The BEST episodes directed by Paul Landres
#3 - Ordeal
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 8
When their wagon breaks down, Mark and an injured Lucas are stranded in the desert.
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#5 - Training Wheels
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 5
The officers undergo their driver refresher courses to hone their pursuit and driving skills, but a rash of car strippers brings about a new approach suggested by Officer Wells: going undercover as paperboys riding bicycles to find the thieves. Hilarity ensues; Wells wrecks his bicycle that belonged to a young girl, Malloy deals with an irate newspaper customer, and Reed and Malloy pull over a VW Microbus on a traffic violation where the driver's parrot chanted "Down with Pigs!", but the tactics work and the officers break up the car stripping ring.
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#6 - Dark Day at North Fork
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 24
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
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#7 - Short Rope for a Tall Man
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 27
Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
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#8 - The Raid
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 37
When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.
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#9 - Cain's Birthday (1)
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 25
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
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#10 - Enter Mark Twain
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 5
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay claim on the Ponderosa.
#12 - Cain's Birthday (2)
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 26
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
#13 - Death on Sun Mountain
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 2
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virginia City. Ben discovers Burdette and Thorne are selling antelope beef to the miners and finds the price too high. He offers the miners beef at a more reasonable price. Burdette and Thorne retaliate by framing the Paiute's for attacks, by dressing as them and killing ranchers. Based on a factual accounting. Lorne Greene's first voice-over narration, and no landing constructed yet for the Ponderosa stairway.
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#14 - Doll of Sorrow
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 28
Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate Seth Jannings for his loss, but matters are complicated when Jannings steals a sacred mourning doll from the wife of a Native American chief and plans to hold it for ransom. Knowing that this could lead to major hostilities with the Native Americans, Daniel puts his own neck on the line to retrieve the doll from Jannings.
#15 - The Paiute War
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 4
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame on Adam. A fierce war between the Paiutes and the California militia follows, and the Paiutes seize Adam as hostage. Very impressive battle scenes in the this first mini-epic of the series. This episode did all it could to stage the real thing; 50 Indians were used and 50 cavalry actors and extras were used, and the production involved three days of shooting on location. This episode encompassed both the biggest cast and most costly stunts. This episode is based on the factual accounting that occured in May and June of 1860.
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#17 - The Sheriff's Son
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 24
A sheriff's son is bitter upon his release from prison because his own father had arrested him.
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The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 30
The loss of money in a robbery starts a run on the bank, which the Lone Ranger knows could spell heavy losses to most of the townspeople if the bank fails.
#19 - Embezzler's Harvest
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 34
Crooks steal the money that has been collected for an irrigation project.
#20 - El Toro
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 35
The Lone Ranger's nephew rescues a Mexican bandit from a mine and the Lone Ranger and Tonto are hot on the trail of the bandit, El Toro.
#21 - The Gentleman from Julesburg
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 40
The Lone Ranger recognizes a nondescript character as a reformed gambler of rare skill, and together they help clear a young man falsely accused of robbery.
#22 - Hidden Fortune
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 41
After ten years in prison, crooks go to recover their buried loot, but learn that a house now occupies the spot, meaning they must somehow get rid of the homeowners.
#23 - The Old Cowboy
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 42
The Lone Ranger and Tonto help a near-blind old cowboy who has been framed for murder by a crooked lawyer who has swindled the cowboy out of his ranch so he can sell it to the railroad.
#24 - The Ghost of Coyote Canyon
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 48
A killer ghost keeps watch over an outlaw hideout.
#25 - Outlaw Underground
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 2
The Lone Ranger and Tonto meet up with a newspaper reporter from the East who has disguised himself as an outlaw in order to infiltrate a network that hides fugitives from the law.
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The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 49
Gamblers kill a rancher who owes them money and frame ""Old Bailey"".
#27 - The Map
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 10
A boy helps foil crooks who want control of railroad land.
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The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 13
Pony Express Relay Station Agent peddles Army secrets to the Indians.
#29 - Mrs. Banker
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 29
Disguised as a prospector, the Lone Ranger seeks a criminal mastermind.
#31 - The New Neighbor
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 15
The Lone Ranger is the only one who knows the true identity of a mysterious stranger who settles in the West and becomes involved in a battle of ranchers over water rights.
#32 - The Brown Pony
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 36
A mother plans to sell her young boy's pony in order to acquire badly-needed cash with which to purchase from crooks the evidence that will clear her wrongly-jailed husband.
#33 - Trader Boggs
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 19
A blackguard plans to bomb Barnaby Boggs' business.
#34 - Bandits in Uniform
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 20
Outlaws pose as tax collectors to cover their crimes.
#35 - The Perfect Crime
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 47
The new school teacher is the only one in town that can identify a bank robber posing as a professor.
#36 - Outlaw's Son
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 1
The Lone Ranger and Tonto are after an outlaw who is trying to leave the gang and go back to the wife and son he left years ago.
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The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 21
A young preacher is victimized by highwaymen and robbed of money he has collected for the building of a church.
#38 - Right to Vote
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 23
The Lone Ranger must recover stolen petitions.
#39 - Tumblerock Law
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 25
An important witness, held in jail, is counted on by the sheriff to give testimony that will smash the town boss.
#40 - Son by Adoption
The Lone Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 28
An adoptee learns his natural father is an outlaw.
#50 - The Killer Dog
Daktari - Season 1 - Episode 9
A foul-tempered farmer has trained his German Shepherd dog to attack any and all animals from the Wameru reserve. Paula and Jack Dane find the animal caught in a poacher's snare, rescue it, and take it back to Dr. Tracy to be treated and, more importantly, re-trained—a prospect that's not likely to sit well with the dog's owner.
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