The BEST episodes directed by Charles S. Dubin
#2 - '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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#3 - 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.
#10 - The Case Against McGarrett
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 7
McGarrett offers himself as a hostage exchange, but is then put on 'trial' by Honore Vashon.
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#11 - 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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#13 - 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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#15 - 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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#16 - 30,000 Rooms And I Have The Key
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 24
An aging jewel thief steals from rooms at Waikiki hotels, and taunts Five-O by leaving a trail of clues behind.
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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - Letter of the Law
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 14
Judge Garth and Jennifer appeal to the governor for the release of Curt Westley (James Best), a man they believe was unjustly convicted of a train robbery – but the governor (David McLean) refuses their request. Meanwhile, the Virginian is on a train returning to Medicine Bow which is robbed by a lone gunman (James Doohan). The Virginian and train conductor (William Tannen) follow the robber and manage to find him before he can ride off. In the ensuing gun battle, the man is shot by the Virginian but before he dies reveals to his pursuers that his name is James Francis O'Banion, that he, not Curt Westley, robbed the train, and that the money is hidden at Crystal Falls. The Virginian and Emmett Ryker ride to the falls and find all the money save $10,000. The governor paroles Westley, but does not exonerate him, saying the confession of one thief does not clear another. Westley arrives at the Medicine Bow train station where he is met by his wife Joan (Davey Davison), the Virginian and E
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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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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#25 - 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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#27 - 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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#28 - An Inside Job
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 7
Two killers break out of their cell in the precinct and hold Ironside and Eve Whitfield hostage, forcing the Chief to come up with a fool-proof plan for their escape. As always Ironside has a trick or two of his own up his sleeve.
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#29 - The Barracuda
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 10
Lamont is determined to break up Fred's plans to marry Donna.
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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.
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#32 - 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.
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#33 - 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.
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#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
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#37 - The Laramie Road
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 12
Two hoboes, Harry Lightfoot (Leslie Nielsen) and Crouch (Berkeley Harris), pass a rural farmhouse where only Mrs.Clinchy (Marge Redmond) and son Timothy (Rory Stevens) are home. Mrs. Clinchy gives them some food but they want more and try and force themselves into the house. Timothy escapes through a window to get his father as Crouch threatens Mrs. Clinchy with a knife. In the Medicine Bow saloon, Deputy Emmett Ryker celebrates his birthday with good friends Ezikiah the blacksmith (Claude Akins) and bar worker Ev Clinchy (Harold J. Stone). Timothy arrives and tells his father what has happened and they all ride, along with Sherriff Brannon (Harlan Wade) to the ranch and find Mrs. Clinchy stabbed to death. With the help of the Virginian, the hoboes are captured crossing Shiloh and returned to the town jail. The two deny killing Mrs. Clincy, claiming some Indians did it, and Crouch manages to hide his knife in the jail cell. The town is outraged by the crime and there is talk of lynchin
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#38 - 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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#39 - Deliver Us Some Evil
Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 15
A small time thief (John Ritter) arranges a big-time robbery for money in order to flee a pending murder charge.
#42 - 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.
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#43 - 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?"
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#45 - 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.
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#48 - 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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#49 - Perfect Crime
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 25
Lecturing on a law course at a local college, the Chief finds that one of the students is planning to prove that the perfect crime can be committed. The person responsible appears to be particularly cold and calculating, and the Chief finds that he is facing true genius.
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#50 - 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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