8.0/102 votes#1 - Patient Zero
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2001
A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Crocker
- 7.5/102 votes
#2 - Abduction
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 8/18/2001
An alien makes an offer to five high school students.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Crocker
7.5/1029 votes#3 - The Maquis (1)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1994
Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: James Crocker
7.0/103 votes#4 - A Little Peace and Quiet
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1985
A harried housewife finds a medallion that gives her the power to freeze time.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: James Crocker
7.0/101 votes#5 - Shadow Play
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 4/4/1986
A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him is a dream: one that he can't wake up from. He claims that every time he is executed, he fails to wake up and must relive the whole thing again. His attorney is originally skeptical, but Grant knows all of the "lines" and can predict things that will happen miles away. His attorney tries to get a stay of execution, but is just too late: Grant is "executed" and wakes up at his trial once more. The players have changed roles, but otherwise everything is the same as he must relive the same events over...and over...and over.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: James Crocker
7.0/101 votes#6 - Rakers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/1987
Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: James Crocker
7.0/104 votes#7 - Time Lapse
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2002
After an unconscious high-security patient arrives in his ward, Doctor Zack Taylor finds himself suffering from blackouts. On each occasion he wakes up partway along a byzantine assassination plot to kill the President's daughter with a plastic gun. He gets to the target's location, pulls out his gun, and...shoots an assassin behind the girl...
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: James Crocker
7.0/104 votes#8 - The Deprogrammers
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 5/26/1996
With Earth under alien rule and millions dead, the human race has been programmed to slavery. A small band of rebels kidnaps Evan, alien leader Koltok's personal slave. Trent Davis, leader of the rebels, tries to return Evan to his former self through arduous deprogramming sessions. To aid in the process, Evan is reintroduced to his wife Jill. As his sessions progress, Evan learns of the death of his daughter. He agrees to join the rebels and assassinate his former master - with devastating results.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: James Crocker
6.8/104 votes#9 - Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1985
A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up. They discover that they have a shape-changing alien in their holding tank that poses a danger to all.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: James Crocker
6.4/105 votes#10 - Sanctuary
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/20/2002
Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man and woman cannot resist the temptation of technology.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: James Crocker
6.2/104 votes#11 - The Path
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1/8/2003
Ally, a young writer for a tabloid, meets a man who claims he sees others the path they are destined to follow. His predictions for her prove uncannily accurate and she soon becomes dependent on his predictions to guide her life. When he gets hit by a car and killed she finds herself without hope.
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: James Crocker
- 6.0/101 votes
#12 - Family Values
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 3/16/2001
A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: James Crocker
5.8/105 votes#13 - Rewind
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 2/5/2003
Jonah, a gambler, never can beat "the house" no matter how hard he tries. But then he gets an interesting device that enables him to go back in time up to 5 minutes, and that means he has big chances for his gambling.
Director: Kevin Bray
Writer: James Crocker
5.7/103 votes#14 - Out of Body
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 7/14/1996
What really happens during an out-of body experience? Husband and wife scientists Rebecca Warfield and Ben McCormick are trying to find out by subjecting monkeys to electric impulses. They see it as pure science, but to religious groups like Family Foremost, it is sacrilege. Desperate for funding, Rebecca decides to run the experiment with a human subject -- herself. She asks her assistant, Amy, to help. Amy, a secret religious fanatic, alters the experiment. Rebecca escapes from her body, but, unless she finds a way to communicate, she will remain trapped in an other dimension.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Crocker
5.6/105 votes#15 - Sensuous Cindy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/13/2002
A man buys a "virtual girlfriend" online simply to satisfy his carnal needs, but ends up becoming somebody else's sex slave.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: James Crocker
5.0/103 votes#16 - Bits of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/1997
Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust, but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelter, hes surrounded by his family, friends, lovers, anyone he wants ... Unfortunately, they're holograms -- computer generated people controlled by a beautiful holographic interface named Emma. But when curiosity turns to touch and Aidan makes love to Emma in a virtual reality pod, he quickly learns that trifling with a computers feelings can be dangerous ... and the morning after can be all too real.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: James Crocker
- 5.0/101 votes
#17 - The Awakening
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1997
Beth Carter lives in black and white, unable to experience emotions because of a conditioncalled primary alexithymia. But when Dr. Steven Molstad implants a small device in her brain, Beth's world explodes into brilliant color. For the first time in her life, she can truly feel love, happiness and even fear. Beth is thrilled by the transformation, by her feelings of friendship for Molstad's assistant Joan Garrison and her attraction to Joan's landlord Kevin Flynn -- but there are some troubling signs. Beth begins to hear strange voices. She is abducted by aliens only to find herself back in the hospital. Is her brain rebelling at the sudden flow of emotions or is Molstad's implant defective? Or is something more sinister going on?
Director: George Bloomfield
Writer: James Crocker
- 5.0/101 votes
#18 - The Haven
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 7/2/1999
Caleb Vance lives on the 52nd floor of The Haven, a high-tech marvel of an apartment building that is driven by a supercomputer named Argus and filled with machines and appliances that respond to the orders of The Haven's residents. The building's design almost completely eliminates the need for human contact, a desirable feature in an age in which all communication is mediated by one form of technology or another and a strong selling point for the residents of The Haven. But things begin to go wrong...
Director: Jim Kaufman
Writer: James Crocker
- 5.0/101 votes
#19 - Decompression
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 6/30/2000
Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains she is a projection from the future, a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live he must shoot out the emergency exit and allow himself to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: James Crocker
4.0/103 votes#20 - The Leprechaun-Artist
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 2/21/1986
Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Crocker
- 3.5/102 votes
#21 - Identity Crisis
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1998
Captain Cotter McCoy (Lou Diamond Phillips) is the first of a new breed of soldier. As part of a top secret program overseen by Dr. Greg Olander (Robert Joy), General Langston Chase (Dale Wilson), and Cotter's friend, Colonel Pete Butler (Scott Kraft), the contents of McCoy's brain can be temporarily transferred into an android version of himself. This process creates a virtually indestructible fighting machine with the smarts and experience of a human being. But, one day something goes wrong. During the transfer, the real McCoy's body is blasted with electricity, stopping his heart, inflicting serious brain damage and leaving Cotter's mind trapped in the android body. To make matters worse, the interface between his mind and the android body is flawed. McCoy's motor control is already beginning to break down and the interface will likely collapse within 12 hours.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: James Crocker
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"Patient Zero" is the best rated episode written by James Crocker. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi. It aired on 3/23/2001 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Abduction".