The BEST episodes directed by Gordon Hessler
#2 - Gault's Brain
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 12
Billionaire Harlow Gault has found a way to keep his disembodied brain alive and now wants a new body for it.
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#5 - Kidnap
CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 18
A couple of kids are supposed to be touring the courthouse after winning a traffic safety contest, but, after starting one of the CHP bikes they hide in the back of Rolls Royce. Two fleeing criminals jump into the Rolls and drive off, initially unaware that the kids are in the back. After briefly losing the Rolls, Ponch decides to follow undercover in a borrowed car, and leads his colleagues to the kidnappers with his "La Cucaracha" horn.
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#12 - Man On Fire
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 5
Five bodies are found in the crater of Mauna Loa contaminated by radiation from illegal plutonium, and Five-O must find and confiscate this deadly toxin.
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#14 - The Forbidden Kingdom
Kung Fu - Season 3 - Episode 15
This episode shows how Caine fled China, being pursued by a relentless Lieutenant in the Emperor's army, and how he faces possible betrayal by a woman who pledges to help him; but has secretly made an offer to turn him over to the Lieutenanf, in exchange for her brother's release from prison.
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#15 - Time Present, Time Past
The Equalizer - Season 4 - Episode 16
Scott is kidnapped along with a former Bulgarian agent McCall helped to defect ten years earlier, and later undergoes his baptism into his father's world when he accompanies a team trying to rescue the man.
#16 - Pot of Gold
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 11
Wonder Woman helps a leprechaun recover his stolen gold.
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#17 - To Kill A Mind
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 21
While searching for parts from a sunken Soviet submarine, McGarrett become suspicious about the particular parts that are being recovered.
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#18 - The Spanish Moss Murders
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 9
A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun. However, Langois has an iron-clad alibi: he's been the subject of a sleep experiment and been kept asleep for several weeks. Eventual, Carl realizes that somehow Langois' sleep state has caused him to manifest a subconscious ""boogey-man"" from the Cajun bayou: Peremalfait, a huge creature covered in Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you. Peremalfait ""kills"" Langois to prevent him from being woken up, and Kolchak must travel into the sewers of Chicago to kill Peremalfait with the only thing that can destroy it: a spear made out of bayou gum wood.
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#19 - Final Arrangements
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 36
Browbeaten husband seeks nothing but the best for his late-lamented wife. The most expensive casket from the best in the business, every detail attended to in the making of final arrangements. Just one item left of the to-do list: kill the wife.
#20 - People Don't Do Such Things
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 8 - Episode 1
Reeve Baker is a successful young romantic novelist who lives life in the fast lane, while Gwen Carter is the wife of his tax consultant and falls for him in a big way. Her husband, Terence, knows all about Reeve and his ways with women, but his warnings to Gwen go unheeded...
#21 - Thrill Show
CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 22
A punk rock group, humorously called "The Bus Boys," is stealing from the patrons of tourist buses to get money for a demo record. Bonnie plans to leave her job on the force and join up with her former boyfriend, Crazy Ray Conner, the stunt driver with The Joey Chitwood Thrill Show.
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