7.2/10544 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1985
Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron bomb.
Director: James D. Parriott
Writer: James D. Parriott
6.9/1035 votes#2 - Your Place or Mayan?
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1985
On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Donald Todd
7.0/1030 votes#3 - Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1985
A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: Morrie Ruvinsky
6.6/1027 votes#4 - Lost Link
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1985
A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is - in fact it's believed he may be a caveman. It turns out that the man, "Link," is in fact an Aborigine from a lost tribe in New Guinea and the Misfits help him to set free the soul of his deceased child by placing a small totem on a rocket.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Mark Jones
6.8/1031 votes#5 - Sort of Looking For Gina
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1985
Johnny's efforts to get a date with an attractive woman, Gina, go amiss when it turns out she's involved with crooks and the Misfits have to mastermind a bank robbery to help her out.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: James D. Parriott, Morrie Ruvinsky, Michael Cassutt
7.2/1025 votes#6 - Sonar...And Yet So Far
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1985
A marine biologist and friend of Billy's who works with dolphins believes they can talk, making him the target of drug smugglers who need the help of his dolphin friends to recover a sunken cache of cocaine.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: Donald Todd
7.3/1026 votes#7 - Steer Crazy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1985
Three senior citizens end up with super-powers from irradiated hamburgers, and the Misfits have to both help them out and restrain them from injuring themselves.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: James D. Parriott
6.8/1029 votes#8 - Fumble on the One
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1985
The Misfits have to help Brick Tyler, a part-bionic CIA agent who has managed to lose the ""football"" - the briefcase that the President carries that can activate nuclear war.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: N/A
7.5/1025 votes#9 - Twin Engines
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1985
Johnny's friend Lonnie begins having premonitions of danger, but it turns out in fact he's linked to his previously-unknown twin Dwayne, a motorcycle racer, and the Misfits have to help them both out.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: N/A
7.1/1026 votes#10 - Grand Theft Bunny
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/1985
The bad guys manipulate the Misfits into helping them unleash a plague on L.A. with the aid of a contaminated bunny rabbit.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: Pamela Norris
7.2/1024 votes#11 - Grand Elusion
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1986
Billy recruits the gang to help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team. The gang takes the place of the magician hired to perform for the tour thanks to a judicious use of super powers, but the daughter refuses to leave without her father. Complicating matter, the KGB minder Galenkov has sworn to make sure the scientist Nikolai never gets away. The Misfits have to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch to make sure that both Nikolai and Tatyana manage to escape.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.2/1025 votes#12 - Once Upon a Night
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1986
Gloria's pen pal Jae is the object of a hunt by unknown assailants.
Director: N/A
Writer: M.M. Shelly Moore
7.1/1021 votes#13 - Center of Attention
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1986
El goes undercover as an incredibly talented basketball player (with some help from Gloria) to expose a crooked owner who is having his players throw their games.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: N/A
6.4/1020 votes#14 - Against All Oz
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1986
In this somewhat bizarre episode, Billy tries to break a record for staying awake and finds himself in an alternate reality where everyone he knows is there but in different jobs and with different personalities.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
7.2/1019 votes#15 - The Avenging Angel
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1986
Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekintic powers without telling him - the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.7/1026 votes#16 - Three Days of the Blender
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/1986
When a blender is accidentally delivered to Billy, he ends up getting arrested as a spy and Stetmeyer gets targeted by the FBI.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: Donald Todd
The Best Episodes of Misfits of Science Season 1
Every episode of Misfits of Science Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Misfits of Science Season 1!
A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.
Genres:Action & AdventureComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Misfits of Science" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 544 votes. Directed by James D. Parriott and written by James D. Parriott, it aired on 10/4/1985. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Your Place or Mayan?".