8.2/1046 votes#1 - Ascension (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1994
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.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Paul Brown
7.5/104 votes#2 - Rebel without a Clue
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1990
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Paul Brown
7.5/104 votes#3 - Runaway
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1991
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.
Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Paul Brown
7.5/104 votes#4 - Nuclear Family
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1991
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.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Paul Brown
7.5/104 votes#5 - Temptation Eyes
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1992
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.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Paul Brown
7.2/104 votes#6 - The Wrong Stuff
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1991
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Paul Brown
7.1/108 votes#7 - Disco Inferno
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1989
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.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Paul Brown
6.9/109 votes#8 - All-Americans
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1990
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.
Director: John Cullum
Writer: Paul Brown
6.7/1020 votes#9 - Rajiin
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/2003
The NX-01 gets closer to a showdown with the Xindi when Captain Archer takes on an enigmatic passenger: a beautiful slave named Rajiin.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Paul Brown
6.7/1042 votes#10 - Excelsis Dei
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1994
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.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Paul Brown
6.6/1011 votes#11 - Camikazi Kid
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/10/1989
June 6, 1961: Sam leaps into the life of a teen-age hot-rodder who must stop his sister from marrying a wealthy bully.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Paul Brown
6.5/108 votes#12 - Catch A Falling Star
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1989
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.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Paul Brown
6.2/105 votes#13 - Private Dancer
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/20/1991
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.
Director: Debbie Allen
Writer: Paul Brown
6.0/109 votes#14 - Good Night, Dear Heart
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1990
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.
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Writer: Paul Brown
6.0/109 votes#15 - Maybe Baby
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/1990
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.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Paul Brown
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"Ascension (2)" is the best rated episode written by Paul Brown. It scored 8.217/10 based on 46 votes. It was directed by Michael Lange. It aired on 10/21/1994 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "Rebel without a Clue".