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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

Best Episodes Summary

"Second Chance" is the best rated episode of "seaQuest DSV". It scored 7.6/10 based on 118 votes. Directed by Bill L. Norton and written by Carleton Eastlake, it aired on 12/27/1995. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Equilibrium".

  • Second Chance
    7.6/10118 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Equilibrium
    7.4/10107 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • SpinDrift
    7.3/1095 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Knight of Shadows
    7.2/10177 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Photon Bullet
    7.2/10154 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Abalon
    7.2/10150 votes
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    #6 - Abalon

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1994

    When Commander Ford believes he saw a mermaid at the bottom of the ocean, Captain Bridger orders him to take shore leave. While on leave, Ford encounters the same woman again and soon finds himself ensnared in a mysterious scientist's unnatural experiment. Meanwhile, Lucas sneaks away to a party where Julianna and he may go “all the way.”

    Director: Bryan Spicer, Les Sheldon

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • The Good Death
    7.2/10163 votes
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    #7 - The Good Death

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1994

    When the crew of seaQuest are tricked into torpedoing a refugee ship containing Westphalen's daughter, Dr. Westphalen, Ford, and Shan are trapped trying to save her.

    Director: John T. Kretchmer, David J. Burke

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Weapons of War
    7.2/1099 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • The Devil's Window
    7.1/10190 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Treasures of the Mind
    7.1/10185 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Better Than Martians
    7.1/10152 votes
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    #11 - Better Than Martians

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1994

    The first manned mission to Mars returns home to Earth, led by Commander Scott Keller, an old friend of Bridger's. However, a malfunction during re-entry plunges the capsule into the ocean where a corrupt general from a foreign confederation races to recover the astronauts before the seaQuest can.

    Director: Les Sheldon

    Writer: David Kemper, Dan Brecher

  • Special Delivery
    7.1/10118 votes
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    #12 - Special Delivery

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1994

    Dagwood maintains his innocence after being found guilty of murdering the genetic engineer who created him, despite having apparently been caught in the act on video.

    Director: Gus Trikonis

    Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

  • Good Soldiers
    7.1/10101 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Give Me Liberte
    7.0/10181 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Daggers (1)
    7.0/10148 votes
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    #15 - Daggers (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1994

    When genetically engineered people, no longer happy with their captivity, stage a revolt, seaQuest, with some new faces are called in to help.

    Director: Bryan Spicer

    Writer: Jonathan Falls

  • When We Dead Awaken
    7.0/10120 votes
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    #16 - When We Dead Awaken

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1994

    When a woman is released from a cryogenic institute after 22 years, she is targeted by an assassin. Brody attempts to help her, and discovers that she is linked to his past and to a possible murder.

    Director: Annette Haywood-Carter

    Writer: Clifton Campbell

  • The Siamese Dream
    7.0/10121 votes
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    #17 - The Siamese Dream

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1995

    In order to gain control of seaQuest's nuclear weapons, a powerful psychic plants a nightmare in both Piccolo and Dagwood's minds, so that he will be invited on board to interpret their dreams.

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: David J. Burke, Jonathan Brandis

  • Games
    6.9/10177 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Treasures of the Tonga Trench
    6.9/10179 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Brothers and Sisters
    6.9/10164 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Nothing but the Truth
    6.9/10139 votes
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    #21 - Nothing but the Truth

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1994

    In preparation for an experiment, the crew evacuates the seaQuest, leaving only Commander Ford, Lt. Commander Hitchcock, Lieutenant Krieg, Chief Crocker, and Lucas aboard. However, environmental extremists use the seaQuest's vulnerable state to seize control of the boat.

    Director: Les Sheldon, James A. Contner

    Writer: David J. Burke, Robert Engels, David Kemper

  • Hide and Seek
    6.9/10147 votes
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    #22 - Hide and Seek

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1994

    While visiting Dr. Westphalen is visiting Malcolm Lansdowne, the two of them are captured by ousted dictator and escaped UEO prisoner Milos Tezlov, who wants Malcolm's dolphins to train for militaristic purposes. However, when Kristin notices Tezlov's autistic son Caesar taking an extreme liking to dolphins, she forges a deal for her release, granting Tezlov passage aboard the seaQuest.

    Director: Bryan Spicer, Lindsley Parsons III

    Writer: Robert Engels

  • Playtime
    6.9/10115 votes
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    #23 - Playtime

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1994

    In response to the voice of a child calling for help, the seaQuest journeys through an underwater vortex and find themselves 250 years in the future where humans are on the brink of extinction.

    Director: Robert Wiemer

    Writer: Lawrence Hertzog

  • Brave New World (2)
    6.9/10119 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Smoke on the Water
    6.9/1098 votes
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    #25 - 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