7.5/1047 votes#1 - Murder by the Book
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1971
One member of a mystery-writing-team decides to kill his more talented partner when the better writer decides to go solo.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Steven Bochco
7.3/103 votes#2 - Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/1971
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.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Rod Serling
7.3/1016 votes#3 - The Mission
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1985
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
Writer: Menno Meyjes
6.8/1016 votes#4 - Ghost Train
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
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
Writer: Frank Deese
6.0/102 votes#5 - Los Angeles 2017
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1971
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
Writer: Philip Wylie
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"Murder by the Book" is the best rated episode directed by Steven Spielberg. It scored 7.5/10 based on 47 votes. It was written by Steven Bochco. It aired on 9/15/1971 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Make Me Laugh / Clean Kills and Other Trophies".