The Best Episodes Written By Paul Brown

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(59 votes)

   #1 - Ascension (2)

   S2:E610/21/1994

   When Mulder finds out that Scully was kidnapped by Duane Barry, he risks the wrath of his superiors and the annoyance of Agent Krycek in order to do whatever it takes to find her. Meanwhile, Krycek is found to be reporting Mulder's activities to the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Rebel without a Clue

   S3:E911/30/1990

   September 1, 1958: As "Bones," a member of a motorcycle gang, Sam is an uneasy rider who has to prevent a Jack Kerouac-inspired young woman from meeting her death on the road.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Runaway

   S3:E111/4/1991

   July 4, 1964: On a cross-country car trip, Sam, as 13-year-old Butchie, must contend with a sadistic older sister and a mother on the verge of running away from an unfulfilling marriage, in search of the feminine mystique.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Nuclear Family

   S3:E215/15/1991

   October 26, 1962: Sam finds himself the brother of a fallout shelter salesman during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where he must defuse a potentially explosive situation as panic sets in on the night of John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Temptation Eyes

   S4:E131/22/1992

   February 1, 1985: A serial killer stalks San Francisco while Sam as Dillion Powell, a TV reporter, protects a beautiful psychic who's working on the case, from becoming the next victim. The young lady is very clear of sight, as Sam and Al soon discover.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - It's A Wonderful Leap

   S4:E184/1/1992

   May 10, 1958: Sam finds himself behind the wheel of a New York taxicab, in the life of Max Greenman, a driver striving to win his own tag, a license to drive his own cab. His mission is aided with the help of a woman who claims to be a guardian angel.

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   7.4/10(30 votes)

   #7 - Child's Play

   S6:E193/8/2000

   Stardate: Unknown. Seven's feelings and maternal instincts are awakened when the crew locates the parents of one of the Borg children to whom Seven has grown attached.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #8 - The Wrong Stuff

   S4:E711/6/1991

   January 24, 1961: The fates make a monkey out of Sam when he leaps into Bobo, an astro-chimp who must avoid succumbing to the experiments of an Air Force neurologist.

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   7.1/10(9 votes)

   #9 - Disco Inferno

   S2:E29/27/1989

   April 1, 1976: As a stuntman, Sam is to save the life of his younger brother, while trying to convince the pair's obsessive father to let the younger son go his own way, even if it means going into country-western music, rather than following the family tradition of stunt work.

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    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #10 - All-Americans

    S2:E141/17/1990

    November 6, 1962: Keeping his best friend from throwing the high school championship football game, costing both of them their scholarship offers, Sam must also get their families to consolidate.

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    6.8/10(54 votes)

    #11 - Excelsis Dei

    S2:E1112/16/1994

    Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.

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12. 

    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Rajiin

    S3:E410/1/2003

    The NX-01 gets closer to a showdown with the Xindi when Captain Archer takes on an enigmatic passenger: a beautiful slave named Rajiin.

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    6.6/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Camikazi Kid

    S1:E75/10/1989

    June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.

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    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Catch A Falling Star

    S2:E1012/6/1989

    May 21, 1979: Sam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha." Sam isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.

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    5.6/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Maybe Baby

    S2:E204/4/1990

    March 11, 1963: Babysitting a kidnapped tot and a flaky, compulsively lying stripper keeps Sam busy as they cross Texas, on the run from the legal father and a squad of cops.

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    5.5/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Good Night, Dear Heart

    S2:E173/7/1990

    November 9, 1957: Rather than saving the damsel of the episode, who supposedly committed suicide, Sam is the coroner trying to prove that she was murdered, and find out by whom.

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    5.3/10(6 votes)

    #17 - Private Dancer

    S3:E143/20/1991

    October 6, 1979: An aspiring dancer working as a waitress in a strip club is in danger of being led into a life of prostitution unless Sam, as "Rod the Bod," can convince her to audition for a spot in a professional dance group. But, since she's deaf, the choreographer doesn't believe she has the time to give the young lady the attention she'll need.

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