The BEST episodes directed by Don Mcdougall

Ponderosa Matador
star
9.00
10 votes

#1 - Ponderosa Matador

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 15

Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as planned.

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If a Body See a Body
star
9.00
3 votes

#2 - If a Body See a Body

Ironside - Season 5 - Episode 10

On a day out with Mark, Ed finds a body in the park, but when Homicide arrives it has gone. Teased by his rival, Homicide Sergeant Larry Mullen, Ed is anxious to prove that there really was a body, but the Chief would rather have him working on a kidnapping case with the FBI. It soon appears, however, that the two cases may in fact be the same one.

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Incident of the Dogfaces
star
8.86
7 votes

#3 - Incident of the Dogfaces

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 7

Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.

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Incident of Decision
star
8.60
5 votes

#4 - Incident of Decision

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 13

When Rowdy buys eighteen cattle for the next drive he has to contend with a young would be drover with a crooked leg and banditos.

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Incident at the Trail's End
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8.60
5 votes

#5 - Incident at the Trail's End

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 15

Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.

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The Hostage
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8.50
4 votes

#6 - The Hostage

Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 2

Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come up with a plan to save him before it's too late.

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Ransom for a Nun
star
8.46
13 votes

#7 - Ransom for a Nun

Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 7

Mother Superior asks Josh to find Sister Grace who is being held by outlaws.

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Riding with Death
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8.38
77 votes

#8 - Riding with Death

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 8 - Episode 14

Movie Plot: A 1970s movie about a secret government agent. On the SOL: Mike tries cooking / Servo does a tribute to the seventies. Thats the 70s AD, not the 1970s / Servo becomes a trucker / the Crew tries to inject characters into a movie. On the Camping Planet: Evil robots attack Pearl, Bobo, and Brain Guy. They ask the SOL for help, and Mike responds by blowing up the planet / once again, Pearl, Bobo, and Brain Guy have escaped destruction by taking off in the Widowmaker. Pearl demands medals for bravery. Stinger: Jim Stafford is happy. Original film made in 1976.

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King of the Mountain
star
8.29
11 votes

#9 - King of the Mountain

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 21

When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.

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Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
star
8.29
7 votes

#10 - Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 10

Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.

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Just a Matter of Time
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8.28
77 votes

#11 - Just a Matter of Time

The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 5 - Episode 13

Steve enters a time warp while on an orbital mission, hurling him six years into the future. Upon landing, the authorities arrest him for treason, believing he defected to Russia and was brainwashed into thinking the time warp occurred. Steve has to both prove his innocence and figure out how to get back to his own time.

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The Prodigal
star
8.27
14 votes

#12 - The Prodigal

The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 31

To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that he is the owner of Lucas's ranch.

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The Horse Breaker
star
8.25
41 votes

#13 - The Horse Breaker

Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 10

A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late son of a neighboring rancher out to get Ben.

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Day of the Dragon
star
8.21
13 votes

#14 - Day of the Dragon

Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 11

Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is looking for her and the Cartwrights.

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Image
star
8.21
59 votes

#15 - Image

Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 17

Emil Gadsen has controlled the Syndicate's vice operation in the Northeast U.S. - now he plans to flee the country to avoid an indictment, leading his underling Thor Coffin in charge. Gadsen has a list of officials he pays off that he'll be taking with him - the IMF must get the list. Barney plays a psychic who visits believer Gadsen and warns of someone coming who is "closer then a brother" (although Gadsen has no brother), then drugs Gadsen to react in pain to someone showing him the Death tarot card. Then Gadsen and his son Tony meet "Professor Gadaradz," who is Gadsen's lookalike (actually IMF guest-agent Scott). When Gadaradz has a heart attack, the IMF show Gadsen a Death card and he feels sympathetic pains. Barney convinces Gadsen that Coffin kidnapped and is now torturing Gadaradz - Gadsen breaks into Coffin's estate where Willy has snuck in and is fake-torturing Gadaradz. When Gadaradz "dies," and Gadsen collapses in pain, he gives the list (hidden in his watch) to his son Ton

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Incident of the Clown
star
8.20
5 votes

#16 - Incident of the Clown

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 24

Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.

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A Question of Strength
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8.19
14 votes

#17 - A Question of Strength

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 6

Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.

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Dark Challenge
star
8.17
6 votes

#18 - Dark Challenge

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 2

Carl Hendricks (Victor Jory), with his son Arnie (Chris Robinson) and daughter Jenny (Katharine Ross), buys a local ranch. Trampas is embarrassed when he tries to get Jenny to dance at a local gathering without realizing she has a club foot. He apologizes, they become friends, and he begins setting up Jenny with his shy blacksmith friend Wally (Larry Pennell). Carl is subsequently murdered and Trampas is a suspect although he had no motive. It is left up to Deputy Emmett Ryker to solve the crime.

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A Rage to Kill
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8.11
8 votes

#19 - A Rage to Kill

Mannix - Season 7 - Episode 20

A psychiatrist who treats sociopaths is supposed to have committed suicide.

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The Gang's All Here
star
8.10
6 votes

#20 - The Gang's All Here

Mannix - Season 7 - Episode 5

A street gang plots to do Mannix in to make a name for itself.

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Death Has No Face
star
8.09
7 votes

#21 - Death Has No Face

Mannix - Season 8 - Episode 6

The vortex of the paranoid: Mannix is threatened and framed.

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Accident
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8.03
31 votes

#22 - Accident

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 23

Driving to the garage whilst tired, Mark knocks down an old lady, with whom he develops a close relationship. It soon seems, however, that his guilt over the affair is going to lead to some revelations about his new friend that he might rather not hear.

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Hideout
star
8.00
5 votes

#23 - Hideout

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 18

Betsy Garth investigates rumours of wild broncos in the mountains and while there she encounters a young man, Clint (Andrew Prine) and his father Martin (Forrest Tucker) living in an isolated cabin. Clint gets Betsy to promise not to reveal their presence but when Betsy is bitten by a rattlesnake he is forced to take her to Dr. Spaulding (John Bryant) in Medicine Bow, thereby saving her life and earning the Virginian's gratitude. However, Martin is a wanted man and Emmett Ryker is on his trail. Betsy must choose between her growing friendship with, and promises to, Clint and revealing the hideout to the law.

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The Man on the Inside
star
8.00
4 votes

#24 - The Man on the Inside

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 10

When a drug pusher is arrested following a spate of botched drug raids he fingers Ironside as a gang informer. Ed is press-ganged onto a team set up to investigate the Chief, which leads to conflict with Eve. Meanwhile Ironside himself seems to be taking the investigation very calmly, which leads to concern all round.

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Look to the Stars
star
8.00
8 votes

#25 - Look to the Stars

Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 26

A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be granted a scholarship-which will be very difficult to get considering Albert was expelled from school.

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Felicity's Spring
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8.00
7 votes

#26 - Felicity's Spring

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 5

Felicity Andrews (Katherine Crawford), the new Medicine Bow school teacher, lives with her older sister Kate (Mariette Hartley) and grandfather Jonah (Carl Benton Reid). Everyone raves about her and the Shiloh hands, including Steve Hill, are all smitten but Felicity's heart is won by the Virginian who proposes to her. However, Felicity's family protects some secrets which eventually brings an end to the Virginian's marriage plans.

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A Man to Match the Land
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8.00
1 votes

#27 - A Man to Match the Land

The High Chaparral - Season 4 - Episode 18

Albert Salmi is the sole survivor of an Indian battle who decides to live as an Apache. Needing to fulfill an Army contract for the sale of horses, John Cannon, Buck, Manolito and Wind head for Indian country to round up a wild herd. Confronted by a tribe of embittered Apaches led by White Horse and Red Eagle, Cannon is allowed access to the herd only on condition that White Horse accompany the group with Buck left behind in the Apache camp.

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Incident of the Hostages
star
8.00
5 votes

#28 - Incident of the Hostages

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 26

Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.

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To Draw the Lightning
star
7.91
10 votes

#29 - To Draw the Lightning

Mannix - Season 5 - Episode 22

Was a police shooting premeditated? Mannix is on (and off) the case.

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Cooter's Girl
star
7.89
19 votes

#30 - Cooter's Girl

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 6 - Episode 12

A young woman comes to Hazzard to see Cooter, who happens to be his daughter that he's never met. But she thinks Cooter is very rambunctious who is working with the Dukes to stop new landowners from dumping toxic-wastes in Hazzard.

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No Tears for Savannah
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7.87
15 votes

#31 - No Tears for Savannah

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 3

In Santa Rita the Virginian meets an old flame, Savannah (Gena Rowlands), who has been seeing a local man, a very jealous Gordie Madden (Robert Colbert). Savannah is accussed of murdering Madden and the Virginian gets Judge Garth to come and defend her. However, the cards are stacked against them as Madden's wealthy father (Everett Sloan) controls the town, including the Sheriff (Stephen McNally), and wants revenge.

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Swamp Molly
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7.84
114 votes

#32 - Swamp Molly

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 1 - Episode 6

Way back in the '30s, Molly sprang Uncle Jesse out of a heap of trouble with the Feds. Now she wants to make one last moonshine run... and she wants Jesse and the other Dukes to help.

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Limo One is Missing
star
7.81
64 votes

#33 - Limo One is Missing

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 1 - Episode 9

Leave it to Cooter to drive everyone wild. When government agents driving the U.S. President's limo through Hazzard stop at the Boar's Nest, Cooter hot-wires the vehicle and sets out on a joy ride.

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High Octane
star
7.80
112 votes

#34 - High Octane

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 1 - Episode 5

Will a batch of kick-tail gasoline solve the nation's fuel crisis? Uncle Jesse fires up the moonshine still for a patriotic cause. And a lovely female revenue agent fires up Bo's dancin'-and-romancin' flames.

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Inside, Outside
star
7.80
15 votes

#35 - Inside, Outside

The Fall Guy - Season 3 - Episode 8

Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.

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Song in the Dark
star
7.80
13 votes

#36 - Song in the Dark

Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 16

Adam's guitar-strumming friend, ranch hand Danny Morgan, is arrested on suspicion of murdering and robbing the Widow Baker. Someone had reported hearing Danny singing outside her place at the time of the murder. More, importantly, Morgan has bad scratches on his arm, and the widow was found with human skin under her fingernails. Adam is thoroughly convinced that Danny couldn't have done it; the two became friends after Danny saved Adam's life a few years ago.

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She Walks in Beauty
star
7.73
20 votes

#37 - She Walks in Beauty

Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 1

Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.

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Dark Destiny
star
7.71
7 votes

#38 - Dark Destiny

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 29

Steve, Randy and other hands capture two horse rustlers, Frank Conrad (Robert Wilke) and Striker (Edward Faulkner), and kill a third. They also find Conrad's daughter, Billie Jo (Brenda Scott) and she is taken to Shiloh until the court can decide her custody and the rustler's fate. There she nurses Randy Benton who has hurt his back and lost the feeling in his legs. Billie Jo is eventually forced to decide on her future by choosing between helping her father escape and returning to a life on the run, or accepting the kindnesses of the Shiloh crew which promise a better future.

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The Mountain Girl
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7.71
5 votes

#39 - The Mountain Girl

Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 33

Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco family. This episode was filmed immediately after "Inger, My Love", which explains why Blocker's arm is still in a sling.

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Go West, Young Dukes
star
7.71
48 votes

#40 - Go West, Young Dukes

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 7 - Episode 8

Boss Hogg finds a piece of paper from his great grandfather Thaddeus that Jesse's great grandfather Jeremiah signed over the Duke farm. Confused as ever, The Dukes find their great grandma's diary and they tell the story about the events leading up to it from the 1800's.

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The Ride
star
7.71
15 votes

#41 - The Ride

Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 18

Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he is guilty.

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Farewell, Hazzard
star
7.67
24 votes

#42 - Farewell, Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 5 - Episode 21

Boss Hogg forecloses on the Duke farm and a bunch of other farms to sell the land to a big developer named L.S. Pritchard. But what he don't know is that she plans on using Hazzard to strip-mine coal.

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Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday
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7.67
3 votes

#43 - Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met on Thursday

Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 16

Victoria Ironside, the Chief's aunt, is a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club. When a fellow member disappears, Aunt Victoria turns to the Chief for help, but what he uncovers turns out to be a very strange and sorry tale.

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Boss Behind Bars
star
7.63
26 votes

#44 - Boss Behind Bars

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 6 - Episode 6

The Beaudrys (from "Daisy's Shotgun Wedding" (522)) return to Hazzard to swipe Boss Hogg's still since their's blew up. But to get Boss out of the way, they frame him of sabotaging Jesse's car in the old timer's race when his car flips over. Rosco throws Boss in the slammer while the Beaudreys steal Boss' still.

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Trouble at Cooter's
star
7.63
24 votes

#45 - Trouble at Cooter's

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 10

A pair of fur thieves comes to Hazzard to sell Boss Hogg their stolen mink coats. But when they lose one of them on the highway, Boss short changes them the price. Determined to get the coats back for his loss, he plans on breaking into the storeroom through a hole in the wall at Cooter's Garage while his girlfriend charms Cooter.

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A Question of Murder
star
7.63
8 votes

#46 - A Question of Murder

Mannix - Season 7 - Episode 22

A clueless investigation goes on pluck.

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Incident of the Mountain Man
star
7.60
5 votes

#47 - Incident of the Mountain Man

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 17

Thomas and the men of the wagon train are ready to string up Josh Green for killing Thomas's boy. Josh is a mountain man lost in the modern world.

Beyond the Border
star
7.60
5 votes

#48 - Beyond the Border

The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 10

The Virginian and Trampas head to Mexico to purchase some palominos for the Judge. At a saloon in San Christian near the Mexican border, Trampas tries to make the acquaintance of Maggie (Joan Staley) but is warned off by several men led by Cal (Gregg Palmer) and is told she is "Zack Wheeler's girl" by the bartender (Jimmy Lee Cook). The Virginian is feeling ill so they go to a hotel. After they leave Zack Wheeler arrives (Michael Forest). It is clear Maggie feels Zack is neglecting her. Zack tells her she will be taken to his friend Fidencio's place to wait for him until his business is finished. Cal drives Maggie to the Mexican cantina and hotel owned by Fidencio (Thomas Gomez). We learn Zack Wheeler is involved in criminal activities including robbery. Trampas and the Virginian have rented horses and entered Mexico but the Virginian gets much sicker and clearly needs help.

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Paid in Full
star
7.60
5 votes

#49 - Paid in Full

The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 10

Frank returns from prison to find his father crippled after saving Trampas and working at a low level job for Clay Grainger. Frank accepts a job but his attitude toward Trampas and Grainger push him toward getting revenge via rustling.

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Blackout
star
7.60
5 votes

#50 - Blackout

Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 14

The power station for a four mile square area of town is destroyed in an explosion, and when a similar attack takes out the auxiliary generator at Police Headquarters, Ironside realises that somebody somewhere is trying to cover their tracks. The question is, who - and what is their goal?

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