The Best Episodes Written By Tom Hanks

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(125 votes)

   #1 - Currahee

   S1:E19/9/2001

   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.

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   7.9/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Mare Tranquilitatis

   S1:E64/19/1998

   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.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #3 - Le Voyage dans la Lune

   S1:E125/10/1998

   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.”

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   7.4/10(7 votes)

   #4 - The Original Wives' Club

   S1:E115/10/1998

   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.

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   6.2/10(9 votes)

   #5 - That's All There Is

   S1:E74/26/1998

   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.

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   Writer:Tom Hanks

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