8.3/10184 votesLoading...#1 - Bye Bly
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1994
A figure from the future warns Brisco that Bly is going to escape from his orb prison.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/10147 votesLoading...
#2 - High Treason: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/20/1994
Conclusion. Brisco and Bowler escape execution, but an elite team has orders to hunt them down.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10386 votesLoading...
#3 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/1993
Bounty hunter Brisco is hired by the West's most powerful robber barons to bring down the John Bly gang.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Simkins, Carlton Cuse
- 8.2/10144 votesLoading...
#4 - High Treason: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/13/1994
Brisco and Bowler are tried for treason after trying to help the Army retrieve a kidnapped heiress. Part 1 of 2.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Brad Kern
- 8.1/10176 votesLoading...
#5 - Bounty Hunter's Convention
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1994
Brisco and Bowler joins other bounty hunters at an island lodge, where the hunters become the hunted.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10183 votesLoading...
#6 - Crystal Hawks
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/12/1993
Bounty hunter Crystal Hawks aims to bring in Brisco, who's wanted for a killing he didn't commit.
Director: Win Phelps
Writer: John McNamara
- 8.0/10178 votesLoading...
#7 - A.K.A. Kansas
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/1993
Brisco pursues Dixie's ex-husband, who proposes that he and Dixie steal away after he heists a supercannon.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: John McNamara, Brad Kern
- 7.9/10214 votesLoading...
#8 - Riverboat
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/1993
Socrates sends out an S.O.S. to Brisco when he loses Westerfield Club money to Brett Bones, a member of John Bly's gang, in a poker game. Brisco, Bowler, Socrates and Wylie set up a scam to get the money back and put Bones in prison.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10191 votesLoading...
#9 - Brisco for the Defense
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/22/1993
Brisco is called upon by an old friend to serve as defense lawyer when the guy is accused of murdering a prominent citizen of a Wild West town.
Director: Andy Tennant
Writer: John McNamara, David Simkins
- 7.9/10144 votesLoading...
#10 - And Baby Makes Three
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/22/1994
A band of warriors are after the infant heir to the Chinese throne.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10183 votesLoading...
#11 - Senior Spirit
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/1993
Brisco gets help from his father's ghost when he tries to rescue a robber baron's son kidnapped by John Bly.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: John McNamara
- 7.8/10183 votesLoading...
#12 - Showdown
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/1993
Brisco takes over the duties of sheriff in his home town after it's taken over by a cattle baron. He also renews a relationship with the sheriff's daughter and his previous girlfriend.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: David Simkins
- 7.8/10194 votesLoading...
#13 - Deep in the Heart of Dixie
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/5/1993
Brisco and Dixie find romance while on the run from an assassin in pursuit of Dixie, who has incriminating evidence against a politico.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Brad Kern
- 7.8/10176 votesLoading...
#14 - Hard Rock
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1994
Brisco and Bowler arrive in Hard Rock and try to stop local thug Roy Hondo from harassing Bowler's old flame, who resists the man's attempts to extort protection money.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: John McNamara
- 7.7/10154 votesLoading...
#15 - Stagecoach
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/1/1994
Brisco boards a stagecoach to escort a captured spy to the Mexican border for a prisoner exchange---and there's an assassin along.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
- 7.7/10156 votesLoading...
#16 - Wild Card
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/8/1994
Brisco helps Dixie and her sister Dolly battle a mob seeking control of Reno gambling.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Brad Kern
- 7.7/10142 votesLoading...
#17 - Bad Luck Betty
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/29/1994
Socrates is kidnapped by someone who's supposed to be dead.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Paul Jackson, Tony Blake
- 7.6/10258 votesLoading...
#18 - The Orb Scholar
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/3/1993
Brisco follows a lead on Bly to the town of Poker Flats and finds Bly, the orb, and an old friend who once left him to die at the hands of the Swill brothers.
Director: Andy Tennant
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 7.6/10248 votesLoading...
#19 - No Man's Land
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/10/1993
While tailing the bank-robbing Swill brothers (Will, Bill, Gil, and Phil), Brisco winds up in a town where sisterhood is the rule.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Tom Chehak
- 7.6/10168 votesLoading...
#20 - Fountain of Youth
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1994
Responding to a note from Prof. Coles, Brisco and Bowler end up on a collision course with Bly in pursuit of the orb.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kathryn Baker
- 7.5/10229 votesLoading...
#21 - Socrates' Sister
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1993
Socrates'sister---who's also a lawyer---is tricked into aiding in the escape of her client, a Treasury-plate thief hauled in by Brisco.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.5/10197 votesLoading...
#22 - Pirates
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/8/1993
Brisco and Lord Bowler compete to sink a band of pirates who have brought their swashbuckling ways onto dry land.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10167 votesLoading...
#23 - Mail Order Brides
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/1993
Three mail-order brides hire Brisco and Bowler to rope the Swill brothers, who've robbed them and are now seeking a prize bull.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: David Simkins
- 7.5/10159 votesLoading...
#24 - Ned Zed
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1994
A father reads his son a bed-time story from a dime novel, of how Brisco County and his “loyal sidekick” Lord Bowler brought in the notorious Ned Zed.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10223 votesLoading...
#25 - Brisco in Jalisco
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/1993
Brisco and Socrates head south of the border when the Westerfield Club orders them to recover some stolen guns.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Carlton Cuse
The Best Episodes of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Every episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.!
A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of...
Genres:WesternComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:FOX
Best Episodes Summary
"Bye Bly" is the best rated episode of "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.". It scored 8.3/10 based on 184 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Carlton Cuse, it aired on 2/18/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "High Treason: Part 2".