The BEST episodes directed by Michael Katleman
#1 - The Last Good Day
Tru Calling - Season 2 - Episode 4
When Jack meets a strange woman at the train station and then witnesses her death, he's the one she turns to for help. Tru's day also rewinds, though, and she discovers how Jack is able to be in the right place at the right time.
#2 - Two Weddings and a Funeral
Tru Calling - Season 1 - Episode 20
In the first season-finale episode, Tru and Jack--her sworn nemesis--find themselves on a collision course with the stakes as high as they can be after the body of Tru's brother, Harrison, asks for help. Despite his friendship with Harrison, Jack vows to ensure Harrison's death when the day rewinds. Tru struggles to protect her brother, and the game is on as an epic battle of life and death between Tru and Jack is set in motion. But Tru's attempts to save Harrison will lead to the shocking death of someone very close to her.
#3 - A Weekend in the Country
Dawson's Creek - Season 3 - Episode 12
They all organize to make a good impression after Pacey arranged for an influential travel writer to visit the Potter sisters' inn.
#4 - Perfect Storm
Tru Calling - Season 2 - Episode 1
Jack comes back to town two months after the events of the Season One finale. Tru's dad decides to move to town. Harrison has been at a new job for six weeks. Tru has started med school, thanks to Davis pulling some strings. When a young Harbor Patrol officer dies in a white squall while rescuing some students and asks for help, Tru has to compete against Jack to save her life.
#5 - Fear Itself
Everwood - Season 1 - Episode 22
Resentful at being forced to accompany Andy and Irv to a remote lake cabin, Ephram takes a small boat out alone and his inexperience leads to a serious accident and a night of terror for Andy. Meanwhile, Colin and his parents must decide whether to allow Dr. Brown to perform a second dangerous surgery; and Nina confronts her husband Carl after she accidentally discovers he is having an affair.
#6 - The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler
Life on Mars (US) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Is this vintage 1973 Sam Tyler real or not? Sam's unbelieving ears clearly hear a radio station announcing that Elvis will perform a concert in memory of his mother, but he's still not sure how or why he landed in these circumstances. Moreover, he doesn't have much time to think about his own predicament. A string of fatal robberies at AAA Money check cashing stores are baffling the 1-2-5, and Sam jumps headlong into the case, which features no forced entries and no witnesses. Even with Lt. Hunt strong-arming the lead suspect, it still takes an unexpected turn of events to make the squad to look within to solve the crime. At the end of the day Sam, in spite of himself, might even experience some true happiness - temporary though it might be.
#7 - Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead
Life on Mars (US) - Season 1 - Episode 5
A racial confrontation is triggered between the African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood when a young African American girl's body is discovered thrown from a rooftop. Working the case with Sam Tyler and the squad is the cop Sam considers his mentor in 2008 - a much younger Fletcher Bellow - who doesn't recognize his future protege. Tangling with the Black Liberation Army, who is intent on hunting down the Puerto Rican suspect first to levy their own kind of justice, Sam, Bellow and the detectives of the 1-2-5 are in a race against time if Angel Ramirez is to have any chance to answer for the crime. But in the end, Sam must battle the racial attitudes in his own precinct - most notably Lt. Hunt and Detective Carling - and a dramatic standoff on the same rooftop leads to gunshots being fired.
#8 - Rear Window
Tru Calling - Season 1 - Episode 18
When a male corpse with the same name as a female neighbor of Tru's comes into the morgue, Tru suspects identity theft. When the day restarts, Tru's investigation takes an unexpected turn that makes it difficult to sort out just who is the victim and who is the criminal. Meanwhile, Tru and Davis piece together some information about Jack, who hasn't been forthcoming about everything in his past.
#9 - Haunted
Tru Calling - Season 1 - Episode 5
When The body of medical student, Paige Sanders shows up at the morgue its up to Tru to change the events.
#10 - The Feud
Memphis Beat - Season 2 - Episode 10
Dwight must keep a pair of feuding families from shedding more blood when one of their relatives is found dead; Davey and Greenback discover that Dwight has a new girlfriend.
#11 - Time Out of Life
Jack & Bobby - Season 1 - Episode 15
A bad snow storms hits Hart, Missouri. Grace and Tom's relationship is exposed when a fellow professor catches them kissing in her office. Later in the evening, Peter turns to Grace for advice when he finds out Courtney is having sex with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Jack's relationship with Katie (guest-star Kate Mara, ""Everwood"") progresses. In an effort to become popular at school, Bobby and Warren (guest-star Dean Collins) decide to have sleep over and come up with a shocking idea to make the evening memorable. Jack, Courtney, Missy and Katie are also trapped together, where they play a game of dare and inevitably leads to Jack and Courtney's first REAL kiss together in front of everyone. Tom babysits Bobby and Warren's sleepover with the ""cool"" kids at Grace's house as he coerced them into coming as they promised they would watch porn. But the plan backfires when the tape goes missing, the power goes out and everyone is trapped. Lastly, Grace and Peter are stuck in their offices on c
#12 - Get Real
Northern Exposure - Season 3 - Episode 9
A stranded bus of carnival performers brings romance to Marilyn, doubts about her future to Maggie, the mysteries of magic to Chris, and a break to the studious Joel; Shelly however, is pained when Holling becomes fixated on her large feet.
#14 - The Day of the Beast
Zoo - Season 2 - Episode 1
The animal attacks continue and the team discovers that the mutation has advanced further... rendering their cure ineffective. Now with the aid of an anonymous sponsor, the team head to Argentina to meet with a scientist who may have discovered the key to the mutation.
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#15 - What Doesn't Kill You
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 3 - Episode 1
Jane and Maura’s friendship suffers following the shooting of Maura’s biological father, gangster Paddy Doyle. Jane also finds herself in the middle of an Internal Affairs investigation. And her relationship with Agent Dean is exposed.
#16 - A New Day
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 5 - Episode 1
Jane works to solve the murder of a jogger; Jane tries to hide her pregnancy from her mother; Maura and Frankie face the aftermath of their kiss.
#17 - Tears of a Clown
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 4 - Episode 13
A kidnapper dressed as a clown re-emerges after 20 years; Jane's relationship with Casey grows more serious; Maura inadvertently gets in the middle of another relationship.
#18 - Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Scoundrels - Season 1 - Episode 3
A threat forces Logan to show his true West family colors; a local strip club hires Heather.
#20 - Life is a Rock
Life on Mars (US) - Season 1 - Episode 17
When Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home.
#21 - Give Me a Torch
Star-Crossed - Season 1 - Episode 11
Sophia suspects Taylor is pregnant with Drake's baby. Sophia tells Emery and the two research Atrian pregnancies. Vartan stumbles upon the information and mistakenly believes Emery is pregnant, so he kidnaps her. Vega tasks Teri with finding the Iksen's key, which they need to complete the Suvek. Meanwhile, Roman and Castor testify before the Hwatab about the day the spaceship crashed. Also, Eric shares a nice moment with Julia.
#22 - The Third Lorelai
Gilmore Girls - Season 1 - Episode 18
Paris is outraged when she discovers that Tristan asked her for a date at Rory's urging. Emily opposes Trix's offer to set up a trust fund for Rory, afraid she'll never see Lorelai again.
#23 - Hammers and Veils
Gilmore Girls - Season 2 - Episode 2
Rory stresses out about being too far behind on extracurriculars, which puts a strain on her relationship with Dean. Henry expresses an interest in dating Lane. Richard and Rory patch up their differences.
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#24 - Where Have You Been, Charming Billy?
Scoundrels - Season 1 - Episode 4
Billy dies from being stupid. Wolf comes home for the funeral and takes full advantage of the situation. Cal is suffering big time due to the loss of Billy. Logan and Cal do not see eye to eye.
#25 - Fortune's Fools
ER - Season 3 - Episode 13
Carol takes an interest in an ailing police sergeant who's hiding a degenerative ailment. She also meets with a newspaper reporter to air the complete story on her fatal mistake and is subsequently suspended. Peter runs into a pregnant Carla, upsetting the rest of his day. Carter, already fed up with Benton's lackluster attitude, accepts a transfer to Hicks' team after Peter fails to show up at a lecture the two were to give. Jeanie and Greg Fischer disagree on whether to inform a patient's spouse that he's suffering from neurosyphilis. Weaver and Mark each take a trio of prospective students through a day in the ER, with widely differing results. Chuny and Mark break up; however, he has another date by the end of the day.
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#26 - Family Matters
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 5 - Episode 18
When a woman finds her husband has been murdered, the ensuing investigation reveals that the victim may have been living a double life.
#27 - Christopher Returns
Gilmore Girls - Season 1 - Episode 15
Wanting to play a greater role in Rory's life, Christopher settles in for his visit. When his parents arrive in Hartford for a visit, Emily invites everyone to Friday night dinner, which turns out to be an unqualified disaster.
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#28 - Madams and Madames
Eastwick - Season 1 - Episode 3
Haunted by the ghost of her daughter's ex-boyfriend, Roxie questions her sanity and turns to a local psychic for help. Declining Darryl's offer of a high-powered - and high-priced - divorce attorney, Kat decides to give Raymond another chance, but is she only delaying the inevitable? Joanna's quest to find the truth about Darryl leads her to a new and different scandal, and then she realizes her discovery was no accident. Meanwhile, Roxie's daughter, Mia, reluctantly attends her boyfriend's memorial, and though Bun has lost her memory, her mind is consumed with a mysterious symbol.
#29 - A Tree Grows in Trinity
American Gothic - Season 1 - Episode 2
Fleeing deep into the woods from Sheriff Lucas Buck, young Caleb takes refuge in an eerie, abandoned hunting lodge and is terrified when he discovers a dying man who has been tortured and is being held prisoner there.
#30 - Family Therapized
Life UneXpected - Season 1 - Episode 10
After Lux and Bug are picked up by the police for a curfew violation, Lux's social worker decides it's time to meet with Cate and Baze to reevaluate their custody of Lux. During a meeting with the social worker, Cate, Baze and Lux agree to put on a happy face to ensure that Lux isn't placed back in the foster care system. Meanwhile, in an attempt to show Lux that she supports her, Cate offers to find Bug a job at her radio station, but winds up disappointing Lux once again.
#31 - The Interrogation
Designated Survivor - Season 1 - Episode 6
When shots ring out at The White House during a Governors Summit, President Kirkman’s plans at electing a new Congress are thrown into turmoil. Agent Hannah Wells continues investigating the Capitol bombing and makes one of her most shocking discoveries yet.
#32 - That Damn Donna Reed
Gilmore Girls - Season 1 - Episode 14
An evening of "The Donna Reed Show" reruns infects Dean and both Gilmore Girls. Lorelai helps Luke spruce up the diner with a fresh paint job and new curtains. Sookie and Emily force Lorelai to confront her feelings for Luke.
#33 - No Place Like Home
Zoo - Season 3 - Episode 1
It has been 10 years since mankind was sterilized. Along the West Coast, a huge barrier has been built to prevent the penetration of hybrids into the north of America. In this area, Jackson Oz as Dylan Green is working with Tess as a friend trying to get as many people as possible into safe zones. Abraham is working on a drug that would reverse the effects of gas. Aba and Dariel visit Clementine, daughter Mitche. She managed to get her evidence that her father was alive and that she was in the Siberian Stasi Chamber. Jamie is trying to get all the members of the Shepherd Organization responsible for sterilizing humanity and expanding hybrids, which is why he is in conflict with detective Logan.
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#34 - The House Guest
The Vampire Diaries - Season 2 - Episode 16
Katherine's mind games cause everyone frustration, but Elena, Stefan and Damon realise that her knowledge of Mystic Falls' history could be crucial to their survival.
#35 - It Takes a Village
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 5 - Episode 9
The team's skills are tested when the mummified remains of a woman are found; Jane tries to recover from a devastating loss.
#36 - Best Christmas Ever
How to Get Away with Murder - Season 1 - Episode 11
School is back in session after the holiday break and the entire university is talking about Annalise's missing husband. The Keating Five continue to be questioned by the police and we find out exactly how they've been dealing with the guilt of killing Sam. Meanwhile, Annalise tries to keep things business as usual by taking on a new client who is in the mob, but Hannah continues to pressure her for answers.
#37 - The Scott Effect
The Last Ship - Season 3 - Episode 1
CNO Tom Chandler is sent to Asia to investigate a possible mutation of the Red Flu. Captain Slattery and his crew deliver a cure to Southeast Asia but there may be an unexpected threat in the region.
#38 - We Are Family
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 4 - Episode 1
A community parade turns deadly; Maura does not seem like herself; Lt. Col. Casey Jones reveals some shocking news.
#39 - Two Sailors Walk Into a Bar...
The Last Ship - Season 1 - Episode 8
With Chandler and Tex caught in a dangerous situation, Slattery has to step into the role as commanding officer. Torn between a mission with the fate of the world at stake and a Captain (and friend) in danger, Slattery has to find a way to get his people back without losing the most important asset: the vaccine prototype.
#40 - Compass
Falling Skies - Season 2 - Episode 3
The 2nd Mass moves into an airport hanger. The Berserkers plan to get rid of Tom. While dealing with a loss of one of its own, the 2nd Mass receives a promise of hope from a mysterious visitor.
#41 - Fathers and Sons
Justified - Season 1 - Episode 12
In order to work for the Marshal's Office, Raylan's dad Arlo agrees to become a double agent and work for Bo Crowder. Meanwhile, Bo sets up a meth lab to get back in business.
#42 - No More Drama in My Life
Rizzoli & Isles - Season 3 - Episode 15
Dr. Hope Martin returns to ask Maura for a life-altering favor. Jane worries about the impending spinal surgery for Lt. Col. Casey Jones, and Tommy shows off baby T.J. But all gets shoved to the side when a building collapses, trapping loved ones inside.
#44 - The Ins and Outs of Inns
Gilmore Girls - Season 2 - Episode 8
Lorelai and Sookie gear up their plans to open an inn but encounter a roadblock when the owner of their dream location refuses to sell the property. The unexpected arrival of Mia, the absentee owner of the Independence Inn, complicates matters even further.
#46 - Everything's Coming Up Mellie
Scandal (2012) - Season 3 - Episode 7
Mellie is still trying to recover from the public backlash of the last year so she decides to do a hard-hitting news interview. Meanwhile, as Cyrus continues to plot against Sally Langston, we learn how Fitz, Mellie and Cyrus became a team. Back at OPA, Huck continues to push Quinn away, but Quinn's bloodlust could get her into some dangerous situations.
#47 - Red
Dark Angel - Season 1 - Episode 10
The trouble starts when Logan recruits his favorite biker chick to protect a Federal witness with vital info on local corruption. But the operation hits a snag after Max realizes that the guy she's guarding is a face from the not-so-distant---and very painful---past, and that those who want him dead may have plans for her as well.
#48 - Halloween
Beverly Hills, 90210 - Season 2 - Episode 13
Brenda, Dylan, Steve, Donna and Kelly attend a Halloween party. Donna dresses as a mermaid; but her fins inhibit dancing, walking, and trips to the bathroom. Kelly's seductive costume catches the eye of a college student. She goes upstairs to talk with him, then becomes uncomfortable. The guy accuses her of leading him on and tries to rape her. Brenda and Donna enter in the nick of time, and Steve punches out the guy. Brandon stays home to hand out candy (actually raisins), but Emily comes to the door with her niece and nephew. Brandon joins them for trick-or-treating, but he and Emily get caught up in their conversation and temporarily lose the kids. David blows off the party and finds Scott hiding out in the bushes. They reminisce about the old days while waiting for an egg fight that never materializes. Music: 'Romantic' by Karyn White; 'Lily Was Here' by Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart; 'The Monster Mash' by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett, 'Sweet, Sweet Baby' by Erasure, '24/7' by Dino.
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#49 - SOS
The Last Ship - Season 1 - Episode 7
After picking up a distress call near Jamaica, Chandler and a small team stage a rescue attempt. But a surprise attack leave Chandler and Tex stranded at sea. Slattery and the crew search desperately to find their lost at sea Captain and his comrade, hoping to do so before their enemies beat them to it.
#50 - It Happened in Juneau
Northern Exposure - Season 3 - Episode 21
Joel foresees sophisticated delights when he travels to Juneau for a medical conference but winds up with good old Maggie, meanwhile back in Cicely, Chris finds himself tongue-tied with the return of Bernard, his cosmic doppelganger.