The Best Episodes of Timeless Season 1
Every episode of Timeless Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Timeless Season 1!
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Timeless" season 1 is "Pilot", rated 7.7/10 from 2556 user votes. It was directed by Neil Marshall and written by Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan. "Pilot" aired on 10/3/2016 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln".
7.7/10 2,556 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2016
A history professor's life is turned upside down when she's tapped to join an unlikely team tasked with stopping a man bent on changing the past - and possibly destroying the future.
Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan
7.9/10 2,124 votes#2 - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2016
The team travels back to the assassination of Lincoln to stop Flynn from making that night an even bigger tragedy.
Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Tom Smuts
7.5/10 1,904 votes#3 - Atomic City
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2016
In Rat Pack-era Vegas, the team is hot on Flynn’s heels with the era’s most infamous mistress in toe.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Lana Cho
7.9/10 1,868 votes#4 - Party at Castle Varlar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2016
The trio teams up with one of literature's most popular figures, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, to defeat Flynn's sinister plot in Nazi Germany.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Jim Barnes
8.0/10 1,837 votes#5 - The Alamo
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2016
The team races to stop Flynn before the bloody Battle of the Alamo ensues, but will it be victory or death for our time-traveling trio?
Director: John Terlesky
Writer: Anne Cofell Saunders
7.9/10 1,701 votes#6 - The Watergate Tape
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2016
The trio races to catch Flynn in 1972 before he can steal the mysterious missing minutes of the Watergate tape, but personal secrets threaten to tear the team apart.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Kent Rotherham
7.8/10 1,635 votes#7 - Stranded
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2016
The team must battle the French, Indians and Mother Nature after Flynn sabotages the Lifeboat and traps them back in Western Pennsylvania circa 1754.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Arika Lisanne Mittman
8.1/10 1,692 votes#8 - Space Race
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/2016
Back in 1969, the team goes undercover at NASA to stop Flynn from sabotaging the moon landing and killing the crew of Apollo 11.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Matt Whitney
8.0/10 1,676 votes#9 - Last Ride of Bonnie & Clyde
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/2016
On the run with the bank-robbing Barrow gang, the team needs to gain the trust of ill-fated lovers Bonnie and Clyde in order to find out Flynn's target in the Depression-era South. While Agent Christopher tracks down a lead in present day, Lucy, Rufus, and Wyatt risk getting caught in the crossfire, suspecting that whatever Flynn's after may be a key piece of the whole puzzle.
Director: John Terlesky
Writer: Anslem Richardson
8.3/10 1,689 votes#10 - The Capture of Benedict Arnold
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/2016
A stunning turn during the American Revolution prompts Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus to question whether they've been fighting on the wrong side this whole time. While Agent Christopher prepares for the worst back in present day, the team encounters the Father of the Country, makes a dubious pact, and confronts the possibility they may not be a trio for long.
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Tom Smuts
8.3/10 1,590 votes#11 - The World's Columbian Exposition
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2017
Lucy's situation grows desperate after she's taken captive by Flynn and brought to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In their dogged pursuit of Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus fall into a sinister trap.
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Lana Cho
7.9/10 1,508 votes#12 - The Murder of Jesse James
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/2017
Flynn teams up with legendary outlaw, Jesse James. Together they cut a bloody swath across the American frontier. Hot on Flynn's trail, Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus enlist the help of an iconic Marshal to help bring the fugitives to justice.
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Jim Barnes
8.1/10 1,503 votes#13 - Karma Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/2017
Wyatt convinces Rufus to steal the Lifeboat for an unauthorized mission to prevent Wyatt's wife's killer from ever being born. Lucy must cover for them in the present, as Agent Christopher discovers the ship is missing and Anthony Bruhl makes an alarming confession.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Anne Cofell Saunders
7.8/10 1,422 votes#14 - The Lost Generation
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2017
As Lucy grapples with her newfound identity, Flynn disappears to 1927 France on the day that Charles Lindbergh completes his transatlantic flight. Now, Rufus, Lucy and their new soldier scramble through the City of Lights and team with young reporter, Ernest Hemingway, to keep history intact.
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Kent Rotherham, David C. Hoffman
8.1/10 1,459 votes#15 - Public Enemy No. 1
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/2017
Flynn travels to 1931 Chicago to partner with gangster Al Capone. Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus, meanwhile, team up with the only man who can bring Capone down: federal law-enforcement agent Eliot Ness.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Anslem Richardson, Matt Whitney
8.6/10 1,678 votes#16 - The Red Scare
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2017
With one of our heroes' lives on the line, the team chases Flynn to 1954 through the paranoid corridors of Joe McCarthy's Washington D.C., en route to a secret, once-a-generation meeting of Rittenhouse leaders. While there, Lucy must wager the ultimate sacrifice to save history as we know it.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
Writer: Arika Lisanne Mittman