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Program id: 236
The Flash : Season 1
Barry Allen, a forensic scientist working for the Central City police, is struck by lightning and doused in chemicals in his lab. He develops superspeed and creates a superhero identity for himself to fight crime: The Flash. Research scientist Dr. Tina McGee works at S.T.A.R. Labs and helps Barry fight crime while trying to understand how his powers are developing. As well as his superheroics, Barry tries to maintain a private life, and tries to keep his superhero identity from his colleagues, his boss Lt. Garfield, and his best friend, Julio Mendez.
Pilot : (Ep. 1)
7 / 10 (3 votes)
Episode 1 - aired : Sep 1990

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.

Director: Robert Iscove
Writer: Danny Bilson
Writer: Paul De Meo
Out of Control : (Ep. 2)
8 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 2 - aired : Sep 1990

Homeless people are dying and their bodies are disappearing. Tina rekindles a relationship with a former colleague who is an expert in genetic engineering.

Director: Mario Azzopardi
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
Watching the Detectives : (Ep. 3)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 3 - aired : Oct 1990

The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: John Francis Moore
Honor Among Thieves : (Ep. 4)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 4 - aired : Oct 1990

While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Double Vision : (Ep. 5)
5 / 10 (3 votes)
Episode 5 - aired : Nov 1990

Someone spreads graffiti, and messages asking to meet "Flash" at a church. Barry goes to the church. Shortly after that, he begins to experience black outs and memory losses.

Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Sins of the Father : (Ep. 6)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 6 - aired : Nov 1990

A bank robber escapes from prison. He goes back to Central City to get his money and revenge on the cop who busted him, Henry Allen, Barry's father.

Director: Jonathan Sanger
Writer: Stephen Hattman
Child's Play : (Ep. 7)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 7 - aired : Nov 1990

An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.

Director: Danny Bilson
Shroud of Death : (Ep. 8)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 8 - aired : Nov 1990

Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.

Director: Mario Azzopardi
Ghost in the Machine : (Ep. 9)
8 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 9 - aired : Dec 1990

Barry befriends an African American who was once a super hero that defeated a terrorist called the Ghost, who blackmailed the city through television sets. When the presumed dead criminal is defrosted, the Night Shade is back in business.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore
Sight Unseen : (Ep. 10)
8 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 10 - aired : Jan 1991

An invisible man gets into Star Labs, and releases a neurotoxin with Tina inside the lab. Then he starts killing scientists who worked on the project. Flash must find the invisible man and save his friend.

Director: Christopher Leitch
Beat the Clock : (Ep. 11)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 11 - aired : Jan 1991

A jazz musician friend of Julio's is about to be executed. An hour before the execution, a friend calls and says he has evidence that could exonerate their friend. Before Barry can contact him, he disappears. They have less than an hour to save a condemned man.

Director: Mario Azzopardi
Writer: Jim Trombetta
The Trickster : (Ep. 12)
8 / 10 (3 votes)
Episode 12 - aired : Feb 1991

Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore
Tina, Is That You? : (Ep. 13)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 13 - aired : Feb 1991

Barry is having trouble sleeping. Tina tries to use bio-feedback to help him, but it back fires on Tina. She joins a gang, and she's able to hold Flash at bay with her knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Barry has got to find a way to save his friend.

Director: William A. Fraker
Be My Baby : (Ep. 14)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 14 - aired : Feb 1991

Barry tries to help a young woman. She found out about her husband's criminal life, and is trying to escape from him. She takes their daughter with her, but he wants them back.

Writer: Jule Selbo
Director: Bruce Bilson
Fast Forward : (Ep. 15)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 15 - aired : Feb 1991

Jay's killer, Nicholus Pike, is released from jail and blames the Flash for Jay's death. He sets the Flash up by using a heat seeking bomb on him, but something goes awry. Instead of killing the Flash, it sends him into the future where Pike is in charge and outlaws anyone from mentioning the Flash.

Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
Deadly Nightshade : (Ep. 16)
9 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 16 - aired : Mar 1991

There's a new vigilante in town, the Deadly Nightshade, who fights crime by killing criminals. The Flash and the original Nightshade team up to take him down.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore
Captain Cold : (Ep. 17)
6 / 10 (3 votes)
Episode 17 - aired : Apr 1991

Captain Cold, who freezes his victims to death, is contracted to kill the Flash.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Twin Streaks : (Ep. 18)
8 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 18 - aired : Apr 1991

A scientist and his business partner are trying to develop a being with super speed, their attempts fail. They manage to clone the Flash. Their creation learns quickly, but is emotional moral equivalent of a child. Barry must stop his twin.

Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Stephen Hattman
Done with Mirrors : (Ep. 19)
8 / 10 (2 votes)
Episode 19 - aired : Apr 1991

A battery is stolen by a criminal calling himself the Mirror Master. He soon steals a crystal from Star Labs. Tina will get fired if they can't recover the crystal. Tina's mother comes for a visit, and an old friend of Barry's also stirs up trouble.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore
Good Night, Central City : (Ep. 20)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 20 - aired : May 1991

A small time crook gets a hold of a device that puts people to sleep. He goes on a spree while the people are unconscious. He has a plan to knock out the entire city, it's up to the Flash to stop him.

Director: Mario Azzopardi
Writer: Jim Trombetta
Alpha : (Ep. 21)
7 / 10 (1 vote)
Episode 21 - aired : May 1991

An android built by the government to use an assassin refuses to obey her orders. She escapes, and is befriended by Tina and Barry.

Director: Bruce Bilson
The Trial of the Trickster : (Ep. 22)
7 / 10 (3 votes)
Episode 22 - aired : May 1991

With the help of an insane admirer who wants to be his sidekick, the Trickster escapes from police custody and places the Flash under his mind control.

Writer: Howard Chaykin
Director: Danny Bilson
Writer: John Francis Moore