The BEST episodes of Firefly season 1
Every episode of Firefly season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Firefly season 1!
In the far-distant future, Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds is a renegade former brown-coat sergeant, now turned smuggler & rogue, who is the commander of a small spacecraft, with a loyal hand-picked crew made up of the first mate, Zoe Warren; the pilot Hoban "Wash" Washburn; the gung-ho grunt Jayne Cobb; the engineer Kaylee Frye; the fugitives Dr. Simon Tam and his psychic sister River. Together, they travel the far reaches of space in search of food, money, and anything to live on.
#1 - Objects in Space
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2002
A bounty hunter named Jubal Early sets his sites on capturing River Tam and manages to sneak aboard the Serenity in deep space.
#2 - Serenity
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/2002
In desperate times, the crew of Serenity is transporting passengers to another planet, only to discover that one of them has smuggled something strange in their cargo.
#3 - Ariel
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2002
On return to Ariel, Simon hires the crew out to smuggle River into a hospital so Simon can figure out what the Alliance did to her.
#4 - Trash
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/21/2003
Mal has to make a tough choice in whether he should trust Saffron when she offers the Serenity crew an opportunity to make a lot of money on a risky job.
#5 - Out of Gas
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2002
When Serenity’s life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship — but he stays behind.
#6 - War Stories
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2002
Tensions begin to run high on board the Serenity when Wash finds himself feeling threatened by the closeness between Mal and Zoe.
#7 - Shindig
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2002
On a mission to transport some goods on the planet Persephone, the Serenity crew attend a ball where Mal finds himself at odds with one of Inara’s “clients.”
#8 - The Train Job
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2002
The Serenity crew is coerced into pulling a train robbery. When they discover the stolen cargo is actually medicine intended for refugees, they are forced to reevaluate their priorities.
#9 - Bushwhacked
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2002
The Serenity crew drifts upon the ruins of a colony ship and goes on a salvage mission. The expedition turns from bad to worse when the entire crew massacred… except for one.
#10 - Our Mrs. Reynolds
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2002
Mal unwittingly marries a beautiful village girl during a job in the backwater. But the surprises don’t end there.
#11 - The Message
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/28/2003
What starts out as a nice day at a space station goes very wrong when Mal and Zoe receive the corpse of their old war buddy in the mail.
#12 - Jaynestown
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2002
When the Serenity crew travels to a planet to strike a smuggling deal, Jayne discovers the populace worships him as a hero; Inara makes a man out of a magistrate's 26-year-old virginal son; Book's nerves fray as he tends to River.
#13 - Safe
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2002
Things go terribly wrong during a job on an outer planet; both Simon and River are kidnapped by the locals in need of a doctor, while the rest of the crew finds themselves in need a doctor of their own.
#14 - Heart of Gold
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/23/2003
The Serenity goes to the moon of Deadwood to answer a distress call from Inara’s old friend who runs a brothel.