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  • Identity (2)
    8.5/10(34)

    #1 - Identity (2)

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 2/28/2019

    The Kaylons take control of the Orville with the intention of destroying all biological lifeforms.

    Director: Jon Cassar

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Lasting Impressions
    8.1/10(35)

    #2 - Lasting Impressions

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 3/21/2019

    The Orville crew members open a time capsule from 2015.

    Director: Kelly Cronin

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Mad Idolatry
    7.8/10(42)

    #3 - Mad Idolatry

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 12/7/2017

    Ed and Kelly consider the possibility of reforging their relationship, but Kelly soon crash-lands on a planet in another universe with Isaac and Gordon.

    Director: Brannon Braga

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • A Happy Refrain
    7.8/10(32)

    #4 - A Happy Refrain

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 1/31/2019

    The Orville crew is surprised when Claire's personal life takes an unexpected turn, and Gordon makes an unusual grooming suggestion to Bortus.

    Director: Seth MacFarlane

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Desperately Seeking Susan
    7.8/10(9)

    #5 - Desperately Seeking Susan

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 1/11/2024

    Blaire convinces Matty and Susan to let Ted act as their marriage therapist. After the session, Ted, John and Blaire encourage Susan to pursue the career she abandoned long ago.

    Director: Seth MacFarlane

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Just Say Yes
    7.7/10(15)

    #6 - Just Say Yes

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 1/11/2024

    When Matty makes Ted go to school with John, Ted immediately decides to get expelled.

    Director: Seth MacFarlane

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Command Performance
    7.4/10(53)

    #7 - Command Performance

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/17/2017

    When Ed and Kelly are tricked by a hologram of a ship in distress and find themselves prisoners in a replica of their former home, Alara must step up in her first command of the Orville and attempt a heroic rescue. Meanwhile, Bortus and Klyden receive some happy, yet unexpected news.

    Director: Robert Duncan McNeill

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • If the Stars Should Appear
    7.4/10(48)

    #8 - If the Stars Should Appear

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 9/28/2017

    Ed and the Orville crew encounter a massive vessel adrift in space, which is in danger of colliding with a star. While some of the crew set out to help the ship's inhabitants, Bortus, Gordon, and John stay behind and fend off a Krill attack on another Union ship

    Director: James L. Conway

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Blood of Patriots
    7.4/10(31)

    #9 - Blood of Patriots

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 3/7/2019

    Ed must initiate peace talks with the Krill.

    Director: Rebecca Rodriguez

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Pria
    7.3/10(44)

    #10 - Pria

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 10/5/2017

    After the crew saves a stranded ship and its attractive captain, Ed becomes smitten with the Orville’s new guest, while Kelly suspects all is not what it seems. Meanwhile, Gordon attempts to teach Isaac the art of pulling off a practical joke.

    Director: Jonathan Frakes

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Old Wounds
    7.3/10(73)

    #11 - Old Wounds

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/10/2017

    It's 2417, and the Planetary Union promotes Ed Mercer to Captain of the exploratory vessel The U.S.S. Orville. Ed's enthusiasm for his new position is dampened when his ex-wife, Kelly Grayson, is assigned to be his First Officer. While on their first routine mission, the Orville crew is ambushed by the Krill, a vicious alien race, who are bent on stealing a device that can cause time to accelerate.

    Director: Jon Favreau

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • New Dimensions
    7.2/10(38)

    #12 - New Dimensions

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 11/30/2017

    Kelly discovers that Lt. John Lamarr is smarter than he lets on. So, she pushes Ed to consider him for a key leadership position on the ship after The Orville gets damaged by a mysterious spatial anomaly causing harrowing effects to all things living.

    Director: Kelly Cronin

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Majority Rule
    7.2/10(42)

    #13 - Majority Rule

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 10/26/2017

    When two Union anthropologists go missing on a planet similar to 21st century Earth, Ed sends a team led by Kelly to find them, but the mission quickly goes awry when they realize the society’s government is completely based on a public voting system to determine punishment.

    Director: Tucker Gates

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Death Has a Shadow
    7.1/10(58)

    #14 - Death Has a Shadow

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 1/31/1999

    After Peter heavily drinks at a bachelor party, even though he told Lois he would not, he gets fired from his job at the Happy-go-Lucky toy factory for being hung over. Peter soon applies for welfare, but after a mix-up, gets sent a check for $150,000. Eventually, Lois finds out, and Peter decides to return the money by dumping it from a blimp at the Super Bowl. He is arrested as a result, and his family ends up coming to his rescue.

    Director: Peter Shin

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Ja'loja
    7.0/10(39)

    #15 - Ja'loja

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 12/30/2018

    As The Orville heads towards Moclus for Bortus' special once-a-year ceremony, Ed discovers Kelly has moved on and has started dating. Meanwhile, Gordon asks for John's help in getting game, and Claire turns to Isaac for parenting advice.

    Director: Seth MacFarlane

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Date With an Antelope
    7.0/10(1)

    #16 - Date With an Antelope

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 7/28/1997

    Johnny meets an antelope named ""Carol"" for a date. He did not realize Carol was an antelope because he met her on the Internet. On their date, everything went horribly wrong, and at the end, Carol confesses that she was only dating Johnny to get her boyfriend (which is a crab) jealous.

    Director: John McIntyre

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • My Fair Dork
    7.0/10(1)

    #17 - My Fair Dork

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 8/4/1997

    A dorky kid is trying to get a date with Suzy for a dance and Johnny shows him the way to get girls and the kid ends up getting girls by acting like Johnny and also gets a date with Suzy.

    Director: John McIntyre

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Very Much
    7.0/10(1)

    #18 - The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Very Much

    Season 1 Episode 22

    Aired 8/25/1997

    Bravo explains to the court about how time froze yesterday and how he took advantage of it by eating candy without paying for it, having a free supper and spending a night at a hotel without paying for a key!

    Director: Butch Hartman

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • The Aisle of Mixed-Up Toys
    7.0/10(1)

    #19 - The Aisle of Mixed-Up Toys

    Season 1 Episode 23

    Aired 8/25/1997

    The Aisle Of Mixed Up Toys In order to get a little girl's adult sister to love him, Johnny must get some toys to sell for the homeless and when he gets to the toy store, he has to take part in a big war!

    Director: Rumen Petkov

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Jumbo Johnny
    7.0/10(1)

    #20 - Jumbo Johnny

    Season 1 Episode 27

    Aired 9/8/1997

    To become more muscular and bigger, Johnny purchases a new product called ""Uber Mass"". In the instructions said that it will take approximately 6 weeks to work, but Johnny did not care and drinks most of the entire surplus. As a result, Johnny becomes a FAT man.

    Director: Rumen Petkov

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Johnny Real Good
    7.0/10(1)

    #21 - Johnny Real Good

    Season 1 Episode 34

    Aired 12/8/1997

    Johnny is trying to earn to earn money for a car so he babysits this kid named Timmy, who has powers and does bad stuff to Johnny.

    Director: John McIntyre

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West!
    7.0/10(1)

    #22 - Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West!

    Season 1 Episode 36

    Aired 12/15/1997

    Mrs Bravo is supposed to be home at 6:00 after shopping but at 6:01, she is not home! Johnny sets out to find her! He gains the help of the original Batman, Adam West! They follow a ridiculous trail of clues that lead them of course to jail!

    Director: Butch Hartman

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Johnny Meets Donny Osmond
    7.0/10(1)

    #23 - Johnny Meets Donny Osmond

    Season 1 Episode 38

    Aired 12/15/1997

    After breaking his mom's favourite cabinet thanks to Suzy's shenanigans, Johnny needs a nanny and Donny Osmond is the man for the job! He looks after Johnny in a Mary Poppins-like attitude but actually cramps Bravo's style in the process! Don't miss the ending of this episode!

    Director: John McIntyre

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Twice in a Lifetime
    7.0/10(23)

    #24 - Twice in a Lifetime

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 7/7/2022

    The crew must rescue Gordon from a distant yet familiar world.

    Director: Jon Cassar

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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  • Family Guy Viewer Mail #1
    6.9/10(27)

    #25 - Family Guy Viewer Mail #1

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 2/14/2002

    Viewer mail inspires three stories in which Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers, and Peter and his friends appear as eight-year-old "Little Rascals."

    Director: Michael Dante DiMartino

    Writer: Seth MacFarlane

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Seth MacFarlane Ratings Summary

"Identity (2)" is the best rated episode written by Seth MacFarlane. It scored 8.456/10 based on 34 votes. It was directed by Jon Cassar. It aired on 2/28/2019 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Lasting Impressions".