The BEST episodes directed by Lewis Allen
#1 - TOD-5 (aka The Carrier)
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 5
A government scientist, Paul Morse, plans to sell a biological weapon, TOD-5, to terrorist Alpha Group led by Dr. Flory. The IMF must get to Morse's contact, Gordon Holt, and get him to take them to Alpha HQ. When Holt gets to the small town where he is to get the weapon from Morse, he finds the town under quarantine and people dying - then he starts showing (IMF-faked) symptoms of the disease. He grabs Mimi, who is supposedly immune, and takes her with him to Alpha HQ and infects them to force them to come up with an antidote - the IMF trail him and arrest the whole operation.
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#2 - Goodbye My Love
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 22
Kimble becomes romantically involved with former recording star Gail Martin, unaware that she know his secret, and the $10,000 reward for his capture. Gail and her other lover, Alan Bartlet, are plotting to kill Alan's wealthy wife Norma, a former golf pro now confided to a wheelchair, and put the blame on Kimble so they can capture him and collect the reward money, and Norma's vast wealth.
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#3 - The Puppet
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 13
Paul Ostro is the head of the Ostro family and a Syndicate member - after a hunting accident leaving him heavily bandaged he announces a new $100 million Syndicate plan and the IMF must find out what it is. It turns out brother Leo had Paul killed and has a substitute placed which he uses to convince four mobsters to contribute a million each into "Paul's" mystery scheme. Jim and Casey get Leo involved in an oil deal with a corrupt minister (IMF guest agent Khalid) while Barney as a cook gives "Paul" a fake heart attack - Leo has to play along and Willy gets the fake Paul out and they replace him with their own IMF agent Hank and steal the $4 million from the other gangsters. Leo's rival Gault finds the money and a ticket, and when Leo tries to get "Paul" to clear him, the IMF agent tells a different story. Leo has to reveal his plan to use the $4 million as the basis for a massive counterfeiting operation and take Gault and the others to his printing presses - the IMF move in and capt
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#4 - The Other Side of the Coin
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 16
While working as a clerk in a small grocery store in Ocean Grove, California, Kimble becomes embroiled in a conflict between his co-worker Larry Corby and his father Ben, who's the town sheriff. When Ben refuses to support Larry and his pregnant girlfriend, the boy dons a mask and robs the store. After being shot during the escape, Larry drives off while Ben gives chase. Larry runs off the road and Ben is shocked to find his son as the holdup man. Ben then hides Larry and after recognizing Kimble, makes a bargain: if Kimble can save his son's life, Ben will set him free.
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#6 - The Second Witness
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 23
Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness was killed before he could testify, and the killer is still at large.
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#7 - One Went to Denver
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 25
Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank robber who is on the run with his gang.
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#10 - The Grasshopper
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 23
A condemned killer being transported by train murders a marshal and takes Mark hostage.
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#11 - The Case of the Haunted Husband
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 19
Claire Olger is hitchhiking because her purse was stolen at the bus station and is picked up by Michael Greeley. He loses control of the car and has an accident due to his being intoxicated. Arriving at the scene of the accident, the police find Claire in the driver's seat. The district attorney's office questions her but do not believe her story about another driver. Her friend, Doris Stephanak, asks Perry Mason to help. When Perry is unable to contact Claire at her hotel, he goes there and finds Michael Greeley dead in her room. The police accuse Claire Olger of murder, realizing Michael Greeley fits the description of the man she claimed was driving the car and believe she had motive and opportunity.
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#12 - The Trial
Mission: Impossible - Season 1 - Episode 18
Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power. Rollin, disguised as Dan, meets with a woman who sold out her boyfriend/Western spy. Meanwhile, Briggs himself is with the Deputy Minister, a rival of Varsh's and a reformer. Rollin-as-Briggs leaves behind evidence implicating himself, and Varsh has the real Briggs arrested. Kudnov, who knows Dan is innocent, insists that Varsh let Briggs go, so Varsh orders him killed. The IMF team makes the Deputy Minister vanish - now they have to get the Deputy Minister and the girlfriend into court to testify and make Varsh look foolish.
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#14 - The Pendulum
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 20
Gunnar Malstrom leads the Pendulum, a secret terrorist group that is planning Operation Nightfall, targeted at the U.S. government - the IMF must stop it and bring Malstrom to justice. Casey dates Malstrom and brings him to World Resources Ltd., an IMF front company and supposed rival organization to Pendulum, and offer him a job if he leaves Pendulum. The IMF use a hidden polygraph to determine that Pendulum plans the assassination of a general - they fail to learn that the assassination has already taken place and Pendulum plans to have their general blow up the Chiefs of Staff in an explosion. Jim tries to warn the fake general, who asks him to sit in on the meeting. Thanks to a planted transmitter, the IMF discover Pendulum's true plan and Jim gets rid of the bomb just in time.
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#15 - The Challenge
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 28
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.
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#16 - Gabrielle
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 14
In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has been killed in a wagon wreck, learning later that her grandfather is a bitter hermit who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 13
Matt Toddman, the new foreman of the Barkley's logging operations to dinner, is discovered to be Matt Bentell, the former commander of a prison camp where Heath had been held.
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#18 - The Case of the Violent Vest
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 24
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though horny Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.
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#19 - Stranger at Night
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 36
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.
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#21 - The Fear Merchants
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 20
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his largest role to date, speaks normally in the presence of his fellow countrymen, but reverts to broken English when with the Cartwrights.
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#22 - The Last Trophy
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 27
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves and murderers. During one early scene, after listening to Ben reminisce, Hoss says, "Always like to hear Pa get wound up. He don't do it often."
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#23 - A Stranger Passed This Way
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 23
Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with a Dutch couple. The woman regards him as a substitute for her dead son, and unless he recovers his memory, the other Cartwrights fear he will leave them forever.
#24 - Inger, My Love
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 29
Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is befriended by a girl named Inger, the fiancee of the tavern owner who gave him a job.
#25 - The Fence
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 29
While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting to exact revenge on the Cartwrights' friend for starving POWs during the Civil War.
#26 - The Fugitive
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 20
Adam goes to Mexico to find out how the son of a family friend was killed, only to learn the man is still alive.
#27 - The Outcast
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 17
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace with an ex-con friend of Joe's, Clay Renton, and it's up to Ben to straighten everything out. First episode to have a chapter title after the cast credits.
#28 - A House Divided
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 18
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Frederick Kyle, a Southern sympathizer. He was an old friend of Joe's mother and viewers also discover that Joe's middle name is Francis.
#29 - The Case of the Guilty Clients
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 28
Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found dead with three bullet holes in his body and Jeff and Lola are the two prime suspects. Now they battle to cover for each other .
#30 - The Ransom
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 15
David Vincent and Bob Torin capture an alien leader, whom they hope to show to the authorities as proof; however, the leader's alien comrades foil David's efforts.
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#31 - Showdown
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 1
A young bank robber hires on at the Ponderosa in order to keep his gang informed of the law's efforts to discover their whereabouts.
#32 - Thunder Man
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 31
Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stopped to render aid to the woman's uncle after he suffers a stroke. Unable to talk, the only clue he can offer the investigating Cartwrights is a scrawled title of the song the assailant was whistling — "New Orleans Woman."
#33 - Rich Man, Poor Man
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 32
Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when he strikes it rich.
#35 - Dark Star
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 31
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out of it". The first episode of the series with a supernatural flavor, directed appropriately enough, by Lewis Allen, who made the classic ghost film "The Uninvited".
#36 - Rain from Heaven
Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 3
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
#37 - The Blood Line
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 15
Ben feels responsible for the son of a man he was forced to kill, but the young man is determined to get even. A professional gunman offers to do the job for him.
#38 - Elizabeth, My Love
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 33
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate in the merchant marines and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard.
#39 - The Pit
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 19
Julian Reed calls upon David Vincent to help him expose aliens who have infiltrated The Slaten Research Center. By the time David arrives at the scene, Julian's having hallucinations. Is Julian truly a lunatic, or are the aliens behind his mental lapse?
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#40 - The Storm
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 19
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years before, by the father of Adam's mother.
#41 - A Severe Case of Matrimony
Bonanza - Season 9 - Episode 33
An untalented gypsy girl tries to get the Cartwrights to finance her career as an opera singer.
#42 - Riot!
Bonanza - Season 14 - Episode 5
While at the Nevada State Prison to inspect conditions, Ben is taken hostage in a riot. The riot is an attempt by frustrated inmates to expose horrific conditions at the prison. While Joe and Candy plan to resolve the situation, Ben begins a friendship with Griff King (who isn't exactly receptive), and helps communicate the inmates' demands to the warden and state prison board.
#43 - Desert Justice
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 23
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure their employee reaches Los Angeles alive. In one scene, Adam is dressed in black for the first time. In another, Hoss, upon seeing Southern California for the first time, remarks, "It sure ain't never gonna amount to much". Later, Adam makes an amusing reference to the chow Joe says he was forced to eat in "The Last Hunt".
#44 - The Tin Badge
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 13
Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.
#45 - Marie, My Love
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 20
When Cochise falls on Joe, Ben cannot help but remember that is how Marie Cartwright was killed. He thinks back to meeting her in New Orleans in a rather confusing story not quite in synch with details discussed in "The First Born".
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#46 - Clarissa
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 32
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
#48 - Honest John
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 13
Jamie forms a bond with a bum and his tame crow. Before long, Jamie suggests they repair an old wagon and leave the Ponderosa.
#49 - Justice
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 17
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
#50 - Alias Joe Cartwright
Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 17
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.