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The Best Episodes of Cobra

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Cobra is an American action-adventure series broadcast in syndication from 1993 to 1994. Starring Michael Dudikoff as former Navy SEAL Robert 'Scandal' Jackson, who joins a secret crime-fighting organization. Despite a action-packed premise, it struggled

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    Cobra Season 1 Episode 9 - I'd Die For You
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #1 - I'd Die For You

    S1:E9

    When Dallas mysteriously disappears, Scandal and Danielle reluctantly agree to see a laywer's client who is scheduled to be executed in two days for killing his pop star girlfriend. Scandal becomes convinced the man is innocent, but Dallas shows up and tries to stop their investigation because he was the officer of record at the man's original arrest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Cobra Season 1 Episode 5 - Nowhere to Run
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #2 - Nowhere to Run

    S1:E5

    A man who was believed to be dead comes back to taunt his wife, so she hires Cobra for protection. But what at first seems to be a case of domestice abuse quickly snowballs into a covert operation to catch the husband, who is an arms dealer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Cobra Season 1 Episode 20 - Lorrinda
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Lorrinda

    S1:E20

    Cobra is hired to keep a mob housekeeper alive long enough to testify at the trial of two ruthless sons of an old-style mobster. Scandal is sent to drive her cross-country to Bay City, but the sons kidnap their institutionalized father to keep her from testifying.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Cobra Season 1 Episode 4 - Honeymoon Hideaway
    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Honeymoon Hideaway

    S1:E4

    Scandal, Danielle, Dallas and a client pose as honeymooners at a resort to find out what happened to two client's husbands who disappeared there. Soon, the evidence points to a handyman at the resort. Meanwhile, Scandal and Danielle must get through their jitters of sharing a room.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Cobra Season 1 Episode 16 - Death Dive
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Death Dive

    S1:E16

    Scandal goes undercover at an ocean theme park as a marine biologist when Cobra is hired by a marine expert, Danielle's old college roommate, whose boyfriend died while on an ocean dive. Things soon point to another diver, an ex-Navy SEAL.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Cobra Season 1 Episode 7 - Mr. Chapman, I Presume
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Mr. Chapman, I Presume

    S1:E7

    Scandal is kidnapped, while being taken out to a ballet by Danielle for his birthday, by an influential businessman who mistakenly believes he is the ""Mr. Chapman"" who is blackmailing him. Scandal manages to escape, but is picked up for ""drunk driving"" by police. No one, including Danielle or Dallas, believes that he was kidnapped, so Scandal must set out to clear his name.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Cobra Season 1 Episode 13 - Diamond In The Rough
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Diamond In The Rough

    S1:E13

    Cobra is hired to check the security at a museum hosting valuable jewelry, so Scandal must keep breaking into the museum to test the security. The jewelry gets stolen anyway, and the suspect is the daughter of a famous jewel thief. But it turns out her father has been kidnapped and that she's being coerced into burglaring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Cobra Season 1 Episode 19 - Haunted Lives
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #8 - Haunted Lives

    S1:E19

    Cobra is hired when a man's family is terrorized. Scandal thinks the wife is not telling all. He, Danielle and Dallas soon learn that the woman's past is not what she claims it was, and it all seems to tie into a former Stasi agent, who is a trainer of hitmen and a master of disguise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Cobra Season 1 Episode 1 - Cobra (1)
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Cobra (1)

    S1:E1

    Robert ""Scandal"" Jackson is recruited by Cobra, an undercover agency that provides justice for victims of crime that haven't benefited from the system. His first assignment is to solve a case that may involve the person who killed his father years earlier, but while investigating the case, Scandal uncovers some unpleasant facts about his policeman father.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Craig W. Van Sickle

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  10. Cobra Season 1 Episode 3 - Push It
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Push It

    S1:E3

    Cobra is hired by the wife of a man who seems to have died in a car accident under mysterious circumstances, and the trail leads to a thrill-seeking group called The Wild Cats. Scandal goes undercover to bring the ringleader down as a burglar and murder, and to save a pretty architect who's in over her head. But Danielle and Dallas soon begin to fear that Scandal has become too attracted to the thrills of the group.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Cobra Season 1 Episode 12 - Death On The Line
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Death On The Line

    S1:E12

    The producer of a late-night lonely hearts radio show hires Cobra to protect the beautiful female star of the show, who may be in danger from a regular caller who has already killed one of the men she dated. Scandal poses as her boyfriend to draw out the stalker.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Cobra Season 1 Episode 8 - Hostage Hearts
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Hostage Hearts

    S1:E8

    An aloof businessman hires the Cobra team to safeguard his daughter after she is nearly kidnapped, but the girl seems determined to stay unprotected.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Cobra Season 1 Episode 22 - Aces and Eights
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Aces and Eights

    S1:E22

    Cobra is hired by the father of a man murdered after a high stakes poker game. The only witness was the man's girlfriend, Kelly Masterson, who is a poker expert. It all seems to tie into the man's boss, a mobster who likes to play poker for big money. So Scandal poses as a gambler to get to the bottom of things.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Cobra Season 1 Episode 6 - The Gnome
    6.7/10(16 votes)

    #14 - The Gnome

    S1:E6

    Carlton Hauser, an old friend of Scandal's who broke down and became a psychopath during the Gulf War, escapes from a prison for the criminally insane and begins hunting down his comrades. When he discovers that Scandal is still alive, he targets him and his friends.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Cobra Season 1 Episode 11 - Playing With Fire
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Playing With Fire

    S1:E11

    Cobra is hired to try and catch an arsonist who has been torching the buildings of a wealthy industrialist. The problem is, the suspect seems to be an arsonist who died years before.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Cobra Season 1 Episode 2 - Cobra (2)
    6.4/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Cobra (2)

    S1:E2

    Scandal's investigation leads him to Jungle Rain, a drinking water company that seems to be connected to a mob boss named Wayne Bottecelli. Scandal and Dallas pose as efficiency experts to look for clues. Meanwhile, Scandal seeks to find out more about Danielle.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Craig W. Van Sickle

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  17. Cobra Season 1 Episode 10 - Something In The Air
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Something In The Air

    S1:E10

    Scandal bets Danielle that he is better in the raw elements, so they go for a weekend of camping and hiking. But the plan turns bad when they stumble across an escaped plane hijacker, whom they take captive. But they soon end up on the run from the man's gang. Meanwhile, Dallas heads the search effort to locate them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Cobra Season 1 Episode 14 - Lost In Cyberspace
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Lost In Cyberspace

    S1:E14

    A computer expert's cyber-girlfriend is kidnapped, so Cobra is hired to rescue her. They soon find out that the girlfriend is a computer security consultant, and her kidnapping seems to be related to her skills at breaking into corporate computer systems.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Cobra Season 1 Episode 15 - Blast From The Past
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Blast From The Past

    S1:E15

    Scandal's predecessor at Cobra returns and kidnap Dallas. Scandal wants to know more about him, but Danielle becomes agitated and too disturbed (or too secretive) to answer his questions. So Scandal must find out Danielle's secret and come to Dallas's rescue, mostly in the dark, with his predecessor taunting him all the way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Cobra Season 1 Episode 17 - Caged Fury
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Caged Fury

    S1:E17

    Danielle goes on vacation, but on her way she accidentally hits a woman being chased by a small town police force. Danielle is accused of aiding a fugitive and is thrown in jail with the woman. While Danielle tries to figure out what is going on, Scandal and Dallas try to find out what happened when they can't get in touch with her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Cobra Season 1 Episode 18 - A Few Dead Men
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - A Few Dead Men

    S1:E18

    Scandal poses as a Private, and Danielle a Major, at a boot camp when Cobra is hired to investigate the death of a marine. They soon determine it's murder, and a toughf Marine Seargant looks to be the killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Cobra Season 1 Episode 21 - Precious
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Precious

    S1:E21

    A stand-up comic dies on stage, and Cobra is hired by the comic's agent to find out how he died. When the agent turns up dead, the most-likely suspect seems to tbe comic's mentally unstable, former girlfriend, who is a ventriloquist with a wise-cracking dummy named Precious.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"I'd Die For You" is the best rated episode of "Cobra". It scored 7.8/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/11/1993. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nowhere to Run".