The BEST episodes directed by Anton Leader
#1 - The End of the River
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 14
A airplane crash in the jungle results in Tarzan racing to save a girl's life and a perilous struggle with a convicted criminal.
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Rawhide - Season 4 - Episode 30
The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.
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Rawhide - Season 4 - Episode 7
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
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#4 - Beaver's Doll Buggy
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 38
Beaver finds himself in an awkward situation when he has to push Penny Woods' old doll stroller down the street in order to salvage its wheels for his used mini race car.
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#5 - The Midnight Sun
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 10
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
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#6 - Beaver, the Bunny
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 16
Beaver is embarrassed after he sees the bunny costume he's supposed to wear for the school pageant.
#8 - The Case of the Daring Decoy
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 28
Daniel Conway is involved in a vicious proxy war with Warner Griffith for control of an oil company. Conway's secretary, Rose Calvert, is spying for Griffith. When Rose is found dead, Conway fears he's being framed for murder and approaches Perry at a bar association dinner and asks for his aid. Perry at first believes Griffin to be the guilty party but he has an ironclad alibi. Then another witness emerges who has a photographic memory and can identify people by their shoes.
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#9 - The Runaway
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 6
The Graingers become stand-in parents for a boy running away from an orphanage.
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#10 - Shell Game
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 1
A notorious jewel thief named Justin arrives in town at the same time as a shipment of famous jewels arrives for display in a local museum. Ironside must keep the thief guessing about the method of shipment so that the jewels will remain safe; but he is up against a mastermind and there is still an inside man who has to be unmasked.
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#11 - Rich Man, Poor Man
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 23
A farmer who has been poor his entire life suddenly comes into a lot of money. He goes on a spending spree giving large parties, buying luxury items, and a ranch hand more than willing to help him spend it.
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#12 - The Case of the Long-Legged Models
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 33
Racketeer George Castle kills Las Vegas hotel owner Glenn Faulkner over a gambling debt and sets his sights on land inherited by Faulkner's daughter, Stephanie. When Castle turns up murdered as well, Stephanie finds herself the number one suspect.
#13 - Long Live Walter Jameson
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 24
Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
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#14 - The Man Who Believed
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 12
A woman who wrote a cheering letter to Ironside when he was recovering from being shot, dies in an apparent suicide. Convinced that it was murder Ironside investigates, and uncovers the sad truth. (NB - As part of the incidental music, this episode heavily features the original song From The Day You're Born, which was reused later in the season, in episode Something For Nothing, where it was sung by guest star James Farentino).
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#17 - The Calf Women
Rawhide - Season 7 - Episode 27
Emma Teall and her sister Betsy are following the herd. Ryan an his forty buffalo hunters won't let the herd through to needed grazing, until he pens the buffalo up. Rowdy gives him three days. Wish tells Mushy to take two calves and kill them. Emma relieves Mushy of the calves. He says there may be three more later. Wish reports the milk cows are gone. They followed the calves to Emma's camp. The drovers tip over her wagon. Emma fires a warning shot. Billy Wallace a buffalo hunter calls on Betsy and gets rough with a protesting Emma.
#18 - The Gentle Tamers
The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 19
Clay decides to take on three convicts on parole to test whether they can be rehabilitated at the urging of a prison warden. The three get off to a rocky start as they are obvious misfits with no experience and one has a bad attitude.
#19 - A Touch of Hands
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 11
A pig tailed brat returns home from finishing school for a two week vacation as a beautiful woman catching Trampas' eyes again. They fall in love as she remembers the good times but her father wants her to return to school in the east.
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#21 - Eileen
The Virginian - Season 7 - Episode 21
The daughter, Eileen Linden, of a friend of the Graingers comes to visit the Graingers. Her father has asked her to take a six week hiatus from seeing Peter Bowers who she wants to marry. Her father does not trust him. When Peter follows her and starts working at Shiloh, her and others become entangled in a situation that make none of them happy. Eileen finally comes clean with Clay but other problems surface.
#22 - The Substitute
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 8
Trampas' vacation takes a nightmarish turn when he's jailed in a small town on a trumped-up murder charge.
#23 - The Challenge
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 21
A psychiatrist friend of Ironside's is murdered, and the only clues are his collection of artworks. Is one of the artists the murderer? And if so, which one?
#24 - Sergeant Mike
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 13
A old woman is murdered, and the only witness appears to be a large, grumpy Alsatian. The Chief enlists his help in a search for the murderer, and uncovers a story of con-jobs and blackmail suggesting that the old woman was far from being just a helpless victim
#25 - Run a Crooked Mile
Daniel Boone - Season 3 - Episode 6
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
#26 - L'Chayim
Ironside - Season 3 - Episode 12
A Torah is stolen from a local Synagogue, presided over by an old friend of the Chief's. Ironside personally takes on the case, determined to find out if the theft was an act of vandalism, as the evidence would seem to point out, or if it is really the work of thieves looking for some quick money.
#27 - The Bugler
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 9
A story of alienation between a veteran Army officer and his son, a deserter.
#28 - To Kill a Cop
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 19
When Ed and two colleagues arrest a violent man they don't take his threats seriously, but when the other two officers are murdered, Ed is convinced that he knows who the killer is. Suspended from duty he sets himself up as the next victim, determined to prove that his suspicions are correct.
#29 - Cap'n Jai
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 19
Jai is duped by three double-crossing sailors, who are attempting to recover some stolen diamonds.
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