The BEST episodes directed by John Erman
#1 - Keep Me from the Church on Time
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 4
Uncle Martin takes a photo of Tim with his future telling camera. They are both shocked by the resulting photo showing Tim at the alter with an unidentified woman who's back is to the camera.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Part 3
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 3
The year is 1914 and Will and Cynthia Palmer's daughter Bertha heads off to college, eventually meeting and falling in love with a poor but hard-working fellow student named Simon Haley. Meanwhile Jim and Carrie Warner's son has become a doctor but because he is black, he is prevented from treating his own dying white grandfather, Colonel Warner. Bertha returns home from college for break to find the Ku Klux Klan has come to town and Simon returns to his home in Georgia to learn that his share-cropping family can't afford his tuition anymore and his father is ready to put him back to work in the fields. Simon manages to find work as a Pullman porter on the railroads to earn money during the summer, but also attracts a benefactor - a kind journalist who he served on a train route. In 1918, rather than attend graduation, Simon enlists in the army and heads off for war, heeding the words of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, but leaving behind a stunned and grief-stricken Bertha.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Avenue C Mob
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 12
Disguised as a 70-year-old, Martin becomes a night watchman.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - To Fly or Not to Fly
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 11
Sister Bertrille tries to keep from flying off during solemn ceremonies.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Part 1
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 1
It has now been 12 years since Chicken George and his family left their plantation in Virginia and arrived in Henning, Tennessee. The year is 1882 and the era of Reconstruction of the south and substantial progress for the newly-freed slaves, is coming to an end with the implementation of Jim Crow laws throughout the state. George's son Tom Harvey has been asked to travel to Memphis to meet with members of the Colored Republican Party Club, a group of local black politicians who are trying to come up with a new election strategy in light of the changing times. Meanwhile Tom's oldest daughter takes a liking for and wants to marry a young mulatto man, much to Tom's disapproval. The white son of a local attorney and adviser to the railroad eschews his father's profession in favor of poetry and falls in love with a local college-educated black school teacher brought to the town by Tom to open a colored school. However when they marry, he is expelled from his family and their presence in town raises the ire of the townspeople.
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Roots - Season 1 - Episode 2
Despite a violent rebellion, the slave ship Lord Ligonier completes its voyage and Kunta Kinte endures the indiginity of an Annapolis slave auction. Fiddler, the slave in charge of Kunta's training, becomes his only friend, a friendship that's tested when Kunta plans his escape.
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My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 3
Tim and Martin return, via time machine, to early Hollywood — where Martin once starred as a sheik.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Part 7
Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 7
In the exciting conclusion, it is now 1960 in Henning, Tennessee, 10 years after Alex's wife Nan left him, and Alex attends the funeral for his great Aunt Elizabeth. He has finally succeeded in a writing career by publishing free-lance articles including interviews with Minister Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam and George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party. Alex lands a contract to ghost-write the autobiography of Malcolm X, although Malcolm is assassinated before the book is published. Alex then realizes that he should write a book about his own family and he obsessively researches his origins, alienating his new girlfriend in the process. After identifying the language of the words passed down to him, he manages to get an advance that will allow him to travel to Gambia, West Africa. Once there, he is taken by boat to the Griot for the Kinte clan. After the Griot retells centuries of history, Alex finally hears the name of Kunta Kinte and the story of the drum that lead to his capture into slavery, marking the end of his search for his family's roots.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Doggone Martin
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 25
Martin turns himself into a liquid and is lapped up by Tim's dog.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Pay the Man the $24
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 32
Tim tampers with history when he goes back in time and talks the Indians out of selling Manhattan.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - The Hot Spell
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 20
To save his casino from gangsters, Carlos turns it over to the convent.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Marriage, Sgt. Carter Style
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 5 - Episode 17
Carter decides that Gomer might not re-enlist if he were married, so he tries to push the private into a quick wedding.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Change is Gonna Do Me Good
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 4
Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Puce Albert
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 27
Facing court-martial for high living during Marine Reserve maneuvers, Carlos is saved by Sister Bertrille.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Bloodline
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 20
Kimble works as a kennel man for Max Bodin, a breeder of prize-winning Irish Setter show dogs, and whom is currently putting his kennel up for sale. Max's son, Johnny, and Johnny's wife Cora discover that one of the dogs has developed hip dysplasia which means all of the dogs in the bloodline will likely inherit the condition and be worthless as show dogs. But they keep the news from Max and plot to live off the sale. But when Kimble stumbles onto their plan, they have him investigated.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - TV or Not TV
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 19
A short circuit in Martin's transmitter puts him and Tim on nationwide TV.
Watch Now:Amazon#26 - A Tattoo for Gomer
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 5 - Episode 15
Gomer's practical joke backfires when Lou Ann appears to like his fake tattoo.
#27 - Rain, Snow and Rice
That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 21
Ann and Donald are invited by their friends, Jerry Bauman and Margie, to a private wedding in Connecticut, but they get snowed in. There are only two rooms available in the inn that they are staying and the boys share one room and the girls share another. The problem begins with Jerry and Margie decide to stay together leaving Ann and Donald in a room together, much to the chagrin of Ann's parents.
Watch Now:Amazon#29 - My Sister, the Sister
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 21
Carlos Ramirez falls for Sister Bertrille's sister.
Watch Now:Amazon#30 - Man from Uncle Martin
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 20
Martin helps Mrs. Brown's brother build a robot that does household chores.
Watch Now:Amazon#31 - A Tenor's Loving Care
That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 24
Ann helps Donald get a story about a famous opera singer, if only he can control his romantic urges.
#32 - Nightmare
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 10
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
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That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 19
Ann hires a maid for Donald, but who she hired makes her jealous.
#35 - Tim and Tim Again
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 13
Double trouble - Martin's duplicating machine creates two Tims.
Watch Now:Amazon#36 - The O'Hara Caper
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 15
Tim is arrested for theft when he's forced to help two jewel robbers.
Watch Now:Amazon#37 - Who's Got a Secret?
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 16
Rumors spread that Martin is working on a secret Government project.
Watch Now:Amazon#38 - When a Martian Makes His Violin Cry
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 23
A gypsy curse causes Mrs. Brown to drop anything she picks up.
Watch Now:Amazon#39 - These Boots Weren't Made for Walking
That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 18
Ann is a salesperson for shoes that somehow fall apart over time.
#40 - Sister Lucky
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 22
A gambler thinks Sister Bertrille brings him luck.
Watch Now:Amazon#41 - My Nut Cup Runneth Over
My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 31
Martin's molecular reassembler turns a squirrel into a human.