The BEST episodes directed by Oscar Rudolph
#1 - The Monster of McHale's Island
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 35
A Navy transport plane develops engine trouble, and is forced down at Taratupa. One of its passengers is an Admiral's Son, and a strict, by-the-book disciplinarian, as well as a spoiled brat. Binghamton sees to it that the kid is quartered on McHale's island, where he and his "little black book" cause quite a bit of trouble for McHale and his Crew. But McHale is soon fed up with the brat and takes matters into his own hands.
#2 - The Treasure of Sierra Avenue
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 7
While playing football in a vacant lot with Greg and Peter, Bobby discovers a wallet containing $1,100. When the girls learn about the boys' coup, they decide they want a cut of the money; this leads to yet another fight in the Brady household.
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#3 - Click
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 11
Greg's rib injury keeps him on the football sidelines, but Bobby's new photography hobby leads to a game-deciding discovery.
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#4 - To Move or Not to Move
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 23
With constant complaints about the size of the house bombarding Mike and Carol, Mike puts the house up for sale and looks into buying a new one. Immediately after this, the Brady house seems to be haunted.
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#5 - The Slumber Caper
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 3
Mike and Carol agree to allow Marcia to have a slumber party and the boys are thrilled because then they'll be able to play tricks on everyone. Then when Marcia gets into trouble at school, the slumber party is canceled.
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#6 - Where There's Smoke
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 14
Jan and Cindy catch Greg smoking with some friends. This leads to them telling Marcia who in turn tells Mike and Carol.
#7 - 54-40 and Fight
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 15
The Brady family learns that a trading stamp company is going out of business. A fight breaks out over who should get all of the saved stamps, the boys or the girls. If the girls get them, they'll buy a sewing machine and if the boys get them, they'll buy a rowboat.
#8 - The Landlord Cometh
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 13
The owner decides to sell the land on which the convent is built.
#9 - Ghost Town, U.S.A.
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 1
The Bradys set out for a family vacation at the Grand Canyon. But when the family stops in an old ghost town, a paranoid old prospector locks them in a jail cell, believing the Bradys to be after his claim.
#10 - Brace Yourself
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 20
Marcia is distraught after getting braces and becomes convinced she's ugly. This compounds when her boyfriend Alan breaks their upcoming date, thinking it's due to her braces. Meanwhile, the Brady kids try their best to make Marcia not feel so self-conscious but with little success.
#11 - A Fistful of Reasons
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 8
A bully named Buddy Hinton has been making fun of Cindy's lisp. So in order to defend her, Peter tries to learn how to defend himself.
#12 - Is There a Doctor in the House?
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 13
Peter comes home from school with the measles, so naturally, Carol calls the doctor, her doctor, who happens to be a woman. Meanwhile, Mike calls his doctor, a man. Soon all the kids come down with the measles and the household is in an uproar in yet another battle of the sexes, as the girls want a female doctor and the boys want a male doctor.
#13 - The Undergraduate
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 17
When Greg begins constant daydreaming and his grades start to drop the Brady's quickly think something is wrong. They soon deduce he has puppy love, for a certain girl named Linda. However, they are having an incredibly hard time finding the right Linda but soon the Bradys quickly learn just who this Linda is.
#14 - The Impractical Joker
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 13
Jan's practical joking puts Greg's science project, a mouse named Myron, in mortal danger when he gets loose allowing Alice to catch a glimpse of him which leads to her calling the exterminator.
#15 - The Drummer Boy
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 16
When Bobby gets a set of drums he drives the family up the wall. Meanwhile, Peter is made fun of for being in the glee club by his football teammates.
#16 - The Babysitters
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 2
Mike and Carol decide to allow Greg and Marcia babysit for the younger Bradys one evening when they go out for the evening and Alice is out with Sam.
#17 - The Personality Kid
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 6
Convinced he doesn't have personality, Peter goes all out to try to get one. After imitating celebrities, Peter tries to be a comedian, but his jokes bomb when he tells them to his party guests. Pork chops...and applesauce!
#18 - The Voice of Christmas
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 12
Carol is to sing in church on Christmas, but days before the event, she loses her voice. Later at the mall, a hopeful Cindy asks a Santa Claus to bring Carol's voice back by Christmas. Meanwhile, Alice and the kids find it a difficult task hiding Christmas gifts in the house.
#19 - A-Camping We Will Go
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 8
Mike and Carol prepare for a family camping trip. However, the boys are not thrilled that the girls will be coming along. Meanwhile, the girls aren't exactly thrilled about sleeping in the wilderness. Later on the trip, things go awry when the girls mess up the boys fishing plans and freak out when they hear owl hoots.
#20 - The Hero
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 21
While shopping at Driscoll's Toy Store, Peter looks up to see a wall about to fall on a little girl. He quickly pushes her out of the way. This leads to immediate media attention and Peter is named a hero. However, Peter lets all the attention go to his head, annoying his friends and his brothers and sisters.
#21 - The Possible Dream
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 22
Marcia's sense of security is shattered when Cindy inadvertently gives away her diary to a book collection. Marcia is especially concerned since in it, she confessed a secret desire for Desi Arnaz, Jr.
#22 - Wanted: The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger (1949) - Season 4 - Episode 35
When the Lone Ranger finds himself framed for a series of crimes, he and Tonto pose as circus clowns to expose the real culprits.
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#23 - Getting Davy Jones
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 12
Marcia makes a promise that she will get Davy Jones to perform at the prom, but finds it almost impossible to reach the former Monkee -- until he surprises her with a visit to the Brady house.
#24 - Coming-Out Party
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 17
Mike's boss, Mr. Phillips, invites him and his family on a fishing trip on his boat. However when Cindy comes down with tonsillitis, the trip is postponed. Tonsillitis quickly claims another, when Carol also must have her tonsils taken out.
#25 - No Handicap
The Lone Ranger (1949) - Season 5 - Episode 4
The Lone Ranger and Tonto clash with a band of marauders that are terrorizing a wide area of the southwest, and whose ultimate act is the gunning down of an elderly marshal.
#26 - The Sniper (1) (concl on The D.A., 8 Oct 71) aka The Radical
Adam-12 - Season 4 - Episode 4
The radical Robin Saydo is on the loose, tied in to a number of bombings. Reed spots him and Saydo is arrested by D.A. Paul Ryan. Other calls include an abandoned police cruiser which turned out to be a lone policeman on a foot pursuit capturing a drug suspect, and retired security officer Fred Tibbles assists the officers in breaking up a truck theft ring which took the trucks but not the merchandise within them. NOTE: This episode is a crossover with short-run series "The D.A.," which concludes the storyline started by this episode in "The People vs. Saydo."
#27 - Is There a Doctor in the House?
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 4 - Episode 18
Tony's sudden sleeping sickness causes Jeannie to consult her mother for advice, not realizing that it was Jeannie's mother who caused it. Jeannie pleads with her mother to come back with her to Cocoa Beach so that she can cure Tony. After doing this, Mama lays her eyes on Dr. Bellows and it is love at first sight. She now starts making plans to make him her own Master.
#28 - Grand Canyon or Bust
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 2
The Brady family finally arrives at the Grand Canyon and sets up camp. But the family is thrown into a panic when Bobby and Cindy get lost in the canyon while chasing an Indian boy.
#29 - Scat! Darn Catwoman
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 41
Batman agrees to let the Catwoman drug him. But he appears to have a headache and the Catwoman permits him to take an aspirin. After the drug is administered, Batman appears to assist Catwoman on her crime wave. However, the police receive anonymous telephone calls that enable them to pick up members of Catwoman’s gang, including the drugged Robin. Meanwhile, the Gotham City police try to trace the hot line to the Batcave. Batman is there with Catwoman. He uses a device that foils the trace. Eventually, Batman reveals he hadn’t taken an aspirin but his universal drug antidote that prevented the drug from working. Catwoman tries to flee on top of a warehouse near the Gotham River. Batman is in pursuit and corners her. But, unwilling to go straight, she falls into the river. Has she lost her life, or just one of her nine lives?
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#30 - Going, Going...Steady
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 5
Marcia has a crush on a boy who doesn't even know she's alive, at least not until she studies up on his favorite hobby, insect collecting.
#31 - The Sheriff of Smoke Tree
The Lone Ranger (1949) - Season 5 - Episode 2
The Lone Ranger and Tonto go into action when a little mining camp proves too small, and a gang of gunfighters too tough, to permit a full time sheriff.
#32 - The Brady Braves
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 3
On vacation in the Grand Canyon, Bobby and Cindy become lost and befriend an Indian boy named Jimmy.
#33 - That Darn Catwoman
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 40
The Catwoman manages to drug Robin. The junior member of the Dynamic Duo is now the Catwoman’s mindless slave. Batman is on the trail of the sultry villain, but he’s hampered by the fact he can’t harm his partner. Eventually, Batman is trapped by the Catwoman. He’s in a giant trap and Robin is cutting the rope that will cause a giant mouse trap to snap on Batman. The Catwoman offers Batman a choice – die by Robin’s hand or agree to be subjected to the same drug.
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#34 - Every Boy Does It Once
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 10
After watching "Cinderella" on TV, Bobby becomes concerned about stepmothers—especially since Carol asks him to sweep out the fireplace. Soon after, feeling worthless, Bobby decides to run away.
#35 - Alice's September Song
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 23
An old boyfriend of Alice's, Mark Millard, comes to town and begins to wine and dine her, unknown to her he has other intentions in mind.
#36 - Never Put a Genie on a Budget
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 5 - Episode 14
After an embarrassing situation involving his credit card, Tony puts Jeannie on a budget. When a NASA guest, a Russian cosmonaut, arrives, he is amazed to find that Jeannie has taken in boarders and Tony is embarrassed when Jeannie serves half a TV dinner and half an apple each. Dr. Bellows gives Tony a chance to redeem himself by organizing a party. Learning NASA will pay, Jeannie serves a feast, but as NASA will not pay for water or electricity, removes both and replaces it with lighted candles. Friends of the boarders arrive and turn the party into a mod affair, but the Russian guest is delighted because there are Russian folk songs, Russian music, dancing and candlelight.
#37 - Dizzoner the Penguin
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 18
After escaping the Penguin’s death trap, Batman still faces an uphill run to defeat the Penguin in the race for mayor of Gotham City. The Feathered Fiend uses every dirty trick he can think of to ruin Batman’s reputation. But the Penguin discovers opinion polls aren’t what they are cracked up to be. Still, Batman and Robin will need to subdue the villain before his plot can be put down once and for all.
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#38 - Lights Out
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 20
After witnessing a magician performing a disappearing act, Cindy refuses to sleep with the lights off. Meanwhile, Peter begins to develop a magic act and a reluctant Cindy agrees to be his assistant.
#39 - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
Batman (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 1
The Penguin plans to gain immunity from the law by becoming the police commissioner’s son-in-law. He kidnaps Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, Barbara, and threatens her into agreeing to marry him. Unknown to him, Barbara Gordon has a secret crime fighting identity, Batgirl. Alfred learns of her secret when he is brought to Penguin’s hideout instead of a preacher, and Batman and Robin realize just how valuable their new ally is when they find themselves hopelessly strung up in Penguin’s lair.
#40 - Hizzonner the Penguin
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 17
The Penguin appears to have gone straight. (Evidently the citizens of Gotham City have short memories; he tried the same trick in season one.) Not only that, he has emerged as the leading contender for mayor of Gotham City, thanks to a little-known provision of the city charter that permits felons to run for elective office. Mayor Linseed, facing almost certain defeat, convinces Batman to run for mayor. This displeases the Penguin, who doesn’t want to leave anything to chance. He lures Batman and Robin into a trap and, by episode’s end, things don’t look good for the Dynamic Duo.
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#41 - The Penguin Declines
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 39
Batman, summoning all the strength he can muster, breaks his chains and frees Robin from the giant clam. The heroes arrange for the Joker’s former confederate, Venus, to stay at an apartment while they figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, the Joker has freed the Penguin from Gotham State Prison to continue their crime wave. The Joker tricks Venus into asking Batman to take her to the Batcave. The Dynamic Duo take her to their base of operations (but only after making her fall asleep first). When they arrive, the Joker, Penguin and assorted thugs are revealed to be hiding in the Batmobile’s trunk. Batman, however, anticipated this and none of the criminals know where the Batcave is. A figure erupts, with Batman and Robin finally ending the zodiac crimes.
#42 - The Joker's Hard Times
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 38
Batman and Robin narrowly escape the Joker’s death trap and quickly get back on the villain’s trail. The villain runs the Gothham City Police Department ragged with his crimes based on the zodiac. Meanwhile, Venus, the Joker’s accomplice, warms to Batman. Eventually, the Dynamic Duo again corner the Joker. But, once more, the heroes are captured. Now, Batman, Robin and Venus are chained in a shallow pool with a giant clam. The clam swallows Robin and Batman and Venus will be next on its menu.
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#43 - The Joker's Epitaph
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 48
The Joker is now Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank, due to an unsuccessful plan of Batman’s. He installs his robots as tellers, and despite his criminal past, seems to be running things in perfect order. The Dynamic Duo realize they will have to trick him into making a mistake in order to remove him. They go to work on a plan to gain control of his robots. But that plan is jeopardized when, due to an odd turn of events, Batman’s true identity Bruce Wayne is declared mentally ill and hauled off in a straight-jacket.
#44 - The Zodiac Crimes
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 37
The Joker and the Penguin team up on a crime wave based on signs of the zodiac. The pair, aided and abetted by a woman known as Venus, keep Batman and Robin on the run. The Dynamic Duo manage to capture the Penguin but the Joker remains on the loose. Batman and Robin figure the Joker’s next caper will take place at a museum and lay a trap. But the heroes are captured instead. Now, Batman and Robin face almost certain death; the heroes are to be crushed beneath a giant asteroid on display at the museum.
#45 - The Joker's Last Laugh
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 47
Counterfeit money is being distributed by respectable citizens in Gotham City. Batman and Robin investigate, and find one of the Joker’s lifelike robots substituting for a bank teller. They are certain who is behind the crime. But to get actual proof, Batman plans to visit the villain as Bruce Wayne and trick him into disclosing his operation. When his scheme suddenly backfires, it appears he will instead have to appoint the Joker as Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank.
#46 - Texas Draw
The Lone Ranger (1949) - Season 4 - Episode 9
The Lone ranger and Tonto are faced with more than guns and outlaws when a circuit-riding minister purchases land on which to build a boys school for orphans--land which covers a very valuable copper deposit.
#47 - The Great Train Robbery
Batman (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 22
After his previous battle with the Terrific Trio, Shame now has Batgirl as a hostage. He agrees to a swap when he realizes that Batman and Robin also have Calamity Jan’s mother, Frontier Fanny. Batgirl informs the Dynamic Duo of a plan for a “great train robbery” that she overheard as a hostage. The three work to figure out Shame’s plan and race to stop him. But when they realize they are too late, Batman attempts to lure him out of hiding with an offer of man-to-man combat.
#48 - The Duo Defy
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 60
Back in his iceberg headquarters, Mr. Freeze persuades the kidnapped Professor Isaacson to build him a thermodynamic ice ray beam. He issues an ultimatum that he will begin freezing the entire country if his demands are not met, then gives a demonstration of his weapon. As the villain works out just what his demands are, Batman and Robin track his seal, Isolde, through an ice-packed Gotham Harbor to locate the villain’s hideout.
#49 - Ice Spy
Batman (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 59
Mr. Freeze is back in town, and has plans to build an icy weapon that will have the world at his control. With help from Glacia Glaze, the renowned ice skater, he captures Professor Isaacson and tries to extract the secret formula for instant ice from him. Mr. Freeze then sends his trained seal Isolde to Police Headquarters with a note, demanding Batman deliver a ransom in exchange for the professor. But the frosty villain not only plans to keep the money and the professor, but to terminate the Dynamic Duo in the process.
#50 - The Funny Feline Felonies
Batman (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 16
The Joker, just released from prison, teams up with Catwoman. They follow the clues of an ancient riddle to retrieve a nightshirt and an antique crib, which together form a map to a hidden cache of gunpowder which they plan to use for their next crime. Batman and Robin, together with Batgirl, follow their trail, little knowing that they are about to walk right into an ambush.
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