The BEST episodes directed by Lawrence Dobkin
#1 - Track of the Dinosaur
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 17
Tarzan is marked for murder when he clashes with a corrupt government official and his female co-conspirator. The pair are using the natives' beliefs in a monster to drive them away from a rich mineral deposit.
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#3 - Conspiracy of Terror
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 4
Terminally ill John Riley took the blame for killing Sheffield's wife, as Sheffield promised to provide for Riley's wife. But Riley gave an interview to Terrence who is murdered thereafter. Working for Terrence's publisher Barnaby traces Sheffield and Long.
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#4 - Soldiers of Misfortune
The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 13
Colt and Howie 'join up', as they go undercover to try and nail a master criminal who is a mercenary trainee. In the process, they meet a woman journalist with her own reasons for pursuing this story.
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#5 - Divorce - Murderer's Style
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 7
Knowing his rich wife Linda wants to divorce him, Charlie Cord hires Wilson to kill Linda on a parking lot, while Charlie shoots ""the mugger"" as an unwanted witness. Linda's aunt Mrs. De Roche hires Barnaby to investigate. Mrs. Wilson blackmails Charlie.
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#6 - Trial Run for Death
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 5
Curt Fowler discovers his brother-in-law, race car champion Mark Landy, kissing Lori Wright. As he threatens to tell his sister, Mark kills him and tries to fake a trial run accident. When Barnaby comes on to scene, Lori wants to make profit from being a witness.
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#7 - Mother and Son
Dynasty - Season 2 - Episode 17
Fallon and Jeff's baby has a surgery and things are looking better. Jeff discovers Claudia's ""leak"" to Cecil. Matthew and Lindsay disappears without trace in the jungle. Blake finds out about all the ""father"" trouble. Alexis blackmails the groundsman to tell Krystle he was wrong about Alexis shooting the horse, though Krystle won't believe him. Fallon and Jeff argues about custody of their child.
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#8 - Act of Duty
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 16
Roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) of a slain police officer agrees to be bait in a rape investigation. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.
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#9 - Helpful
Emergency! - Season 2 - Episode 12
Roy has an argument with his wife and Johnny tries to help. The firemen rescue a man from precarious auto wreck. A brilliant doctor's erratic behavior causes concern at the hospital. Doctors diagnose a woman's heart condition. Paramedics rescue a dog from a roof and two children lost in a rapidly flooding storm drain.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 11
The 11 members of the Walton family are together for Christmas This would be the last time that all of the Waltons would be together
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#11 - The Late Baby
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 2
Malloy goes on a date with Officer Wells' niece, and Malloy learns just how over-protective her uncle is. Patrol calls include a prowler in a heavily wooded neighborhood, a flower vendor with a stack of unpaid tickets, check on a suspicious gardener, and a high-speed pursuit with a green Corvette leads to an unexpected ending.
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#12 - Nobody Loses All the Time
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 10
After Kimble spots Fred Johnson at the scene of a fire, he gives chase-but stops to help a woman who has been hit by a vehicle. After Kimble helps her get to a hospital, he discovers that she is Johnson's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Johnson has contacted her and told her to contact the police. Eventually, Gerard arrives at the hospital, as a result of a tipoff, and tries to lay a trap for Kimble.
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#15 - See Some Evil...Do Some Evil
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 9
Harry Warren is shot by Stanley Lambert, the seemingly blind pianist at "The Offside" club. Barnaby finds out that larger amounts from Warren's account did not go to his mistress Jenny. He tries to expose Stanley as a person with eyesight and a blackmailer.
#17 - Murder in the Doll's House
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 7
While working on a revealing book Harry Doyle is killed. Looking for the missing writer and his manuscript Barnaby meets Harry's friend Nancy. Finally he spots the missing pages in the doll's house of Craig Woodridge's aunt. Does Craig have a shady past?
#18 - The Pal-Mir Escort
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 2 - Episode 4
When the Prime Minister of a small country has a heart attack while negotiating peace amongst it's surrounding neighbors, she is selected to received the first bionic heart. Steve is assigned to protect her while she is transported to the secret hospital where the procedure will take place.
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#19 - Munster Masquerade
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 1
Marilyn's boyfriend invites Marilyn and her family to a masquerade party. Marilyn goes as Priscilla her boyfriend as John Alden. Lily is Little Bo Peep, Grandpa is Napoleon, and Herman is King Arthur dressed in armor. Marilyn's boyfriend's father (Dressed As Frankenstein) is insulted when Herman compliments him for not wearing a costume :). At the end of the night Herman with a prize for wearing a Frankenstein costume under his suit of armor. Lily and Grandpa feel insulted because that is Herman's real face! However, Herman doesn't realize that he is being insulted.
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#20 - Family Portrait
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 13
The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the average American family. Grandpa is insulted by being labeled ""average."" He disappears, jeopardizing the family's photo opportunity and the large amount of prize money that came with it. When a journalist and photographer arrive at the Munster home, Herman and Lily think they are burglars.
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#21 - A Trout in the Milk
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 14
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
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#22 - Virus
Emergency! - Season 2 - Episode 4
A sick lady with a monkey provides the key to a mysterious, highly contagious, and deadly virus that strikes both Dr. Brackett and John. Meanwhile, the firemen rescue a boy from a treehouse and a man from a scaffold.
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#23 - Black Market Baby
Dallas - Season 2 - Episode 5
Sue Ellen is fearful Pam will produce the next Ewing heir before her. Sue Ellen is desperate, and decides to adopt. When she encounters obstacles, she decides a quicker method is required, and goes to extremes with a 'black market' baby. This deal is going to cost Sue Ellen cash, and decides she should meet the mother. Sue Ellen forms a maternal relationship with Rita Briggs, the mother of the unborn child.
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#24 - Autumn Croakus
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 10
Grandpa is feeling lonely and depressed so he contacts a matrimonial agency to find a mate. The agency sends over a nice looking elderly woman who find Grandpa to be delightful. She turns out to be the Black Widow: she makes her living by marrying her suitors, getting them to sign a life insurance policy naming her as beneficiary, and then murdering them.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 23
A hot headed Ben has a falling out with John and Ben takes a job as a used car salesman . Ben seems a natural until the family questions some of his sales techniques.
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The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 3
Boone Walton comes back to Walton's mountain and gets in trouble with the law. Boone gets released in Jason's custody. Daisy Garner also comes back to Walton's Mountain to visit. She and John-Boy never married.
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#27 - Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 19
Gilligan discovers a jungle boy living on the island. He shows them a hole in the ground that causes objects to float, and the professor theorizes that it is expelling either helium or hydrogen. He immediately sets to work building a large balloon, with the hopes of carrying one of them back to civilization.
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#28 - Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 9
Herman has a twin brother Charlie who is a con-artist. He comes to town and ends up stays at the Munster home, which doesn't make Herman too happy. Charlie claims to have made an invention that takes uranium from seawater, he's looking for an investor. Herman thinks that the whole thing is a scheme to get a Lily's $5000 inheritance, he ends up being right.
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The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 25
A former girlfriend asks Heath to undertakes a dangerous trip to revolution-torn Mexico to save her rebel Mexican husband before he is killed.
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#30 - Look-Alikes / The Winemaker
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 14
In "Look-Alikes" A salesman wants to trade places with someone who looks like him and leads a more exciting life. In "The Winemaker" A nun submits her wine for her financially pressed church and townspeople, hoping that first prize will be enough to keep the people and abbey afloat.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 1
The first edition of The Blue Ridge Chronicle is published by John-Boy. He publishes a story about Ben and it makes his mother mad.
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#32 - The Handy Man / Tattoo's Romance
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 8
In "The Handy Man" Holly Ryan is a small-time bookie who has to testify against gangster Spider Sloat who is out to kill him. His santuary ends up being a Christian Orphanage. In "Tattoo's Romance" a pushy aunt who is trying to get her niece a singing career exploits Tattoo who is enamoured of the niece.
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#34 - Aunt Bee, the Swinger
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 6 - Episode 4
Aunt Bee and a retired politician experience a very fast-paced relationship.
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#35 - Kidnapped
Dallas - Season 2 - Episode 13
Kidnappers going after J.R Ewing, end up taking Bobby instead. The kidnappers want to use Cliff Barnes as the go between, but J.R cannot stay out of it. J.R overhears Cliff setting up a time to do the switch and he and Ray try to save Bobby.
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#36 - Dealer's Wild
Emergency! - Season 1 - Episode 5
John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim.
#37 - The Stripper / The Boxer
Fantasy Island - Season 2 - Episode 17
In "The Stripper" a rich Daddy's girl decides to become a Burlesque dancer using the name Lulu LaVerne, much to her father's dismay. In "The Boxer" Billy Blake who has a short time to live decides to have one last bout.
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#38 - Weird Wednesday
Emergency! - Season 1 - Episode 8
John is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift: a parachutist lands in a tree, an obese man collapses while jogging, an 80-year old woman breaks her ankle while dancing, a man can't stop the hiccups, a boy tries to cryogenically freeze himself, an golfer is bitten by a snake, a prostitute brings in a customer suffering from chest pains, and John is injured during the rescue of a drunk driver.
#39 - Mascot
Emergency! - Season 1 - Episode 1
A woman who was injured in her car accident is worried about her dog, yet John makes an agreement with Dixie and Roy, to take care of the dog, which complicates his life. At the hospital, Doctors treat a girl who has breathing problems and a man who shows up drunk. Dixie tells both the orderly and security to find a young lady, who's a close friend. Once found, she also talks to the close friend, whose man is a diabetic. At a party, when a man is experiencing chest pains, his guests thinks he's kidding. The paramedics rescue an injured hunter.
#40 - Day of Reckoning
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 28
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.
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#41 - The Wedding
The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 7
Mary Ellen surprises her parents saying that she and Dr. David Spencer are getting married. At the same time the family makes preparations, Dr. Curt Willard arrives and complicates matters.
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The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 21
A quilting is to announce that a woman is of marrying age. Grandma is determined to have one for her granddaughter Mary Ellen who is just as determined not to participate in what she considers an insulting custom.
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#43 - The Night of the Amnesiac
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 22
Jim is guarding a stage coach carrying the western states entire supply of smallpox vaccine when it's attacked and the drug stolen. While West, injured in the attack, struggles with amnesia, Artemus tries to find both his friend and the drug before a full-scale epidemic hits.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 14
Elizabeth has nightmares of an unknown experience of being stuck on the very top of a ferris wheel. Ben starts to seriously worry about his height.
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#47 - Charlie X
Star Trek - Season 1 - Episode 2
Stardate 1533.6: The Enterprise picks up Charlie Evans, a young man who is the sole survivor of a transport crash. Little do they know he possesses extraordinary mental powers which will come to pose a threat to the ship and its crew.
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#48 - The Exhibit A Raid
The Rat Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 22
Troy and Hitchcock capture Col Beckmann, an infamous Nazi POW camp commander. Beckmann denies that he is the man. In a fight Troy is knocked out and Hitch is wounded. Using Troy's gun, Beckmann kills the other German taken at the same time he was and then he exchanges dog tags with him--the places the gun in Troy's hand. Troy is thus accused of the murder. Moffitt and Tully do not arrive until after the deed is done. To prove to a court-martial board that Beckmann is Beckmann, the other Patrolers must break into a German HQ--at considerable risk to their own lives.
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#49 - The Seashore
The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 5
The Waltons have an encounter with a strange English girl while on a small vacation at the Baldwin sister's beach cottage. Ben stays home alone expecting to live the life of a carefree bachelor.
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#50 - Ghost of the Ripper
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 12
Someone is killing prostitutes, and the police are baffled. A prostitute who is a friend of Dan's is cautioned not to work but feeling that he already got his mark will strike so soon. At the police, a man named Phillip Grayson, an amateur criminologist, arrives who says that another prostitute will be killed before sunrise. And it was the one Dan spoke to earlier. He says that they are dealing with someone who is emulating Jack the Ripper, because each of the victims have the same name of the Ripper's victims. After stating that the Ripper's next killing will not take place for another month, they feel that they have time. But Grayson and Dan suspect that he may be losing touch with reality and will not wait for the month to carry out his next killing. Valerie, a policewoman and friend of Dan's, suspects the same thing so she sets herself as a prostitute with the name of the Ripper's next victim. Dan finds her and backs her up. What they don't know is that he is already there, hiding
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