The BEST episodes directed by Jack Arnold
#1 - The Wheeler-Dealer
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 4
Greg buys his first car for $100 from his smooth-talking friend Eddie. Finding that he has been stuck with a lemon, Greg attempts to repeat Eddie's snow job when he tries to resell the car to another sucker.
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#2 - The Driver's Seat
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 15
Greg and Marcia settle a bet about their driving skills by participating in a head-to-head competition, with the whole family cheering them on.
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#3 - The Subject Was Noses
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 18
Marcia has a big problem when she inadvertently makes two dates for the same night. One with Charlie and the other with Doug, the big man on campus. She makes a excuse to Charlie to go out with Doug but quickly learns Doug was only interested in having a pretty girl on his arm after Marcia is hit in the face with a football.
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#4 - A Quiet Weekend in the Country
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 9
Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant.
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#5 - The Tiki Caves
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 3
An archeologist (Vincent Price) traps the boys in a cave and takes them hostage, insisting that they tell him where they found the idol. Meanwhile, Jan, Marcia and Cindy debate whether to tell Mike and Carol about the boys' whereabouts when they fail to come back for dinner. Part 3 of 3.
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#6 - Our Son, the Man
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 18
Greg, tired of the antics of his younger siblings, thinks he should have his own room. Mike allows Greg to turn his den into his own room. This also leads to Greg dressing a whole new way and talking a whole new way, including calling his parents by their first names.
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#7 - The Hair-Brained Scheme
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 22
Wanting to get rich quick, Bobby begins selling bottles of hair tonic. But the tonic turns Greg's hair orange just days before his high-school graduation. In what happened to be the final episode of the series, series star Robert Reed got himself written out of the episode when he objected to the episode's plotline and writing and neither he nor the Schwartzes would budge.
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#8 - Sergeant Emma
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 20
Alice takes a vacation, leaving her duties to her cousin Emma. But the Bradys have trouble adjusting to Emma's militaristic style.
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#9 - Hawaii Bound
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 1
Mike has to check on the construction of a building in Hawaii, so he takes the whole family along. However, ancient Hawaiian superstition begins to plague the family when Bobby discovers a ancient tabu idol that brings bad luck to those who touch it. Part 1 of 3.
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#10 - Amateur Night
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 16
The Brady kids want to buy a silver platter for their parents' wedding anniversary. But short on money, they perform on a TV amateur contest.
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#11 - The Matthew Lowry Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 26
Matthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out who he really is and why he has been acting this way.
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#12 - The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 22
In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year old unsolved murder case.
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#13 - Incident in No Man's Land
Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 21
Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd. They're told to go to the camp. It uses contract prison labor. The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts. Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is. Todd arranges a breakout. The convicts need horses and head for the drive.
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#14 - Japanese Connection
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 7
Pursuing the Rio Brothers, two small time crooks, to Hawaii, Colt and Howie find that the pair have trod on the toes of a dangerous Japanese syndicate.
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#15 - Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 14
Julie's mother, a former prostitute, arrives in Los Angeles to introduce Julie to the man she plans to marry.
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#17 - X Marks the Spot
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 18
In a test of a deadly new missile, called "Operation Powder Keg," the Air Force chooses an "uninhabited island" which just happens to be Gilligan's Island. When the rocket lands and does not explode, Gilligan is chosen to crawl inside to defuse it, because he is the only one that can fit inside.
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#18 - Greg Gets Grounded
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 15
Bobby tells his parents that Greg nearly got into a freeway accident because he was reading the cover of a new record. Mike and Carol suspend Greg's car privileges for a week, but Greg has plans to take out his girlfriend Rachel. When Greg decides that his father's directive has a "loophole" and takes a buddy's car to procure rock concert tickets for the date, Mike really hits the roof and grounds him. Greg talks his way out of the severe punishment but is bound by "exact words" ... and it leads to a drive-in movie date that neither Greg nor Rachel will ever forget.
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#19 - The Friendly Physician
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 29
A mad scientist lands on the island and takes the Castaways to his castle . . . on a nearby island . . . to perform experiments on them.
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#20 - The Audit Couple/The Scoop/My Boyfriend's Back
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 5
Capt. Stubing must cope with an IRS audit. Julie believes the feisty auditor is so caught up in her work because she is lonely, and goads the captain into spending time with her. The woman winds up trying to get a little too close to Capt. Stubing. A TV star tries to keep a tabloid reporter from learning that she has a son with a disability, as she believes the press would be cruel to the boy. A man tries to steal his ex-girlfriend away from her new husband.
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#21 - The Dorian Secret
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 2 - Episode 13
In this Series Finale: Buck and Hawk are sent to pick up the survivors of a planetary disaster and transport them to a new home. Before departing, Buck rescues a young woman from a group of Dorian thugs. Later, while enroute to the planet, the Searcher is attacked by a Dorian craft, which demands that the woman be returned for the murder of a warlord's son. As the Dorians persist and subject the Searcher to a severe pounding, the refugees begin to rebel, insisting that the woman be turned over. Eventually, Buck discovers that truth about the woman and the startling reason why the Dorians always wear what at first appear to be merely ceremonial face masks.
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#22 - Angel on the Island
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 11
Mr. Howell decides to put on a play, starring Ginger, after she begins to suffer from home-sickness. But trouble begins when Mrs. Howell decides she wants to play the starring role.
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 20
While windsurfing in Hawaii, Frank tries to rescue a girl named Maryann (Maren Jensen) who disappears and is claimed to be dead. He then begins to become obsessed with finding out what happened to her, but someone, who is also on her trail, is watching him.
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Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 18
Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property. Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade. His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.
#25 - You've Been Disconnected
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 17
A storm washes up a Trans-continental telephone cable up into the lagoon. Once again the Castaways are given hope for a rescue, as the Professor manages to break into the cable and rig up a telephone so they can dial out for help.
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#26 - Juliet is the Sun
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 7
When Marcia lands the lead role of Juliet in the school play, she lets it go to her head, which leads to her losing the role and having a meltdown when told the bad news.
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#28 - Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 22
A gorilla is enchanted by Mrs. Howell's perfume and kidnaps her. After Gilligan accidentally spills the perfume all over his shirt, the gorilla decides to release Mrs. Howell and exchange prisoners.
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#29 - Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 15
Erika Tiffany Smith lands on the island looking for a place to start a new resort, and a new husband.
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#30 - The Sweepstakes
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 5
Gilligan has the winning ticket for a South American sweepstakes.
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#31 - Smile, You're on Mars Camera
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 4
A NASA satellite with a TV camera, accidentally lands on the island instead of the intended target: Mars. The castaways try to communicate their S.O.S. when the camera is operational. However, with the help of a Gilligan goof-up, the castaways are covered with glue and feathers, and the NASA scientists mistakenly believe they are seeing the first proof of life on Mars.
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#32 - Castaways Pictures Presents
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 7
The Castaways make a silent movie in the hopes that it will be discovered by someone who will rescue them.
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#33 - The Captain's Captain/Hounded/Romance Roulette
The Love Boat - Season 1 - Episode 9
The captain's demanding father leaves the entire crew on edge. A dog traps a passenger in his cabin. Three friends try to meet men through an unusual game.
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#34 - Gilligan's Mother-in-Law
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 1
A native family from another island comes seeking a husband for their lovely, large, robust daughter.
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#35 - The Little Dictator
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 3
The exiled president of a revolution-torn country visits the island.
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#36 - Hi-Fi Gilligan
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 10
Gilligan's mouth becomes a radio after he is accidentally hit on the head. When their regular radio is broken, Gilligan becomes their sole source of information on the approaching typhoon.
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#37 - The Queen and the Thief
Wonder Woman - Season 2 - Episode 7
Diana goes undercover at the Malakan consulate to prevent international jewel thief Evan Robley from stealing the crown jewels of Malakar.
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#38 - Music Hath Charm
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 26
Mrs. Howell decides to form a symphony orchestra, to make up for the lack of culture on the island. Gilligan's drum beats, as they drift across the water, hold special meaning to angry natives on a nearby island.
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#39 - A Haunting We Will Go
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 8
The stage is set for mystery when Nancy and her friends decide to produce a 20 year old play in order to raise money for a youth center. The play is to be presented at the allegedly haunted Palace Theatre. When members of the original cast arrive in town, strange events begin to occur both onstage and off. Nancy must figure out why the actors have come together to appear in her modest production, or the drama might just end in real life tragedy.
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#40 - Agonized Labor
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 8
Gilligan and the Skipper hear a radio broadcast telling of the collapse of the Howell financial empire. The castaways attempt to help them develop skills in order to compete in the working world.
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#41 - Nyet, Nyet - Not Yet
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 9
Two Russian Cosmonauts land on the island in their space capsule. Since the cosmonauts keep a tight guard on the space capsule, the castaways must come up with a way to smuggle one of them into the capsule in order to send back help after the cosmonauts are rescued.
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#42 - The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 18
Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently leading a double life. The case has its underpinnings in events that happened in 1922 France. It's a hard road to the solution and Ellery takes the correct one as usual.
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#43 - The Space Children
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 9 - Episode 6
Movie Plot: An alien blob forces children to sabotage a military project. Also riffed was the short: "Century 21 Calling." Intro: Servo opens a very expensive kissing booth. Segment One: Pearl installs a new phone system in the castle and on the SOL. Segment Two: Mike pretends to be the young star of the short. Segment Three: While launching a model rocket Mike gets blown up. Pearl plans to launch Bobo into space in a rocket, but the training doesn't go well. Segment Four: Crow present s a not-so-sexy fashion line. Segment Five: The blob from the movie takes control of Servo. Bobo misses the rocket launch, which causes the castle to be destroyed when it crashes. Original film made in 1958.
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#44 - Beauty is as Beauty Does
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 2
Gilligan suggests a beauty contest to decide which of the three women will become "Ms. Castaway." Mr. Howell attempts to sabotage the other contestants by spreading glue on the stage before Mary Ann's big dance scene, and by shooting spit-wads at Ginger while she performs. The Professor blows pepper at the stage when it is Mrs. Howell's turn. Then, when all the competitions are complete, the final decision rests with the judge.....Gilligan!
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#45 - V for Vitamins
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 30
The Professor determines that the lack of vitamin C on the island threatens the health of the castaways. While watching the last of their orange seeds to protect them from the cold night air, Gilligan falls asleep and dreams that he is Jack from ""Jack in the Beanstalk.""
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Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 20
Curry and Heyes sneak into Tombstone looking for a witness who could clear Big Mac McCreedy of a murder charge while trying to escape the notice of sheriff Wyatt Earp.
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#47 - Goodbye Old Paint
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 34
A famous painter who has renounced civilization, Dubov, visits the island (with a short-wave radio, of course). The castaways are hopeful that Dubov will give them his transmitter, but soon discover he does not wish to go back to civilization. They must come up with a scheme to make him change his mind, and attempt to make him jealous by pretending Gilligan is an artistic genius.
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#48 - Something to Get Hung About
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 6
Heyes tries to talk a runaway wife into returning to her husband while Curry distracts the gentleman with her.
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Alias Smith and Jones - Season 3 - Episode 4
With McCreedy's $5000 and ready to go to Santa Marta, the boys turn back to Texas, to get their friend Clementine. When they get there, they decide that it would arouse less suspicion if one of them were married. A game of poker seals the Kid's fate, but before they can leave, they are shot at. The house is surrounded by a group of men bent on taking Heyes and the Kid. Through some quick thinking on Heyes' part, and the involvement of an alleged buried treasure, they can eventually get out of there and go to Santa Marta. There Clementine falls in love with the alcalde, which is a problem for the Kid, who's supposed to be her husband. At the same time, Heyes and the Kid has their minds on the only photograph of them, which Clementine has and sometimes uses to blackmailing them into doing things for her. But things turn from bad to worse, when one of the men from the posse earlier in the episode finds them again, and makes the alcalde arrest them.
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#50 - The Case of the Thermal Thief
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 16
Attorney Ken Kramer comes to the aid of an alleged thief accused of stealing a $50,000 necklace.
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