The BEST episodes directed by Don Chaffey
#1 - The Fuhrer's Children
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 2 - Episode 8
The head of a neo-Nazi organization plans to ally similar groups with an elaborate computer scheme, and has a ""master plan"" which guarantees him success.
#2 - The Golden Serpent (1)
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 2 - Episode 1
The IMF must take down Selimun, who works for the Golden Serpent triad running drugs. Complicating matters, Grant's father Barney has already infiltrated Selimun's operation, but is captured and the team must weigh whether to help him or complete the mission.
#3 - The Golden Serpent (2)
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 2 - Episode 2
The team turn Selimun against his Golden Serpent masters, but when they kill him they must deal with the head of the organization to recover the hidden gold and destroy the Serpent once and for all.
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#4 - Who Was That Man I Saw You With?
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 25
Tara has been employed to test the security on the top-secret war-room computer 'The Field Marshall'. But when a strange foreign man starts sending her flowers, Mother suspects that she's doing her job a bit too efficiently.
#5 - Bayou
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 1 - Episode 19
The IMF must use voodoo rituals to break up a white slavery ring run by a sadistic Louisiana bar owner and millionnaire.
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#6 - Requiem
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 29
When Steed takes prime witness Miranda Loxton to a safe house to protect her from Murder-International hitmen, Tara is kidnapped. She escapes to find herself in her worst nightmare. A booby-trap in Steed's apartment kills Mother and Tara may be the only one with the hidden knowledge of where Steed has gone.
#7 - Wish You Were Here
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 20
Tara's uncle is being held against his will in a country hotel. So Tara books in, and finds herself equally discouraged from leaving. Could the place also be home to the agent that Mother is missing?
#8 - The Devil and Mr. Roarke / Ziegfeld Girls / Kid Corey Rides Again
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 2
In "The Devil and Mr. Roarke" Mephistopheles, the devil himself has come with a very specific purpose in mind -- to capture the immortal soul of Mr. Roarke. In "Ziegfeld Girls" two ex-showgirls wish to return to their youth when they were Ziegfeld Girls. And in "Kid Corey Rides Again" Ned Plummer who is enamored with the outlaws of the old west wishes to go back in time to ride with one of the legendary and deadly lawbreakers of that era.
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#9 - The Magic Camera / Mata Hari / Valerie
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 12
In "The Magic Camera" a man who wishes to take pictures no other photographer ever has is shocked when his pictures begin telling the future. In "Mata Hari" a woman who wants to know what Mata Hari's life was really like finds her life in grave danger when she actually becomes the famous spy.
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 3
In "Cyrano" Marjorie Denton travels back in time to the days of Cyrano de Bergerac in order to find the world's most chivalrous and romantic man. And in "The Magician" Timothy Potter a likable amateur magician learns his craft the hard way when he accidentally makes the girl he loves vanish into thin air.
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 22
In "The Ghost's Story" a young woman must face being alone in a terrifying haunted mansion in order to gain notoriety as an expert of the occult. And in "The Spoilers" a famous and fair-minded bounty hunter goes after the only man who has ever eluded him.
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#12 - The Offer
Hotel - Season 1 - Episode 11
Leslie DeVeer, the owner of a hotel chain, seeks revenge against Mrs. Cabot; Leslie has never forgiven Mrs. Cabot for marrying the man Leslie loved. Leslie offers to make Peter the top executive of her six Caribbean luxury hotels. Angry that Leslie would make the offer to someone she'd just met, Craig Chase, Leslie's right-hand man, packs up and leaves. Peter meets with both women and tells them he can't accept Leslie's offer, since he knows it has to do with their rivalry. Journalist J.J. Powell intends to get an exclusive story from publicity-shy rocker Diz Wilder. Minus his wig and redheaded band, Diz Wilder sets off for a day of sightseeing, dressed neatly in a tweed jacket. Without letting on that she's a journalist, J.J. manages to meet Diz, who claims to be a travel agent. After spending the entire day and night together, J.J. refuses to expose Diz, but her editor publishes the article anyway.
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#13 - The Killer Within
Spenser: For Hire - Season 1 - Episode 7
Spenser is a Private Detective who is hired by a woman to watch her sister and protect her from an old boyfriend. Susan Silverman is Spenser's girlfriend, a research assistant in a psychologist's office. Susan is elated to have been chosen by handsome Dr. Ed Howard from all the other research assistants to accompany him to San Francisco for a psychology conference. Spenser is less elated. Ed Howard enters the picture when Spenser realizes that his client has multiple personalities, she is herself and her sister. Or is she her sister and . . .she's both Diane and Donna, ok? Susan points out that this is Howard's speciality and should be the one to counsel the woman. Spenser is less than elated to bring in the doctor.
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#14 - Face of Love / Image of Celeste
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 19
In "Face of Love" a young woman who is a long hardened criminal, has the chance to straighten out her life. And in "Image of Celeste" a young woman discovers she looks exactly like the face in a famous painting, she is determined to learn the identity of her historic double.
#15 - Checkmate
The Prisoner - Season 1 - Episode 9
Inspired by a large chess game with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number 6 formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 4
In "The Last Cowboy" middle-aged urban cowboy, Joel Campbell finds that the old west was not quite the romantic adventure he perceived it to be. And in "The Lady and the Monster" scientist Maggie Blair discovers that the fictional Dr. Frankenstein really existed and comes face to face with his monster in the process.
#17 - Bushmaster
MacGyver - Season 2 - Episode 19
When MacGyver is sent to rescue an American pilot held in Central America for supposed espionage, his wargame-trained daughter tags along, but she didn't quite come prepared for the real thing. MacGyver must now rescue the pilot while keeping his daughter safe from the soldiers.
#19 - Love, Laugh and Die
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 4
When a former call girl is killed, Dan tries to figure out which of three well-known former lovers is responsible: a folk singer, a tennis star, or a construction tycoon.
#20 - The Chimes of Big Ben
The Prisoner - Season 1 - Episode 2
A new Number 8 named Nadia arrives in The Village, and together Number 6 and she plot their escape.
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#21 - Arrival
The Prisoner - Season 1 - Episode 1
After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.
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#22 - The Escape
MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 20
When a mother superior at a religious mission in North Africa asks MacGyver to help a young woman with something, he is glad to help. However, when he finds out the young woman wants him to break her brother out of jail, he may have taken on more than he expected.
#23 - Yes, My Darling Daughter
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 5
When a newlywed thinks she sees her supposedly long-dead father in the back of the hall at her wedding, she hires Tanna to find out the truth.
#24 - For Art's Sake
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 2 - Episode 10
A valuable painting and a foreign country's national treasure is stolen by a master thief during its exhibition in the U.S., and the team must recover it before the situatioin turns hostile.
#25 - Dance of the Dead
The Prisoner - Season 1 - Episode 8
Number 6 comes across a body that has washed ashore with a radio. After sending the body back out to sea, he tries to use the radio to get rescued.
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#26 - Stay Tuned
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 22
Steed, packing for a holiday, is knocked unconscious. When he wakes, he continues to pack but is confused when Tara arrives and tells him that he has been away for three weeks. Could it have anything to do with the mysterious man following him whom everybody else but Steed can see?
#27 - Daddy's Little Girl / The Whistle
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 14
In "Daddy's Little Girl" Christa Ackland wishes to find her real father, a man she has never laid eyes on, so that he may give her away at her wedding. And in "The Whistle" Scientist, Adrian Brilles wishes to make a famous discovery at any cost, comes face to face with a terror he has never known before.
#28 - Designs
Hotel - Season 1 - Episode 13
Fashion designer Nolan Miller and his fashion show director, Sally, set up for a gala. Diana Aikins, a model who is losing her youthful look, runs into wealthy Australian rancher Cody Blake, with whom she once had a brief romance. Cody persistently attempts to woo Diana, but Diana, who is up for an assignment with a new perfume line, has no desire to move to Australia. Learning that the perfume company will accept Diana only if she agrees to a face-lift, Cody proposes marriage and Diana accepts, leaving Christine to substitute for her at the fashion show. Dave and Megan are expecting a child, though Megan fears they cannot afford parenthood and should discuss an abortion. However, they learn the hospital was in error: Megan isn't pregnant. Peter is smitten by Alison Brunel after dinner at Alison's townhouse leads to a delightful night of love. Peter and Alison appear to be falling for each other when Alison reveals that she is in a celibate marriage with a wheelchair-bound husband.
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#29 - The Eleventh Event
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 13
Leon Hazlet, an Olympic gold medalist and a friend of Dan's, is paralyzed. Paul Baker, an entertainer sponsors a telethon for but Leon doesn't exactly want to have anything to do with it. Dan convinces him to make an appearance. After Paul performs someone kidnaps him and demands $250,000 but it seems that Paul doesn't have that kind of money right now. Leon offers to pay the ransom. While waiting for the kidnapper Dan calls Paul's wife and plays a tape of the kidnapper and starts to talk to him, which means that she was in on it. It seems that she's tired of being Paul's wife. Leon, who dropped the ransom and was left in the desert by the kidnapper but who managed to hang on to the van. Dan arrives to take out the kidnapper and Paul's manager, who is also in on it, with Leon's help.
#30 - A Way to Live
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 21
Daredevil Shara Stanley's drunken mechanic Bill Woods tries to talk her out of a dangerous stunt because her beneficiaries plan to sabotage it and have her killed so they can collect on her insurance.
#31 - Legacy of Death
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 9
Anticipating the arrival of his enemies to kill him, millionaire Henley Farrer sets a deadly trap for them involving an Oriental dagger and, inevitably, Steed and Tara.
#32 - Best Friends
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 16
Dan's childhood friend visits Vegas. Unknown to Dan, he is the felon who kills Erwin Levy and wounds Roth in the process. Will Philip Roth be the next victim?
#33 - Touch of Death
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 20
Newlywed Gary Cole goes to buy some jewelry for his wife Wendy, and disappears. When Wendy realizes he's missing, nobody that she questions seems to recognize the couple. Her hysteria only hampers Dan's investigation.
#34 - Nips and Tucks
Charlie's Angels - Season 4 - Episode 22
When a congressional witness is found dead, the Angels investigate a plastic surgeon's association with a racketeer whom they learn wants surgery to change his identity.
#35 - Terror on Skis (1)
Charlie's Angels - Season 3 - Episode 17
A U.S. government agent is killed on the slopes of Vail, Colorado, while investigating a rumor that someone will kidnap Carl Hansworth, a special aide to the President. Fearing that the identity of all federal agents has been compromised, the government turns to outside help- the Angels- to provide protection.
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#36 - Mother Angel
Charlie's Angels - Season 3 - Episode 10
Looking for a thrill, poor little rich girl Samantha Courtney breaks into a greenhouse and stumbles upon a murder. Since Charlie is an old friend of the girl's aunt, the Angels are put on the case.
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#37 - Terror on Skis (2)
Charlie's Angels - Season 3 - Episode 18
During a check of the guests at Hansworth's hotel, the Angels encounter Vincenti Donatelli and his son, Paolo, both members of an Italian Radical group called the Patriots for a Free Society. Their suspicions of the group are confirmed when Sabrina is kidnapped, and offered an exchange for the voluntary surrender of Hansworth.
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#38 - Island Angels
Charlie's Angels - Season 5 - Episode 5
In Hawaii, the Angels get word that an assassin has been hired to kill an envoy from a peace-keeping organization who is scheduled to speak at the convention center in 48 hours.
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#39 - Angels on the Street
Charlie's Angels - Season 4 - Episode 8
The Angels go undercover as hookers to find the man that beat up the daughter of a dance school owner, Amy Hawkins. They learn that Amy doubles as a hooker herself.
#40 - He Married an Angel
Charlie's Angels - Season 5 - Episode 9
The Angels are hired by two sisters to track down a con artist who swindled them out of $100,000.
#41 - Angels on Campus
Charlie's Angels - Season 4 - Episode 11
When two girls from Tiffany's sorority disappear, the Angels find themselves back in college trying to unravel a suspected white slavery ring.
#42 - Angels on Skates
Charlie's Angels - Season 4 - Episode 10
The Angels don roller skates to investigate the disappearance of roller dance favorite Rita Morgan.
#43 - Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
Stingray (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 4
A rather dimwitted garage worker and his criminal buddy steal $700,000 from a Mafioso who launders his money through the garage which he owns. The garage worker's sister is concerned that her brother is going to blow it: he doesn't seem to realize that quitting the day after you rob your boss and going crazy spending the money on coll stuff is a bad thing. She contacts Ray, who pretends to be another dimwitted crook and tries to get the two criminals out of trouble. The brother's buddy tries to double-cross them, and eventually despite Ray's best efforts to work things out, the sister is killed by the Mafioso Godfather. Her brother is left to mourn, as Ray warns him that he'll have to repay the favor his sister owed him.
#44 - Cry Wolf
Stingray (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 11
Ray gets drawn into a case of a drugged-up TV star, Ty Gardiner, who tries to hire him despite Ray's misgivings. Turns out Gardiner's name and celebrity were used by his unscrupulous partner to rip off both the Mafia and the Yakuza. Now that the partner has disappeared, Gardiner is left holding the bag with both sides trying to kill him, and the Feds looking for him as well. Ray's attempts to negotiate the matter aren't helped by Gardiner, who fancies himself the big dramatic hero that he plays on TV. Ray manages to set up both the Mafia and the Yakuza to shoot it out with each other, using Gardiner as bait so that he isn't wanted by the Feds. In the subsequent shootout Ray and Ty both end up in hospital beds, with Gardiner hatching another nutty scheme.
#45 - Harrigan's Angel
Charlie's Angels - Season 4 - Episode 20
When Starrett Electronics is the victim of a second large heist, Paul Starrett's insurance company insists he have additional help for Joe Harrigan, a bumbling, disheveled private investigator covering the case. The Angels step in.
#46 - Mr. Galaxy
Charlie's Angels - Season 5 - Episode 16
After several strange accidents occur while Ron Gates is training for the Mr. Galaxy contest, the Angels are called in to find out who is trying to injure him.
#47 - Blind Justice [a.k.a. Blind Watch]
T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 4
When two thugs rob a cinema box office, leaving the cashier seriously wounded, a passing woman is the only witness. Hooker tries to question her on what she saw, only to find that she is blind. Not only that, she is very reluctant to co-operate, and Hooker must work hard to change her mind. Meanwhile, the two armed robbers, planning their next big box office heist on an upcoming Beach Boys concert, are unaware that the woman has no sight, and intend to see that she isn't around to give the Police their discriptions...
#48 - The Fast Lane
T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 12
After a fatal drink-driving crash, Hooker and Romano set out to track down the gang who are making liquor robberies and then selling it to local youths. But Romano has a personal concern in the case when he finds out that the gifted son of a deceased friend from his time serving in Vietnam has fallen into the disreputable company of the gang...
#49 - The Mumbler
T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 15
As Hooker and Romano examine the scene where a trio made an attempt to hold up an armoured bank van, Hooker finds a pigeon leg band dropped by one of the thieves. A pigeon breeding friend traces the band to its owner's address, where they meet the orphaned young sister of one of the men who is mixed up with the thieves. As they try and track down the robbers, Hooker forms a bond with the girl, and is determined to see that she isn't sent back to juvenile hall...
#50 - Requiem for a Cop
T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 19
The hunt for a serial arsonist that is torching condemned buildings intensifies when a Private Investigator, who is an ex-cop and an old friend of Hooker's, is murdered. Certain that the man was on the verge of finding out who is behind the attacks, Hooker and Romano work with his daughter, who is also a PI, to bring the arsonist to justice...