The BEST episodes directed by John Florea

Hoss and the Leprechauns
star
8.71
18 votes

#1 - Hoss and the Leprechauns

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 12

In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.

The Last Viking
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8.19
22 votes

#2 - The Last Viking

Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 10

Gunnar Borgstrom is the leader of a vicious band called the Commancheros. They burn houses, kill people and steal anything of value. When the Commancheros get to Nevada, Gunnar decides to visit his relatives, the Cartwrights. Meanwhile the gang capture Little Joe and his girlfriend. When Gunnar returns to the gang, he has no idea who Joe is because he'd never met his nephew before.

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Ponch's Angels: Part 2
star
8.00
23 votes

#3 - Ponch's Angels: Part 2

CHiPs - Season 4 - Episode 15

The newly trained female officers nab a pair of thieves operating in and around a large marina.

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Backfire
star
8.00
4 votes

#4 - Backfire

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 11

Mark investigates an old case as part of his coursework research, and uncovers an apparent miscarriage of justice which implicates Ed in a fit up. The pair investigate the case to try to work out what really happened, and discover that the truth is not necessarily what it appears to be.

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Mait Team
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7.97
32 votes

#5 - Mait Team

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 15

Officer Sindy Cahill is involved in an accident that claims nearly a dozen lives. Jon and Ponch become part of the Major Accident Investigation Team to try to discover the cause.

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Ponch's Angels: Part 1
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7.83
23 votes

#6 - Ponch's Angels: Part 1

CHiPs - Season 4 - Episode 14

Ponch and Jon are assigned to train the CHP's first female motorcycle cops.

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The Great Hazzard Hijack
star
7.69
34 votes

#7 - The Great Hazzard Hijack

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 3 - Episode 21

Bo and Luke find part of a million dollar robbery that happened 5 years ago - and a flood washed the money away and the search is on when an old Marine buddy of Luke's comes to Hazzard to help the Dukes find the rest of the money.

Repo Man
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7.66
38 votes

#8 - Repo Man

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 14

The officers apprehend a repo man who has been stealing cars.

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Go-Cart Terror
star
7.65
37 votes

#9 - Go-Cart Terror

CHiPs - Season 4 - Episode 1

The CHP pursues furniture thieves. Ponch and Jon prepare a go-cart team for competition while also trying to help one of its misguided members.

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Breed of Violence
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7.65
15 votes

#10 - Breed of Violence

Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 9

Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid is the daughter of the sheriff and she's always getting caught up with the wrong crowd. When she gets close to Vince Dagen, Joe gets worried and tries to intervene.

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Sadie Hogg Day
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7.63
32 votes

#11 - Sadie Hogg Day

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 7

Boss Hogg is in a jam when a state investigator is coming to Hazzard to inspect the county ledger - since he's been dipping into the public till. But luckily for Boss, it's Sadie Hogg Day - the day that women run Hazzard in different positions - and he fixes it so that Daisy becomes the honorary county treasurer so that he can frame Daisy for embezzlement, so that the missing county funds will be Daisy's problem, not his.

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High Octane
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7.62
39 votes

#12 - High Octane

CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 4

While Ponch and Jon resolve a confrontation at a gas station, Grossie and Getraer come across an accident caused by an oil truck. This episode marks Sindy Cahill's last appearance.

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CHP-BMX
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7.61
28 votes

#13 - CHP-BMX

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 21

Jon and Sindy are training a BMX team for kids. Ponch takes care of a young boy who was caught vandalizing his school. Getraer is so distracted over his son's accident that he accidentally releases a dangerous drug dealer.

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Twilight Town
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7.60
18 votes

#14 - Twilight Town

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 4

Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.

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Counterfeit
star
7.51
65 votes

#15 - Counterfeit

CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 6

A bogus clergyman prints counterfeit money that circulates to Ponch. Meanwhile, Ponch is worried that his blind date is too shallow.

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Down Time
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7.50
38 votes

#16 - Down Time

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 13

Ponch's vacation is ruined when a ring of car thieves steal his Firebird.

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Legend for a Lawman
star
7.50
6 votes

#17 - Legend for a Lawman

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 24

In Cobb's Run, Kansas, while waiting for the Virginian, Randy Benton is framed for a $50,000 payroll robbery. His defence, that the legendary but aging town marshall, Floyd Buckman (Ford Rainey), had inadvertently allowed the robbers into the bank, is scoffed at by the locals. As a result, Randy is sentenced to be hanged. The Virginian tries to track down the the real robbers to prove Randy's innocence and in desperation even breaks Randy out of jail. In the end however, Randy's salvation is in the hands of the legendary lawman.

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Any Friend of Walter's
star
7.47
17 votes

#18 - Any Friend of Walter's

Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 26

Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongrel dog, Walter.

Last Stand
star
7.46
504 votes

#19 - Last Stand

MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 7

When MacGyver is on his way to a vacation, he takes the wrong way and ends up at a small airstrip where everybody seems to be behaving strangely. Too late, he discovers that the airstrip has been taken hostage, and he has been caught in the middle of a plane-hijacking attempt.

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Cletus Falls in Love
star
7.44
25 votes

#20 - Cletus Falls in Love

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 12

Boss Hogg is upset when he is told that the state probation supervisor is coming to Hazzard to see how a good a job he's doing. In an attempt to impress him, Boss frames Bo and Luke for passing a bad check. Meanwhile, When Daisy thanked Cletus very closely for letting Bo and Luke off from a ticket - for once, Cletus thinks that Daisy loves him and acts very peculiar and loses his badge over it.

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Cry Wolf
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7.43
35 votes

#21 - Cry Wolf

CHiPs - Season 1 - Episode 18

A man calling in false alarms causes trouble for the highway patrol.

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The Accused
star
7.43
7 votes

#22 - The Accused

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 27

Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder; guest Joanna Moore.

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Hot Wheels
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7.38
63 votes

#23 - Hot Wheels

CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 8

A spate of jewelry robberies is committed by thieves using city vehicles. Ponch thinks he's solved the crimes from his hospital bed. Meanwhile, practical joker Bill Clayton rejoins the team at Central.

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The Grudge
star
7.35
40 votes

#24 - The Grudge

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 8

After being arrested on drug charges, five Alpha Alpha Omega fraternity brothers plan revenge on the CHP.

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Second Chance
star
7.33
36 votes

#25 - Second Chance

CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 13

Ponch and Jon try to apprehend a jewel thief who has hit several condos in Marina del Rey. A thief injures a young girl while making a motorcycle getaway. Ponch tries to befriend a recovering girl who was injured by the thief during his escape.

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No Game for Amateurs
star
7.33
3 votes

#26 - No Game for Amateurs

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 2

A sniper working for the criminal underworld seeks refuge in the anti-Vietnam protest movement, and with a number of draft-dodgers relying on his silence, the only man who can help the Chief is unwilling to follow proper channels.

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The Volunteers
star
7.29
51 votes

#27 - The Volunteers

CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 2

Jon and Ponch must take on the dangerous assignment of escorting a convoy of trucks carrying hazardous chlorine gas.

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Programmed for Danger
star
7.25
4 votes

#28 - Programmed for Danger

Ironside - Season 3 - Episode 10

Several girls connected to the same computer dating agency are attacked, and when it transpires that they all fit the same rough profile, Eve sets herself up as a potential next victim, in order to catch the man responsible.

Mrs. Daisy Hogg
star
7.23
46 votes

#29 - Mrs. Daisy Hogg

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 1

When Boss' rich, polite nephew Jamie Lee Hogg comes to Hazzard to buy off the grits mill, Daisy and him become sweet on each other and fall in love. However, Bo and Luke go to extremes to find something wrong with Jamie Lee who turns out to be a counterfeiter.

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The Return
star
7.21
98 votes

#30 - The Return

V - Season 1 - Episode 19

The leader declares a ceasefire and travels to Earth to halt the war. He takes Elizabeth on his ship, but Diana has hidden a bomb on board in a plot to become the new leader.

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Escape
star
7.15
33 votes

#31 - Escape

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 19

Ed and Eve travel to Mexico to assist in the interrogation of a former suspect in a murder case, who has been arrested for a similar offence across the border. The local police are determined to convict him, but Ed and Eve are equally certain that he is innocent; and when he is helped to escape from police custody, suspicion falls on them.

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The Girl from Yesterday
star
7.13
8 votes

#32 - The Girl from Yesterday

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 9

Steve Hill is asked to go under cover by a US Marshall (Don Collier) by renewing his relationship with a former girlfriend, Jane Carlisle (Ruta Lee),who is a new dance hall girl at the Medicine Bow saloon. The Marshall suspects Jane is part of a notorious robbery gang out to steal gold destined to pay for Indian land. Steve reluctantly agrees to do so and to gain the gang's confidence begins to act irresponsibly much to the chagrin of the Virginian and Shiloh hands who are unaware of his task. In the end Steve must face the robbery gang and its ruthless leader (Mark Richman) and his fate is in the hands of Jane.

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The Payment
star
7.13
8 votes

#33 - The Payment

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 14

Ryker invites the man who raised him to come to Medicine Bow after being released from 10 years in prison. When Ryker finds Abe has invited his family to join him, he knows there are problems as Shiloh makes a record sized cattle shipment.

The Perilous Journey
star
7.13
8 votes

#34 - The Perilous Journey

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 13

Daniel and Rebecca finally get to take a long delayed honeymoon but it gets interrupted by an officer of the Continental Army with a confidential message for Daniel to deliver to New Orleans.

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The Elixir
star
7.09
62 votes

#35 - The Elixir

Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 7

Riva Santel is the recent widow of the President of San Cordova. Deputy Premier Avilla plans to announce free elections but Riva will declare herself dictator in a coup. The IMF must stop her. Pretending to be a film crew, the IMF team gets in. Hostess Cinnamon fakes a collapse and the guys comment on her age. Rollin as a plastic surgeon comes in and Riva finds out Cinnamon is actually seventy years old. She insists on surgery for herself. Since the surgery can only be done on the night of the speech, she has herself taped by her own camera crew. Barney and Willy get hold of the tape footage, reedit it, and switch the IMF tape for Riva's. Riva is sedated during the speech and so her men use the tape. When she awakens, her face in bandages, she is shocked to hear "herself" announcing her retirement. While Cinnamon disguised as old-Riva conspicuously leaves the country, Riva takes off the bandages to find she has her wish: she is now a younger woman...with a totally different face.

Hot Date
star
7.08
13 votes

#36 - Hot Date

CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 12

Ponch is held prisoner in his own apartment by a couple of criminals thirsty for revenge.

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The Riddle in Room Six
star
7.06
32 votes

#37 - The Riddle in Room Six

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 21

A court case is put in jeopardy when it seems that the jury is irrevocably hung over its verdict; until the Chief realises that one member must surely be on the take. He has a race against time to unmask the guilty party, however, before the judge must dismiss the jury and let the defendant walk free.

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You Take the High Road
star
7.00
8 votes

#38 - You Take the High Road

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 22

The Virginian makes the acquaintance of a young man, Mark Shannon (Richard Beymer), who along with his sister (Diana Lynn) and her love interest, trail boss Jack Slauson (Myron Healey), is taking a cattle herd to the army. When near Medicine Bow it is learned the Shannon herd could be carrying Spanish fever. Those cattle are largely immune but the local cattle are not. The local ranchers, with the Virginian acting as their delegate, try to get the herd to bypass the Medicine Bow area. By taking another, but more direct, route, the herd would avoid infecting the local cattle. However,there would be substantial losses to the Shannon herd because of a drought affecting the other route. Mark refuses and this leads to a showdown not only with the Virginian and Medicine Bow ranchers but also with Slauson.

The Gun-Barrel Highway
star
7.00
5 votes

#39 - The Gun-Barrel Highway

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 23

Daniel tries to avert bloodshed between the Shawnee and road builders who have started building through tribal hunting grounds in direct violation of a treaty.

Fifty Rifles
star
7.00
5 votes

#40 - Fifty Rifles

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 25

Cashiered British Army officer William Blount steals a shipment of 50 rifles and plans to trade them to the hostile Shawnee in return for a tract of land.

Seminole Territory
star
7.00
5 votes

#41 - Seminole Territory

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 17

After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head; guests Diane Ladd, Leonard Nimoy.

The Prisoners
star
7.00
5 votes

#42 - The Prisoners

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 21

Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.

Miz Tisdale on the Lam
star
7.00
22 votes

#43 - Miz Tisdale on the Lam

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 18

Boss has a scam running through the mail for phony properties. But when an investigator comes to Hazzard, Boss frames Miz Tisdale for mail fraud and the Dukes hide her out at the farm.

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In the Best of Families
star
6.91
11 votes

#44 - In the Best of Families

CHiPs - Season 5 - Episode 18

Jon and Ponch try to apprehend a family of car thieves who steal a CHP cruiser and commit robberies with it.

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Tight Fit
star
6.90
21 votes

#45 - Tight Fit

CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 2

Ponch takes a part-time job as a model for a jeans company, but he finds that he doesn't like being an instant celebrity. He discovers stardom takes him away from his real work, the rewarding job of catching a pair of diamond thieves as well as putting behind bars a sleazy photographer who's been involved in child pornography.

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A Rope for Mingo
star
6.78
9 votes

#46 - A Rope for Mingo

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 11

Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.

Flare Up
star
6.77
13 votes

#47 - Flare Up

CHiPs - Season 5 - Episode 20

CHP officers evacuate a neighborhood where a chemical tanker overturned, spilling a potentially toxic gas.

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The Thirty Days of Gavin Heath
star
6.75
8 votes

#48 - The Thirty Days of Gavin Heath

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 18

Former British soldier Gavin Heath (Leo Genn) strikes it rich and returns to Medicine Bow where he had previously lived. Heath is attacked by an apparently rabid dog. Thinking he may only have 30 days to live, Heath is forced to confront his cowardly past.

The Wildcats
star
6.73
93 votes

#49 - The Wildcats

V - Season 1 - Episode 15

The Resistance must steal a drug from the Visitors in order to combat a dangerous plague.

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The First Beau
star
6.67
6 votes

#50 - The First Beau

Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 12

Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw (Fabian) consider reforming.