The BEST episodes directed by Arthur Hiller
#1 - The Jasper Cato Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 22
Wanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the truth is soon uncovered and it causes two men to come to change their lifelong habits.
#2 - The Case of the Desperate Daughter
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 27
Stefan Riker has come from Germany seeking the woman posing as Lisa Bannister and she believes he can cause her to be deported back to Germany. Attempting to help her stepmother, Doris Bannister pretends to be romantically interested in Stefan Riker. During the next few months Stefan Riker receives money and gifts from Doris and seems satisfied. However one night he is murdered and Doris Bannister is accused of murder because her fingerprints are found on a ladder outside of Riker's apartment.
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#3 - Mail Order Groom
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 16
When a stranger arrives to marry the town spinster, two brothers who want her land try to discourage him with threats and a beating.
#4 - Bloodlines
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 2
After Lucas kills a mountain man in a barrom brawl, his father arrives in North Fork determined to take revenge on Lucas and Marshal Torrance, once he breaks his other two boys out of jail.
#5 - The Case of the Bartered Bikini
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 8
Wally Dunbar seeks Perry's help in securing ownership of his new summer line of swimwear but the sketches are stolen and worse yet, chief designer Rick Stassi is murdered. Wally's girlfriend, Kitty Wynne, who was being blackmailed by Stassi goes to trial for his murder.
#6 - The Addams Family Goes to School
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 1
Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, shows up at the Addams family home, due to the fact that Pugsley and Wednesday are not attending school. Soon he discovers, he's dealing with no typical everyday family.
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#7 - Distant Drummer
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 10
A young army drummer named Raffie is terrorized by two bullying mule skinners.
#8 - The Case of the Ominous Outcast
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 24
When a notorious bank robber's son returns to his hometown it seems as though everyone is interested in missing loot supposedly hidden by the man's father. This leads to murder. Perry comes to the rescue once again.
#9 - Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 12
Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.
#10 - The Case of the Fancy Figures
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 10
Martin Ellis is sent to jail for stealing the sum of $300,000.00. Ellis is later exonerated thanks to evidence discovered by his wife and the real thief, Charles Brewster, is arrested for the theft. Brewster manages to get out of jail on bail but later turns up dead. Ellis is charged with the killing.
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#11 - The Constable
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 37
Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.
#12 - Forty Detectives Later
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 28
The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.
#13 - The Worm
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 8
Murders follow when a buffalo hunter and his browbeaten partner come to town.
#14 - The Apprentice Sheriff
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 11
Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for some fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on them. Dan's father tells Lucas that he feels Dan is trying to prove himself as a man to compensate from being dropped from West Point Academy because of his poor eyesight. The Texas cowhands have had enough of being pushed around when Marshal Dan posts an ordinance that all visitors must check their guns at the Marshal's office. Now, they're out to cause some real trouble for Dan.
#15 - Love of a Good Woman
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 20
An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.
#16 - Post Mortem
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 33
When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.
#17 - The Schoolmaster
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 10
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
#18 - Not the Running Type
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 19
After twelve years in prison for stealing $200,000 from his investment firm employers, Milton Potter calmly returns all the money he embezzled and pursues some very unique post-prison retirement plans.
#19 - The Doubtful Doctor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 2
Bewitched advertising executive Ralph Jones seeks psychiatric help when he inexplicably finds an escape from his present day marital woes by traveling back in time to his earlier carefree bachelorhood.
#20 - The Morning of the Bride
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 19
A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.
#21 - And the Desert Shall Blossom
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 11
When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home, the answer arrives in the unlikely form of a killer on the run from the law.
#22 - The Jokester
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 3
A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.
#23 - Wind
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 28
Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.
#24 - Make My Death Bed
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 37
When music is the food of love, sweet passion spells more than cream in the coffee for two couples.
#25 - The Right Price
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 22
A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.
#26 - One Grave Too Many
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 32
Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.
#27 - The Baby-Blue Expression
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 12
Philip Weaver concocts a scheme to murder his employer.
#28 - Across the Threshold
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 22
When his over-bearing mother mentions missing her dead husband, a selfish bachelor is happy to arrange the reunion and enlists his actress girlfriend to help by posing as a clairvoyant.
#29 - A Woman's Help
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 24
When you're handsome and attractive, the ladies will always pay you the sort of attention you want. For Arnold Bourdon, there's only one problem: how to get rid of his shrewish but wealthy wife. Perhaps her new companion and nurse hold the key.
#30 - The Festive Season
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 31
'Tis the season to resurrect old family grudges when a brother accuses his sister of murdering his wife on a less than jolly Christmas Eve.
#31 - Disappearing Trick
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 27
A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.
#32 - Doc Judge
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 22
While Matt is away on business, Doc gets threatened by an ex convict (Brice Harp) who claims that Doc Adams sentenced him to a long term in Prison. Doc tries to explain to the man that he was never a judge and has always been a doctor, but the man does not believe Doc. Since Chester is worried about the ex convict trying to take out some kind of revenge on Doc, Chester cooks up a scheme that will save Doc from possible danger.
#33 - Flight to the East
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 25
The plight of an American war correspondent suddenly becomes front-page news when a former British Army nurse recalls a strange incident from the past.
#34 - The Tragedian
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 20
Matt and his friends try to come to the aid of a has-been actor caught cheating at cards.
#35 - Kitty's Killing
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 24
Kitty gets caught in the middle when a crazy-eyed man goes hunting for his former son-in-law, whom he blames for the death of his daughter in childbirth.
#36 - The Deserter
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 38
Matt is on the trail of a badly wounded corporal for robbing the army payroll and falls into a trap when the father of the corporal gets the drop on him and wounds Chester.