The Best Episodes Directed By Larry Houston

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.3/10(8 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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   7.0/10(10 votes)

   #2 - 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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   6.9/10(7 votes)

   #3 - 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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   6.8/10(6 votes)

   #4 - 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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   6.8/10(6 votes)

   #5 - Graduation Day

   S5:E149/20/1997

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

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   6.7/10(7 votes)

   #6 - One Man's Worth (2)

   S4:E29/16/1995

   Bishop, Shard, and the alternate-present versions of Wolverine & Storm, will have one more chance to save Xavier from being killed before he founded the X-Men... if they can survive the alternate-future ruled entirely unopposed by Mastermold.

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   6.7/10(6 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(6 votes)

   #8 - Old Soldiers

   S5:E112/22/1997

   Wolverine thinks back to the time when he fought during World War II and teamed up with Captain America.

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   6.6/10(8 votes)

   #9 - 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(7 votes)

    #10 - 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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    6.6/10(8 votes)

    #11 - One Man's Worth (1)

    S4:E19/9/1995

    Bishop & Shard recruit Wolverine & Storm for a time travel mission to save Professor Xavier's life. Except they're from the parallel timeline where he died before founding the X-Men, a world where humans and mutants are in a constant war with one another. Not only do they pair lack a connection to him, but correcting history may put an end to their marriage.

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    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #12 - 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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13. 

    6.5/10(11 votes)

    #13 - 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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    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #14 - 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(6 votes)

    #15 - 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(6 votes)

    #16 - The Fifth Horseman

    S5:E102/8/1997

    Fabian Cortez helps Apocalypse escape from the astral plane.

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    6.4/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Time Fugitives (2)

    S2:E812/18/1993

    To stablize his own timeline, Cable comes to the present to prevent Bishop from saving mutant-kind from Apocalypse's plague.

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    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #18 - 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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    6.4/10(10 votes)

    #19 - The Phoenix Saga: The Starjammers (4)

    S3:E69/8/1994

    Lilandra seeks to protect the M'Kraan Crystal from her wicked brother, the Emperor D'Ken. But the interstellar pirates known as the Starjammers capture it, and Cyclops, in an effort to enact their own revenge scheme on the emperor.

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    6.4/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Savage Land, Strange Heart (2)

    S3:E99/17/1994

    Storm's unfettered weather-fury continues setting the stage for the rise of Garokk. Even if Storm can be brought back under control, the Sun God's geothermal rejuvenation will spell an end to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land.

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    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Dark Phoenix: Dazzled (1)

    S3:E1111/12/1994

    The flirtation between Cyclops and a mutant singer named Dazzler exacerbates the Phoenix-controlled side of Jean Grey, leaving her open for manipulation by a secret sect of mutants coveting her immense powers for their own evil designs.

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    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #22 - 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(7 votes)

    #23 - 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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    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Jubilee's Fairytale Theatre

    S5:E911/16/1996

    Jubilee tells children her own fairy tale having herself, her fellow X-Men and their greatest enemies be the characters in it.

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    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #25 - 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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