Favorite Supernatural Episodes
Just like my Cold Case and Tales from the Crypt lists, this is just a list of my favorite Supernatural episodes.
Season 1
1.01 Pilot - Sam and Dean Winchester look for their missing father and have a run in with a Woman in White.
1.05 Bloody Mary - When a man is killed after his daughter chants "Bloody Mary" three times in front of a mirror, Sam and Dean head to Toledo, Ohio, to investigate.
1.09 Home - Sam has nightmares of a family being attacked by a supernatural entity in his and Dean's childhood home, prompting the brothers to return to Lawrence, Kansas, to investigate. They enlist the help of their father's psychic friend, Missouri Mosley, to rid the house of a poltergeist.
1.10 Asylum - Sam and Dean receive a tip from their father, and travel to Rockford, Illinois, to investigate the haunted Roosevelt Asylum, where criminally insane patients rioted in 1964. One of the riot's victims was the chief psychiatrist, who confronts Sam and turns him against his brother.
1.11 Scarecrow - Sam and Dean investigate disappearances of young couples in rural Burkitsville, Indiana connected to human sacrifice and a scarecrow in the town's orchard.
1.12 Faith - After Dean's heart is damaged in a fight against a monster, Sam takes him to a faith healer but the brothers soon find out the healer's cures come with a price.
1.13 Route 666 - Dean receives a call for help from a friend after her father is killed. His murder was tied to others in the town. Sam and Dean learn the deaths are linked to race crimes from 40 years before.
1.15 The Benders - Sam and Dean head to Hibbing, Minnesota to investigate a strange disappearance when Sam is abducted. When Dean enlists the help of a local sheriff to find Sam, they meet a family who hunts and kills humans for sport.
1.17 Hell House - Sam and Dean investigate the legend of Mordechai Murdoch in Richardson, Texas. During their investigation, they have several run-ins with amateur ghost hunters Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler.
1.19 Provenance - Sam and Dean investigate a series of deaths in New Paltz, New York connected to a creepy painting. They find the object at an auction house where a beautiful woman named Sarah works and Sam soon falls for her.
Season 2
2.06 No Exit - Sam and Dean investigate murders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with fellow hunter Jo Harvelle that connect to the ghost of H.H. Holmes, America's first documented serial killer.
2.15 Tall Tales - The brothers investigate curious cases of alien abductions, giant alligators and deaths in a college town that lead to a Trickster.
2.16 Roadkill - The ghosts of two car accident victims have haunted the same stretch of road for fourteen years until Sam and Dean put them to rest.
2.18 Hollywood Babylon - The Winchesters become P.A.s on a Hollywood movie set to determine why vengeful spirits are killing off the stars of a new horror movie.
2.19 Folsom Prison Blues - Sam and Dean engineer their own arrest in order to hunt in a haunted prison.
2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be - After Dean is attacked by a djinn, he wakes up in a world where he is no longer a hunter.
Season 3
3.01 The Magnificent Seven - After Dean makes a deal with a Crossroad's Demon to save Sam's life, the two brothers have to clean up the mess from opening the Demon Gate, starting by fighting off demons who embody the Seven Deadly Sins.
3.02 The Kids Are Alright - Re-visiting an old flame, Dean uncovers a hunt - changelings are slowly killing off families in a suburban neighbourhood. Meanwhile, Sam continues to research ways to save Dean's soul.
3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock - A rabbit's foot brings both good and bad luck to Sam and Dean, and the other players trying to obtain it.
3.05 Bedtime Stories - Sam and Dean investigate a series of murders based on fairy tales.
3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas - As Christmas approaches, people are disappearing up their chimneys.
3.09 Malleus Maleficarum - Sam and Dean investigate a coven of witches.
3.10 Mystery Spot - Sam keeps reliving the same day in which Dean dies over and over again.
3.13 Ghostfacers - Sam and Dean find themselves on a reality TV show “Ghostfacers” - and in real danger.
3.16 No Rest for the Wicked - There are only 30 hours left before Dean's deal is up. Can the boys find a way out of it?
Season 4
4.01 Lazarus Rising - Dean returns from Hell. The question is how - and why?
4.03 In the Beginning - Castiel sends Dean back to Lawrence in 1973. Can Dean avert the course of events that lead to his mother's death?
4.04 Metamorphosis - Sam and Dean must hunt a cannibalistic creature who has not yet hurt human beings or done anything wrong.
4.05 Monster Movie - A good old-fashioned vampire hunt becomes something much more bizarre as classic film monsters terrorize a town during Oktoberfest. (Shown entirely in black and white, the episode hearkens back to classic monster films of the old MGM era.)
4.06 Yellow Fever - Sam and Dean have 48 hours to stop a supernatural affliction from killing Dean with fear. (Episode with the best ending - Jensen Ackles lip-synching to "Eye of the Tiger")
4.08 Wishful Thinking - Sam and Dean come to a town where wishes come true and no one is careful about what they ask for.
4.10 Heaven and Hell - Anna must grapple with her true nature, while Sam, Dean and Ruby must fend off both demons and angels to keep her safe.
4.11 Family Remains - A family looks for a new start in the country. But something is inside the walls of their house.
4.13 After School Special - Sam and Dean return to one of their many high schools, unraveling both a case and their own memories of their youths.
4.16 On the Head of a Pin - Something is killing Angels, and Castiel and Uriel need Dean's help to find out who.
4.17 It's a Terrible Life - Dean Smith and Sam Wesson work for Sandover Bridge and Iron Company where their co-workers start killing themselves. (The Winchester brothers in an alternate reality.)
4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book - Sam and Dean meet a writer who has visions about their lives.
4.19 Jump the Shark - Sam and Dean meet a young man who reveals himself to be their brother.
4.20 The Rapture - Castiel is ordered back to Heaven, leaving his vessel to rediscover his life.
Season 5
5.05 Fallen Idols - Sam and Dean investigate what appears to be the deaths of people at the hands of celebrities.
5.08 Changing Channels - When Sam and Dean get trapped in a series of TV shows, they suspect the work of the Trickster.
5.09 The Real Ghostbusters - Sam and Dean find real ghosts when Becky invites them to a Supernatural Convention.
5.10 Abandon All Hope... - Sam and Dean track down the Colt and go after Lucifer.
5.12 Swap Meat - A group of teenagers decide to go after the demon bounty of Dean.
5.13 The Song Remains the Same - Anna goes back to 1978 to kill John and Mary Winchester, in order to stop Sam from ever being born.
5.14 My Bloody Valentine - When couples kill each other in obscene way, Castiel suspects a Cupid has gone rogue.
5.22 Swan Song - Sam and Dean decide to try and trap Lucifer. (This would have been the final episode of the series but the producers thankfully decided to continue the series.)
Season 6
6.04 Weekend at Bobby's - After Bobby discovers Crowley has no intentions of returning Bobby's soul, the hunter takes matters into his own hands.
6.05 Live Free or Twihard - Sam and Dean find a group of vampires and Dean is bitten and turned. Samuel tells Dean that he can change him back, but he'll need the blood of the vampire who turned him.
6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe... - While Sam and Dean are investigating a UFO sighting, Dean is abducted from a crop circle. However, after he escapes, the brothers discover they aren't dealing with aliens, but fairies!
6.12 Like A Virgin - While Sam tries to find out what has been happening for the 18 months he doesn't remember, he and Dean investigate the abduction of young girls.
6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning - Dean and Sam investigate a ghost that seems to be able to move across country lines and possess dummies.
6.15 The French Mistake - Sam and Dean find themselves on the set of the TV Show Supernatural, with an angelic hitman after them.
6.17 My Heart Will Go On - The timeline is changed after Balthazar stops the Titanic from sinking.
6.19 Mommy Dearest - Sam, Dean, Castiel and Bobby track down Eve to a town where she is breeding new monsters.
Season 7
7.05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil - A witch and a warlock take out their aggression over their marital problems out on themselves and the people around them through dark magic.
7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! - Wedding bells are ringing when Sam runs into someone from his past. Meanwhile, Dean reluctantly teams up with a quirky, laid-back hunter named Garth.
7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters - Sam, Dean, and Bobby become actual hunters when they track a creature that has been attacking people in the woods. Meanwhile, the local Biggerson's restaurant's special sandwich is making people crazy.
7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo - Dean and Sam meet Charlie Bradbury, who helps them steal an important item from Dick Roman.
7.22 There Will Be Blood - To defeat Dick Roman and the Leviathans, Sam and Dean must locate three key items that must be retrieved from Castiel, Crowley, and the Alpha Vampire.
Season 8
8.03 Heartache - Sam and Dean investigate a string of unusual murders where the suspects all received organs from the same donor.
8.04 Bitten - Sam and Dean, in the course of investigating a bizarre murder, bust into a house to find two dead bodies and a laptop cued up to disturbing video footage taken by three college students.
8.11 LARP and the Real Girl - Sam and Dean meet up with Charlie Bradbury again after people in a LARPing community starts to die for real. They now have to fit in between the LARPers to stop the killings.
8.12 As Time Goes By - Sam and Dean get's a visit from the past from their grandfather who is being chased by a powerful demon. They have to stop her from getting access to the largest collection of supernatural knowledge in the world.
8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler - Side by side with a golem and the grandson of a rabbi, Sam and Dean try to stop the mysterious Thule Society who seem to have found a way to live forever.
8.14 Trial and Error - Sam and Dean visit a ranch to try and find a Hellhound that they need to kill in order to close the gates of Hell.
8.20 Pac-Man Fever - Charlie Bradbury returns to help the Winchester brothers with a case and they find out more about her true identity.
Season 1
1.01 Pilot - Sam and Dean Winchester look for their missing father and have a run in with a Woman in White.
1.05 Bloody Mary - When a man is killed after his daughter chants "Bloody Mary" three times in front of a mirror, Sam and Dean head to Toledo, Ohio, to investigate.
1.09 Home - Sam has nightmares of a family being attacked by a supernatural entity in his and Dean's childhood home, prompting the brothers to return to Lawrence, Kansas, to investigate. They enlist the help of their father's psychic friend, Missouri Mosley, to rid the house of a poltergeist.
1.10 Asylum - Sam and Dean receive a tip from their father, and travel to Rockford, Illinois, to investigate the haunted Roosevelt Asylum, where criminally insane patients rioted in 1964. One of the riot's victims was the chief psychiatrist, who confronts Sam and turns him against his brother.
1.11 Scarecrow - Sam and Dean investigate disappearances of young couples in rural Burkitsville, Indiana connected to human sacrifice and a scarecrow in the town's orchard.
1.12 Faith - After Dean's heart is damaged in a fight against a monster, Sam takes him to a faith healer but the brothers soon find out the healer's cures come with a price.
1.13 Route 666 - Dean receives a call for help from a friend after her father is killed. His murder was tied to others in the town. Sam and Dean learn the deaths are linked to race crimes from 40 years before.
1.15 The Benders - Sam and Dean head to Hibbing, Minnesota to investigate a strange disappearance when Sam is abducted. When Dean enlists the help of a local sheriff to find Sam, they meet a family who hunts and kills humans for sport.
1.17 Hell House - Sam and Dean investigate the legend of Mordechai Murdoch in Richardson, Texas. During their investigation, they have several run-ins with amateur ghost hunters Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler.
1.19 Provenance - Sam and Dean investigate a series of deaths in New Paltz, New York connected to a creepy painting. They find the object at an auction house where a beautiful woman named Sarah works and Sam soon falls for her.
Season 2
2.06 No Exit - Sam and Dean investigate murders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with fellow hunter Jo Harvelle that connect to the ghost of H.H. Holmes, America's first documented serial killer.
2.15 Tall Tales - The brothers investigate curious cases of alien abductions, giant alligators and deaths in a college town that lead to a Trickster.
2.16 Roadkill - The ghosts of two car accident victims have haunted the same stretch of road for fourteen years until Sam and Dean put them to rest.
2.18 Hollywood Babylon - The Winchesters become P.A.s on a Hollywood movie set to determine why vengeful spirits are killing off the stars of a new horror movie.
2.19 Folsom Prison Blues - Sam and Dean engineer their own arrest in order to hunt in a haunted prison.
2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be - After Dean is attacked by a djinn, he wakes up in a world where he is no longer a hunter.
Season 3
3.01 The Magnificent Seven - After Dean makes a deal with a Crossroad's Demon to save Sam's life, the two brothers have to clean up the mess from opening the Demon Gate, starting by fighting off demons who embody the Seven Deadly Sins.
3.02 The Kids Are Alright - Re-visiting an old flame, Dean uncovers a hunt - changelings are slowly killing off families in a suburban neighbourhood. Meanwhile, Sam continues to research ways to save Dean's soul.
3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock - A rabbit's foot brings both good and bad luck to Sam and Dean, and the other players trying to obtain it.
3.05 Bedtime Stories - Sam and Dean investigate a series of murders based on fairy tales.
3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas - As Christmas approaches, people are disappearing up their chimneys.
3.09 Malleus Maleficarum - Sam and Dean investigate a coven of witches.
3.10 Mystery Spot - Sam keeps reliving the same day in which Dean dies over and over again.
3.13 Ghostfacers - Sam and Dean find themselves on a reality TV show “Ghostfacers” - and in real danger.
3.16 No Rest for the Wicked - There are only 30 hours left before Dean's deal is up. Can the boys find a way out of it?
Season 4
4.01 Lazarus Rising - Dean returns from Hell. The question is how - and why?
4.03 In the Beginning - Castiel sends Dean back to Lawrence in 1973. Can Dean avert the course of events that lead to his mother's death?
4.04 Metamorphosis - Sam and Dean must hunt a cannibalistic creature who has not yet hurt human beings or done anything wrong.
4.05 Monster Movie - A good old-fashioned vampire hunt becomes something much more bizarre as classic film monsters terrorize a town during Oktoberfest. (Shown entirely in black and white, the episode hearkens back to classic monster films of the old MGM era.)
4.06 Yellow Fever - Sam and Dean have 48 hours to stop a supernatural affliction from killing Dean with fear. (Episode with the best ending - Jensen Ackles lip-synching to "Eye of the Tiger")
4.08 Wishful Thinking - Sam and Dean come to a town where wishes come true and no one is careful about what they ask for.
4.10 Heaven and Hell - Anna must grapple with her true nature, while Sam, Dean and Ruby must fend off both demons and angels to keep her safe.
4.11 Family Remains - A family looks for a new start in the country. But something is inside the walls of their house.
4.13 After School Special - Sam and Dean return to one of their many high schools, unraveling both a case and their own memories of their youths.
4.16 On the Head of a Pin - Something is killing Angels, and Castiel and Uriel need Dean's help to find out who.
4.17 It's a Terrible Life - Dean Smith and Sam Wesson work for Sandover Bridge and Iron Company where their co-workers start killing themselves. (The Winchester brothers in an alternate reality.)
4.18 The Monster at the End of This Book - Sam and Dean meet a writer who has visions about their lives.
4.19 Jump the Shark - Sam and Dean meet a young man who reveals himself to be their brother.
4.20 The Rapture - Castiel is ordered back to Heaven, leaving his vessel to rediscover his life.
Season 5
5.05 Fallen Idols - Sam and Dean investigate what appears to be the deaths of people at the hands of celebrities.
5.08 Changing Channels - When Sam and Dean get trapped in a series of TV shows, they suspect the work of the Trickster.
5.09 The Real Ghostbusters - Sam and Dean find real ghosts when Becky invites them to a Supernatural Convention.
5.10 Abandon All Hope... - Sam and Dean track down the Colt and go after Lucifer.
5.12 Swap Meat - A group of teenagers decide to go after the demon bounty of Dean.
5.13 The Song Remains the Same - Anna goes back to 1978 to kill John and Mary Winchester, in order to stop Sam from ever being born.
5.14 My Bloody Valentine - When couples kill each other in obscene way, Castiel suspects a Cupid has gone rogue.
5.22 Swan Song - Sam and Dean decide to try and trap Lucifer. (This would have been the final episode of the series but the producers thankfully decided to continue the series.)
Season 6
6.04 Weekend at Bobby's - After Bobby discovers Crowley has no intentions of returning Bobby's soul, the hunter takes matters into his own hands.
6.05 Live Free or Twihard - Sam and Dean find a group of vampires and Dean is bitten and turned. Samuel tells Dean that he can change him back, but he'll need the blood of the vampire who turned him.
6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe... - While Sam and Dean are investigating a UFO sighting, Dean is abducted from a crop circle. However, after he escapes, the brothers discover they aren't dealing with aliens, but fairies!
6.12 Like A Virgin - While Sam tries to find out what has been happening for the 18 months he doesn't remember, he and Dean investigate the abduction of young girls.
6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning - Dean and Sam investigate a ghost that seems to be able to move across country lines and possess dummies.
6.15 The French Mistake - Sam and Dean find themselves on the set of the TV Show Supernatural, with an angelic hitman after them.
6.17 My Heart Will Go On - The timeline is changed after Balthazar stops the Titanic from sinking.
6.19 Mommy Dearest - Sam, Dean, Castiel and Bobby track down Eve to a town where she is breeding new monsters.
Season 7
7.05 Shut Up, Dr. Phil - A witch and a warlock take out their aggression over their marital problems out on themselves and the people around them through dark magic.
7.08 Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! - Wedding bells are ringing when Sam runs into someone from his past. Meanwhile, Dean reluctantly teams up with a quirky, laid-back hunter named Garth.
7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters - Sam, Dean, and Bobby become actual hunters when they track a creature that has been attacking people in the woods. Meanwhile, the local Biggerson's restaurant's special sandwich is making people crazy.
7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo - Dean and Sam meet Charlie Bradbury, who helps them steal an important item from Dick Roman.
7.22 There Will Be Blood - To defeat Dick Roman and the Leviathans, Sam and Dean must locate three key items that must be retrieved from Castiel, Crowley, and the Alpha Vampire.
Season 8
8.03 Heartache - Sam and Dean investigate a string of unusual murders where the suspects all received organs from the same donor.
8.04 Bitten - Sam and Dean, in the course of investigating a bizarre murder, bust into a house to find two dead bodies and a laptop cued up to disturbing video footage taken by three college students.
8.11 LARP and the Real Girl - Sam and Dean meet up with Charlie Bradbury again after people in a LARPing community starts to die for real. They now have to fit in between the LARPers to stop the killings.
8.12 As Time Goes By - Sam and Dean get's a visit from the past from their grandfather who is being chased by a powerful demon. They have to stop her from getting access to the largest collection of supernatural knowledge in the world.
8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler - Side by side with a golem and the grandson of a rabbi, Sam and Dean try to stop the mysterious Thule Society who seem to have found a way to live forever.
8.14 Trial and Error - Sam and Dean visit a ranch to try and find a Hellhound that they need to kill in order to close the gates of Hell.
8.20 Pac-Man Fever - Charlie Bradbury returns to help the Winchester brothers with a case and they find out more about her true identity.