The BEST episodes directed by Arthur Lubin


#5 - San Francisco
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 28
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although he warns his sons to be careful in the big city ("This is not the Ponderosa!"), Ben is the one who is shanghaied and must be rescued.


#10 - The Marquesa
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 16
Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the "Lucky Lady" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.
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#11 - Guatemala City
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 20
Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also finds that he has become the prime target for a ruthless murderer and a man who refuses to stay dead.
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#15 - Maverick Springs
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 13
Bret is hired by a weathly texan to save her brother Mark from a conniving woman named Melanie. Posing as a Texas Colonel, Bret realizes that he's up against a master crook. With Mark's help and brother Bart's arrival as a weathly Easterner, they set up a scheme to catch the girl and almost outsmart themselves with their own cleverness.
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#18 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 16
Hollister is an undercover operative who's been picking up odd radio signals from the Addams house. Convinced they're spies, he recruits the postman, Briggs, to help.
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#25 - Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed
Mister Ed - Season 4 - Episode 1
Ed, who is a die-hard Dogers fan, notices some weaknesses from the line-up while watching a televised game. Ed then takes it to the field when he himself bats a few and slides onto bases himself at the L.A. Dodgers Stadium.
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#32 - Clint Eastwood Meets Mister Ed
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 25
A temporary party line on the barn phone allows Ed to court Clint Eastwood's horse. However, Ed's ways to arrange thing wreak havok between Clint and Wilbur.

#33 - Lie Detector
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 24
Addison asks Wilbur to help him finance a lie detector machine, causing fights, arguments, and chaos in the Posts' home.

#34 - Wilbur in the Lion's Den
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 7
Feeling afraid of what Carol and the neigbors might think, Wilbur tries to talk Ed out of it when Ed asks Wilbur to take him kite flying.

#35 - Wilbur's Father
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 21
Wilbur's 70-year-old father is engaged to be married to Emma Hoblock. Wilbur, Carol, and the Addisons are all under the false impression that his bride-to-be is fifty years younger, because they meet Emma's daughter Penny first. To teach Wilbur a lesson, his father has Penny play along.

#36 - Stable for Three
Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 5
Ed becomes trouble when he knocks over a barbecue and then eats Carol's planted vegetables. After all this, Wilbur and Addison both end up having to sleep in the barn.

#37 - George Burns Meets Mister Ed (a.k.a.) Ed Finally Talks
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 18
George Burns stops by and offers $25,000 to make a Las Vegas appearance with Ed. Wilbur then realizes that Ed it worth a diamond mine.

#38 - Horse Party
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 8
Ed realizes that it's his birthday and tries to persuade Wilbur to throw a Birthday party.

#39 - Ed and Paul Revere
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 11
Addison, being the Chairman and a distant relative from Paul Revere, hires a sculptor to create an image of Paul. Ed also thinks it's fair to have him on his ancestor also......a horse of course of course.

#40 - Horse of a Different Color
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 13
The circus comes to town, and they intend to place it on the Addisons' property.

#41 - Unemployment Show
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 17
Ed becomes unemployed when Wilbur works him in the stable. After that happens, Ed feels that he is entitled to unemployment insurance.

#42 - The Price of Apples
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 22
Ed has an uncotrollable urge for Addison's apples and constantly takes them from Addison's apple tree. Addison gets very angy at Ed and threatens Wilbur to stop Ed, or there will be trouble.

#43 - Ed's New Neighbors
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 22
The Addisons inherit a large estate in the east and prepare to move there. After seeing the new neigbors arrive, Ed starts to miss the Addisons. But the Adissons do not end up moving up there after all.

#44 - Ol' Rockin' Chair
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 15
Wilbur constructs a rocking chair out of Ed's old shoes. Everyone thinks that Wilbur's chair ir ridiculous until an antique buyer is willing to pay some cash for it.

#45 - A Man for Velma
Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 17
Addison and Kate hire a 4 star cook who threatens to quit because there are no eligible men around the property.

#46 - Wilbur and Ed in Showbiz
Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 3
While Wilbur is working on nice living quarters for an elephant, Ed is taking apples from Addison's apple tree.

#47 - Patter of Little Hooves
Mister Ed - Season 4 - Episode 4
Ed enters Wilbur in a newspaper puzzle contest and Wilbur ends up winning a little horse which Ed adopts as his own son.

#48 - Oh, Those Hats!
Mister Ed - Season 4 - Episode 8
Wilbur is paid to build a brand new beach house for a popular female columnist.

#49 - Ed's Word of Honor
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 19
Ed's word of honor is at stake when Addison and Wilbur have a gig argument over a birthday gift from the Posts.

#50 - Zsa Zsa
Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 15
Zsa Zsa Gabor has to make a western movie but is uncomfortable with horses. Eventually Wilbur lends Ed to Zsa Zsa to overcome her fear.