The BEST episodes directed by John Brahm
#1 - Time Enough at Last
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 8
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
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#2 - The Zeke Thomas Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 11
Flint is out scouting with another member of the train, Zeke Thomas. They are looking for a watering place that the train used the previous year. What they find is that where a bare watering hole once was, now stood a town. They ride on in. Outside the saloon, they are met with an unwelcoming committee of townsfolk intent on making the wagon train pay for the use of the water. Flint goes on in to the saloon to try to reason with the town's Mayor, leaving Zeke to mind the horses. While Flint is talking to the Mayor, the Mayor's mistress is looking out of the saloon's window. She sees Zeke Thomas and leaves the saloon to talk to him. Flint tries hard but can't change the Mayor's mind so eventually he and Zeke return to the train. It looks as if there will be a confrontation - between the travellers and the townsfolk; between Zeke, his wife and the mistress. In coming across the town both the wagon train and Zeke Thomas find more trouble than they bargained for.
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#3 - The Riley Gratton Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 12
The train is halted. Flint McCullough is away, scouting. Then in rides a rangy young man with the gift of the gab who fought alongside the Major during the war. The Major takes a shine to him and invites him to stay, which suits this young man with the name of Riley Gratton just fine. It takes the wiley old Wooster to remind the Major that, when they were in the army, Gratton went missing shortly after the Major's prized golden spurs did. It seems Gratton has done the same again, only this time he disappears after selling some worthless land to the settlers. The Major decides to go after him to get it all back by hook or by crook.
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#4 - ZZZZZ
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 18
A queen bee with sinister intentions assumes human form in order to seek out the perfect mate.
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#5 - Murder Case
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 19
Lee Griffin is an actor who is reunited with his old girlfriend Diana at a London production of a play being financed by Diana's husband Charles Justin. Lee and Diana rekindle their old romance and hatch a plot to kill her husband who is a wealthy diamond merchant. Lee's first attempt to kill Charles fails, but he succeeds on his second try. On a trip to Paris, Lee assumes Charles's identity. Unfortunately, Charles was aware of Diana's unfaithfulness and murderer her before he wqas killed. He hid her body in a car which is being shipped to Paris. Customs officials find the body and Lee, who is posing as Charles, is arrested for the crime.
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#6 - Death and the Joyful Woman
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 27
Luis Aguilar is a rich wine merchant who disowns his son when he refuses to marry beautiful vineyard owner Kitty Norris. At a party, however, Luis agrees to give his destitute son $5000 if boy can drink him under the table. Drinking his own wine called "Joyful Woman" Luis humiliates his son by outdrinking him. After the contest, Luis hits on Kitty who resists and pushes him down the stairs. When Luis's secretary Ruth witnesses the event she jealously kills Luis in the hope that Kitty will be blamed. Ruth wanted Luis all for herself. Unfortunately for Ruth, a waiter discovers the body and figures out that Luis did not die in a fall. Ruth knocks him unconscious and puts his body into a wine vat. She begins to fill the vat slowly with water. Later the police find Luis's body and begin the search for the waiter who was also the son of George Felse, an investigating police officer. The police can't locate the waiter but discoverd a now guilt-ridden Ruth who has tried to commit suicide with
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#7 - The Trap
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 18
Peg is bored with her marriage to Ted Beal, a wealthy toy manufacturer. She decides to have an affair with his young assistant John. She tells her lover to kill her husband. When John drags his feet on the murders, she decides to take matter into her own hands. She commits her crime and discovers that she was only being toyed with.
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#8 - Kitty Cornered
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 29
Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.
#9 - Final Performance
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 14
Cliff Allen is a television writer who is on way to Hollywood. On the way, he picks up a pretty hitchhiker named Rosie. As he is driving, Cliff is stopped by the police and Rosie accuses him of kidnapping her. Cliff denies everything, but the police make him go into town. On the way to town, Cliff's car breaks down and he is forced to stay over night in a run down hotel run by a washed-up vaudeville actor named Rudolph Bitzner who dreams of a comeback. At the motel, Cliff runs into Rosie who, not only works at the motel, but also is part of Rudolph's act. He apologizes for what she did and tells him that she only did it to get away from Rudolph who is planning to marry her. She tells Cliff that she still wants to leave and asks him to take her. He agrees and when his car is fixed he heads over to Rosie's. There he finds Rudolph who tells him that Rosie changed her mind. After cliff insists on hearing this from Rosie herself, Rudolph takes him to his rehearsal hall where Rosie sits wait
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#10 - The Golden Door
The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 24
Trampas and Betsy Garth discover the body of a murdered neighbour, Mr. Keel. Trampas encounters a Latvian immigrant, Karl Rilke (Karl Boehm) and his pregnant wife Maria (Ilze Taurins), and discovers they have Keel's rifle although Karl claims he bought the gun from a man on the road. Judge Garth believes Karl innocent and that Keel's son Johnny (Robert Duvall) is the murderer, so he defends Karl at the trial.
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#11 - The Bellero Shield
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 20
An ambitious scientist, with hopes of taking over his father's corporation, creates a laser that inadvertently brings a gentle alien to earth.
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#12 - Hot Line
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 9
A Soviet satellite has crashed into the sea and its nuclear reactor must be disarmed before it causes a disaster. Two Soviet scientists come aboard Seaview to carry out the work -- but one of them is an imposter.
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#13 - Judgment Night
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 10
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
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#14 - Mirror Image
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 21
Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.
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#15 - Queen of the Nile
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 23
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
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#16 - The City Beneath the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 2
While investigating the disappearance of research ships in the Aegean, the Seaview is damaged by a bomb. Captain Crane goes ashore, and pretends to be a diver for hire. The Captain meets an ex-diver, now a mute due to a tragic accident, who claims to have seen a "city beneath the sea". Crane gets hired by the "bad guy", but his cover is soon blown. He is taken prisoner and nearly loses his life.
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#17 - The Waverly Ring Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 19
When secret "File 40" documents turn up outside headquarters, Waverly assigns Solo and Illya to find out if George Donnell is a double agent. Carla Drosten is too anxious to accuse Donnell and Solo must use special "Waverly rings" to try and expose the real double agent.
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#18 - The Foreign Legion Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 22
Illya parachutes out of a plane carrying THRUSH code documents, but lands in the desert at an abandoned Foreign Legion post run by Captain Basil Calhoun (Howard Da Silva). Illya is accompanied by a stewardess, Barbara (Danielle DeMetz) while Solo races to find them before THRUSH does.
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#19 - Person or Persons Unknown
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 27
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
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#20 - Shadow Play
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 26
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, Adam Grant tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
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#21 - A Nice Place to Visit
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 28
After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
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#22 - The Deadly Toys Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 9
THRUSH is so eager to get their hands on a boy genius that they murder the boy's father. But then they have to deal with the boy's madcap aunt.
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#23 - Don't Look Behind You
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 2
At a college campus, two young girls are killed while strolling through a nearby forest. Suspicion falls on a chemistry professor and an intense and brooding music professor named Edwin Volck. Harold, a psychology professor, convinces his fiancee Daphne to act as bait to help trap the killer. The trap succeeds and Volck is revealed as the killer. Harold, however, becomes worried. He believes that the killers bloodlust may have inspired other less obvious psychos on campus. Daphne realizes that Harold has been speculating about himself when he suddenly attacks her. She is rescued by the chemistry professor. The chemistry professor had been watching Harold's behavior since the beginning believing that he was a possible psychopath.
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#24 - You Drive
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 14
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
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#25 - Pen Pal
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 6
Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped?
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#26 - Dry Run
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 7
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.
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#27 - Mr. Dingle, the Strong
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 19
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
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#28 - The Four of Us Are Dying
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 13
A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
#29 - The Pieces of Fate Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 23
Jacqueline Midcult writes a best selling novel, The Pieces of Fate, which U.N.C.L.E. recognizes as being based on a series of missing THRUSH diaries. She loses her memory during a THRUSH attempt to kill her, and THRUSH agents Ellipsis Zark and Jody Moore, a book critic, plot to kidnap her and find out where she found the diaries. Solo and Illya take Jacqueline to a small town where her Uncle Charly and Aunt Jessie live, to try and revive her memory, but Zark and Moore follow and they all converge on the attic where the diaries are hidden at the same time.
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#30 - The Master's Touch Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 6
In Portugal, Solo is taken prisoner by Pharos Mandor (Jack Lord), a THRUSH chief ready to defect if his arch rival, THRUSH assassin Stepan Valandros (Nehemiah Persoff), does not kill him first. Solo meets Mandor's girlfriend, Cathy Welling (Leslie Parrish). Mandor tells Solo U.N.C.L.E. must kill Valandros or he will not defect, but his real aim is to eliminate Valandros and promote himself up the THRUSH ranks.
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#31 - Madame Mystery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 24
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.
#32 - Touché
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 35
A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.
#33 - A Night with the Boys
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 30
When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.
#34 - Mr. Henry Comstock
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 9
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidentally, guest star Jack Carson played a teller at the Comstock Bank and Trust in the 1942 film, "Gentleman Jim". This early classic was the second episode filmed.
#35 - The Cuckoo Clock
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 27
A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve weakens as she visits with an off-beat local.
#36 - The Five Forty-Eight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 5
Two passengers on a train leaving Grand Central station at 5:48 - one in fear of his past catching up with him at long last, the other intent on exacting a revenge which will restore the balance of power.
#37 - The Napoleon's Tomb Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 20
President Nasasos Tunik visits Paris. His assistant, Malanez, is determined to persuade the president that the French are his enemy, and arranges for various embarrassing and insulting incidents to occur. Solo and Illya are assigned to see that the visit goes smoothly, but Tunik falls in love with Candyce, and Malanez plans to disgrace Tunik by framing him in a plot to steal the body of Napoleon from his tomb.
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#38 - The New Exhibit
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 13
The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...
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#39 - The Hero
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 29
A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?
#40 - Insomnia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 30
Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.
#41 - The Jingle Bells Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 15
Solo and Illya must protect Premier Georgi Koz, a Khrushchev like European leader, on a visit to Mew York, Priscilla Worth is befriended by Loz and she takes him to a school for Santa Clauses run by Francis X. O'Reilly where just one of a series of assassination attempts against him must be thwarted by the two U.N.C.L.E. agents.
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#42 - The Maze Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 13
Oliver Barnes (Lawrence Mantaigne), a THRUSH agent, unsuccessfully tries to destroy a package. Solo and Illya suspect a connection between this and a new ""molecutronic gun"" developed by Dr. Fabray (William Marshall). Solo runs into Abbe Nelton (Anna Capri). Fabray turns out to be a THRUSH collaborator. The entire scheme was a plan to get Illya to take the ""gun"" actually a bomb, into U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in Trojan Horse fashion.
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#43 - Young Man's Fancy
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 34
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
#44 - The Throwback
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 20
A knight's tale of chivalry and honor sees two men vying for the affections of a beautiful woman fighting an honorable duel for her heart and hand. All is fair in love and war, but a little cheating is expected.
#45 - The Mad Magician
Svengoolie - Season 24 - Episode 7
A master magician murders his greedy employer, who legally owns every trick he can invent, and finds himself having to kill again.