Pilot. Pilot  

First aired: 9/20/1990

Barry Allen, a police scientist is working one night during a terrible thunder storm when a bolt of lightning crashes through the lab window, electrocuting Barry and dousing him in chemicals. Barry survives the accident, and soon learns that he is now able to move at almost incomprehensible speed. Meanwhile Nicholas Pike, an ex-cop turned gang leader, is seeking revenge against Barry's brother Jay. With the help of Tina McGee, a scientist who works with the ultra-advanced Star Labs, Barry constructs a suit that will withstand his super speed and also conceal his identity so that Pike's men won't retaliate against his loved ones. Now Barry must find a way to stop Pike before it is too late.

1. Out of Control  

First aired: 9/27/1990    Production Code: 187102

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

2. Watching the Detectives  

First aired: 10/18/1990    Production Code: 187103

A corrupt D.A. hires a private investigator to learn the Flash's secret identity and then tries to blackmail him into working for the D.A.

3. Honor Among Thieves  

First aired: 10/25/1990    Production Code: 187101

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

4. Double Vision  

First aired: 11/1/1990    Production Code: 187105

A mad scientist uses the Flash as a supernatural force.

5. Sins of the Father  

First aired: 11/8/1990    Production Code: 187104

A murderer escapes from prison to find his loot and kill Barry's father, the cop who put him away.

6. Child's Play  

First aired: 11/15/1990    Production Code: 187106

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

7. Shroud of Death  

First aired: 11/29/1990    Production Code: 187107

Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clues to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in Central City.

8. Ghost in the Machine  

First aired: 12/13/1990    Production Code: 187108

Barry befriends Doctor Desmond Powell, who was once a superhero called "Nightshade." When The Ghost, Nightshade's old arch-enemy, returns, Powell must return to his hero ways.

9. Sight Unseen  

First aired: 1/10/1991    Production Code: 187109

Barry finds himself up against an unseen criminal who traps Tina and her boss in the lab.

10. Beat the Clock  

First aired: 1/31/1991    Production Code: 187111

When Julio's old friend - a jazz musician accused of killing his wife years ago - is scheduled for execution, Barry and Julio race against the clock to prove his innocence.

11. The Trickster  

First aired: 2/7/1991    Production Code: 187112

Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal who calls himself "The Trickster."

12. Tina, Is That You?  

First aired: 2/14/1991    Production Code: 187110

When Barry has nightmares about Tina betraying him, she puts them both under her scanner; but something goes terribly wrong. His dreams are transferred into her mind and now she thinks that she is a gang member.

13. Be My Baby  

First aired: 2/21/1991    Production Code: 187113

Barry must protect a woman and her child from her Criminal ex-husband.

14. Fast Forward  

First aired: 2/27/1991    Production Code: 187114

Jay's killer, Nicholas Pike, tries to destroy the Flash with a missile, but instead sends Barry hurtling ten years into the future, where "Mayor" Pike has turned Central City into his criminal empire in Barry's absence.

15. Deadly Nightshade  

First aired: 3/30/1991    Production Code: 187116

The Flash and Nightshade team up once again as they go up against a Nightshade imposter.

16. Captain Cold  

First aired: 4/6/1991    Production Code: 187117

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

17. Twin Streaks  

First aired: 4/13/1991    Production Code: 187115

A scientist clones Barry. The clone is physically perfect but emotionally it is still a child.

18. Done With Mirrors  

First aired: 4/27/1991    Production Code: 187118

Barry meets an old classmate and gets involved in a scheme to rip off Star Labs.

19. Good Night, Central City  

First aired: 5/4/1991    Production Code: 187119

When a "presumed to be dead" criminal's body disappears, Barry is suspected. The criminal has invented a machine that makes anyone who hears it's strange sound waves fall into a deep sleep.

20. Alpha  

First aired: 5/11/1991    Production Code: 187120

Barry and Tina befriend an Android who's running from a group of assassins wanting to use her as a deadly weapon.

21. The Trial of the Trickster  

First aired: 5/18/1991    Production Code: 187121

The Trickster escapes from his trial and brainwashes the Flash.