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The Best Episodes Written By Alan Brennert

Every TV Episode Written by Alan Brennert Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - A Dream of Jennifer

    S1:E20

    Buck is haunted by the appearance of a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to Jennifer, a woman who Buck left behind when he was propelled into the 25th Century. He follows her, finds out her name is Leila Markeson, and soon discovers that she was made to look like Jennifer in order to lure Buck into a trap set by an alien who wants Buck to stop a space freighter from delivering weapons to a planet his people hope to conquer. Buck gets Wilma to detonate a warhead to deceive the aliens into thinking the shipment is destroyed. Buck defeats the enemy, but loses Leila, and his lost love again, as she tearfully dies in his arms.

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  2. 7.6/10(22 votes)

    #2 - Cold Station 12 (2)

    S4:E5

    Arik Soong leads his band of Augments to a medical facility where hundreds of genetically enhanced embryos are still stored, intending to retrieve them and bring them to life.

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  3. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Cold Equations

    S3:E16

    A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.

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  4. 7.3/10(21 votes)

    #4 - Sanctuary

    S1:E14

    The team finds a paradise world that would make an ideal sanctuary for those fleeing from the Wraith, but the local inhabitants believe their goddess will not permit it.

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    Director:James Head
  5. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Examination Day / A Message From Charity

    S1:E6

    In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the government intelligence test. He is very nervous about the outcome of the test but eager to show how smart he is. At the end his parents get the news - Dickie "passed" the test...but the government kills anyone who is too intelligent. In 1985, a fever-stricken Peter Wood finds himself in telepathic contact with Charity Paine, a sick girl his age living in Puritan New England. The two rejoice in sharing their thoughts, and Peter gives Charity the chance to see things that she'd never experienced in her limit time and place. However, their new-found contact turns to horror when Peter's knowledge of the future endangers Charity's life. She inadvertently speaks of the future, causing the villagers to believe she is a witch.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  6. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Monsters! / A Small Talent for War / A Matter of Minutes

    S1:E15

    A young boy becomes fascinated with the new neighbor next door. The neighbor, Mr. Bendictson, warns him that he cannot stay long, as he is a vampire! The boy is still intrigued, but soon finds out the truth. An alien ship arrives at the UN and the alien representative declares his disappointment at Earth's progress. The UN ambassadors plead for 24 hours to resolve their differences. In 24 hours the ambassadors manage to arrange world peace and nuclear disarmament. When the alien returns the ambassadors realize they have misunderstood him entirely. A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-clad workers who are workers of time that build and move objects from one time period to another.

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  7. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Plot to Kill a City (2)

    S1:E7

    After a Defense Directorate agent kills a member of a group of interstellar assassins, they plot to take their revenge on the city of New Chicago. Buck masquerades as an assassin and joins the group, but is soon uncovered. He must now, not only escape from the assassins, but also stop them from detonating New Chicago's matter/antimatter energy plant.

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    Director:Dick Lowry
  8. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Escape From Wedded Bliss

    S1:E12

    Princess Ardala returns to try to make Buck, who she considers the most genetically perfect male in the galaxy, her husband. With a powerful weapon poised in Earth orbit, she commands Earth's leaders to turn Buck Rogers over to her or else...

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  9. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #9 - The Refuge

    S2:E11

    ""What is reality?"" is the question before Raymond Bava after he collapses during a blizzard and awakens in a private refuge run by Sanford Valle. Valle's companions include his son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Justine, and Gina Beaumont. Ray, drawn to the gentle Gina, recoils from the callous corruption displayed by the all-controlling Valle and the other inhabitants. Then, following a moment of violence, Ray begins to doubt reality when all the characters, including Gina, reverse roles and personalities. When he is suddenly freed from Valle's control, Ray finds he has been locked in a cryogenic-induced nightmare, but one he must return to fulfill his love for Gina.

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    Director:Ken Girotti
  10. 6.8/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Healer / Children's Zoo / Kentucky Rye

    S1:E3

    Cat burglar Jackie Thompson breaks into a museum to steal ancient artifacts and takes a rare gem that has strange healing powers - he is shot but the gem heals him. Taking on the name of Brother John, Jackie becomes a faith healer but soon becomes too greedy. Meanwhile an old Indian man, Duende, shows up and tells Jackie the relic must go back to where it belongs. Jackie starts to have second thoughts but his partner Harry leaves with the cash and his old bullet wound opens up and he begins dying again. A little girl's parents are always fighting and screaming at each other. She takes them to the Children's Zoo with a special invitation and she gets something very special, something her parents could not even imagine. Bob Spindler, a drunk driver, arrives at the "Kentucky Rye" bar where the customers are all victims of drunk drivers.

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  11. 6.2/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Daedalus

    S4:E10

    The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.

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  12. 6.2/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Dark Matters

    S1:E11

    Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  13. 6.1/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Shatterday / A Little Peace and Quiet

    S1:E1

    A man named Peter Jay Novins accidentally dials his home phone number, and it's answered by Peter Jay Novins. A harried housewife finds a medallion that gives her the power to freeze time.

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    Director:Wes Craven
  14. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Dead Woman's Shoes / Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

    S1:E9

    Shy Maddie finds a pair of shoes and after trying them on, is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a rich murdered woman. David Wong searches for something he lost. He seeks the Lost and Found Emporium where he finds others looking for their lost items.

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    Director:Paul Lynch
  15. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Night of the Meek / But Can She Type? / The Star

    S1:E13

    A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it. An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her. In this reality, however, secretaries are a revered, rare commodity. Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
  16. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth

    S2:E10

    A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by "Prince", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to relive a youthful encounter with the girl of his dreams, Mary Ellen Kasgrove. When he returns to the high school party, nothing is as he remembers it but one girl, Teresa Golowitz, sits by herself. Prince, in a girl's body, reminds him that Teresa committed suicide that night. Bluestone gets her to sing and convinces her to meet him the next day. When he returns to the present, Bluestone finds out that Teresa went on to become a famous singer and that because of his interference he won't be going to the "higher place". He and "Prince" head off to lower fields to prepare some entertainment. In the far future an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.

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  17. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Disco Devil

    S3:E5

    Wonder Woman must stop a disco that lures government engineers, and then taps their minds, stealing national secrets.

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  18. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Skateboard Wiz

    S3:E8

    Diana's god-daughter, a teenage skateboard whiz, is used by a mobster for extortion and blackmail purposes.

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  19. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Amazon Hot Wax

    S3:E16

    Going undercover to stop extortionists in the record industry gives Diana (and Lynda Carter) a chance to show off her vocal abilities.

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    Director:Ray Austin
  20. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Girl with a Gift for Disaster

    S3:E19

    A plan to steal priceless historical documents centers around a woman who 'attracts disaster'.

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  21. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Plot to Kill a City (1)

    S1:E6

    After a Defense Directorate agent kills a member of a group of interstellar assassins, they plot to take their revenge on the city of New Chicago. Buck masquerades as an assassin and joins the group, but is soon uncovered. He must now, not only escape from the assassins, but also stop them from detonating New Chicago's matter/antimatter energy plant.

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    Director:Dick Lowry
  22. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Cruise Ship to the Stars

    S1:E13

    Murder and romance await Buck, Wilma, Theo and Twiki aboard the cruise ship Lyran Queen. Buck befriends a shy young girl (Beck) while investigating the attempted kidnapping of beauty queen Miss Cosmos (Stratten) by a woman (Noble) with superpowers. To his surprise, Buck learns the true identity of the mystery woman as he seeks the location of Miss Cosmos before a deadly dissection laser kills her.

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  23. 5.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Welcome to Winfield / Quarantine

    S1:E17

    The grim reaper arrives at a hospital to take possession of a dying man. The man's wife rescues him and takes him to the western town of Winfield where residents have been living for hundreds of years. Apparently, the reaper has failed to collect those living there. A man is awakened after several hundred years of cryogenic sleep. He finds a world where psychic powers abound. The people there want him to complete a mission that only he can accomplish.

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  24. 5.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Her Pilgrim Soul / I of Newton

    S1:E12

    Two scientists named Kevin and Daniel are experimenting with a holographic device. One day they are confronted with a fetus in their machine. Growing, it becomes a woman whose life story fascinates and allures Kevin. A frazzled mathematics professor accidentally summons a demon who will let him riddle to get free of the contract he accidentally invoked. The professor, Sam, has three questions to find a task the demon can't accomplish, or a question he can't answer, then challenge him after the questions are answered. The demon appears omnipotent, but Sam gives the demon a simple command: "Get lost." The demon is banished and Sam goes back to work.

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    Director:Wes Craven
  25. 5.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Beacon / One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

    S1:E11

    When Dr. Dennis Barrows's car breaks down, he goes to an unusual town where visitors are disliked and townspeople are terrified of lighthouse and where it might shine. The house where Barrows stays the night is shined upon by the lighthouse. It holds a sick child, one which he helps with his medicine. Angry with his adult life, a man, Gus Rosenthal, returns to his childhood stomping ground in Ohio and while digging up an old toy soldier finds himself transported back to when he was a boy.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald

Alan Brennert Ratings Summary

"A Dream of Jennifer" is the best rated episode written by Alan Brennert. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by David G. Phinney. It aired on 2/14/1980 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Cold Station 12 (2)".