The BEST episodes directed by Kim Manners
#1 - Apostle of Death
Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 4
Whether it's a religious cult or a commune, Matt must rescue a girl who is being bilked out of a $3 million inheritance by the evangelist leader who plans to murder her after he has gained control of the cash.
#2 - The Woman in White
Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 2
A former peace officer is jailed and under arrest for murder, but he might not have committed the crime.
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#3 - Spider in the Tower
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 20
The Men in Black return to destroy the M.A.N.T.I.S. and the Port Columbia's leaders using their latest weapon.
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#4 - Reunion
Harsh Realm - Season 1 - Episode 5
Captured and pressed into a work camp in Harsh Realm, Hobbs and Pinocchio meet a VC of Hobbs' dying mother and try to rescue her and escape without getting rendered by the sadistic warden and his zombie trackers. In the real world, Sophie comforts Hobbs' real mom in her last days.
#5 - Death Trap
Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 15
Matt must rescue C.J. and Roy from small town oil embezzlers.
#6 - The Hunted
Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 24
Marquis Duval Sr. kidnaps C.J. and holds her hostage. As ransom, he demands that Houston arrange for his son, whom Houston considers a terrorist, to be released from prison.
#7 - Let Our Angel Live
Charlie's Angels - Season 5 - Episode 17
While tracking an embezzler, Kelly is badly wounded and taken to the hospital. Bosley and the other Angels keep a vigil for Kelly, and reminisce about her adventures with the group.
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The Commish - Season 2 - Episode 16
The Eastbridge crime rate rises when a retired mobster and his son come to town.
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Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 21
Bloodied gunfire victim Eric Brandt lands in a passing car, hands the driver a codebook, and gives her a message for Houston: Fear for Tomorrow. Brant dies when the car blows up. His assailants then go after Houston's buddy Vince Novelli.
#10 - Love You to Death
Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 3
A deranged woman, who Matt briefly dated, stalks him and will kill anyone who gets between them.
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#11 - All Hell Breaks Loose (2)
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 22
After the fight between Jake and Sam, Dean has to make the ultimate sacrifice for his brother. Meanwhile the Yellow-Eyed Demon has his new servant and plans to unleash the hordes of Hell.
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#12 - Devil's Trap
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 22
When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.
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#13 - If You Could See What I See
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 13
Not wanting to continue cleaning up the estate, Mark hires Millie Denton, his former prison cellmate's widow, as a maid. Meanwhile, Hardcastle begins looking into the suspicious death of a lawyer named Charlie Clarkson. Taking over Charlie's practice, Hardcastle interviews Loni Summers, a model that had previously hired Charlie to handle her divorce. Discovering the divorce is now off, Hardcastle checks into the background of actor Dex Falcon, Loni's husband. Investigating, the judge discovers that Falcon had secretly been receiving millions of dollars from an attorney named Wendell Price. In the meantime, Millie, who claims to be a psychic, has a vision of Mark's murder. Ignoring Millie's warning, Mark proceeds with the case. To Mark's regret, he is captured by Price, shot and left for dead. Thanks to Millie, Hardcastle locates Mark in time to save his life. Next, based on the evidence Mark had gathered, Hardcastle and the police, having already taken Falcon into custody, movie in and arrest Price. As the episode ends, Millie, shaken up by her visions, decides to quit and move in with her sister.
#14 - No Rest For the Wicked
Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 16
Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.
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#15 - Lazarus Rising
Supernatural - Season 4 - Episode 1
Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?
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#16 - 2245
21 Jump Street - Season 4 - Episode 16
Hanson tries to convince a juvenile inmate on death row to appear in a film intended to keep his peers out of prison.
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#17 - The Truth II (2)
The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 20
When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".
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#18 - Dreamland (1)
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 4
While being detained near the famed "Dreamland" Area 51, a strange craft flies overhead and Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 "Man-in-Black". While the other agent has fun in Mulder's body, Mulder himself finds it difficult to fit into someone else's life, especially a shadowy one. Mulder contacts Scully about the body swap and tries to get her the flight data recorder from the UFO test flight, but his alter ego uses Mulder's FBI persona to have him arrested.
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#19 - Existence (2)
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 21
Mulder, Doggett and Skinner attempt to fight off the alien replicants, and they find a connection to the conspiracy that leads into the FBI. Reyes and Scully head to a remote farm to safeguard the birth of Scully's child.
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#20 - Jus in Bello
Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 12
FBI Agent Henricksen finally captures Sam and Dean, but is caught in the middle when a horde of demons descends on the small-town jail to eliminate the brothers.
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#21 - Pilot (2)
21 Jump Street - Season 1 - Episode 2
Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
#22 - Soldier of Misfortune
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 5
The strength of the M.A.N.T.I.S is put to the ultimate test when Hawkins has to stop a combat robot from completing it's mission-killing innocent people.
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#23 - Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 15
Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.
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The Commish - Season 1 - Episode 4
After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them.
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Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 13
Matt is convinced that the man who kidnapped and tormented a little boy is the same man that kidnapped and tormented him when he was a boy.
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#26 - Mystery Spot
Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 11
Dean is killed after looking into a case about the disappearance of a man with Sam. The next morning, Sam is shocked to find Dean alive and is hit with the realization that he is reliving the day before.
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#27 - Without (2)
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 2
As the search for Mulder intensifies in the Arizona desert, Gibson Praise leads Scully to believe that she is truly closer to her target. Kersh informs Doggett that he has been assigned as Mulder's successor on the X-Files.
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#28 - In My Time of Dying
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 1
In the aftermath of the car crash, the surviving Winchesters go to the hospital, where one is stalked by a Reaper while another must consider sacrificing himself to save the others.
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#29 - Scarecrow
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 11
Sam and Dean's father sends them to a small town where the citizens sacrifice couples to a pagan god which manifests through a scarecrow.
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#30 - Blood Dance
Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 19
With Herb becoming more insistent about their agenda, Roger schemes to get Mel to fund the military coup of Isle Pavot. Unfortunately, Mel is convinced that Cabra, the man Herb wants to put into power, has put a voodoo curse on him and orders Vinnie to find a woman who can remove the curse. Realizing that Mel is a major stumbling block to the mission, Roger sends him over the edge by smashing the crystal that contains Mel's soul. Despondent, Mel asks Susan to kill him, and she does. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)
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#31 - Field Trip
The X-Files - Season 6 - Episode 21
When the bodies of a couple who have been missing for less than a week are discovered to have been reduced to bone, Mulder suggests that recent paranormal phenomena in the area may have caused the accelerated decomposition.
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#32 - This is Not Happening (1)
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 14
When Teresa Hoese (who Scully and Mulder met just before Mulder's abduction) is found in a desert after enduring alien testing, Doggett alerts Scully that this could have something to do with Mulder and his whereabouts. Skinner joins them and they travel to the hospital where Teresa is clinging to life by a thread—and Scully soon realizes this is exactly what's going on with Mulder.
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#33 - Heart
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 17
Sam and Dean investigate a brutal death and discover that the killer is a lycanthrope: a werewolf.
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#34 - Release
The X-Files - Season 9 - Episode 17
When an FBI cadet with amazing profiling skills approaches Doggett, Reyes, and Scully with a lead on a suspect in a series of recent murders, he claims the same killer is responsible for the death of Doggett's son. The agents find themselves wondering if his knowledge of the deaths is because of his obsession with the cases he has studied at Quantico, or if he is in some way involved in the murders.
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#35 - Redux II (3)
The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 2
The Cigarette-Smoking Man helps Mulder to obtain Scully's cure and also lets him see his real sister who doesn't turn out to be as happy to see Mulder as he would've liked. In return for this, the Cigarette-Smoking Man asks that Mulder quit the FBI and work for him in the Syndicate where he could have power and respect which Mulder turns down, deciding to stay on the side of justice. While Scully's cure appears to have worked, the Cigarette-Smoking Man faces his own enemies and disappears, presumed dead.
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#36 - Shadow
Supernatural - Season 1 - Episode 16
Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.
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#37 - The Sixth Extinction (2)
The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 1
While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.
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#38 - Die Hand Die Verletzt
The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 14
The ritualistic murder of a teenager in a small town gets Mulder and Scully caught up in a secret occult practice within the local school's PTA and a substitute teacher with strange powers.
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#39 - Pilot (1)
21 Jump Street - Season 1 - Episode 1
Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
#40 - You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful and You're His
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 9
While judging the Miss Sixteen beauty contest, Hardcastle becomes wrapped up in the life of car salesman Ed Whitman, the pageants grand marshal. Worried when her boyfriend Victor Hernandez reveals that his uncle disappeared while sneaking across the Mexican-United States border, Melissa Whitman, Ed's sixteen year old daughter and one of the pageant's contestants, goes to Hardcastle for help. Although Victor's uncle does eventually turn up alive, Hardcastle decides to find out what happened. With Victor's reluctant help, Hardcastle discovers that a man was murdered during a transfer of illegal immigrants across the border. Thanks to Victor, Hardcastle also learns that a lawyer named Antonio Morales, who claims no knowledge of the murder, has been helping to arrange illegal immigrations. Before the judge can get more information from Victor's uncle, the illegal immigrant is murdered. With Morales' help, Hardcastle goes undercover as a perspective immigrant. The judge's plan works and the illegal immigration ring is stopped. At the same time, Hardcastle discovers that Ed Whitman is the mastermind behind the illegal operation. Returning to the United States, Hardcastle and McCormick help the police take Whitman into custody. As the episode ends, Melissa loses the pageant to a girl named Sara Jane Rose.
#41 - Situation Normal
Over There - Season 1 - Episode 8
The squad is assigned to protect workers installing a pipeline. Meanwhile, Mrs. B is AWOL in Hollywood mixing with some questionable characters and Bo tries to run on his prosthetic leg.
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#42 - Home
The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 2
A baby is found buried alive in shallow ground and appears to have birth defects resulting from generations of inbreeding, leading Mulder and Scully to a reclusive family who have a history of inbred children.
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#43 - Folie à Deux
The X-Files - Season 5 - Episode 19
Mulder is held hostage inside an office where a man claims his boss is a monster and has clouded all their minds while he turns them into zombies one by one, which is disbelieved until Mulder opens his mind and allows himself to see it too.
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#44 - Essence (1)
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 20
Mulder and Doggett join forces to investigate the arson attack on a genetics lab where one of the doctors suspected of experimenting with alien impregnation is killed.
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#45 - Requiem
The X-Files - Season 7 - Episode 22
Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding 'The Project'. Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
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#46 - Zero-Sum
The X-Files - Season 4 - Episode 21
Skinner destroys evidence to cover up a woman's death and poses as Agent Mulder to complete the task. Mulder finds out about Skinner's deception and confronts him, and Skinner reveals that he is working for the Cigarette-Smoking Man in order to obtain a possible cure for Scully's cancer.
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#47 - The Magnificent Seven
Supernatural - Season 3 - Episode 1
Seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, are released into the world and the brothers must combat them with the aid of a married Hunter couple.
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#48 - Apocrypha (2)
The X-Files - Season 3 - Episode 16
Mulder pursues Krycek (unaware of the alien that has taken over his body) to get back the DAT tape containing the MJ documents. Meanwhile, the shooting of A.D. Skinner uncovers evidence that could lead Scully to her sister's murderer.
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#49 - Hardcastle for Mayor
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 14
As the episode begins, wealthy businessman J.J. Norcross asks Hardcastle to run for mayor. Meanwhile, after city councilman Herb Austin goes head-to-head with Mann over a parks bill, a bomb explodes in the councilman's office and Austin is killed. Despite his campaign staffs assistance that he concentrate only on the election, the judge decides to look into Mann's murder. Deciding to help the judge, Mark sneaks into Mann's office and locates a map of possible park development sites. Checking out one of the marked locations, Hardcastle and McCormick discover an illegal toxic waste dump. Pursuing their investigation, Hardcastle and McCormick uncover proof that Mann had been bribed to change the site of the new park so as to cover up the illegal dumping. When Birdy Fletcher, the site's guard, asks to see him, Hardcastle realizes that he is probably being set up. As expected, Norcross, the mastermind behind the illegal operation tries to kill the judge. To Norcross' horror, a prepared Hardcastle and McCormick, turn the tables and close down the operation. In the process, Hardcastle discovers that Norcross only back his mayoral campaign so as to split the votes and give Mann the advantage. Later, although Hardcastle loses the election, he takes some comfort in the fact that Gilmore will most likely do a good job.
#50 - No Exit
Supernatural - Season 2 - Episode 6
Sam and Dean investigate the slayings of blonde women and find that the ghost of the first known serial killer in US history is responsible. Jo disobeys Ellen's wishes and follows them along, and is captured by the ghost.
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