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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#4 - The Casket
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 12
Saunders is trying to get a wounded Kirby to medical help. He tries to commandeer the truck of an embittered French woman who resists his efforts, determined to give her son a proper burial.
#5 - A Child's Game
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 6
Saunders' men are ordered to take a farmhouse that is defended by a determined squad of teenage German soldiers. With time running out, Saunders tries to find a way to get the teens to surrender.
#6 - Ollie Joe
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 3
Saunders's squad is disrupted by Ollie Joe Brown, a young soldier determined to be "GI Perfect." Ollie Joe's commanding officer dies before he can warn Saunders about Ollie.
#7 - 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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#8 - The Brothers
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 4
Lt. Hanley and his reconnaissance patrol are jeopardized by two Frenchman vital to the mission: a veteran Resistance fighter and his frightened brother.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Retribution
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 19
Kirby embarks on a personal vendetta against an SS Colonel who killed his sister's fiancé.
#12 - The Vasquez Woman
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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#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Pogo Lil
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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#16 - Run, Sheep, Run
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 30
In his first battle, Private Corey freezes. Afterwards, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.
#18 - 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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#19 - Milligan
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 9
When a family man lawfully kills a murderous outlaw by shooting him in the back, some people in town start to physically abuse him.
#20 - Reprisal
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 20
Doc is given the choice of saving the life of a man he saw commit a murder and delivering a baby. He choses to save the man first, and the baby dies in childbirth. The baby's father, Tom Butler blames Doc and plans to get even.
#21 - The Widow-Maker
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 5
A gunfighter wants to forget his past... and wants everyone else to forget it too. Unfortunately for him, this is not easy to accomplish...
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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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#24 - 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.
#25 - No Time for Pity
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 21
Lieutenant Hanley and his men have just three hours to rescue an old man, pretty librarian, and 5 children from the Germans before the Americans bomb the building they are in.
#26 - Uncle Finney
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 4
A comedic episode. Two hillbillies attempt to turn their 102 year-old relative in for the bounty on him.
#27 - Luke
Gunsmoke - Season 16 - Episode 8
A wounded outlaw comes to Dodge City to find his daughter before his death.
#28 - Trafton
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 7
Matt is out to find a gunfigther who killed two people.
#30 - 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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#31 - 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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#33 - 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.
#34 - A Gift of Hope
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 11
Saunders learns that his hero and role-model has feet of clay. Sergeant Avery, thought killed in action, shows up alive and well. and must clear himself of suspicion of desertion.
#35 - The Hard Way Back
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 6
During a barrage, Saunders is trapped under a beam and the only man who can rescue him is Pvt. Kogan. The scared Kogan abandons Saunders as the enemy moves into town.
#36 - 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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#37 - The Tree of Moray
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 26
Hanley's efforts to bring a Frenchman with information valuable to the Allies to London is hampered by a lynching party that wants him for themselves.
#38 - 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.
#39 - 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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#40 - 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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#41 - 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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#42 - 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".
#43 - 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.
#45 - Command
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 30
A wounded Hanley is replaced in the field by Lieutenant Douglas (Joseph Campanella), who is surly and opinionated even by Saunders' standards. At one point, he orders a soldier to burn a picture of his daughter, and then grinds it into the dirt with his boot. Saunders discovers what led to Douglas's leadership style and helps him get past it.
#46 - Forty Rifles
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.
#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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#48 - Targets: Daisy and Lulu
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 6 - Episode 8
When Daisy and Lulu get back from a trip they took to New Orleans, they pick up the wrong suitcase at the airport that has a stolen diamond necklace in it. But the thieves follow them back to Hazzard and threaten to kill them unless they give them back the necklace.
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#50 - The Haunted Gun
The Big Valley - Season 2 - Episode 21
Senator Judd Robeson, a former gunman, comes to Stockton, showing signs of paranoia.