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The Best Episodes of Back to the Future

Every episode of Back to the Future ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Back to the Future!

An animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. Based on the highly successful Back to the Future movie...
Genres:AnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Witchcraft" is the best rated episode of "Back to the Future". It scored 7.2/10 based on 55 votes. Directed by John Hays and written by Mary Jo Ludin, it aired on 10/12/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Roman Holiday".

  • Witchcraft
    7.2/1055 votes
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    #1 - Witchcraft

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1991

    Marty makes an emergency trip back to Salem, Massachusetts in the DeLorean to deliver a spare flux capacitor to Doc and the family. While Doc installs it to fix the train, Marty, Clara and the boys go into town, where Marty gets accused of being a witch.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Mary Jo Ludin

  • Roman Holiday
    7.1/1049 votes
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    #2 - Roman Holiday

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1991

    Marty and Doc head to Ancient Rome, unaware Jules and Verne are joining them. While the boys cause trouble, Marty gets mixed up in a chariot race with Bifficus and Doc gets thrown to the lions.

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: John Ludin, Mark Klastorin, Michael Klastorin

  • Forward to the Past
    6.9/1054 votes
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    #3 - Forward to the Past

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1991

    Doc and the boys travel back to prehistoric times to test a new invention and Doc stops a meteor from colliding with Earth. They don't realize they changed history until they return home and find a civilization where dinosaurs rule!

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: Earl Kress

  • Go Fly a Kite
    6.8/1049 votes
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    #4 - Go Fly a Kite

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1991

    After Jules insults his intelligence and comments that he can't really be a part of the family, Verne starts to think his real father is Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, this leads to Verne ruining Franklin's famous electricity experiment and it's up to Doc to set things straight.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Randy Gale, Michael Zimbalist

  • Solar Sailors
    6.8/1049 votes
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    #5 - Solar Sailors

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1991

    It's Doc and Clara's anniversary and the kids get them tickets for a cruise, which takes place in 2091 and takes them into space. Unfortunately, Ziff Tannen sabotages the cruise ship.

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Earl Kress

  • Time Waits for No Frog
    6.7/1049 votes
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    #6 - Time Waits for No Frog

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1991

    Looking to cure Marty's athlete's foot, Doc and Marty travel back in time to locate an extinct frog in South America, where they have to stop Biffando from stealing the Incas' gold.

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Cliff MacGillivray, Alex Herschlag

  • Einstein's Adventure
    6.7/1047 votes
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    #7 - Einstein's Adventure

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1991

    Two bank robbers steal the DeLorean and end up outside an Australian prison in 1790. With him having been in the back seat, it's up to Einstein to get himself and these robbers home.

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: Alex Herschlag

  • Put on Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!
    6.6/1039 votes
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    #8 - Put on Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1992

    Marty and Verne meet Mr. Wisdom, who hosts a popular children's science show. As it turns out, Doc and Mr. Wisdom were college roommates. Doc doesn't recall it with fondness, as Mr. Wisdom stole his invention for a science fair and won. Things apparently haven't changed as Mr. Wisdom has stolen the DeLorean!

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Wayne Kaatz

  • A Friend In Deed
    6.6/1039 votes
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    #9 - A Friend In Deed

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1992

    After Biff plans to evict Jennifer's family from their ranch, Marty goes to the Old West to stop Biff's family from getting the ranch deed.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Sean Catherine Derek

  • Marty McFly PFC
    6.6/1039 votes
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    #10 - Marty McFly PFC

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1992

    On a trip to the 1940s, Verne enters a dance contest with his future dance instructor, Dorothy, while Marty gets drafted.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Mary Jo Ludin

  • St. Louis Blues
    6.6/1040 votes
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    #11 - St. Louis Blues

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1992

    While at the Brown house, Doc's hair cutting invention wreaks havoc on Marty's hair. Marty and boys go to find Doc, who is with Clara at the 1904 World's Fair, to fix this mess. But Marty then gets put in a side show by P.T. Tannen.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Mark Valenti

  • Verne Hatches an Egg
    6.6/1040 votes
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    #12 - Verne Hatches an Egg

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1992

    Verne uses the DeLorean to look for something to bring in for show and tell, finding a dinosaur egg. Unfortunately, the egg hatches in the present and it becomes more and more difficult to hide it.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin

  • A Verne by Any Other Name
    6.5/1038 votes
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    #13 - A Verne by Any Other Name

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1992

    Verne gets sick of his name after kids keep making fun of him and goes to great lengthes to get it changed, even going back to see his parents just before he's born.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Earl Kress

  • My Pop's an Alien
    6.5/1037 votes
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    #14 - My Pop's an Alien

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1992

    After finding a strange craft in Doc's bushes, Biff claims Doc is an alien and everyone believes him. In 1967, Marty, Jules and Verne arrive to discover the truth.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Mary Jo Ludin

  • Dickens of a Christmas
    6.4/1043 votes
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    #15 - Dickens of a Christmas

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1991

    It's Christmas time so the Brown family and Marty go to 1800s London to celebrate. Unfortunately, the boys lose the key to the DeLorean to a pickpocket and Clara, a toy shop manager and his family get thrown into prison by Ebiffnezer Tannen.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Rick Cunningham

  • A Family Vacation
    6.3/1068 votes
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    #16 - A Family Vacation

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1991

    Doc causes another power cut in his lab whilst trying to invent something. Jules and Verne are annoyed because their toy car racing has been interrupted (it runs on electricity) and Clara is annoyed at the lack of power as well. Feeling that his family has become too dependant on technology since they moved to the 20th Century, Doc uses the DeLorean to take his family back to Medieval England. The family are not happy, especially when Doc sends the DeLorean several hours into the future so there is no way they can go home until then. Clara walks off and after meeting some Medeival women washing in the river she meets Lord Biffingham of Tannenshire. Biffingham takes a shine to Clara and when she turns him down he kidnaps her. Doc tries to save her but eneds up being kidnapped as well. Biffingham imprisons Clara in his tower and decides to marry her - once she has become a widow! And he plans her to be a widow very shortly by challenging Doc to a joustling match.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, Wayne Kaatz

  • Retired
    6.3/1044 votes
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    #17 - Retired

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1991

    Jules and Verne pull a string of April Fool's Day pranks on Doc, tampering with his inventions. Unfortunately one of them, the Brain Wave Analyzer, causes Doc to think his days in science are over and he retires.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Peyton Reed, Mark Cowen

  • Hill Valley Brown-Out
    6.3/1037 votes
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    #18 - Hill Valley Brown-Out

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1992

    Just before the Founder's Day Celebration, the town loses all its electricity again because of Doc. His attempt to fix it makes things worse, causing everyone to want the Brown family kicked out of town.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Wayne Kaatz

  • Super Doc
    6.3/1041 votes
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    #19 - Super Doc

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1992

    Marty and the boys learn Doc had a stint in wrestling during the fifties, but never really competed. Travelling back in time, Marty and the boys attempt to get Doc to enter the ring. This unfortunately leads to him getting hit on the head and becoming a bumbling superhero.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Wayne Kaatz

  • Batter Up
    6.2/1045 votes
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    #20 - Batter Up

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1991

    Marty takes the place of his ancestor, pitcher Pee Wee McFly, to help his team win a 1897 Pennant game. But a nasty gangster named Diamond Jim Tannen wanted Pee Wee to lose.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin, Mark Hoffmeier

  • Brothers
    6.1/1099 votes
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    #21 - Brothers

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1991

    Running away from home, Verne uses the DeLorean to travel back in time. When Doc, Marty and Jules go after him, they arrive in the middle of the Civil War where Jules and Verne get caught up on different sides.

    Director: John Hays, Phil Robinson

    Writer: John Loy, John Ludin

  • Gone Fishin'
    6.1/1043 votes
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    #22 - Gone Fishin'

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1991

    When Doc was four, he fell into a river during a fishing trip and has had a fear of it happening again ever since. After the boys learn about this, they and Marty try to change it. But they regret it when it leads to a mishap with a stunt plane, causing young Emmett Brown to become a famous daredevil.

    Director: Phil Robinson

    Writer: John Ludin, Wayne Kaatz

  • The Money Tree
    6.1/1037 votes
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    #23 - The Money Tree

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1992

    Jules tries to grow a money tree to become popular at school, which leads to troubles with the media and the FBI.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Earl Kress

  • Verne's New Friend
    6.0/1038 votes
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    #24 - Verne's New Friend

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1992

    Verne and his new friend, Chris, go see a 1930s circus, which the owners are about to lose to landlord Farmer Tannen.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Mary Jo Ludin

  • Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux
    6.0/1039 votes
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    #25 - Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1992

    Characters from Verne's new favorite video game, BraveLord and Monstrux, come to life in a weird accident. Doc can't fix this situation because he's been sent into the game.

    Director: John Hays

    Writer: Wayne Kaatz