The BEST episodes directed by R.g. Springsteen
#1 - Pearls of Tanga
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 13
Tarzan does battle with a criminal known as 'The Admiral' who has his own submarine and has been poisoning the waters so that his own crew are the only ones able to recover fabulously valuable pearl oysters.
#2 - Competition
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 22
Josh is confronted by two bounty hunters who think he is onto a big paying job.
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#3 - The Sam Spicer Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 7
After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.
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#4 - The Eli Bancroft Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 9
Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would catch their illness. Coop and others become his victims.
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#5 - The Trouble with Jamie
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 25
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
#6 - Incident of the Wager on Payday
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 30
Sidney Proctor, along with Joe Stapp, are robbing his father's bank as a joke. The night watchman, Simpson, wakes up. Joe clunks him. Sid thinks they're bringing the money back in three days.
#7 - Reunion for Revenge
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 21
Intent on revenge several escaped convicts confront Josh's prisoner who is responsible for them going to jail.
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#8 - The Clay Shelby Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 11
With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to greatly outnumber the soldiers, so to give the train hope the troop's lieutenant falsely tells Hale and Coop that there is also a relief column headed their way. Complicating matters even more, a sergeant from the troop recognizes Clay Shelby, a young man on the wagon train traveling with his pregnant wife, as a deserter from back in the Civil War whom he blames for the death of his brother.
#9 - The Jane Hawkins Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 10
Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wants to hang her without trial, because he suspects she murdered his son.
#10 - Incident of the Blackstorms
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 28
Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy. He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.
#11 - The Corner
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 25
Accused of killing a friend, bounty hunter Josh Randall tries to prove himself innocent.
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Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 6
Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.
#13 - Incident of the Night Visitor
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 4
Jeff Barkley catches a stranger in the camp, a boy of about twelve. He wings Jeff. They track the boys footprints. Seven or eight men tried to steal the ramuda. Favor finds the boy. He was traveling with some horsetraders led by Nick Mesa. Favor takes the boy back to Mesa. He doesn't want the boy back. Joey Gardner is looking for his Pa.
#14 - Incident of the Broken Word
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 11
Ben Foley resorts to murder to hide the fact the cattle he is selling to Favor are diseased. Frank Pierce accidentily shot Ben's wife years ago.
#15 - Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 22
Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere. A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.
#16 - Angels of Vengeance
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 33
Josh kills a young man in self-defense, the victim's father, the head of a religious cult, then orders Josh's death.
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Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 19
Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned. Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off. Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a year, but she likes Danny.
#18 - Incident of the Music Maker
Rawhide - Season 2 - Episode 29
When Gil receives a nasty wound that becomes seriously infected, he is unaware of a Swiss jack-of-all-trades that has totally unarmed his cowboys. The Swiss has a plan for some of the cattle.
#19 - Box o' Rocks
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 13
A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.
#20 - Brother Whelp
Gunsmoke - Season 5 - Episode 9
A man wants to gunfight when he returns home, after years away, and finding his brother married to his girl.
#21 - Another's Footsteps
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 24
The Virginian's friend, young Dan Grant (Paul Petersen), is killed in a bank robbery. The three robbers escape a posse but the Virginian is more persistent and tracks them to Montana. Two of the robbers are captured and the Virginian tracks the third (Johan Agar) to a farmstead occupied by a young boy and his mother (Sherree North), and suspects the absent husband is the third gunman. As he waits for the husband to return he bonds with the boy and becomes romantically involved with the wife. However, the robber returns and the inevitable showdown occurs.
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#22 - Reckless
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 2 - Episode 10
Well-known businessman Tate Bradley hires Josh and other bounty hunters to find Tony Egan who killed his son, but was ruled an accident. When Randall finds the supposed killer and returns him. Bradley refuses to pay the bounty because Egan is still alive.
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#23 - The Genius
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 27
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too much time drinking and eventually his wife arrives at the Ponderosa.
#24 - The Reluctant Rebel
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 11
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
#25 - Her Brother's Keeper
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 24
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
#26 - The Fighters
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 30
Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fight again. But things change when Joe is nearly beaten to death.
#27 - The Last Mission
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 32
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.
#28 - The Barbara Lindquist Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 5
Cooper Smith is on his way to the town of Washburn to pick up long awaited mail for the wagon train when he stumbles upon a stagecoach robbery in progress. The very proper Miss Barbara Lindquist is on her way to meet her fiancé, mistakes Coop for one of the robbers and ends up forcing him to help her. Further misadventures see Coop wounded and both he and Barbara struggling to get to back to the wagon train for help. Believing his wound will end his days as a scout, Coop finds himself falling in love with Barbara and she with him. But will their love stand the test ...