The BEST episodes written by Edithe Swensen

8.23

59 votes

#1 - The Haunting of Amphipolis

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 6 - Episode 2

On her trip home to Amphipolis, Xena finds the town possessed and sinister powers from Hell awaiting her, Gabrielle and Eve.

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7.92

48 votes

#2 - Half-Life

Odyssey 5 - Season 1 - Episode 18

Angela believes that the ghost of her dead ex boyfriend, a pilot who got killed in an experiment, is haunting her. Sarah starts dating a colleague she ended up marrying in the original timeline.

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7.90

50 votes

#3 - Skin

Odyssey 5 - Season 1 - Episode 14

Man-made artificially intelligent synthetic organism that imitates human skin and can attach itself to a person and take them over jumps from one person to another in an attempt to kill Angela's father. Chuck's worst nightmare comes true.

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7.84

18 votes

#4 - Family Reunion

Tales from the Darkside - Season 4 - Episode 16

Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker, Trudy, that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and she hasn't seen either of them since. Trudy agrees to find the father and son, but discovers that everything isn't what she was led to believe.

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7.82

51 votes

#5 - Begotten

Odyssey 5 - Season 1 - Episode 15

Chuck takes a trip down memory lane with a young female hitchhiker. Kurt grows a human-synthetic hybrid. It attacks him and escapes. He suffers a mental breakdown and becomes convinced that the crew has been replaced by synthetics.

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7.79

87 votes

#6 - Rapture

Odyssey 5 - Season 1 - Episode 8

Neil's classmate hooks Niel's girlfriend and some other kids on a strange psychoactive drug that seemingly makes people smarter. Chuck learns that NASA's new flight director is part of "The Cadre" cabal. Angela's psych evaluation is up.

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7.64

603 votes

#7 - The Wendigo

Charmed - Season 1 - Episode 12

When Piper is attacked by a vicious beast, Andy goes on a stakeout with an FBI agent who is hunting the creature. Meanwhile, Prue hires Phoebe to work at the auction house, but Phoebe's vision of a terrible car crash immediately sends her off on a mission to find a long-lost child.

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7.60

543 votes

#8 - The Fourth Sister

Charmed - Season 1 - Episode 7

A troubled teenage girl befriends Phoebe with the hopes of joining the Halliwells, but she's been lured to the dark powers of witchcraft by a sorceress. Meanwhile, Prue tries to find time with Andy and Phoebe and Piper vie for the attention of Leo.

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7.47

488 votes

#9 - When Bad Warlocks Turn Good

Charmed - Season 1 - Episode 18

Prue attempts to help a young man, who desires to become a priest in order to avoid fulfilling his destiny as a warlock of the Evil Charmed Ones. Meanwhile, Phoebe tries to get Piper to stop shying away from a date with Josh.

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7.28

53 votes

#10 - Flux

Odyssey 5 - Season 1 - Episode 10

Chuck gets infected by a synthetic and starts turning into one. The other synthetics want him to join them. Sarah tries to get joint custody of her son, after his father takes him away. Marc is tested by his supervisor.

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6.71

7 votes

#11 - Household Gods

Monsters - Season 3 - Episode 14

When a recent mother tries to go back to work while maintaining some housework, she finds things going awry. To her disbelief she finds out that her lifestyle is defying the domestic gods.

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6.62

20 votes

#12 - A Serpent's Tooth

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 8

A kibbitzing mother, Pearl, warns her unlistening family but her warnings start to come true.

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6.54

23 votes

#13 - The Casavin Curse

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 24

A family finds themselves cursed because of their great grandfather killing his wife, and the curse won't die until they all die too and there is no one else to carry on his name.

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6.52

28 votes

#14 - The Trouble with Mary Jane

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 9

Two occultists are offered $50,000 if they can rid a girl of the multiple demons possessing her, but they soon find themselves in over their heads.

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6.50

1625 votes

#15 - Imaginary Friend

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 - Episode 22

Stardate: 45832.1 - While exploring a strange form of energy in a region of space, a little girl's imaginary friend becomes real and places the Enterprise in great danger.

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6.40

25 votes

#16 - Heretic

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 7

A rich art collector buys a stolen painting from a thief. The painting portrays a man before the Spanish Inquisition. The collector, Harte, is soon visited by a mysterious man who begs him to repent of his sins and give up the wrongfully-gained picture. Harte ignores the warnings and finds himself sucked into the painting where he is to be tortured as a sinner and heretic. He recants to the Inquisitor, who lets him go. Once out of the painting, Harte refuses to give it up, and receives a personal visit from the Inquisitor in the real world. The thief returns to take the picture, and Harte is nowhere to be found...in this world.

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6.35

19 votes

#17 - Red Leader

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 16

A crooked tycoon makes a deal with the Devil in return for power and wealth.

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5.95

22 votes

#18 - Strange Love

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 21

Dr. Carrol visits the Alcotts and discovers that they are vampire and that wife Marie wants an escape.

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5.92

24 votes

#19 - The Unhappy Medium

Tales from the Darkside - Season 2 - Episode 22

The family of a dead preacher show up for a reading of the will but discovers he left them nothing specific. Rather, he warns them on his video-taped will that he will send them a sign.

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5.90

20 votes

#20 - Florence Bravo

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 4

The ghost of a feminist torments the woman who buys her home.

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5.86

7 votes

#21 - Desirable Alien

Monsters - Season 3 - Episode 18

A caseworker for the United States Immigration Service wants to unlock the mystery of her subject's alluring power.

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5.59

22 votes

#22 - The Vampire Hunter

Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 4

Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

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5.50

19 votes

#23 - Auld Acquaintances

Tales from the Darkside - Season 3 - Episode 18

Two long-lived witches, Elizabeth and Mary, vie once more over an amulet in the modern day that they agreed to share hundreds of years ago.

5.33

6 votes

#24 - Love Hurts

Monsters - Season 2 - Episode 5

A DMV employee begins an affair with his wife and father-in-law being the only thing holding him back. However, the seductress taps into her learned dark magic to make him all hers.

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5.14

7 votes

#25 - A New Woman

Monsters - Season 3 - Episode 12

As a rich, elderly man lays dying, his cold-hearted mistress threatens what maybe his last morale act on earth. For her soulless intents, the man's mysterious doctor promises her a haunting that very well may change her outlook.

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