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The Best Episodes of Jeremiah

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

Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes...
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Showtime

Best Episodes Summary

"Interregnum (2)" is the best rated episode of "Jeremiah". It scored 8.3/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by Michael Vejar and written by J. Michael Straczynski, it aired on 9/24/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Crossing Jordan".

  • Interregnum (2)
    8.3/1061 votes
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    #1 - Interregnum (2)

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 9/24/2004

    A painful truth sets Jeremiah's course while Sims prepares to attack the Alliance. Markus and Kurdy must combat enemy forces outside and within Thunder Mountain itself to protect a future worth living in. (Part 2 of 2)

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Crossing Jordan
    8.2/1059 votes
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    #2 - Crossing Jordan

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2004

    Thunder Mountain is bringing new towns into the Alliance, drawing Daniel's attention and bringing Mister Smith a vision too awful to contemplate.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Deus Ex Machina
    8.1/1056 votes
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    #3 - Deus Ex Machina

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2003

    Markus struggles to achieve consensus among the factions that could re-build the country. He sends Kurdy with a new partner to rescue some of the delegates who have fallen into very tough hands.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

  • Things Left Unsaid (2)
    8.0/1056 votes
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    #4 - Things Left Unsaid (2)

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/19/2002

    Erin and Markus goes to St. Louis to hold a conference in an attempt to better the world. Jeremiah does not heed Ezekiel's wishes and visits Milhaven, hoping to find the truth about his father.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Letters from the Other Side (2)
    8.0/1061 votes
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    #5 - Letters from the Other Side (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2003

    While held captive at Valhalla Sector he briefly meets the military people there and is introduced to the president and Jeremiah asks "President of What".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Voices in the Dark
    8.0/1050 votes
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    #6 - Voices in the Dark

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2003

    Adam comes to Milhaven to kill Jeremiah and nearly succeeds, sending Jeremiah, Kurdy and Mister Smith on a dangerous mission into one of Daniel's strongholds.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Interregnum (1)
    8.0/1051 votes
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    #7 - Interregnum (1)

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 9/24/2004

    Mister Smith shows Jeremiah and Kurdy a refuge for children who will need protection if war comes, which seems inevitable as Daniel's forces surround Thunder Mountain. The key to victory may lie in the revelation of secrets. (Part 1 of 2)

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • The Long Road (2)
    7.9/1076 votes
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    #8 - The Long Road (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2002

    Jeremiah and Kurdy make their way towards Thunder Mountain, hoping to find whoever Simon was working for.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Strange Attractors
    7.8/1055 votes
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    #9 - Strange Attractors

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2003

    Kurdy is still not speaking to Jeremiah. Marcus sends Jeremiah and Libby(since she is the only one who knows the people there) to a camp where the members of the St. Louis gathering. Libby reports back and Kurdy leads the attack on the camp. They rescue everyone, but the leader escapes and heads east to find the mysterious Daniel. Marcus leaves Jeremiah in charge of the camp and the nearby village.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mysterious Mister Smith
    7.8/1055 votes
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    #10 - The Mysterious Mister Smith

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2003

    While Kurdy tries to unravel the mysteries that surround Mister Smith, Jeremiah has a "High Noon" encounter with the citizens of Milhaven when some of Daniel's disciples storm into town.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Running on Empty
    7.8/1052 votes
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    #11 - Running on Empty

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/2004

    Wanting to savor his dish of vengeance while it's hot, Jeremiah joins Markus and Kurdy in a sting to smoke out Daniel's raiders. In Milhaven, Mister Smith gives Erin a disquieting message from God.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • The Question
    7.8/1049 votes
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    #12 - The Question

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/2004

    God tells Smith that he, Kurdy, Jeremiah, and Marcus will each be granted one miracle if they turn up at the appointed place at the appointed time. Smith is confident of a miracle but the others are more concerned with the growing threat of Daniel, and the army Kurdy is building.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Tripwire
    7.7/1053 votes
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    #13 - Tripwire

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/31/2002

    Realizing that Valhalla Sector is systematically taking control of the Nuclear Missile Silos starting from the east coast and moving east to-wards Thunder Mountain (Cheyenne Mountain) Marcus decided to make their Presence Known at a nearby town that has a missile silo, they offer men machines electricity and medicine, in hopes of winning over the people of the town and make an ally of the people so they can stop the advance of the people of Valhalla sector, but Ezekiel appears and is seen by Jeremiah talking to Chen, suspecting something wrong he chases after Ezekiel but is knocked out by Chen from behind, when Jeremiah wakes up he runs to warn Marcus that something bad is going to happen when he is struck down by a snipers bullet fired by Ezekiel in a nearby building.

    Director: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Things Left Unsaid (1)
    7.7/1057 votes
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    #14 - Things Left Unsaid (1)

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/12/2002

    Jeremiah and Kurdy discovers that someone is a traitor, this leads them to the missing page in Simon's diary. With the help of the diary they find the real reason behind the Big Death.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Letters from the Other Side (1)
    7.7/1060 votes
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    #15 - Letters from the Other Side (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2003

    Yet more questions and few answers, Mister Smith is here yet he is not. Kurdy is scared yet fearless, Jeremiah is weak yet strong. we see a father and son reunited only to be thrust apart. we learn more about Valhala Sector and their evil plans.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • State of the Union
    7.7/1049 votes
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    #16 - State of the Union

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2004

    Jeremiah joins Kurdy and Mister Smith on what should be a simple job to deliver radios to nearby towns. It is not; Daniel's forces have plans for those radios and towns that could bring disaster to the Alliance.

    Director: Milan Cheylov

    Writer: N/A

  • ...And the Ground, Sown with Salt
    7.5/1087 votes
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    #17 - ...And the Ground, Sown with Salt

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2002

    Jeremiah and Kurdy are captured by Michael and his men, who operate out of a local military base. Michael has concluded that God is dead, and it's about time someone took his place... by any means...

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Mother of Invention
    7.5/1061 votes
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    #18 - Mother of Invention

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2002

    Jeremiah and Kurdy are sent to contact an elusive group led by a mysterious "Steve" but get captured. One of his captors is Michelle, a woman he met (in flashback) back at his empty home five years ago after his brother died. They were intimately involved back then, and we find out she's the one who gave Jeremiah the idea for writing notes to his dead father. In the present it turns out "Steve" is Michelle. Her operation is working heavily to get knowledge out, and she also has a 5-year old son. One guy accuses Michelle of skimming and the guys follow her and find out she's collecting art, and agrees to work with Thunder Mountain. Then Michelle comes back to lay down the law on the guy who accused her of skimming and the guys head out with as Jeremiah and Michelle think about getting together in the future.

    Director: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: A L Katz

  • The Past Is Prologue
    7.5/1048 votes
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    #19 - The Past Is Prologue

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/10/2004

    Was the past the best of times or the worst of times? It depends on whose past. Kurdy has to trust Lee when he returns to a town and a load of trouble he left behind while Jeremiah is imprisoned in an idealized replica of the days before the Big Death.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • The Face in the Mirror
    7.5/1047 votes
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    #20 - The Face in the Mirror

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/17/2004

    Big Death survivor Frederick Monash knows something important and Devon, it seems, knows him. Thunder Mountain wants to find Monash before Daniel's forces can kill him and Jeremiah wants to know if he can ever really trust his own father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • To Sail Beyond the Stars
    7.4/1075 votes
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    #21 - To Sail Beyond the Stars

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2002

    While trying to track down info on "the Burners", a mysterious group that's burning down whole settlements in seemingly random fashion, Jeremiah encounters a woman who's stealing all the gas she can get her hands on, and Kurdy ends up helping a pregnant girl, against his better judgment.

    Director: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • The Bag
    7.4/1066 votes
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    #22 - The Bag

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/2002

    The son of a medical doctor has set up what may turn out to be a dubious medical practice of his own, traveling with his brother from town to town and exploiting people...and finds that his past catches up with him.

    Director: Michael Robison

    Writer: Sam Egan

  • Out of the Ashes
    7.3/1055 votes
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    #23 - Out of the Ashes

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/28/2002

    Kurdy and Jeremiah are off to Jeremah's old stomping grounds of Denver to pick up some books at a library. They meet the "librarian", Edgar, and Kurdy stays to help him learn to read and fend off zealots who are convinced that books are the root of all evil. Jeremiah goes to meet his friend Red (from The Long Road) and embarks on a journey with his girlfriend Maggie, a wheelchair-bound woman determined to deliver her father's ashes to the remote island where she was raised. Maggie insists the ashes must be dumped in the middle of a river...which can only be reached by a rickety gondola. Meanwhile, the library patrons rally under Kurdy's inspiration to defend Edgar and the library.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Sam Egan

  • City of Roses
    7.2/1066 votes
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    #24 - City of Roses

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/12/2002

    Jeremiah and Kurdy travel in search of more information on the Big Death and Valhalla Sector, and along the way discover some potentially dark secrets about the fate of Kurdy's parents in the last days of the Big D.

    Director: James Head

    Writer: Sam Egan

  • Firewall
    7.2/1069 votes
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    #25 - Firewall

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/19/2002

    Kurdy and Jeremiah find a recon team in enviro suits and capture one prisoner...Quantrell, who commanded Thunder Mountain before the Big Death, when Markus and his father worked there as well. While Quantrell is enigmatic about where he came from, Markus flashes back to when his mother arrived at the quarantined military base and Quantrell left her outside. Markus' father insisted on going out to be his wife, exposing the base. Quantrell escaped to Valhalla Sector. Quantrell's people are tracking him by an implanted GPS tracker and Quantrell warns that now his people are going to emerge an take over. Meanwhile, Lee is apparently working for someone else and lets the enigmatic Ezekiel in to Thunder Mountain. Ezekiel first meets Jeremiah and claims they are brothers.

    Director: Peter DeLuise

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski