The BEST episodes directed by Gerald Mayer
#1 - There Goes the Ball Game
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 20
While attending a minor league baseball game, Kimble unwittingly witnesses a man walk away with a woman whom is later revealed to be the daughter of newspaper publisher Andy Newark. After discovering that Kimble witnessed the proceedings, Newmark summons Kimble to his office where he tells him that the woman is his daughter and she has been kidnapped. Her abductors want a $200,000 ransom. When word leaks out, reporters surround the Newmark household and Kimble is unable to slip away. Meanwhile, the kidnappers, a former baseball player and a friend, realize that Kimble witnessed them. So, they plot to have Kimble deliver the ransom money so they can kill him.
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#2 - The Savage Street
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 24
Kimble is working at a cigar-making store owned by Jose Anza, and becomes close friends with his son Jimmy. Jimmy is caught between the expectations of his demanding father who wants him to play the violin and the harassment Jimmy receives from three street punks. When Kimble is shot in the leg after the police discover him, Jimmy hides the fugitive from both his father, and his uncle Miguel, a police officer determined to capture the fugitive.
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#3 - Element of Risk
The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 15
At a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.
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#5 - My Friend, My Enemy
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 6
A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain specialist and mind control expert. Unable to break Paris, Tabor blanks out Paris' memories and uses an implanted electrode to program him to attack Jim by convincing the disguise expert Jim represents an authority figure, similar to the ones he has lost two women to in the past. Doug and Jim find nothing wrong with him, but Barney finds fingerprints pointing to Maur and Jim delays reporting to the Secretary and tries to find out what's going on with Paris. Paris is befriended by a Communist agent working with Tabor - Tabor murders her and makes it set up as if Jim did it. Paris attacks Jim but snaps out of it when Jim's life is threatened and turns against Tabor.
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#6 - The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 17
Author Mauvis Meade sends her secretary, Gladys Doyle, out to a mountain cabin to pick up a package. Gladys gets lost and her car gets stuck in the mud. She then walks to a cabin looking for help and encounters a mysterious man who appears to know her. While Gladys freshens up, the man leaves and Gladys discovers a dead body.
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#8 - Orpheus
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 22
An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.
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#11 - Dossier on a Diplomat
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 26
Kimble travels to Washington D.C. to meet with a lawyer, named Frank Hobart, whom wrote a book titled 'Unjustly Convicted' which states that Kimble was convicted without the benefit of a fair trial due to the bias media circus influencing the judge and jury. Kimble wants Hobart to represent him while the lawyer tries to persuade the courts to re-open the Kimble murder case. Soon afterward, Kimble finds himself attending to Unawa, an African ambassador who suddenly collapses in the street. The grateful ambassador shelters Kimble at the African embassy, despite the protests from the ambassador's wife Davala. Kimble becomes aquainted with some of the embassy staff including the attractive Alison Preistley, whom belives Kimble's innocence as does Unawa. But only the skeptic Davala refuses to belive Kimble innocent pleads and calls the police. With the building surrounded by police led by Gerard, Kimble knows that they cannot enter the embassy because it is technically part of another coun
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 25
Arriving in a small Arkansas town Paladin finds Dr. Simeon Loving chained in the street. He is charged with murder and Paladin is pressured into serving as his defense attorney. Elroy Greenleaf, a self-appointed justice of the peace, has decided that Loving will hang unless Paladin can persuade the jury to oppose Greenleaf.
#15 - HX 1
Airwolf - Season 2 - Episode 8
When new hi-tech attack chopper HX1 is stolen by an elite group of mercenaries, the tactics used fits those that Hawke's MIA brother St. John was trained in, and Hawke is certain that his brother may somehow be involved. Dominic begs him to leave well alone, but Hawke is adamant, and with Archangel insisting that if it cant be retrieved, the Firm will blow HX1 and anyone flying it out of the sky, Hawke goes back into his past and some of the people he knows from it, to desperately try and get a lead on the group and mercenaries and possibly St. John... But the HX1 is so powerful, it may even be able to blow Airwolf out of the sky...
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#16 - Deadly Waters
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 7
Captain Crane rescues a diver from a wrecked atomic sub. He turns out to be Kowalski's brother, Stan, a Navy diving specialist. When the Seaview needs his help in getting off the ocean floor, Stan is not up to the job.
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#17 - The Squaw
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 7
A young man is very unwelcoming to the young Indian bride his father brings home.
#18 - The Wake
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 13
A man brings his dead friend into Dodge to give him a proper wake.
#19 - The Last Oasis
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 1
Injuring after being shot during a police chase, Kimble seeks refuge at an orphange near a Navajo Indian reservation in Puma County, Arizona. Annie Johnson, the head teacher (and herself an orphan), removes the bullet and offers Kimble work as a teacher. Meanwhile, while the local sheriff Prycer belives that Kimble has escaped, a determined and overzealous deputy, named Steel, belives Kimble is still in the area and suspects Annie of sheltering the fugitive.
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#20 - The Girl Who Came in with the Tide
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 17
An old foe's girlfriend dies suspiciously.
#22 - Huntdown
Mannix - Season 1 - Episode 9
Investigating an insurance claim, Mannix finds himself intensely scrutinized.
#23 - Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 7
Toshio Masaki, a powerful anti-American industrialist, kills his sister and frames her husband, an American businessman named Harry Kellem, so as to discredit America and discredit the Economic Council. Paris and Willy enter as a Kabuki artist and a fighter (along with Jim) while Barney and Dana sneak into the grounds and restage the murder as they believe it occurred but with no way of knowing how it ended well enough to convince Musaki. To create a distraction, Willy must engage in a fight with Osaki, Moshio's supposedly-unbeatable champion. Once the film is made Dana tries to blackmail Masaki and then Kellem's daughter Nobu. Paris tips the police to Dana's negotiations with Musaki and they show up as Musaki screens the film as Dana escapes (with Willy's help). Musaki panics and rips the film from the projector before it ends at the spot where the team couldn't recreate him performing the murder, thus confessing his guilt.
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#25 - The Case of the Irate Inventor
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 25
James Frazer wants a divorce and his cheating wife refuses to give him one. She's also stealing the plans to his invention in order to bait her engineer lover into staying around. Frazer leaves town for three months in order to cool down but on the night of his return he finds his wife murdered in his office and he has the only key to a unique burglar proof lock that he invented.
#26 - Return to Summer Grove
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 3
Old home week, as Mannix looks into a murder and tries to make up with his father.
#27 - Deathrun
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 13
An old pal asks Mannix for help; when he arrives at the man's rural town, there's murder afoot.
#28 - Task Force
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 16
David Vincent is called in to aid a huge magazine publishing company that has been experiencing disruptive behavior in its company heads, and David believes that the aliens are behind the troubles.
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#29 - The Lost Bomb
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 13
Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.
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#30 - A Copy of Murder
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 6
Part of a manuscript gone missing holds the answer to a homicide.
#32 - Fear Factor
Logan's Run - Season 1 - Episode 8
An evil scientist captures the three fugitives and plans to make them his latest patients. He is trying to remove the ability of people to experience emotions.
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#33 - A Bionic Christmas Carol
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 4 - Episode 11
other characters: Sissy Crandall (Bob's other daughter) When Steve is sent to investigate problems with an OSI project contracted out to Budge Corp., he discovers the problem is that the corporation's owner, Horton Budge, is a cheap ""Scrooge"". Steve then uses the same strategy from the Charles Dickens classic.
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#34 - Justice Deferred
Bonanza - Season 9 - Episode 13
An anguished Hoss discovers that his testimony helped hang an innocent man accused of murder. As he struggles to bring the real killer to justice, Hoss must also combat the cowardice of another witness and the jury foreman, an influential banker.
#35 - The Hero Syndrome
Quincy, M.E. - Season 3 - Episode 9
A man confesses to murder, thinking that he has killed his boss, but Quincy is not convinced that his blow was the one that killed the man and believes that he is not the guilty party.
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#36 - Illusion
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 24
Skarbeck and Lom are rivals for the vacant post of Chief of Secret Police in the East European Peoples Republic. As they are both hardliners, the IMF must eliminate both of them and make sure Paul Trock becomes the new chief. Skarbeck killed his lover Carlotta years ago but never found the man she was sleeping with. Skarbeck framed her costar and killed him in a car crash before having a breakdown. The IMF plan to trigger another breakdown. Cinnamon recreates Carlotta's act and admits to Skarbeck that Lom is paying her to him. Meanwhile, Jim sets up Lom with a letter proving Skarbeck killed Carlotta. Lom plans to nail Skarbeck for Cinnamon's murder. The IMF slip Skarbeck a drug to hypnotize him into thinking of Cinnamon as he did Carlotta. The IMF then trick Skarbeck into thinking Rollin, Cinnamons cabaret comic/partner, is having an affair with her, and that he is actually the murdered Fritz Mueller. Rollin tells Skarbeck that Cinnamon is having an affair with Lom. Skarbeck tries to k
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#37 - Big Man
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 27
To protect Kitty, Matt is forced to physically (and publicly) subdue fractious troublemaker Pat Swarner. When Swarner is subsequently found murdered, oft-inebriated Jud Sloan's claim that the Marshal was the killer seems uncomfortably credible.
#38 - The Sharp Edge of Chivalry
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 4
Kimble, working as an apartment janitor in a nameless big city, becomes implicated in a murder when Roger Roland, a neighbor whom lives across the street, is a troubled young man and a part of Irish royalty, but he profanes his family history by dying his red hair black. Roger murders a neighbor woman in the building where Kimble lives by bludgeoning her to death with a marble statue after she refuses his advances. After a tenant reports seeing a figure run from the murder victim's apartment, the police arrive and suspect Kimble despite his alibi. Roger then hides the statue in Kimble's room and when Kimble finds it, he hides it in an air conditioning vent. Kimble thinks Roger is involved and tells his father, Edward, and Roger's younger sister Liz. But naturally, Edward Roland refuses to believe Kimble and unbelievably thinks Kimble is the killer and calls the police. Kimble escapes and tries, with Liz's help, to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, Gerard arrives in town after hearing the
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Lou Grant - Season 2 - Episode 15
Looking for a place to invest a $5,000 windfall, Lou gets a shocking look at white collar crime when he uncovers a clever financial scheme run by a sharp con man. He learns there are shady characters only too willing to put his money in their pockets, but has trouble convincing at least one victim ? Charlie Hume ? of what's going on.
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The Virginian - Season 5 - Episode 16
Sue Ann McCrae (Patty Duke) lives on a small farmstead with her widower father (Edward Binns), her two younger brothers, and hand Joe Stevens (Paul Carr). Joe wants to marry her but she feels trapped and one night runs off. She hails a stage driven by Mr. Tait (Roy Barcroft) and on it meets Trampas and tells him she is going to San Francisco. Arriving in Medicine Bow, Trampas gets her a room at Mrs. Crandall's (Rita Lynn) boarding house. Meanwhile, Joe and Pa McCrae search for Sue Ann and learn from Tait that she went to Medicine Bow and that she was with a Shiloh hand, Trampas. They arrive at Shiloh and Trampas takes them to the boarding house. Sue Ann confesses to them that she wants to see life and live it and do things outside the farm routine and that she is going to get a job to raise money to go to San Francisco. She volunteers to come back to the farm but her father says he will give her a chance to spread her wings but she is always welcome to return. Joe wants to stick around
#42 - The Heat Monster
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 17
Arctic Listening Station XZ-5 receives a message from a voice from space (""laser beeeeeam""). Professor Bergstrom, ignoring the advice of his assistant, activates their beam and brings the alien, living flame, to Earth. Now, this Heat Monster wants the Seaview to detonate a bomb under the polar ice cap. How can the intrepid crew defeat this new menace?