9.3/104 votes#1 - Battleground
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/12/2006
A professional hitman, Renshaw, finds himself the target when he kills a toymaker and the victim’s mother sends Renshaw a present: a toy foot locker filled with toy soldiers equipped to kill.
Director: Brian Henson
Writer: Stephen King
8.4/106 votes#2 - The Dreams
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/1994
The plague has taken its toll and only those immune to the virus are alive. The forces of good and evil are slowly taking shape. Those that have been dreaming about Mother Abigail are slowly making their way towards her in Nebraska. Stu Redmond joins up with Frannie Goldsmith and others. When Nick Andros and the first of the travelers arrive, Mother Abigail tells them they will soon be moving further west, to Colorado. Randall Flagg is gathering his own forces as he releases Lloyd Henreid from jail. Through her dreams, he also recruits Nadine Cross, who had been traveling with Larry Underwood.
Director: Mick Garris
Writer: Stephen King
7.9/108 votes#3 - The Plague
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/8/1994
When a deadly virus escapes from a government research facility, few prove to be immune to its effects. With symptoms similar to the flu, those who come into contact with it quickly die. One survivor is Stu Redmond, a gas station attendant from Texas, who suffers no ill effects whatsoever. Kept in a medical research facility in Vermont, doctors try to determine why he is still alive. Others that also survive include Frannie Goldsmith who lives with her dad; Nick Andros, a deaf-mute; a rock musician, Larry Underwood; and Lloyd Henreid, in jail for murder. Survivors begin to have dreams, either about an old Afican-American woman, Mother Abigail, or a much scarier evil man.
Director: Mick Garris
Writer: Stephen King
7.6/105 votes#4 - Part 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/1999
What Linoge desires is an heir, one of the eight small children that he had incapacitated early on in the miniseries — someone to "carry on his work when he can no longer do it himself", although Linoge's life spans millennia, he is not immortal. Any of the eight children, he states, will suit him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
7.5/105 votes#5 - The Betrayal
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/11/1994
Hundreds are now in Boulder, Colorado with Mother Abigail but Randall Flagg has sent Nadine Cross to infiltrate the group. Unable to seduce Larry, she then sets her sights on Harold. But just as the citizens begin to organize their lives, Mother Abigail leaves Boulder. The residents do become concerned about what Randall Flagg, based in Las Vegas, may be up to and decide to send three people west to find out.
Director: Mick Garris
Writer: Stephen King
7.5/102 votes#6 - The Revelations of Becka Paulson
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 6/6/1997
In this adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Becka Paulson's humdrum trailer park life suddenly becomes very interesting after she accidentally shoots herself in the head while watching her favorite soap opera. The bullet lodges in her brain, leaving a small red dot in her forehead and turning her world upside down. Doc Fink, the town vet, can't find anything wrong -- but Becka notices changes. Suddenly, she's smarter than she's ever been and full of ideas for inventions. Plus, the Handsome Man photo that came with the picture frame is talking to her. He tells her about the town's dark secrets, including her husband Joe's lunch-hour affair with Nancy Voss down at the post office. The Handsome Man is the friend Becka never had -- and a better man than Joe, to be sure -- but is it really wise to count on the advice of a man who lives in an 8x10 frame?
Director: Steven Weber
Writer: Stephen King
7.4/105 votes#7 - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/14/1999
A very powerful blizzard hits the small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. This storm is so powerful that all access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island, until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, the citizens of the town are visited by Andre Linoge, a menacing stranger who apparently knows all of the townsfolk's darkest secrets. After having killed one of the town's residents, Linoge is jailed. Even though he is kept in jail by the town's trusted constable, Mike Anderson, Linoge is somehow able to force people to commit suicide or kill others from within his cell. Linoge constantly repeats "Give me what I want and I'll go away" through his victims as well as to his victims. Interestingly, although the adults are terrified of the stranger, all the children are drawn to him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
7.4/105 votes#8 - Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/15/1999
In a dream, the townspeople see themselves walking into the sea two-by-two with the word Croatoan (a reference to the colony of Roanoke) carved on their heads. Eventually, Mike finds out that Linoge is an anagram of the demon Legion and agrees to organize the townspeople so they can hear his demands.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
7.2/1031 votes#9 - Chinga
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1998
Master of Horror Stephen King's first effort at an X-File sees Scully's well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small Maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughter's doll has frighteningly evil powers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Stephen King
7.0/105 votes#10 - The Stand
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/1994
The final confrontation between good and evil takes shape. Tom gathers information and tries to return to Boulder. With Mother Abigail gone and several members of the committee killed in an explosion, Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph set off West as instructed. Nadine and Harold set off for Las Vegas but Randall Flagg has something special in store for both of them. Flagg's group starts to fall apart. Trashcan Man decides to set the biggest fire of his life.
Director: Mick Garris
Writer: Stephen King
6.9/1029 votes#11 - Heads Will Roll
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/30/2014
Barbie's life is in Big Jim's hands; the dome becomes magnetized; Julia tries to save the life of a mysterious girl who may have clues about the origin of the dome.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Stephen King
6.7/103 votes#12 - The Young and The Headless
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2004
Using Peter Rickman's drawings as a guide, Mrs. Druse and Hook make contact with Mary and her nemesis, Paul, and begin to navigate through the trenches of Kingdom Hospital's horrifying past. Meanwhile, Dr. Traff's attempt at a love prank on sleep psychologist Dr. Lona Massingale goes terrifyingly wrong!
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.5/102 votes#13 - Death's Kingdom
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2004
Despite being forcibly discharged from the hospital by Dr. Stegman, Mrs. Druse recruits the semi-conscious, telepathic Peter to join her at a seance to identify the spirit whose cries continue to haunt the hospital's elevator shafts. Meanwhile, the man responsible for Peter's condition becomes acutely aware of a much stronger and frightening presence at Kingdom Hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.5/102 votes#14 - Goodbye Kiss
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/2004
After seeing a girl and finding a toy doll in the elevator shaft, Dr. Hook is convinced to help Druse stay in the hospital while she finds the source of the haunting. Meanwhile, a prisoner and his girlfriend plan out a suicide pact that goes wrong when he is saved by the Kingdom Hospital staff, in a not so common fashion. We also learn that Dr. Stegman killed a patient while in surgery at his last job in Boston, and is now being accused of messing up another surgery with a young girl. The mother now has plans to sue for malpractice. And finally, Peter Rickman is visited in his mind by the beast in his painting, and also comes in contact with Mary and Paul.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.5/102 votes#15 - Shoulda Stood in Bed
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/8/2004
When Peter Rickman has yet another seizure, he witnesses the eventual fate of Kingdom Hospital and makes a tangible connection with its frightening past. When Peter awakes, his drawings help Mrs. Druse make a direct connection to Mary, and serve as the key to correcting evil deeds done by the Kingdom's forefathers. Meanwhile, Brenda and Dr. Hook finally make public Stegman's guilt in the Mona Klingerman medical malpractice incident -- and send him on a crazed and violent tear for vengeance.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.5/102 votes#16 - Finale
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/15/2004
The future of Kingdom Hospital is changed forever when Dr. Hook and Peter are sent back to the Old Kingdom, where they find the answers to the secrets of the Gates Falls Mills fire.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#17 - The West Side of Midnight
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2004
The ex-wife of Dr. Traff dies from a heart attack in his care, while his son Elmer has a dream involving the anteater. Lenny passes onto the other side, and tries to help Druse find out more about Mary. After a night of anger and harrassment, Stegman goes off the deep end and starts trying to find out who defaced his car. Finally, while Druse finds out through Lenny that Rickman knows what's going on in the hospital, Paul starts to use Pedersen to make sure Druse doesn't find out.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#18 - Hook's Kingdom
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/2004
The psychic Mrs. Druse is called to assist when the trapped evil spirit of a tortured teenaged boy wreaks havoc on the staff, patients and innocent spirits inhabiting Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile Dr. Hook forges a relationship of the mortal variety.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#19 - Black Noise
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2004
Still unable to speak, Peter gets a message to Dr. Hook and Mrs. Druse that a very dark presence within Kingdom Hospital is channeling his evil through a hallucinating alcoholic and pyromaniac to harm patients, staff and their most powerful spiritual allies, Mary and Antibus. And Dr. Stegman's unethical medical practices and questionable past begin to haunt him at every turn.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#20 - Heartless
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2004
An attorney in need of a heart transplant rues the day he checked into Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile, Hook discovers authentic newspaper clippings inside Mary's doll that reveal the horrific details of the 1869 Gates Falls Mills fire that killed scores of children on the very ground where the hospital now stands.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#21 - Butterfingers
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/29/2004
When a retired major league baseball player attempts to take his own life and is admitted to Kingdom Hospital, he begins a chain reaction that opens up some horrific old wounds and reverses history for those -- living and dead -- who inhabit the hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#22 - The Passion of Reverend Jimmy
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/24/2004
When the reverend of the Christ-Oly-Christ mission is sacrificed, new life resurges in and around Kingdom Hospital and the mystery behind Mary's death is revealed. Meanwhile, maintenance man Jack Handlemann delivers a very destructive blow to Stegman's ego and most prized possession.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
6.0/102 votes#23 - Seizure Day
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/1/2004
When two different patients have seizures, they awaken to frightening visions of the living dead haunting Kingdom Hospital's halls, and the reverberations from Mona Klingerman's seizure brings Dr. Stegman's worst nightmares to the surface.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen King
5.5/106 votes#24 - Gramma
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 2/14/1986
A young boy is left to care for his old, scary grandmother. He finally confronts his fears and steps up to her, finding that she has no pulse. Then Gramma reaches out and grabs him...
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Stephen King
5.0/102 votes#25 - Sorry, Right Number
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1987
Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband's death...but he isn't dead yet. Katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies. At the funeral, a despairing Katie calls up herself...and finds herself talking to...herself. She tries to warn her past self, despite knowing that it won't do any good, then collapses in despair.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: Stephen King
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"Battleground" is the best rated episode written by Stephen King. It scored 9.25/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Brian Henson. It aired on 7/12/2006 and is rated 0.8 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Dreams".