8.1/1083 votes#1 - Currahee
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2001
Easy Company is introduced to Captain Sobel, who has the group undergo hard and unfair training. As a result, Sobel comes into conflict with his men, including Richard Winters, his executive officer. The company is shipped to England to prepare for D-Day.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Writer: Tom Hanks
7.8/104 votes#2 - Mare Tranquilitatis
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/1998
The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts' success at pulling off NASA's crowning achievement—the first lunar landing.
Director: Frank Marshall
Writer: Tom Hanks
7.5/104 votes#3 - The Original Wives' Club
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/1998
A group of young military wives struggle with their new “jobs” handling both the national spotlight and a demanding home front. Meanwhile, their astronaut husbands lose themselves in the pursuit of a national goal alternately competitive, glamorous, and deadly.
Director: Sally Field
Writer: Tom Hanks
7.5/104 votes#4 - Le Voyage dans la Lune
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/10/1998
The bittersweet end of the Apollo program—and the final manned journey to another planet—is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavor, the 1902 French silent classic “Voyage to the Moon.”
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Writer: Tom Hanks
6.0/105 votes#5 - That's All There Is
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/1998
From the perspective of Astronaut Alan Bean, see how he made an unexpected journey to the moon and his friendship with his Apollo 12 crew mates.
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Writer: Tom Hanks
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"Currahee" is the best rated episode written by Tom Hanks. It scored 8.139/10 based on 83 votes. It was directed by Phil Alden Robinson. It aired on 9/9/2001 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mare Tranquilitatis".