The Best Episodes Directed By Michael Gill

Every TV Episode Directed by Michael Gill Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - The Skin of Our Teeth
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Skin of Our Teeth

    S1:E1

    In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - Heroic Materialism
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Heroic Materialism

    S1:E13

    Clark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to the skyscrapers of twentieth century New York. The achievements of the engineers and scientists - such as Brunel and Rutherford - having been matched by the great reformers like Wilberforce and Shaftsbury.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - The Fallacies of Hope
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Fallacies of Hope

    S1:E12

    Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romanticism artists is traced from Beethoven's, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - The Hero as Artist
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #4 - The Hero as Artist

    S1:E5

    Here Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the courtyards of the Vatican, the rooms decorated for the Pope by Raphael, and the Sistine Chapel.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Romance and Reality
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Romance and Reality

    S1:E3

    Beginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Light of Experience
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Light of Experience

    S1:E8

    Here Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in the Dutch paintings which took the observation of human character to a higher stage of development.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Smile of Reason
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Smile of Reason

    S1:E10

    Here Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary politics to the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles finally to Jefferson's Monticello.

    Director:Michael Gill
    Writer:N/A

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Michael Gill Ratings Summary

"The Skin of Our Teeth" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Gill. It scored 9/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 2/23/1969 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Heroic Materialism".