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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 16 - Three Days of the Blender
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Three Days of the Blender

    S1:E16

    When a blender is accidentally delivered to Billy, he ends up getting arrested as a spy and Stetmeyer gets targeted by the FBI.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Donald Todd

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  2. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 9 - Twin Engines
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #2 - Twin Engines

    S1:E9

    Johnny's friend Lonnie begins having premonitions of danger, but it turns out in fact he's linked to his previously-unknown twin Dwayne, a motorcycle racer, and the Misfits have to help them both out.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 13 - Center of Attention
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Center of Attention

    S1:E13

    El goes undercover as an incredibly talented basketball player (with some help from Gloria) to expose a crooked owner who is having his players throw their games.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 15 - The Avenging Angel
    7.6/10(22 votes)

    #4 - The Avenging Angel

    S1:E15

    Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekintic powers without telling him - the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 7 - Steer Crazy
    7.5/10(29 votes)

    #5 - Steer Crazy

    S1:E7

    Three senior citizens end up with super-powers from irradiated hamburgers, and the Misfits have to both help them out and restrain them from injuring themselves.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:James D. Parriott

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  6. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 11 - Grand Elusion
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #6 - Grand Elusion

    S1:E11

    Billy recruits the gang to help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team. The gang takes the place of the magician hired to perform for the tour thanks to a judicious use of super powers, but the daughter refuses to leave without her father. Complicating matter, the KGB minder Galenkov has sworn to make sure the scientist Nikolai never gets away. The Misfits have to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch to make sure that both Nikolai and Tatyana manage to escape.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 12 - Once Upon a Night
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #7 - Once Upon a Night

    S1:E12

    Gloria's pen pal Jae is the object of a hunt by unknown assailants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:M.M. Shelly Moore

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  8. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.3/10(548 votes)

    #8 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron bomb.

    Director:James D. Parriott
    Writer:James D. Parriott

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  9. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 10 - Grand Theft Bunny
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #9 - Grand Theft Bunny

    S1:E10

    The bad guys manipulate the Misfits into helping them unleash a plague on L.A. with the aid of a contaminated bunny rabbit.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Pamela Norris

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  10. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 2 - Your Place or Mayan?
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #10 - Your Place or Mayan?

    S1:E2

    On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Donald Todd

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  11. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 3 - Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
    7.2/10(33 votes)

    #11 - Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

    S1:E3

    A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Morrie Ruvinsky

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  12. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 6 - Sonar...And Yet So Far
    7.1/10(29 votes)

    #12 - Sonar...And Yet So Far

    S1:E6

    A marine biologist and friend of Billy's who works with dolphins believes they can talk, making him the target of drug smugglers who need the help of his dolphin friends to recover a sunken cache of cocaine.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Donald Todd

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  13. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 5 - Sort of Looking For Gina
    6.9/10(34 votes)

    #13 - Sort of Looking For Gina

    S1:E5

    Johnny's efforts to get a date with an attractive woman, Gina, go amiss when it turns out she's involved with crooks and the Misfits have to mastermind a bank robbery to help her out.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writers:James D. Parriott, Morrie Ruvinsky, Michael Cassutt

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  14. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 8 - Fumble on the One
    6.9/10(32 votes)

    #14 - Fumble on the One

    S1:E8

    The Misfits have to help Brick Tyler, a part-bionic CIA agent who has managed to lose the ""football"" - the briefcase that the President carries that can activate nuclear war.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 4 - Lost Link
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Lost Link

    S1:E4

    A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is - in fact it's believed he may be a caveman. It turns out that the man, "Link," is in fact an Aborigine from a lost tribe in New Guinea and the Misfits help him to set free the soul of his deceased child by placing a small totem on a rocket.

    Director:Christopher Leitch
    Writer:Mark Jones

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  16. Misfits of Science Season 1 Episode 14 - Against All Oz
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    #16 - Against All Oz

    S1:E14

    In this somewhat bizarre episode, Billy tries to break a record for staying awake and finds himself in an alternate reality where everyone he knows is there but in different jobs and with different personalities.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Three Days of the Blender" is the best rated episode of "Misfits of Science". It scored 8/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Michael Switzer and written by Donald Todd, it aired on 5/16/1986. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Twin Engines".