6.8/1012 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1997
Quicktime Crash-landing on a mountain side, THE VISITOR (formally Adam MacArthur) mysteriously emerges from the wreckage of the downed craft, seemingly unhurt. His sudden appearance creates a manhunt by opposing national security departments (including the FBI, headed by Douglas Wilcox, and the NSA, headed by Colonel James Vise), each with its own agenda to find out who Adam is, how he survived, and why he returned. It appears that Adam, missing in action since World War II, is still the young man he was 50 years ago prior to disappearing into the Bermuda Triangle. Adam eludes his pursuers by finding refuge with Nadine and Tyler Walden, a single mother and her 13-year-old son.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dean Devlin
- 6.9/1011 votes
#2 - Fear of Flying
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1997
Adam MacArthur helps repressed and banished scientist Louis Farraday realize his life-long project to conquer gravity. Chased by both the FBI and Vise, they utilize this discovery to make their escape in a vintage World War II fighter plane
Director: Randall Zisk, Dean Devlin
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/109 votes
#3 - The Devil's Rainbow
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1997
Adam MacArthur connects with his adult granddaughter while Vise and the FBI are hot on his trail.
Director: Donna Deitch
Writer: Hans Tobeason
- 7.4/105 votes
#4 - Dreams
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1997
Adam MacArthur is tormented by a message received from deep space. He and scientist Alex Burton try to decipher the message, but in a moment of synchronicity, both men are seriously injured and sent into a coma. They must try to navigate through their shared dream landscape and ultimately realize that the message may have dire consequences.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Remember
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1997
Adam joins a community of lost souls and discovers that they are waiting for an alien mothership to save them. Upon further investigation, he learns that the group's leader is developing a weapon that can cause mass destruction by ""canceling"" human brain wave activity. Adam must convince the young scientist working on the weapon to abandon the project before it's too late and turn his talents to aiding humanity.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Vivian Mayhew
- 8.4/107 votes
#6 - The Black Box
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1997
To prevent a catastrophe, Adam urgently searches for mysterious objects that disappeared 30 years ago in a science lab accident. To find the objects, he befriends the Vietnam vet and his college sweetheart who survived the accident. As he tries to re-unite them, Adam finds himself in a race with time.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Teufelsnacht
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1997
A radio DJ doing his annual ""War of the Worlds"" show on Halloween night witnesses the landing of an alien space craft, but no one believes him. Meanwhile, Adam knows the pilot of the unusual machine is looking for him and gets the help of two young siblings to help him avoid capture.
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Writer: Hans Tobeason
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Reunion
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1997
Things reach crisis point when Adam, his granddaughter Charlotte, Michael O'Ryan, and the FBI all converge to find Constance MacArthur, Adam's wife. While Adam is desperate to see his wife who he left in 1947, Michael O'Ryan will stop at nothing to prevent him from completing his mission on Earth and kidnaps Charlotte as bait. Meanwhile, the FBI closes in on Adam and Colonel Vise finally goes over the edge.
Director: Tony Bill
Writer: Vivian Mayhew
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Caged
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1997
The FBI finally catches up to Adam and takes him to a federal prison for questioning. Meanwhile, Col. Vise experiences flashbacks of the experience that started his alien obsession. As they try to capture Adam, Michael O'Ryan discloses himself to Vise as his long lost friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dean Devlin
- 7.1/107 votes
#10 - Going Home
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1997
After his escape from the FBI, Adam must get Michael O'Ryan and his craft back to their home or Earth will be endangered. Col. Vise has other plans, forcing Adam to go back to the FBI for help.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Miracles
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1997
With the holidays approaching, Adam searches for a member of his family, but is delayed by a woman about to give birth. With the FBI and NSA hot on his trail, Adam helps the woman connect with her estranged scientist grandfather.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - The Chain
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1998
A frightened psychic woman forsees a terrible event that will affect humankind and Adam shows her how to use her special abilities to prevent the chain of events from unfolding. Meanwhile, Col. Vise is diagnosed with a bizarre illness.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/107 votes
#13 - The Trial
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1998
Just when the FBI and NSA finally catch up to Adam, who is abducted by an alien spaceship right before their eyes. On board, Adam discovers that he was taken by a group of fellow abductees who put him on trial for his actions on Earth. Adam must defend why he disobeyed the ""Elders"" rules on non-intervention and justify his mission to the others.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Visitor Season 1
Every episode of The Visitor Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Visitor Season 1!
The Visitor is a science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin which aired on Fox from 1997–1998. It starred John Corbett...
Genre:Drama
Network:FOX
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "The Visitor" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Dean Devlin, it aired on 9/19/1997. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Fear of Flying".