The Best Episodes Written By Chris Ruppenthal

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #1 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld

   S5:E72/14/1989

   Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.

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   #2 - Perfetc

   S5:E94/9/1989

   Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.

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   8.8/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Those Lips, Those Lies

   S5:E84/2/1989

   Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - The Last Gunfighter

   S4:E141/29/1992

   November 28, 1957: Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Roberto!

   S4:E173/11/1992

   January 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - The Curse of Ptah-Hotep

   S4:E204/22/1992

   March 2, 1957: It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.

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   7.4/10(67 votes)

   #7 - Roland

   S1:E235/6/1994

   Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Hurricane

   S4:E310/2/1991

   August 17, 1969: Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.

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   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - One Strobe Over the Line

   S3:E410/19/1990

   June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.

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    #10 - Glitter Rock

    S3:E174/10/1991

    April 12, 1974: Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a performance, unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people, the real killer is.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Ripper

    S5:E115/7/1999

    In Victorian London, someone is killing prostitutes, someone the police have dubbed "Jack the Ripper." On the face of it, John C.V. York (Cary Elwes) is a likely suspect. A once-respected doctor who sunk to absinthe and laudanum addiction after his misdiagnosis killed the young daughter of a Duke. He retains a connection to polite society thanks to the devotion of Lady Ellen Chamberlain (Clare Sims), who loves him and hopes to marry him. But, he is also a habitue of the seedy district where the killings have taken place and has the medical knowledge to make the precise, surgical cuts that are the Ripper's modus operandi...

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Boogieman

    S3:E510/26/1990

    October 31, 1964: Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Super Mann

    S3:E911/26/1995

    When Lois and Clark finally begin with the wedding plans, they must stop again and investigate a Nazi organization which is trying to take over Metropolis.

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    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Animal Frat

    S2:E121/3/1990

    October 19, 1967: Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing," the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.

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    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Good Morning, Peoria

    S2:E611/8/1989

    September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.

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    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #16 - Freedom

    S2:E162/14/1990

    November 22, 1970: Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Lucky Leon

    S2:E163/12/1995

    When Jimmy is falsely accused by murder, Lois and Clark need to prove that he is innocent and clear his name. And they finally go to their ""real"" first date. Everything was going well, but when Clark takes Lois home, she closes the door on his face...because the date was great and because her fears about what will happen with their relationship. After they prove Jimmy's innocence, Lois explains to Clark what she felt when she closed the door on his face, and recognizes the mistake. When they finally kiss, a shocking and tragic thing happens.

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #18 - Individual Responsibility

    S2:E204/16/1995

    The Intergang, now headed by Bill Church Jr., kidnaps Perry when Franklin Stern refuses to sell the Daily Planet and Superman allows the kidnap because he's affected with the strange ""Red Kryptonite"" effects. When Clark gets upset with Lois and Scardino's dates, he asks her out again.

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    6.5/10(57 votes)

    #19 - 3

    S2:E711/4/1994

    Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Contact

    S3:E310/1/1995

    Lois claims to have been abducted by aliens, and Superman feels powerless to help when she slips into trances.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Stranded

    S5:E197/30/1999

    Thirteen-year-old Kevin Buchannon (Adam Hann-Byrd) lives at the bottom of the high-school food chain, scorned by other geeks, picked on by the jocks. At home, he lives in the shadow of his older brother Josh, a football star whose every accomplishment is celebrated by the boys' father, Alex (Daniel Hugh Kelly). Then one day, Kevin sees a plane crash in the woods near his house. He rushes to the scene with his dog Cody to find a mysterious ship occupied by the severely injured Captain Turner (Chris Potter).

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    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #22 - I Now Pronounce You...

    S3:E152/11/1996

    Just before their wedding, Lois and Clark probe the theft of exotic amphibians, which leads them to a freakish biologist and a plot to assassinate the President.

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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Through a Glass, Darkly

    S3:E215/5/1996

    A terrorist, together with a Planet researcher, create chaos for Superman, just as he's waxing nostalgic for a sense of permanence in his life.

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    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Josh

    S4:E73/6/1998

    Tabloid TV reporter Judy Warren (KATE VERNON) knows she's come across a big story when she sees the videotape shot by two tourists in a remote Alaskan park. The tape shows Josh Butler (Alex McArthur), a recluse who lives in a cabin near the park, bringing back to life a young girl who has died after a fall, a feat he accomplishes by generating a mysterious blue glow. But, she only discovers how big a story it is when her pursuit of the strange young man is cut short by a top-secret military unit that is also chasing him. It seems that the blue glow sent out electromagnetic pulses that knocked out two satellites orbiting 20,000 miles above the Earth and the Air Force wants to know what's going on. A battery of tests doesn't produce any answers, leaving the brass, lead by Col. Roger Tennent (Scott Hylands) and Major Samuel Harbeck (Larry Musser) to debate whether Butler is an alien or an angel - someone to be dissected or to be worshipped.

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    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Seeds of Destruction

    S6:E73/3/2000

    Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically- engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.

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