The BEST episodes directed by Alex March
#1 - The Night They Shot Santa Claus
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 1
December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice cream to all the waifs. He walks outside, waves good-bye, and is promptly machine-gunned to death by hoods in a speeding car. Quite a shock for all the kiddies. Killing Santa is not a federal crime, but Eliot Ness investigates. Hap was a friend of Ness' for 10 years; they had sort of a truce. If Ness was on official business, they were on opposite sides of the law; unofficially, they were pals. Hap was a frontman for Mike Volney who owns the Criss Cross Club; Volney trusted him, and Hap also kept his books and records for him. It doesn't figure that anyone would rub out a small potatoes guy like Hap, especially since almost everyone liked him. The only motive could be because a month ago, Volney had shot another hood named Augie over some silly bet; there were 4 witnesses counting Hap. 2 of the witnesses had been killed. Now, with Hap rubb
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#3 - This'll Kill You
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 18
Kimble finds work at a Laundromat owned by Charlie Paris, a former stand-up comic and mob bookie who hopes to go straight. But Kimble doesn't know that that the underworld has put a hit contract on Charlie for testifying against some of their business ""associates."" Charlie hopes to make amends meet to his longtime girlfriend Paula, but she's more interested in Kimble. When a mob flunky offers Paula $8,000 for turning Charlie over to them, she does not pass up the chance and takes the money, while Charlie refuses to believe Kimble's suspicions that Paula plans to betray him.
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#4 - Ex-Wives Can Be Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 8
Max's ex-wife, presumed dead for over 10 years, arrives in Los Angeles. Her friend is murdered, so she calls Max for help. When two thugs try to grab her at the park, she is injured and Max is kidnapped. Demands are made for a necklace about which the Harts know nothing.
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#7 - Crib Job
Quincy, M.E. - Season 3 - Episode 13
After dealing with what seems to be an open and shut murder case Quincy is ready to close his findings. Then he receives a request from a friend of his runs a program that helps old and young people work together. It seems that the suspect is one of the boys in his program and he doesn't believe that he could have killed someone. Not only that but the program could lose it's funding if it is true, and this would be detrimental to both the old and young it helps. Quincy promises to look into the matter and see if he can help.
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#8 - The Sighting
Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 22
A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
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#9 - Asylum
Barney Miller - Season 3 - Episode 19
Marty is picked up for parole violation with a half ounce of marijuana; Wojo prematurely grants a Russian defector asylum.
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#10 - The Project Deephole Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 26
THRUSH agent Elom tries to kidnap a geologist who has developed an earthquake activating machine, but mistakes debt-ridden salesman Buzz Conway for the scientist. Solo and Illya let THRUSH go on thinking Conway is the scientist, while Elom lets his attraction for THRUSH agent Narcissus Darling interfere with his judgment. Conway is captured, and Solo and Illya must rescue him and find the machine.
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#11 - Old Acquaintance
Dallas - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jenna Wade, Bobby's former love, returns to his life. She is trouble, and she and her daughter need his help. Bobby believes her daughter, Charlie, might be his, but Jenna will not confirm. J.R sees this as an opportunity to rid Southfork of Pam, and encourages Jenna to go after Bobby.
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#12 - Inauguration
Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 23
Harris does some extensive soul searching when he's offered a job on the mayor's security team.
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#13 - 'Quo Vadis?'
Barney Miller - Season 4 - Episode 19
Barney uncovers, if you will, the real reason behind a woman's vehement insistence that a nude-painting exhibit at a local art gallery be shut down; the Millers may be heading for divorce.
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#14 - Color Jennifer Dead
Hart to Hart - Season 1 - Episode 12
Jennifer has her protrait done as a gift to Jonathan for their anniversary. When the young artist is murder, the Harts mingle in the high-society art world where Jennifer becomes the target of a shady art speculator.
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#15 - The Hot Dog Murder
Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 9
After a talk at a university a student who wants his advice approaches Quincy. He thinks that a body that was donated to the university was murdered, that he didn't die accidentally as the records show. What makes it worse is that the body came from a top security prison wing, where the man was being held for his own safety at the time.
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#16 - The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone
Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 3
A thigh bone is found buried on the building site of a new student union building. Quincy is teaching a class at the university and soon involves himself and his students who the bone belonged to, how they died and possibly even who killed him. Not surprisingly Monaghan and Asten consider this a complete waste of time and want Quincy to get back to his job and stop bothering them.
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#17 - The Photographer and the Undertaker
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 21
Arthur Mannix is a photographer and Hiram Price is an undertaker. Both hide behind their respective professors to conceal another profession: hired killer. Each man has the same boss who gives each an order to eliminate the other.
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#18 - Password
The Odd Couple - Season 3 - Episode 11
Oscar and Felix appear as contestants on TV game show Password.
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#19 - Thing From Inner Space
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 8
Bainbridge Wells is filming a segment of his "Science On The Move" television series on a small island off the coast of Chile. A sea creature comes ashore and kills his crew. Wells convinces Admiral Nelson to return to the island because he wants to prove that the creature really exists. Crewman Patterson has a special interest in the mission.
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#20 - Cross & Double Cross
McMillan and Wife - Season 3 - Episode 6
Mac switches places with Claudio Manton, a hood with a striking resemblance, to intercept stolen gold trans-shipped from France via Portugal and Mexico.
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#21 - The Monks of St. Thomas Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 5
THRUSH agent Abbot Simon takes over the monastery at St. Thomas to use the mountain location to aim a new laser gun at a long distance target the Louvre in Paris. Solo visits the area and meets Andrea Fouchet, and together they try to stop Simon before he destroys the world's greatest art treasures.
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#22 - Escape from Venice
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 5
Crane is caught up with a circle of spies as he tries to make his way back to Seaview with important missile defense data.
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#23 - The Deadly Connection
Quincy, M.E. - Season 3 - Episode 11
After twelve people in a small town fall victim to a mysterious epidemic Quincy and Sam are sent on a mission to identify the disease, before the victims die.
#24 - The Snowball
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 15
October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to places on a college campus: student unions, fraternity houses. Parker is arrogant, he tells Benny he could ""throw him out with the rest of the garbage."" Parker has big plans: he thinks he's meeting with Frank Nitti. At the Montmartre club, Nitti is telling his assembled lieutenants, ""And after we get that pipeline set up, the feds will have to dig up every street in Chicago to find it."" A round of laughter. Harry, who is guarding the door, tells Nitti that the punk is here; Nitti says to throw him out, but then decides to let him in for amusement. When they laugh at Parker's small-time bootlegging operation on a college campus, arrogant Parker says, "I thought I'd be talking to a more intelligent group of men", " Nitti warns him" and "One more like that, and the ice is gonna crack right out from under you".
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 30
May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs Moran and Jack Diamond have left, too. As Ness puts it, ""The rats are leaving the ship."" Obviously, they want to be out of town when someone important is hit. What Eliot doesn't know is that he is the target. The Syndicate has imported Elroy Dahlgren, a veteran of WWI-- he was an expert at lobbing hand grenades, as they put it, he had A Taste for Pineapple; in the 13 years since the war, he has practiced his craft a lot. Syndicate boss Danny Mundt is paying Dahlgren 10 grand to rub out Eliot Ness-- as soon as Mundt leaves town, too. Elroy Dahlgren gets in his car and drives up next to Ness' car; Elroy lobs a pineapple into Ness' car. Ness crashes his car and jumps out before the grenade explodes. In the hospital, Eliot Ness can't see anything-- even though Dr. Samuels says there is nothing physically wrong with his eyes; the stress of almost being blo
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