The BEST episodes directed by Charles S. Dubin
#2 - The Solid Gold Headache Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 11
Sister Steve knows better than to look a gift horse in the mouth, but why would anyone name her as administrator of a six million dollar trust fund? And if you think she is puzzled, the family of the dearly departed are just a tad upset themselves. In fact they are willing to do just about anything to keep Sister Steve away from the fund. And just to show they are serious, they've kidnapped Father Dowling's trusty housekeeper. They've offered to let her go, as soon as someone coughs up mere six million dollars.
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#5 - The Mafia Priest Mystery (1)
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 5
Father Dowling finds himself caught in a bizarre mystery when he attempts to prove a fellow priest innocent of murder. Dowling and Sister Steve get more than they bargained for when they discover the young priest's family is indeed connected--to organized crime!
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#6 - The Mafia Priest Mystery (2)
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 6
Undeterred by appearances, Father Dowling sets out to prove a young priest innocent of murder after he discovers the priest has been framed by a member of his own family. Nothing is ever easy, of course, and when the real assassin is himself killed, Dowling must rely on a family member who is too afraid to tell the truth. But tell it he must.
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#8 - The Pride and the Princess
Kojak - Season 4 - Episode 11
An émigré princess and her servant scheme to recover family jewels they believe are held by a mobster.
#9 - Out of the Frying Pan...
Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 8
A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.
#10 - What Do You Call a Call Girl Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 3
Father Dowling comes to the aid of a man when his fiancée is murdered just as she was about to confess to being a prostitute. A search leads to three powerful clients, none of whom want to be involved in a scandal. And even the police are trying to discourage Father Dowling from continuing his investigation.
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#11 - Hush Now, Don't You Die
Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 3
Kojak tracks down a college student that he suspects has been raped, but is too afraid to come forward after she witnesses one of the assailants murdered by the other.
#12 - The Nicest Guys on the Block
Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 10
A colleague of Kojak's, Detective Weaver, discovers that a former high school buddy is now involved in fencing a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds.
#13 - The Ghost of a Chance Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 6
Father Dowling is more than a little skeptical when a young woman insists that her house is haunted. He agrees to investigate just the same after Sister Steve confesses that she has also seen some of the unexplained "happenings." Father Dowling concludes that something is indeed amiss, but is it the work of a person or a spirit?
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#14 - 'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 11
Dominick Vashon, the patriarch of the clan, makes his attempt to bring down McGarrett and Five-O.
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#15 - Part 4
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 4
In a flashback of a military gallows in 1917 Texas, a group of black soldiers from the 24th Infantry, convicted for various crimes including mutiny, are hung. Fast forward to 1918 and the local church in Henning, Tennessee hears about the military's atrocities in a sermon, which frightens Bertha into imagining the same may happen to Simon. Meanwhile, Simon's 92nd Infantry are going through basic training but face many injustices at the hands of the locals in the Illinois town where their camp is located. Simon and his all-black company finally head overseas and fight valiantly in France under the command of a white Lieutenant. After a gas attack, the unit is taken to a hospital and then sent home after a brief period of R&R in France. However the now battle-hardened men face an escalation of racism, harassment, and violence, while the Spanish Flu rages throughout the country. Despite this, Simon and Bertha have a happy reunion and eventually marry, with intentions to move to Ithaca, New York so Simon can get his Masters at Cornell. They eventually return home from New York with a baby who they name Alex.
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#16 - Part 2
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 2
Thirteen years have passed in the town of Henning, Tennessee and now in 1896, the town has taken advantage of a burgeoning new industrial age thanks to the expansion of the railroad. Returning home from Kansas City after a decade away teaching, Elizabeth Harvey reunites with her younger sister Cynthia, now grown up, and reconciles with her father. Cynthia has taken an interest in a local railroad gang worker named Will Palmer who returns her affections. But in order to court her properly and gain the approval of her father Tom, Will leaves the railroad and finds a better job at a lumber mill, eventually taking Cynthia to be his wife. His hard work, dedication, loyalty, and financial acumen leads to his surprise promotion to owner and operator of the mill, although it is now saddled with debt. Despite this, he and Cynthia give Tom and Irene their first grandchild. Meanwhile Colonel Warner's son Andy decides to get involved in politics by running against his father to institute a new Democratic Party that plans to disenfranchise blacks of the vote and ensure victory against the Republicans. And now thanks to new restrictive voting laws in the state of Tennessee, Tom is denied the opportunity to vote for the first time since the end of the Civil War.
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#17 - Extradition
Cagney & Lacey - Season 5 - Episode 21
Cagney has an uneasy reunion with her brother when she and Lacey travel to Los Angeles to extradite a criminal.
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#18 - Old Soldiers
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 18
Hawkeye is appointed temporary commander of the 4077th when Colonel Potter rushes off to Tokyo on a mysterious mission. While in command, Hawkeye's main problem is housing a large group of Korean refugees comprised mainly of rambunctious children who need medical care.
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#19 - The Adventure of the Judas Tree
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 16
The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dagger and then dragged out of his house and hung from a tree with a crown of thorns placed on his head. Just like one Judas Iscariot. As usual, plenty of suspects abound and when it's discovered that the victim was dying of acute lymphoma the plot only thickens.
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#20 - The Ways Of Love
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 9
After a girl dies during a high speed chase, a trail of clues leads McGarrett to a Los Angeles prison, where he must act the part of convict Steve Crowley to gain the trust of his cellmate for a break-out, which will help reveal the plans of the crime.
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#21 - May the Horse Be With You
Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 19
A retired police officer is injured after attempting to prevent the theft of a race horse that he illegally housed in the NYPD stables.
#22 - Before the Devil Knows
Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 17
A man who had stolen a million dollars in US Government bonds created many enemies along the way-all of which want their own type of justice.
#24 - Death Is A Company Policy
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 1
A local thug, Piro Manoa, is trying to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O force, and Duke is implicated in a murder. McGarrett and the team, with new recruit Ben Kokua, must save Duke's position and work out the plot of the organisation behind the false accusations.
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#26 - Loose Ends Get Hit
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 18
A clear cut murder case against an island mobster is derailed due to McGarrett.
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#27 - Highest Castle, Deepest Grave
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 1
A ten year old case is reopened when an archaeological dig unearths the skeletons of two murder victims.
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#28 - The Captain's Brother's Wife
Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 16
Kojak tries to protect Captain McNeil's widowed sister-in-law from big time gamblers.
#29 - The Barracuda
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 10
Lamont is determined to break up Fred's plans to marry Donna.
#30 - The Foresight Saga
M*A*S*H - Season 9 - Episode 19
The 4077th is given a gift of fresh-grown vegetables by a grateful Korean; and Potter questions the veracity of an upbeat letter from Radar.
#31 - Too Many Cooks
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 1
A clumsy foot soldier, 'Look out below' Conway, finds the quickest way to the crew's heart, boosting morale at the 4077th by cooking gourmet delights. Only Colonel Potter, burdened with a personal crisis, is immune from the high spirits enveloping the hospital.
#34 - Morale Victory
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 19
Tired of their constant complaints about the quality of recreational activities at the 4077th, Colonel Potter appoints Hawkeye and B.J. as the new morale officers. Winchester's morale has already reached a new peak: He's ecstatic about his operation on a wounded soldier, Sheridan, which saved the boy's leg, leaving only "negligible" side effects - less use of his right hand. However, the soldier was a concert pianist before the war, so Winchester obtains music written by Maurice Ravel for a pianist that had lost a hand in World War I.
#35 - Coffins for Sale
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 9
After Lamont buys two coffins at auction, a superstitious Fred refuses to sleep in the house.
#36 - Give and Take
M*A*S*H - Season 11 - Episode 14
A wounded GI learns a painful lesson when he forms a recovery room friendship with the enemy soldier he's critically wounded. Soldier: "My boots. All he wanted was my lousy boots. His feet were freezing. I'd have done the same thing. He was just a guy like me, and I shot him. I killed him, for a pair of boots. How can I ever look at a pair of shoes again without thinking of him?"
#37 - Two Doves And Mr. Heron
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 5
A hippie robs an embezzler of the key to a locker containing $250,000. Meanwhile, Danno is trying to contact the daughter of his Berkeley University landlady, who happens to be the hippie's girlfriend...
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#38 - Welcome To Our Branch Office
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 11
Two conmen use a gang of Five-O lookalikes and doubles to extort money from Honolulu businessmen.
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#39 - The Pretty Baby Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 8
Father Dowling and Sister Steve find themselves in the most unlikely role of parents when an abandoned baby is discovered at the rectory. When they attempt to reunite mother and child they learn that the mother is being chased by violent kidnappers.
#40 - Smilin' Jack
M*A*S*H - Season 4 - Episode 21
The 4077th turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.
#42 - April Fools
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 25
A no-nonsense Colonel, who is notorious as a hard-nosed disciplinarian, visits the 4077th during an outbreak of April Fools' Day pranksterism. Colonel Potter tries in vain to halt the mayhem before Colonel Tucker arrives in camp.
#43 - The Tooth Shall Set You Free
M*A*S*H - Season 10 - Episode 14
Charles has a serious toothache, but hates the thought of having anything done about it. The doctors suspect prejudice when an inordinate number of black casualties are brought in from a single unit, led by Major Weems.
#44 - Say No More
M*A*S*H - Season 11 - Episode 12
A military strategist refuses to accept responsibility for the war games that have mortally wounded his own son. And Margaret develops laryngitis, as she is about to meet her hero, Dr. Chesler.
#45 - The Time after Midnight
The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 4
Jarrod agrees to prosecute a land grabber, but his determination to see justice served is severely tested when he is blinded in an explosion.
#46 - The People vs. Matlock
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 20
While defending union boss Gerald O'Hara, who has been accused of murdering his chief rival for his seat (Dan Keaton), Matlock is furious when juror number seven (Harry Craven) comes forward to announce that he was paid off by Matlock to vote a certain way. Luckily for Matlock, Julie knows him well enough to know he would never take a bribe, and she helps him prove that he's innocent, and that his client was railroaded by the same man who tried to bring down Ben.
#48 - The Substitute Sister Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 12
Father Dowling and Sister Steve are caught in the middle of the battle of the bugs when warring exterminators do battle over franchise rights. The plot is further thickened by a nun who isn't, a hitman who is and a mobster who will do anything to rescue his daughter.
#49 - The Adventure of the Lover's Leap
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 2
A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murder? The twist: she was reading one of Ellery's own murder mysteries at the time and she died exactly the same way as the victim in the book.
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#50 - Your Retention Please
M*A*S*H - Season 9 - Episode 7
Klinger is so depressed by news that his ex-wife plans to remarry, he reenlists for an additional six-year hitch. Meanwhile, a male nurse has a gripe against the army.