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The Best Episodes of Archer

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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...
  1. Background image for Mission: Difficult
    9.0/10(1.6k votes)

    #1 - Mission: Difficult

    S12:E8

    Archer is trapped inside IIA headquarters and Barry is trapped inside Other Barry.

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    Director:Megan Johnson
    Writer:Mark Ganek
  2. Background image for Placebo Effect
    8.9/10(2.6k votes)

    #2 - Placebo Effect

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Kanes
    8.8/10(1.8k votes)

    #3 - The Kanes

    S6:E8

    Lana introduces Archer to her parents. Archer introduces Lana's parents to high-speed chases.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Deadly Velvet (2)
    8.8/10(1.6k votes)

    #4 - Deadly Velvet (2)

    S7:E10

    Things get even deadlier on the set of Deadly Velvet when someone turns up, you guessed it, dead.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Skytanic
    8.6/10(2.5k votes)

    #5 - Skytanic

    S1:E7

    When a bomb threat jeopardizes the maiden voyage of the luxury airship Excelsior, Archer and the ISIS crew must battle the clock (and each other) to avert disaster.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Reed
  6. Background image for El Secuestro
    8.6/10(2.0k votes)

    #6 - El Secuestro

    S2:E10

    Pam is abducted by kidnappers who mistake her for Cheryl. It seems that Cheryl wasn’t completely forthcoming about her background when she applied for her job at ISIS.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Reed
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  8. Background image for Skin Game
    8.6/10(2.0k votes)

    #7 - Skin Game

    S3:E8

    Archer is faced with a dilemma when his murdered fiance, Katya, miraculously reappears. In Krieger's lab.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Arrival/Departure
    8.6/10(1.6k votes)

    #8 - Arrival/Departure

    S5:E13

    Archer helps Lana with the delivery of her baby, while Krieger tries to prevent the delivery of a deadly weapon.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Vision Quest
    8.6/10(1.7k votes)

    #9 - Vision Quest

    S6:E5

    The gang gets to work early so they can spend some quality time together.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Swiss Miss
    8.5/10(2.2k votes)

    #10 - Swiss Miss

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for Stage Two
    8.5/10(2.1k votes)

    #11 - Stage Two

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Reed
  13. Background image for The Man from Jupiter
    8.5/10(2.0k votes)

    #12 - The Man from Jupiter

    S3:E1

    Archer is shocked to learn that his mother is dating Archer's idol/hero/man-crush, Burt Reynolds.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Reed
  14. Background image for White Elephant
    8.5/10(1.8k votes)

    #13 - White Elephant

    S5:E1

    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.

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    Director:Adam Reed
    Writer:Adam Reed
  15. Background image for Pocket Listing
    8.5/10(1.5k votes)

    #14 - Pocket Listing

    S6:E9

    Slater has the gang swindle the Durhani royal family and Gillette lends a hand.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Robert De Niro
    8.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #15 - Robert De Niro

    S10:E9

    When a trial turns into a party it can only mean that Barry-6 has returned!

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Reed
  17. Background image for Robot Factory
    8.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #16 - Robot Factory

    S11:E4

    Archer and the gang team up with Barry to stop an army of Barrys from turning the world into Barrys.

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    Director:Matt Thompson
  18. Background image for Dingo, Baby, Et Cetera
    8.5/10(977 votes)

    #17 - Dingo, Baby, Et Cetera

    S12:E6

    Lana makes rookie mistakes as ghosts from Archer's past haunt him on a special mission.

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    Writer:Mark Ganek
  19. Background image for Drift Problem
    8.4/10(2.0k votes)

    #18 - Drift Problem

    S3:E4

    Archer's surprise birthday present - a high-tech, souped-up spy car - leads to all sorts of other surprises. None of which are good.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Bloody Ferlin
    8.4/10(2.0k votes)

    #19 - Bloody Ferlin

    S3:E6

    Archer must help Gillette save his younger brother from a crooked sheriff in the backwoods of West Virginia.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Drastic Voyage (2)
    8.4/10(1.4k votes)

    #20 - Drastic Voyage (2)

    S6:E13

    The fantastic voyage concludes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Deadly Prep
    8.4/10(1.4k votes)

    #21 - Deadly Prep

    S7:E3

    A business opportunity arises at a prep school reunion.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Double Indecency
    8.4/10(1.4k votes)

    #22 - Double Indecency

    S7:E7

    Who's sexier, Cyril or Krieger? Pam or Cheryl? Only one way to find out: bar fight!

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Best Friends
    8.4/10(1.1k votes)

    #23 - Best Friends

    S11:E5

    Archer is head over heels for his new valet, Aleister. Will Archer do Aleister's recommended rehabilitation exercises or just eat himself to death?

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  25. Background image for Into the Cold
    8.4/10(723 votes)

    #24 - Into the Cold

    S14:E9

    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.

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  26. Background image for Double Trouble
    8.3/10(1.9k votes)

    #25 - Double Trouble

    S2:E13

    Krieger works to finish a top-secret project, and Archer brings a mysterious former KGB agent named Katya Kazanova home to meet Malory.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Mission: Difficult" is the best rated episode of "Archer". It scored 9/10 based on 1552 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".