The BEST episodes directed by Jesse Hibbs
#1 - The Evil Men Do
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 14
After Kimble saves his boss' life, the man (a former mobster), is determined to repay the debt to Kimble by killing Gerard. After he learns that Gerard has discovered Kimble's whereabouts, he leads the Lieutenant into a deadly trap. Can Kimble save Gerard in time?
#2 - The Terry Morrell Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 30
After the Sheriff escorts Ben Morrell and his son Terry to the wagon train, the members find Ben Morrell and his son very antisocial: the two can't even tolerate each other. One woman wants to adopt Terry believing he is being mistreated.
#3 - The Case of the Weary Watchdog
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 9
This is the episode where Della asks Perry how far he would go for a friend and then asks for $25,000. Della needs the money for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a ""weary watchdog."" The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Janet claims she only hit him once and Perry believes her. Perry takes the case knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory. There is a surprise in the plot, when a Red Chinese slave market is uncovered.
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#4 - The Case of the Positive Negative
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 28
Retired general Roger Brandon is set to head an anti-crime commission to investigate racketeering in a notoriously corrupt town. Rackets boss George Emory claims to have compromising photos of Brandon's young wife, Laura. Emory threatens to launch a smear campaign against Laura unless Brandon refuses the assignment. Brandon calls Emory's bluff and accepts the assignment but then Emory turns up murdered. Guess who gets charged with the crime?
#5 - The Case of the Hateful Hero
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 4
Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.
#6 - The Case of the Carefree Coronary
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 6
The Safeline Insurance Company notices an increase in heart attacks among their policy holders. The company suspects fraud and hires Perry and Paul to investigate. When Paul goes undercover as a construction worker, he almost doesn't survive the assignment.
#7 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 2
Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?
#8 - The Case of the Silent Six
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 11
Police Sgt. Dave Wolfe warns Joe Oliver to stay away from his kid sister, Susan. Now Susan's been beaten up in her apartment, Oliver's been shot to death, and Dave is being charged with murder. Dave says someone knocked him out and used his gun on Oliver, and when Perry investigates, he discovers that six people in the building heard Susan's cries, but did nothing to help her.
#9 - Colorado Sheriff
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 38
Matt and Chester find Rod Ellison shot and paralyzed on the prairie and return him to Dodge for surgery. Ben Witter abrasively advises Matt that he is a deputy sheriff from Pueblo who has come to Dodge to arrest Ellison for robbery, but Matt is suspicious of Witter's refusal to produce a valid arrest warrant.
#10 - The Rex Montana Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 35
On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that almost cost them their lives and one man his sanity.
#11 - The River Crossing
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 12
A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train must face on the one side a swollen river they must cross or a Comanche chief on the other who seeks justice.
#12 - The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 4
This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.
#13 - Marshal Proudfoot
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 18
Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.
#14 - Gift of Water
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 21
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
#15 - The Case of the Polka Dot Pony
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 12
A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.
#16 - Don Matteo
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 7
Matt's old friend, Esteban Garcia, tracks a man into Dodge and plans to kill him for stealing his wife.
#17 - The Case of the Reluctant Model
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 6
Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?
#18 - The Case of the Capering Camera
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 15
Mystery clouds Mason's search for the murderer of a photographer who was shot while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't pull the trigger.
#19 - The Peace Officer
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 6
Dillon heads to Dodge to get a new man to replace the brutal, corrupt sheriff of Tascosa, with hired killers in pursuit who are unaware that the sheriff's ex-girlfriend has joined up with Dillon.
#20 - The Case of the Feather Cloak
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 19
In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.
#21 - Friend's Pay-Off
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 1
Matt is summoned to help an old friend, Ab Butler, who has been shot in the back and left for dead. However, Matt faces a difficult situation when Ab's partner shows up and tells his side of the story.
#22 - The Mescalaro Curse
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 30
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
#23 - The Case of the Crippled Cougar
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 22
Mike Preston is a bitter man who despises Hugh Jamison because he mistakenly believes Jamison stole $100,000.00 from him and is responsible for him being crippled. Trying to entrap Jamison, Preston makes a mistake and is set up for murder by the real thief.
#24 - The Case of the Mischievous Doll
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 30
Dorrie Ambler breaks into Perry's office so he can verify who she is. She won't give details but says she is mixed up in some scheme. Della spots a gun in her purse. When the man who hired her is killed, she is charged. But, who is she?
#25 - The Case of the Midnight Howler
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 16
Barney Austin is the king of late night talk radio in Los Angeles. One night during his on-air rants, Barney gets a note to call his boss, Kevin Steele. While talking to Steele on the air, the audience hears Steele begin arguing with someone and then two shots ring out.
#26 - The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 19
An art dealer and his girlfriend are arrested for a two murders related to a series of hijacks. Paul goes undercover to ferret out the hijacking ring and Perry finds himself staring face down the barrel of a gun pointed by a killer even he never considered.
#27 - The Case of the Prankish Professor
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 15
On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.
#28 - The Bear
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 25
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
#29 - The Case of the Candy Queen
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 3
Things aren't going too good for the self-styled candy queen, Claire Armstrong, these days. Boyfriend Mark Chester steals her candy formula in order to pay back his gambling debts and Harry Arnold is blackmailing her. Then there's cousin Wanda. She'd like nothing better than to see Claire convicted when Arnold is murdered so that she can takeover the business.
#30 - The Case of the Final Fade-Out
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 30
A nasty actor with a lot of enemies is murdered. Perry gets his accused killer off the hook but then HE turns up dead and an aging, eccentric actress is blamed for that one. Are there two murderers on the loose or are both the work of one person?
#31 - The Case of the Lawful Lazarus
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 21
Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.
#32 - The Case of the Golfer's Gambit
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 18
Chick Farley is a low rent, semi-talented golf pro at an exclusive country club. He now mooches off his wife's money and occasionally blackmails members of the country club in order to keep his position. One night, ole Chick discovers that someone has been stealing from the pro shop. He calls club member Hamilton Burger at his home to inform him of the theft. While on the phone, somebody takes a sand wedge and bashes in Chick's skull. Chick is no great loss to humanity but, as usual, the wrong man is charged with the crime.
#33 - The Case of the Greek Goddess
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 25
Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.
#34 - The Case of the Laughing Lady
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 1
Carla Chaney is caught seemingly red-handed at the scene of the murder of her ex-boyfriend. Perry agrees to take the case pro bono after three other attorneys drop out. Carla's only hope is an unseen woman she claims was also present at the scene. According to Carla, this woman had a sinister laugh.
#35 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 16
Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.
#36 - Kitty's Rebellion
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 22
An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.
#37 - The Case of the Latent Lover
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 11
An investment broker tops off a series of peculiar actions by commandeering a taxi to rob a bank.
#38 - The Case of the Ruinous Road
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 14
The foundations of a large company are shaken when the chief engineer uncovers evidence of budget tampering.
#39 - The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 28
Perry helps Josephine Kempton after Della buys the diary of a girl who committed suicide. Her ex-boss has been telling people she is a thief so she sued. Perry has to rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss.
#40 - The Case of the Deadly Debt
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 25
Danny Talbert, a LA cop, resigns when a mobster he is investigating contacts his family after Danny's dad dies. Danny's brother, Carl, works in his club and has been in trouble before. Danny is seen by Perry leaving the dead man's cabin.
#41 - The Case of the Runaway Racer
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 10
Test driver Pete Griston cracks up one of ace car builder Pappy Ryan's vehicles. Pappy accuses Havey Rettig of tampering with the car and files charges against Rettig and Griston. Then Rettig is killed and Griston is found standing groggily over the body.
#42 - The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 21
A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.
#43 - The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 11
Grover Johnson manages somehow to talk his much younger bride Eula into living with him on a barren spread of ranch land. Needless to say, Eula hates it and can't wait to sell the property. Along comes wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff who's ready, willing, and able to purchase the property. But is this big Texan really who he appears to be? Or is it just an elaborate real estate swindle cooked up by Eula? Either way, both Eula and Barcliff end up dead and Grover finds himself charged with Eula's murder.
#44 - The Coward
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 26
A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.
#45 - The Case of the Reckless Rockhound
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 10
Reba Burgess's control of her late husband's mining company is threatened when a man turns up with a partnership agreement -signed by Burgess before he died.
#46 - The Case of the Surplus Suitor
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 19
Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.
#47 - The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 29
Aspiring screenwriter Herbert Simms submits his first teleplay to scumbag producer Charlie Corby who tries to use the manuscript as his own. Corby's scheme comes a cropper when he gets fatally whacked over the head with a whiskey bottle after a party. Herbert happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and is seen running from the scene of the crime. Guess who gets arrested for murder?
#48 - The Case of the Golden Venom
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 17
A woman hires Mason to nullify a clause in her late husband's will that disinherits her if she reopens the investigation of her son's death.
#49 - The Case of the Potted Planter
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 27
A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.
#50 - The Night of the Lord of Limbo
The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 15
A crippled Confederate, Colonel, Vautrain, plans to use his power to travel through time and use Jim and Artie to alter history.