The BEST episodes directed by Allen Reisner
#2 - The Eyes of Terror
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 23
A friend of Barnaby's, Dori Crandall, asks him to help Arlie Burke, a seemingly mentally retarded youth suspected of rape and murder. One victim shows traces of Arley's clay, but Barnaby also finds pipe tobacco and animal hairs, that lead him to the real murderer.
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#3 - The Waterfront Steal
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 12
When Five-O fail to prevent a series of thefts at dockside warehouses, an influential owner creates trouble for McGarrett.
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#5 - The Filibusteros
The High Chaparral - Season 1 - Episode 8
Buck, Victoria and Manolito return to the Montoya Ranch and become prisoners, with Don Sebastian, of a degraded former Civil War friend of Buck. Lanier and his disheveled army announce plans to create their own state.
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#6 - Who Killed Helen French?
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 14
The police learn that a victim of spousal abuse has been leading a double life.
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#8 - Deadly Persuasion
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 16
A disturbed young man steals nerve gas to use against a visiting royal family as revenge for the death of his father.
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 24
February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside combine), stood in the back alley behind the Lido Burlesque house, by the stagedoor entrance-- and pumped some slugs into David Alpine, the key booze supplier for the combine (because he was also selling to the competition). On the night of February 2, Eliot Ness is having Cropsie reenact the crime in front of an eyewitness to the shooting: Belle Alpine, David Alpine's widow. Ness asks her if she can identify him as the man who shot her husband. Belle walks up to Cropsie, slaps him across the face, and then blatantly lies to Ness that she never saw him before in her life. Meanwhile, with Repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Jules Flack is getting ready for the big switch, he is going to concentrate on narcotics. Flack wants to convert his assets into a couple of million bucks, so he can throw in with Luciano. Cropsie, who had been Flack's Enforcer for 13 years
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#11 - Castle of Fear
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 10
Paranoia leads to someone shooting a cop skulking on their property.
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#12 - Man In A Steel Frame
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 14
McGarrett is the top suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, and the evidence against him is seemingly overwhelming...
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#13 - Muley
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 18
After a young gunslinger wounds Matt, he comes to Dodge to finish him off and to rob the bank. He gets distracted after going to the saloon, where he meets and falls in love with one of Kitty's girls.
#14 - Puzzlelock
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 23
An ex-policeman murders his wife, and sets up a complicated false trail and apparently flawless alibi in order to cover his tracks. The Chief has to find a way to crack the man's seemingly perfect defence, in order to prove that he is guilty.
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#15 - Hookman
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 1
A amputee with no hands sets out to kill every police officer who contributed to his injury, and that includes Steve McGarrett.
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#18 - Brenda
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 21
A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.
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#19 - Fear I to Fall
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 12
Mannix is called to testify against an ex-con he sent up, but his time suspects a frame.
#21 - Angel In Blue
Hawaii Five-O - Season 10 - Episode 18
A female undercover cop threatens the progress of an investigation when she starts a relationship with a man connected to the case.
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#22 - A Bullet For El Diablo
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 10
A dictator must evade a female assassin sent to kill him, one that looks just like his own daughter.
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#23 - Only Giants Can Play
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 15
A political campaign and the death of a small-time crook.
#26 - Death is Not a Passing Grade
Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 13
While teaching a criminal justice class at a local college,Kojak embarrasses a student(James Woods),prompting him to leave a stolen item of Kojak's behind at a crime scene in which he commits in order to have the upperhand in future classroom discussions.
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#27 - South Wind
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 11
A twelve-year-old boy recovers in Doc's office and then goes with a gun after the man who robbed and killed his father.
#28 - Mr. Denton on Doomsday
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 3
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
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#29 - Class Act
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 10
A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.
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#30 - Death Casts a Spell
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.
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#31 - Who Will Dig the Graves?
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 8
A missing wife, reported dead, is a difficult quarry.
#32 - Just Another Round of That Old Song
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 13
Keenan Wynn guest stars as an old bank robber who was recently released from prison who attempts to locate the armored car that he had robbed in the '40s.
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#33 - Death Takes a Curtain Call
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 9
While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.
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#34 - Lovers and Other Killers
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 6
While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.
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#35 - Skinhead
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 18
When a young woman is beaten and raped and a soldier is arrested for the crime, McGarrett begins to have doubts about his guilt.
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#36 - Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 2
When two of a egotistical racing driver's support staff are murdered, suspicions of sabotage fall upon his attractive girlfriend.
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#37 - The $100,000 Nickel
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 14
A thief known for using sleight-of-hand is hired to steal a valuable nickel, but the coin ends up on a journey across many miles and through many hands.
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#38 - Study In Rage
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 19
When a psychotic man kills his doctor, Five-O must use a unfinished painting to gather clues to his whereabouts.
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#40 - The Hostage
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 22
When a deranged ex-Army officer shoots a policeman and takes a young girl hostage, McGarrett disagrees with a police captain over the best way to free her.
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#42 - Blood Money Is Hard To Wash
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 20
A gangster attempts to buy an interest in a football club so that he can launder money through it.
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#43 - The Nature of the Enemy
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 8
Mission control scientists watch helplessly when members of a lunar expedition are mysteriously attacked.
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#44 - Song for Dying
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 21
The head of the Luken clan blames Martin Kellum for not helping his young bride during a difficult childbirth when the doctor was away. When he runs to Dodge, Matt does his best to keep everyone safe including the local citizens.
#45 - Man in the Middle
Cannon - Season 5 - Episode 8
An old friend hires Cannon to bring back the body of his dead son from Mexico and to find his killer. Cannon agrees, but he uncovers a few surprises in the process.
#46 - Old Friend
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 20
A Marshal from Arizona has tracked down the men responsible for pillaging his town to an area outside Dodge. He is bound to seek revenge on the outlaws at any cost.
#48 - Rundown on a Bum Rap
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 17
Mark's old boxing coach, an alcoholic, is found at the scene of a serious assault, and nobody seems prepared to entertain the theory that he might just be innocent. Mark battles to prove that he has been falsely accused, assisted by the rest of the team, and in the process wins the affections of his law school teacher.
#49 - Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got The Bomb?
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 5
Senator Harlan Henderson suffers from multiple personalities, and one side of him wants to kill himself. However, he ends up blowing up his secretary, and McGarrett uses handwriting and a diagnosis from a psychiatrist to try to crack the case.
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 22
Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fire back with machine guns, turning the tables; one hitman dies, Boley Davis escapes. Watching the botched rubout attempt are Lt. Philip Hedden and Sgt. Davey McCain. Eliot Ness and his men are out to pin the murder attempt on Hedden, since the hitmen were driving one of his cars. November 11, 1931; a group of about 2 dozen Army buddies, who were all in B-Company, 431st Infantry, in WWI, are celebrating the 13th anniversary of Armistice Day. It is their annual reunion, and their host as usual is Lt. Philip Hedden; and beside him, as always, is his sidekick Sgt. Davey McCain. Lt. Philip Hedden regales the men, again, with the story of how he won his medal, the Croix De Guerre; and then he proposes a toast to Sgt. Davey-- ""To the best topkick who ever did a shavetail's job for him.""* Hedden and Davey are a team-- but whereas these former soldiers served their countr
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