- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1989
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 10.0/101 votes
#2 - Perfetc
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/9/1989
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
Director: Gerald Perry Finnerman
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 9.0/102 votes
#3 - Those Lips, Those Lies
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/1989
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.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 8.0/102 votes
#4 - Jarod's Honor
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/3/1997
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - After completing a pretend, Jarod receives an email offering answers to his past. While investigating the lead, Jarod unexpectedly stubbles upon a dying hitman. When the hitman's last job comes calling, Jarod takes it. Meanwhile, Sydney and Miss Parker, following a lead from Jarod, attend a Twins Convention. And Broots covers for them from Mr. Raines.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.5/104 votes
#5 - The Last Gunfighter
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1992
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.5/104 votes
#6 - Roberto!
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1992
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.
Director: Scott Bakula
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.5/104 votes
#7 - The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/1992
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.5/1049 votes
#8 - Roland
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/6/1994
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.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.3/103 votes
#9 - Socrates' Sister
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1993
Socrates'sister---who's also a lawyer---is tricked into aiding in the escape of her client, a Treasury-plate thief hauled in by Brisco.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.2/104 votes
#10 - Hurricane
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1991
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.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.0/101 votes
#11 - A Clockwork Hammer
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1987
Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.0/104 votes
#12 - One Strobe Over the Line
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1990
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.0/104 votes
#13 - Glitter Rock
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/10/1991
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.
Director: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.0/101 votes
#14 - Ripper
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/1999
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...
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.8/104 votes
#15 - The Boogieman
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1990
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#16 - Super Mann
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1995
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.
Director: James R. Bagdonas
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#17 - Lucky Leon
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/12/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#18 - Individual Responsibility
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1995
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.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#19 - Contact
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1995
Lois claims to have been abducted by aliens, and Superman feels powerless to help when she slips into trances.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#20 - I Now Pronounce You...
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.7/103 votes
#21 - Through a Glass, Darkly
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1996
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.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.6/108 votes
#22 - Good Morning, Peoria
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1989
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.6/108 votes
#23 - Animal Frat
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1990
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.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.5/108 votes
#24 - Freedom
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1990
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.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.4/1045 votes
#25 - 3
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1994
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.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal