The BEST episodes directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
#1 - My Shining Hour
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 9
McCabe thinks Jake has his head in the clouds when he defends a former TV hero who's now a drunken pilot and claims to have witnessed a murder.
#2 - We'll Meet Again
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 22
A clown comes after McCabe with a sawed-off shotgun, leading the Fatman to remember all the suspects he convicted.
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Jake and the Fatman - Season 5 - Episode 2
While working undercover as an arms dealer to get the proof needed for Delaney's case, Jake ends up sleeping with the buyer.
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#4 - The Lady in Red
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 2
McCabe's boozing ex-partner turns up dead just as he's about to solve a 20-year-old murder case.
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#5 - Night of the Blood Beast
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 7 - Episode 1
Movie Plot: After a rocket crash, an alien beast starts to attack people in southern California. Also riffed was the short "Once Upon a Honeymoon." On the SOL: The 'bots attack Mike with Mace and tasers / Crow plays the trombone / Gypsy imitates the woman from the short / Crow pretends to be pregnant. In Deep 13: Dr. Forrester's mother, Pearl, has moved in with him. She forces him to do a trombone recital / Pearl makes Dr. Forrester confess to the SOL crew, but he doesn't know what he is supposed to be confessing / Pearl treats Dr. Forrester like a baby. Stinger: "Wounded animal that large isn't good." Original film made in 1958.
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Jake and the Fatman - Season 5 - Episode 8
Neely teams up with Jake to probe a series of murders connected to an organ-theft plot on behalf of a rich man who needs a new liver.
#7 - More Than You Know
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 7
After a journalist is dumped by her lover, she murders his wife and makes it look like the work of a serial killer.
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#8 - It Never Entered My Mind
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 19
A doctor is accused of murdering a hospital administrator, so he starts his own investigation with the help of his med students. Note: This episode introduces Dr. Mark Sloan (plated by Dick Van Dyke) and sets up the spin-off series "Diagnosis: Murder."
#9 - Daddy's Home
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 14
Jake's father returns after deserting years ago, and he brings emotional upheaval and a threat from thugs with him.
#10 - My Buddy
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 17
An urchin steals Jake's wallet—and his heart—before she and her friends steal a counterfeiter's plates.
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#11 - You Took Advantage of Me
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 23
Jake goes undercover as a chauffeur to nab a husband for murder, but gets into trouble with the new wife.
#13 - The Case Against Eliot Ness
The Untouchables - Season 3 - Episode 23
March 4, 1933. The Windy City is getting ready for the Chicago World's Fair, also known as the ""Century of Progress"" Exposition. The 3 wealthy Endicott brothers, who jointly owned franchises at the upcoming Fair, are all rubbed out in short order. Restaurant owner Gus Dmytryk goes to the Licensing Committee, and it seems he will get the former Endicott franchises: 3 nightclubs at the Midway, and 5 other concessions. It will mean big bucks, since the Chicago World's Fair is expected to draw 50-million visitors. Ness knows that Dmytryk has been on the fringes of the rackets for years, and then District Attorney Beecher Asbury assigns Ness and his men to the case. Meanwhile, when ex-alderman Mitchell Grandin tells the Committee that Dmytryk is a bootlegger; it seems the Committee will give the lucrative franchise to Grandin instead. Later, Grandin gives Dmytryk some payoff money. Ness and Lee Hobson, trying to clean up the town, drop in on one of the hoods who has showed up (and is
#14 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 17
While Higgins is preparing to direct a selection of pieces from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' to be staged at the Estate, Thomas is hired by an attractive young woman to find her missing brother, who she claims has disappeared after joining a religious cult. The girl has musical experience and agrees to help out with rehearsals of Higgins' production while Thomas seeks out her missing brother, but Thomas uncovers more than he expects and finds himself dealing with a radical political group and an assassination attempt revolving around a visiting cast member of Higgins' production...
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Jake and the Fatman - Season 5 - Episode 22
A cop will not rest until he takes down the killer/rapist who is giving his victims nightmares.
#16 - The Case of the Posthumous Painter
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 9
Artist Jack Culross fakes his own suicide and sees the sales of his paintings go through the roof. His only problem was that he forgot to inform his wife Edna of the scheme. After Edna sees a completed painting of Jack's that she knows he didn't finish while he was "alive" she gets wise. Edna manages to track down her "deceased" husband but they fight and she knocks him down. Then he's found dead. Edna must stand trial for murder.
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#17 - The Case of the Renegade Refugee
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 13
A journalist is murdered while tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal who may be posing as an executive at a company called Space Associates, Ltd.
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#18 - Big Iron
Knight Rider - Season 2 - Episode 24
While investigating the theft of heavy-duty construction equipment. Michael and KITT are pushed into a quarry and buried with tons of gravel.
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#20 - Letter to a Duchess
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 6
Magnum is preparing for this year's big surf-ski race, while in a chance meeting, Higgins meets Lady Wilkerson, an English Duchess whom he has been smitten with after two brief encounters years before (which she does not identify him from). She is in the islands incognito, and must sell some valuable family jewels after being strapped financially, but Higgins ends up saving her from two men who accost her in an alleyway. As smitten with the woman as ever, Higgins offers her a job on the Estate, and plans to reveal his feelings towards her via a letter, but due to a mix-up and misunderstanding, she assumes the letter to be from Thomas instead, whom it becomes apparent she has eyes for, blind to Higgins' desires. But these confused matters of the heart seem trivial when the Duchess is kidnapped by the two men who had made a grab for her previously...
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#21 - Legacy
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 11
Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.
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#22 - Pilot
Mission: Impossible - Season 1 - Episode 1
IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa. Jim and Willy sneak safecracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.
#23 - A Spool There Was
Mission: Impossible - Season 1 - Episode 9
Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S. The courier carrying it was killed by the enemy, and the wire is missing. The two fake a lovers' reunion and then Rollin slips out during a pre-recorded conversation. To duplicate the circumstances of the courier's demise as closely as possible, Rollin lets himself be discovered and then chased along the same route. He finds the wire, hidden in plain sight as part of a fence. He and Cinnamon plan to recover and smuggle out the wire the same way, but it is taken by a young boy looking for fishing wire. Rollin manages to recover it, and they send the wire out disguised as the wire on a balloon.
#24 - The Enormous Fist
Rawhide - Season 7 - Episode 2
When Fred Grant slugs Favor he hits him back. Fred falls hitting his head against a fencepost and dies. There is an inquest. Favor has to deal with the widow and her three kids.
#26 - Goodbye (1)
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 9
Jake follows a trail of dirty cops and dead drug dealers to the Mainland where he encounters old friends and new foes, so McCabe follows him to help out.
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#27 - On the Fly
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 15
T.C. is giving Thomas helicopter flying lessons when he is shot. With T.C. hospitalised, Mac appears on the scene, "volunteering" his services to stand in running Island Hoppers. But it seems that the assailants were actually gunning for Magnum, after a week previously, somebody impersonated him when trying to blackmail a Mexican Mafia King. With Magnum marked as a dead man as a result of the mistaken identity, confusion and chaos reigns, and as per usual, Mac 'just happens' to be in the middle of it all...
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#28 - Paradise Blues
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 15
T.C. drags a reluctant Magnum along to the newly-opened club of an old flame – a beautiful jazz singer who he fell in love with in Vietnam – who has just moved to the islands. Thomas doesn’t dislike the woman, but insists to T.C. that trouble always follows her wherever she goes – but T.C., still infatuated with the girl, refuses to listen. But sure enough, the woman is in trouble, searching for a man who owes her $18,000 and mixed up with Detroit drug dealers that are out to kill her...
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#29 - The Case of the Pathetic Patient
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 7
Perry finds himself defending Dr. Wayne Edley who has been accused of committing two murders.
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#30 - The Thirty-Year Pin
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 2
When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.
#31 - Dear Lovesick
Simon & Simon - Season 3 - Episode 14
An advice columnist hires Rick and AJ when she fears one of her regular readers is in danger.
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#32 - The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 27
A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.
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#33 - No Big Thing
Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 8
Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops. Devon's the only one who knew the man was in jail. Town name is Lindhurst Flats.
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#34 - Blind Spot
Knight Rider - Season 2 - Episode 5
Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.
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#35 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Jake and the Fatman - Season 2 - Episode 8
Jake discovers an old man's connection to a young woman as he races the geezer to find her killer.
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#36 - Fade in to Murder
Columbo - Season 6 - Episode 1
Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man.
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#37 - The Case of the Missing Melody
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 3
Perry and Della attend the wedding of Polly Courtland to Eddy King. The ceremony is halted at the altar when Polly begins screaming, "No! No!" and hurriedly exits the church. It seems as though Polly had spotted slimy George Sherwin holding an envelope containing photos of her younger sister checking into a Las Vegas hotel with a musician named Bongo White. Sherwin plans to ruin Polly and her family's reputation unless she gives up Eddy for him. Sherwin's plan comes a cropper when he's found shot to death. Eddy King is arrested for the crime.
#38 - The Case of the Injured Innocent
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 10
A really weird courtroom confession scene highlights this episode about the murder of a race car driver.
#40 - This Case is Closed (2)
The Rockford Files - Season 1 - Episode 7
Jim is ordered off the case but this proves difficult after the fiancé Jim was investigating is found dead and the mob and the FBI still want answers, so Jim must track the real killer...
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#41 - Jennie
Airwolf - Season 3 - Episode 9
Arriving in Airwolf in a war-torn South American country, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin rendezvous with "living legend" freedom fighter leader El Gato, in a mission to rescue a US scientist who is being held captive. Dominic and Caitlin wait at the pick-up point as Hawke and El Gato set off on the rescue bid, but during the escape after locating the scientist, El Gato is killed, and Hawke's radio to Airwolf is destroyed. Hiding in from the pursing terrorist army in the area's dense growth, Hawke and the rather arrogant scientist meet a teacher and her group of hearing-impaired children, who are homeless after village was destroyed by the terrorists. Hawke attempts to lead the group to safety as they head to the pick-up point, trying to find a new home for the teacher and her students, and all the time avoiding the terrorist army along the way...
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#42 - Chariot of Gold
Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 18
Michael investigates the mysterious deaths of members of an exclusive club for geniuses, involved in an archaeological dig.
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#43 - This Case is Closed (1)
The Rockford Files - Season 1 - Episode 6
While investigating the fiancé of Warren Jamison's daughter, Jim experiences some strange events which include kidnapping by the mob and the FBI who are anxious to get a statement - it all relates back to Jim's recent trip to Newark...
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#44 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken
Magnum, P.I. - Season 5 - Episode 22
Thomas is hired by Jack Damon, Carol’s Uncle, to find his seventeen-year-old daughter Becky, who has been missing for two months, after leaving home against his wishes to pursue a career as a dancer. After a little investigating, Thomas finds that the last person known to have seen the girl was her former boyfriend Darryl Jacobs – who is now behind bars after being involved in a stolen guns deal that went bad. Magnum decides the only way to find out from Jacobs what happened to Becky is to go undercover as a convict at the prison farm where Jacobs is being detained...
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#45 - Give Me Liberty...or Give Me Death
Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 15
Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.
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#48 - Dead of Knight
Knight Rider - Season 3 - Episode 9
A young dancer ingests a poison meant for Michael, who races the clock to find the only man with a clue to the antidote.
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#49 - Element of Danger
The Untouchables - Season 3 - Episode 19
Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to the Untouchables, goes through a skylight and finds an opium laboratory in the top floor of a rundown tenement hotel. Just then, drug lord Victor Rait and 4 hoods (Gus, Sully, Max, and Trapp) show up, carrying crates of supplies into the place. Rait spots Gosden and gives chase; just as Gosden phones Ness for back-up, Rait blows him away with a shotgun. Then Rait blasts 6 bullets from his gun to disperse the crowd of tenants investigating the noise. Somebody phones the cops, because within minutes Eliot Ness and his men and some policemen are on the scene. Outside, Victor Rait and his boys are calmly loading the crates of narcotics onto their truck. When a policeman asks them what they're doing, Rait shoots the cop. Ness and his men come running; Rait tells his boys to drive off in the truck, fast. Then, Rait puts on a show for Ness: Rait stays behind, and fires h
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#50 - The Final Verdict
Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 11
"In remembrance of R.A. Cinader. He was an original" A meek accountant can clear a friend of murder if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.
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