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The Best Episodes of Dawson's Creek

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

The Best Episodes of Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

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  1. Background image for The Scare
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #1 - The Scare

    S1:E11

    In honor of Friday the 13th, Dawson, plans a séance for the gang, they are all spooked by reports of a serial killer heading towards Capeside.

    Writer:Mike White
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  2. Background image for Decisions
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Decisions

    S1:E13

    In the season finale, Dawson and Joey confront their true feelings. Joey, visits her father in prison, and debates leaving to go to France.

    Director:David Semel
    Writer:Mike White
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  3. Background image for Pilot
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Film-buff Dawson finds his best friend, Joey, growing jealous of his attraction to a neighbor's granddaughter. Meanwhile, pal Pacey falls in love with a mystery woman, who is really a teacher at Capeside.

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  4. Background image for Baby
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Baby

    S1:E6

    Capeside is abuzz with rumors of a teacher's indiscretion, rumors that prove fateful for Pacey and Tamera. Meanwhile, Joey and Jen get a life lesson when Bessie is aided by an unlikely source when she gives birth in Dawson's living room.

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  5. Background image for Double Date
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Double Date

    S1:E10

    A double date finds Jen and Cliff joined by Dawson and a savvy sidekick who calls him on a plot to make Jen jealous. But it's Dawson turn to turn green when Pacey grows close to Joey working on a project.

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  6. Background image for The Kiss
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Kiss

    S2:E1

    After their kiss, Dawson and Joey have doubts about the future of their relationship as Joey plans to go to France. Meanwhile, Pacey plays a trick on a new girl. But finds himself in the same situation.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Crossroads

    S2:E2

    Jack, Andie's brother scores a job at the Ice House, an entry in Joey's diary lands her in hot water with Dawson, who forgets Pacey's 16th Birthday. Meanwhile Abby begins to become a negative influence over lonely Jen.

    Director:Dennie Gordon
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Alternate Lifestyles
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Alternate Lifestyles

    S2:E3

    An economics class project pairs Dawson and Jen as a husband and wife and Pacey and Andie as a married couple. Jen tries to use this project to get closer to Dawson and Pacey gets to know more about Andie's background. Joey learns that she has a chance of success while doing this project.

    Director:David Semel
    Writer:Mike White
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  10. Background image for Tamara's Return
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Tamara's Return

    S2:E4

    Tamara Jacobs who left town after her affair with Pacey was almost exposed, shares an awkward reunion with Pacey. The encounter triggers old emotions in Pacey and curiosity in Andie. Meanwhile Jack and Joey enjoy art together.

    Director:David Semel
    Writer:Mike White
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  11. Background image for Full Moon Rising
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Full Moon Rising

    S2:E5

    Parental problems cast a pall over Dawson and Joey's new romance. Pacey is troubled when he sees the McPhee's homelife.

    Director:David Semel
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for High Risk Behavior
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - High Risk Behavior

    S2:E10

    "Horrifically epic" tryouts for his movie prompt a steamy dialogue between Dawson and Jen that could recast her role in his love life. Jack poses nude for Joey, who feels herself drawn towards intimacy. Pacey sets out to fulfill Andie's dream date and his own.

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  13. Background image for Sex, She Wrote
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Sex, She Wrote

    S2:E11

    Abby and Chris find an anonymous note at school. Abby realizes the author and intended recipient had sex the night before and in true Abby fashion, she sets to expose the affair. Working from clues about Joey's night of nude sketching with Jack, Dawson's steamy stop over at Jen's and Pacey's bed and breakfast trip with Andie. Abby calls together her list of suspects and reveals the dirty secrets of Capeside.

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  14. Background image for Like a Virgin
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Like a Virgin

    S3:E1

    Dawson returns from spending the summer in Philadelphia with his mother, and on his way home meets a beautiful young woman who brings trouble to his otherwise ho-hum life. Meanwhile, Joey, who has frozen Dawson out all summer, realizes she is still reeling from their unexpected break-up when she sees him again, but may have found an unexpected new friend for their junior year; Jen gets more than she bargained for when she takes on the fascist head cheerleader; Mitch accepts a new position as Capeside High's varsity football coach; and although Pacey tries to be brave, he has had a lonely summer without Andie.

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  15. Background image for Northern Lights
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Northern Lights

    S3:E13

    Dawson makes the radical move of dropping out of film class to spend some time re-evaluating his teenage years. Back at Potter's, Joey is torn between attending Pacey's opening night and her date with A.J., who has come to Capeside for the evening. At the play, Andie must take over as director when the faculty director takes ill; and Jen agrees to meet Henry, but she throws him another block by bringing Grams as her date.

    Director:Jay Tobias
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  16. Background image for Coming Home
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Coming Home

    S4:E1

    Pacey and Joey return from their summer vacation on "True Love". Now they have to deal with Dawson's feelings, who has been deeply hurt for the past months. At first, he doesn't want to talk with neither one of them, but Jen convinces him to talk to Joey. Meanwhile, Pacey's older sister, Gretchen, arrives in Capeside and moves in with Doug, making Pacey homeless. But he won't live with his parents anymore, and so he asks Joey to let him crash at her house for a while. Dawson tells Jack about Gretchen, for whom he had a secret crush a few years ago. Andie meets 2 foreign guys, and she is attracted to them. Dawson and Joey talk, and he says he'll be ok, but it takes one day at a time. Everybody is wondering if Pacey and Joey did it while on the trip, and they don't confirm or deny. But Joey secretly tells Dawson nothing really happened.

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  17. Background image for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    S4:E9

    Dawson asks Mr. Brooks' advice on becoming a director. Joey takes Pacey to a dinner hosted by an exclusive college.

    Director:Perry Lang
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  18. Background image for Promicide
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Promicide

    S4:E20

    As everyone gets ready for this year's senior prom, some bad news causes Gretchen to reflect on her life, and Joey worries about Pacey's odd behavior. Meanwhile, Jen and Jack meddle in each others' lives... resulting in some interesting prom dates. At the prom Joey and Pacey confront once unspoken issues, and the festivities cause conflict for Gretchen, as she questions her relationship with Dawson, while an unhappy Jen is rescued by an unlikely individual after she and Jack arrange dates for each other. Jen decides to drown her sorrows.

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  19. Background image for The Bostonians
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Bostonians

    S5:E1

    Dawson is a freshman film student in Los Angeles, while Joey starts college at an Ivy League university in Boston. Instead of focusing on the new lives they have worked a lifetime for, they find themselves distracted by the distance between them and their unsettling last kiss.

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  20. Background image for The Kids Are Alright (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Kids Are Alright (1)

    S6:E1

    Dawson returns to Boston after working as an assistant director in Los Angeles over the summer and reunites with Joey who has spent a relatively angst-free summer in Capeside. Audrey and Pacey return from L.A. with a surprise passenger, Audrey's childhood friend Jack Osborne.

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  21. Background image for Joey Potter and the Capeside Redemption
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Joey Potter and the Capeside Redemption

    S6:E22

    When Dawson gives up his dream of making his film, a strong-minded Joey rallies the old group back to Capeside to help Dawson begin production before pursuing her dream of traveling to Paris. Jen, Jack and Grams must say their goodbyes and leave for New York.

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  22. Background image for Uncharted Waters
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Uncharted Waters

    S2:E12

    The gang explores uncharted waters when Dawson and Pacey go on a father-son fishing trip with Mitch Leery and Pacey's grumpy, critical, alcoholic father, Sheriff John Witter, whom does not pass up any opportunity to browbeat and put Pacey down every chance he gets. But tensions really begin when Pacey invites Jack along whom tries to make amends to a reluctant Dawson. Meanwhile, Jen, Joey, Andie and Abby spend a day with Gale doing a report on teenage behavior in the world today with Abby naturally not passing up her opportunity to insult and provoke conflicts and tension between Mrs. Leery and all girls involved.

    Director:Scott Paulin
    Writer:Mike White
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  23. Background image for Psychic Friends
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Psychic Friends

    S2:E17

    Dawson's confidence as a filmmaker is shaken when his new teacher turns out to be a movie studio executive on sabbatical in Capeside and tells Dawson the painful truth about his amateur movie. The future is unsure for Joey as well, when a fortuneteller advises her to be open to every new opportunity that crosses her path, and she stumbles into Colin, a gorgeous photographer who brings out Joey's free-spirited side during a wild photo shoot.

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  24. Background image for Text, Lies and Videotape
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Text, Lies and Videotape

    S5:E7

    Jen helps Dawson go to the shrink he ran away from last week. Dawson still thinks that the whole idea of sharing his thoughts with a complete stranger is weird, but he is surprised with how much he learns from it. Back home, he has to handle the problem with his father will, which does not include Lily. Meanwhile, Joey is working on a project about old love letters written by an obscure writer, and with the help of Audrey's audition tape for ""The Real World: Ibiza"", she manages to catch something no one of the fellow students caught. Pacey confronts Karen about the risks she is taking for having an affair with Danny, and Karen is hurt when Danny's wife shows up at a dinner party and he blows her off completely.

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  25. Background image for Highway to Hell
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Highway to Hell

    S5:E17

    Charlie asks Joey to sing with his band at a distant club, which requires Pacey to give them a ride. Pacey and Charlie hate each other, and it takes a patient Audrey to keep them from going at each other's throats. Joey is nervous and isn't well received by the audience, until Charlie helps her with a duet. Still, he doesn't give up putting his moves on her. Audrey and Pacey, on the other hand, seem to be more and more in synchrony. Meanwhile, Dawson, Jen, Jack and Grams drive up to Capeside for Lily's 1st birthday, and Dawson finds out his mother has a significant other. Meanwhile, Jen confesses to Jack that she wants to break up with Dawson, while he is conflicted with the possibility of loving Joey again.

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  26. Background image for Merry Mayhem
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Merry Mayhem

    S6:E10

    Dawson and Gail invite everyone back to Capeside for Christmas, but Dawson confronts Natasha about her one-night stand; Joey's happiness with Eddie turns sour when her father expresses his disapproval; Jen spends her time consoling a dumped Grams and Audrey gets loaded.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Scare" is the best rated episode of "Dawson's Creek". It scored 9/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Rodman Flender and written by Mike White, it aired on 5/5/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Decisions".