The BEST episodes directed by Gene Nelson
#1 - Shell Game
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 16
Investigating a policeman's death, Pete and Linc infiltrate a gang of thieves, only to find it has kidnapped Julie.
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#2 - The Girl in Chair Nine
The Mod Squad - Season 2 - Episode 1
A clairvoyant's prediction about a missing college student leads to an illegal abortion ring.
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#3 - Keep the Faith, Baby
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Squad is assigned to protect the life of a militant black priest, threatened by a murderer who is afraid he will break his seal of confession.
#4 - Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 22
Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.
#5 - Dark Legacy
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 21
During his honeymoon Paul Barringer falls to death from a cliff. Barnaby investigates for his widow Marilyn and finds out that there is one heir who wants to inherit the Barringer family fortune, killing the others. Marilyn waived, but learns she is pregnant.
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#6 - The Dancer / Nobody's There
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 9
In "The Dancer" a Texas millionaire sponsors the comeback of a famous ballerina, so that he can declare his love for her. And in "Nobody's There", a well-intentioned but bumbling lady private eye gets the chance to crack her first big case.
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#7 - A Reign of Guns
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 20
The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns.
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#8 - The Sunday Drivers
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 13
Linc joins an automobile thrill circus in Las Vegas to investigate the death of a stunt-driver friend.
#9 - Find Tara Chapman!
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 7
Unaware she has contagious meningitis, a singer who witnessed a mob murder flees the hospital.
#10 - Anybody Here Seen Jeannie?
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 7
Jeannie sabotages Tony's tests prior to his launch because she doesn't want him breaking his tether on a spacewalk and being lost in space.
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#11 - Target in the Mirror
Cannon - Season 3 - Episode 5
A former syndicate henchman has information wanted by the police and the underworld.
#12 - Knight Errant
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 7
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
#13 - The Yacht Murder Case
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 6
After Tony argues with Jeannie on a yacht and she blinks home, two witnesses think that he pushed her overboard and murdered her.
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#14 - The Americanization of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 8
After reading an article in a magazine, Jeannie tries to become the typical American woman.
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#15 - My Hero?
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jeannie blinks Tony to ancient Persia to defend her honor while Jeannie announces to her parents that this is the man she plans to marry.
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#16 - The Lady in the Bottle
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 1
US Astronaut Tony lands at a small island. While waiting to be rescued, he comes across Jeannie, a cute genie. She secretly follows him home when Tony's rescued. She pops up again when Tony's fiancée is there.
#17 - A Night to Raise the Dead
Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 9
After four nights of continuous rain a man finds a body by his car. It had been washed down the mountains and ended up in his front yard. Once Quincy has completed the autopsy he announces that the man died of typhoid, an extremely infectious disease. The man had been illegally buried in the cemetery at the top of the mountain very recently. Quincy wants the whole cemetery checked to see if there are more infectious bodies buried up there but he comes up against a barrel load of red tape trying to get this authorized.
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#18 - The Moving Finger
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 9
When Jeannie becomes jealous of Tony dating a movie star, she tries to become one but finds out that genies cannot be photographed.
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#19 - My, What a Pretty Bus
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 3
A wily ex-con, unaware that Pete, Linc and Julie are cops, recruits them for a big counterfeiting caper.
#20 - Whatever Became of Baby Custer?
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 11
A neighborhood boy sees Jeannie performing her magic and tells Doctor Bellows.
#21 - Peace Now -- Arly Blau
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 25
Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger, whose father is a General in the Vietnam War.
#22 - The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild!
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 13
Two young men play an increasingly dangerous and deadly game for the attentions of a beautiful but spoiled heiress, who plays them off against each other.
#23 - Death Ride
Starsky & Hutch - Season 1 - Episode 3
Starsky and Hutch are involved in safeguarding a big time crime boss who has agreed to testify before a Senate sub-committee against some leading underworld figures. But when, during escort of the crime boss, the party is ambushed and the man shot and hospitalised, he refuses to go ahead with the testimony unless his daughter is brought safely to him. So Starsky and Hutch are assigned to bring the man's daughter safely to him, but the trip is a dangerous one, as they are chased the whole way across state by ruthless hit-men out to see that they never make it, and thus the trial never going ahead. Further more, the daring detectives aren't even aware of the full state of affairs regarding the case...
#24 - Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 10
While Andy is away in Raleigh considering a job offer, Barney is left as acting sheriff and dreams of the day he'll have the job. When he ends up causing more trouble than he prevents, he wonders if he really wants the job as much as he thought.
#25 - Mind for Murder
Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 10
While Fran, Mark and Ed are at a night club, a psychic sees details of a recent fire. When the Chief becomes interested, he visits the psychic to try to see more, and discovers that he has been pursuing an arsonist for some time, unable to convince the police that his visions are for real.
#26 - Confrontation!
The Mod Squad - Season 2 - Episode 7
As dissident students prepare to demand changes in a school policy, a black student is found murdered on campus and the Squad is called in to investigate.
#27 - Where's Jennifer?
Cannon - Season 3 - Episode 19
A recluse asks Cannon to clear up the presumed death of her sister in a boating accident five years before.
#28 - Djinn and Water
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jeannie brings her great-grandfather to Cocoa Beach to teach Tony how to desalinate water.
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#29 - The Gamesters of Triskelion
Star Trek - Season 2 - Episode 16
Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura are kidnapped and forced to participate in a series of gladiatorial games.
#30 - The Quiet Fear
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 17
Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.
#31 - First Wages
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 2
Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.
#32 - The Long Goodbye
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 9
Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.
#33 - A Friend in Need
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 13
Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.
#34 - The Decision
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 6
Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.
#35 - The High Country
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 12
Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.
#36 - Sporting Chance
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 18
An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle and a plan to kill Lucas.
#37 - The Pageant
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 11
Aunt Bee is elated when she is cast in the lead role in the Mayberry Centennial Pageant. When it becomes apparent she is not the actress she thinks she is, Andy devises a way for her to get a first-hand look at some real talent.
#38 - Stop When Red Lights Flash
The Invisible Man (1975) - Season 1 - Episode 8
When the Westins are caught in a bogus traffic violation while driving through a small town, Dan decides to take on the corrupt local officials.
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#39 - A Time for Remembering
The Mod Squad - Season 2 - Episode 22
Shortly after Pete announces his plans to quit his undercover work, Linc is critically shot by an ex-convict seeking revenge.