Firefly: Season 1

2002 · 11 episodes · ★ 7.9

What Season 1 of Firefly

It is around the year 2500, and humanity has already colonized dozens of planets and moons. The Alliance, born out of a civil war, governs the core systems, but its control barely reaches the outer worlds, where people survive as best they can. Malcolm Reynolds, a sergeant from the defeated rebels, gets hold of a Firefly-class ship that he names Serenity. With a small crew, he makes a living through smuggling and robbery, though he also takes the occasional legitimate job. The Reavers, deranged humans who attack ships at the edges of space, complete a landscape full of threats.

11episodes

Sep 20, 2002premiered

Dec 20, 2002final episode

9.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Train Job
Sep 20, 2002 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
The crew of Serenity take on a train heist commissioned by a crime lord. They steal the goods, only to find it is medicine that's desperately needed by the town.
Directing: Joss Whedon · Writing: Tim Minear, Joss Whedon · Starring: Michael Fairman, Tom Towles, Andrew Bryniarski, Gregg Henry
1x02 Bushwhacked
Sep 27, 2002 · 45 min · ★ 7.8
Serenity is pulled in by a Tohoku-class cruiser while investigating a spaceship that was attacked by Reavers. Simon and River must hide to prevent capture, while something is wrong with the lone survivor of the attacked spaceship.
Directing: Tim Minear · Writing: Tim Minear, Joss Whedon · Starring: Doug Savant, Branden Morgan, Lancer Dean Shull, Jared Poe
1x03 Our Mrs. Reynolds
Oct 4, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
As an unexpected reward for an unpaid job, Mal finds himself married to a naïve, subservient young woman named Saffron. The crew are amused at his discomfort and Book lectures him on propriety, but things aren't as smoothly straightforward as they thought them to be.
Directing: Vondie Curtis-Hall · Writing: Joss Whedon · Starring: Benito Martinez, Erik Passoja, Bob Fimiani, Alex Stemkovsky
1x04 Jaynestown
Oct 18, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 7.9
Returning to a planet where he ran into some serious trouble years ago, Jayne discovers that he's become a local folk legend. Mal decides to use this entertaining distraction to complete a job, but some unfinished business may derail his plans.
Directing: Marita Grabiak · Writing: Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund · Starring: Gregory Itzin, Daniel Bess, Kevin Gage, Zachary Kranzler
1x05 Out of Gas
Oct 25, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
After Serenity suffers a catastrophe that leaves her crew with only hours of oxygen, flashbacks show how Mal and Zoë acquired Serenity and assembled their motley band.
Directing: David Solomon · Writing: Tim Minear, Joss Whedon · Starring: Steven Flynn, Ilia Volok, Lyle Kanouse, Dax Griffin
1x06 Shindig
Nov 1, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Inara attends a formal society dance, only to find Malcolm there as well, attempting to set up a smuggling job. Mal comes to blows with Inara's conceited date and finds himself facing a duel with a renowned swordsman, and only one night to learn how to fence.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writing: Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson · Starring: Edward Atterton, Larry Drake, Carl Bresk, Larry Pennell
1x07 Safe
Nov 8, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
Mal must choose which crew members to save when one is gravely wounded and two others are kidnapped. Simon finds an uneasy haven in a remote village, but River's uncanny perceptions jeopardize the Tams' temporary safety.
Directing: Michael Grossman · Writing: Joss Whedon, Drew Z. Greenberg · Starring: Isabella Hofmann, William Converse-Roberts, John Thaddeus, Gary Werntz
1x08 Ariel
Nov 15, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 8.1
Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: help him get a thorough diagnostic of River in return for the opportunity to loot the vast medical stores of an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel. But River's pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Joss Whedon, Jose Molina · Starring: Blake Robbins, Jeff Ricketts, Dennis Cockrum, Tom Virtue
1x09 War Stories
Dec 6, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Angered at Zoë's unshakable war connection to Mal, Wash demands a shot at a field assignment. Unfortunately, crime lord Niska chooses this moment to exact a brutal vengeance for Mal's failure to complete an earlier job.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: Joss Whedon, Cheryl Cain · Starring: Michael Fairman, Damion Poitier, Katherine Kendall, Rolando Molina
1x10 Objects in Space
Dec 13, 2002 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
Serenity encounters a ruthlessly professional bounty hunter, Jubal Early, who will stop at nothing to retrieve River. But River, feeling unwelcome on the ship, takes a novel approach to escaping from the long arm of the Alliance.
Directing: Joss Whedon · Writing: Joss Whedon · Starring: Richard Brooks
1x11 Serenity Season Finale
Dec 20, 2002 · 88 min · ★ 7.9
Malcolm Reynolds is a veteran and the captain of Serenity. He and his crew are smuggling goods, but they need to pick up some passengers for extra money. However, not all the passengers are what they seem.
Directing: Joss Whedon · Writing: Joss Whedon · Starring: Carlos Jacott, Andy Umberger, Philip Sternberg, Colin Patrick Lynch