The Best Episodes Directed By Larry Houston

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(13 votes)

   #1 - The Phalanx Covenant (1)

   S5:E19/7/1996

   Rushing to investigate a disturbance downtown, the X-Men find Sabretooth on the rampage again, but realize too late that it isn't really Sabretooth at all. It is the Phalanx, a voracious alien life-form that can assume the guise of anything or anyone. Before long, the X-Men are all captured, except for Beast, who must find a way to stop the alien horror from devouring the entire Earth.

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   #2 - The Phalanx Covenant (2)

   S5:E29/7/1996

   Snatched from the jaws of the Phalanx by the villainous Mr. Sinister, Beast and Forge search for allies to help them battle the alien threat. Gathering assistance from such unlikely sources as Magneto and Sinister himself, they embark upon a daring and risky plan to free the planet from the clutches of the Phalanx by traveling straight into the belly of the beast.

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   6.9/10(13 votes)

   #3 - Nightcrawler

   S3:E185/13/1995

   Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine take a ski trip in Germany. While Gambit and Rogue seem to be enjoying themselves, Wolverine is restless, and longs for some action. When he hears reports of a demon hiding in a local monastery, his investigation reveals not a demon, but a mutant, Nightcrawler, whose devilish appearance is in stark contrast to his peaceful and deeply philosophical nature.

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   6.8/10(16 votes)

   #4 - Beauty & the Beast

   S2:E101/15/1994

   Beast falls in love with his patient, a blind woman named Carly, and though the feelings are mutual, her mutant-hating father and anti-mutant sentiment drive a split between the pair. Meanwhile, Wolverine seeks to take down the Friends of Humanity from the inside out.

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   6.8/10(16 votes)

   #5 - The Phoenix Saga: Child of Light (5)

   S3:E79/9/1994

   Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken's rise to power via the M'Kraan Crystal is causing a universal implosion. The X-Men, Imperial Guard, and Starjammers find themselves overpowered and unable to stop it. Jean Grey must unleash her destiny as the host of the Phoenix, even at a most personal cost.

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   6.7/10(11 votes)

   #6 - Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape

   S3:E196/11/1995

   A cryptic postcard unleashes a flood of maddening and painful memories in Wolverine that threaten to drive him insane. To keep his mind from being torn apart, Wolverine and Beast travel to the one location that may hold the answers to his hidden past: the ruins of the top-secret Weapon X lab where Wolverine's bones were laced with adamantium. There he encounters other former 'test subjects'—Sabretooth, Maverick and Silver Fox—who are suffering similar mental breakdowns.

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   6.7/10(11 votes)

   #7 - Bloodlines

   S5:E610/26/1996

   Nightcrawler gets a mysterious message. He is informed that his birth mother (whom he never knew) is in trouble. He turns to the X-Men for assistance. Jubilee is baffled that Nightcrawler wants to help the mother who abandoned him -- she has never known her birth parents and feels pretty hostile toward them, whoever they are. Nightcrawler admits there has been pain, but his faith in God has helped him overcome her rejection. The plot thickens when one of the team members recognizes Nightcrawler's mother's voice.

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   6.7/10(14 votes)

   #8 - The Dark Phoenix: The Dark Phoenix (3)

   S3:E1311/19/1994

   As the Dark Phoenix grows increasingly hostile, even destroying an entire star system, the X-Men struggle to figure out a way to stop her without harming their teammate Jean Grey.

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   6.6/10(17 votes)

   #9 - A Rogue's Tale

   S2:E91/8/1994

   Haunted by visions of a strange woman, Rogue must come to grips with the dark secrets of her past prior to joining the X-Men.

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    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #10 - The Juggernaut Returns

    S3:E175/6/1995

    Professor Xavier's step-brother, and sworn enemy, the Juggernaut loses his powers to a bumbling archeologist. He must overcome the pain of their childhood together, and have the powers restored to him to save his life.

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    6.6/10(14 votes)

    #11 - The Dark Phoenix: The Inner Circle (2)

    S3:E1211/12/1994

    The Circle Club makes the Phoenix-controlled Jean Grey their new Queen, but finds two factors opposing it: her mental bond with Cyclops, and the presumed-dead Wolverine stalking after them.

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    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Graduation Day

    S5:E149/20/1997

    At a Mutant/Human Relations Summit, Henry Peter Gyrich attacks.

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    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #13 - The Phoenix Saga: Sacrifice (1)

    S3:E39/5/1994

    Following visions from recent dreams, Professor Xavier sends his X-Men on a mission to the Eagle One Space-Station, putting them in the middle of an interstellar conflict.

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    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Beyond Good and Evil (4)

    S4:E1111/25/1995

    Two of Apocalypse's former evil allies, the captive Wolverine, the loose cannon Cable, and the exiled Bishop, come together to free the kidnapped psychics and save reality from being rewritten.

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    6.5/10(16 votes)

    #15 - The Phoenix Saga: Cry of the Banshee (3)

    S3:E59/7/1994

    Professor Xavier's claims of the capture of his alien soulmate Lilandra by Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy are met with skepticism.

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    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #16 - The Lotus and the Steel

    S4:E132/3/1996

    Finding himself continually losing control, Wolverine takes a sabbatical to Japan, in an effort to find inner peace in temple-building. Instead, he faces a village under siege by a group of bandits, and struggles to help them without compromising his search for his true nature.

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    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #17 - The Phoenix Saga: The Dark Shroud (2)

    S3:E49/6/1994

    The X-Men barely survive their return trip from space, Jean Grey discovering herself changed by the experience. Professor Xavier's dark half is given form, and proceeds to attack his students.

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    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Beyond Good and Evil (3)

    S4:E1011/18/1995

    After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immortality at its creation.

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    6.4/10(18 votes)

    #19 - Till Death Do Us Part (2)

    S2:E210/30/1993

    As Morph's seeking of revenge on the X-Men begins to run into some snags, Cyclops & Jean Grey get their Honeymoon cut short by the machinations of Mister Sinister and the Nasty Boys.

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    6.4/10(13 votes)

    #20 - The Dark Phoenix: The Fate of the Phoenix (4)

    S3:E1411/26/1994

    The X-Men face the Shi'ar Imperial Guard in a trial by combat to spare the life of Jean Grey, though even they begin to question the safety of the universe as long as the Dark Phoenix remains alive inside her.

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    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Proteus (1)

    S4:E49/30/1995

    The long hidden secret patient of Muir Island, a reality-warping mutant teen known as Proteus, escapes from his 15 year long captivity, and wreaks havoc across Scotland searching out his father.

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    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Xavier Remembers

    S4:E164/27/1996

    Trapped on the astral plane after suffering a concussion, Professor Xavier is at the mercy of the Shadow King, and in desperate need of help from his X-Men, who are unable to hear him.

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    6.4/10(14 votes)

    #23 - No Mutant Is an Island

    S5:E49/21/1996

    Cyclops, still in mourning after Jean Grey's "death", quits the X-men and returns to his orphanage home and encounters his friend Sarah. She tells him that a wealthy man has decided to adopt all the mutant children, especially Rusty, but his intentions are to make them his army to destroy all humans in the world so that mutants are accepted. It's up to Cyclops to stop him and save the mutant children.

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    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Sanctuary (1)

    S4:E610/21/1995

    Magneto builds a home strictly for mutants on the orbiting base known as Asteroid M. The message goes out worldwide of initial exodus, and he finds just as many eager to join him, as those anxious to destroy him.

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    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #25 - Sanctuary (2)

    S4:E710/28/1995

    With Magneto seemingly dead, Fabian Cortez takes over Asteroid M, and initiates a nuclear war with Earth. The X-Men attempt to sabotage his warhead stockpile, and rescue Gambit, finding assistance in the most unlikely of places.

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