The BEST episodes of 20/20

Every episode of 20/20 ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 20/20!

20/20 brings you hard-hitting investigative reports, news-maker interviews and compelling human interest and feature stories.

Last Updated: 3/25/2025Network: ABC (US)Status: Continuing
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#1 - Friday

Season 35 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/25/2012

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#2 - True Confessions

Season 35 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/27/2012

Shocking video reveals a server adding unappetizing toppings to a pizza; a surgeon admits to dropping a body part on the floor; salespeople reveal lies they use to manipulate potential buyers; a mother confesses that she is a porn star.

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#3 - Barbra Streisand

Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/1993

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#4 - Iran Arms Scandal

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/7/1986

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#5 - Deadly Vows

Season 47 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2023

When a woman vanishes, police uncover her husband's dark past; the missing woman's own past comes under scrutiny;

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#6 - Happily Never After

Season 47 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2023

The stunning case of an illicit affair, manipulation and murder.

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#7 - Unholy Matrimony

Season 46 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/7/2023

An open marriage, a secret affair, and a sinister plot for murder.

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#8 - New Year's Evil

Season 46 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/2023

Did a mom found dead in a luxury apartment slip and fall, or was it something more sinister?

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#9 - What The Little Girl Saw

Season 46 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/2023

A hockey player, a brutal murder and a shocking witness – the victim’s young daughter.

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#10 - I Have Been Watching...

Season 46 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/2023

The murders of a Texas husband and wife are investigated.

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#11 - JB-355

Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/22/1991

FDR’s secret plan to bomb the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. On “JB-355” and the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as the Flying Tigers. Interviews with Prof. Gaddis Smith, FDR advisor Lauchlin Currie, and Flying Tiger veterans Charlie Mott, Skip Adair, Ed Rector, and Dick Rossi. Produced by Allan Maraynes. Edited by Sylvia Waliga.

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#12 - Laura Lee Day

Season 45 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/3/2022

A new “20/20,” in collaboration with Plum Pictures, features an exclusive interview with Laura Day, nearly a decade after her first-degree capital murder conviction for her 6-year-old stepson’s death.

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#13 - Double Life, Double Murder

Season 45 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/20/2022

A couple is murdered inside their home. Could the killer be trying to hide a secret double life?

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#14 - The Babies of 911: Twenty Years Later

Season 44 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/10/2021

20 years after so many young mothers lost their husbands, Diane Sawyer brings nearly 40 families back together to share stories about their resiliency and hope.

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#15 - Unknown

Season 21 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1997

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#16 - Christopher Reeve

Season 21 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/1998

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#17 - Road to Ruin

Season 37 - Episode 46 - Aired 9/19/2014

The Danger of Forcing Truckers to Drive Sleep-Deprived Exposed, Outrage Over Guardrail Crashes Tied to Lost Limbs, Deaths

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#18 - Designing Women

Season 38 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2014

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#19 - The Searchers

Season 39 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/2015

Army Vet Recalls Last Time He Saw Twin Kids Over 40 Years Ago; Dad’s Nearly Half-Century Search for Long-Lost Kids Finally Ends.

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#20 - Silence Broken: A Mother's Reckoning

Season 39 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/2016

Sue Klebold Explains Why She's Coming Forward; What Happened to Dylan Klebold Over Time; Columbine Victims, Survivors Remembered.

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#21 - From Classroom to Captive

Season 40 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/5/2017

Police finally track down Tennessee teacher and teen Elizabeth Thomas.

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#22 - Answers for Annie

Season 39 - Episode 49 - Aired 7/15/2016

Baltimore police determine the death of 16-year-old Annie McCann to be suicide, but her parents suspect foul play and fight to have the case reinvestigated.

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#23 - Family Business

Season 39 - Episode 50 - Aired 7/22/2016

Criminal masterminds Archie Cabello, his wife Marian and son Vinny steal almost $4 million from armored cars and a vault, going uncaught for a decade.

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#24 - The Last One to See Them

Season 39 - Episode 51 - Aired 7/29/2016

Fifty-four years after the death of his first wife, and the disappearance of two other women, Felix Vail is accused of murder.

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#25 - Five Weddings and a Murder

Season 44 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2021

Margaret Rudin discusses her desire to prove her innocence in the murder of her husband.

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