The Best Episodes Directed By Steven Spielberg

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.6/10(56 votes)

   #1 - Murder by the Book

   S1:E19/15/1971

   One member of a mystery-writing-team decides to kill his more talented partner when the better writer decides to go solo.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies

   S1:E41/6/1971

   A desperate comic makes a deal with an inept miracle worker in a ploy to boost his sagging career. A fanatical big-game hunter forces his son to shoot a deer, inviting the vengeance of terrible gods.

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   7.2/10(17 votes)

   #3 - The Mission

   S1:E511/3/1985

   During World War II, men in an air force bomber are caught in a no win scenario when their belly gunner (an amateur artist) is trapped in his seat and the plane has no wheels for landing.

   Director:Steven Spielberg

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - The Cemetary / Eyes / Escape Route

   S0:E111/8/1969

   Pilot episode containing the first three stories. After murdering his uncle, a man is haunted by a family painting which keeps changing. A blind woman undergoes an operation that gives her 12 hours of eyesight. A fugitive Nazi faces the consequences of his past actions.

   Director:Steven Spielberg

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   6.7/10(17 votes)

   #5 - Ghost Train

   S1:E19/29/1985

   Ohpa Globe is happy to see his son's new house, but when he sees that the home is built on ghost train tracks, he changes his focus. To his family's chagrin, he is convinced it is his destiny to die in those cornfields, to board a train he inadvertently caused to crash 75 years ago! He tells his nine-year old grandson he still has his ticket for the old "Highball Express", and that arriving train will careen through their house!

   Director:Steven Spielberg

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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Los Angeles 2017

   S3:E161/15/1971

   Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists.

   Director:Steven Spielberg

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