The WORST episodes of Viper

#1 - Holy Terror

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/1999

Astor and Westlake must protect a spiritual ruler from a fated encounter with an assassin.

#2 - Safe House

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1999

After desperate bank robbers take Astor hostage, Frankie and Catlett try to track him down.

#3 - Honest Abe

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1998

A former Israeli spy's new life is threatened when arms dealers kidnap his wife.

#4 - Holy Matrimony

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1998

Astor falls in love with the wife of a Colombian drug lord while investigating the Blanca Noche cartel.

#5 - Split Decision (1)

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1999

An electric shock causes Astor's brain implant to malfunction, turning him back into a criminal.

#6 - Thief of Hearts

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/1994

An artificial heart that will save the life of a young girl is stolen.

#7 - Firehawk

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/28/1994

As part of a plan to destroy the Viper, the Outfit kidnaps Julian and forces him to upgrade its own urban assault vehicle.

#8 - Scoop

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/1994

Joe teams with a police detective--a suspected vigilante--to find the culprit behind the murder of Outfit thugs.

#9 - Attack of the Teki-Ya

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/1999

A Japanese detective, in town to extradite an assassin, goes head-to-head with an international crime boss.

#10 - Wheels of Fire

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/25/1994

Joe falls for the inventor of a highly efficient car battery, but painful memories of his murdered fiancee surface when her life is threatened. Meanwhile, the discovery of a long-lost concept car shocks everyone.

#11 - Crown of Thorns

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/1994

A foreign dignitary visiting the U.S. becomes the new target of the assassin who previously killed her father.

#12 - Hell Hath No Fury

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1999

A series of deaths links to an old case, but someone does not want Astor and Westlake to reopen it.

#13 - Split Decision (2)

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1999

Astor agrees to have the brain implant removed; a distraught Westlake must focus on saving a kidnapping victim.

#14 - Triple Cross

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1997

Cole's former fiancée, who says she's dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant, convinces Cole to temporarily release a prisoner whose marrow matches hers.

#15 - Ghosts

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/14/1994

Joe's former partner in crime (Jason Carter) is sprung from prison by the Outfit in order to locate the Viper.

#16 - Past Tense

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/1994

The Viper team must crack a ring that abducts youths and molds them into specialized criminals. Meanwhile, Joe encounters a special someone from his past.

#17 - The Face

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/1994

"The Face", a famous hit man, has just been released from prison. His plans to go straight are jeopardized when his former employer kidnaps his wife to force him to do one last hit! Through the Consortium, he asks Joe Astor for help.

#18 - Mind Games

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/1994

After Frankie is injured in a suspicious car crash, the Viper team uncovers a plot to hijack a transport loaded with highly contagious diseases.

#19 - Once a Thief ...

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/7/1994

Joe faces a terrifying choice when the doctor who performed memory-altering surgery on him offers to restore his criminal identity.

#20 - Safe as Houses

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/21/1994

Nate Benedict, a Mob Boss who is about to be tried for various crimes, fakes his own death. He starts over in a small town to lay low and continue his criminal operations. The residents of Mesa Rose, the small town Benedict takes over, are powerless against Benedict's strong reach. The Viper turns out to be 'the great equalizer'.

#21 - Pilot (Part 2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/1994

#22 - Winner Take All

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1996

The Viper returns to the streets of Metro City. The new prototype is given to Ex-CIA operative Thomas Cole (Jeff Kaake) and his team: Technician Frankie Waters (Joe Nipote) and systems programmer Dr. Allie Farrow (Dawn Stern). After the death of her partner, police officer Cameron Westlake (Heather Medway) joins the Viper team. The team then concentrates on taking Dekker, a rogue trucker who has been terrorizing the city.

#23 - The Return

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1998

Joe Astor returns to drive the new Viper when Thomas Cole is reassigned after blowing up the old Viper.

#24 - Pilot (Part 1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1994

The ultimate weapon against crime, the Viper Defender is the city's only hope to stop a crime syndicate, the 'Outfit', from destroying the city. However, the Viper is just too fast and too powerful for all the police officers recruited to drive it. City Commissoner Strand (Jon Polito) is desperate to get the Viper on the road. He plans on using the Viper's crime-fighting abilities to bolster support for his campaign to become mayor. After stealing a satellite, Michael Payton (James McCaffrey) flips his black Dodge Stealth in a spectacular crash. Strand hears about the accident and has Payton pronounced dead at the scene. Payton is the best getaway driver the Outfit had. Commissoner Strand orders that Payton's memory be erased and his appearance altered. When Payton awakes, he is told that he is a police officer named Joesph Payne Astor. Once Joe gets behind the wheel of the Viper, it is obvious he has the skill to handle driving the car.

#25 - Hot Potato

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/1998

A computer disk becomes the key to catching a corrupt federal marshal.