The BEST episodes of The Net

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

Computer expert Angela Bennett (Brooke Langton), accidentally receives a top secret email with information about an elite terrorist organization called the Praetorians. Angela soon discovers that the Praetorians' goal is to take control of people's lives through the use of computers. The Praetorians become aware of Angela's knowledge of them and steal her identity, placing her new identity on the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted List. Angela, with the help of an unidentified person named "The Sorcerer" (Tim Curry), sets out to stop the Praetorians and win back her true identity while staying one step ahead of both the F.B.I. and the Praetorians.

Last Updated: 9/12/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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Pay the Line
star
8.12
34 votes

#1 - Pay the Line

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1999

Jacob gets involved in on-line gambling scheme and gets in over his head. He needs Angela's help to pay his debts back and they wind up in Las Vegas in some high stakes gambling. Meanwhile, Trelawney is told he has to clean up the mess he left behind with Hearney.

Directors: Les Landau
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Chem Lab
star
7.97
34 votes

#2 - Chem Lab

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/20/1999

Angela and Jacob go to high school to find the young creators of a chemical weapon.

Directors: Anson Williams
Writer: John Kirk
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Fireball
star
7.15
65 votes

#3 - Fireball

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/29/1998

An old college boyfriend of Angela's is involved in hacking state lotteries. Things get ugly when Daniel hacks with the lotteries under control of the Praetorians. Angela needs to help Daniel while preventing the Praetorians from winning all the lotteries.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: John Kirk
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Kill the Buddha
star
7.15
66 votes

#4 - Kill the Buddha

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/22/1998

While working as a barmaid, Angela befriends the owner and becomes friends with him and his wife, who are an interracial couple. When Eric is murdered, Angela finds out they were policemen. Wanting not to get involved due to trying to protect herself from discovery by the Praetorians, Angela is torn between helping the widow and protecting herself.

Directors: Adam Nimoy
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star
7.09
34 votes

#5 - eye-see-you.com

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/27/1999

Angela and Walter are in hot pursuit of a clever murderer who spies on his victims using the internet.

Directors: Scott Paulin
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Deleted
star
6.69
72 votes

#6 - Deleted

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/1998

Computer expert Angela Bennett has her identity stolen by a terrorist group after opening an unexpected email. She must stop them with the help of a stranger known only as the sorcerer but the problem deepens after her new identity is wanted by the FBI.

Directors: Bradford May
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Transplant
star
6.69
67 votes

#7 - Transplant

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/1998

While in Chicago, Angela gets shot. Sorcerer knows a doctor at a Chicago hospital but Angela gets involved in an organ harvest program that the Praetorians are heading up.

Directors: George Mendeluk
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Bulls and Bears
star
6.69
67 votes

#8 - Bulls and Bears

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/1998

The Praetorians are trying to manipulate the stock market to raise $100 million cash to finance a Praetorian needed satellite from the Russians. Angela joins the stock brokerage to prevent the theft. Angela's voice activated computer is destroyed while Trelawney meets up the some really bad boys.

Directors: Helen Shaver
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Jump Vector
star
6.65
65 votes

#9 - Jump Vector

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/1998

Angela poses as a river guide to learn more about a new program about to be released with a back door allowing the Praetorians access to any computer using this new operating system.

Directors: Scott Paulin
Writer: Karl Holman
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Y2K: Total System Failure
star
6.47
36 votes

#10 - Y2K: Total System Failure

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1999

Angela has to try and stop the seemingly unstoppable Millenium Bug after a programmer is killed who was close to finding the solution.

Directors: Randy Zisk
Writer: Nan Hagan
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Lunatic Fringe
star
6.40
35 votes

#11 - Lunatic Fringe

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1999

Angela is concerned about Jacob's obsession with an internet cult leader.

Directors: Oscar Costo
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In Dreams
star
6.39
36 votes

#12 - In Dreams

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1999

A 14-year-old girl with a photographic memory holds the key to a Praetorian code.

Directors: Helaine Head
Writer: Allison Hock
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Death of an Angel
star
6.38
37 votes

#13 - Death of an Angel

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/15/1998

Angela stages her death in an attempt to regain her identity and freedom from the Praetorians. She takes residence at the university where her father was a professor. There she meets Kyle, an aspiring law student. When Kyle's uncle, who is a judge, is falsely accused of child pornography over the internet, Angela helps out.

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Lucy's Life
star
6.37
35 votes

#14 - Lucy's Life

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1998

The Praetorians set up a camera accessible via the Internet in a student's dorm in an attempt to trap Angela.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Harvest
star
6.34
35 votes

#15 - Harvest

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1998

Angela meets Sorcerer! A bizarre cult calling itself Harvest Sun has the interest of the Praetorians. While Angela tries to get through to the cult members, she finally meets Sorcerer and is quite surprised!

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: John Kirk
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Diamonds Aren't Forever
star
6.34
35 votes

#16 - Diamonds Aren't Forever

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1998

Angela and Sorcerer counter a Praetorian plan to bring down the world diamond market.

Directors: Michael Robison
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Pandora's Box
star
6.34
35 votes

#17 - Pandora's Box

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1998

Angela and Sorcerer need to stop a Praetorian plot to dump nuclear waste in the world's oceans.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Karl Homan
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Zero
star
6.33
36 votes

#18 - Zero

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1999

A sinister new drug leads Angela and Jacob to a showdown with the Praetorians. Angela becomes an FBI CIC agent.

Directors: E.J. Forester
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North by Northwestern
star
6.29
68 votes

#19 - North by Northwestern

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/1998

On her way to Chicago in search of her father, Angela gets detained by the police in Ohio who think that her laptop computer is a bomb. She befriends a cellmate who helps her escape the clutches of the Praetorians. The public defender assigned to Angela doubts her story until Trelawney catches up with him.

Directors: Jim Charleston
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Sample
star
6.29
34 votes

#20 - Sample

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1998

A friend of Jacob's is murdered for trying to publish a negative review on a music web site. The Praetorians are involved in an elaborate scheme to control the world's music

Directors: David Winkler
Writer: John Kirk
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Last Man Standing
star
6.29
34 votes

#21 - Last Man Standing

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1999

New CIC agent Angela must put a stop to cybercast wrestling matches fought to the death.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Karl Holman
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Go Like You Know
star
5.46
35 votes

#22 - Go Like You Know

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1998

Angela joins forces with a streetwise guy to fight a cyber terrorist who is overloading power grids on the east coast.

Directors: David Winkler
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