9.7/1010 votesLoading...#1 - A Study in Scarlet
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/29/1991
Paradise is thrown into a state of terror when a serial killer begins targeting the town's woman. Ethan must identify and catch the killer, who has set his sites on Claire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.5/108 votesLoading...
#2 - The Return of Johnny Ryan
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1989
The gold rush hits town and Ethan’s land is no exception. Paradise turns into a materialistic town.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.3/109 votesLoading...
#3 - Dust on the Wind
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1990
A con woman visits Paradise and sells the town a trolley. She takes the townsfolk on a ride and while they are partying, she loots the place.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
- 9.3/1012 votesLoading...
#4 - Birthright
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/8/1991
The Carroll children's father Robert returns and tells Ethan he wants custody of the kids. At first resistant, Ethan begins to feel the children might be safer living with their father, however neglectful he has been in the past, than with him. But it turns out Robert may have brought danger of his own into the children's lives.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/107 votesLoading...
#5 - The Gates of Paradise
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1990
Paradise is hit by an outbreak of smallpox and Ethan has to deal with George being infected by it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/108 votesLoading...
#6 - The Coward
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/1990
Jerome, an obtuse and gentle man, faces a jury for the strangling of a girl who rejected him.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/1013 votesLoading...
- 9.2/107 votesLoading...
#8 - Unfinished Business
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/14/1991
Ethan learns that an old enemy of his is headed for Paradise looking to shoot it out. To protect the children, he sends them away on a trip, but they realize that something is wrong at home. As the gunfight nears, both Ethan (in Paradise) and the children (waiting at the train station) both reflect back to how they've become a family (via flashbacks to previous episodes). Spoiler: In the end, the children don't take the train and rush back to their uncle in Paradise. He has defeated the other gunfighter and he and the children are reunited.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/1049 votesLoading...
#9 - A Gather Of Guns
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1989
When a man thinks Ethan knows the location of a fortune, he kidnaps him and takes him to a prison where no man has ever escaped from. Amelia turns to her estranged husband, Pierce for help. He takes her to see Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Pat Garrett who agree to help.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votesLoading...
#10 - Ghost Dance
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/1988
Ethan saves an Indian from an angry lynching mob.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/107 votesLoading...
#11 - Boomtown
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1989
Ethan has to find out who is robbing the graves in the local cemetery; while Amelia takes care of the children whom a beautiful girl she does not know is tutoring. The law also wants her.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/107 votesLoading...
#12 - The Plague
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1989
Johnny Ryan fulfills his promise of returning to paradise and taking revenge on the person who humiliated him: Ethan Cord.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/108 votesLoading...
#13 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1990
Ethan is offered a very well paying job but at the same time very dangerous. To deliver the opium that miners use to keep some Chinese workers more or less enslaved.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1023 votesLoading...
#14 - Childhood's End
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/1988
A traveling bordello pays a visit to Ethan’s town.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1014 votesLoading...
#15 - Squaring Off
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1989
Ethan defies a corrupt lawman to save the life of a Texas ranger.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1012 votesLoading...
#16 - A Gathering of Guns (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1989
No description available
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/108 votesLoading...
#17 - All the Pretty Little Horses
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1989
Laid off miners decide to ambush Ethan and Amelia when they are heading to Virginia City to deposit $50.000.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#18 - Devil's Escort
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1990
A symbolic drama centering on two strangers in Paradise: a black-clad equestrian with two grim appointments to keep before the New Year, and a simple youth left in the forest to fend for himself.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/107 votesLoading...
#19 - The Women
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1991
No description available
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/109 votesLoading...
#20 - Shield of Gold
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/1991
No description available
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1015 votesLoading...
#21 - Founder's Day
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1988
Amelia shots a bank robber and his family decides to make her pay.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/108 votesLoading...
#22 - Dead Run
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1989
The town needs a new marshal and Ethan is an obvious candidate, however, he does not want to do it; not even, if it costs him his ranch.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/109 votesLoading...
#23 - Orphan Train
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1989
A woman fights an implacable battle against the railroad she blames for the loss of her husband, son, and farm, not considering the cost to her and her surviving daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1011 votesLoading...
#24 - Dangerous Cargo
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1990
A killer who is being escorted by Ethan back to Paradise for trial might never make it because other outlaws want him dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1015 votesLoading...
#25 - Stray Bullet
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/1988
Accidentally, during a gun fight Ethan injures Amelia.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Paradise
Every episode of Paradise ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Paradise!
The adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"A Study in Scarlet" is the best rated episode of "Paradise". It scored 9.7/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/29/1991. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Return of Johnny Ryan".