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The Best Episodes Written By John Schulian

Every TV Episode Written by John Schulian Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

John Schulian Ratings Summary

"Gladiator" is the best rated episode written by John Schulian. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Garth Maxwell. It aired on 4/2/1995 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Eye of the Beholder".

  • Gladiator
    10.0/101 votes

    #1 - Gladiator

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/1995

    Wicked Menas Maxius pits slaves against wild animals for his amusement.

    Director: Garth Maxwell

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Eye of the Beholder
    9.0/103 votes

    #2 - Eye of the Beholder

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/1995

    A misunderstood cyclops keeps water from frightened villagers.

    Director: John T. Kretchmer

    Writer: John Schulian

  • The Warrior Princess
    8.8/104 votes

    #3 - The Warrior Princess

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/26/1995

    Princess Xena uses Iolaus to lure Hercules into a death trap.

    Director: Bruce Seth Green

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Unchained Heart
    7.7/103 votes

    #4 - Unchained Heart

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/1995

    Xena's former lieutenant, Darphus, rises from the dead to carry out Ares' evil plan.

    Director: Bruce Seth Green

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Down for the Count (2)
    7.5/102 votes

    #5 - Down for the Count (2)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987

    Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: John Schulian

  • The Wrong Path
    6.8/108 votes

    #6 - The Wrong Path

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/1995

    Hercules drops his vengeful quest in order to aid a village enthralled by a snake-woman.

    Director: Doug Lefler

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Amen... Send Money
    6.7/103 votes

    #7 - Amen... Send Money

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1987

    The fury of feuding TV evangelists hits Tubbs when he is accused raping a parishoner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Night of the Shriekers
    6.0/101 votes

    #8 - Night of the Shriekers

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2003

    Burt finds and kills a Shrieker in the valley, only to learn it was a part of a government funded project to train Shriekers for rescue missions. But when a storm knocks out the equipment controlling them, the remaining Shriekers escape and multiply. Now to survive, the Perfection residents must make a stand at Burt's place.

    Director: P.J. Pesce

    Writer: John Schulian

  • King of the Greenie Board (1)
    6.0/101 votes

    #9 - King of the Greenie Board (1)

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1999

    While patrolling the Mediterranean near Yugoslavia and against the orders of Harm, his division commander, Lt. Buxton fires on what he believes is a Serbian armored car about to attack Kosovar refugees. As Buxton and his pals are celebrating his victory back aboard the aircraft carrier, however, the grave news arrives: those ""Serbs"" Buxton attacked and killed were, in fact, Russian peacekeepers, and Buxton made the mistake while under Harm's command. Mac prosecutes what appears to be an open-and-shut case of a Marine weapons expert accused of reckless endangerment.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: John Schulian

  • True Callings
    6.0/101 votes

    #10 - True Callings

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1999

    Harms fitness report is coming up and the realization that maybe it really is too late to be a fighter pilot. During a dangerous mission over hostile Serbian territory, Harm's wingman's plane is shot up and Harm performs top-gun maneuvers to keep the disabled plane aloft until it's over friendly territory. Meanwhile, with a new Gunny in the office, Bud & Tiner fall over themselves as they compete against each other in an online auction to purchase tickets to a concert, in order to impress the Admiral. They end up looking foolish when it is discovered that the Gunny got the same tickets for free.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: John Schulian

  • The Colonel's Wife
    6.0/101 votes

    #11 - The Colonel's Wife

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1999

    Harm and Mac are sent to Panama to investigate the wife of a Marine officer, Olivia Dunston, suspected of smuggling drugs into the U.S. When faced with the evidence, Olivia feebly denies the allegations, leaving Mac thinking that she's guilty of the charges.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Ghosts of Christmas Past
    6.0/101 votes

    #12 - Ghosts of Christmas Past

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1999

    On Christmas Eve, Harm pays his annual visit to the Vietnam Memorial to honor his father who was shot down on Christmas Eve, 1969. At the memorial, Harm meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman, who claims to have known Harm, Sr. She used to be a singer in a traveling USO tour and she met Harm's father shortly before his fateful flight. In an unusual casting twist, Harm stars as his father in this episode, and many familiar faces show up playing different roles.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Promises
    6.0/101 votes

    #13 - Promises

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/28/2000

    Harm and Mac face-off in court when a female seaman, charged with desertion, claims she left because her recruiter lied to her about what her duties would be. Meanwhile, Admiral Chegwidden takes the case of an old friend whose impressive career is threatened because of the side effects of Viagra.

    Director: Arthur W. Forney

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Overdue & Presumed Lost
    6.0/101 votes

    #14 - Overdue & Presumed Lost

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/2000

    Harm and Chegwidden fight an attempt by a salvage hunter to excavate the remains of a submarine that disappeared in 1941, just before the attack of Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Bud takes on the heavy burden of trying to keep an obese petty officer from being discharged for failing to lose weight.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Real Deal SEAL
    6.0/101 votes

    #15 - Real Deal SEAL

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/2000

    Lt. Curtis Rivers (Montel Williams), a Medal of Honor-winning Navy SEAL, is court-martialed for punching a Congressional candidate who falsely claims to be a Navy SEAL. Rivers explains that he is on a crusade to expose Navy SEAL impostors. In order to prove his point to Harm, who is assigned to defend him, Rivers places him in the center of a dangerous plot to expose another false SEAL. Though Rivers assures Harm that his safety is in the hands of two legitimate former SEALS, he finds himself alone in court when Harm misses the trial to pursue a lead on the would-be assassin.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Mona Lisa
    6.0/102 votes

    #16 - Mona Lisa

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2001

    An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Heroes of the Revolution
    5.3/103 votes

    #17 - Heroes of the Revolution

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1987

    An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.

    Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Down for the Count (1)
    5.0/102 votes

    #18 - Down for the Count (1)

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987

    Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Project 4-12
    5.0/101 votes

    #19 - Project 4-12

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/27/2003

    Larry returns to Perfection and wants to learn more about Cletus Poffenberger. Tyler tells him the story of when the Perfection residents first met Cletus and had to face his increasingly dangerous pet, Four-Twelve.

    Director: Chuck Bowman

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Vote of Confidence
    4.3/103 votes

    #20 - Vote of Confidence

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/1988

    A prominent senatorial candidate is arrested during a raid of a mobile whorehouse.

    Director: Randy Roberts

    Writer: John Schulian

  • The Key
    3.0/101 votes

    #21 - The Key

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/25/2003

    Frank returns to Perfection with some help in another attempt to kill El Blanco and retrieve the key he swallowed. Meanwhile, Larry encounters a creature in a barn and tries to figure of what it is.

    Director: P.J. Pesce

    Writer: John Schulian

  • Under the Broken Sky
    1.0/101 votes

    #22 - Under the Broken Sky

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1995

    Hercules battles a town run by bandits in order to help a farmer reunite with his estranged wife.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: John Schulian