The BEST episodes directed by Michael Vejar

The Elmo Ziller Story
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8.34
199 votes

#1 - The Elmo Ziller Story

Magnum, P.I. - Season 2 - Episode 21

Thomas is certain that Higgins is pulling some kind of prank when he supposedly meets Higgins' illegitimate half-brother Elmo Ziller, a guitar-plucking, 10-gallon-hat wearing Texan rodeo owner. Elmo was rumoured to have been killed in Texas recently, but with him seemingly still alive, his daughter hires Magnum to protect what is supposedly Elmo from the killers while his rodeo show is in Honolulu. Even though he is persuaded to take the case, Thomas is still certain that Higgins and Elmo are one and the same...

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Texas Lightning
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8.03
268 votes

#2 - Texas Lightning

Magnum, P.I. - Season 2 - Episode 18

It is Thomas’ birthday, and he is hired by expert card player Jeanie Lowry, nick-named ’Texas Lightning’ to act as her body-guard at a high stakes poker game on-board a luxurious yacht the coming night. Thomas is at first reluctant to take a body-guard job, but the large cash fee offered soon persuades him. But during the card game, Jeanie slips away and breaks into shady yacht owner Thompsons’ safe. The break in is discovered and Thompson is ready to kill both Thomas and her, but they manage to escape and wind up stranded on a small island. Magnum and Jeanie are presumed dead, but Higgins, T.C. and Rick refuse to believe it and set out to search for them – but Thompson looks set to find them first. Worse still, all along, Jeanie is far from being what she claims to be...

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...By Its Cover
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8.02
168 votes

#3 - ...By Its Cover

Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 21

Rod Crysler, Thomas's Navy buddy, is on parole and working as an encyclopedia salesman after serving time in California on a marijuana possession charge. The corrupt narcotics officer who arrested Rod follows him to Hawaii and threatens to send him back to prison on trumped up charges unless Rod serves a drug courier for him. Thomas offers to help his buddy out by delivering a box of encyclopedias Rod has sold, but comes in for a rude awakening when it turns out the package was filled with dope, not books, and that Rod has shortchanged one of the biggest dealers on the island. Finding it hard to believe that his friend is a dope dealer, Thomas seeks the help of Rod's parole officer in locating him and setting up a sting to ensnare the corrupt cop and the drug dealer, thereby clearing Rod's name.

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Try to Remember
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8.01
241 votes

#4 - Try to Remember

Magnum, P.I. - Season 2 - Episode 15

Thomas awakes from a bad car accident in which he drove the Ferrari over a cliff on his way home from dinner with his clients, for whom he was searching for a missing young woman; the accident leaves him with amnesia, and as he struggles to remember the events that lead up to the crash, he becomes the prime suspect when the girl he was looking for is found murdered, and one of his baseball caps is found at the scene of the crime.

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Forty Years from Sand Island
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8.00
138 votes

#5 - Forty Years from Sand Island

Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 18

As part of the research for an upcoming Robin Masters novel, Higgins contacts a witness in the 1942 murder of a prison camp inmate by a civilian guard, and soon after is badly injured in an accident when the Ferrari's brakes fail. When the mechanic confirms that someone has tampered with the car, Thomas sets out to find who wants to stop Higgins's research, and uncovers blackmail and shady politics at the center of the case.

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From Moscow to Maui
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7.97
248 votes

#6 - From Moscow to Maui

Magnum, P.I. - Season 2 - Episode 4

A year after escaping from Moscow in a Mig-30 jet, a Soviet defector hires Magnum to help his girlfriend defect from an Olympic track team visiting Hawaii. She is under close watch of undercover K.G.B. agents, and Magnum, T.C., and Rick, with assistance from Higgins, must carry out their plan with Military precision to free her...

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Foiled Again
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7.88
239 votes

#7 - Foiled Again

Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 8

William Troubshaw, an old adversary of Higgins who had made his life misery at school, married the girl he once loved, and eternally the bane of Higgins' life, has recently moved to the islands with his family, and they two old rivals are scheduled to compete against each other in an upcoming fencing tournament. But during the duel, Troubshaw is suddenly killed in seemingly a freak accident, when Higgins' foil sets off his hit indicator, causing him to be electrocuted. Higgins becomes suspect for murder when his fingerprints are found on the rewired scoring box. Magnum is certain that Higgins couldn't have been responsible for the killing, and sets about finding the real culprit behind the death, but the evidence and motives are stacked up against Higgins, and for some reason, he is refusing to call upon Robin Master's top lawyers and is just going along with the allegations...

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The Color of Truth
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7.81
432 votes

#8 - The Color of Truth

Quantum Leap - Season 1 - Episode 7

August 8, 1955: In the life of Jesse Tyler, an aging black chauffeur, Sam must face discrimination in the South while trying to prevent the death of an elderly white woman. Actions motivated by his own belief in equality cause violent reactions, as Sam tries to convince one of the pillars of the community to change her views on racism and the futility of trying to change a society for the better.

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Of Sound Mind
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7.73
148 votes

#9 - Of Sound Mind

Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 13

When a highly eccentric, practical joke-loving and not very well liked millionaire Wilson MacLeish is killed when his new bi-plane explodes, Thomas, who had been working on a case for him, is summonsed to the reading of the will. Read out via a video-tape, the deceased millionaire leaves his ex-manservants some money, but leaves his relatives practically nothing, instead leaving his estate and wealth – fifty million dollars – to Thomas! MacLeish’s relations are put out and angered by this, and Thomas takes up his new residence on the estate. On a second video-tape, MacLeish informs Thomas that before his death he had suspected that one of his relations is trying to kill him for his inheritance, and wants Thomas find out who. But it begins to seem that whoever may have been responsible for the millionaire’s death is now trying to bump Magnum off too...

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Birdman of Budapest
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7.59
197 votes

#10 - Birdman of Budapest

Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 16

Robin Master's mentor, Elizabeth Barrett, arrives at the estate with her macaw Merlin to research a book on ornithology. The former teacher hits it off famously with Thomas, but becomes so much of a thorn in Higgins's side that he bribes Thomas to help in bringing her visit to an expeditious end by finding Dr. Albert Tessa, the reclusive bird expert she's come to the island to interview. Thomas soon discovers that Elizabeth isn't Robin's mentor, but a K.G.B. agent on a mission to assassinate Tessa, a refugee freedom fighter from the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Meanwhile, Thomas has troubles collecting his fee from a man whose beautiful employee is tough enough to shoot out the Ferrari's windscreen to keep Thomas at a distance from her boss.

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Observer Effect
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7.49
1872 votes

#11 - Observer Effect

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4 - Episode 11

Non corporeal aliens study the Enterprise crew as they respond to a fatal viral infection brought on board from an away mission.

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Barge of the Dead
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7.08
1707 votes

#12 - Barge of the Dead

Star Trek: Voyager - Season 6 - Episode 3

During a near-death experience, B'Elanna finds herself aboard the Klingon Death Barge, a spectral vessel which transports dishonoured souls to Grethnor. After seeing her mother there, B'Elanna risks her life to go back and save her mother's soul from this fate, even at the cost of her own.

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The Informant
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7.00
10 votes

#13 - The Informant

Cagney & Lacey - Season 2 - Episode 22

Cagney and Lacey disagree about using a young informant to help them nab a drug dealer selling PCP to students.

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