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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".

  • Murder She Roast
    8.6/10203 votes
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    #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

  • Death Becomes Him
    8.5/10139 votes
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    #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

  • 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten
    8.4/10161 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Is That a Ten-Foot Sandwich or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
    8.4/10135 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Nuptials Off
    8.4/10133 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Das Plane
    8.3/10179 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy
    8.3/10157 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Life Could Be a Dream
    8.3/10109 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Final Approach (2)
    8.3/10131 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Puppetmaster
    8.2/10199 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Exit Laughing
    8.2/10106 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Joe Blows (1)
    8.2/10131 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • The Lyin' King
    8.2/10122 votes
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    #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

  • Sports & Leisure
    8.1/10174 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Crate Expectations
    8.1/10125 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • It's So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House
    8.1/10134 votes
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    #16 - 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: Ken Levine, David Isaacs

  • What the Cabbie Saw
    8.1/10118 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Another Wedding
    8.1/1089 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Black Eye Affair
    8.1/10135 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Joe Blows (2)
    8.1/10124 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Say Uncle, Carlton
    8.1/10135 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Boys Will Be Girls
    8.1/10131 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Here It Is: The Big Wedding (2)
    8.1/10114 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • The Big Sleep
    8.1/1095 votes
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    #24 - The Big Sleep

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1995

    After fighting with Helen over the architect's plans for their new house (he wants a big screen TV in the bedroom, she wants a walk-in closet), Joe has a strange dream involving Tigers, Clowns, Roy belly-dancing, and the couple dying in a plane crash with Antonio. As one by one the dreams events come to pass, Brian tries to convince Joe to heed the dream's warnings, but he fails. Joe, Helen and Antonio soon find themselves plunging to earth in the plane…

    Director: Jeff Melman

    Writer: N/A

  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
    8.0/10154 votes
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    #25 - 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