The BEST episodes of Back to the Future

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

The time travelling adventures of Doc Brown, his family, and his friend, Marty McFly.

Last Updated: 8/23/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux
star
9.40
5 votes

#1 - Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1992

Characters from Verne's new favorite video game, BraveLord and Monstrux, come to life in a weird accident. Doc can't fix this situation because he's been sent into the game.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Marty McFly PFC
star
9.25
4 votes

#2 - Marty McFly PFC

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1992

On a trip to the 1940s, Verne enters a dance contest with his future dance instructor, Dorothy, while Marty gets drafted.

Directors: Bob Gale
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The Money Tree
star
9.20
5 votes

#3 - The Money Tree

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1992

Jules tries to grow a money tree to become popular at school, which leads to troubles with the media and the FBI.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Retired
star
9.00
3 votes

#4 - Retired

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1991

Jules and Verne pull a string of April Fool's Day pranks on Doc, tampering with his inventions. Unfortunately one of them, the Brain Wave Analyzer, causes Doc to think his days in science are over and he retires.

Directors: Peyton Reed
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Put on Your Thinking Cap, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!
star
9.00
3 votes

#5 - Put on Your Thinking Cap, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1992

Marty and Verne meet Mr. Wisdom, who hosts a popular children's science show. As it turns out, Doc and Mr. Wisdom were college roommates. Doc doesn't recall it with fondness, as Mr. Wisdom stole his invention for a science fair and won. Things apparently haven't changed as Mr. Wisdom has stolen the DeLorean!

Directors: Bob Gale
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My Pop's an Alien
star
9.00
3 votes

#6 - My Pop's an Alien

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1992

After finding a strange craft in Doc's bushes, Biff claims Doc is an alien and everyone believes him. In 1967, Marty, Jules and Verne arrive to discover the truth.

Directors: Bob Gale
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St. Louis Blues
star
9.00
2 votes

#7 - St. Louis Blues

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1992

While at the Brown house, Doc's hair cutting invention wreaks havoc on Marty's hair. Marty and boys go to find Doc, who is with Clara at the 1904 World's Fair, to fix this mess. But Marty then gets put in a side show by P.T. Tannen.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Verne Hatches an Egg
star
9.00
3 votes

#8 - Verne Hatches an Egg

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1992

Verne uses the DeLorean to look for something to bring in for show and tell, finding a dinosaur egg. Unfortunately, the egg hatches in the present and it becomes more and more difficult to hide it.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Mac the Black
star
8.80
5 votes

#9 - Mac the Black

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1992

Marty and Verne travel to 1500s Caribbean, where Verne hopes to get an earring and Marty has to deal with pirate Mac The Black.

Directors: Bob Gale
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A Friend in Deed
star
8.67
3 votes

#10 - A Friend in Deed

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1992

After Biff plans to evict Jennifer's family from their ranch, Marty goes to the Old West to stop Biff's family from getting the ranch deed.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Batter Up
star
8.40
5 votes

#11 - Batter Up

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1991

Marty takes the place of his ancestor, pitcher Pee Wee McFly, to help his team win a 1897 Pennant game. But a nasty gangster named Diamond Jim Tannen wanted Pee Wee to lose.

Directors: Peyton Reed
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A Verne by Any Other Name
star
8.33
3 votes

#12 - A Verne by Any Other Name

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1992

Verne gets sick of his name after kids keep making fun of him and goes to great lengthes to get it changed, even going back to see his parents just before he's born.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Gone Fishin'
star
8.20
5 votes

#13 - Gone Fishin'

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1991

When Doc was four, he fell into a river during a fishing trip and has had a fear of it happening again ever since. After the boys learn about this, they and Marty try to change it. But they regret it when it leads to a mishap with a stunt plane, causing young Emmett Brown to become a famous daredevil.

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Time Waits for No Frogs / Einstein's Adventure
star
8.20
5 votes

#14 - Time Waits for No Frogs / Einstein's Adventure

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1991

a) Looking to cure Marty's athlete's foot, Doc and Marty travel back in time to locate an extinct frog in South America, where they have to stop Biffando from stealing the Incas' gold. b) Two bank robbers steal the DeLorean and end up outside an Australian prison in 1790. With him having been in the back seat, it's up to Einstein to get himself and these robbers home.

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Clara's Folks
star
8.00
2 votes

#15 - Clara's Folks

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1991

Marty, Jules and Verne head back to the 1850s, where they meet Jules and Verne's maternal grandparents, Daniel and Martha. Unfortunately, Martha falls in love with Marty instead of Daniel, and Clara is in danger of never existing. Things get worse when Martha is kidnapped by Wild Bill Tannen...

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Verne's New Friend
star
8.00
4 votes

#16 - Verne's New Friend

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1992

Verne and his new friend, Chris, go see a 1930s circus, which the owners are about to lose to landlord Farmer Tannen.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Super Doc
star
8.00
2 votes

#17 - Super Doc

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1992

Marty and the boys learn Doc had a stint in wrestling during the fifties, but never really competed. Travelling back in time, Marty and the boys attempt to get Doc to enter the ring. This unfortunately leads to him getting hit on the head and becoming a bumbling superhero.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Witchcraft
star
7.91
11 votes

#18 - Witchcraft

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1991

Marty makes an emergency trip back to Salem, Massachusetts in the DeLorean to deliver a spare flux capacitor to Doc and the family. While Doc installs it to fix the train, Marty, Clara and the boys go into town, where Marty gets accused of being a witch.

Directors: Peyton Reed
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Go Fly a Kite
star
7.88
8 votes

#19 - Go Fly a Kite

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1991

After Jules insults his intelligence and comments that he can't really be a part of the family, Verne starts to think his real father is Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, this leads to Verne ruining Franklin's famous electricity experiment and it's up to Doc to set things straight.

Directors: Peyton Reed
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Solar Sailors
star
7.75
4 votes

#20 - Solar Sailors

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1991

It's Doc and Clara's anniversary and the kids get them tickets for a cruise, which takes place in 2091 and takes them into space. Unfortunately, Ziff Tannen sabotages the cruise ship.

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Forward to the Past
star
7.38
13 votes

#21 - Forward to the Past

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1991

Doc and the boys travel back to prehistoric times to test a new invention and Doc stops a meteor from colliding with Earth. They don't realize they changed history until they return home and find a civilization where dinosaurs rule!

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Hill Valley Brown-Out
star
7.33
3 votes

#22 - Hill Valley Brown-Out

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1992

Just before the Founder's Day Celebration, the town loses all its electricity again because of Doc. His attempt to fix it makes things worse, causing everyone to want the Brown family kicked out of town.

Directors: Bob Gale
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Roman Holiday (aka Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Race)
star
7.29
7 votes

#23 - Roman Holiday (aka Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Race)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1991

Marty and Doc head to Ancient Rome, unaware Jules and Verne are joining them. While the boys cause trouble, Marty gets mixed up in a chariot race with Bifficus and Doc gets thrown to the lions.

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Dickens of a Christmas
star
6.40
5 votes

#24 - Dickens of a Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1991

It's Christmas time so the Brown family and Marty go to 1800s London to celebrate. Unfortunately, the boys lose the key to the DeLorean to a pickpocket and Clara, a toy shop manager and his family get thrown into prison by Ebiffnezer Tannen.

Directors: Peyton Reed
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A Family Vacation
star
5.80
44 votes

#25 - A Family Vacation

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1991

Doc causes another power cut in his lab whilst trying to invent something. Jules and Verne are annoyed because their toy car racing has been interrupted (it runs on electricity) and Clara is annoyed at the lack of power as well. Feeling that his family has become too dependant on technology since they moved to the 20th Century, Doc uses the DeLorean to take his family back to Medieval England. The family are not happy, especially when Doc sends the DeLorean several hours into the future so there is no way they can go home until then. Clara walks off and after meeting some Medeival women washing in the river she meets Lord Biffingham of Tannenshire. Biffingham takes a shine to Clara and when she turns him down he kidnaps her. Doc tries to save her but eneds up being kidnapped as well. Biffingham imprisons Clara in his tower and decides to marry her - once she has become a widow! And he plans her to be a widow very shortly by challenging Doc to a joustling match. Jules, Verne and Einstei

Directors: Peyton Reed
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