The BEST episodes directed by Gerd Oswald
#1 - Agent for H.A.R.M.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 8 - Episode 15
Movie Plot: A 1960s secret agent is charged to protect a scientist who has created a really dumb biological weapon. On the SOL: Servo and Crow are into some Extreme Hobbies / Servo tries to find a legal way to help Mike / the 'bots make sure Mike does his community service. In the Intergalactic Courtroom: Mike is charged for his recent planet destructions. Pearl is the prosecutor, Bobo is the defense attorney / Bobo is not defending Mike very well / Servo and Crow's testimony does not seem to help Mike either / Bobo traps Brain Guy in a lie on the stand / Mike is convicted, but his death sentence is negotiated down to community service. Stinger: Spaz chop. Original film made in 1966.
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#2 - Wine Is a Traitor
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 8
Carl Crandall is the wealthy and spoiled son of winery owner Pete Crandall. Carl stops a labor strike at the winery by killing the union leader and framing Morales, another worker, for it. Kimble happens by and witness Carl run from the scene of the crime, but he is unable to tell anyone because of his secret. Kimble tries to write an annoymous letter to the California District Attorney, but Carl's goons confiscate the letter. While Kimble tries to persuade Morales's wife, Elena, to help him report Carl to clear her husband, Pete suspects Carl of the murder and sends his two right hand men to keep an eye on Carl. But the two men are in league with Carl who orders them to murder Kimble.
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Rawhide - Season 8 - Episode 12
An army lieutenant requisitions 100 prime steers and only offers a piece of paper in return. He pulls a gun and Rowdy wings him. Reinforcements come demanding the 100 head. Rowdy goes forty miles to the fort and the major says he can't pay him.
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#4 - Hail to the Chief
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 16
Injured in a fall, the President of the United States is in desperate need of surgery -- and the operation must be kept secret. Naturally, Seaview is chosen as the best place for the operation. An enemy agent, taking the place of the doctor who would have used a radiological device on the President, will attempt to kill the Commander-in-Chief with a deadly ray. Will she be discovered in time to save the President?
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#5 - Joshua's Kingdom
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 6
While working as a veterinarian assistant in a rural town in Utah, Kimble becomes aquainted with Ruth Simmons, an unwed teenage mother whom has a sickly infant. But her father, Joshua, is a Christian Scientist whose religion prohibits the use of medicine for any ailment. Kimble brings over antibiotics, but Joshua destroys the drugs. After determing that the baby is anemic, Kimble secretly arranges for a blood transfusion. Meanwhile, after stumbling upon Kimble's true idenity, a would-be deputy, named Pete, searches for the fugivtive with the aid of his two bloodhound dogs.
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#6 - The Case of the Jaded Joker
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 18
Danny Ross is a television comedian who is waiting to hear about a new television show. It has been three years since his last television show was cancelled. Charles Goff is an advertising executive who promised Danny he would pitch him for a new show in return for an introduction with the president of a large big-budget advertiser. Danny does his part but learns from Goff's secretary that Goff landed the deal without him. When Charles Goff is found dead in his office the next morning, Danny's friend, Freddie Green, is accused of the murder after finding his fingerprints on the murder weapon.
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#7 - The Case of the Purple Woman
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 9
An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings named ""The Purple Woman"" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. After he finds out the dealer knew it was a forgery, he realizes the news would damage his reputation as an art collector. At the Girard home, an artist Aaron Hubble, tells Evelyn Girard, the wife of the art dealer, that he painted a forgery of The Purple Woman for her husband. Milo Girard is found dead in his office the next morning and his wife Evelyn is charged with his murder.
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#8 - The Star
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 32
Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons.
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#9 - Fort West Point
Daniel Boone - Season 3 - Episode 25
Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.
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#10 - The Case of the Lost Last Act
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 21
Playwright Ernest Royce is found shot to death in the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays. The play dealt with characters very close to real people and the real life murder of a New York underworld figure years before. Perry's client, Frank Brooks, is charged with Royce's murder and Perry must find the missing final act of the play in order to clear Brooks.
#11 - Specimen: Unknown
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 22
The crew aboard a space station investigates the death of a young lieutenant and uncovers a strange and deadly new life form.
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#12 - The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 14
An inventor of a cure for sick fish is charged with the murder of the purchaser of a pet fish store.
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Rawhide - Season 2 - Episode 26
While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.
#14 - Gabriel
Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 16
A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry; guests Cesar Romero, Mike Mazurki.
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#15 - Soldier
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 1
A soldier who knows nothing but killing and warfare struggles to adapt when he is transported back in time to a more peaceful era.
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#16 - Don't Open Till Doomsday
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 17
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
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#17 - The Unseen Wound
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 20
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
#18 - The Trap
Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 26
Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest; guest Lloyd Bochner.
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#19 - Chief Mingo
Daniel Boone - Season 4 - Episode 12
The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.
#20 - Cibola
Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 28
A man (Royal Dano) finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold; guest Alejandro Rey.
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#21 - The Invisibles
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 19
A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses repulsive alien parasites to control its members.
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#22 - The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Daniel Boone - Season 4 - Episode 1
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate (Forrest Tucker) to help retrieve furs from a thief (Victor Buono).
#23 - The Special One
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 28
A man with a intellectually gifted son is alarmed by the boy's sudden change in behavior and is suspicious of the boy's tutor, the mysterious Mr. Zeno.
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#24 - Expanding Human
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 4
A consciousness-expanding drug provides a professor with superhuman abilities and endangers the lives of his associates.
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#25 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 11
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
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#26 - The Chameleon
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 31
A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
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#27 - The Premonition
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 16
An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.
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#28 - A Woman in the House
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 23
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.
#29 - The Beacon
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 26
A young doctor stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.
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#31 - The Duplicate Man
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 13
A government agent creates a duplicate of himself in order to find and destroy a menacing creature consumed by hatred.
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#32 - The Unwritten Commandment
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 28
Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concentrate on ranch work instead. Joe mentions receiving a letter from Adam, currently in Paris.
#33 - A Christmas Story
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 15
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
#34 - The Forms of Things Unknown
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 32
After murdering an abusive man, two women find themselves in a frightening house where the dead are brought back to life via a time-tilting machine.
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#35 - Fun and Games
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 27
Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.
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#37 - O.B.I.T.
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 7
The suspicious murder of a security guard sparks an investigation unveiling an insidious and far-reaching monitoring device, the ramifications of which are truly frightening.
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#38 - The Strange One
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 10
Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a curse. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," says Ben, "if eveybody made a real effort to understand whatever's strange and unfamiliar rather to fear it and try to destroy it?"
#39 - Corpus Earthling
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 9
A doctor with a steel plate in his head questions his own sanity when he begins hearing the conversations of a strange race of alien rock creatures intent on conquering the world.
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#40 - The Deadliest Game
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 22
The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life in Italy. Borelli's troup is beset by internal strife, and is performing in Virginia City.
#41 - Destiny's Child
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 19
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona authorities.
#42 - Five Sundowns to Sunup
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 12
The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her son is not set free. One of the hostages is Joe.
#43 - The Spotlight
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 33
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does not tell him that her famous singing voice is long gone