9.0/101,504 votesLoading...#1 - Mission: Difficult
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 10/6/2021
Archer is trapped inside IIA headquarters and Barry is trapped inside Other Barry.
Director: Megan Johnson
Writer: Mark Ganek
8.9/102,528 votesLoading...#2 - Placebo Effect
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/24/2011
When Archer discovers that the chemotherapy drugs he has been taking are phony, he goes on a rampage against the Irish gangsters behind the scheme. He also makes friends with a fellow marijuana-toking cancer patient (voice of Joan Van Ark). Meanwhile, Cyril learns why Krieger is fluent in Portuguese.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/101,720 votesLoading...#3 - The Kanes
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2015
Lana introduces Archer to her parents. Archer introduces Lana's parents to high-speed chases.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/101,533 votesLoading...#4 - Deadly Velvet (2)
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 6/2/2016
Things get even deadlier on the set of Deadly Velvet when someone turns up, you guessed it, dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,990 votesLoading...#7 - Skin Game
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/8/2012
Archer is faced with a dilemma when his murdered fiance, Katya, miraculously reappears. In Krieger's lab.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,556 votesLoading...#8 - Arrival/Departure
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 4/21/2014
Archer helps Lana with the delivery of her baby, while Krieger tries to prevent the delivery of a deadly weapon.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,642 votesLoading...#9 - Vision Quest
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2015
The gang gets to work early so they can spend some quality time together.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/102,153 votesLoading...#10 - Swiss Miss
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2011
In yet another attempt to secure funding for ISIS, Malory drags her agents to the luxury winter resort town of Gstaad to protect a Swiss billionaire's daughter from a kidnapping threat. But Archer soon finds out the real threat is his protectee: an underage nymphomaniac who will stop at nothing to bed the world’s greatest spy.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mehar Sethi, Adam Reed
8.5/102,023 votesLoading...#11 - Stage Two
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/17/2011
Breast cancer strikes the Archer family---Sterling has it. "I'm trying to stay positive," he says. "I can beat this." But before surgery, he wants to bond with young Seamus (even though he isn't actually the baby's father) and take a Las Vegas vacation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Adam Reed
8.5/101,791 votesLoading...#13 - White Elephant
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2014
ISIS is raided and disbanded by the U.S. government when it transpires that the agency was never sanctioned by them. Its former staff discover a hidden vault containing one-ton of cocaine, and form a drug cartel to sell the drugs to fund their retirements.
Director: Adam Reed
Writer: Adam Reed
8.5/101,438 votesLoading...#14 - Pocket Listing
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2015
Slater has the gang swindle the Durhani royal family and Gillette lends a hand.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/101,124 votesLoading...#16 - Robot Factory
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2020
Archer and the gang team up with Barry to stop an army of Barrys from turning the world into Barrys.
Director: Matt Thompson
Writer: Matt Roller
8.5/10941 votesLoading...#17 - Dingo, Baby, Et Cetera
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/2021
Lana makes rookie mistakes as ghosts from Archer's past haunt him on a special mission.
Director: Chi Duong Sato
Writer: Mark Ganek
8.4/101,918 votesLoading...#18 - Bloody Ferlin
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2012
Archer must help Gillette save his younger brother from a crooked sheriff in the backwoods of West Virginia.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/101,347 votesLoading...#19 - Drastic Voyage (2)
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 4/2/2015
The fantastic voyage concludes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/101,341 votesLoading...#20 - Deadly Prep
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/2016
A business opportunity arises at a prep school reunion.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/101,340 votesLoading...#21 - Double Indecency
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2016
Who's sexier, Cyril or Krieger? Pam or Cheryl? Only one way to find out: bar fight!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/101,079 votesLoading...#22 - Best Friends
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/2020
Archer is head over heels for his new valet, Aleister. Will Archer do Aleister's recommended rehabilitation exercises or just eat himself to death?
Director: Chi Duong Sato
Writer: Matt Roller
8.4/10662 votesLoading...#23 - Into the Cold
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/2023
With the UN voting to outlaw independent spy agencies, Archer and the gang have to work outside the law to save the world from an unlikely duo.
Director: Casey Willis, Pierre Cerrato
Writer: Mark Ganek
8.3/101,824 votesLoading...#24 - Double Trouble
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/21/2011
Krieger works to finish a top-secret project, and Archer brings a mysterious former KGB agent named Katya Kazanova home to meet Malory.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/101,915 votesLoading...#25 - Drift Problem
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2012
Archer's surprise birthday present - a high-tech, souped-up spy car - leads to all sorts of other surprises. None of which are good.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Archer
Every episode of Archer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Archer!
Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Mission: Difficult" is the best rated episode of "Archer". It scored 9/10 based on 1504 votes. Directed by Megan Johnson and written by Mark Ganek, it aired on 10/6/2021. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Placebo Effect".
