The BEST episodes directed by Alvin Ganzer
#1 - The Mystery of Ghostwriters' Cruise
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 12
Nancy's relaxing vacation cruise is interrupted when one of her fellow passengers, a mystery writer, receives threats against his life.
#2 - The Bride
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 18
The Cartwright boys are surprised to find that a woman, claiming to have recently married their father, shows up on their doorstep. When Ben gets home, he is just as surprised as they are. Has the lady been swindled by a con-man, or is she something of a con-woman herself?
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#3 - The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 3
After a young woman denies the handbag he recovered is hers, Frank is left with a stolen Egyptian idol and a pile of trouble.
#4 - A Shadow on the Sea
Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 19
Pepper, a waterfront cop and an old sea dog go after two boat hijackers who murdered a honeymooning couple and seem willing to steal and kill more to set up a smuggling operation.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 27
Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.
#6 - The Deadly Games Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 5
When a rare postage stamp at an auction reveals that a former SS scientist, Professor Amadeus, is still alive and experimenting with the secret of "suspended animation," Solo and Illya enlist the aid of college students Terry Brent (Brook Bundy) and Chuck Boskirk (Burt Brinckerhoff) to beat THRUSH agent Angelique (Janine Gray) to Amadeus's lab, where Solo is captured so his blood can be used to revive the suspended body of the Fuhrer.
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#7 - The Hitch-Hiker
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 16
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
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#9 - The Deadly Decoy Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 15
U.N.C.L.E. must transport captured THRUSH official Egon Stryker (Ralph Taeger) from New York to Washington with THRUSH rescuing him. While Waverly takes a decoy along one route, Solo and Illya take the real Stryker. Or is it ? But in a mixup, Fran Parsons (Joanna Moore),a secretary on her lunch hour, gets handcuffed to Stryker and has to go along.
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#10 - What You Need
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 12
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
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#11 - The Four-Steps Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 21
Solo and Illya protect a young Himalayan prince (Michel Petit) and his nurse (Susan Seaforth) from THRUSH agents who want to kidnap him one of whom turns out to be his bodyguard.
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#12 - The Company
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 19
Three gangland killings signal that someone is taking over established vice activities. A gambling operator is feeling the heat, and Pepper is there to help.
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Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 2
Pepper acts as a target by offering Congressional testimony against an international gun-running operation.
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#14 - The Re-Collector's Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 6
The 'Re-collectors' claim to be trying to locate works of art stolen by the Nazi's but all is not as it appears.
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#15 - Twenty-Four Karat Kill
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 8
A woman buys fish from a monger, and is followed home and murdered. McGarrett and the team must discover who killed her and stop smugglers from completing their operation.
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#16 - Welcome Stranger
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Robinsons are visited by a long-lost astronaut, who agrees to help their children return to Earth.
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Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 18
When the boyfriend of a drug dealer's daughter is framed, the team investigates.
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#18 - The Girls of Nazarone Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 28
Solo and Illya travel to the Riveria, where they search for a serum that supposedly provides great strength and even brings the dead back to life. There they meet Madame Streigau (Marian Moses), who is actually Dr. Egret of THRUSH, as well as Lucia Nazarone (Danica d'Hondt) and her bevy of beautiful blonde helpers. With the help of teacher Lavina Brown (Kipp Hamilton), they trick Mazarone into thinking they have the serum also, and become the targets of her "superwomen".
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#19 - Samurai
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 6
McGarrett and the gang must simultaneously protect a gangster from Japanese assassins and also try to convict him for his underworld activities.
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#20 - The Birds and the Bees Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 18
THRUSH has developed with the aid of Dr. Elias Swan, a strain of minute, deadly bees. THRUSH agent Mr. Mozart captures Illya and Tavia Sandor and uses a high-frequency sound machine that threatens to shatter their eardrums to force Illya to take him to U.N.C.L.E. headquarters so he can release the bees. Illya does so, but Mozart is intercepted, and in a battle on a rooftop Mozart is shot and the bees get loose.
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#21 - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 24
Solo is aided by tourist Bernie Oren (Glenn Corbett) in finding a black market auction in Hong Kong run by Mr. Cleveland (Gavin McLeod) that sells military secrets, including a microfilm in a rare coin. Oren is infatuated with Heavenly Cortello (Karen Sharpe), and hinders more than he helps Solo, while Illya tries to infiltrate the auction disguised as a Mongolian warlord.
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#22 - Hit and Run at Danny's
Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 6
Outside Danny's bar a man is the victim of a hit and run. The woman driving, or thought to be driving, the vehicle was Robbi Parker. She was a friend of Quincy's current girlfriend, Jenny. Danny wants Quincy's help because a new Californian law means that if he served Robbi drinks and allowed her to leave drunk he could be closed down. Quincy examines the body and finds out that Robbi had had extensive plastic surgery, it also seems as if she didn't exist up until four months ago!
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#23 - The Night That Terror Stalked the Town
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 10
West is lured to a ghost town full of lifelike dummies, part of an elaborate trap set for him by the evil Dr. Loveless.
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#24 - Nightmare as a Child
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 29
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen's door.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 9
Pepper is working undercover on a syndicate case, and becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro; what she does not realize is that he is an undercover cop as well.
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#26 - Blast
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 16
The deaths of a prominent politician and a nightclub dancer in a car explosion send Pepper to work as a go-go dancer for the club's owner, a one-time poor boy with a powerful yen for the finer things in life.
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#27 - The End Game
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 1
Pepper (Angie Dickinson) and Crowley (Earl Holliman) pose as bank employees to nail a particularly vicious gang of bank robbers.
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#28 - The Lost Cotillion
Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 7
A series of murders appear to be connected to an old friend of the Chief's, an ageing woman from San Francisco's old rich set; and when the murders are linked to her debutante's ball and she appears to be exhibiting signs of deteriorating mental health, the odds look stacked against her. As always, though, the Chief looks elsewhere to find the truth.
#29 - Battered Teachers
Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 18
They call themselves the "Death Squad" and they make their fellow students at Southern High go through hell. Extortion, beatings, rape - a bunch of rich kids think they have the power, and an equally power-hungry headmaster keeps eyes and ears closed.
#30 - Requiem for Bored Wives
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 10
A freewheeling disc jockey finds his wife murdered in her bed.
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#31 - The Jackals
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 22
Matt tracks the four men responsible for the murder of his friend, a lawman who was shot at his retirement party.
#32 - A Taste of Ashes
Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 19
A girl thought to have died years previously turns up at the home of her mother just as her brother is found murdered. Clearly somebody is trying to kill the family off, but is it connected to the girl, and is she really who she says she is?
#33 - Shoefly
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 13
Internal Affairs gives Pepper and Crowley 72 hours to find the cop who switched barrels on a murder weapon before the accused killer got to court.
#34 - Paradise Mall
Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 3
A detective's wife is the latest of a killer's victims, who are all blondes and whose corpses are adorned with wedding veils.
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Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 15
Working under an ambitious Lieutenant with no street experience, Pepper and team go out in search of a cop killer.
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#36 - The Mighty Casey
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 35
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
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#37 - Another Shell Game
Ironside - Season 6 - Episode 22
A major art display comes to San Francisco, just as an old adversary of the Chief's is released from jail. Anthony Justin is determined to get his revenge on Ironside by beating him in a test of skill, but it soon transpires that his target is not the vast collection of paintings, but the owner - Elizabeth Van Deering, a fun-loving young woman with whom Ed has fallen head over heels in love.
#38 - The Purge
Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 11
Pepper goes undercover to clear Crowley, who is suspended for killing a teenager, and find out the real reason behind the attack.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 14
Pepper is the decoy in a strategy to capture a schizophrenic young man who strangles middle-aged women.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 13
Pepper poses as a prostitute to learn why an attempt was made on the life of the new chief of police.
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