7.3/10465 votes#1 - Birds of a Feather
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2007
A young boy wants to hire Harry because he believes that monsters are after him and his mom. Harry doesn't want to take the kid's money, but he also knows from his own experience that a child's monsters are often all too real.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
7.4/10382 votes#2 - The Boone Identity
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/28/2007
A grieving father asks Harry to help put his daughter's spirit to rest. This should be easy. All Dresden has to do is track down the killer and make sure that justice has been done. There's only one catch: the killer died only hours after the murder.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: George Mastras
7.5/10386 votes#3 - Hair of the Dog
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2007
A series of ritualistic murders starts to look a lot like werewolves so Harry, of course, gets dragged in. Thing is, it looks like the lycanthropes aren't the killers... they're the victims.
Director: Michael Nankin
Writer: Laurence Walsh
7.2/10398 votes#4 - Rules of Engagement
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/2007
A beautiful young woman asks Harry to help her recover some stolen money. Before long, Dresden discovers a connection between this case and a dark, supernatural evil, and that his lovely client has been hiding something.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Curtis Kheel
7.6/10360 votes#5 - Bad Blood
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/2007
After a failed hit on her life, Bianca, Chicago's most powerful vampire, calls upon Harry Dresden. In debt to her for saving his life years before, he agrees to help her find the mastermind behind the plan to take her down.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Jack Bernstein
7.4/10320 votes#6 - Soul Beneficiary
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/2007
An otherwise healthy man experiencing premonitions of his own demise seeks Harry's help but ends up croaking right in his office. As the dark circumstances surrounding his death are revealed, Harry finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous magic-user; meanwhile, the crime that got Bob condemned to living in his own skull for all eternity finally comes to light.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: N/A
7.2/10319 votes#7 - Walls
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2007
Harry investigates the death of a college student which leads him to a most unusual ring of thieves. A group of students is using magick to commit a series of impossible thefts, and Harry must stop them quickly. Not only because what they are doing is wrong, but also because the magick will eventually kill them all.
Director: John Fawcett
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Hans Beimler
7.4/10321 votes#8 - Storm Front
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/18/2007
We are introduced to Harry Dresden, private detective and practicing wizard. When he tries to help the Chicago Police Department solve a grisly murder, he finds himself the target of a homicidal magician. And as if that isn't bad enough, the High Council of wizards begins to think that he is falling to the dark side, so he must elude them as well. Now he must stop the murderer and clear his name before his time runs out.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Hans Beimler
7.8/10317 votes#9 - The Other Dick
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/2007
When Chicago PI Jim Brennan is murdered by supernatural means, Harry must team up with Brennan's assistant to find the murderer.
Director: James Head
Writer: George Mastras
8.0/10301 votes#10 - What About Bob?
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/2007
Things seem to be going well between Harry and his new flame until she walks out on him... and takes Bob's skull. Now Dresden must find Bob and rescue him from the clutches of an old enemy. But will Bob want to be rescued?
Director: David Straiton
Writer: David Simkins
7.9/10290 votes#11 - Things That Go Bump
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/2007
Morgan and Ancient Mai must come to Harry for protection and shelter from powerful enemies of Mai's. They make it to the relative safety of Dresden's place, but suddenly find that they are all trapped by a powerful spell. Now Harry must work with them to find a way out before the spell turns deadly.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.7/10280 votes#12 - Second City
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/15/2007
Dresden and Murphy must work together to solve the mystery of a former gang member who drowns on dry land, miles from the nearest lake. Meanwhile, Murphy's father is in town, and he doesn't have a very high opinion of his daughter's freelance consultant.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: N/A
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A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Birds of a Feather" is the best rated episode of "The Dresden Files" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 465 votes. Directed by Michael Robison and written by N/A, it aired on 1/21/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Boone Identity".