The BEST episodes directed by Harry Harris
#1 - The Journey
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 1
Maggie McKenzie would like to see the ocean once more. John-Boy takes her but must miss an important dance. Grandpa helps the children save an injured bird. Earl Hamner makes his only appearance in the series as Maggie's husband. The director of this episode, Harry Harris, who would eventually direct almost 50 episodes, was nominated for an Emmy award.
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#2 - Sabotage
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 24
The Spindrift crew must deal with the head of Police Security, who is attempting to undermine a Senator who believes in their cause and frame the Earthlings for sabotage.
#3 - The Inferno
The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 19
John-Boy travels to Lakehurst New Jersey to cover the landing of the Hindenburg and is deeply affected by its crash. Curt tries to figure out how to have more private time with Mary Ellen.
#4 - Deadly Lodestone
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 17
The Giants have invented a detector that can home in on Earth-based metals, and Dan puts the entire group at risk due to the surgical pin in his leg.
#5 - Double-Cross
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 10
An amnesiac Fitzhugh falls in with two giant thieves and becomes their willing accomplice.
#6 - The Stray
The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 2
Strange footprints and a stringer of catfish lead the Waltons to find 12-year-old Josh, a runaway, in the barn hiding. He attaches himself to John immediately.
#7 - Wild Journey
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 24
Using a device stolen from time-travelling researchers, Steve and Dan return to the day of the Spindrift's launch and try to alter history and stop the ill-fated flight.
#8 - The Lost Ones
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 13
This time around, four punk kids from Earth run up against the Spindrift crew.
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#9 - Shell Game
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 25
The Earthlings come to the aid of a giant deaf boy and his poverty-stricken family.
#10 - Comeback
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 10
The Spindrift come to the aid of a has-been horror actor but during his comeback movie they find themselves in danger from his enthusiastic director.
#11 - The Inside Rail
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 3
Fitzhugh tries to use his gambling expertise to pick the winners at a local racetrack, but has to enter into a deal with a giant to do so.
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#12 - Seven Little Indians
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 19
Kobick uses a captured Chipper as bait in a trap to capture the entire Spindrift crew.
#13 - The Bounty Hunter
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 15
When the giants increase their search efforts, the Earthlings must increase their salvage efforts and end up captured by a giant and his daughter.
#14 - The Unsuspected
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 5
Steve is turned into a raving paranoid by exposure to mushroom spores, and cuts a deal with Inspector Kobick to betray his crewmates.
#15 - Incident of the Pied Piper
Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 19
After a tornado scatters the herd, they are a 100 head short. They learn a man running an orphanage sold them to the local banker. Realizing the banker is the guilty party, Favor decides to teach him a lesson and recover some of his money.
#16 - Brainwash
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 14
The Giants have invented a chemical that forces those exposed to it to tell the truth, and plan to test it on the Earthlings.
#17 - Framed
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 3
When a giant hobo is framed for murder, the Earthlings come to his aid.
#18 - The Weird World
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Spindrift crew finds a paranoid survivor from Earth...but his suspicions endanger everyone.
#19 - The Deadly Dolls
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 2
The Seaview crew is being entertained by puppet cairactures of the Captain and Admiral, compliments of Professor Multiple. Multiple remains on-board when the sub departs, and his dolls soon come to life, replacing their real-life counterparts. Only Nelson and Crane avoid capture and transformation. Multiple boasts that he and the others are all puppets, created by machines from the future that have traveled into the present, and need the Seaview as a new host body. Can Nelson and Crane overcome this fantastic threat?
#20 - Day of Infamy
The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 10
It's Christmas 1941 on Walton's Mountain. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.
#21 - Citizen Trundel (2)
In the Heat of the Night - Season 3 - Episode 22
Harriet's efforts to bring V.J. Trundel to trial are fruitless.The Chief does not believe they will ever get enough evidence to get an indictment,so he tries another method to bring Trundel to justice.
#22 - A Small War
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 22
A sadistic child unleashes his mechanical toys on the hapless Earthlings.
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#23 - The Keeper (1)
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 16
The castaways’ planet is visited by a being traveling the universe to collect creatures—two of every kind.
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#24 - The Keeper (2)
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 17
The Robinsons must turn Penny and Will over or face death.
#25 - Transitions
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 11
When Higgins asks his help in finding Robin's latest manuscript after it is stolen, Thomas gets some unexpected help in the case when St. Louis P.I. Luther Gillis arrives unannounced on vacation. They set about trying to work out who is so desperate to get hold of the manuscript that they are willing to resort to attempting to kill Higgins and drugging Zeus and Apollo to get it, in scenes reminiscent of those portrayed in the stolen book...
#26 - Confrontations
Hotel - Season 1 - Episode 8
A convention of white supremacists led by Russell Slocum antagonize two elderly African-Americans, Carrie and Garland Fisk, who are on a long-delayed honeymoon. The Fisks return from shopping to find their room has been broken into and trashed. Pushed too far, Garland, disguised as a waiter, slips into the banquet room and flings a tray of food at Slocum. Peter informs Slocum that two of the hotel's chambermaids saw members of his group break into the Fisk's room. Peter packs the racists' bags and gives them a small refund, with a reimbursement for the Fisk's deducted. An overprotective mother, Helen Scofield, seeks psychiatric treatment for her 21-year-old daughter, Andrea, who has been mute since seeing her father burn to death. After a doctor recommends institutionalizing Andrea, the young woman wanders away from the hotel and befriends a street mime named Michael. With Michael's encouragement, Andrea speaks for the first time in ten years and begs Michael not to leave her.
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#28 - Forged Steele
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 5
Steele awakens from a 36-hour blackout to find that he has apparently gambled away the agency.
#29 - Going Home
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 7
After thirteen years away, Thomas returns to Tidewater to attend the funeral of his beloved grandfather, Everett, and reopens a long-running family feud when he suspects his stepfather of stealing and selling a missing family heirloom -- a letter from Abraham Lincoln.
#32 - Law and Ardor
Falcon Crest - Season 5 - Episode 21
Before Sheriff Gilmore can serve a warrant for Angela's arrest, she disappears. Dwayne, concerned for Emma, alerts the Falcon Crest residents that Angela is about to be arrested for planning the hijacking of Chase's wine shipment. When the Sheriff arrives, he cannot find Angela and Peter. After Robin takes Hope from Melissa and Cole, Cole moves home. Jeff pursues Maggie across the country. Richard and Chase disagree on methods of acquiring more vineyards. After Jordan requests Greg's help, Terry hires a detective to spy on her. Peter returns with Angela's power of attorney to run Falcon Crest and Lance makes a discovery about his grandmother's disappearance.
#33 - Tigers Fan
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 4
Lieutenant Tanaka is murdered while working undercover. The official Police report states that Tanaka died in a car accident, but Thomas believes that something is being covered up, and sets about trying to answer the many questions about his friend Tanaka's death, uncovering switched identities and drug-running in the process...
#34 - The Murder Weekend Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 7
It's man against machine when a hired killer uses computer technology to conceal his crime during a weekend retreat for mystery writers. A series of traps further complicate the investigation and one of them almost costs Sister Steve her life.
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#38 - Gifts and Long Letters
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 12
Malloy and Reed are called to a hotel to stop a suicide attempt, which they do and the woman leaves a note for another patron of the hotel, a parolee with ties to organized crime who refuses to speak with the woman because he thinks someone from the mob is after him. Later the officers are called back to the hotel because the manager wants the parolee evicted because he's up typing until the wee hours of the morning, then another call to the hotel results in a shootout between the officers and the parolee, who was having delusions the mob was after him. In another case, the officers offer assistance to a man whose car needed a tire change and the man declined; the officers receive a radio report of a robbery which involved the same man and car. Detectives later apprehend the man; Malloy and Reed verify the suspect's identity.
#39 - Climax
Falcon Crest - Season 2 - Episode 22
At the Tuscany Hospital, Chase pushes Maggie's wheelchair toward their car. As it has only been a week since Maggie's accident, the doctor orders her to be careful because she had suffered a severe concussion. Chase tells Maggie that he is not taking her to the hotel, but home. At the Falcon Crest meadows, Lance and Melissa ride horses and gaze at the land that they hope will be theirs someday. Lance shows Melissa the divorce papers that he had intercepted before Julia could see them. Over at The Globe office, Phillip discovers that Richard has not been seen for ages, nor has Diana Hunter. Emma sees Phillip leave Richard's office, which piques her curiosity. At the Gioberti's house, Chase tells Maggie that her close call with the barrels was not an accident because he had heard someone running away. Angie arrives and insists on having Vickie's wedding at Falcon Crest, while Chase is still concerned with the accident and Richard Channing's disappearance.
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#40 - Honey Pot
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 34
A man comes to town and tells Sam he's going to shoot Matt. It's soon understood he is an old friend. Involved in shooting and killing a man, their friendship is stretched as he claims self defense even though he was the only one armed.
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#41 - Straight and Narrow
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 4
Thomas' luck takes a tumble when he injures his ankle while training for an upcoming charity sports event, and if his foot doesn't heal in time, his place will be taken for the race. But his luck looks set to fall even more when he finds that prostitute Leslie Emery, who he met when he was working as a hotel detective, has now given up working as a call-girl and has recently taken a job as a waitress at the King Kamehameha Club, and wants to hire him to help her find her missing sister, who is also a hooker. Although she is well-meaning, Leslie's 'act now, think later' ways have proven to cause nothing but problems for Thomas, and sure enough, in next to no time they are up to their necks in chaos, as they uncover that Leslie's missing sister is involved with well-known, powerful political figures...
#42 - Novel Connection (1)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 9
Higgins is driving visiting Pamela Bates - an old editor friend of Robin Master's - along with her friend, and her secretary, to the Estate, when someone tries to run them off the road and over a cliff. But it seems that it's not a case for Thomas, when Pamela insists on waiting for her own mainland investigator friend to arrive and look into it - much to the annoyance of Thomas, who is supposed to be busy entering into a hotel land buying venture with Rick and T.C., but can't help himself investigating the case none-the-less. Pamela's investigator friend turns out to be famous crime mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and so both Jessica and Magnum set about investigating just who wants one of the visiting guests dead, and why... Crossover continues on Murder, She Wrote - 3x08 - Magnum on Ice (2)
#43 - Innocence...A Broad
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 3
Masters is sued by a man who tripped at a recent party on the estate; as Thomas begins to investigate the man, who seems to be a professional at making false claims, a loud-mouth businessman for whom T.C. is piloting pays Thomas to take his perky fiancée along on the case with him; when the man they're investigating is killed in a hit-and-run incident, they find themselves on an even bigger case involving a dangerous Mob figure; while Thomas's new partner means well, her over-eagerness doesn't exactly help matters.
#44 - Invitation to Murder
Hawaii Five-O - Season 10 - Episode 20
McGarrett must deal with an apparent mass murderer when a will creates a fortune for the last family member left alive.
#45 - The Wedding (1)
Beverly Hills, 90210 - Season 8 - Episode 31
In the week before Kelly and Brandon's wedding, they get all kinds of conflicting emotions about heading toward the alter. Meanwhile, David pressures Valerie to get an AIDS test after she confesses to him about her one-night stand with Johnny.
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#46 - Killers of the Deep
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 15
A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuclear missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.
#47 - The Achievement
The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 24
John-Boy goes to New York City after waiting weeks without word on his novel. It pays off and John-Boy talks to an editor who agrees to publish his novel. John-Boy comes back home and tells them the good news. He also tells the family he is moving to New York City.
#48 - Doomsday
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 21
The Earthlings become involved in a sabotage scheme to destroy the nearby city.
#49 - The Deadly Dart
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 20
Mark is framed for the murder of two Giants and begins acting suspiciously, turning his crewmates against him.
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#50 - Home Sweet Home
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 14
Fitzhugh and Steve accidentally return to Earth in a space-time pod but end up in 1900 and must deal with hostile villagers.