The BEST episodes directed by Laslo Benedek
#1 - The Evil of Adelaide Winters
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 16
Near the end of World War II, a phony medium named Adelaide Winters cheats grieving families of soldiers killed in battle by pretending to communicate with ghosts. When she meets a wealthy widower named Edward Porter and finds out that his son was killed in battle, she insists that he join her seance. Edward reluctantly joins and begins to believe in Adelaide powers. Eventually, he proposes marriage to her so that the two of them can be with his son. Adelaide accepts the proposal but the honeymoon doesn't go as planned.
#2 - Just for the Record
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 15
Taken prisoner, Sgt. Saunders is transported until the prisoners are freed by Resistance fighters. With the help of Annette (Micheline Presle), who provides ration coupons in exchange for a ride, they buy gasoline to transport the Allied soldiers to Paris. Annette resists providing further help when they reach Paris, but agrees to take in Saunders for a few nights. Her lover, Maj. Kurt Hoffman (Alf Kjellin), complicates things.
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#3 - The Chateau
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 19
Doc, Braddock and others take refuge in a French château owned by wealthy aristocrat Count de Gontran and his lovely daughter Gabrielle. The Count wants no part of them and orders them off the property, but a large German force moves in to use the château as an artillery observation post. The Americans are taken prisoner. The Count sees a kindred spirit in the seemingly cultured commander Major Richter, but doesn't realize that Richter wants the château's treasures—including Gabrielle.
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#5 - The Case of the Fugitive Nurse
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 22
Janet Norris is charged with poisoning her doctor husband just before he flew to his death in his private plane. Further investigation reveals that Dr. Norris did not die in the plane crash and that he is in Mexico with his nurse mistress. The man killed in the plane was actually one Dave Kirby. This means that Janet still has to stand trial for murder.
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#6 - Thanatos Palace Hotel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 3 - Episode 15
After Robert Manner's attempt to kill himself is ruined by a fireman's net, he is invited to join a suicide club headquartered at the Thanatos Palace Hotel. The members of the club have agreed to kill each. The catach is that the victim never knows who the killer will be and never knows when the murder will occur. Robert joins the club, but falls in love with one of its members Ariane Shaw. He gets a new lease on life and decides to undermine the club in order to prevent his own death.
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#7 - The Case of the Demure Defendant
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 16
Nadine Marshall lives with her Uncle Martin and Captain Hugo. She comes home excited with the news of her engagement to John Locke. When she tells her Uncle Martin, he shows her some papers about her family which upset her. When Nadine visits John Locke, she takes some cyanide pills without John noticing. Later that evening Nadine makes her Uncle Martin's nightly hot chocolate and he dies shortly afterward. Nadine is accused of murder when she makes a taped confession that she killed her uncle.
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#8 - The Case of the Lonely Heiress
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 20
Heiress Marilyn Cartright places an ad in a magazine in order to find love and companionship. In reality, Marilyn is looking for the con artist who swindled and drove her sister to suicide. Marilyn eventually finds the man, Charles "Country Boy" Barnaby, and turns on her ample charm in his direction hoping to get the goods on him. But when Barnaby is found poisoned to death the police theorize that Marilyn killed him as an act of revenge.
#9 - The Case of the Cautious Coquette
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 18
Perry has to navigate his way through a hornet's nest of murder, hit-and-run, secret marriage, and a missing witness in this episode.
#10 - The Case of the Envious Editor
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 13
Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.
#11 - The Case of the Provocative Protégé
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 8
Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the police.
#12 - The Case of the Barefaced Witness
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 20
The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former bank president embezzled. Paul eventually finds the money but he also finds a dead body as well. Perry arrives on the scene in order to straighten things out.
#13 - Then the Drink Takes the Man
Mannix - Season 1 - Episode 14
Undercover at a health farm for boozehounds.
#14 - The Case of the Red Riding Boots
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 11
Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.
#15 - The Case of the Fickle Fortune
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 15
Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while going through a recently deceased old woman's home. Duncan took the money on a lark and was planning to return it the next day but his shifty cousin decides to purloin the bundle. Duncan is then accused of theft and later murder.
#16 - Come Watch Me Die
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 17
While working as a farm hand in a small Nebraska town, Kimble witnesses the arrest of a local man, named Bellows, whom is suspected of a double murder. Kimble finds himself 'deputized' by Deputy Bowers to help transport Bellows to the county jail, along with four witnesses whom saw Bellows fleeing from a farm house which was the scene of the crime. Although Bellows convinces Kimble that he (like Kimble with his wife's murder) is an innocent victim of circumstantial evidence. But the townsmen remain unswayed. That night when the men get drunk and decide to lynch Bellows, Kimble helps him escape. But Kimble is betrayed when Bellows, whom really did kill the farm couple, escapes and holds another farm couple hostage.
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#17 - The Man With the Power
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 4
An experimental brain surgery gives a mild-mannered professor telekinetic powers and unleashes the dark side of his unconscious mind.
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#18 - Wolf 359
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 8
When a scientist recreates the environment of a distant planet, its accelerated rate of evolution suggest a shocking future for mankind.
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#19 - Long Live the King
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 15
When the King of a small but friendly nation is assassinated, Seaview is assigned to take the young Crown Prince back home to assume his throne. Neither Nelson (who gets turned out of his own cabin) nor Crane are used to handling children. Help arrives in the form of a mysterious flute-playing old man who befriends the boy after he is picked up at sea.
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 23
New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil. Now, he has returned to America to get the $200,000 he had hastily stashed in a hideout before fleeing. The Captain tells Mizo he has exactly 11 days, and then the ship sails back to Rio de Janeiro, with or without him. It's a foggy night; a Brazilian sailor gets off the ship before Mizo, and 4 Chicago hoods mistake him for Mizo. They shoot the sailor; a policeman shoots one of the hoods, Paul Santos. Back in Chicago, the 3 remaining hoods report to their boss, top gangster Vince Majesky-- who makes his dough off of protection, prostitution and narcotics. He owns a nightclub called the Silken Trap; his office is upstairs. Majesky is plenty sore about the botched job; he gives Denny Cole one more chance to get Johnny Mizo, or he'll be dumped in the river! Meanwhile, in the nightclub, beautiful Claire Vale is doing a dance number for the customers. Eliot Ness a
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#21 - Tourist Attraction
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 13
The capture of a dolphin-like creature stirs up trouble in a small republic as the country's dictator plans to use the thing to attract tourists.
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