The BEST episodes directed by John Astin
#1 - The Dark Boy
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 30
A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader.
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#2 - Meet the New Guy
CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 1
Ponch becomes the training officer of new rookie Bobby Nelson as they try to catch a pair of health-club thieves, and find a runaway teenage mother who has stolen back the baby she sold.
#3 - Murder by the Barrel
McMillan and Wife - Season 1 - Episode 1
On moving day, Sally discovers a dead body in a moving barrel. When she leaves to tell Mac, the barrel disappears. What happened to it?
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#4 - Stage Struck
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 10
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
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#5 - Rock Devil Rock
CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 4
Ponch and Bobby help a rock star who claims attempts have been made on his life.
#6 - Death is a Seven Point Favorite
McMillan and Wife - Season 1 - Episode 4
A mysterious note in a football begins a case.
#7 - A Fear of Spiders
Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 12
A phobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy--and obstinate--little guest crawling in his kitchen sink.
#8 - Brat Patrol
CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 17
Ponch and Bobby are on the hunt for a drug dealer, and get some help from a rag-tag gang of youngsters along the way.
#9 - The House
Night Gallery - Season 1 - Episode 9
A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life--but never dared enter--in a recurring dream.