The WORST episodes of Jeremiah

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

15 years after a virus wiped out everyone who had passed puberty, the survivors are living on the scraps of the old world. Now they must either continue the downward slide, or begin to rebuild the world, taking responsibility for themselves and the world and each other.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: Paramount+ with ShowtimeStatus: Ended
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Journeys End in Lovers Meeting
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5.53
86 votes

#1 - Journeys End in Lovers Meeting

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/3/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy befriend a group of people dedicated to nonviolence who are searching for what they call a New World. While the pair thwart the group's takeover by a band of ruthless and cunning thieves, it is ultimately the misguided group's own leadership that may lead to their undoing.

Directors: Martin Wood
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To Sail Beyond the Stars
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5.73
127 votes

#2 - To Sail Beyond the Stars

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/2002

While trying to track down info on "the Burners", a mysterious group that's burning down whole settlements in seemingly random fashion, Jeremiah encounters a woman who's stealing all the gas she can get her hands on, and Kurdy ends up helping a pregnant girl, against his better judgment.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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The Long Road (2)
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6.04
52 votes

#3 - The Long Road (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy make their way towards Thunder Mountain, hoping to find whoever Simon was working for.

Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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The Red Kiss
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6.15
91 votes

#4 - The Red Kiss

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/26/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy attempt to save a community when its children begin disappearing amid a rumor that the blood of children can be used to prevent the return of The Big Death.

Directors: James Head
Writer: Sam Egan
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Man of Iron, Woman Under Glass
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6.44
131 votes

#5 - Man of Iron, Woman Under Glass

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2002

A somewhat fanciful tale of a guy who grew up after the Big Death believing that some day the super heroes he read about as a kid would come back and fix things...and a tale of a most unusual romance between another of our main characters -- Marcus Alexander, head of what was once the NORAD Thunder Mountain complex -- and a woman whose existence has been kept secret from everyone for years.

Directors: Brett Dowler
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...And the Ground, Sown with Salt
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6.63
98 votes

#6 - ...And the Ground, Sown with Salt

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy are captured by Michael and his men, who operate out of a local military base. Michael has concluded that God is dead, and it's about time someone took his place... by any means...

Directors: Peter DeLuise
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The Long Road (1)
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6.68
178 votes

#7 - The Long Road (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2002

The wanderer Jeremiah comes to the market community Clairfield, looking to barter for supplies and maybe get a lead on the whereabouts of the Valhalla Sector. The place is run by the beautiful Theo, a woman obsessed with getting her hands on as much knowledge and technology as possible. When her guards discover a well-maintained, fueled car hidden nearby, she's sure the owner can lead her to the jackpot. Pity those who should get in the way.

Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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Ring of Truth
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6.70
91 votes

#8 - Ring of Truth

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/7/2002

After receiving a message from Theo (from "The Long Road") saying she wants to "thank" Jeremiah and Kurdy for saving her life, they find themselves wrapped up in a world of sex, bare knuckled boxing matches, elephants, and mushrooms? After they arrive at the inn specified in the invite (after taking some hallucinogenic mushrooms), they find it's a cathouse and they've been given the run of the place. Jeremiah's "choice", Penny, wants him to fight in a bare-knuckle match for her freedom but Kurdy overhears that it's a plan to get revenge on Theo by killing them and takes Jeremiah's place. Kurdy manages to win and Polly has them take her to her daughter China at...a local circus (which explains the elephant). While Polly tries to deal with the fact her child's father doesn't want her to have contact with her child, Jeremiah helps recover the elephant and Polly decides to stay on as the circus decides to "go public".

Directors: Ken Girotti
Writer: Sam Egan
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Moon in Gemini
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7.09
91 votes

#9 - Moon in Gemini

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/14/2002

Kurdy and Elizabeth try to make contact with an isolated "black power" movement, while Erin drags Jeremiah along to help get her twin sister out of trouble.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Sam Egan
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The Touch
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7.19
57 votes

#10 - The Touch

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/17/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy arrive in Mayfair and find the townspeople dead of cyanide. In the next town of New Hope they find the locals have an aversion to touching. The Elders ruthlessly enforce the law, making anyone who disobeys their edicts "disobey". When the people they befriend start disappearing, Jeremiah intervenes and is taken away where he finds out the offenders are stoned to death. Both towns are an "experiment" in determining how the original virus was transmitted, and the Elders destroyed Mayfair when they "failed". Jeremiah and Kurdy break free and expose the Elders' scheme to the unsuspecting townfolk. Meanwhile, back at the base Marcus takes ill from an undiagnosed disease and begins suffering hallucinations of a Native Indian - Lee pushes the matter before the Council to determine the line of succession and fails.

Directors: Michael Robison
Writer: Sam Egan
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The Bag
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7.25
63 votes

#11 - The Bag

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/2002

The son of a medical doctor has set up what may turn out to be a dubious medical practice of his own, traveling with his brother from town to town and exploiting people...and finds that his past catches up with him.

Directors: Michael Robison
Writer: Sam Egan
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A Means to an End
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7.26
62 votes

#12 - A Means to an End

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/5/2002

Markus's position as Thunder Mountain's leader is challenged by brothers who are threatened by the decision to introduce outside community leaders to the secret headquarters.

Directors: Mike Vejar
Writer: Sara Barnes
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Running on Empty
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7.27
60 votes

#13 - Running on Empty

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/2004

Wanting to savor his dish of vengeance while it's hot, Jeremiah joins Markus and Kurdy in a sting to smoke out Daniel's raiders. In Milhaven, Mister Smith gives Erin a disquieting message from God.

Directors: Martin Wood
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Thieves' Honor
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7.27
56 votes

#14 - Thieves' Honor

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/2002

Kurdy and Jeremiah goes to Clairfield to save Elizabeth who has been kidnapped by some of Theo's former underlings. In Thunder Mountain there is an investigation trying to find the traitor who is leaking information.

Directors: Holly Dale
Writer: Sam Egan
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The Past Is Prologue
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7.27
59 votes

#15 - The Past Is Prologue

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/10/2004

Was the past the best of times or the worst of times? It depends on whose past. Kurdy has to trust Lee when he returns to a town and a load of trouble he left behind while Jeremiah is imprisoned in an idealized replica of the days before the Big Death.

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The Face in the Mirror
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7.28
58 votes

#16 - The Face in the Mirror

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/17/2004

Big Death survivor Frederick Monash knows something important and Devon, it seems, knows him. Thunder Mountain wants to find Monash before Daniel's forces can kill him and Jeremiah wants to know if he can ever really trust his own father.

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Out of the Ashes
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7.28
58 votes

#17 - Out of the Ashes

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/28/2002

Kurdy and Jeremiah are off to Jeremah's old stomping grounds of Denver to pick up some books at a library. They meet the "librarian", Edgar, and Kurdy stays to help him learn to read and fend off zealots who are convinced that books are the root of all evil. Jeremiah goes to meet his friend Red (from The Long Road) and embarks on a journey with his girlfriend Maggie, a wheelchair-bound woman determined to deliver her father's ashes to the remote island where she was raised. Maggie insists the ashes must be dumped in the middle of a river...which can only be reached by a rickety gondola. Meanwhile, the library patrons rally under Kurdy's inspiration to defend Edgar and the library.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Sam Egan
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Tripwire
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7.31
61 votes

#18 - Tripwire

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/31/2002

Realizing that Valhalla Sector is systematically taking control of the Nuclear Missile Silos starting from the east coast and moving east to-wards Thunder Mountain (Cheyenne Mountain) Marcus decided to make their Presence Known at a nearby town that has a missile silo, they offer men machines electricity and medicine, in hopes of winning over the people of the town and make an ally of the people so they can stop the advance of the people of Valhalla sector, but Ezekiel appears and is seen by Jeremiah talking to Chen, suspecting something wrong he chases after Ezekiel but is knocked out by Chen from behind, when Jeremiah wakes up he runs to warn Marcus that something bad is going to happen when he is struck down by a snipers bullet fired by Ezekiel in a nearby building.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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City of Roses
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7.35
60 votes

#19 - City of Roses

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/12/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy travel in search of more information on the Big Death and Valhalla Sector, and along the way discover some potentially dark secrets about the fate of Kurdy's parents in the last days of the Big D.

Directors: James Head
Writer: Sam Egan
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The Question
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7.42
60 votes

#20 - The Question

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/2004

God tells Smith that he, Kurdy, Jeremiah, and Marcus will each be granted one miracle if they turn up at the appointed place at the appointed time. Smith is confident of a miracle but the others are more concerned with the growing threat of Daniel, and the army Kurdy is building.

Directors: Mario Azzopardi
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Mother of Invention
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7.71
63 votes

#21 - Mother of Invention

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2002

Jeremiah and Kurdy are sent to contact an elusive group led by a mysterious "Steve" but get captured. One of his captors is Michelle, a woman he met (in flashback) back at his empty home five years ago after his brother died. They were intimately involved back then, and we find out she's the one who gave Jeremiah the idea for writing notes to his dead father. In the present it turns out "Steve" is Michelle. Her operation is working heavily to get knowledge out, and she also has a 5-year old son. One guy accuses Michelle of skimming and the guys follow her and find out she's collecting art, and agrees to work with Thunder Mountain. Then Michelle comes back to lay down the law on the guy who accused her of skimming and the guys head out with as Jeremiah and Michelle think about getting together in the future.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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Rites of Passage
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7.73
88 votes

#22 - Rites of Passage

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2003

Jeremiah prepares for an awkward reunion with his father, Devon. Libby gives Jeremiah a letter from his father written years ago. In it he explains what happened the day he and his wife disappeared.

Directors: Martin Wood
Writer: Sara Barnes
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Interregnum (2)
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7.81
90 votes

#23 - Interregnum (2)

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/24/2004

A painful truth sets Jeremiah's course while Sims prepares to attack the Alliance. Markus and Kurdy must combat enemy forces outside and within Thunder Mountain itself to protect a future worth living in. (Part 2 of 2)

Directors: Mike Vejar
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State of the Union
star
7.86
58 votes

#24 - State of the Union

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2004

Jeremiah joins Kurdy and Mister Smith on what should be a simple job to deliver radios to nearby towns. It is not; Daniel's forces have plans for those radios and towns that could bring disaster to the Alliance.

Directors: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Sara Barnes
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Strange Attractors
star
7.88
89 votes

#25 - Strange Attractors

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2003

Kurdy is still not speaking to Jeremiah. Marcus sends Jeremiah and Libby(since she is the only one who knows the people there) to a camp where the members of the St. Louis gathering. Libby reports back and Kurdy leads the attack on the camp. They rescue everyone, but the leader escapes and heads east to find the mysterious Daniel. Marcus leaves Jeremiah in charge of the camp and the nearby village.

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