6.1/1025 votesLoading...#1 - The Birthday
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1969
Joe celebrates his tenth birthday, and relives the most exciting and remarkable year of his life
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Tony Barwick
6.8/1060 votesLoading...#2 - The Most Special Agent
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1968
The Professor and Shane Weston use Joe to steal a Russian plane.
Director: Desmond Saunders
Writer: Sylvia Anderson, Gerry Anderson
6.8/1025 votesLoading...#3 - Attack of the Tiger
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1969
Joe takes on the pattern on pilot so he could fly a VG 104 bomber so he can destroy a secret rocket installation.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.0/1024 votesLoading...#4 - The Professional
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1969
Joe takes the brain patterns of a jailed burglar to help him enter the country and recover the money which a dictator was using to build weapons.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Donald James
7.2/1030 votesLoading...#5 - Colonel McClaine
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1968
Joe leads an overland convoy carrying an extremely volatile compound across 200 miles of treacherous countryside.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.2/1034 votesLoading...#6 - Operation McClaine
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1968
Joe takes on a neurosurgeon's brain patterns in order to perform an operation on a writer who is dieing.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: David Lane, Gerry Anderson
7.3/1039 votesLoading...#7 - Most Special Astronaut
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1968
Joe takes on the most diffcult mission of his young career when he has to rescue 2 astronauts who are trapped on a space station.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.4/1033 votesLoading...#8 - King for a Day
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1968
An heir goes missing and Joe takes his place till the real heir is found.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.4/1024 votesLoading...#9 - See You Down There
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1969
Joe uses another brain pattern to cause the shock conversion of a financial shark
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.4/1023 votesLoading...#10 - Mission X-41
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/30/1969
Joe takes on the patterns of a top virologist to steal the formula for the antibody for virus X-41 from a secret laboratory, can Joe save the day.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Pat Dunlop
7.5/1029 votesLoading...#11 - The Fortress
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1968
When a agent is captured, Joe take of his patterns to save him from where he is being held.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.5/1031 votesLoading...#12 - Big Fish
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1968
Joe tries to salvage a missing submarine.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.5/1031 votesLoading...#13 - Relative Danger
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1968
A freind of the family father is trapped undergroung, which propts a fast rescue operation with Joe leading the way.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.6/1036 votesLoading...#14 - Project 90
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1968
Mac's in trouble again and Joe saves him from the hands of Dr. Conrad using a hot air balloon.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1035 votesLoading...#15 - Hi-jacked
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1968
Joe must discover the hideout a gun runner has been using.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1023 votesLoading...#16 - The Race
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1969
When the World Army challenges the World Intelligence Network to a contest, Joe takes on the brain patterns of a Monte Carlo rally driver to take part in a dangerous road race. Can Joe win the race for his team.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/1026 votesLoading...#17 - Breakout
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1969
Two escaped convicts kidnap the Canadian Prime Minister and demand a $1m ransom. Joe tries to save him but ends up captured as well.
Director: Leo Eaton
Writer: Shane Rimmer
7.6/1024 votesLoading...#18 - Child of the Sun God
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1969
Joe is captured by a lost jungle tribe and offered as a sacrifice. His only chance of survival is to convince them that he is a god. Can Joe find a way out of the problem?
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: John Lucarotti
7.6/1023 votesLoading...#19 - Test Flight
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1969
Joe becomes an expert in two further fields - those of computers and explosives - whilst cornering a saboteur, can Joe stop him from completing his plan.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Donald James
7.6/1022 votesLoading...#20 - Trial At Sea
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1969
A disgruntled ex-employee threatens the maiden voyage of the new Hoverliner
Director: N/A
Writer: Donald James
7.7/1037 votesLoading...#21 - The Unorthodox Shepherd
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1968
Joe is given the brain pattern of a World Bank President to foil a forgery ring, Can Joe save the day.
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/1031 votesLoading...#22 - Arctic Adventure
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1969
When a bomb goes of in eastern alliance territory, they only person who can help is Dr. Kelvin so his patterns are transferred to Joe.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/1031 votesLoading...#23 - Three's a Crowd
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1969
When his father is attracted to a beautiful American reporter who is suspected of being a spy, Joe tries find a way of outwitting her.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/1022 votesLoading...#24 - Viva Cordova
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1969
Joe pretends to be the cousin of Juan Cordova who plans to expose of the corruption of a general.
Director: Peter Anderson
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.8/1033 votesLoading...#25 - International Concerto
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1968
One of WIN's top agents doubles as a world famous concert pianist, and Joe finds a new hubby.
Director: Alan Perry
Writer: Tony Barwick
The Worst Episodes of Joe 90
Every episode of Joe 90 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Joe 90!
Joe 90 is a 1960s British science-fiction television series following the adventures of a nine-year-old child, Joe McClaine, who starts a double life as a...
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Network:Associated Television
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Birthday" is the worst rated episode of "Joe 90". It scored 6.1/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Leo Eaton and written by Tony Barwick, it aired on 4/20/1969. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Most Special Agent".