Crusade

One of the side effects of the troubles Crusade went through in production is that it was never aired in its "proper" order, and it still really isn't clear what the proper order for the shows should be. However, the "official" chronological ordering that J. Michael Straczynski has endorsed for the series is:

Pilot: A Call to Arms
Episode 1: War Zone
Episode 2: The Long Road
Episode 3: Ruling From the Tomb
Episode 4: Appearances and Other Deceits
Episode 5: The Memory of War
Episode 6: The Needs of Earth
Episode 7: Racing the Night
Episode 8: Visitors From Down the Street
Episode 9: Each Night I Dream of Home
Episode 10: The Path of Sorrows
Episode 11: Patterns of the Soul
Episode 12: The Well of Forever
Episode 13: The Rules of the Game

When they originally aired, the episodes were shown in an almost random order, mostly at the behest of TNT executives who seem to have been actively trying to kill the show. The original order that the shows were aired is as follows:

Pilot: A Call to Arms
Episode 1: War Zone
Episode 2: The Long Road
Episode 3: The Well of Forever
Episode 4: The Path of Sorrows
Episode 5: Patterns of the Soul
Episode 6: Ruling from the Tomb
Episode 7: The Rules of the Game
Episode 8: Appearances and Other Deceits
Episode 9: Racing the Night
Episode 10: The Memory of War
Episode 11: The Needs of Earth
Episode 12: Visitors from Down the Street
Episode 13: Each Night I Dream of Home

Finally, for a period of time, when the show ran on the SciFi network (before they renamed their network to sound like a venereal disease), J. Michael Straczynski reordered the shows to a more sensible ordering, although this order was later superseded by the "chronological" order first listed on this page. The order the shows aired on SciFi is as follows:

Pilot: A Call to Arms
Episode 1: Racing the Night
Episode 2: The Needs of Earth
Episode 3: The Memory of War
Episode 4: The Long Road
Episode 5: Visitors from Down the Street
Episode 6: The Well of Forever
Episode 7: Each Night I Dream of Home
Episode 8: Patterns of the Soul
Episode 9: The Path of Sorrows
Episode 10: Ruling from the Tomb
Episode 11: The Rules of the Game
Episode 13: War Zone
Episode 14: Appearances and Other Deceits

In addition, there were three episodes that were written but never filmed:

Episode 14: To the Ends of the Earth
Episode 15: Value Judgments
Episode 16: The End of the Line

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