The Best Episodes Directed by Herschel Daugherty
#1 - The Backshooter
Rawhide Season 7 - Episode 9
Sam Jefferson aids Rowdy after his horse takes a spill. Sam is a wanted man. He asks Rowdy to turn him in and give the $5000 to his wife.
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#2 - An Earthquake Called Callahan
Bonanza Season 12 - Episode 28
The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virginia City, so Joe stays on the man's heels no matter where he goes.
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#3 - The Dusty Drawer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 - Episode 33
When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.
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#4 - The Tigers are Coming Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 - Episode 8
Solo and Illya go to India to help Suzanne de Serre, a French botanist trying to find out why the jungle is dying and local natives are disappearing. Prince Panat and Drusilla Davina, along with Colonel Quillon, are systematically using a chemical to destroy the jungle and kidnapping natives to work in the jewel mines for the prince.
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#5 - Meena
Bonanza Season 11 - Episode 9
Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.
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#6 - Cassie
Bonanza Season 13 - Episode 6
To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.
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#7 - The Big Kahuna
Hawaii Five-O Season 1 - Episode 25
Sam Kalakua, a distant cousin of Kono, is being frightened into an early grave by an fake apparition of a Hawaiian god created by his nephew, who wants to sell the estate to a land merchant.
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#8 - Rope of Lies
The Virginian Season 2 - Episode 25
A beautiful woman, Alva Lowell (Diana Millay), arrives in Medicine Bow having just bought the Lazy K Ranch and manages to hire a reluctant Steve Hill to be her foreman. A former business partner of Alva's, Jess Carver (Peter Breck), arrives and is killed by Steve, apparently in self-defence. However, Steve is arrested and must go to trial defended by Judge Garth's friend, lawyer Ebberly Packis (Paul Fix).
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#9 - The Confession
Mission: Impossible Season 1 - Episode 22
Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend. Townsend's backer, McMillan, is rallying his supporters for the U.S. to break off all trade talks with the Russians. It is believed Solowiechek wasn't working on the orders of his government, so the IMF team have to break him. Rollin becomes the assassin's cellmate, and arranges to be handcuffed to him. Rollin then fakes an escape, and threatens to kill Solowiechek. The assassin promises that his backer can Rollin money. Meanwhile, Dan has pretended to be an artist and got into McMillan's house, leaving a camera behind hidden in his art box. Rollin and Solowiechek confront McMillan, and the latter admits that he arranged for Townsend to be killed so as to become a martyr to his cause, unaware that his words are being transmitted on national TV.
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#10 - The Morning After
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 - Episode 14
Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.
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#11 - Deathwatch
Hawaii Five-O Season 1 - Episode 13
McGarrett must protect a protect a mob underboss so he is able to testify against his superior, Joe Matsukino. However, Matsukino has many tricks up his sleeve to silence his former colleague permanently.
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#12 - Gideon, the Good
Bonanza Season 12 - Episode 6
On the trail, Joe witnesses a woman kill a man, but the woman rides away before he can positively identify her. He rides into the nearest town, Black River and reports the crime to Sheriff Gideon Yates, and the two ride out to find clues. They find a handkerchief embroidered with the letter "L". Sheriff Yates knows who the killer is, his wife Lydia. She married him before she got a legal divorce from her first husband, Loomis, and killed him to silence him. Gideon tries to coax Joe out of town, but he recognizes Lydia's picture in a photographer's window. When Joe refuses to leave, Gideon tries to shoot him down in cold blood and orders a manhunt against him. Joe's only hope is a Mexican stable boy, who saw Gideon shoot him, and ultimately Joe and Gideon have one of the most memorable confrontations in the series' history.
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#13 - No Blue Skies
Hawaii Five-O Season 1 - Episode 10
When a singer, Joey Rand, finds that his career doesn't pay well enough, he turns to cat burglary. However he doesn't reckon on Hawaii Five-O.
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#14 - Run Quiet
The Virginian Season 2 - Episode 9
Steve Hill befriends a dishevelled deaf mute named Judd (Clu Gulager) and convinces the Virginian to gives him a job at Shiloh ranch. Judd is accussed of murdering a gambler, runs off and is befriended by spinster farm owner Ruth Ferris (Gail Kobe). Steve Hill manages to track down Judd, tells him to give himself up and then sets off after the real perpetrators. The murderers try to kill Steve but he is saved by the arrival of Judd who then returns to the waiting Ruth with whom he has fallen in love.
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#15 - The Diamond Necklace
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 - Episode 20
During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.
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Rawhide Season 7 - Episode 15
Seventy year old Josh Breeden's pride won't let him admit he's too old to be a drover. He blames Favor for all his problems.
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#17 - Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born
Hawaii Five-O Season 1 - Episode 12
When McGarrett is shot and badly wounded on a beachside jog, Danno and the team must work feverishly to find the culprit and prevent him from committing any more murders.
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#18 - Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 - Episode 26
What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.
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#19 - The Creeper
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 - Episode 38
A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.
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#20 - The Peeping Blonde
The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 - Episode 11
When Steve jumps a 12 foot fence to fix a malfunctioning space capsule, a newswoman happens to get it on film. After her boss sees the footage he attempts to kidnap Steve so he can sell him to a foreign country.
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#21 - Strangers In Our Own Land
Hawaii Five-O Season 1 - Episode 4
Five-O probes into the death of an official who was instrumental in the development of the islands, and discovers a tangled web of lies and deception.
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#22 - Operation -- Annihilate!
Star Trek Season 1 - Episode 29
Kirk and the Enterprise must combat parasitic aliens.
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#23 - Coyote Moon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 - Episode 4
A wily professor gets his revenge when he spots the hitchhikers who robbed him of all his valuables and decides to take them on the ride of their lives.
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#24 - The Cure
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 - Episode 17
Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.
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#25 - The Last Dark Step
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 - Episode 18
It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.
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#26 - The Door Without a Key
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 7 - Episode 15
Two lonely people, one an old man suffering amnesia, the other a young, lost boy, find they have more in common that they realize when meeting at the police station.
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#27 - The Trouble with Trouble
Bonanza Season 12 - Episode 7
When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had correctly been named. Hoss almost manages to arrest the whole town, and captures the Clanton gang all by himself.
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#28 - The Better Bargain
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 11
Furious at his cheating wife, a mobster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when he overlooks some loose ends.
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#29 - Outlaw in Town
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 6 - Episode 7
At the Last Chance Saloon, an outlaw rides in to town amidst a raging blizzard. The "Whistling Kid" has a price on his head, and everyone wants a piece of the action.
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#30 - Abner Willoughby's Return
Bonanza Season 11 - Episode 13
Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
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#31 - Summer Shade
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 6 - Episode 15
The witches of Salem are getting younger by the year, and for nine-year-old Kate Kendall this isn't a problem as she has a new playmate for the summer. Parents Phyllis and Ben are altogether more concerned, and consult the local Reverend on the subject of exorcism.
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#32 - A Bottle of Wine
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 19
A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for.
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#33 - Little White Frock
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 3 - Episode 39
An elderly actor proves he still has the chops to grace the stage when he reveals a tragic tale from his past.
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#34 - The Belfry
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 - Episode 33
When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.
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#35 - The Savage Curtain
Star Trek Season 3 - Episode 22
Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of histories most terrible villians.
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#36 - Sylvia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 3 - Episode 16
Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.
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#37 - The Unwanted
Bonanza Season 10 - Episode 27
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
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#38 - The Horse Traders
Bonanza Season 11 - Episode 26
In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stables in town is thwarted. Virgil and his two brothers also go into the livery business which creates troubles for Hoss and Joe.
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#39 - Rock-a-Bye, Hoss
Bonanza Season 13 - Episode 4
Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try to influence Hoss, so he has a hard time deciding. There is one quite hilarious part (though odd).
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#40 - A Place to Hide
Bonanza Season 13 - Episode 24
The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody Ransom brings her young daughter to the Ponderosa, trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. However, Ben soon learns that Col. Ransom may be trying to search for his family. However, Union Maj. Donahue has been pursing Ransom and his men for many years after the war ended, and has refused to accept anybody's terms of surrender – especially since Donahue considers capturing Ransom a personal matter.
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#41 - The Cream of the Jest
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 24
An alcoholic has-been actor tries to blackmail a producer into casting him in a new play.
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#42 - Father and Son
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 36
The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.
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#43 - Kill Two by Two
The Time Tunnel Season 1 - Episode 17
The guys land on an island in the South Pacific at the tail end of WW2. Two Japanese soldiers are holding it against invasion: the deranged Lt. Nakamura, who hates Americans, and the loyal sergeant, Itsugi. Nakamura soon fixates on the travellers, and forces them into a series of sadistic games. When the Project: TickTock staff call in a consultant to try and get a fix on the guys' location, the consultant turns out to be the lieutenant's father. Apparently Nakamura disappeared during the War and now his father wants them to recover his son. Tony and Doug manage to turn the tables on Nakamura and warn the advancing fleet. The young Nakamura, a failed kamikaze pilot, finally decides to end his life with honor by seppuku, as his father looks on through the portal.
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#44 - The Blessington Method
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 - Episode 8
Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.
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#45 - Town of Terror
The Time Tunnel Season 1 - Episode 30
The guys arrive in a brick basement on the North Atlantic coast in 1978. It has advanced electrical equipment, and they are attacked by an overalled man. He collapses dead, then gets up and disappears in a cloud of smoke. They go upstairs and are paralyzed by an alien-android disguised as an old woman. The aliens are preparing to steal Earth's oxygen. The Project staff execute a lateral transfer and free the guys. They escape to a seemingly empty town surrounded by a force field and filled with paralyzed townspeople. A young couple, Paul and Joan, find the guys and tell them about the oxygen-stealing plot. Meanwhile the alien androids infiltrate the Project base, seal it off, and start sucking out the oxygen through the Tunnel itself. The guys must destroy the operation at their end. They fight off the androids and use explosives to blow up the alien HQ.
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#46 - Fog Closing In
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 2
A woman begs her husband not to go away on a business trip. But he refuses, deserting her just as an escaped lunatic finds their neighborhood.
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#47 - Kill with Kindness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 4
Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, a man torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless he enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.
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#48 - The Big Jackpot
Bonanza Season 11 - Episode 16
Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beautiful, fertile land. When it is discovered that the land promotor is selling barren desert land, Candy and the Cartwrights set out to expose the land promotor as a fraud.
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#49 - The Return of the Hero
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 3 - Episode 22
Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.
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#50 - My Brother, Richard
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 - Episode 17
A district attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition.
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#51 - Graduating Class
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 5 - Episode 14
A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.
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#52 - Man from the Sea
The Virginian Season 1 - Episode 14
Twin sisters Judith (Carol Lynley) and Susan (Shirley Knight) Morrow, who are the daughters of a deceased friend of Judge Garth, come to Medicine Bow where Susan is to start a pottery. Also arriving on the same train is a sailor, Kevin Doyle (Tom Tryon) who wants to settle down and become a farmer. While Susan is more reserved and practical, Judith dreams of seeing exotic places and is captivated by Kevin's stories of travel to faraway lands. They begin seeing each other but Judith seems to act strangely. Kevin finds himself so in love with Judith that he agrees to give up his dreams of settling down and take her to the places she has always wanted to see...but her problems are such that this will never come to be.
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