.

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    Director:Kim Manners

Kim Manners Ratings Summary

"Death Machine" is the best rated episode directed by Kim Manners. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 3/11/1986 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Pilot (1)".