The Best Episodes of Supernatural Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(132 votes)

   #1 - Pilot

   S1:E19/13/2005

   Two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more then to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from an eerie phone message from him, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White" who then starts to haunt Sam.

   Director:David Nutter

   Writer:Eric Kripke

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   Director:David Nutter

   Writer:Eric Kripke
2. 

   7.3/10(78 votes)

   #2 - Wendigo

   S1:E29/20/2005

   Sam and Dean follow the coordinates left in their father's journal and land in the middle of the woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native America legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed that feasts on human flesh.

   Director:David Nutter

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:David Nutter

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   7.5/10(63 votes)

   #3 - Dead in the Water

   S1:E39/27/2005

   Sam and Dean investigate a series of mysterious drownings written off as suicides. They discover the spirit is an angry little boy with the power to travel through water who is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago. Dean forms a bond with a young boy who seems to have the power of premonition.

   Director:Kim Manners

   Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker

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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
4. 

   7.6/10(64 votes)

   #4 - Phantom Traveler

   S1:E410/4/2005

   On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors left alive. Sam and Dean must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to do that is to take the battle to the skies.

   Director:Robert Singer

   Writer:Richard Hatem

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   Director:Robert Singer

   Writer:Richard Hatem
5. 

   7.7/10(62 votes)

   #5 - Bloody Mary

   S1:E510/11/2005

   In suburban Nebraska, a group of partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie to look into the mirror and repeat "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," not knowing this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam and Dean realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.

   Director:Peter Ellis

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Peter Ellis

   Writer:Unknown
6. 

   7.9/10(57 votes)

   #6 - Skin

   S1:E610/18/2005

   Sam and Dean come to the aid of Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.

   Director:Robert Duncan McNeill

   Writer:John Shiban

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   Director:Robert Duncan McNeill

   Writer:John Shiban
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   7.2/10(56 votes)

   #7 - Hook Man

   S1:E710/25/2005

   The infamous "Hook Man," a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand, terrorizes a small college town in Iowa. Sam and Dean learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister and race to find and destroy the Hook Man's bones before he comes for them.

   Director:David Jackson

   Writer:John Shiban

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   Director:David Jackson

   Writer:John Shiban
8. 

   6.6/10(54 votes)

   #8 - Bugs

   S1:E811/8/2005

   After a construction worker is killed by insects burrowing into his brain, Sam and Dean investigate the town's history and find that the new housing development is being built on sacred Indian land. The Indians put a curse on the land after their reservation had been ravished and destroyed. Sam and Dean must find a way to survive and kill the deadly swarm of bees, locusts, spiders and beetles.

   Director:Kim Manners

   Writers:Rachel Nave, Bill Coakley

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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writers:Rachel Nave, Bill Coakley
9. 

   8.3/10(55 votes)

   #9 - Home

   S1:E911/15/2005

   Sam is haunted by a vision of a woman trapped in his childhood house and convinces a reluctant Dean that they need to go home. Upon arrival, they meet the woman in Sam's premonition and she reveals that the house is haunted. Looking into their personal history, the brothers discover their father had visited a psychic after their mother's death and they turn to the same woman for answers of their own. Together they discover a malevolent poltergeist has inhabited the house and set out to exorcise it, but are blindsided when another unseen spirit steps in.

   Director:Ken Girotti

   Writer:Eric Kripke

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   Director:Ken Girotti

   Writer:Eric Kripke
10. 

    7.7/10(53 votes)

    #10 - Asylum

    S1:E1011/22/2005

    Sam and Dean investigate an abandoned sanitarium and discover that when the hospital was open, the patients held a revolt against the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted by the head doctor. While the brothers search the premises for four lost college students, the tortured spirits cause them to go insane, turning Dean against Sam.

    Director:Guy Norman Bee

    Writer:Richard Hatem

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    Director:Guy Norman Bee

    Writer:Richard Hatem
11. 

    8.3/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Scarecrow

    S1:E111/10/2006

    Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean stays back to obey his father. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a Pagan God who takes the form of a scarecrow.

    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Unknown
12. 

    8.0/10(55 votes)

    #12 - Faith

    S1:E121/17/2006

    While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.

    Director:Allan Kroeker

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker

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    Director:Allan Kroeker

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
13. 

    7.2/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Route 666

    S1:E131/31/2006

    Dean is contacted by his first love Cassie, an African-America girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks. Sam is stunned to see this new side of his brother as Dean struggles to come to grips with the residual feelings he has for Cassie.

    Director:Paul Shapiro

    Writers:Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner

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    Director:Paul Shapiro

    Writers:Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner
14. 

    7.8/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Nightmare

    S1:E142/7/2006

    Sam has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature. That is, until they find out that Max, the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his own mom.

    Director:Philip Sgriccia

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker

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    Director:Philip Sgriccia

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
15. 

    7.7/10(51 votes)

    #15 - The Benders

    S1:E152/14/2006

    Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.

    Director:Peter Ellis

    Writer:John Shiban

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    Director:Peter Ellis

    Writer:John Shiban
16. 

    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #16 - Shadow

    S1:E162/28/2006

    Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.

    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Eric Kripke

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    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Eric Kripke
17. 

    7.7/10(52 votes)

    #17 - Hell House

    S1:E173/30/2006

    Sam and Dean investigate the case of a maniacal ghost inhabiting a long abandoned Texas farmhouse known as "Hell House." They believe the ghost is the spirit of a deceased Depression-era farmer who killed his family, but they soon realize it is something far more powerful.

    Director:Chris Long

    Writer:Trey Callaway

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    Director:Chris Long

    Writer:Trey Callaway
18. 

    7.8/10(46 votes)

    #18 - Something Wicked

    S1:E184/6/2006

    Sam and Dean battle a Shtriga, a witch that sneaks into childrens' bedrooms and sucks the lives out of them. Dean must relive his childhood when he remembers that he encountered the Shtriga years ago.

    Director:Whitney Ransick

    Writer:Daniel Knauf

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    Director:Whitney Ransick

    Writer:Daniel Knauf
19. 

    8.1/10(47 votes)

    #19 - Provenance

    S1:E194/13/2006

    The Winchesters must deal with a dangerous spirit bound to an old family portrait that brings misfortune and death to anyone who buys it.

    Director:Philip Sgriccia

    Writer:David Ehrman

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    Director:Philip Sgriccia

    Writer:David Ehrman
20. 

    7.6/10(48 votes)

    #20 - Dead Man's Blood

    S1:E204/20/2006

    To obtain a mystic gun capable of destroying the demon that killed their mother, Sam and Dean must team up with their father John and face off against vampires.

    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writers:Cathryn Humphris, John Shiban

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    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writers:Cathryn Humphris, John Shiban
21. 

    8.3/10(47 votes)

    #21 - Salvation

    S1:E214/27/2006

    John has realized where the demon will strike next and the Winchesters head there to stop the next killing. But Meg begins killing John's friends and demands the Colt or she'll keep going until everyone John knows is dead.

    Director:Robert Singer

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker

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    Director:Robert Singer

    Writers:Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker
22. 

    8.4/10(49 votes)

    #22 - Devil's Trap

    S1:E225/4/2006

    When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.

    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Eric Kripke

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    Director:Kim Manners

    Writer:Eric Kripke