The BEST episodes directed by John English
#1 - Brother Thaddeus
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 7
Former n'er do well Willie Caine (Albert Salmi) is now a monk, Brother Thaddeus. He is involved in establishing a mission and boy's school on property owned by Judge Garth and Trampas and Steve Hill are helping to build the mission. A gang, including a former crony of Thaddeus', robs the train and Sheriff Abbott (Ross Elliott) locks him up as an accomplice. Thaddeus manages to escape and with the help of Trampas sets out to track down the gang and exonnerate himself.
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#2 - The Nancy Palmer Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 24
A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the wagon train so that they won't be suspected when the husband pulls off a bank robbery nearby.
#3 - A Distant Fury
The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 25
Ed Fraser (Howard Duff) returns to Medicine Bow, having served time for robbing the local lumber yard. He had been convicted based largely on Steve Hill's testimony but the stolen $30,000 was never recovered and his unknown accomplice, Helen Blaine (Ida Lupino), whose daughter (Joey Heatherton) Steve has been dating, had escaped. When there is what he perceives as an attempt on his life, Steve makes no secret of the fact he is convinced Fraser is out for revenge. When Fraser is killed Steve becomes the prime suspect. Although he avoids trial due to a lack of evidence, Steve becomes a social pariah and sees that the only way out is to solve the crime.
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#4 - A Killer in Town
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 4
A bounty hunter named George Wolfe (Broderick Crawford) comes to Medicine Bow, having been summoned by a now dead informant who told Wolfe a fugitive is in town. Although the informant had left a letter revealing the fugitive's identity in a lock box at the bank it can not be accessed until the circuit judge can return and issue a court order. Trampas, who had accidentally become involved with some felons two years before, thinks he is Wolfe's quarry and Wolfe is suspicious of him. Before matters can come to a head, however, an outbreak of typhoid fever intervenes.
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#5 - Extradition (2)
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 11
Matt finally catches up to killer Charlie Hacker in Mexico, and has make a deal with the greedy Mexican police to get Hacker back to the border, with revengeful Mexican bandits in pursuit.
#6 - The Case of the Jealous Journalist
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 1
The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper itself.
#7 - Tobe
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 4
Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.
#8 - The Case of the Torrid Tapestry
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 23
Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.
#9 - My Brother's Keeper
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 3
Yadkin is seriously wounded in a Indian ambush and insists that the Indian who wounded him was none other than Mingo.
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#10 - The Spiked Rifle
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 9
Mark is kidnapped as he and his father try to protect Banker Hamilton's gold.
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#11 - Four-Leaf Clover
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 24
An idealistic schoolteacher (George Gobel) incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
#12 - Extradition (1)
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 10
When fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker escapes from Matt in Texas, Matt follows him right into Mexico without extradition papers and has to deal with corrupt officials there.
#13 - The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 9
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters (Fay Spain, Nina Shipman).
#14 - Not in Our Stars
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 12
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general (Walter Pidgeon)
#15 - The Returning
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 14
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend (Pat Hingle) murdered three Cherokee youths.
#16 - The Price of Friendship
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 19
Boone assists a boy hanging by his feet from a tree (Kurt Russell) and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan; guests Lloyd Nolan, Lane Bradford.