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The Flash Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1990 - 1991
Episode 1
Pilot Episode
Thu, Sep 20, 1990 60 mins
In the series pilot, police scientist Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) gains super speed after lightning strikes him when he's doused with chemicals, giving him an edge against a motorcycle gang terrorizing Central City. Tina: Amanda Pays. Julio: Alex Desert. Pike: Michael Nader. Iris: Paula Marshall.
Episode 2
Out of Control
Thu, Sep 27, 1990 60 mins
A genetic researcher from Tina's past is not only toying with her affections, but also playing with the cell structures of Central City's homeless. Carl Tanner: Stan Ivar. Charlie: Jeff Perry. Father Michael: John Toles-Bay. Sam: Mario Roccuzzo. Tina: Amanda Pays.
Episode 3
Watching the Detectives
Thu, Oct 18, 1990 60 mins
A DA learns the Flash's true identity, which he threatens to reveal if Barry won't cooperate in a scheme against the DA's mobster partner. Megan Lockhart: Joyce Hyser. Castillo: Vincent Guastaferro. Simonson: Harris Laskawy. Barry: John Wesley Shipp.
Episode 4
Honor Among Thieves
Thu, Oct 25, 1990 60 mins
Saxman Clarence Clemons plays one of a gang of thieves planning a museum heist, but a Federal agent closes the exhibition when he learns who's leading the gang. Kovacs: Ian Buchanan. Lestrange: Michael Greene. Ted Preminger: Paul Linke. Chu Lee: Ping Wu.
Episode 5
Double Vision
Thu, Nov 1, 1990 60 mins
A drug lord is behind Barry's extended blackouts, which coincide with mysterious disturbances in a superstitious neighborhood. Trachmann: Charles Hayward. Calderon: Miguel Fernandes. Santero: Zitto Kazann. Paloma Tomarquin: Karla Montana.
Episode 6
Sins of the Father
Thu, Nov 8, 1990 60 mins
An escaped bank robber Barry's father (M. Emmet Walsh) put away is back in Central City for a payback to the ex-cop and a payday with the unrecovered money. Johnny Ray Hix: Paul Koslo. Nora Allen: Priscilla Pointer. Danny: Ralph Seymour. Gruber: Michael James.
Episode 7
Child's Play
Thu, Nov 15, 1990 60 mins
A reporter is killed to eliminate his notes about a drug inventor and his highly addictive new hallucinogen---but the notes have been lifted by a street thief. Terry: Jonathan Brandis. Lesko: Jimmie F. Skaggs. Pepper: Perry Reeves. Joan: Michele Lamar Richards.
Episode 8
Shroud of Death
Thu, Nov 29, 1990 60 mins
Barry finds a tie to Lt. Garfield (Mike Genovese) after clues connect the rather exotic murders of a judge and a former DA. Meanwhile, Tina considers a California job. Killer: Lora Zane. Mavis: Lenore Kasdorf. Callahan: Walter Olkewicz. DeJoy: Don Hood.
Episode 9
Ghost in the Machine
Thu, Dec 13, 1990 60 mins
A man comes out of a 35-year cryogenic sleep to resume his extortion plot thwarted in 1955 by the city's first masked crime fighter. Dr. Desmond Powell: Jason Bernard. Ghost: Anthony Starke. Belle: Lois Nettleton. Skip: Ian Abercrombie. Flash: John Wesley Shipp.
Episode 10
Sight Unseen
Thu, Jan 10, 1991 60 mins
A master of invisibility steals a vial of nerve toxin from Star Labs, where another broken vial traps Tina and her boss in a contamination lockdown. Gideon: Christopher Neame. Quinn: George Dickerson. Ruth: Deborah May. Cartwright: Francois Giroday. Julio: Alex Desert.
Episode 11
Beat the Clock
Thu, Jan 31, 1991 60 mins
With less than an hour to live, a condemned murderer has his innocence trumpeted by a friend who dies before his proof can be heard. Whisper: Ken Foree. Elliott: Tommy Ford. Kline: Richard Belzer. Linda: Angela Bassett. Wayne: Jay Arlen Jones.
Episode 12
The Trickster
Thu, Feb 7, 1991 60 mins
Mark Hamill plays a psychotic killer who dons his own costume to take revenge on the Flash for stealing his true love (Joyce Hyser)---the PI who once unmasked the Flash. Julio: Alex Desert. Murphy: Biff Manard. Bellows: Vito D'Ambrosio. Sabrina: Gloria Reuben.
Episode 13
Tina Is That You?
Thu, Feb 14, 1991 60 mins
A lab accident turns Tina into a new woman, who wants to fill the vacant leadership of a female crime gang---and kill the Flash. Shauna: Denise Dillard. Janie: Courtney Gebhart. Lisa: Yvette Nipar. Big Ed: John Santucci. Julio: Alex Desert. Harley: Bella Pollini.
Episode 14
Be My Baby
Thu, Feb 21, 1991 60 mins
Barry gets involved with a young mother (Kimberly Neville) trying to keep her baby from her criminal husband (Bryan Cranston), who married the woman for her genetic desirability. Nora: Priscilla Pointer. Bodey: Robert D'Zar. Roy: David Chamel. Barry: John Wesley Shipp.
Episode 15
Fast Forward
Wed, Feb 27, 1991 60 mins
A murderer goes after the Flash with a missile that explodes and sends the speedster into the future, where he has no powers---and the killer (Michael Nader) is Central City's mayor. Monica: Beth Windsor. Kelso: Robert O'Reilly. Sabrina: Gloria Reuben. Kline: Richard Belzer.
Episode 16
Deadly Nightshade
Sat, Mar 30, 1991 60 mins
The Nightshade (Jason Bernard) returns to clear his name, now being used by a vigilante whose justice is far more severe than his predecessor's. Bohannon: Richard Burgi. Frost: Denise Crosby. Fosnight: Dick Miller. Keefe: Will MacMillan. Felicia: Jeri-Lynn Ryan.
Episode 17
Captain Cold
Sat, Apr 6, 1991 60 mins
The Flash is in hot pursuit of a coldblooded killer (Michael Champion) who uses a nuclear-powered gun to freeze his victims. Terri: Lisa Darr. Murphy: Biff Manard. Swain: Jeffrey Combs. Fosnight: Dick Miller. Barry: John Wesley Shipp. Tina: Amanda Pays.
Episode 18
Twin Streaks
Sat, Apr 13, 1991 60 mins
A scientist (Lenny Von Dohlen) succeeds in cloning the Flash but fails to control his creation, who rebels at having no identity---and takes Barry's. Whitcomb: Charley Lang. Barry: John Wesley Shipp. Julio: Alex Desert. Tina: Amanda Pays. Garfield: Mike Genovese.
Episode 19
Done with Mirrors
Sat, Apr 27, 1991 60 mins
A master (David Cassidy) of holograms steals a revolutionary power source, but his partner (Signy Coleman) takes it and finds a hiding place with old acquaintance Barry. Jocelyn: Carolyn Seymour. Tallent: Zack Norman. Tina: Amanda Pays. Julio: Alex Desert.
Episode 20
Goodnight, Central City
Sat, May 4, 1991 60 mins
A robber "dies" during his arrest, then disappears from the morgue, and circumstantial evidence has an ambitious IA officer (Jeffrey King) linking Barry to the missing felon (Matt Landers). Roger: Bill Mumy. Morse: Victor Rivers. Julio: Alex Desert. Tina: Amanda Pays.
Episode 21
Alpha
Sat, May 11, 1991 60 mins
Barry foils an attempt to abduct Tina's new assistant (Claire Stansfield), an android able to make her own decisions. Fosnight: Dick Miller. Powers: Laura Robinson. Rossik: Kenneth Tigar. Costigan: Jason Azikiwe. Murphy: Biff Manard. Tina: Amanda Pays.
Episode 22
Trial of the Trickster
Sat, May 18, 1991 60 mins
A secret admirer (Corinne Bohrer) springs the Trickster (Mark Hamill) from his trial, but becomes the forgotten woman when her man allies himself with the brainwashed Flash (John Wesley Shipp). Megan: Joyce Hyser. Kline: Richard Belzer. Tina: Amanda Pays.
