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The Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 1

Every episode of Stargate SG-1 Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 1!

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Children of the Gods (1)" is the best rated episode of "Stargate SG-1" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 3886 votes. Directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi and written by Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright, it aired on 7/27/1997. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Children of the Gods (2)".

  • Children of the Gods (1)
    8.1/103,886 votes

    #1 - Children of the Gods (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/1997

    When powerful aliens come through Earth's Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill returns to Abydos to retrieve Daniel Jackson, who has discovered that the alien transit system includes much more than the two planets.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright

  • Children of the Gods (2)
    7.6/101,949 votes

    #2 - Children of the Gods (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/27/1997

    Colonel O'Neill, leading the new SG-1, track Apophis back to the planet Chulak to rescue Sha're and Skaara, and befriend one of Apophis' Jaffa guards.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Dennis Berry

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • The Enemy Within
    5.9/102,086 votes

    #3 - The Enemy Within

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/1997

    Major Kawalsky is possessed by a Goa'uld, and the SGC must find a way to remove it without killing him.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi, Dennis Berry

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • Emancipation
    7.0/101,807 votes

    #4 - Emancipation

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/1997

    An alien civilization is forced to reconsider their views on women when Carter rebels against their social customs.

    Director: Dennis Berry, Jeff Woolnough

    Writer: Brad Wright, Katharyn Powers

  • The Broca Divide
    6.6/101,728 votes

    #5 - The Broca Divide

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/1997

    Members of SG-1 become infected with an alien virus that turns them into primitive beings. Dr. Fraiser must find a cure to save the team and the alien population from whom it was contracted.

    Director: Bill Gereghty, Jeff Woolnough

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • The First Commandment
    7.5/101,793 votes

    #6 - The First Commandment

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1997

    SG-1 must stop a renegade Stargate commander, who has gone mad and set himself up as a god on an alien planet.

    Director: Bill Gereghty, Dennis Berry

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jonathan Glassner

  • Cold Lazarus
    8.1/101,929 votes

    #7 - Cold Lazarus

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/29/1997

    During an off-world assignment, Jack is struck down by energy from a blue crystal... which creates a duplicate of him that returns to Earth in Jack's place.

    Director: Ken Girotti, Dennis Berry

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jeff King

  • The Nox
    7.3/101,710 votes

    #8 - The Nox

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/1997

    Pressed by the government to acquire new technologies, SG-1 is led to a world inhabited by a seemingly primative race. When Apophis arrives, SG-1 ambush him with disasterous consequences.

    Director: Charles Correll, Ken Girotti

    Writer: Jeff King, Hart Hanson

  • Brief Candle
    8.0/101,793 votes

    #9 - Brief Candle

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/1997

    SG-1 discovers a race of attractive people who age extremely rapidly. The situation becomes personal when O'Neill begins to suffer from the same accelerated aging, and must live out the rest of his life on the planet.

    Director: Charles Correll, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Katharyn Powers, Hart Hanson

  • Thor's Hammer
    8.2/101,785 votes

    #10 - Thor's Hammer

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/1997

    Teal'c and O'Neill are transported to an underground cage designed by the Asgard to protect an alien world from the Goa'uld.

    Director: Brad Turner, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Katharyn Powers

  • The Torment of Tantalus
    7.3/101,569 votes

    #11 - The Torment of Tantalus

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1997

    SG-1 tracks down Catherine Langford's fiancee, who took the first Stargate trip in 1945, and discovers an ancient meeting hall that may hold the secrets of the universe itself.

    Director: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Turner

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper

  • Bloodlines
    7.1/101,564 votes

    #12 - Bloodlines

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/10/1997

    Teal'c returns to Chulak to stop his people from implanting his son with a larval Goa'uld.

    Director: Jonathan Glassner, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jeff King

  • Fire and Water
    7.3/101,620 votes

    #13 - Fire and Water

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/17/1997

    Daniel is taken captive by an alien with a hidden agenda, while SG-1 is made to believe he is dead.

    Director: Allan Eastman, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Jeff King, Katharyn Powers

  • Hathor
    7.4/101,560 votes

    #14 - Hathor

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/24/1997

    The banished Goa'uld Hathor is found in an ancient sarcophagus Earth, and takes over the S.G.C. with hopes of raising a new army against the System Lords.

    Director: Brad Turner, Allan Eastman

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Singularity
    7.1/101,517 votes

    #15 - Singularity

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/31/1997

    A mysterious affliction wipes out the entire population of a planet, plus an SG team -- except for one young girl. Carter befriends her, but learns that she is being used by the Goa'uld.

    Director: Brad Turner, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Jonathan Glassner

  • Cor-Ai
    8.0/101,672 votes

    #16 - Cor-Ai

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1998

    Teal'c must stand trial for a crime committed while he served as first prime of Apophis when a villager on an alien world identifies him as the Jaffa who killed his father.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper, Tom J. Astle

  • Enigma
    8.1/101,630 votes

    #17 - Enigma

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1998

    The SG-1 team rescues a group of advanced humans from a planet near destruction, and must find a new home for the refugees before the Pentagon gets their hands on them.

    Director: Bill Gereghty, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Katharyn Powers, Tom J. Astle

  • Solitudes
    7.5/101,552 votes

    #18 - Solitudes

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1998

    Colonel O'Neill and Captain Carter are separated from Jackson and Teal'c during a Stargate journey, and are trapped on a desolate ice world with no way of escape.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • Tin Man
    8.6/101,726 votes

    #19 - Tin Man

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1998

    The members of SG-1 arrive on P3X-989 and are knocked unconscious. They wake up and return to Earth only to find that they are not quite themselves.

    Director: Jim Kaufman

    Writer: Jeff King

  • There But For the Grace of God
    6.0/101,586 votes

    #20 - There But For the Grace of God

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1998

    An alien artifact transports Daniel to an alternate reality, where he is not a part of the Stargate program and the Goa'uld -- led by Teal'c -- are invading Earth.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Robert C. Cooper

  • Politics (1)
    8.4/101,591 votes

    #21 - Politics (1)

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1998

    Senator Kinsey arrives at the SGC to investigate the program and determine whether the great drain on the U.S. budget is worthwhile, prompting the team to recall missions from the past year.

    Director: Martin Wood

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • Within the Serpent's Grasp (2)
    8.1/1030 votes

    #22 - Within the Serpent's Grasp (2)

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1998

    SG-1 escapes through the Stargate before it is shut down, and learns that Daniel's alternate reality vision is true: Apophis is moving to attack Earth from above. The team must stop Apophis and his son, Klorel, who inhabits the body of their friend Skaara.

    Director: David Warry-Smith

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright