The BEST episodes directed by James B. Clark
#1 - Generation
The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 25
Determined to seek a new career as an artist, Blue announces his decision to leave the Cannon Ranch for good. Blue is chided by men of the Chaparral for assuming his drawings have merit. Blue has the last work, however, when an editor sees some of his work and offers him a high-paying job in the city.
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#2 - The Monster from Outer Space
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 13
A space probe returns to earth and is recovered by Seaview...only to unleash an alien organism aboard.
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#3 - Another Windmill to Go
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 1
An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.
#4 - The Night of Miguelito's Revenge
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 12
West has received a note from agent Gordon summoning him to the local barbershop; where he is promptly anesthetized by a hot towel. After learning about a series of kidnappings, Jim and Jeremy Pike's investigation leads to the sinister Dr. Loveless who's waiting with his latest invention and dastardly plan.
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#5 - The Tamarack Massacre Affair
Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 15
The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.
#6 - The Night of the Hangman
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 7
During a stopover in a small Kansas town, the agents become involved in a murder investigation. After a man is found guilty and sentenced to hang, the agents uncover valuable information that points in an entirely different direction.
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#7 - The Night of the Turncoat
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 13
The stress of Secret Service work appears to be finally getting to Jim as his temper flares and he makes mistakes. As West is being recruited by some member of the underworld who seeks to capitalize on his misfortune, Artemus and Colonel Richmond struggle to find out exactly who, for what, and why.
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#8 - The Night of the Underground Terror
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 19
During Mardi Gras, West is grabbed by Major Hazard: the leader of a gang of crippled Civil war soldiers seeking revenge on the prison camp's commandant, Mosely.
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#9 - The Impractical Joker
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 21
The Joker pulls off a string of key-related pranks throughout Gotham City, then with his magic box, proceeds to snatch a priceless jeweled key right under the noses of Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo wise up to his ways and thwart him at their next encounter. However, the Joker has more devious plans to do away with them both before his final caper.
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#10 - The Cat's Meow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 29
The Catwoman “steals” the voice of a television talk-show host in the middle of an interview with Bruce Wayne. She plants clues to suggest either the Joker, Riddler or Penguin may have committed the crime. In the meantime, she has fooled Commissioner Gordon into thinking she has gone straight. She makes her first mistake when she masquerades as Miss Klutz, a dance instructor visiting Wayne Manor. Allergic to dogwood, she sneezes and gives herself away. Her next target is to “steal” the voices of British singers Chad and Jeremy. Batman and Robin eventually track her to a dance studio, where a fight erupts. After it appears the Dynamic Duo has triumphed over Catwoman’s forces, she drugs them. The heroes are placed inside a chamber where the sounds of water dripping will be magnified many, many times and drive them insane.
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#11 - The Joker's Provokers
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 22
After a reworking, the Joker’s magic box holds the power to alter time forward and backward. Batman and Robin learn of his plans to pollute the city water supply, and butler Alfred is sent to take over as security guard at the water works. Alfred nabs the box upon the villain’s arrival, freezing him and his cronies in time, but unwittingly commits a dangerous error when he removes the box’s key.
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#12 - The Bat's Kow Tow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 30
Batman and Robin escape Catwoman’s trap by hitting the precise note needed to shatter the glass chamber in which they’re prisoners. They quickly get on the trail of Catwoman. The feminine feline criminal eventually “steals” the voices of Chad and Jeremy, Commissioner Gordon and talk-show host Allen Stephens. She blackmails the British government, which faces the lost of revenue from the taxes on Chad and Jeremy’s performances. Batman and Robin eventually capture Catwoman and her gang, but not before Batman and Catwoman express obvious affection for each other.
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#13 - Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 23
Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, is after the giant diamond that powers the Batcomputer. With her love darts, she puts both Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara under her spell (and into her custody). When the Dynamic Duo show up, they too are injected with her love potion, and Batman must agree to marry Marsha if he ever wants his friends to be returned.
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#14 - Batman's Anniversary
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 45
During a party for Batman’s crime-fighting anniversary, the Riddler appears and nabs a golden calf filled with money for charity. His next target is the Gotham City Bank, which he floods for an underwater robbery. Although Batman and Robin try to stop him, the villain makes a clean getaway, leaving only a final riddle that stumps the Caped Crusaders. They discover all too late that his next move is an attempt to destroy them, this time with deadly quicksand disguised as strawberry icing atop a giant cake.
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#15 - Penguin is a Girl's Best Friend
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 42
As a front for his next crime wave, the Penguin forms a motion picture company. He teams up with Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, and gets Batman and Robin to take part in his movie. Marsha attempts to put Batman under her spell with drugged lipstick during the love scene, and filming at the Gotham City Museum of Antiquities turns out to be a good cover for the Penguin to snatch some ancient armor. Moreover, when the fight scene turns out to be all too real, the Dynamic Duo are captured and tied to a giant catapult about to be sprung.
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#16 - A Riddling Controversy
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 46
After two more robberies, the Riddler has enough money to purchase Professor Charm’s Demolecularizer. He demonstrates his weapon on a park statue, then issues an ultimatum – if all criminal statutes are not rescinded within two hours, he will begin dissolving every building in Gotham City. He rigs his device to automatically fire on police headquarters if his demands are not met. The city’s only hope is Batman, who believes he has a plan to counteract the device.
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#17 - Penguin Sets a Trend
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 43
In order to keep a close eye on the Penguin (and hopefully locate the stolen chain mail armor), Batman and Robin rejoin Penguin’s movie efforts. The next part of his film is to take place in medieval times. Therefore, Penguin has the Dynamic Duo dress in armor suits, but only to trap them with a giant magnet while he snatches top-secret papers from the Hexagon. Batman and Robin free themselves and follow the villain, but after a losing battle with him, the Penguin has them hauled off as scrap metal to be crushed.
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#18 - Give 'em the Axe
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 24
Taking advantage of the Riddler’s mistaken belief that they were killed escaping his deathtrap, the Dynamic Duo must stop the villain from stealing a treasure of Incan jewels that would mean destroying an archaeological treasure as well.
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#20 - Penguin's Disastrous End
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 44
Batman and Robin get back on the Penguin and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds’, trail. Several escaped lizards lead them to the villains’ hideout, where they find the stolen chain mail suits. Remembering an earlier clue from the Penguin, they head to the federal subtreasury to find that the Penguin, Marsha, and their cronies have broken into a vault containing ten million dollars in gold bullion. The Dynamic Duo shut the vault door on the criminals and try to prepare for every breakout scenario, but the Penguin has a daring plan of escape that no one could have counted on.
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#21 - Batman's Waterloo
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 54
Though Batman escapes his watery trap, Robin is left in the hands of King Tut. The deluded villain still believes that Lisa Carson is really Queen Cleopatra, and calls Lisa’s father to demand a ransom of $8,300,487.12, the mortgage on the Pyramids. Using the Jolly Jackson radio show to communicate, Tut negotiates the terms of payment with Batman. However, the villain most likely intends to keep both the money and Lisa, and has further plans to fry the Caped Crusaders in his royal boiling oil.
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#22 - Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 24
Hoping to obtain the Batcave’s bat-diamond, Marsha searches for a new potion to use on the Caped Crusaders. Batman and Robin do some searching of their own and arrive at the criminal’s hideout. But after Marsha douses them with her concoctions, the villainess seems to have a unique bargaining chip – two tiny caped toads – with which to gain Commissioner Gordon’s help in locating the Batcave.
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#23 - King Tut's Coup
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 53
After a blow to the head, Yale’s Egyptology professor once again believes he is King Tut. He mistakes Bruce Wayne’s friend Lisa for Queen Cleopatra, and kidnaps her so he can bring her to Egypt as his bride. Batman and Robin soon locate Tut’s hideout, thanks to a hidden tracking device. But soon after entering, they are captured by Tut’s cronies, and Batman is submerged in a sarcophagus under five feet of water.
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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 6
Left in charge of the Chaparral, Blue fails in his first major test of responsibility and then takes drastic steps to redeem himself. In the absence of his father, John Cannon, his Uncle Buck and Manolito, Blue is given full authority to run the ranch only to have their prize stallion stolen by bandits. Hurt by his father's criticism and determined to regain his confidence, Blue faces the bandits alone in his attempt to retrieve the valuable horse.