10.0/101 votes#1 - Death Machine
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1986
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!
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
9.5/104 votes#2 - Pilot (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/1987
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, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
9.3/103 votes#3 - Pilot (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/1987
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, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
9.0/102 votes#4 - In the Custody of a Clown
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1987
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Clifton Campbell
8.7/1031 votes#5 - Mystery Spot
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/14/2008
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.7/1027 votes#6 - No Rest for the Wicked
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/2008
Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.6/1034 votes#7 - Lazarus Rising
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2008
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?
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.6/1029 votes#8 - All Hell Breaks Loose (2)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2007
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.5/1029 votes#9 - Jus in Bello
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/21/2008
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble
8.5/102 votes#10 - Bounty Hunter's Convention
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1994
Brisco and Bowler joins other bounty hunters at an island lodge, where the hunters become the hunted.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.4/1036 votes#11 - War of the Coprophages
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1996
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Darin Morgan
8.3/1031 votes#12 - Dreamland II (2)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/1998
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
8.3/1031 votes#13 - In My Time of Dying
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2006
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.2/1031 votes#14 - Dreamland (1)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1998
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
8.2/1037 votes#15 - Scarecrow
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/2006
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.1/1034 votes#16 - Field Trip
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1999
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: John Shiban
8.1/1031 votes#17 - Devil's Trap
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2006
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.0/1045 votes#18 - Humbug
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1995
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Darin Morgan
8.0/1027 votes#19 - Heart
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2007
Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Sera Gamble
- 8.0/102 votes
#20 - Showdown
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/1993
Brisco takes over the duties of sheriff in his home town after it's taken over by a cattle baron. He also renews a relationship with the sheriff's daughter and his previous girlfriend.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: David Simkins
- 8.0/102 votes
#21 - Brooklyn Dodgers
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1994
A pair of urchins wants to claim a gold mine, but needs Brisco and Bowler's help to dodge a ruthless New York gang to do it.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/102 votes
#22 - High Treason: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/13/1994
Brisco and Bowler are tried for treason after trying to help the Army retrieve a kidnapped heiress. Part 1 of 2.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Brad Kern
8.0/101 votes#23 - Gotta Finish the Riff
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1987
Jenko is killed by a drunk driver and is replaced by Captain Fuller who has his hands full dealing with a vengeful gang leader whom has taken his principal and several others hostage, including an undercover Hanson.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
8.0/101 votes#24 - Bad Influence
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/1987
Hanson and Penhall try to locate some missing juveniles while Ioki tries to find a link between a teenage prostitution ring and a series of burglaries.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
8.0/101 votes#25 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1987
Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
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"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)".