The Best Episodes Written By Seth Macfarlane
Every TV Episode Written by Seth Macfarlane Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Seth MacFarlane Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Seth MacFarlane is "Identity (2)", rated 8.4/10 from 32 user votes. It was "directed by Jon Cassar". "Identity (2)" aired on 2/28/2019 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Lasting Impressions".
8.4/10 32 votes#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
8.2/10 33 votes#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
7.9/10 7 votes#3 - 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
7.8/10 40 votes#4 - 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
7.8/10 30 votes#5 - 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
7.6/10 12 votes#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
7.4/10 51 votes#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
7.3/10 45 votes#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
7.3/10 42 votes#9 - 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
7.3/10 29 votes#10 - 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
7.2/10 69 votes#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
7.2/10 40 votes#12 - 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
7.2/10 36 votes#13 - 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
7.1/10 56 votes#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
7.1/10 21 votes#15 - 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
7.0/10 37 votes#16 - 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
7.0/10 1 votes#17 - 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
- 7.0/10 1 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.0/10 1 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.0/10 1 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.0/10 1 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.0/10 1 votes
#22 - 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
6.9/10 27 votes#23 - 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
6.8/10 25 votes#24 - North by North Quahog
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/2005
Peter and Lois decide to go on a second honeymoon. But when Peter crashes the car, he decides to pose as Mel Gibson to stay in his fancy hotel suite, where they find a copy of a "The Passion of the Christ" sequel. They attempt to destroy the film and end up being chased by two priests who went to retrieve the film.
Director: Peter Shin
Writer: Seth MacFarlane
6.8/10 46 votes#25 - About a Girl
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2017
The Orville crew is divided between cultures when Bortus and Klyden debate if their newly born offspring should receive a controversial surgery.
Director: Brannon Braga
Writer: Seth MacFarlane