Season 1

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  8.3/10892 votes

  Pilot

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/27/2003

  When smart, cynical 18-year-old George is killed by an errant toilet seat falling from space, she joins the ranks of an undead group of grim reapers. As she clumsily learns to adjust to her new role in the afterlife, George haphazardly hurtles towards her first dreaded assignment: to collect the soul of a little girl.

  Director: Scott Winant

  Writer: Bryan Fuller

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  7.5/10574 votes

  Dead Girl Walking

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2003

  George tries to shirk her new grim reaper responsibilities, but discovers that doing so leads to nasty consequences for the souls. She also attempts to get a real job by once again gracing the doorway of the Happy Time Temp Agency.

  Director: Kevin Dowling

  Writer: Bryan Fuller

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  7.6/10514 votes

  Curious George

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2003

  George discovers the price that the dead pay when they try to hang on to their past.

  Director: Peter Lauer

  Writer: Peter Ocko

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  7.8/10488 votes

  Reapercussions

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/18/2003

  George finds a loophole in the "reaper rules" and decides to spare her next soul, but quickly learns that if you flip off Fate, Fate flings it back at you ten-fold.

  Director: Peter Lauer

  Writer: Dan E. Fesman, Harry Victor

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  8.1/10508 votes

  Reaping Havoc

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2003

  George realizes that even the undead need friends, but she loses one when a reaper decides to jump to the other side.

  Director: James Marshall

  Writer: J. J. Philbin

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  7.7/10463 votes

  My Room

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/1/2003

  George meets her new roommate, Daisy Adair, a glamorous, but annoying 1930s ingenue-turned-reaper who has joined their group.

  Director: David Grossman

  Writer: Dan E. Fesman, Harry Victor

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  8.0/10484 votes

  Reaper Madness

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/8/2003

  George gets her first post-mortem kiss from a doomed schizophrenic who can see the gravelings.

  Director: Robert Duncan McNeill

  Writer: Tom Spezialy

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  7.9/10453 votes

  A Cook

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/15/2003

  George gets a pet and Rube takes a shift on the grill at Der Waffle Haus.

  Director: Kevin Dowling

  Writer: John Masius, Stephen Godchaux

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  7.8/10452 votes

  Sunday Mornings

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/22/2003

  George makes a new friend and discovers her dad is not the person she thought he was, while Roxy's actions cause an obnoxious lout to find religion.

  Director: Peter Lauer

  Writer: Peter Ocko

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  7.7/10429 votes

  Business Unfinished

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/29/2003

  Daisy enlists George's help in fleecing a wealthy society matron's son, and Roxy faces her annual struggle to come to terms with her death.

  Director: David Straiton

  Writer: Dan E. Fesman, Harry Victor, J. J. Philbin

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  7.9/10449 votes

  The Bicycle Thief

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/5/2003

  Needing money to buy a bicycle, George gets a new job -- and an awkward farewell party at Happy Time - while her fellow reapers face their own complications.

  Director: Peter Lauer

  Writer: Paul Lieberstein

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  6.7/10491 votes

  Nighthawks

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/12/2003

  George panics when Rube is assigned to pop a soul at her family's home.

  Director: James Whitmore Jr.

  Writer: Stephen Godchaux, Bridget Carpenter

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  7.8/10422 votes

  Vacation

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/19/2003

  Death takes a holiday and the reapers use the break to catch up on some paperwork.

  Director: David Grossman

  Writer: Peter Ocko

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  8.2/10499 votes

  Rest in Peace

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/26/2003

  While George tries to get her old job back, her family prepares to visit her grave.

  Director: Helen Shaver

  Writer: John Masius, Stephen Godchaux