8.6/10203 votesLoading...#1 - Murder She Roast
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1991
While the house is being fumigated, Brian is forced to stay with Fay. The experience turns out to be surprisingly pleasant—that is, until he becomes convinced he's seen her featured on the "Most Wanted" show he is watching about a serial killer.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: N/A
8.5/10138 votesLoading...#2 - Death Becomes Him
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1995
The sad news of Harrison Kingsbury's death in Miami is occasion for celebration at Sandpiper, as Kingsbury's oldest daughter hires the Hacketts to bring the body back to Nantucket for the memorial. But the brothers fly the wrong body back to the island, and it's up to Joe to impersonate the late Kingsbury at the funeral.
Director: Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Writer: Mark Reisman
8.4/10136 votesLoading...#3 - Is That a Ten-Foot Sandwich or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1994
Joe and Helen just want some time alone with one another, but Brian and Casey continually interrupt them. Brian and Casey decide to surprise them with an engagement party as an apology, but Antonio misinterprets an overheard conversation and believes Brian to be sleeping with Casey. When she hears about it, Helen drags Joe to the party site well before they are expected.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10132 votesLoading...#4 - Nuptials Off
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1995
When Helen discovers that she and Antonio are still married (by finding papers under her cash register), she turns to Roy for help. He convinces her she needs to fly to Mexico over the weekend to get a quickie divorce, but that means sending Joe out of town on a weekend fly fishing trip. But Helen's plan are strained when Antonio brings in a priest for an annulment and Joe's flight is delayed.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
8.3/10179 votesLoading...#5 - Das Plane
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1992
Joe is thrilled to learn that, for a charity auction, a plane ticket he donated to fly to any nearby airport goes for a staggering $10,000. But his mood sours when a misprint on the ticket forces him to fly crabby old Carlton Blanchard on a cross-country trip for a reunion with his brother.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/1992
Antonio's repeated success with a video dating service soon has Joe, Brian, Helen and Lowell plunging into the video dating fray, with less than stellar results.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
8.3/10161 votesLoading...#7 - 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1993
When news arrives that Sandy Cooper is returning to Nantucket, Joe fears her high school obsession with him will return but the others think he's imagining things. Meanwhile, Antonio tries to raise money to send to his family and Roy is worried about a visit from his cranky mother.
Director: Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Writer: David A. Goodman
8.3/10130 votesLoading...#8 - Final Approach (2)
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/21/1997
Joe and Brian are divided over their new-found inheritance: Joe wants to expand the business, and Brian wants to use the money to leave Nantucket and the tedium of his job. Joe's agony over the dissolving of the partnership is further complicated when he learns of Helen's earth shaking news: she's been invited to study cello in Vienna with the world's greatest cellist. Joe is prepared to sacrifice Sandpiper to help Helen finally live her dream, but it is Brian who makes the final sacrifice by postponing his and Casey's move to the Caribbean in order to run Sandpiper for one year while Joe and Helen are away in Vienna.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10200 votesLoading...#9 - The Puppetmaster
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1990
Brian hires an actor to play the role of a charming pilot who asks Helen out.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
8.2/10105 votesLoading...#10 - Exit Laughing
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/1993
Helen dates a guy with an annoying laugh. Antonio has trouble with his jerk neighbor.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
8.2/10132 votesLoading...#11 - Joe Blows (1)
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1993
Joe feels the weight of the world coming down on him as everyone comes to him to help solve their problems. As the stress mounts, he knows he must make a drastic change.
Director: David Clark Lee
Writer: Steven Levitan
8.2/10109 votesLoading...#12 - Life Could Be a Dream
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1996
The unearthing of a 20-year old time capsule is occasion for Joe, Brian, Helen, and Casey to reflect on what kind of a future they envisioned themselves having as kids. Joe dreamed of being a pitcher for the Red Sox, Brian dreamed of being a suave secret agent , and Casey dreamed of being a supermodel—but only Helen's dream came true.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
8.2/10122 votesLoading...#13 - The Lyin' King
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1996
Joe faces a moral dilemma: can he lie to Helen so he can go to a strip club with Brian? To soothe his conscience, he volunteers some time at the Golden Crest retirement home, but ends up taking one of the residents with him to the strip club. Meanwhile, Fay and Antonio write their own eulogies.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Christopher Vane
8.1/10124 votesLoading...#14 - Crate Expectations
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1991
As his birthday approaches, Joe firmly insists that the rest of the gang not throw him a party. When Fay asks him to stay late to wait for a shipment of airplane seats, Joe becomes convinced they're throwing him a party anyway.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
8.1/10134 votesLoading...#15 - It's So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1992
Brian and Joe gain a new roommate after Brian accidentally sinks Lowell's houseboat.
Director: David Clark Lee
Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine
8.1/10117 votesLoading...#16 - What the Cabbie Saw
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1993
Antonio performs his civic duty when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then testifies against him. But then the suspect gets released on a technicality, and Antonio starts to fear for his life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Levitan
8.1/1090 votesLoading...#17 - Another Wedding
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1993
The crew is invited to the wedding of the air traffic controller.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
8.1/10136 votesLoading...#18 - Black Eye Affair
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1993
While trying to create a perfect evening with her boyfriend, Davis, Helen runs into obstacle after obstacle with various friends who assist in aiding with what can only be certain disaster.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Steven Levitan
8.1/10125 votesLoading...#19 - Joe Blows (2)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1993
With Joe MIA, the burden of running Sandpiper Air falls all on Brian. As he struggles to keep things in the air, he gets a clue to where Joe ran off to.
Director: Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Writer: N/A
8.1/10136 votesLoading...#20 - Say Uncle, Carlton
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1994
To help pay for his new used cab, Antonio gets a job as a chauffeur for Carlton Blanchard. Things get even worse when Carlton's equally annoying nephew, Lewis, arrives on Nantucket to attend Carlton's banquet.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Steven Levitan
8.1/10131 votesLoading...#21 - Boys Will Be Girls
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1994
When the football coach who belittled Joe and Brian in high school returns to Nantucket to be honored in a gym dedication, they plan a practical joke that gets way out of hand.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: David Lloyd
8.1/10113 votesLoading...#22 - Here It Is: The Big Wedding (2)
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 5/23/1995
Joe and Helen's wedding day gets off to a bad start when the best man and maid of honor, Brian and Casey, oversleep after spending the night together. When Antonio discovers this, he and Brian fight. In the struggle, the wedding ring is lost down the toilet, followed quickly by Joe's searching hand, which gets stuck.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
8.0/10175 votesLoading...#23 - Sports & Leisure
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1990
Roy tries to make friends with the gang by joining them in a game of Trivial Pursuit.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Angell
8.0/10154 votesLoading...#24 - Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1991
When Joe and Helen decide to meet at their "special place" on Valentine's Day, they end up on opposite ends of the island. Meanwhile, when Roy's blind date exceeds all his low expectations, all he can do is try and figure out what's wrong with her.
Director: Noam Pitlik
Writer: N/A
8.0/10119 votesLoading...#25 - Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1991
Out of boredom while the airport is shut down for fog, Brian tries his hypnosis act on volunteers, during which Roy makes a shocking revelation.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wings
Every episode of Wings ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Wings!
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and...
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Murder She Roast" is the best rated episode of "Wings". It scored 8.6/10 based on 203 votes. Directed by Noam Pitlik and written by N/A, it aired on 3/21/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death Becomes Him".