The Best Episodes Written By Neil Gaiman

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(75 votes)

   #1 - Chapter 1: The Arrival

   S2:E17/28/2023

   Retired angel Aziraphale and retired demon Crowley's lives are upended when a visitor arrives on the doorstep of Aziraphale's bookshop, bringing chaos. Local shopkeepers Maggie and Nina get locked in to Nina's coffee shop when Crowley loses his temper. Heaven and Hell are suspicious, and Crowley and Aziraphale have a disagreement.

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   8.3/10(56 votes)

   #2 - Chapter 2: The Clue featuring the minisode A Companion to Owls

   S2:E27/28/2023

   Heaven and Hell are determined to find the missing angel. An overheard song provides Aziraphale with a Clue. Crowley and Aziraphale visit the pub to discuss ways that humans fall in love. While almost 5,000 years ago Crowley is sent to inflict punishments on the righteous Job, God's favourite person, as Aziraphale learns at first hand about temptation, and what Gabriel will and won't believe.

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   8.2/10(69 votes)

   #3 - The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives

   S1:E65/31/2019

   Can Adam, Crowley and Aziraphale work together to fight the powers of Heaven and Hell and prevent the apocalypse? And what fate awaits them if they do? The story reaches its conclusion, and it might just be the end of the world.

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   8.2/10(59 votes)

   #4 - Chapter 6: Every Day

   S2:E67/28/2023

   Crowley becomes a Heavenly bee and learns the truth about the Armageddon sequel. Aziraphale defends his bookshop from Shax's army and reveals his halo, Maggie and Nina become warriors, and Jim the assistant bookseller gets some hot chocolate. Crowley and Aziraphale get to the bottom of the mystery of the Matchbox. The Metatron brings an oatmilk latte, along with a final offer.

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   8.1/10(53 votes)

   #5 - Chapter 3: I Know Where I'm Going featuring the minisode The Resurrectionists

   S2:E37/28/2023

   Heaven sends the angel Muriel in disguise to spy on Aziraphale and Crowley. Aziraphale drives to Edinburgh in pursuit of his Clue, and learns a little about a lot. The couple's visit to Edinburgh in 1827 involves graverobbery, a statue and an unfortunate encounter with a vial of laudanum. In the present, Crowley is in charge of the bookshop, and is disappointed by human beings and the weather.

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   #6 - Chapter 4: The Hitchhiker featuring the minisode Nazi Zombie Flesheaters

   S2:E47/28/2023

   Aziraphale's good deed of picking up a hitchhiker on his way back to Soho, proves to be a serious mistake. In 1941 Crowley and Aziraphale encounter some surprising adversaries, old and new, as the Nazi spies who almost entrapped Aziraphale return as Zombies from the dead, intent on preventing him from attempting a Bullet Catch on the West End Stage.

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   8.1/10(68 votes)

   #7 - The Doomsday Option

   S1:E55/31/2019

   Aziraphale and Crowley race towards Tadfield airbase as they attempt to prevent Adam and the Four Horsemen from beginning the apocalypse. But one has been discorporated and the other is trapped in a flaming motorway. Will they get there in time?

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   8.1/10(82 votes)

   #8 - The Doctor's Wife

   S6:E45/14/2011

   The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues. The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

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   8.0/10(72 votes)

   #9 - Hard Times

   S1:E35/31/2019

   We follow Aziraphale and Crowley's friendship across the ages. Meanwhile, in the present day, Agnes Nutter's descendant Anathema arrives in Tadfield on her own mission to save the world.

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    7.9/10(56 votes)

    #10 - Chapter 5: The Ball

    S2:E57/28/2023

    Aziraphale tries to bring Maggie and Nina together by organizing a meeting of the Whickber Street Shopkeepers and Street Traders Association. In Hell, Shax is determined to launch a full scale attack on the bookshop, with a legion of demons at her command. Nina's heart is broken, as is a bookshop window. Gabriel has a close encounter with Mrs Sandwich and a small plate of cakes.

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    7.9/10(25 votes)

    #11 - The Finale

    S3:E15/13/2026

    Aziraphale, now Supreme Archangel, seeks Crowley's help as plans for the Second Coming take a surprising yet dangerous turn. Can the angel and demon reconcile their differences before it's too late?

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    7.9/10(106 votes)

    #12 - In the Beginning

    S1:E15/31/2019

    In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse.

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    7.9/10(69 votes)

    #13 - Saturday Morning Funtime

    S1:E45/31/2019

    Aziraphale and Crowley's friendship is tested to the limit as their superiors catch up with them. Armageddon starts in earnest, with the Antichrist's powers wreaking havoc across the globe.

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    7.7/10(78 votes)

    #14 - The Book

    S1:E25/31/2019

    Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?

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    7.7/10(210 votes)

    #15 - Sleep of the Just

    S1:E18/5/2022

    While searching for an escaped nightmare in the waking world, Morpheus falls prey to Roderick Burgess, an occultist looking to summon and imprison Death.

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    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Day of the Dead

    S5:E83/11/1998

    The Brakiri buy a part of Babylon 5 for a religious ceremony where the dead are supposed to return. Comedians Rebo and Zooty arrive to do a show on the station.

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    6.8/10(66 votes)

    #17 - Nightmare in Silver

    S7:E125/11/2013

    Hedgewick's World of Wonders: the perfect theme park day out - and ground zero for a deadly silver resurrection.

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    6.7/10(32 votes)

    #18 - House on the Rock

    S2:E13/10/2019

    Following the epic showdown at Easter's party, Mr. Wednesday continues his quest to pitch the case for war to the Old Gods. Meanwhile, Mr. World plans revenge and Technical Boy goes on the hunt for Media.

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    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #19 - A Special Episode - Death: The High Cost of Living

    S2:E127/31/2025

    In this standalone episode, a journalist overwhelmed by hopelessness has a life-altering 24 hours after crossing paths with Death on her day off.

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