7.5/1039 votes#1 - First Contact
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1991
Riker is abducted by a xenophobic race of aliens during a first contact mission. They believe the Enterprise is a scout for an invasion.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
7.0/102 votes#2 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/6/1998
The Sliders track down Quinn's long lost brother, Colin, to a Amish-type Earth. Quinn convinces Colin they are brothers and to slide to find their true home. But on the next world, a double of Colin's former love takes advantage of him and involves him in a scam to steal cryogenically frozen bodies.
Director: David E. Peckinpah
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
7.0/102 votes#3 - Slidecage
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/1998
When Quinn and Colin finally access the coordinates to their home, the Sliders expect it to be their last slide. Instead, they arrive inside a security compound on a barren world, where humans and Kromaggs are fighting for survival.
Director: Jerry O'Connell
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
7.0/101 votes#4 - Tales of the Undead
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/30/1988
A old and embittered comic book writer, Jay Star, gets hold of a cursed comic book that allows him to transform into Ferrus the Invincible and take vengeance on the individuals who stripped him of his legal rights to the superhero character he created.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
7.0/101 votes#5 - Scarecrow
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/1988
A small farming community has excellent harvesters. Little do they realize that one of the farmers uses a cursed scarecrow. She must pin the pictures of three victims on the scarecrow's chest. When it claims all three victims, tracking them down and beheading them, the result is a good harvest. Micki and Ryan come looking for the scarecrow, but the scarecrow's owner soon realizes what they are up to and tries to use Micki's driver's license to make her the scarecrow's third victim.
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
7.0/101 votes#6 - Pipe Dream
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 7/16/1988
Ryan's father Ray, a small-time inventor, rolls into town and announces that he's achieved great financial success and is planning to finally marry. Ray's managed to do so with the aid of a pipe given to him by Lewis Vendredi, which allows him to totally disintegrate first the young inventor whose ideas he stole, and then his rivals in the company he's working for. Eventually Ryan and Micki discover the truth. When Ray tries to kill Micki with the pipe, Ryan throws himself in the way. Ultimiately reconciled with his son, Ray then takes the blast of smoke for himself, dying to save his son.
Director: Zale Dalen
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.6/109 votes#7 - Survivors
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/1994
There is an explosion in one of the fighter bays just days before the president is to visit Babylon 5. A dying man implicates Garibaldi, which is just what the head of presidential security wants to hear, as she blames him for her father's death.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.5/102 votes#8 - World Killer
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 6/29/1998
After landing in a San Francisco completely devoid of people, the Sliders go to Quinn's house and discover Quinn's double accidentally slid everyone to a parallel world a few years ago. Both Quinns, Maggie and Rembrandt travel to the world where everyone was sent and rush to set things right.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.5/102 votes#9 - Reign of the Monster
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/1983
Skeletor and his latest allies, the tribal-like Torgs, are trying to awaken Mulkram, a giant, diabolical monster who was frozen by the Elders centuries ago to stop his reign of terror. He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms, Orko and Ram Man are in the city of Avion for the annual ceremony where Stratos presents the magical Staff of Avion to his people, but just as the ceremony is about to begin, the Torgs attack, capturing Stratos and the staff. Skeletor intends to use the staff's amazing powers to awaken Mulkram, and to use the mighty creature to enter Castle Grayskull...
Director: Steve Clark
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.0/102 votes#10 - The Curse of the Spellstone
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/1983
Skeletor and Evil-Lyn break into the temple of the Fire People and steal the Spellstone, with which they unleash a terrible storm. While He-Man, with Ram Man, Stratos and Battle Cat, goes off to try and retrieve the Spellstone, Evil-Lyn magically disguises herself as an old lady, and convinces Eternia's peasants that the storm was a result of the Elders being angry at the Royal family. She soon convinces them to unleash the Creeping Horac - an ever-growing weed-like entity that covers buildings and gradually sucks away the air - onto the Royal Palace...
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.0/101 votes#11 - Ordeal in the Darklands
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 10/21/1983
Evil-Lyn captures Mira, the daughter of the powerful wizard Kor, and frames He-Man and Man-At-Arms for the capture. Kor takes He-Man and Man-At-Arms prisoner, and refuses to listen to their pleas for innocence, planning to unleash a demonic entity called the Crimson Scourge upon them unless they reveal his daughter's whereabouts.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.0/101 votes#12 - Doctor Jack
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1987
A doctor has obtained the cursed scapel used by Jack the Ripper, and discovers he can use it to kill one victim and miraculously heal one of his patients. His reputation as a miracle worker soon spreads, bringing him to the trio's attention. However, when Jack is injured, the doctor must choose whether to heal his enemy, or ruin his reputation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.0/102 votes#13 - Look Homeward, Ray
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1986
When Ray returns home to a hero's welcome, someone wants to make him look bad in front of his hometown, his childhood heartthrob and the Ghostbusters.
Director: Richard Raynis
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
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"First Contact" is the best rated episode written by Marc Scott Zicree. It scored 7.5/10 based on 39 votes. It was directed by Cliff Bole. It aired on 2/18/1991 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?".