The BEST episodes directed by Bernard Mceveety
#1 - The Good Samaritan
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 18
Marsini, the sole survivor of a squad, blames Saunders for the fate of his fellows after Saunders could not help because he had orders to keep his position. Marsini volunteers to lead the sergeant on reconnaisance of the same deadly area.
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#2 - Encounter
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 19
Captain Cole (James Daly) is reunited with his son, Jack (James MacArthur), who he hasn't seen in years. Jack is now a reporter who is sent to cover the war at the front. When Jack and his father meet, it is evident that their relations are strained. When they are pinned down in a farmhouse and the situation is desperate, they finally speak from the heart.
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#3 - The Stallion
The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 3
A wild stallion escapes its owner, John Slaughter (Don ""Red"" Barry), killing a handler in the process. The animal injures itself and is found by Randy Benton who takes him to the nearby ranch of alcoholic horse trainer Charlie Orwell (Robert Culp) who nurses it back to health. Most believe the horse bad and wish to have it destroyed but Randy gets Charlie to help him save the animal and with the help of Jodie Wingate (Jenna Engstrom), they save Charlie too.
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#5 - The Mountain of the Sun
The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 28
While delivering a prize bull to New Mexico, the Virginian meets a young woman, Kathy (Dolores Hart), and two older companions, whom he learns are missionaries who want to travel to Mexico to minister to the Yaqui Indians. He later learns they had hired a dishonest guide who plans to rob them so he sets off in pursuit and manages to save them. However, they refuse to give up their quest to the Yaqui's who it turns out had murdered their husbands the year before. He accompanies them on their quest and along the way finds himself falling in love with Kathy.
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#9 - The Invaders
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 15
Rancher Mike Tyrone (Ed Begley) purhases a ranch near Medicine Bow, and moves there with his daughter Margaret (Beverly Owen), and his two sons (Rees Vaughan and James McMullen). Tyrone tries to force surrounding ranchers to sell their spreads, eventually cutting off the water from a local river that the other ranchers use to water their stocks. However, the conflict is ended by an unexpected decision of Margaret Tyrone.
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#11 - Entombed
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 16
After rescuing captive French resistance fighters, the squad regroups in an abandoned mine. When the Germans attack, Germans, French, and Americans are all trapped. They form a pact to work together to dig their way out of the cave, and soldiers learn something about the humanity of the enemy.
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#15 - Bridgehead
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 2
Hanley orders Saunders and his squad to take a bridge which is guarded by a heavily fortified house. Pvt. Mick Hellar (Nick Adams) is a self-centered, wise-cracking private who only cares about saving his own skin. He reveals that he is a jazz drummer and is soon to be leaving the front to play in an army band entertaining troops and wants to be sure he keeps himself in one piece. The mission demands heavy sacrifices from the squad.
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#16 - The Furlough
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 15
When Private Vincent is killed shortly before he is to go on a week's furlough, Saunders travels to England to deliver his bequest to Ann Tinsley, the director of an orphanage. During his time in London, he gets to know the children, and sees how they have suffered during the war. In addition, he becomes friendly with Ann, and an attraction begins to develop between them.
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#17 - Barriers of Sound
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Voyagers appear in 1890 in Texas, and find that Dwight Eisenhower's mother is unable to give birth to him because of the absence of a doctor. They are unable to call for help because the telephone doesn't exist! Travelling to 1875 Boston, they try to find what happened to Alexander Graham Bell. Bogg rescues a young deaf girl, and then they find out that Bell discontinued his experiments due to a lack of funds. Jeff remembers that Bell got his money from his fiancee, who turns out to be the deaf girl Bogg rescued. They must unite the couple, but Bogg falls in love with the girl in the process. Eventually he leaves her so that history can stay on track. After checking a few months down the road to make sure Bell does indeed invent the telephone, they return to 1890, where things work out and Dwight Eisenhower is born, setting history back on track.
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Rawhide - Season 8 - Episode 7
Colonel Emilio Vasquez ""buys"" 200 head from Quince, Jed and Simon in Mexico. Jed goes to town to see if the pesos are worth anything. The gringo who runs the town says they're just paper. Emilio's wife, Maria, was left behind and is in the bar. Emilio sneaks into town and kills the gringo, but doesn't get Maria. Jed escapes with Maria. Jed and Emilio argue over the terms of her return.
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B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 4
A female trucker in debt to a loan shark pledges him winnings from a truck race she now must win.
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#21 - Knight Behind Bars
Knight Rider - Season 4 - Episode 10
Michael discovers that prison inmates were used to steal security plans for a hotel that is hosting a defense conference.
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#26 - The Legacy
Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 11
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act outside the law; but he is not 100% sure that Joe will behave correctly.
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#27 - A Silent Cry
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 23
Sgt. Saunders must deliver radios to the French underground with the radio expert, Sgt. Perkins. Perkins is arrogant, self-centered, and has never been in combat. With an endearing French family in jeopardy, Saunders and Perkins clash over duty and service to the greater good.
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#28 - Cleo and the Babe
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Voyagers inadvertently bring Cleopatra forward in time to prohibition-era New York City, where she encounters gangster Lucky Luciano. In the main plot, Phineas has to convince young baseball player Babe Ruth to abandon his pitching career so that he will eventually become the home run hitter idolized by Jeffrey.
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#30 - Luke
Gunsmoke - Season 16 - Episode 8
A wounded outlaw comes to Dodge City to find his daughter before his death.
#31 - Trafton
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 7
Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.
#33 - A Knight in Shining Armor
Knight Rider - Season 2 - Episode 13
A killer with a treasure map must find his victim's estranged daughter, who holds the key to the treasure.
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#34 - Interlude
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 3
Luke's attempt to foil the Flint gang's gold robbery scheme doesn't go as planned. Zeb rescues a woman from two hide-cutters and is surprised to find a love from his past. When a certain guest arrives for Laura's wedding, second thoughts arise. Jessie fights for her life after being stung by a swarm of bees.
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#35 - It Takes a Big Man
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 6
Judge Garth is asked by an old friend, Wade Anders (Lloyd Nolan), to take his eldest son Hank (Chris Robinson) to work as a hand at Shiloh. He wants the son to eventually take over his ranch but Hank has personal problems which make him difficult to handle, especially a hatred for Indians. At Shiloh he has run-ins with Trampas who is acting as foreman while the Virginian is away, and this conflict eventually leads to tragedy and a showdown.
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#38 - The General and the Sergeant
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 18
John Dehner and Vic Morrow have the title roles, but they play two characters from two wars nearly thirty years apart. Upon liberation of a French village by King Company, French General Armand Bouchard, a veteran of WWI, wants to take command of Saunders' squad. While Bouchard apparently suffers from some form of dementia and is the object of ridicule by some of the villagers, he obviously has personal pride and character.
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#39 - The Drummer
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 5
Daniel Shay comes to Dodge City as a drummer who peddles rat traps as a way of making money. While Daniel continues to look for buyers of his rat traps, he sees a Cheyenne boy stealing a horse. As he looks on memories of a battle at Rock Creek return. While having dinner with Sarah Morgan Mr. Shay wonders about Jimmy Morgan's father who died in the Rock Creek massacre, Sarah mentions that the cavalry ran him down.
#41 - The Death Merchant
The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 22
Handy Random, the man who killed the man that killed Tom Barkley, comes to visit the Barkley family during a property dispute.
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#42 - The Avenging Angel
Misfits of Science - Season 1 - Episode 15
Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekintic powers without telling him - the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection.
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#44 - The Fatal Journey
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 11
After she calls for the President to bring in the army to rid the badlands of outlaws, newspaper editor Molly Wood, the Virginian's love interest, is murdered by four of those outlaws: O'Dell (Steve Ihnat), Horn (John Milford), Denver (Berkeley Harris) and their ruthless leader, Colonel Calhoun (Robert Lansing). The Virginian joins a posse but while the other posse members give up he eventually locates the villains' badlands hideout. He poses as a prison escapee, joins the gang and exacts his revenge.
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#45 - Danny
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 4
An old friend of Kitty's learns he is dying comes to Dodge to try to "go out in style".
#46 - The Little Carousel
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 8
Despite having just having liberated a French town, Saunders is demoralized and angry. In this emotional episode, he lashes out at a 13-year-old girl whose one ambition is to serve the troops as a nurse. After he gets some sleep, she wins over his heart and gains his support, but she still manages to crosses his line.
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#47 - Orville Gant
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 4
With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery goes forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her. Zeb's and Beth's accounts of her rescue come under suspicion by authorities, causing her to leave abruptly, with her leading Zeb to a mountain cabin.
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#49 - The Haunted Gun
The Big Valley - Season 2 - Episode 21
Senator Judd Robeson, a former gunman, comes to Stockton, showing signs of paranoia.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 2
While preparing for a major cattle drive, Heath has difficulty being accepted as a Barkley by the ranch hands. Nick's former commander in the war comes for an unexpected visit.
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