The Best Episodes Directed By Paul Lynch
Every TV Episode Directed by Paul Lynch Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Paul Lynch Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Paul Lynch is "Symphony in Knocked Flat", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Dale Gelineau". "Symphony in Knocked Flat" aired on 10/14/1986 and is rated 1.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Manhunt".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Symphony in Knocked Flat
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1986
Dave and Maddie agree to each arrange what they consider to be an ideal evening for the other, but the concert tickets Dave buys from a scalper get them into nothing but trouble.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Dale Gelineau
8.7/10 3 votes#2 - Manhunt
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1994
Julie Frobisher enlists Fraser's help in finding her father, who has gone missing one week before his retirement.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Paul Haggis
8.5/10 2 votes#3 - One Against an Army
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1998
Xena, alone, must battle the ruthless Persian army and stop them from plundering Greece, as well as save a poisoned Gabrielle who is slowly dying.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Noreen Tobin
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Spy vs. Spy
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1997
Fraser's elderly chess partner claims he is a deep-cover secret agent waiting to be activated.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: David Cole
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - Crusader
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1998
Xena meets a woman who preaches ""the way of the light"", but her practices leave something to be desired, when Xena learns of Najara's reform or die policy for prisoners.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: R.J. Stewart
7.5/10 2 votes#6 - The Future of Law Enforcement
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/12/1994
This time the future RoboCop is defending Delta City from a scarred maniac. A killer calling himself the Dogtown Ripper is killing thousands of people and stealing their brains. A trouble making pre-teen becomes the foster daughter of Stanely Parks. A secretary is killed but her spirit lives inside the computer mainframe.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Edward Neumeier
7.1/10 51 votes#7 - 11001001
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1988
Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Maurice Hurley
7.0/10 1 votes#8 - If the Frame Fits
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1986
After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, suspicion turns to her husband Donald, who, as a result, also ends up being suspected in a recent rash of art thefts where there were no fatalities. Julia's sister Sabrina is convinced that Donald didn't do it and begs Jessica for help. While looking into Julia's murder, Jessica realises that she has two completely different criminals on her hands, and someone tampered with the scene of Julia's murder to make it look like something else.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#9 - Marionettes, Inc.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/1985
John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/10 42 votes#10 - The First Duty
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/1992
Stardate: 45703.9. Wesley is involved in a cover-up at Starfleet Academy when a cadet is killed and five shuttles are destroyed during a forbidden maneuver performed by Starfleet Academy's best cadets.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
7.0/10 3 votes#11 - Examination Day
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/1/1985
In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the government intelligence test. He is very nervous about the outcome of the test but eager to show how smart he is. At the end his parents get the news - Dickie "passed" the test...but the government kills anyone who is too intelligent.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Henry Slesar
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Shadow Play
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 4/4/1986
A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Charles Beaumont
6.8/10 40 votes#13 - A Matter of Time
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1991
Stardate: 45349.1. While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is payed a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Rick Berman
6.8/10 35 votes#14 - Babel
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/24/1993
Stardate: 46423.7. The crew and civilian population of Deep Space Nine begin to gabble when a plague, engineered by the Bajorans as a weapon against the Cardassians, accidentally gets released into the station's atmosphere.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ira Steven Behr
6.5/10 2 votes#15 - Net Worth
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1999
A sliding mishap separates the Sliders into two groups on a world divided by the computer-savvy and ruthless scavengers. To reunite, they'll have to battle the scavengers and unite a young couple who fell in love on the internet.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Steve Stoliar
6.5/10 2 votes#16 - Requiem
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 9/10/1999
Rembrandt experiences a strange dream in which Wade is trying to contact him and bring him to her. The others have their doubts until a spatial fold opens before them. On the other side, they find Wade is somehow being used in a plan to attack Kromagg Prime.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Michael Reaves
6.4/10 35 votes#17 - Q-Less
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/1993
Stardate: 46531.2. Q, the Enterprise-D's consistent omnipotent annoyance, comes to harass the DS9 crew when his traveling companion, Vash, refuses to travel with Q any longer.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
6.4/10 27 votes#18 - Battle Lines
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/1993
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Bashir and Kira give Bajoran spiritual leader Kai Opaka a tour of the wormhole, but the group find themselves crash-landed in the middle of a war zone.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 54 votes#19 - The Naked Now
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1987
Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.3/10 33 votes#20 - A Man Alone
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/1993
Stardate: 46421.5. Ibudan, a criminal/murderer Odo has dealt with before, returns to DS9 only to be murdered shortly after. . .leaving Odo to be the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Jake and Nog's troublemaking prompt Keiko to do something helpful for the station's children.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Gerald Sanford
6.2/10 44 votes#21 - Unnatural Selection
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/30/1989
Stardate: 42494.8. A mysterious hyper-ageing sickness kills the crew of a Federation cargo ship, and Dr. Pulaski must race against time to find a cure.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: John Mason
6.2/10 6 votes#22 - Dark Matters
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/1995
Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Alan Brennert
- 6.0/10 2 votes
#23 - Please Press One
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/1999
After trying to buy a candy bar, Maggie is kidnapped by a corporate conglomerate that uses data codes to control commerce.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: William Bigelow
6.0/10 1 votes#24 - Need to Know
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 3/21/1986
On a little town people started going crazy. Edward Sayers is sent by the senator to investigate. He makes the usual tests but doesn't find anything. He traces it to one person with a very special secret...
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 1 votes#25 - The Crossing
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1988
A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Ralph Phillips