The WORST episodes of The Secret World of Alex Mack

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

Alex Mack is an ordinary teenage girl, living with her parents, George and Barbara, and older sister, Annie, in the corporate town of Paradise Valley. While walking home after her first day of junior high school, she is nearly hit by a truck from a chemical plant, and during the incident, she is drenched with a top-secret chemical called GC-161. She soon discovers that it gave her strange powers. These include telekinesis, the ability to zap bolts of electricity from her fingers, and the capacity to morph into a mobile puddle of metallic liquid. However, her powers prove to be unpredictable (such as when her skin starts glowing brightly while she's nervous). She confides only in Annie and her best friend, Ray, choosing to keep her powers a secret from everyone else, including her parents, for fear of what the chemical plant CEO, Danielle Atron, will do to her if she finds out.

Last Updated: 11/13/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
star
3.19
21 votes

#1 - 24 Hours

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/4/1997

After coming to school like every day in her life, Alex notices that her parents, friends and teachers have started to act strangely. First she gets into detention with no reason and after escaping, everybody starts haunting her. But, what is really going on?

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5.43
7 votes

#2 - Green Day

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1997

When Robyn joins an environmental group the donut shop is threatened and Alex's friendship with Gloria is tested.

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Mack TV
star
6.00
6 votes

#3 - Mack TV

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/27/1996

Ray captures Alex's powers on video and wants to enter the tape in the Atron JH Video Award contest--but Danielle and Vince are the judges!

Directors: Paul Hoen
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The Secret World of Ray Alvarado
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6.08
13 votes

#4 - The Secret World of Ray Alvarado

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1995

After a collision with a pole during a baseball game, Ray gets superpowers and goes public. He even negotiates an endorsement deal with the plant. When Ray finds himself trapped and submitted to test after test, he uses his powers to escape from the plant.

Writer: Ken Lipman
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Road Trip
star
6.15
13 votes

#5 - Road Trip

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1995

Alex and Dad have trouble connecting. They go on a day trip together and chaos ensues.

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star
6.29
7 votes

#6 - Camping

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1997

Junior camp counselor is a new role for Alex, and one for which she's not well-suited. She and Kelly get lost in the woods, are chased by a bear and learn the importance of two words: friendship and rescue. George remembers his own camp experiences with mixed emotions.

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World Without Alex
star
6.29
7 votes

#7 - World Without Alex

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/21/1996

Alex carelessly uses her powers and ruins Annie's interview with MIT. She runs away, thinking everyone would be better off without her.

Directors: Paul Tassie
Writer: Peter Egan
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Busted
star
6.33
9 votes

#8 - Busted

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1995

Grounded, Alex sneaks out for a game of roller hockey and a night of trouble.

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star
6.33
6 votes

#9 - The Storm

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/1997

When Alex and Annie are stuck at home during a rainstorm, they reminisce about the value of superpowers and sisterhood.

Writer: Ken Lipman
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star
6.38
8 votes

#10 - The Doctor

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/28/1997

Alex has a doctor's appointment and fears her altered body chemistry will be discovered. Robyn grieves over the loss of her hamster.

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star
6.43
7 votes

#11 - Things Change

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/6/1997

Ray is purposely mysterious about his new girlfriend, Rachel, so that Alex won't get jealous. Alex becomes jealous anyway and struggles with accepting a new friend.

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Local Hero
star
6.43
7 votes

#12 - Local Hero

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/14/1996

Alex, Ray and Louis rescue a kid trapped under a cement pipe in the park. When Louis accepts all the credit and becomes the town's local hero, he falls under the plant's suspicion of having the special powers.

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star
6.50
6 votes

#13 - Senora Garcia

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/23/1997

Alex struggles in Spanish class with a tough teacher, then struggles with the possibility that she got the teacher fired. Lars sets Dave up to be the first human research specimen for dangerous GC-161.

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The Feud
star
6.53
15 votes

#14 - The Feud

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1994

Alex and Ray have a falling-out and Alex is afraid Ray will disclose her secret to the plant.

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star
6.56
9 votes

#15 - Driving

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1997

Alex gets a job with Louis at his dad's distributing company so she can buy her own car.

Directors: Patrick Williams
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star
6.57
7 votes

#16 - Paradise Regained (2)

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/15/1998

The final episode. Ray, Louis, and Hunter try to free Alex and her parents from the Plant which is lined with bombs thanks to Danielle Atron. Meanwhile Dave works with Gino and the FDA to stop the chemical plant from releasing GC-161.

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Pressure
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6.60
10 votes

#17 - Pressure

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1995

Alex steals a test to help Nicole, who is cracking under the pressure of the exam. At the plant, George discovers that GC-161 has the capability to alter human genetic structure.

Directors: Paul Hoen
Writer: Ken Lipman
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Suspect
star
6.60
10 votes

#18 - Suspect

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1995

Short on cash, Alex baby-sits Kelly's little sister and is accused of stealing.

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star
6.63
8 votes

#19 - Paradise Lost (1)

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/13/1998

After four years of keeping her powers hidden, Alex's secret world is falling apart. As the Plant prepares for the release of GC-161 to the public, her dad loses his job, and Louis discovers her secret powers, and is captured by the Plant.

Writer: Ken Lipman
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The Journal
star
6.64
11 votes

#20 - The Journal

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1995

The plant closes in when Alex's journal, detailing her powers, ends up in the wrong hands.

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star
6.67
6 votes

#21 - Ashley

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1997

Aunt Ashley is everything Barbara isn't: fancy, outrageous, irresponsible, crazy. Alex's wild go-cart ride with her aunt forces Barbara to get tough with both of them. Alex's school work suffers while her spirits soar.

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The Videotape
star
6.67
18 votes

#22 - The Videotape

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1994

At career day at the plant, Alex is taped using her powers and she, Ray and Annie have to sneak back and get the tape.

Writer: Magda Liolis
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star
6.71
7 votes

#23 - The Return

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/18/1997

Alex becomes friends with the new boy in school, Hunter, who may know something about the GC-161 project.

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Ray Goes to Washington
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6.71
7 votes

#24 - Ray Goes to Washington

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1995

Ray enters the brutal world of politics when he launches his campaign for eighth-grade President.

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Cold Day in Paradise Valley
star
6.71
14 votes

#25 - Cold Day in Paradise Valley

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/1995

A reporter from the Planet newspaper comes to the Macks' house to do a story; Alex's cold makes her powers go haywire.

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