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The Best Episodes of JAG

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

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers...
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  • Fair Winds and Following Seas
    8.9/10(300)
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    #1 - Fair Winds and Following Seas

    Season 10 Episode 22

    Aired 4/29/2005

    General Cresswell informs Harm and Mac that they are being reassigned. Harm to London and Mac to San Diego. With their deadline quickly approaching. Harm and Mac must sort out their lives and resolve their feelings for each other.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: N/A

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  • Critical Condition (3)
    8.5/10(187)
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    #2 - Critical Condition (3)

    Season 8 Episode 1

    Aired 9/24/2002

    The episode starts with a short recap of where we left off last season: Bud & PO Coates walking along a dirt road enroute to attend the ground-breaking of the new school, when they spot a small boy playing in a field that had yet to be cleared of mines. As Coates runs for help, there is an explosion behind her. She turns in time to see Bud injured in the explosion and runs to his side. Coates insists that Bud must be transported on the helo that brought them in, that Bud won't be able to wait for the proper medevac chopper. Bud is airlifted to a field hospital, critical, but still alive. As luck would have it, ZNN reporter Stuart Dunston just happens to be at the base camp when Bud is brought it. Dunston reports the arrival of an injured JAG officer that was brought it, but does not report the name. Chegwiggen advises Harriet, but reminds her he is still on the Seahawk. She tries to contact him by instant messaging, but does not receive a reply.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Charles Holland

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  • All Ye Faithful
    8.3/10(191)
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    #3 - All Ye Faithful

    Season 8 Episode 11

    Aired 12/17/2002

    On board the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, Harm & Admiral Boone await the arrival of the transport plane to take them back to DC. Harm was onboard the carrier to review the new Atlantic Fleet JAG command structure, while Admiral Boone was onboard making a business representation to the CAG of the Coral Sea. Admiral Boone, reassigned when SecNav Nelson was replaced, tells Harm that he's retired for good. Just before they board their aircraft, the CAG tells Adm. Boone he was impressed with his presentation, but when Harm goes to shake the CAG's hand goodbye, the CAG refuses to take his hand, brushing him aside. Harm is left wondering why the CAG, who he had never met, appears not to like him. They then exit to the flight deck in time to see their plane about to land. The landing however, doesn't occur, since their tailhook broke away & landed on the deck.

    Director: Kenneth Johnson

    Writer: Dana Coen

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  • To Russia with Love
    8.2/10(202)
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    #4 - To Russia with Love

    Season 3 Episode 24

    Aired 5/19/1998

    (The time is 1980, several Russian soldiers are guarding a prisoner who is Harmon Rabb, Sr. at a train station. The KGB take a photo of the persons gathered there - a photo which has made its way to Harmon Rabb, Jr. in the present time.) Clayton Webb meets with Harm at JAG and tells him who the men in the photo are. Webb mentions that one of them, Victor Lushov is now working in San Diego. Harm requests from the Admiral to take an F-14 hop to San Diego to visit his mother, keeping secret his true intentions. In San Diego, Harm meets with Lushov who turns out to be a Russian pilot who was instrumental interoggating Harm, Sr. after he was shot down over Vietnam, later befriending him. He tells Harm Jr. all about what happened to his father, that Harm Sr. fed all kinds of disinformation to the Russians, which was worse than telling them nothing. Lushov gives Harm Jr. the KGB file number for his father. And says he wants to live and will not repeat what he has said to anyone.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Larry Moskowitz, Donald P. Bellisario

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  • Ice Queen (1)
    8.2/10(342)
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    #5 - Ice Queen (1)

    Season 8 Episode 20

    Aired 4/22/2003

    A murdered JAG officer teams up the JAG staff with agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS).

    Director: Donald P. Bellisario

    Writer: Donald P. Bellisario, Don McGill

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  • Hemlock
    8.1/10(248)
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    #6 - Hemlock

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 3/27/1996

    Due to the transposition of two digits of a phone number, Lt. Austin receives a fax with the itinerary for a person with the codename 'Shepherd'. Later, a Commander from the Royal Navy shows up demanding that paper. After receiving it he shoots Meg, seriouly wounding her. Trying to find out who this 'Shepherd' is and why this document is so important, they end up chasing an assassin named 'Hemlock' apparently working for Russian hardliners and trying to kill the man behind 'Shepherd' - Boris Yeltsin who is due in the US for a secret treaty signing. Locations: Washington, D.C.; Bethesda; Leesburg, Va.

    Director: Jim Johnston

    Writer: Donald P. Bellisario, Jack Orman

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  • Adrift: Part I (1)
    8.1/10(171)
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    #7 - Adrift: Part I (1)

    Season 6 Episode 24

    Aired 5/22/2001

    Mac becomes upset when Harm tells her at the last minute that he will not be attending her rehearsal duty in order to complete his 6-month required carrier landing qualifications. He assures her that he will be back in time for the wedding. At the church, Chloe is still wary of being friends of Mic. On board the USS Patrick Henry, Harm learns that the LSO who will be grading him thinks of him only as a "land-based Washington weenie." His fears that he won't be graded fairly are realized when he is ordered to land after his first attempt is waved off. After convincing the LSO that they were flying they way that the LSO taught them, he allows Harm to try again. After passing, he then completes his required night traps and requests to head back to Andrews AFB. With an approaching storm, all air operations are suspended, but is assured that he & Skates can be on the first Tomcat, once its forecasted to be safe. With a break in the storm, he & Skates are allowed to go.

    Director: Scott Brazil

    Writer: Dana Coen, Stephen Zito

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  • Answered Prayers
    8.1/10(154)
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    #8 - Answered Prayers

    Season 7 Episode 11

    Aired 12/11/2001

    When a pretty female petty officer is arrested by the MP's for impersonating a Salvation Army 'bell-ringing' Santa & pocketing the cash, Harm is assigned as her attorney. However, since she has a history of unauthorized absences, she is ordered to be held in custody. But with the holidays, the brig & pre-trial detention center are unavailable, she is estranged from her father, so she must spend the holiday with Harm or with Mac. Cmdr. Ted Lindsey (as the SecNav's administrative assistant) notifies Bud's brother Mikey that each year, the SecNav nominates 170 enlisted personnel for admission to the Naval Academy and that Mikey is being considered for one of those nomination spots. Bud & Mikey's father, a retired Master Chief though is not at all thrilled with having another son becoming an officer and insures that everyone knows it.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sightings
    8.0/10(254)
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    #9 - Sightings

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 1/13/1996

    While searching for a girl who disappeared near an abandoned Naval Air Station, Harm and Meg watch the same mysterious lights and hear the same painful sound which also took place during Kathy's disappearance. Though it looks like alien movement, neither Austin nor Rabb believe in UFOs. While looking for the young girl on the base, they nearly get caught but thanks to Kathy they manage to escape, but are trapped on the base. Locations: Del Rio, Texas

    Director: Thomas Del Ruth

    Writer: Evan Katz

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  • Smoked
    8.0/10(218)
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    #10 - Smoked

    Season 1 Episode 14

    Aired 3/20/1996

    After a lightning strike, a damaged Tomcat flying over Cuba is forced to land by the Cuban air force. Harm and Meg, accompanied by Cdr. Krennick and undersecretary of state Bair go to Cuba to negotiate the return of the pilot and aircraft. The main goal is to prevent the download of the Tomcat's classified software. But the CIA's actual plans are totally different ... Locations: Washington,D.C.; Cuba

    Director: Jim Johnston

    Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

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  • High Ground
    8.0/10(244)
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    #11 - High Ground

    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 4/3/1996

    GSgt. Crockett, instructor for snipers at the Boot Camp in Quantico, should be transferred to Bosnia. But there's a deal existing between him and his former commanding officers which says he won't be used in combat missions any longer. After shooting at the colonel 'to get his attention,' he is arrested. Since Crockett once saved Adm. Chegwidden's life, the Admiral orders an investigation to help him. But GSgt. Crockett escapes from the brig and hides in the mountains. Some marines, accompanied by Harm, go out to find Crockett, who's a well-trained and experienced sniper. Locations: Quantico, Va.; Washington D.C.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: Greg Strangis, Robert McCullough

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  • Vanished
    8.0/10(871)
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    #12 - Vanished

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 10/28/1997

    When a fully armed and piloted Navy F-14 disappears during a storm, the JAG team is called in to investigate all possible scenarios, from pilot suicide and terrorism to the curse of the Bermuda Triangle and UFO interference. When the plane's co-pilot surfaces, bloodied and disoriented, Harm and Mac get some new information that steers them away from Twilight Zone explanations and instead points them in the direction of kidnapping, terrorism and a hard-core militia group's plot to assassinate a PLO delegation heading for Washington by using the pilot -- and his plane -- to do the dirty work.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

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  • Enemy Below (2)
    8.0/10(153)
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    #13 - Enemy Below (2)

    Season 7 Episode 24

    Aired 5/21/2002

    Admiral Chegwidden, Lt. Singer & Cmdr. Turner move over to the Pentagon War Room to easily coordinate & share intelligence information on Kabir Atef's planned attack on the U.S. When an Afghan school is destroyed in a bombing raid, Bud & PO2 Coates fly to the scene to survey the damage. Once there, he promises to the locals that the US will re-build the school. Meanwhile, Harm & Mac are still in Afghanistan attempting to pick up Kabir's trail, still looking for the mysterious truck that disappeared during a raid. ("In Country"). They come under fire, but are unhurt. Once they repair the damage to the vehicle caused by the gunfire, they continue driving all night and find an abandoned truck that appears to be the one they're looking for. They find the driver dead of suspected origin. Continuing onto the next village, they find villagers in the same condition. A medical team is brought in and they determine that the villagers are suffering from radiation poisoning.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Charles Holland

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  • A New Life (2)
    7.9/10(318)
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    #14 - A New Life (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/23/1995

    Harm & Kate continue to investigate the death of Lt. Angela Arutti, all the while the carrier remaining on combat status.

    Director: Donald P. Bellisario

    Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

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  • Pilot Error
    7.9/10(261)
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    #15 - Pilot Error

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 11/4/1995

    During a test flight Lt. Pendry has a deadly crash with his Tomcat. Harm and Meg are ordered to probe this case and the facts point to a pilot error, not at a system malfunction. Though Pendry was a risk-taking pilot, Harm doesn't think he has gone too far based on his knowledge from his flying days with Pendry. Locations: Miramar Naval Air Station; San Diego/area and off-coast

    Director: Les Landau

    Writer: Robert Cochran, Jack Orman

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  • Yesterday's Heroes
    7.9/10(189)
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    #16 - Yesterday's Heroes

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 2/24/1998

    When a luxury yacht owned by a reputed South American drug trafficker mysteriously sinks and the Navy is suspect, Harm, Mac and Bud are put on the case. Meanwhile, Artemus Sullivan, a World War II Navy veteran, with the help of his aged cronies, devises plans from a nursing home to make sure the drug dealer responsible for Sullivan's grandson's death is brought to justice. But when Sullivan is kidnapped by the drug dealers, his mettle is tested, as is that of Harm and his team as they race to rescue the war hero.

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

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  • Wedding Bell Blues
    7.9/10(169)
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    #17 - Wedding Bell Blues

    Season 3 Episode 23

    Aired 5/12/1998

    Bud has his hands full when his obnoxious and abusive father, Big Bud, and his younger brother, Mikey, arrive in town for his wedding. Big Bud throws a stag party at a boisterous strip club where Harm's dress whites end up on the body of a stripper. A fight breaks out and Harm, Bud and Chegwidden find themselves in the slammer on the day of the wedding. While Mac goes downtown to bail them out, Harriet begins to have second thoughts about the imminent nuptials.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

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  • Webb of Lies
    7.9/10(172)
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    #18 - Webb of Lies

    Season 4 Episode 14

    Aired 2/9/1999

    When Harm and Mac set out to find C.I.A. Agent Clayton Webb's killer after his body is found aboard a burning ship, they inadvertently uncover a rogue government spy agency. Retracing Webb's steps, Harm and Mac learn that he was on a top-secret mission to deliver a high-tech weapons project to the proper authorities when he was stopped. Waiting for Harm and Mac when they discover this, though, is none other than Harm's former nemesis, ex-C.I.A. Agent Clark Palmer, now working with the rogue spy agency, who will stop at nothing -- including Harm's murder -- to get his hands on the top-secret project.

    Director: Mark Horowitz

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

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  • Adrift: Part II (2)
    7.9/10(155)
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    #19 - Adrift: Part II (2)

    Season 7 Episode 1

    Aired 9/25/2001

    Harm's chance of being rescued from the Atlantic Ocean hinges on Mac's psychic ability (first seen in Season Five's "Psychic Warrior"). However, Mac is trying to cope with her conflicting emotions for both Harm & Mic. On the edge of going unconscious from severe hypothermia, Harm's fires several warning shots which attracts the rescue helicopter. Back onboard the USS Patrick Henry, Harm's vital signs start to fade out, but Skates words help him pull through. Transferred to Bethesda Hospital, Renee learns that Harm has partial amnesia and doesn't remember them being a couple over the past year. Mac's indecision about the wedding drives Brumby back to Australia. When Harm tells Mac on the phone to come to his place so that she doesn't have to be alone, she arrives only to learn that Renee has beaten her to Harm's place with the news that her father has died. Mac ends up in the rain with no one around.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Dana Coen, Stephen Zito

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  • Measure of Men
    7.9/10(991)
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    #20 - Measure of Men

    Season 7 Episode 3

    Aired 10/9/2001

    **June 20, 2001** Still aboard the USS Guadalcanal, Mac is called upon to prosecute a Major accused of negligent homicide by the ship's Captain. Much to Mac's surprise and dismay, Harm arrives on board to defend the Major and also try to clear the air with Mac regarding their relationship. But as they both become entrenched in the case in which the victim drowned during a nighttime exercise in extremely bad weather conditions, they're hard-pressed to find time to discuss their personal business. Meanwhile, Admiral Chegwidden has his hands full with his teenage goddaughter who has run away from home.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Dana Coen

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  • Need to Know
    7.9/10(149)
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    #21 - Need to Know

    Season 8 Episode 7

    Aired 11/5/2002

    Harm, Mac and Turner go up against the CIA's top counsel when the agency tries to keep a 1968 Navy sub tragedy, in which 129 men died, classified. In so doing, they must find a way around the CIA's classified information rules in order to follow the orders of the new Secretary of the Navy.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.

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  • Empty Quiver
    7.9/10(161)
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    #22 - Empty Quiver

    Season 8 Episode 17

    Aired 2/25/2003

    Cdr. Turner gets to hitch a ride on a submarine that is bound for the mideast when it has been discovered that a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead has turned up missing.

    Director: Kenneth Johnson

    Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.

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  • Hail and Farewell: Part II (2)
    7.9/10(157)
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    #23 - Hail and Farewell: Part II (2)

    Season 10 Episode 1

    Aired 9/24/2004

    Mac is unable to accept the news that Clayton Webb really is dead and ends up in possible danger looking into Webb's "death". With the retirement of Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden, Cmdr. Sturgis Turner is named Acting Judge Advocate General.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

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  • A New Life
    7.8/10(701)
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    #24 - A New Life

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/23/1995

    When a female F-14 Tomcat RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) goes missing from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Seahawk while stationed in the Adriatic Sea, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Rear Admiral Al Brovo (Kevin Dunn), sends young Lieutenant Harmon Rabb with Lieutenant Junior Grade Caitlin Pike on Bastille Day 1995 out to the carrier where they must find out whether her death was accidental or intentional.

    Director: Donald P. Bellisario

    Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

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  • Boot
    7.8/10(250)
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    #25 - Boot

    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 1/6/1996

    Meg goes under cover as a Marine recruit in order to investigate the mysterious death of a female private in a boot camp. The facts point at the two drill instructors SSgt. Carrington and Sgt. Gonzales. But a newspaper clipping found by Lt. Austin changes the situation completely. Locations: Parris Island; Washington D.C.

    Director: Jim Johnston

    Writer: Lucian Truscott IV

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Best Episodes Summary

"Fair Winds and Following Seas" is the best rated episode of "JAG". It scored 8.9/10 based on 300 votes. Directed by Bradford May and written by N/A, it aired on 4/29/2005. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Critical Condition (3)".