6.8/10261 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1990
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Director: Robert Iscove
Writer: Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo
6.9/10236 votes#2 - Out of Control
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1990
Homeless people are dying and their bodies are disappearing. Tina rekindles a relationship with a former colleague who is an expert in genetic engineering.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
6.8/10211 votes#3 - Watching the Detectives
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1990
The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
6.5/10207 votes#4 - Honor Among Thieves
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1990
While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: N/A
6.9/10195 votes#5 - Double Vision
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1990
Someone spreads graffiti, and messages asking to meet "Flash" at a church. Barry goes to the church. Shortly after that, he begins to experience black outs and memory losses.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Jim Trombetta
6.8/10203 votes#6 - Sins of the Father
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1990
A bank robber escapes from prison. He goes back to Central City to get his money and revenge on the cop who busted him, Henry Allen, Barry's father.
Director: Jonathan Sanger
Writer: Stephen Hattman
7.1/10186 votes#7 - Child's Play
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1990
An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.7/10203 votes#8 - Shroud of Death
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1990
Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: N/A
7.0/10176 votes#9 - Ghost in the Machine
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1990
Barry befriends an African American who was once a super hero that defeated a terrorist called the Ghost, who blackmailed the city through television sets. When the presumed dead criminal is defrosted, the Night Shade is back in business.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
7.0/10170 votes#10 - Sight Unseen
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1991
An invisible man gets into Star Labs, and releases a neurotoxin with Tina inside the lab. Then he starts killing scientists who worked on the project. Flash must find the invisible man and save his friend.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: N/A
7.7/10206 votes#11 - Beat the Clock
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/1991
A jazz musician friend of Julio's is about to be executed. An hour before the execution, a friend calls and says he has evidence that could exonerate their friend. Before Barry can contact him, he disappears. They have less than an hour to save a condemned man.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Jim Trombetta
6.8/10175 votes#12 - The Trickster
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/7/1991
Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
6.4/10173 votes#13 - Tina, Is That You?
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/1991
Barry is having trouble sleeping. Tina tries to use bio-feedback to help him, but it back fires on Tina. She joins a gang, and she's able to hold Flash at bay with her knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Barry has got to find a way to save his friend.
Director: William A. Fraker
Writer: N/A
7.9/10188 votes#14 - Be My Baby
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/1991
Barry tries to help a young woman. She found out about her husband's criminal life, and is trying to escape from him. She takes their daughter with her, but he wants them back.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Jule Selbo
7.7/10193 votes#15 - Fast Forward
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1991
Jay's killer, Nicholus Pike, is released from jail and blames the Flash for Jay's death. He sets the Flash up by using a heat seeking bomb on him, but something goes awry. Instead of killing the Flash, it sends him into the future where Pike is in charge and outlaws anyone from mentioning the Flash.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
7.6/10173 votes#16 - Deadly Nightshade
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/30/1991
There's a new vigilante in town, the Deadly Nightshade, who fights crime by killing criminals. The Flash and the original Nightshade team up to take him down.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
7.0/10174 votes#17 - Captain Cold
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/6/1991
Captain Cold, who freezes his victims to death, is contracted to kill the Flash.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: N/A
7.3/10155 votes#18 - Twin Streaks
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/13/1991
A scientist and his business partner are trying to develop a being with super speed, their attempts fail. They manage to clone the Flash. Their creation learns quickly, but is emotional moral equivalent of a child. Barry must stop his twin.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Stephen Hattman
7.0/10161 votes#19 - Done with Mirrors
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1991
A battery is stolen by a criminal calling himself the Mirror Master. He soon steals a crystal from Star Labs. Tina will get fired if they can't recover the crystal. Tina's mother comes for a visit, and an old friend of Barry's also stirs up trouble.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
7.5/10167 votes#20 - Good Night, Central City
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1991
A small time crook gets a hold of a device that puts people to sleep. He goes on a spree while the people are unconscious. He has a plan to knock out the entire city, it's up to the Flash to stop him.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Jim Trombetta
7.8/10198 votes#21 - Alpha
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1991
An android built by the government to use an assassin refuses to obey her orders. She escapes, and is befriended by Tina and Barry.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
6.0/102 votes#22 - The Trial of the Trickster
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/1991
With the help of an insane admirer who wants to be his sidekick, the Trickster escapes from police custody and places the Flash under his mind control.
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore, Howard Chaykin
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "The Flash" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 261 votes. Directed by Robert Iscove and written by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, it aired on 9/20/1990. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Out of Control".