8.3/103 votes#1 - Atavus
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1998
Augur taps into the Taelon Commonality, breaking Da'an's contact with the Commonality. Da'an regresses into the "Atavus", a pre-historic version of the Taelons. Zo'or tells Sandoval to kill Da'an. Da'an is a threat for the Atavus only has a hunger for life spirit. The Resistance lures the Atavus to try to save Da'an.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brian Nelson
8.0/101 votes#2 - How Much is That Body in the Window?
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1987
Penhall gets close to a football player suspected of using steroids at a school where an olympic hopeful gymnast died after a performance due to steroid abuse. Hanson considers becoming a big brother.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Clifton Campbell
8.0/101 votes#3 - A Big Disease with a Little Name
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1988
Dorothy an old girlfriend of Penhall's, who walked out on him two years ago, returns and decides to move in with him. Hanson gets assigned to protect a student with AIDS who is being made to feel unwelcome in class.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
8.0/101 votes#4 - I'm OK- You Need Work
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1988
Hanson becomes trapped in a private drug clinic where he had himself placed in order to investigate claims of patient abuse made by a kid he once busted on drug charges.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Clifton Campbell
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Currency We Trade In
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/20/1988
A popular sports writer finds his whole life ruined when Penhall believes his ex-wife's allegations of his being a child molester.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Eric Blakeney
8.0/101 votes#6 - Hello Again
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/2015
Olivia continues to feel uneasy after learning about Jack's secrets. Meanwhile, a charismatic new district attorney and some unwanted visitors arrive in town, and a proposal is made.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Bruce Graham
7.8/1018 votes#7 - Epiphany
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/2005
Sheppard finds himself on a planet where time passes more rapidly, with no way to contact his team or return to Atlantis.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
7.3/103 votes#8 - Destruction
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1998
A holographic image of Rayna, who was consumed by an alien probe, tells Augur that the Taelons are dismantling the probe which will kill her, and they will learn about the Resistance's secrets. Hearing of Rayna's appearance, Sahjit is determined to bring her back. The Taelon lab is under intense security and Augur hires a special operative, Michael Sloane, to lead the resistance team to infiltrate the Taelon compound to destroy the alien probe.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Jonas McCord
7.0/101 votes#9 - To Sail Beyond the Stars
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2002
While trying to track down info on "the Burners", a mysterious group that's burning down whole settlements in seemingly random fashion, Jeremiah encounters a woman who's stealing all the gas she can get her hands on, and Kurdy ends up helping a pregnant girl, against his better judgment.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.0/101 votes#10 - Mother of Invention
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2002
Jeremiah and Kurdy are sent to contact an elusive group led by a mysterious "Steve" but get captured. One of his captors is Michelle, a woman he met (in flashback) back at his empty home five years ago after his brother died. They were intimately involved back then, and we find out she's the one who gave Jeremiah the idea for writing notes to his dead father. In the present it turns out "Steve" is Michelle. Her operation is working heavily to get knowledge out, and she also has a 5-year old son. One guy accuses Michelle of skimming and the guys follow her and find out she's collecting art, and agrees to work with Thunder Mountain. Then Michelle comes back to lay down the law on the guy who accused her of skimming and the guys head out with as Jeremiah and Michelle think about getting together in the future.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: A L Katz
7.0/101 votes#11 - Tripwire
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/31/2002
Realizing that Valhalla Sector is systematically taking control of the Nuclear Missile Silos starting from the east coast and moving east to-wards Thunder Mountain (Cheyenne Mountain) Marcus decided to make their Presence Known at a nearby town that has a missile silo, they offer men machines electricity and medicine, in hopes of winning over the people of the town and make an ally of the people so they can stop the advance of the people of Valhalla sector, but Ezekiel appears and is seen by Jeremiah talking to Chen, suspecting something wrong he chases after Ezekiel but is knocked out by Chen from behind, when Jeremiah wakes up he runs to warn Marcus that something bad is going to happen when he is struck down by a snipers bullet fired by Ezekiel in a nearby building.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.0/101 votes#12 - Double Exposure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/1988
Winston Knight, a TV anchorman, gains great fame because a serial killer, the Machete Killer, will only contact him. What no one knows is that Knight is using a cursed camera that lets him create an exact duplicate of himself that goes out and kills for him, providing him with an ironclad alibi and great ratings. As long as he destroys the negative within the allotted time, Knight is fine. Unfortunately, Ryan's new girlfriend Cathy witnesses one of the murders and realizes Knight is somehow the Machete Killer. One of Knight's photo-duplicates kills her, but the trio are close on Knight's trail. Knight eventually fails to destroy one of his indestructible duplicates in time, and disintegrates. However, the duplicate has little time to savor its new life before it dies of previously inflicted wounds.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#13 - What a Mother Wouldn't Do
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/23/1988
Two desperate parents were given an antique cradle by a symathetic Lewis Vendredi. The cradle belonged to a female passenger aboard the Titanic. Trying to rescue her child, she accidentally capsized a lifeboat that killed seven passengers, but her child floated to safety. Now, the curse of the cradle lets the parents cure their ailing baby if they kill seven people by water while the baby is in the cradle. However, they must do so before the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. Ultimiately, trying to kill the child's babysitter, the parents themselves both manage to die by water, inadvertently giving their lives to save their child. The babysitter ends up with the cured baby, and the trio recover the cradle.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#14 - The Vaccine
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/1998
It has been three months since the doomsday cult unleashed the genetically engineered Berlin C virus, and today most of the world is dead or dying. Among the living are a group of hospital patients and their nurse, Marie Alexander (Maria Conchita Alonso), who have survived because they were already under quarantine when the virus struck. They are running out of food and fuel when a soldier arrives with a new vaccine from the Center for Disease Control. But, there's only enough for three doses and it will take three days for the vaccine culture to develop enough to be effective. It falls to Marie to maintain order until the vaccine is ready, and to decide who will get injected.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
- 6.0/101 votes
#15 - To Tell the Truth
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/1998
Dr. Larry Chambers (Gregory Harrison) helped build the colony on the Janus Five. He and fellow scientist Amanda Harper (Kimberly Huffman) run computer simulations that show the planet's star will flash over in a matter of days, emitting waves of deadly radiation, so Dr. Chambers urges evacuation. This is not a popular recommendation, especially among the colony's leaders who include council chairman Franklin Murdock (William Atherton), security head Montgomery Bennett (Alan Scarfe) and Amanda's father, Ian Harper (Ken Pogue). They point out that Chambers has been wrong before - the colony had to be moved at great cost after he warned of deadly volcanic activity - and suggest that his judgment has been clouded by the death of his wife Elise. When that doesn't stop Chambers, Murdock and Bennett discredit him by falsely accusing him of being one of the aliens who originally inhabited the planet.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
6.0/102 votes#16 - A Stitch in Time
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1998
At an exhibit of Taelon items from Strandhill, Liam jumps through a Taelon portal which takes him two days into the future, where he finds everyone in the Resistance headquarters murdered. On returning to the present, he races to stop the massacre and begins to suspect that he is the assassin. Zu'or attempting to destroy Liam, beams dangerous brain wave emissions to him from the Taelon mothership. Doors, highly suspicious of Liam, becomes agitated and demands that Liam be shot.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: N/A
5.0/103 votes#17 - Bits of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/1997
Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust, but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelter, hes surrounded by his family, friends, lovers, anyone he wants ... Unfortunately, they're holograms -- computer generated people controlled by a beautiful holographic interface named Emma. But when curiosity turns to touch and Aidan makes love to Emma in a virtual reality pod, he quickly learns that trifling with a computers feelings can be dangerous ... and the morning after can be all too real.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: James Crocker
- 5.0/101 votes
#18 - Promised Land
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 8/21/1998
Dlavan (Rene Auberjonois) and his family are Tsal-Khan, offspring of the handful of aliens who remained on Earth after a bitter war of conquest with the human race. Today they live on a tightly guarded farm where they must grow all their own food, since their forebears poisoned all the plants during the war with mankind. Most of the aliens believe that the human race was wiped out in the war, but there is a group of humans in the woods near the farm. This group, is led by Rebecca (Caroline Goodall), escaped from the alien's robot run camps and includes David (Joseph Kell), Ruth (Jane Sowerby) and the mute, orphaned child Tali (Jessica Harmon). They are desperately hungry and have seen their children die from eating poisoned fruit. So, when they spot Dlavan's grandson Ma'al, wandering in the woods, they follow him home to the farm. After they see the well-fed aliens, Rebecca leads the group to raid the farm for food.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Markowitz
5.0/101 votes#19 - Small Friends
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/1999
When he was young, Gene Morton killed a man who tried to steal the credit for his brilliant research. Now working on a prison assembly line fixing the busted tape decks of fellow inmates, his chances at parole have been sabotaged by his own honesty and sense of guilt. Although it's a lonely life, late at night, after lights-out, Gene brings out his small friends, a swarm of microscopic machines that he made from prison scrap and keeps in a matchbox.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Tom Szollosi
- 5.0/101 votes
#20 - Breaking Point
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/18/2000
When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he suspects that he's being let go because the company president doesn't want to give him credit for his work on the CPS-1200, an as-yet untested time machine. Defiant, Andrew decides to take a trip in the machine. When he reaches his destination, two days in the future, his head is throbbing with a migraine and he is shocked to find that the police are looking for him. Fleeing the lab, he returns home to discover his wife lying in a pool of blood and a man fleeing the scene in a car. Shocked at his discovery, Andrew is determined to use his time machine to change what happened.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
4.8/104 votes#21 - From Within
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/28/1996
A mentally challenged boy named Howie is the last unaffected person in a small town overrun by a strange madness. Miners unearth ancient parasites, in the shape of worms, that attack the brains of their hosts. While the infected townsfolk lose all their inhibitions, Howie must save his sister Sheila, the only person who truly cares for him. Deprived of Sheila's guidance for the first time in his life, Howie struggles to evade his maddened neighbors and destroy the parasites. In the process, he becomes a hero to the whole town.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
4.2/104 votes#22 - The Voice of Reason
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/1995
A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
3.5/102 votes#23 - Alien Radio
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1999
Stan Harbinger (Joe Pantoliano) is a top-rated talk show host with a flair for the outrageous and a reputation as a skeptic's skeptic. Assisted by his producer Trudy (Cynthia Nixon), Stan takes special delight in shooting down callers who claim to have alien encounters, especially people like Eldon DeVries (Alan Zinyk), who believes his body has been taken over by aliens. However, when Eldon commits suicide by setting himself on fire in front of Stan, things begin to go wrong for Stan. A plan to syndicate the show is threatened by protests from UFO believers, angry at Stan's role in Eldon's death.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: A L Katz
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"Atavus" is the best rated episode directed by Neill Fearnley. It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Brian Nelson. It aired on 10/12/1998 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "How Much is That Body in the Window?".