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The Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 1

Every episode of The F.B.I. Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 1!

The Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 1

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and...

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  1. 8.4/10(56 votes)

    #1 - The Animal

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    S1:E29

    Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.

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  2. 8.4/10(36 votes)

    #2 - The Hiding Place

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    S1:E32

    Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during World War II, serving as a Japanese officer without ever renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The one-time officer also was involved in torture during the war. To find the man, the agents eventually must seek the aid of one of the torture victims from the war.

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  3. 8.3/10(80 votes)

    #3 - All the Streets Are Silent

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    S1:E11

    Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.

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  4. 8.3/10(43 votes)

    #4 - The Baby Sitter

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    S1:E22

    Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping. Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting.

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  5. 8.2/10(45 votes)

    #5 - The Chameleon

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    S1:E17

    Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A clever confidence man of a thousand faces plays a deadly game of cat & mouse with a million dollars as the prize

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    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.2/10(37 votes)

    #6 - The Plunderers

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    S1:E30

    Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder. The F.B.I. leads a search for bank robbers who did not take enough money.

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  8. 8.1/10(56 votes)

    #7 - The Problem of the Honorable Wife

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    S1:E7

    Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.

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    Director:Don Medford
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  9. 8.1/10(54 votes)

    #8 - An Elephant is Like a Rope

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    S1:E12

    Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transsportation of Stolen Property. $500,000 that nobody would claim, and a man who has lost his memory are Inspector Erskine's and Agent Jim Rhodes' only lead to a crime within a crime.

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  10. 8.1/10(48 votes)

    #9 - How to Murder an Iron Horse

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    S1:E13

    Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion. Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage.

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  11. 8.1/10(46 votes)

    #10 - The Hijackers

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    S1:E15

    Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.

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  12. 8.1/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Flight to Harbin

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    S1:E23

    Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder. Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passengers aboard a flying prison of terror.

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  13. 8.1/10(42 votes)

    #12 - The Tormentors

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    S1:E28

    Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping. A desperate father jeopardizes the life of his kidnapped son when he defies F.B.I. warnings to keep the story out of the media.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
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  14. 8.0/10(56 votes)

    #13 - To Free My Enemy

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    S1:E6

    The good inspector has the distasteful job of finding a kidnap victim--a pornographer that the good inspector is trying build a case against. In the end, Erskine captures the kidnappers and obtains a warrant for the arrest of the pornographer.

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  15. 8.0/10(44 votes)

    #14 - Special Delivery

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    S1:E19

    Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder. Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring.

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  16. 8.0/10(30 votes)

    #15 - The Defector (2)

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    S1:E27

    Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. plays a deadly game of espionage with foreign assassins who seek the life of an Eastern European defector to the U.S.

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  17. 8.0/10(38 votes)

    #16 - The Bomb That Walked Like a Man

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    S1:E31

    Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a para-military hate group.

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  18. 7.9/10(49 votes)

    #17 - The Giant Killer

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    S1:E10

    Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.

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    Director:Don Medford
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  19. 7.9/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake

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    S1:E24

    Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.

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  20. 7.8/10(61 votes)

    #19 - Slow March Up a Steep Hill

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    S1:E4

    Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.

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  21. 7.7/10(107 votes)

    #20 - The Monster

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    S1:E1

    Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.

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  22. 7.7/10(73 votes)

    #21 - Image in a Cracked Mirror

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    S1:E2

    Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.

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  23. 7.7/10(49 votes)

    #22 - Courage of a Conviction

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    S1:E8

    Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.

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    Director:Don Medford
  24. 7.7/10(52 votes)

    #23 - Pound of Flesh

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    S1:E14

    The FBI Investigates the murder of an Army Chaplains wife on an U.S. Army base.

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  25. 7.7/10(43 votes)

    #24 - The Spy Master

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    S1:E21

    Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation.

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  26. 7.7/10(36 votes)

    #25 - The Defector (1)

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    S1:E26

    Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Animal" is the best rated episode of "The F.B.I." season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Christian Nyby and written by N/A, it aired on 4/17/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Hiding Place".