All Episodes of Farscape
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Season 1
8.0/104,049 votesLoading...Premiere
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/1999
Astronaut John Crichton attempts to use the Earth's atmosphere to propel his module at high speeds. He is hit by a radiation wave and is sucked through a wormhole into a distant part of the universe--straight into the middle of a space battle.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
7.2/101,161 votesLoading...Exodus from Genesis
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/1999
Moya gets infested with bugs who have come on board to breed. They turn up the temperature to speed up the process but this causes Aeryn to get heat delirium as she is cold blooded. The bugs seem to be able to replicate members of the crew. And as if that isn't enough, a peacekeeper ship shows up.
Director: Brian Henson, Rowan Woods
Writer: Ro Hume, Babs Greyhosky
7.2/101,104 votesLoading...Back and Back and Back to the Future
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/1999
The crew come across a ship that is molecularly de-stabilizing. D'Argo makes everyone bring it aboard when he discovers that there are Ilanics on board. Crichton goes on to the escape pod he gets a shock and starts experiencing strange visions of the future, firstly of himself and Matala, then of Moya's destruction.
Director: Rowan Woods, Tony Tilse
Writer: Babs Greyhosky, Nan Hagan
7.2/101,064 votesLoading...Throne for a Loss
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/1999
A group of Tavleks come aboard for trade negotiations. Rygel takes a vitally important crystal from Moya to make himself seem wealthy. The Tavleks kidnap Rygel and take him down to the planet, leaving one of their wounded on board. Everyone goes to the surface to get him except Zhaan who stays on board to keep an eye on the Tavlek left behind.
Director: Pino Amenta
Writer: Richard Manning
7.4/101,070 votesLoading...PK Tech Girl
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/1999
The crew find an old abandoned peacekeeper ship adrift in space, on board they discover that Crais was there recently where he deposited a unit of techs to make repairs. Meanwhile Rygel learns that this was the ship where he was first held captive and starts getting paranoid. Things get even worse though when a group of fire breathing aliens show up.
Director: Pino Amenta, Tony Tilse
Writer: Sally Lapiduss, Nan Hagan
6.8/101,023 votesLoading...Thank God It's Friday, Again
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/1999
The crew visits a planet full of happy workers. Soon D'Argo and Zhaan start working and refuse to return to the ship. Meanwhile Rygel's body fluids become explosive and Aeryn and Pilot must learn why before Rygel dies.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: David Wilks
7.1/101,025 votesLoading...I, E.T.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/1999
A peacekeeper beacon goes off and Moya has to land on an alien planet to prevent it's signal being intercepted and Moya being discovered. Crichton, D'Argo and Aeryn leave Moya and explore the planet in search of a substance that can be used to numb Moya's senses so the beacon can be removed. Crichton gets separated from the group and meets up with some inhabitants of the planet who hide him from the authorities.
Director: Pino Amenta, Brian Henson
Writer: Sally Lapiduss, Ro Hume
7.3/10978 votesLoading...That Old Black Magic
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/10/1999
Crichton is put into a head-to-head battle with Crais by a magical being named Maldis who feeds off the emotions of others and makes himself stronger by absorbing all of the negative energy and anger from Crichton and Crais.
Director: Brendan Maher
Writer: Richard Manning
7.8/101,010 votesLoading...DNA Mad Scientist
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/17/1999
A scientist extracts DNA from several of Moya's crew, promising them that with it he would be able to use it to find the location of their home planets. Things get more interesting however when he asks for some of pilot.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: Tom Blomquist
7.2/10940 votesLoading...They've Got a Secret
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/24/1999
During routine searches for Peacekeeper beacons, D'Argo falls down a chute, destroys a Peacekeeper shield and gets ejected into open space. After being rescued D'Argo starts to think that everyone on Moya are members of his family. Moya, meanwhile, starts to alter the environmental conditions inside the ship so that it is hardly habitable for the crew. .
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Sally Lapiduss
7.2/10937 votesLoading...Till the Blood Runs Clear
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/8/1999
Crichton comes across the same conditions that initially created a wormhole. He leaves Moya in his module with Aeryn where he attempts to create a wormhole and return home. Although a wormhole forms it is unstable and the module gets damaged and he is forced to make an emergency landing on the planet to make repairs. On the planet he and Aeryn encounter a holographic message sent by Crais, offering rewards for: D'Argo, Zhaan and Rygel.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Doug Heyes, Jr.
7.5/10944 votesLoading...The Flax
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/15/1999
While on a transport pod piloting lesson with Aeryn, Crichton gets caught in an energy field which is invisible to their sensors. Back on Moya, a strange guest docks and comes aboard to warn the crew about The Flax, an invisible energy net created to catch ships.
Director: Andrew Prowse, Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Justin Monjo
6.8/10924 votesLoading...Rhapsody in Blue
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/22/1999
Moya responds to a distress call from another pregnant Leviathan. On arrival at a planet they are contacted by a Delvian who informs them that the distress call was a deception. It was her way a getting Moya to come to them. The Delvians have a hidden agenda though. They want to forcefully take Zhaan's knowledge and learn how she overcame her insanity.
Director: Andrew Prowse, Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Ro Hume, Justin Monjo
6.9/10915 votesLoading...Jeremiah Crichton
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/29/1999
Crichton leaves Moya in his module for a drive. Moya starbursts leaving Crichton marooned and alone in space. He finds a planet and makes it his home where he lives for several months until the others find him. He is unwilling to accept however, that Moya didn't starburst intentionally.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Doug Heyes, Jr.
8.0/10942 votesLoading...Durka Returns
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/12/1999
When a Starburst goes badly wrong, Moya collides with a Nebari ship. On board is Durka, Rygel's former torturer, who has been mind cleansed and now serves the Nebari. Chiana, an attractive young rebel faces the same fate. Rygel takes it upon himself to take revenge on Durka and ends up undoing the cleansing and restoring him to his former, tyrannic incarnation.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Grant McAloon
8.4/101,007 votesLoading...A Human Reaction
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/31/1999
Crichton is sucked down a wormhole and crash lands on a beach...on Earth, Australia. Although the home he has returned to isn't as real as it seems. Everything gets worse when the rest of Moya's crew shows up and are experimented on...killing Rygel.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Justin Monjo
7.4/10906 votesLoading...Through the Looking Glass
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/9/1999
Moya tries to starburst to prove to the crew that she still can. It goes slightly wrong though and she gets stuck in starburst and split into several different dimensions.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: David Kemper
7.7/10891 votesLoading...A Bug's Life
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/16/1999
A peacekeeper ship is approaching Moya, so Crichton and Aeryn pose as peacekeeper officers on a secret mission while everyone else gets locked into cells to make the deception seem realistic. The peacekeepers that come aboard have some secret cargo. But when their secret cargo escapes, no one on board is safe.
Director: Rowan Woods, Tony Tilse
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
8.5/10932 votesLoading...Nerve (1)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/7/2000
Crichton and Chiana try to infiltrate a peacekeeper base to get some vital medicine for Aeryn. Crichton gets caught by Scorpius and imprisoned. He is tortured using a device called the 'Aurora Chair' which is able to look inside his mind and where Scorpius learns that Crichton has the secret to creating wormholes.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Richard Manning
8.5/10926 votesLoading...The Hidden Memory (2)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/14/2000
Scorpius attempts to extract the wormhole technology from Crichton's mind, while Aeryn mounts a rescue operation. Crais finds himself at Scorpius' mercy, and Moya gives birth.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Justin Monjo
7.4/10864 votesLoading...Bone to Be Wild
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/21/2000
Moya is hiding from a peacekeeper command carrier in an asteroid field. The crew receive a distress call and Crichton, Zhaan and D'Argo go down to one of the asteroids to rescue a women who has an unusual appetite.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon, David Kemper
8.3/10873 votesLoading...Family Ties
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1/28/2000
Rygel steals a transport pod and goes to the peacekeeper command carrier to betray the others. However he ends up returning to Moya with Crais who wants asylum. Crichton decides to destroy Scorpius' Gamac Base to give Moya time to escape.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon, David Kemper