The BEST episodes directed by Arthur Lubin

9.13

51 votes

#1 - Feet of Clay

Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 30

Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy will not forgive him. The most emotional Hoss story since "The Newcomers" and one of Blocker's best.

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8.50

4 votes

#2 - A Flock of Trouble

Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 22

Bret wins a sheep ranch located in the midst of cattle ranchers whose sole aim is to wipe out the sheep and their new owner.

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8.25

4 votes

#3 - The Misfortune Teller

Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 25

Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer - a numerologist, astrologer and bungler - he knows his number is up.

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8.17

23 votes

#4 - Badge Without Honor

Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 3

Adam's life is saved by an enigmatic U. S. Marshal who has come to Virginia City to arrest a friend of the Cartwrights.

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8.00

2 votes

#5 - Greenbacks, Unlimited

Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 26

Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot and that someone is Bret.

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7.69

67 votes

#6 - Sorority House

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 6

Ed is used as a team mascot and Wilbur must come to his rescue when Ed is stolen by a rival team.

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7.66

50 votes

#7 - 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.

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7.64

11 votes

#8 - Duel at Sundown

Maverick - Season 2 - Episode 19

Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).

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7.60

5 votes

#9 - 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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7.60

5 votes

#10 - 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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7.57

64 votes

#11 - Kiddy Park

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 4

Wilbur and Carol plan a trip to go to a park and Ed's feelings are hurt because he feels left out. Ed then runs away to start a new life.

7.50

10 votes

#12 - Royal Four Flush

Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 2

Bart double-crosses a double-crosser and winds up hogtied and kidnapped, with only his wits as a weapon with which to save his neck.

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7.50

6 votes

#13 - The Goose-Drownder

Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 14

Taking shelter in a ghost town, Bart impatiently awaits a storm's end. But when four gunmen arrive, he fears he'll never get out alive.

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7.36

36 votes

#14 - The Horsetronaut

Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 2

Business makes Wibur take an office down town. Ed feels unwanted and decides to get out of Wilbur's way for good.

7.33

6 votes

#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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The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

7.29

84 votes

#16 - 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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7.28

36 votes

#17 - Pageant Show

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 8

Wilbur makes Ed angry when he takes the phone extension out of the barn. Ed reacts by playing tricks on Wilbur and Carol.

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7.24

37 votes

#18 - My Son, My Son

Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 1

After finding a grey hair on his tail, Ed is convinced that he is getting old and wants a boy of his own to carry Ed's name.

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7.22

32 votes

#19 - Ed the Redecorator

Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 4

Carol wants the house redecorated and Ed thinks that the barn should be redecorated first.

7.20

35 votes

#20 - Ed the Lover

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 7

Ed thinks it's silly to play in a Western play. But Wilbur persuades him to act when he tells Ed that a philly horse has fallen in love with Ed. Wilbur then talks Ed into returning back to the set.

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7.20

35 votes

#21 - The Aunt

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 9

Wilbur's well deserving vacation plans come to a close when an annoying aunt with her talking parrot comes to visit for the duration.

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7.20

30 votes

#22 - The Blessed Event

Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 26

Joy hits Ed when he learns that he is about to become an Uncle. When he hears of this news, he goes straight to the typewriter and starts to list a bunch of names suitable to fit the little guy.

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7.19

36 votes

#23 - Ed the Witness

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 11

When Wilbur ends up in a Mexican jail after refusing to pay a repair bill to a mechanic to damaged his trailer, Ed comes to the rescue.

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7.19

31 votes

#24 - Ed the Pilgrim

Mister Ed - Season 3 - Episode 9

Ed tells how a horse was involved in the true story of Thanksgiving, in the hopes that Wilbur will consider giving him some of the Thanksgiving dinner.

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7.19

31 votes

#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.

7.18

33 votes

#26 - Ed the Songwriter

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 14

Through a musical experience, Wilbur has a music publisher record a song written, composed, and sung by Ed.

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7.17

63 votes

#27 - 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.

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7.17

30 votes

#28 - Ed Discovers America

Mister Ed - Season 4 - Episode 3

The city's American History Museum offers Wilbur a task to build a monument. The best part is that they offer Wilbur a commision, but he doesn't know what he should create.

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7.17

30 votes

#29 - Ed the Tout

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 13

With the help of Ed, Wilbur picks a winning racehorse for Carol and his neigbors. Unfortunatelly they end up betting on a horse that Wilbur has mistakenly circled.

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7.17

30 votes

#30 - Ed's Ancestors

Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 3

Ed is used as a model for a park statue glorifying the American Palimino, but Ed refuses to go any further when he finds out something about his ancestry.

7.16

31 votes

#31 - Psychoanalyst Show

Mister Ed - Season 1 - Episode 16

Ed is afraid of heights and Wilbur gets help from a psychiatrist to help Ed, unfortunately everyone around Wilbur think that the psychiatric help is for him.

7.16

31 votes

#32 - Ed the Beachcomber

Mister Ed - Season 2 - Episode 23

Addison's beach property is in trouble by a buch of beatnicks, but when Wilbur tries to help with Addison's problem, then Wibbur devolopes his own beatnick problem.

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7.16

32 votes

#33 - 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.

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7.14

29 votes

#34 - 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.

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7.14

29 votes

#35 - 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.

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7.14

29 votes

#36 - 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.

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George Burns Meets Mister Ed (a.k.a.) Ed Finally Talks

7.13

30 votes

#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.

7.13

30 votes

#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.

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7.13

30 votes

#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.

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7.13

30 votes

#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.

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7.13

30 votes

#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.

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7.13

30 votes

#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.

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7.13

31 votes

#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.

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7.13

31 votes

#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.