Stargate SG-1

The Best Episodes of Stargate SG-1 Season 1

Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureMystery
Networks:ShowtimeSyfy

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...
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
7.5
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
8.1
7.6
5.9

Filter By Season10

  1. 8.6/10(1.8k votes)

    #1 - Tin Man

    Loading...
    S1:E19

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
    Director:Jim Kaufman
    Writer:Jeff King
  2. 8.3/10(1.6k votes)

    #2 - Politics (1)

    Loading...
    S1:E21

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
    Director:Martin Wood
  3. 8.2/10(1.9k votes)

    #3 - Thor's Hammer

    Loading...
    S1:E10

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

    0 Comments
    View all
  4. 8.1/10(4.0k votes)

    #4 - Children of the Gods (1)

    Loading...
    S1:E1

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  5. 8.1/10(2.0k votes)

    #5 - Cold Lazarus

    Loading...
    S1:E7

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  6. 8.1/10(1.7k votes)

    #6 - Enigma

    Loading...
    S1:E17

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  7. Trending NowTRENDING NOW

    The 20 BEST Episodes of Stargate SG-1

    READ
  8. 8.1/10(30 votes)

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

    Loading...
    S1:E22

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  9. 8.0/10(1.9k votes)

    #8 - Brief Candle

    Loading...
    S1:E9

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  10. 8.0/10(1.7k votes)

    #9 - Cor-Ai

    Loading...
    S1:E16

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  11. 7.6/10(2.0k votes)

    #10 - Children of the Gods (2)

    Loading...
    S1:E2

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  12. 7.5/10(1.9k votes)

    #11 - The First Commandment

    Loading...
    S1:E6

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

    0 Comments
    View all
  13. 7.5/10(1.6k votes)

    #12 - Hathor

    Loading...
    S1:E14

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  14. 7.5/10(1.6k votes)

    #13 - Solitudes

    Loading...
    S1:E18

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
    Director:Martin Wood
  15. 7.3/10(1.8k votes)

    #14 - The Nox

    Loading...
    S1:E8

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  16. 7.3/10(1.6k votes)

    #15 - The Torment of Tantalus

    Loading...
    S1:E11

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  17. 7.3/10(1.7k votes)

    #16 - Fire and Water

    Loading...
    S1:E13

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

    0 Comments
    View all
  18. 7.2/10(1.6k votes)

    #17 - Singularity

    Loading...
    S1:E15

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  19. 7.1/10(1.6k votes)

    #18 - Bloodlines

    Loading...
    S1:E12

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

    0 Comments
    View all
  20. 7.0/10(1.9k votes)

    #19 - Emancipation

    Loading...
    S1:E4

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

    0 Comments
    View all
  21. 6.6/10(1.8k votes)

    #20 - The Broca Divide

    Loading...
    S1:E5

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  22. 6.0/10(1.6k votes)

    #21 - There But For the Grace of God

    Loading...
    S1:E20

    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.

    0 Comments
    View all
  23. 5.9/10(2.2k votes)

    #22 - The Enemy Within

    Loading...
    S1:E3

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

    0 Comments
    View all

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Tin Man" is the best rated episode of "Stargate SG-1" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1778 votes. Directed by Jim Kaufman and written by Jeff King, it aired on 2/13/1998. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Politics (1)".