Popular searches:

The Best Episodes Written By David Black

Every TV Episode Written by David Black Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

David Black Ratings Summary

"Enemy Within" is the best rated episode written by David Black. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by John David Coles. It aired on 12/9/2001 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Leap of Faith".

  • Enemy Within
    9.0/101 votes

    #1 - Enemy Within

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2001

    The death of an eccentric banker in his nintieth floor apartment leads the detectives to investigate his professional contacts and family members.

    Director: John David Coles

    Writer: David Black

  • Leap of Faith
    8.0/105 votes

    #2 - Leap of Faith

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2012

    When a rich woman dies of a heart attack, her eccentric daughter claims that she received a message from God, who told her that her stepfather actually murdered her. Meanwhile, the archbishop wants Frank's support for the canonization of a local priest, but a reluctant Frank takes it upon himself to investigate a rumor that the priest went too far when protesting the Vietnam War.

    Director: David Barrett

    Writer: David Black

  • Nullification
    7.7/107 votes

    #3 - Nullification

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1997

    After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of "jury nullification", the right of a jury to protect a defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.

    Director: Constantine Makris

    Writer: David Black

  • God Bless The Child
    7.6/107 votes

    #4 - God Bless The Child

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1991

    A couple faces trial after they deny medical help to their daughter based on their religious beliefs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Black

  • By Hooker, By Crook
    7.5/108 votes

    #5 - By Hooker, By Crook

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1990

    When Logan and Greevey investigate how a family man came to be found unconscious in Central Park, they uncover a very high-class call girl operation run by a well-educated socialite.

    Director: Martin Davidson

    Writer: David Black

  • The Family Hour
    7.3/106 votes

    #6 - The Family Hour

    Season 17 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2007

    When Nicole Bailey, the ex-wife of a respected former senator, is found murdered and brutalised in her home, Green and Cassady look first at the senator, but follow the trail of clues to a dysfunctional family with a number of potentially embarrassing secrets. McCoy finds himself in the hot seat when he is forced to argue the case in front of a judge more interested in public relations than justice.

    Director: Matthew Penn

    Writer: David Black

  • Happily Ever After
    7.3/107 votes

    #7 - Happily Ever After

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1990

    Greevey and Logan have a hunch that robbery is a cover for the real motive in the death of a millionaire in a parking garage.

    Director: Vern Gillum

    Writer: David Black

  • Life Choice
    7.3/107 votes

    #8 - Life Choice

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1991

    Stone faces pressure from the public and from Schiff as he prepares to prosecute the person accused of bombing an abortion clinic.

    Director: Aaron Lipstadt

    Writer: David Black

  • Carrier
    7.1/107 votes

    #9 - Carrier

    Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/1998

    The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Black

  • Tabloid
    7.0/106 votes

    #10 - Tabloid

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1998

    Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Black

  • The Fire This Time
    7.0/106 votes

    #11 - The Fire This Time

    Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2001

    When a building is set ablaze, a girl must be identified despite her fatal burns. Through further investigation, it turns out that an extreme environmentalist group struck the match...

    Director: David Platt

    Writer: David Black

  • Magnet
    7.0/106 votes

    #12 - Magnet

    Season 16 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/2006

    Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.

    Director: Adam Bernstein

    Writer: David Black

  • Prescription For Death
    6.9/1015 votes

    #13 - Prescription For Death

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1990

    When a young woman dies during a hectic emergency room night shift, her father claims the hospital was negligent, and an investigation leads the detectives to believe that the doctor treating her may have been drunk on duty.

    Director: John Whitesell

    Writer: David Black

  • A Death In The Family
    6.9/107 votes

    #14 - A Death In The Family

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1991

    Police start a citywide manhunt for a man suspected of killing a cop during a rooftop pursuit.

    Director: Gwen Arner

    Writer: David Black

  • The Reaper's Helper
    6.6/108 votes

    #15 - The Reaper's Helper

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1990

    The death of a man with AIDS appears to be the work of a serial killer who may have been motivated by mercy.

    Director: Vern Gillum

    Writer: David Black

  • In Memory Of
    6.4/108 votes

    #16 - In Memory Of

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1991

    The renovation of a brownstone uncovers the remains of a boy who disappeared 31 years earlier, reviving a wrenching and long-suppressed memory in his childhood friend and neighbor.

    Director: Edwin Sherin

    Writer: David Black

  • Evidence of Things Unseen
    6.4/104 votes

    #17 - Evidence of Things Unseen

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/2003

    Horatio and his team investigate after a Russian immigrant is stabbed to death in a peep-show booth, and the only witness to the crime is the stripper who was performing for him.

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: David Black

  • Castoff
    6.1/108 votes

    #18 - Castoff

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1998

    The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.

    Director: Gloria Muzio

    Writer: David Black

  • Deliver Us from Evil (1)
    4.5/102 votes

    #19 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1988

    A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.

    Director: Dick Wolf

    Writer: David Black

  • Death and the Lady
    3.3/103 votes

    #20 - Death and the Lady

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1987

    An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate the film's flaky director.

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: David Black