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The Best Episodes Written By Chris Ruppenthal

Every TV Episode Written by Chris Ruppenthal Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 10.0/10(2 votes)

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

    S5:E7

    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Perfetc

    S5:E9

    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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  3. 9.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Those Lips, Those Lies

    S5:E8

    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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  4. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Jarod's Honor

    S1:E19

    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.

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  5. 7.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - The Last Gunfighter

    S4:E14

    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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  6. 7.5/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Roberto!

    S4:E17

    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. 7.5/10(4 votes)

    #7 - The Curse of Ptah-Hotep

    S4:E20

    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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  8. 7.4/10(55 votes)

    #8 - Roland

    S1:E23

    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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  9. 7.3/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Socrates' Sister

    S1:E5

    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.

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  10. 7.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Hurricane

    S4:E3

    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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  11. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - A Clockwork Hammer

    S2:E1

    Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.

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  12. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - One Strobe Over the Line

    S3:E4

    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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  13. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Glitter Rock

    S3:E17

    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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  14. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Ripper

    S5:E11

    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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  15. 6.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Boogieman

    S3:E5

    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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  16. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Lucky Leon

    S2:E16

    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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  17. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Individual Responsibility

    S2:E20

    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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  18. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Contact

    S3:E3

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

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  19. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Super Mann

    S3:E9

    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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  20. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - I Now Pronounce You...

    S3:E15

    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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  21. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Through a Glass, Darkly

    S3:E21

    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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  22. 6.6/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Good Morning, Peoria

    S2:E6

    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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  23. 6.6/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Animal Frat

    S2:E12

    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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  24. 6.5/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Freedom

    S2:E16

    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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  25. 6.4/10(48 votes)

    #25 - 3

    S2:E7

    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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Chris Ruppenthal Ratings Summary

"I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld" is the best rated episode written by Chris Ruppenthal. It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Paul Krasny. It aired on 2/14/1989 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Perfetc".