The BEST episodes directed by James Sheldon
#1 - Remember the Good Times
Knots Landing - Season 2 - Episode 3
Gary meets Judy Trent who wants his help in getting her husband support from AA. Abby begins to show her manipulative nature (Already?) as she takes advantage of Eric and treis to seduce Kenny. Karen confronts her about this.
#2 - Community Spirit
Knots Landing - Season 1 - Episode 2
J.R. Ewing is in town planning an offshore drilling project on the beach, which everyone is opposed to, except for Richard who asks Laura to get together with Chip Todson, J.R.'s PR man. He asks her to do this so he can get the account. J.R. has an afternoon rendezvous with Karen (big mistake!). Gary goes to J.R.'s office to steal an important file he can use against his brother. Along with the rest of the community, Gary protests by picketing on the beach.
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#3 - Run the Man Down
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 15
While hopping a freight train, Kimble meets a wounded criminal who demands to take him to a rendezvous point in the hills of Southern California. Kimble reluctantly does which is an isolated cabin in the deep woods where they are joined by three more men whom happen to be robbers of an armored car who demand from the criminal their loot. Not believing their accomplice's true story that he lost the money when it fell off the train due to his gunshot injury, the three robbers hold Kimble, a widow named Laura Craig, as well as a park ranger who happens by, while torturing the man for the location of the money.
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#4 - The Deadly Cure
McMillan and Wife - Season 5 - Episode 5
Mac is wounded in a failed drug raid and sent to the hospital, where he sees a patient smothered, and slowly unravels the case.
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#5 - The Chinese Sunset
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 23
Kimble is working as the ""general factotum"" in a swank Beverly Hills hotel on Sunset Blvd. An undercover policeman, named Fred Bragin, checks into the hotel to survey Eddie Slade, a notorious mob bookie. When Slade leaves town for a few days to sort out some business of his, his girlfriend, Penelope, stays behind while Bragin focuses his surveillance on her. Penelope meets and turns to Kimble for help in mingling with the wealthy in-crowd of the hotel residents in which Kimble agrees to tutor her on the find art of socializing, manners, and better increasing her vocabulary.
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#6 - The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 6
Radio star Vera Bethune is poisoned during the taping of her show. She survives and asks Ellery from her hospital bed to look into things. Unfortunately for both Vera and Ellery, she is shot to death while in the hospital. Ellery and the Inspector are both guilt stricken over failing to protect Ms. Bethune and are determined to find her killer from among the usual numerous suspects. But radio mystery star Simon Brimmer is determined to beat both Queens to the solution in order to retain a sponsor to his radio program. A golden girl might have a hard time with this one.
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#7 - Running Scared
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 22
After learning of the death of his father, Kimble contacts Donna and her husband Len Taft and wants to meet with them. Donna and Len drive to Fort Wayne, Indiana and check into a hotel under assumed names. But their rendezvous is threatned by Mike Ballinger, the former prosecuting attorney at Kimble's trial, who recognizes them and calls on Gerard to set up a trap.
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The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 19
Jane Washburn, an undercover policewoman, witnesses three youths beat up and rob Kimble. She attends to him, but becomes suspicious after he declines to report his mugging to the police. So, she handcuffs herself to Kimble to arrest him, but he manages to flee the area with her. After Jane sprains her ankle after hopping off a freight train, they break into an abandoned farm house so Kimble can attend to her, as well as saw off the handcuffs. But the family who lives there soon returns and Kimble is held at gunpoint by the domineering and rabid patriarch of the family.
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#9 - It's a Good Life
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 8
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
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#10 - The Annie Duggan Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 25
An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.
#11 - Shadow of the Swan
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 21
At a carnival, Kimble meets Tina Anderson, an attractive young woman whom helps him get a job and introduces him to her uncle Harry, whom is a retired police detective. But Harry soon recognizes Kimble and tries to arrest him. Tina helps Kimble get away and wants to run off with him, but he refues. Tina, whom is revealed to be an obsessed sociopath, plots to betray Kimble for him refusing her advances.
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#12 - My Fair Esther
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 9
With a $1,000 prize on the line, Fred tries to groom Esther to win a beauty contest.
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#13 - Donna Pops the Question
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 8
With another marriage proposal in hand, Donna gives Fred an ultimatum.
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#15 - Fred Sanford Has a Baby
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 16
When Lamont goes out of town, Fred rents his room to a pregnant woman who goes into labor.
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#16 - The Oddfather
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 13
After witnessing a murder attempt, Fred is a target for assassins as he recuperates in a hospital bed.
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#17 - The Other Side of the Mountain
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 3
In West Virginia, Kimble arrives at a local coal mining town where he is roughed up by the redneck locals, and then chased by a sheriff's posse. Hiding in the mountains, Kimble meets Cassie, a young woman living in a remote cabin with her grandmother. Cassie tells Kimble she get him to safety because she knows the area, when she is really wanting to keep him around for her own selfish reasons. Meanwhile, Gerard flies to West Virginia after learning from the sheriff that Kimble has been spotted in the area and teams up with the posse to try to find Kimble.
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#18 - A Penny for Your Thoughts
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 16
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
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#19 - The Law and Jesse Duke
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 4 - Episode 26
Rosco and Cletus go on strike when Boss refuses a raise and overtime payments. And Boss hires some crooks to rob the TV stores and frames Bo and Luke for it. He then tricks Jesse into being the temporary sheriff to arrest Bo and Luke.
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#20 - Mama's Boy
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 9
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
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#21 - The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 5
An heiress to a cosmetics company, innocently caught in the middle of a conspiracy to sabotage a cosmetics company, turns to Mason when she's accused of murdering the company's owner.
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#22 - Vance's Lady
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 5 - Episode 7
Vance's old girlfriend comes to Hazzard to see him but is chased by crooked politician's associates who are trying to kill her after she witnessed the Senator's embezzling. . But The Duke try and convince her to go report it to Senate Crime Commission.
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#23 - Ebenezer Sanford
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 12
Fred plays the role of Scrooge in his dream version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
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#24 - Cindy/Play by Play/What's a Brother For?
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 8
Gopher befriends a young woman who is constantly put upon by her mean-spirited stepmother and two gawky step-sisters. Gopher takes note of her singing talent and tries to help her get an audition with the famous singer who is performing on the cruise. A sports broadcaster clashes with his female partner. She grows tired of his sexist remarks and challenges him to a series of athletic contests, with the loser having to quit his or her job. A disabled man demands his brother's constant attention, complicating his potential romance.
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#25 - Steinberg and Son
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 5
Fred sues NBC for airing a show called Steinberg and Son, which seems to copy his life exactly but with white Jewish characters rather than black ones.
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#26 - Fingered
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 11
Losing his first wife when she disappeared, Jim Cobbett tries marriage again. All seemed fine until she turned up missing too. Did he have something to do with her absence as some think he did with his first?
#27 - Isaac's Double Standard/One More Time/Chimpanzeeshines
The Love Boat - Season 1 - Episode 14
Isaac's possessive mother becomes jealous of her son's lady friend, while he objects to his mom sharing a cabin with her latest boyfriend; a divorced comedy team is too busy making jokes to admit they miss each other; Gopher's budding romance is nearly foiled by a jewel-stealing monkey.
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#30 - I Sing the Body Electric
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 35
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
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#31 - Buffy
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 1
The excellent family series begins when Bill Davis, a fantastic construction engineer, unexpectedly adopts Buffy, who along with Jody and Cissy, have lost their parents in an accident. Buffy comes first and at first, Bill doesn't like her and wants to send her back to Terre Haute. Buffy gets the feeling that Bill doesn't like her and runs off to hide in the basement. Bill tells her that he likes her and wants her to stay. In the end, when Bill gets ready to leave for a trip, Jody and Cissy come to be with Buffy.
#33 - Edwina
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 13
The nurses go to extremes lengths to find a date for Nurse Eddie - they won't go out with anyone until Eddie gets a date. The men draw straws, and Hawkeye is the big loser, especially after Eddie nearly kills him in a scene resembling teenage "mating" rituals.
#34 - The Case of the Larcenous Lady
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 12
A mayor's political career is jeopardized when his conniving wife goes too far. Mason's defense of a murder suspect hinges on untangling a net of intrigue involving political rivalries and extortion
#35 - A Very Cool Hot Car
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 13
Cars are being stolen in worryingly high numbers, and with the numbers recovered falling dramatically, the signs point to a crooked cop somewhere in the department. Mark is convinced that the cop in question is innocent, but nobody else seems very sure.
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#37 - Doc, Be Patient/Dance With Me/Going My Way
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 4
A doctor who had planned on taking the cruise as a vacation cares for Doc when he comes down with the flu. He is initially a difficult patient, but soon begins to fall for his physician. A former dancer who has now opened her own school tries to convince her ex-partner to come to Germany to teach for her. He is reluctant to give up his life with his much younger (and very talented) partner/girlfriend, even though he is putting his health at risk and holding her back from a potentially successful career. A free-spirited woman invites a cab driver along on the cruise after her boyfriend stands her up.
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#39 - I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 21
Laura Needham is murdered while vacationing in Mexico. Her husband Mark discovers that the police are holding as a suspect an American named Theodore Bond. Mark wants something to be done, but the police are helpless because they cannot prove their case. Mark decides to get the proof, but he is murdered by Bond instead. Mark's in-laws, Alex and Louise Trevor take it open themselves to bring Bond to justice. They set up a trap with Louise as bait and catch Bond attempting to committed murder.
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#40 - The Purr-fect Crime
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 19
Catwoman initiates a series of thefts that cause Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman and Robin. But the importance of the crimes go beyond the taking of the objects involved. The Dynamic Duo eventually find Catwoman’s lair. But Robin is whisked away while Batman is given a choice between two doors. If he picks the right door, he’ll find Catwoman. If he picks the wrong one, he’ll face certain doom. The hero makes the wrong selection and is about to be attacked by a tiger.
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#41 - Coy Meets Girl
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 5 - Episode 4
While delivering a shipment of antiques to some friends, Coy and Vance are hijacked by a couple of Boss' henchmen. But they didn't known that a runaway orphan was stowaway in the back of the truck and saw the whole thing. She ends up going back to the farm and has crush on Coy, which slows down the Dukes looking for the hijackers.
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#42 - The Brazen Bell
The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 5
A new school teacher, Arthur Lilley (George C. Scott), and his uppity wife (Anne Meacham) come to Medicine Bow. Arthur is a well-educated man and his wife believes the job beneath him but Arthur sees himself as a coward, thinking he was responsible for the deaths of several students in a fire at his former school in Vermont. When two murderers escape from prison and take as hostages the teacher, his wife and the school children including Betsy Garth, Arthur's mettle meets the supreme test.
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#43 - Long Distance Call
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 22
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
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#44 - Dori Day Afternoon
Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Hammer and Dori make a trip to the bank they become involved in an armed robbery. The detectives are taken hostage and the robbers demand a plane to take them to Rio. Dori tries to convince Hammer to let her use her training in terrorist psychology and persuasion before he starts blowing everyone away.
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The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 20
Elizabeth finds the outlaw Jim Dewey shot and about to die from blood loss. Her and Clay bring him back to Shiloh where everyone is gone except them and Holly due to a cattle drive. While they nurse Dewey back to health, the bounty hunter Ben Hicks arrives revealing the outlaw's identity and wanting to take him in preferably dead but they stop him. Elizabeth is persuaded by Jim he really has a good side and she torn on whether to help him as members of his gang arrive at Shiloh and Hicks hires help.
#46 - The Land Dreamer
The Virginian - Season 7 - Episode 20
A dispute ends with one man dead, the Sheriff unconscious, and the shooter on the run. The Virginian, Trampas, and David catch the shooter with his family. The softhearted David wants to let the shooter go but The Virginian won't go along.
#47 - Train of Darkness
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 18
On a train to Cheyenne, Clay, Elizabeth and Jim become involved in a fellow traveler's efforts to escape a vengeful family.
#48 - Have You Heard About Vanessa?
McMillan and Wife - Season 6 - Episode 6
After a model commits suicide, Mac investigates her lonely life.
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#49 - Coffee, Tea or Cyanide?
McMillan and Wife - Season 6 - Episode 4
You pays your money, you takes your choice. While on an airline flight, Mac witnesses passengers dying mysteriously.
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#50 - Buried Alive
McMillan and Wife - Season 4 - Episode 3
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
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