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The Best Episodes of The Big Easy

The Big Easy television series was inspired by the film of the same name from 1987. The show premiered on the USA Cable Network August...

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  1. Background image for Snake Dance
    8.6/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Snake Dance

    S1:E11

    Remy, C.D., and Darlene investigate the mysterious death of a cult guru who was crushed to death by a large snake. While Anne and Remy try to seek out a dominatrix snake charmer who was seen in the company of the guru, Smiley is asked by Remy to go undercover at the religious group to find out any cult members with a background to mental instability as well as a connection to the handling of snakes.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Hotshot
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #2 - Hotshot

    S1:E4

    Remy and Anne investigate the mysterious death of a jazz musician friend of Smiley's where circumstantial evidence points to supernatural occurrences connected to a shady music producer, named Tyrell, whom Remy begins to suspect that he may in fact be the Devil incarnate. But the skeptic Anne tries to put together a rational explanation for the unexplained events happening around them when a blind blues singer confirms that the musician's death was Satan's work.

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Master of Illusion
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Master of Illusion

    S1:E13

    In this take on 'Rear Window' one of Anne's friends, Holly, who is recovering with a broken leg, thinks she's witnessed a murder in the apartment from across the courtyard from her apartment. Remy initially doubts Holly's story, but soon launches a personal investigation into the neighbor who is an illusionist from England who may be holding more than a few skeletons in his closet. Elsewhere, Remy makes a bet with C.D. for him stop smoking cigars for 48 hours.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Lafitte Don't Fail Me Now

    S1:E19

    While investigating the murder of a mysterious businessman at a kiddie park, Remy, Anne, and Smiley get drawn into a search for four parts of what appear to be a legendary treasure map leading to a hidden 18th Century pirate treasure in the area which is also sought after by a one-eyed Frenchman who may have a connection to the murder victims, and to a local barmaid who may know more than she knows about the treasure map.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for One Little Indian
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #5 - One Little Indian

    S1:E22

    The death of a band leader in a barroom brawl leads to Smiley's uncle getting arrested on suspicion of the murder. Remy agrees to help Smiley look into the case involving an Marti Gras Indian costume which goes missing from one hand to another which may be connected to a diamond smuggling ring. Smiley at the same time falls head-over-heels for a young investigator, named Corinne, whom is also searching for Smiley's uncle's missing costume.

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  6. Background image for Don't Shoot the Piano Player
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Don't Shoot the Piano Player

    S1:E14

    Remy tries to help out Frank, an old piano-playing friend whom has a crush on a young mobster's girlfriend, and when he's accused of murdering the thug, Remy must go against all laws of ethics to try to protect his friend from a powerful mob kingpin, as well as the femme fatal Gina, who holds a dark past which may involve a mysterious killer, dressed as a clown, who comes after Remy. Meanwhile, Smiley decides to buy a new car for himself, but when Remy destroys it in attempt to fake Frank's death, Smiley wants compensation for it.

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Driving Miss Money
    8.2/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Driving Miss Money

    S1:E17

    Remy and his team investigate the death of an elderly and ailing socialite at a fund-raiser where Anne and Hawkins were in attendance. Hawkins thinks that the manservant, Bernard, was responsible when the cause of death is listed as a deliberate prescription medication overdose. But Remy tries to prove Bernard's innocence and in so doing learns some disturbing facts about his real relationship with his employer and his connection to his young lawyer, Felice.

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    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Gambler
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #8 - The Gambler

    S1:E7

    Remy tries to help out his old friend Delbert, a gambling addict, whom is heavily in debit to a local mobster. But when a treasury agent is found murdered at the casino boat where Delbert hangs out, Anne learns that he has been investigating Remy at the behest of Hawkins, while the leads that Remy follows point to the casino owner who is involved in a counterfeit operation and he asks Anne to pose as bait to entrap the owner.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Love Doctor
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #9 - Love Doctor

    S1:E9

    When Anne's younger sister, Sophie, arrives in town for a quick visit, Remy takes them, Darlene, and Smiley out to a fund raiser at a local art gallery to save a local radio station where the star DJ, Cougan, is murdered. With everyone trapped inside the building by a sudden hurricane, Remy puts his detective skills into full force to find the killer in a building where nearly everyone, including Sophie, is a suspect as well as has ties to Cougan's sordid love life.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Long & Short
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Long & Short

    S1:E15

    Remy investigates the murder of a traveling con artist whom may have been involved in a big scam to locate a mysterious cargo of merchandise worth millions. Assisting Remy and Anne with their case is a klutzy and accident-prone private investigator looking for clues involving another scam in which the murder victim's partner, a local grifter named Nikki whom Remy used to know, may be either conning them or is a target herself.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Vamps Like Us
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #11 - Vamps Like Us

    S1:E21

    Remy and Anne investigate the murder of a novelist who was researching a local vampire cult in New Orleans. While Remy tries to find the cult leader and prime suspect, Anne has a meeting of minds with a young research professor who had a dark past of his own.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Gatoraide
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Gatoraide

    S1:E16

    Remy, Anne, and C.D. are approached by a young policewoman and Civil War buff to help her investigate the murder of her friend who was allegedly trying to track down alligator poaches in the bayous. While Remy begins to think there is a connection between a bar owner who operates without a liquor license, Anne and Officer Joyce get stuck in a tree to get away from an aggressive alligator, while Joyce persuades C.D. to let her join his reenactment group. Also, Smiley tries to find more work to write while he continues his music career.

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    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Yellow Queen in the Fires of Hell
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Yellow Queen in the Fires of Hell

    S2:E5

    While investigating the murder of a philandering fiancée on the eve of his wedding, Remy becomes acquainted with a former flame, a police psychologist named Dr. Wanda Fallon, who wants in on the case which she thinks is the work of a serial killer. Despite that nobody, but Remy, trusts Wanda, he must take it on himself to find the killer as well as a mysterious scruffy man following him who may be connected to a local tarot reader who may hold a clue.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Fabulous Bill Brothers
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #14 - The Fabulous Bill Brothers

    S1:E18

    In the retrospective season final, Remy and Anne are abducted by a pair of redneck brothers whom Remy put away their serial killing eldest brother, leading to the mismatched detective and attorney trying to get away from their would-be killers by hiding out deep in the swamps where they reminisce about their happier and more harrowing times. Meanwhile, C.D. and Smiley figure out that Remy and Anne are in trouble when they go missing and try to find them before the Bill Brothers have their chance to lynch them.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for A Dead Man Is Hard to Find
    7.5/10(7 votes)

    #15 - A Dead Man Is Hard to Find

    S1:E5

    Remy investigates the death of the father of a young debutante in a suspicious plane crash in the swamps and learns a series of facts about the unscrupulous businessman, including the fact that C.D. was romantically involved with the widow of the victim. Meanwhile, Anne, with Darlene's help, strikes out on her own investigation into the mysterious death by trying to establish a motive by either the debutante daughter Alana, or the estranged artist son Kent .

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    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Murder in Mind
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Murder in Mind

    S1:E2

    As Anne settles in New Orleans (aka: The Big Easy) to stay, Remy continues to try to win her affections with the help of Smiley and his other associates, while both Anne and Remy have fantasies about the other, while Lightin' Hawkins also tries to get Anne to notice him as well. Meanwhile, a fortune-telling friend of Remy's, named Zelda Riley, tells him about a premonition about a street informant being murdered. Remy investigates and soon locks horns again with Anne who suspects Zelda somehow being involved, while Remy thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Cinderfella
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Cinderfella

    S1:E3

    Remy investigates the murder of a groom at his bachelor party where the only evidence is that of a high-heeled shoe left behind by the killer who may have been a transvestite. In attempting to dig into the past of the murder victim, Anne also learns some hidden facts about the groom's real interests as well as the bride-to-be's urges. Elsewhere, C.D. tries to find time to help Remy with his investigation while planning to hold another Civil War re-enactment outside of town.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Ghost of Prickly Rose
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Ghost of Prickly Rose

    S1:E20

    While investigating the death of a wealthy businessman who died from a fall at a house reputed to be haunted, Remy and the team try to disapprove of the theory that the ghost of a scorned woman is behind it who shows up to murder three men every seven years. While Remy deals with a persistent female reporter, whom he once had a tryst with, Anne volunteers to go undercover at a local escort service to look for clues, while Smiley decides to moonlight at a taxi driver only to have his uncle's cab damaged by another falling victim.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Platinum Blond
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Platinum Blond

    S2:E4

    The discovery of a dead drug dealer in the car truck leads to the arrest of an attractive blond, named Grace, who claims that she was framed. Remy thinks that Grace is hiding something about a romantic connection to a hopeful senatorial nominee whom is being blackmailed by an unseen third party. Remy discovers that by trying to uncover the blackmail scheme involving Grace, the political candidate Francis Hurley, and Grace's boxer older brother may lead to a political scandal the city may not be prepared for. Meanwhile, Smiley becomes angry when Remy cancels their annual fishing trip in order to concentrate on the case, while Janine continues to deal with the unorthodox Remy's handling of the case his way.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Pilot
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Detective Remy McSwain is a brash, womanizing, and unconventional New Orleans police detective who doesn't always play by the rules in order to get criminals locked up. But with the help of his uncle C.D. LeBlanc, the police chief and a fanatic Civil War buff, and Remy's man-hungry detective partner, Darlene Broussard, he always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. But everything changes with the arrival of Anne Osborne, a district attorney from Washington DC whom is sent to oversee a case of illegal fishing in the remote bayous where Remy is investigating a murder which may lead to a high-up power in the city council. Anne finds herself captivated by the intense good/bad cop who tries to gain her affections with the help of his street informant and blues musician Smiley Dupree, while the local district attorney, Lightnin' Hawkins, persuades Anne to get close to Remy in order to nail him on a corruption probe the city is putting on.

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    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Stodermayer
    7.3/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Stodermayer

    S1:E6

    Anne's fiancée, Geoffrey Stodermayer, a marine biologist, arrives in town to set an upcoming date for their wedding in which Remy drags him into his latest case of investigating a shady strip club owner's liquor imports in which Geoffrey develops an attraction to Gigi, an informant who works at the Naked Angel exotic club and is soon put in jeopardy by the thugs out to silence her and anyone else who informs on them.

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    Director:James Frawley
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Crawdaddy
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Crawdaddy

    S1:E8

    Remy begins moonlighting as a personal bodyguard to a wealthy shipping magnate when his life is threatened. But Remy cannot resist temptation to the rich guy's young wife, Isabella, while leads point to a sordid state of affairs involving a prenuptial agreement, and the man's first jealous wife. Meanwhile, Anne asks Smiley to go undercover to investigate Isabella's past involving her shady "brother" Martin connected to a local pimp who may hold a clue to the case. Elsewhere, Darlene struggles to run the station house in the absence of several officers on leave.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Begirled
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Begirled

    S2:E10

    Remy is kidnapped by three female escaped convicts whom force him to help them look for a half-a-million dollars in cash from a bank robbery in which Remy must try to use his seductive charms to stay alive long enough to stall for time while the ringleader of the female trio, another ex-con named Cyrus St. John holds a grudge against Remy for putting him away years earlier.

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    Director:Tom DeSimone
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Voodoo You Do
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #24 - The Voodoo You Do

    S1:E10

    Remy investigates the mysterious death of a businessman whom he believes it to be the work of voodoo. While everyone, but the skeptic Anne, believes in the local voodoo superstitions, Remy sets off with Smiley to find the right culprit, while Anne decides to try out an experimentation to see if it really exists by concocting a "love potion" for Remy to notice her.

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    Director:Vern Gillum
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Black Bag
    5.3/10(7 votes)

    #25 - The Black Bag

    S2:E13

    Investigating the hit-and-run of a teenage transient, Remy asks Janine to go undercover as a fellow street person to keep an eye on a young teenage runaway, named Maura, whom stumbled upon a mysterious black duffel bag containing $25,000 in cash and who may be targeted by the shady thug whom is connected to a larger plan. Meanwhile, Smiley continues to deal with Yuki running the Blue Spot in her own way. When Yuki decides to return home to Japan, but does not have the money to go back, Smiley decides to throw farewell party for her as part of a fund-raiser for the blue musicians of the area.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Snake Dance" is the best rated episode of "The Big Easy". It scored 8.6/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Kristoffer Tabori and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/8/1996. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hotshot".