The BEST episodes written by Steve Roberts

Grossberg's Return
star
9.61
36 votes

#1 - Grossberg's Return

Max Headroom - Season 2 - Episode 3

Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a ""watch while you sleep"" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.

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Lessons
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9.39
36 votes

#2 - Lessons

Max Headroom - Season 2 - Episode 7

Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut own a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.

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The Blanks
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9.38
74 votes

#3 - The Blanks

Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 6

As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.

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Body Banks
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9.06
47 votes

#4 - Body Banks

Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 3

Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.

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The Final Conflict
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9.00
3 votes

#5 - The Final Conflict

Redwall - Season 1 - Episode 13

Cluny seises the family of a dormouse and threatens to kill them unless their father, Plumpen, betrays Redwall and opens the gate to the now huge army of rats. The plan works and Redwall is finally captured. But Matthias challenges Cluny and in a final confrontation, he kills him. Cornflower and Matthias are at last married and Redwall returns to its idyllic lifestyle. Matthias has become like a hero he admired in his childhood.

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War
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8.68
74 votes

#6 - War

Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 5

In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and Murray become suspicious when Breakthru TV, who have bought the package, start broadcasting terrorist bombings as soon as they occur.

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Dream Thieves
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8.37
67 votes

#7 - Dream Thieves

Max Headroom - Season 2 - Episode 4

Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.

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Cluny the Scourge (2)
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8.25
4 votes

#8 - Cluny the Scourge (2)

Redwall - Season 1 - Episode 2

While Redwall prepares for a long siege, Cluny steals the symbolic tapestry of Martin the Warrior from within the abbey, and Matthias learns that Martin's great sword still exists - but nobody knows where. As cluny's next attack is repulsed Matthias meets a new ally, Basil Stag Hare, and learns that his own destiny is unextricably tied to his hero Martin. Matthias will become Redwall's next protector - but only if his quest for the sword is successful.

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Grease
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8.14
6 votes

#9 - Grease

Extreme Ghostbusters - Season 1 - Episode 14

A gremlin is on the loose, causing trouble throughout the city. While working to catch this gremlin, the EGB are arrested.

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Pride Comes Before a Brawl
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8.13
92 votes

#10 - Pride Comes Before a Brawl

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 1 - Episode 7

Pride and arrogance are ugly traits ill befitting an honorable warrior. Yet Iolaus succumbed to pride as the two men made their way to Thrace. First Iolaus fought a taunting bunch of thugs and had to be rescued by Hercules. Then he took his own path toward Thrace, determined to beat his friend to the city. On the way he met Lydia and escaped several dangers, but Hera sent Nemesis to kill Iolaus for the sin of pride. Only when Iolaus committed a selfless act of friendship toward Hercules did he earn his own reprieve.

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The Undercover Syndrome
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7.88
15 votes

#11 - The Undercover Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 1 - Episode 5

Jay goes undercover as a Tarkan bodyguard at an alien conference to protect Dirndl, Trade Minister of Tarka, from an alien assassin.

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The Sphinx
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7.75
4 votes

#12 - The Sphinx

Extreme Ghostbusters - Season 1 - Episode 39

People are being turned into mindless fools by a sphinx when they fail to answer his riddle.

Night of the Living Spud
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7.63
166 votes

#13 - Night of the Living Spud

Darkwing Duck - Season 1 - Episode 5

Dr. Bushroot, trying to grow a wife for himself, accidentally creates a vampire potato. The Muddlefoot's go camping with Gosalyn hoping to capture a mysterious monster - ""Webfoot"". Darkwing and Launchpad track Bushroot into the country, where a strange truck driver named Duane tells them about the giant potato. Darkwing think's Duane is just crazy and doesn't listen, but when a bunch of hicks at a diner think DW is the vampire and try to kill him, DW has to prove he isn't one. As all this is happening, the vampire potato has turned Launchpad, Herb, Binkie, and Tank into zombies. Honker and Gosalyn finally convince DW that the vampire is real, but before he can kill it, Bushroot shows up to ""save"" his bride. Eventually, DW follows some advise Duane gave him and the potato is defeated, the zombies are returned to normal, and Bushroot threatens revenge.

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The Psychic Link Syndrome
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7.47
16 votes

#14 - The Psychic Link Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 1 - Episode 9

An insane Alcidian named Forbus is hunting humans, draining them of their bodily fluids. But during the pursuit, Forbus forms a psychic link with Kay, making him feel whatever he feels.

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The Infernal Machine
star
7.46
12 votes

#15 - The Infernal Machine

Extreme Ghostbusters - Season 1 - Episode 7

A demon takes control of Roland and forces him to build a deadly mechanical host vehicle.

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Blipverts
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7.43
170 votes

#16 - Blipverts

Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 1

In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".

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The Sonic Boom Syndrome
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7.38
7 votes

#17 - The Sonic Boom Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 2 - Episode 7

A sonic powered alien named Aldoosi escapes from Eileen and her new partner, Eidi. To track this fugitive down, Kay works with Eileen and Jay works with Eidi.

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The I Married an Alien Syndrome
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7.36
10 votes

#18 - The I Married an Alien Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 1 - Episode 12

The Blastula are increasing the temperature on Earth in their plot to colonize the planet.

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Ares
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7.36
116 votes

#19 - Ares

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 1 - Episode 5

Ares thrived on conflict and bloodshed. Hercules did not share Ares' passion for killing, and when Ares tried to assemble an army of teenage boy-soldiers to do his bidding, Hercules knew he had to stop him. With help from the powerful blacksmith Atalanta and the young widow Janista, Hercules freed Janista's son Titus and his friend Ximenos from Ares' spell. Then he confronted a representation of Ares in his cave, and after a fierce battle, Hercules beheaded his bloodthirsty foe. Titus learned that the way of the true warrior is not to kill, but to destroy forces of evil.

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Cluny the Scourge (1)
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7.33
9 votes

#20 - Cluny the Scourge (1)

Redwall - Season 1 - Episode 1

Matthias the mouse is orphaned when the vile rat Cluny the Scourge destroys his township. Adopted by the generous creatures of Redwall Abbey, he grows up to admire their legendary protector, Martin the Warrior. But his dreamily peaceful young life is shattered when the Abbey is attacked by rats and Matthias meets their warlord - none other than Cluny! Matthias resolves to fight the tyrant that once again threatens his life - and his new family.

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Rakers
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7.28
58 votes

#21 - Rakers

Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 2

Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.

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The Dog Eat Dog Syndrome
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7.25
7 votes

#22 - The Dog Eat Dog Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 2 - Episode 4

Drekk, an old friend of Frank the Pug, is running loose on Earth. And Frank faces getting boiled alive if he helps Jay and Kay apprehend him.

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The Buzzard Syndrome
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7.22
17 votes

#23 - The Buzzard Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 1 - Episode 2

Jay and Kay investigate a crashed alien ship in the woods when they encounter Treblor, an alien cop from the Zombarian Retrieval Department. Treblor says the owner of the crashed ship is a fugitive named Z-Ron. While Jay goes out ahead to get Z-Ron, Kay learns Treblor isn't who he says he is.

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The Supermen in Black Syndrome
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6.75
7 votes

#24 - The Supermen in Black Syndrome

Men In Black: The Series - Season 2 - Episode 11

The Tomassitron Matter Amplifier grants Jay, Kay and Elle super powers as well as three alien criminals, leading to a super showdown.

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Master Builder
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6.50
4 votes

#25 - Master Builder

Jumanji - Season 1 - Episode 5

When Peter brings a computer with him into the game to help figure out how to rescue Alan, it falls into the hands of a mad inventor who uses it to gain control over the inner workings of Jumanji.

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Sword of Righteousness
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6.44
8 votes

#26 - Sword of Righteousness

Earthworm Jim - Season 1 - Episode 7

Jim becomes a great warrior after finding a magical sword in a vending machine sandwich. Will this help him battle Psy-Crow and his Orb of Quite Remarkable Power?

Eye of the Sea
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4.67
3 votes

#27 - Eye of the Sea

Jumanji - Season 2 - Episode 2

An old sea dog sails in search of the sea beast that bit off his nose. Peter is turned into a skunk.

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The Doll
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4.67
3 votes

#28 - The Doll

Jumanji - Season 3 - Episode 12

Peter steals the Manji witch doctor's doll and uses it to make people in Brantford do what he wants.

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Robo-Peter
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4.50
2 votes

#29 - Robo-Peter

Jumanji - Season 2 - Episode 7

Ibsen makes a robot duplicate of Peter in order to trap Alan.