The BEST episodes written by D.c. Fontana

The Beau
star
8.29
17 votes

#1 - The Beau

The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 9

Grandma's ex-boyfriend comes calling on Grandma much to the horror of Elizabeth. Jim-Bob persuades Yancy Tucker to make fuel in his still instead of moonshine.

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Shield of Honor
star
8.14
14 votes

#2 - Shield of Honor

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 10

Detectives Stone and Keller investigate how a contract killer obtained inside information on the movement of a mob witness.

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Elsewhen
star
8.00
10 votes

#3 - Elsewhen

Land of the Lost - Season 1 - Episode 15

A mysterious woman named Rani steps through a time door and gives Holly advice on dealing with her fears and helping her family.

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Crossing the Rubicon
star
7.98
57 votes

#4 - Crossing the Rubicon

Beast Wars: Transformers - Season 3 - Episode 9

Blackarachnia attempts to use the transmetal driver on herself, but all it accomplishes is to disrupt her Predacon programming, making it deteriorate quickly to the point that it will make her mindless unless it is removed.

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Where No Sprite Has Gone Before
star
7.97
135 votes

#5 - Where No Sprite Has Gone Before

ReBoot - Season 3 - Episode 6

Matrix and AndrAIa find themselves on different sides of a conflict between the mysterious Spectrols and a team of super hero sprites.

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The Dove Hunt
star
7.91
41 votes

#6 - The Dove Hunt

Dallas - Season 3 - Episode 6

J.R. and Jock get wounded by sniper fire when three of Jock's enemies from the past catch up with him during a hunting trip to Louisiana. In his pain, Jock reveals a secret about his past. Miss Ellie pays a worrying visit to the hospital.

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The Cat's Paw
star
7.75
8 votes

#7 - The Cat's Paw

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 12

Stone conducts a murder/robbery investigation with Inspector Irene Martin.

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Journey to Babel
star
7.75
893 votes

#8 - Journey to Babel

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 10

Spock meets his estranged father when the Enterprise escorts a group of ambassadors to a conference on the planet Babel.

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Miracle
star
7.75
258 votes

#9 - Miracle

Earth: Final Conflict - Season 1 - Episode 3

Boone encounters Julie, a suicidal young woman with artificial limbs as hands, who is being used by a religious leader as a miracle when her hands are regenerated by taelon technology.

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The Ultimate Computer
star
7.67
967 votes

#10 - The Ultimate Computer

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 24

The Enterprise is used to test a new super-sophisticated computer, but it soon develops a mind of its own.

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Encounter at Farpoint (1)
star
7.65
4744 votes

#11 - Encounter at Farpoint (1)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 1

Stardate: 41153.7 The new captain of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Captain Jean Luc Picard, takes the crew on their first mission: to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q, who accuses humanity of barbarism, and places them on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise, or the human race will be annihilated.

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The Enterprise Incident
star
7.63
1129 votes

#12 - The Enterprise Incident

Star Trek - Season 3 - Episode 2

An unusually tense and irritable Kirk orders his ship into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where it is promptly surrounded. Beamed to a Romulan ship, Kirk lies about the intrusion, then attacks Spock, who responds with a Vulcan death grip. While the female Romulan commander courts Spock, a secret mission unfolds.

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Tomorrow is Yesterday
star
7.59
1083 votes

#13 - Tomorrow is Yesterday

Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 19

The Enterprise collides with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history... but if he disappears that will change history as well.

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Yesteryear
star
7.54
493 votes

#14 - Yesteryear

Star Trek: The Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 2

While on an away mission in the Guardian of Forever, Spock is erased from the timeline.

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A Distant Star
star
7.50
920 votes

#15 - A Distant Star

Babylon 5 - Season 2 - Episode 4

A giant explorer class ship comes to Babylon 5 for re-supply - it's captain an old friend of Sheridan. Dr. Franklin gets on the command staffs nerves when he starts handing out "food plans".

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Encounter at Farpoint (2)
star
7.49
1763 votes

#16 - Encounter at Farpoint (2)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 2

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The Innocent
star
7.47
29 votes

#17 - The Innocent

Logan's Run - Season 1 - Episode 4

Logan, Jessica, and Rem find a beautiful young woman named Lisa out in the middle of nowhere. Her parents left her with only two robots to help her. She gets a crush on Logan and develops a plan to get rid of Jessica so she can have him all to herself.

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The War Prayer
star
7.46
966 votes

#18 - The War Prayer

Babylon 5 - Season 1 - Episode 7

A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.

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The Prize
star
7.44
9 votes

#19 - The Prize

The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 11

Heath takes in his care and protection a baby entrusted to him by an outlaw's dying wife.

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This Side of Paradise
star
7.44
1002 votes

#20 - This Side of Paradise

Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 24

The Enterprise crew is trapped in paradise when they come to rescue colonists who have fallen to pacifying alien spores and become infected themselves.

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Legacies
star
7.42
822 votes

#21 - Legacies

Babylon 5 - Season 1 - Episode 17

A Minbari war cruiser comes to Babylon 5 to display the body of a recently dead Minbari leader, while Ivanova and Talia battle for the fate of a young girl with newly discovered telepathic powers.

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Survival
star
7.42
47 votes

#22 - Survival

Dallas - Season 2 - Episode 9

During a storm, the Ewing plane, with both J.R and Bobby on board, crashes. The news gets to Ellie first, who, worried about his heart condition, insists the news be kept from Jock. As J.R and Bobby fight for survival, the Ewing women contemplate life with them in it. Sue Ellen is worried her place at Southfork is not secure without a Ewing heir. She comes across Lucy trying to get in touch with Gary, and argues with the young girl. Lucy taunts back that Sue Ellen will never have Southork without a child of her own. Miss Ellie confronts a reporter who comes to Southfork, and Jock overhears and is furious that the news has been kept from him.

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Battlecat
star
7.42
43 votes

#23 - Battlecat

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Season 2 - Episode 33

Man-At-Arms tells Orko the origin of Battle Cat, from how Adam discovered Cringer in the forest as a child, to how Cringer acquired the powers of Grayskull and became Battle Cat.

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Straight on 'til Morning
star
7.33
60 votes

#24 - Straight on 'til Morning

The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 2 - Episode 6

When an alien ship crashes, there is only one survivor. Steve helps the alien return to her mother ship, while the sheriff tries to capture her.

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The Night of the Watery Death
star
7.20
41 votes

#25 - The Night of the Watery Death

The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 9

A mysterious dragon-like creature is blowing up American ships and West and Gordon must determine the cause.

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Charlie X
star
7.18
1954 votes

#26 - Charlie X

Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 2

Stardate 1533.6: The Enterprise picks up Charlie Evans, a young man who is the sole survivor of a transport crash. Little do they know he possesses extraordinary mental powers which will come to pose a threat to the ship and its crew.

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Lonely Among Us
star
7.16
2392 votes

#27 - Lonely Among Us

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 7

Stardate: 41249.3 Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

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By Any Other Name
star
7.12
743 votes

#28 - By Any Other Name

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 22

The Enterprise's command crew must thwart an invasion by aliens from another galaxy who plan to conquer this one.

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Capture
star
7.10
60 votes

#29 - Capture

Logan's Run - Season 1 - Episode 3

After Francis captures the three fugitives, a big-game hunter named James Borden captures Logan and Francis, while they are looking for Jessica who disappeared from their campsite the night before. He then releases Logan and Francis for the purpose of hunting them. While his wife is given the opportunity to hunt Jessica. The sworn enemies must unite if they are to survive and save Jessics. meanwhile REM has turned the tables on the sandman assigned to kill him sets out on a search for his missing friends.

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Dax
star
7.09
1781 votes

#30 - Dax

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1 - Episode 8

Stardate: 46910.1 - Jadzia Dax is accused of a murder committed by her symbiont in another lifetime.

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The Night of the Deadly Bubble
star
7.06
35 votes

#31 - The Night of the Deadly Bubble

The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 22

On the trail of the source of mysterious tidal waves, Jim and Artie find a fanatical marine environmentalist at the heart of the mystery.

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The Naked Now
star
6.98
3199 votes

#32 - The Naked Now

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 3

Stardate: 41209.2 The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus they contracted while examining the mysterious deaths of the entire crew onboard the Starship Tsilkovsky.

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Friday's Child
star
6.98
918 votes

#33 - Friday's Child

Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 11

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy land on a primitive planet to negotiate a mining treaty, but soon find themselves involved with intrigue and must flee with a pregnant woman into the surrounding mountains.

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Danger Road
star
6.83
6 votes

#34 - Danger Road

The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 24

An Englishman with a large gambling debt agrees to smuggle whiskey onto an Indian reservation to pay off his losses.

Carousel
star
6.71
50 votes

#35 - Carousel

Logan's Run - Season 1 - Episode 11

Logan is shot with a dart that erases his memory by men hiding behind a tree. He then is captured by Francis and another sandman who return him to the City of Domes so that he can go to Carousel and testify before the people that there is no sanctuary. Rem and Jessica are captured by a man from an unamed city who explains that Logan has been placed in transit. transit is a way of neutralizing potential enemies without using violence by a temporary loss of memory. Rem and Jessica must find a way to save Logan from the City of Domes before it is too late.

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The Meek Shall Inherit
star
6.50
2 votes

#36 - The Meek Shall Inherit

War of the Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 17

The aliens plan to disorganize human society by paralyzing its means of communication.

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The Stalker
star
5.86
5 votes

#37 - The Stalker

Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 8

Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.

To Serve All My Days
star
5.10
174 votes

#38 - To Serve All My Days

Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II - Season 1 - Episode 2

When Klingons threaten the Enterprise, Captain Kirk needs his best weapons officer on the bridge, but Lt. Chekov is incapacitated with a debilitating disease that is causing him to age rapidly... a disease for which Dr. McCoy can find no cure. In this story by veteran Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana, actor Walter Koenig returns as Pavel Chekov, reprising the role he made famous. Guest starring Mary Linda Rapelye, from the Original Series episode "The Way to Eden."

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The Little Thieves
star
0.00
0 votes

#39 - The Little Thieves

The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 13

Victimized by two amateur but charming teen-aged cattle rustlers, Buck and Manolito make the mistake of trying to reform them. Intent on impressing her outlaw father, Annie Croswell and her friend Bet Roberts steal the horses of Buck and Manolito. Easily tracked and captured by their victims, the two teen-teenagers are given a second chance by being brought to the Cannon Ranch, where it is hoped they can be dissuaded from following the footsteps of Annie's father.

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