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The Best Episodes of seaQuest DSV

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

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Episodes
58
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  • Equilibrium
    7.4/10(110)
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    #1 - Equilibrium

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 11/15/1995

    Lucas must face up to Bridger over his potentially risky solution to combat an organism that threatens to reach epidemic proportions.

    Director: Anson Williams

    Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Naren Shankar

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  • SpinDrift
    7.3/10(98)
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    #2 - SpinDrift

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 11/8/1995

    When Henderson is captured by Macronesia and sentenced to death, Hudson leads an undercover team to free her from the secure facility.

    Director: Oscar L. Costo

    Writer: Carleton Eastlake

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  • Good Soldiers
    7.2/10(104)
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    #3 - Good Soldiers

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 12/20/1995

    Captain Bridger seeks seaQuest's help to go deep into Macronesian waters and retrieve some top secret data crystals that reveal unspeakable atrocities committed against humanity 20 years earlier. The crimes in which Bridger and Ford may have been involved.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Naren Shankar

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  • Weapons of War
    7.2/10(101)
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    #4 - Weapons of War

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 6/9/1996

    The seaQuest is drawn into the dangerous neutral area where the UEO and Macronesian borders meet the territory of a silent and elusive Asian power.

    Director: Steve Beers

    Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach

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  • Second Chance
    7.1/10(120)
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    #5 - Second Chance

    Season 3 Episode 10

    Aired 12/27/1995

    The crew members travel through a ""space-time sphere"" that rockets them back in time to October 1962. This places them in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis where they have to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.

    Director: Bill L. Norton

    Writer: Carleton Eastlake

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  • Brothers and Sisters
    7.0/10(3)
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    #6 - Brothers and Sisters

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 10/17/1993

    The seaQuest is ordered to entomb a munitions depot thought to be abandoned. However, when the crew discovers children living inside, Bridger must convince them to follow him to safety.

    Director: Bill L. Norton

    Writer: Art Monterastelli

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  • Destination Terminal
    7.0/10(102)
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    #7 - Destination Terminal

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/18/1995

    Lucas oversees the maiden journey of a revolutionary new underwater train, while Ford and Henderson go on a secret date as passengers.

    Director: Bruce Seth Green

    Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach

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  • Brave New World (2)
    6.9/10(120)
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    #8 - Brave New World (2)

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/20/1995

    Ten years after its mysterious disappearance, the seaQuest appears back on Earth. A tough Navy officer, who had been obsessed with searching for the submarine, assumes command of the seaQuest due to the new hostile world climate.

    Director: Anson Williams

    Writer: Clifton Campbell

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  • Smoke on the Water
    6.9/10(100)
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    #9 - Smoke on the Water

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/11/1995

    The seaQuest attempts to find out the cause of the disappearance of a number of haulers from one of the remotest colonies in the Free Zone where Hudson meets up with a person from his past.

    Director: Oscar L. Costo

    Writer: Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

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  • In the Company of Ice and Profit
    6.8/10(104)
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    #10 - In the Company of Ice and Profit

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 9/27/1995

    Captain Hudson is ordered to blow up an iceberg that has been directed towards Saudi Arabia by a corrupt businessman, only to find a group of refugees placed on the iceberg to prevent its destruction.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

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  • Chains of Command
    6.8/10(97)
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    #11 - Chains of Command

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 11/1/1995

    Hudson must relieve his old commanding officer from duty onboard a heavily armed underwater base after the base fires on Macronesia.

    Director: Anson Williams

    Writer: Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

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  • Brainlock
    6.8/10(100)
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    #12 - Brainlock

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 1/12/1996

    As the world leaders debate the renewal of the UEO charter a number of assassination attempts are made against the delegates.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Carleton Eastlake

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  • Reunion
    6.8/10(90)
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    #13 - Reunion

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 1/28/1996

    SeaQuest docks at a penal colony where the prisoners are enslaved. Henderson recognizes one and inadvertently causes a riot allowing the inmates to escape and take hostages.

    Director: Anson Williams

    Writer: Carleton Eastlake

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  • Resurrection
    6.7/10(92)
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    #14 - Resurrection

    Season 3 Episode 8

    Aired 12/6/1995

    After faking his own death a second time, radical environmentalist, Max Scully, returns and is pardoned for his murderous crimes. Captain Hudson is ordered to escort him to an undersea ecological utopia, unaware of Scully's true intentions.

    Director: Oscar L. Costo

    Writer: Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

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  • To Be or Not to Be
    6.0/10(8)
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    #15 - To Be or Not to Be

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/12/1993

    Captain Nathan Bridger is hauled out of retirement to command the new submarine SeaQuest, under the authority of the United Earth/Oceans Organization. His ship goes up against pirate forces commanded by Marilyn Stark, a former SeaQuest captain who tried to instigate a war.

    Director: Irvin Kershner, Les Landau

    Writer: Hans Tobeason, David J. Burke

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  • The Devil's Window
    6.0/10(3)
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    #16 - The Devil's Window

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/19/1993

    While investigating a black smoker, Darwin becomes seriously ill. Bridger must contemplate setting his long-time aquatic pal free in order to save his life.

    Director: Bryan Spicer

    Writer: Hans Tobeason, David J. Burke

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  • Treasures of the Tonga Trench
    5.7/10(3)
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    #17 - Treasures of the Tonga Trench

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 10/10/1993

    As the seaQuest undergoes inspection, Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg has a close encounter with an unknown life form while in a seaCrab in the Tonga Trench. When the creature lets him go, Krieg discovers a treasure trove of mysterious glowing stones; stones that may mean big money. However, is the bigger threat to seaQuest the greed that overtakes the crew or the unknown life form?

    Director: Les Sheldon, Bill L. Norton

    Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  • Treasures of the Mind
    5.5/10(2)
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    #18 - Treasures of the Mind

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 9/26/1993

    The seaQuest discovers the lost Library of Alexandria sunken beneath the sea. However, when surrounding nations cannot agree on a peaceful way to share the discovery, Bridger must act as mediator before escalating tensions result in the destruction of the library.

    Director: Bryan Spicer

    Writer: David Kemper

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  • Games
    5.5/10(2)
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    #19 - Games

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 10/3/1993

    Mass murderer Dr. Rubin Zellar is unwittingly taken aboard the seaQuest. Placing him in custody, Zellar is able to escape and informs Bridger that he's hidden a toxin frozen in ice somewhere aboard the ship... a toxin that is surely melting with each passing second.

    Director: Joe Napolitano

    Writer: David Venable

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  • Give Me Liberte
    5.5/10(2)
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    #20 - Give Me Liberte

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 10/24/1993

    A virus found on board a sunken space station infects the crew. As Bridger rushes to find the inventor of the pathogen, a warrior submarine from an opposing confederation arrives to cover up their crimes, even if it means the destruction of the seaQuest.

    Director: Helaine Head

    Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  • Knight of Shadows
    5.5/10(2)
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    #21 - Knight of Shadows

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 10/31/1993

    When Bridger is hurled across his quarters by an unknown force, it leads the seaQuest to find a hundred-year-old sunken ship. The spirits of those who perished there haunt its ancient hull, one of which possesses Dr. Westphalen.

    Director: Bryan Spicer, Helaine Head

    Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass

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  • Bad Water
    5.5/10(2)
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    #22 - Bad Water

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/7/1993

    Commander Ford, Dr. Westphalen, Lucas and Lieutenant Krieg are trapped on the surface of the ocean as a hurricane rages above them. Meanwhile, suffering severe damage from a lightning strike, the seaQuest must desperately search for a sunken French submarine before its passengers, all children, run out of air.

    Director: Bryan Spicer

    Writer: David Kemper

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  • The Regulator
    5.5/10(2)
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    #23 - The Regulator

    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 11/21/1993

    When the air conditioning breaks down in the crew quarters, Krieg has no choice but to turn to "The Regulator". He's a cut-throat black market trader who hides a shamed past with whom Bridger is familiar with and whom Lucas finds he can sympathize with.

    Director: Les Sheldon, Gabrielle Beaumont

    Writer: David J. Burke

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  • seaWest
    5.5/10(2)
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    #24 - seaWest

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 11/28/1993

    When the seaQuest visits the Broken Ridge mining colony, one of the colonists desperately pleads for the crew's help to escape from a dangerous situation straight out of the Old West.

    Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Steve Dubin

    Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  • Photon Bullet
    5.5/10(2)
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    #25 - Photon Bullet

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 12/19/1993

    Feeling isolated, unwanted, and unappreciated aboard the seaQuest, Lucas visits Node Three, a communications colony populated by other teenage computer geniuses. Node Three is led by legendary computer hacker Martin Clemens, aka. "Mycroft". However, Lucas soon finds himself caught up in the group's tampering with global finances and tampering's that have more motive than they appear.

    Director: Steve Dubin, John T. Kretchmer

    Writer: Michael Cassutt

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Best Episodes Summary

"Equilibrium" is the best rated episode of "seaQuest DSV". It scored 7.4/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Anson Williams and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Naren Shankar, it aired on 11/15/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "SpinDrift".