The BEST episodes directed by Murray Golden
#2 - The Party
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 22
Alexander Vanin, arrested and convicted for espionage, hid a list of agents operating in the U.S. His control, Mishenko of the EEPR, has been ordered to get the list but Vanin refuses to give in because then Mishenko would cut him loose. The IMF must get the list. Vanin hypnotized himself to forget the list's location and only his wife Olga can give the trigger command to let him remember. Jim gets Olga to the U.S. while Barney and the others clear out the EEPR Consulate with a bomb ruse and then take it over and stage a party where the reunited couple meet (while Mishenko waits across the street for Barney to defuse the bomb). The IMF fake partygoers sneak out and Mishenko shows up to find Vanin there. To prove his loyalty and that he didn't talk, Vanin has his wife give the trigger, unaware that the IMF are listening in and get to the bus where Vanin hid the list before Mishenko can.
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#3 - Concrete Evidence
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 18
Kimble finds work as a construction worker in Nebraska where he is recongized by building contract; the unscrupulous Alex ""Pat"" Patton, who once built a theater in his home town. But a wall of the theater collapsed due to faulty construction which killed three children. Although exonerated of manslaughter charges, the townspeople have been irate to him ever since. Now two years later, Pat's company faces financial ruin, yet Pat pours his own money into a mysterious ""motel"" his crew is now building. Pat approaches Kimble and tells him that he knows who he is from a wanted poster he keeps in his office. He tells Kimble about his plight and that he has one month to live because he's dying from a heart condition. Pat wants Kimble to keep him alive long enough to finish the ""motel"" and if Kimble refuses to do so or flees, Pat will turn him in to the local authorities.
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#4 - The Brothers
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 11
A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.
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#5 - The Convent Is Condemned
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 5
To keep Carlos in San Tanco, Sister Bertrille traps the police captain into condemning the convert building.
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#6 - My Brother's Keeper
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 28
While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe struggling with the wolf comes to Joe's aid. He fires his rifle but the bullet hits Joe. Adam hurries over knocks the wolf off Joe, shoots, and then kills the wolf. The damage has already been done with the wolf bite and Adam's bullet in Joe. Adam has to rush his little brother back to the Ponderosa. Will he make it back to save Little Joe's life, since the wolf's bite is fatal?
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#10 - Time Bomb
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 12
The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
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#12 - The Showdown
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 6
Johnny Haywood, a childhood friend of Josh's claims to be innocent of the crime he is accused of. When he escapes, Josh is ordered to bring him back - dead or alive.
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#13 - Smoke Screen
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 28
Several men are vying for a rancher's daughter's affections. When she is found dead, one of them becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
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#14 - Kitara (aka The Bigot)
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 20
John Darcy, codename 'Kitara', leads a liberation movement in the African country of Bocamo and has been inadvertently captured by the ruthless Colonel Kohler. Kohler plans to torture Kitara, who if he confesses his true identity will result in the destruction of the entire movement. Kohler is after a truckful of government gold bullion Kitara stole. Jim and Doug play agents while Barney is captured and gets the location of the bullion from Kitara and gets it to Jim. Doug warns Kohler about "lamposa hycondra", a disease that causes blacks to turn white. After Kohler takes a IMF-rigged shower he wakes up the next morning to find himself black! Dana as a reporter introduces Kohler to shopkeeper Paris, who has "proof" that Kohler's grandfather was black. Kohler goes on the run and Paris hides him out at the gold's location. The authorities find Kohler there and believe he is Kitara and have him arrested, then hand the gold over to Jim to deliver it to headquarters.
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#16 - Eat, Drink, and Be Dead
The Green Hornet - Season 1 - Episode 6
An illegal bootleg liquor ring devised by Dirk forces a stronghold on bars in the town to buy from them. As reporter Mike tries to follow a lead to the racketeers, he becomes kidnapped. Don't look up or you'll spot Dirk in his helicopter dropping bombs on his non-conformants, his preferred method.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 15
Jarrod decides to bring Maybelle Williams, one of his clients, home for Christmas.
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#18 - I'm Only Human
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 23
Max convinces the Chief of taking Fang out of retirement after some Control agents are killed by their own dogs. Each of those agents had left their pets at an animal spa while they were travelling. What they ignored was that the animals were being brainwashed before being returned to their owners. When Fang goes MIA Max disobeys orders and goes after him which causes the Chief to go rescue Max.
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#19 - Fool's Gold
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 5
Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
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#20 - Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 24
A horde of KAOS agents are taking flights to Washington. Each one carries a piece of a bomb which is meant to explode near an American base. Max and the Chief capture one of KAOS's agents and fool-force confidential information out of him. They end up in Blue Mist Mountain and it's up to 86 to dismantle the bomb before it goes off. All the help he has is Parker on the shoe-phone, a coin, and a very expensive tie.
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#23 - Nothing Ever Works Twice
Mannix - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mannix is set up for the murder of an old girlfriend's husband.
#24 - All Around the Money Tree
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 20
Scotland Yard is after millions from a robbery, and they're not the only ones.
#26 - Labyrinth
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 12
When David Vincent brings an injured alien into the doctor for treatment, the patient's x-rays reveal odd results. While David works to alert the authorities, the aliens conspire to destroy both evidence and witnesses.
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#27 - The Joker Goes to School
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 15
At Woodrow Roosevelt High School, a vending machine gives out money. Dick Grayson is there to witness it. Batman learns the vending machines are operated by a company bought by the Joker after being released from prison. The Joker and his gang are aided by Susie, a cheerleader at the school. In the course of their investigation, Batman and Robin are captured and placed in electric chairs. If a “one armed bandit” comes up the wrong way, they’ll be electrocuted.
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#28 - The Bird's Last Jest
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 28
Attempting to save Chief O’Hara from drowning inside a metal trunk, Batman and Robin find themselves under fire from the Penguin’s henchmen. Batman instructs Alfred to pose as famous forger Quill-Pen Quertch (complete with false fingerprints), but the Penguin recognizes Alfred as soon as he puts on his glasses. The evil Bird-man and his cronies then visit stately Wayne manor brandishing a giant Butler-pie.
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#29 - He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 16
A power failure prevents Batman and Robin from being electrocuted. Meanwhile, a recording Batman made confirms that cheerleader Susie is one of the Joker’s confederates. Robin, in his Dick Grayson identity, attempts to infiltrate the gang. Meanwhile, the Joker’s main plot is finally revealed. Members of the high school basketball team receive answers to final exams from the rigged vending machines. The Joker appears, claiming to be a concerned citizen. The team’s starters will be suspended as the Joker bets big money on the team’s next opponent. Batman, however, has other ideas.
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#30 - Massacre
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 8
The guys arrive in South Dakota in June 24, 1876, near Little Bighorn. They are captured by Indians, although Doug manages to escape and make it to Custer's camp. Custer refuses to believe Doug's tale. Meanwhile, Tony has tried to warn Sitting Bull. The Indians prepare to burn Tony at the stake, but Sitting Bull intervenes, impressed by Tony's bravery. A trial-by-combat settles the matter when Tony wins against Yellow Elk but spares his life. Tony tries to convince Sitting Bull to approach Custer peacefully, much to the disgruntlement and skepticism of Crazy Horse. Sitting Bull lets Tony go to Custer's camp with a message of peace, but Custer refuses it and locks both travellers up. They manage to escape, and are forced to watch as history plays itself out and Custer and his men are massacred.
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#31 - The One With The Gun
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 19
Peter Corman is murdered during a game of poker, and his brother Lorenzo arrives in Hawaii for revenge. McGarrett must work out what happened and prevent Lorenzo from carrying out his intentions.
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#32 - The Penguin's Nest
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 27
Penguin has opened a fancy restaurant called The Penguin’s Nest. There every order has to be written down by the customers on a piece of paper. He then plans to get himself arrested and hand over the handwritten notes to a forger doing time by the name of Ballpoint Baxter. Suspecting a scheme, Batman urges the police not to send The Penguin back to his permanent cell. Unable to reach Ballpoint, The Penguin and his culinary cohorts escape from jail, taking Chief O’Hara along as a hostage.
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#33 - The Organ Transplant
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 6
Sister Bertrille gets an ancient organ for the convent with surprising results.
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#35 - The Dark Past
Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 31
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
#36 - Barbecued Batman?
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 6
Failing to destroy Batman and Robin, the Minstrel enacts “Plan High C.” He shakes the building of the Gotham City Exchange, and promises to send it crumbling down if his demands are not met in one hour. Batman assumes cutting off the building’s power will thwart the villain, but when that plan fails, it’s up to the Dynamic Duo to track down the Minstrel before it’s too late.
#37 - The Minstrel's Shakedown
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 5
The Minstrel, a villain with both musical talent and electronic ingenuity, is wrecking havoc with the Gotham City Exchange in an attempt to blackmail the exchange members. When he soon realizes Batman and Robin are equally skilled with electronics, he deems them a threat to his plan and sets a trap for their demise.
#38 - The Moo is Blue
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 20
Sister Bertrille buys a music-loving cow for the convent.
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#39 - The Breakaway Monk
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 21
An accident-prone monk works on Carlos' income tax.
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#40 - Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 23
The nuns try to go into busness again, this time they have Sister Sixto baking bread.
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#41 - Surprise Witness
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 7
Josh captures a notorious killer but no one wants to testify against him, until a surprise witness come forward, his mother.
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#42 - To the Victor
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 8
Josh is hired by the men of the town to try and persuade the ladies to return to their homes after rebelling against their husbands gunplay.
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#43 - Criss-Cross
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 9
When Josh brings in the wrong man mistakenly and after his release he finds the real criminal notifying Josh of the mans whereabouts.
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#44 - Three for One
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 13
Josh with prisoner Tom Fellows in tow, stops in the town of Center City overnight, unaware that one of Tom's cohorts is devising a plan to free him.
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#45 - El Gato
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 21
A timid photographer named Archie Warner comes west with hopes of being the first to shoot a photo of a famous Mexican bandit. Josh happens to be a friend of 'El Gato', and is hired by Archie to met him.
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#46 - Detour
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 22
Martin Fairweather has two lovely daughters which are the objects of a young man's affection. Papa doesn't want to lose his best cook and best cleaner so he proceeds to chase any possible suitors away. Josh's job is to distract Papa long enough for the girls to elope!
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#47 - Monday Morning
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 23
Overridden with guilt Charlie Glover hires Josh to help him return the money he stole from his employer. Complications arise when the head head of operations, Sam Vickers finds out.
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#48 - Dear Enemy
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 21
The wife of a convicted man fakes evidence in a new crime so that McGarrett will have to re-open her husband's case.
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#49 - Square Deal Sam
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 8
A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman ends up staying in Virginia city to run an orphanage.
#50 - The Long Search
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 24
Yoshika Nakamura comes west to find a man named Bill Timmons who promised to marry her when he visited Japan. Yoshika hires Josh to help her locate Timmons, and during his venture learns about Japanese culture.
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