The BEST episodes directed by Richard Compton
#1 - The Assassin
T.J. Hooker - Season 5 - Episode 5
The State Department asks Hooker's help in tracking down a man whom he served alongside in Vietnam - a disillusioned, mentally unstable trained executioner - who is planning to assassinate the head of a visiting Russian trade delegation...
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#2 - Mirror Image (2)
Miami Vice - Season 4 - Episode 22
A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.
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#3 - Line of Fire
Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 6
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
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#4 - Down for the Count (1)
Miami Vice - Season 3 - Episode 12
Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.
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#5 - Descent (2)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 5 - Episode 2
Stricken with grief over the loss of Iolaus, Hercules vowed to bring him back from the Sumerian version of the Underworld. Nebula, who confessed her love for Iolaus in his final moments, accompanied Hercules on his journey. The son of Zeus rappelled down into a cave to confront Dumuzi, the Sumerian god of the Underworld. Dumzumi had been collecting human souls in order to survive, ever since King Gilgamesh had destroyed the sacred chalice. But Iolaus had already crossed over to the Underworld and was lost forever. Hercules' cry of rage shattered the mirrors surrounding Dumuzi's lair, destroying the god.
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#6 - The Eyes Beyond
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 13
The MANTIS returns to base in the Chrysalis only to find he is 32 years in the future where Port Columbia is ruled by a machine.
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#7 - First Light
The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 20
While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.
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#9 - The Children's Song
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 7
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
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Hill Street Blues - Season 4 - Episode 11
Bates and Coffey take over a storefront police/community relations project; a cop killer seems to be roaming the streets; Daryl Ann buys the wrong motorcycle for Renko; Joyce behaves oddly about buying a house; Leo and Ray try out an unorthodox method to get rid of the rats; and Daniels tries to short circuit Cleveland's corruption task force by exposing a network within the special Vice detail.
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#11 - When the Bough Breaks
JAG - Season 8 - Episode 9
The future of seven seamen hang in the balance due to Lt. Singer's recommendation of court martial for all of them following a mishap on the ship. However, Singer's career could also be doomed if the father of her unborn child is someone on the Seahawk, and it's Harm and Mac's job to find out who it is. The problem is, the career-oriented Singer isn't talking, so Harm enlists the help of Lt. Manetti to do some sneaky behind-the-scenes investigating in order discover the identity of the father.
#12 - The Last Campaign
The Equalizer - Season 4 - Episode 1
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
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#13 - Invasion
Sliders - Season 2 - Episode 12
The Sliders land in the middle of a strange invasion and Quinn uses the timer to bring down one of the ships. Before barely escaping, the Sliders learn these new villains can slide at will and are soon captured on the next world. They learn their captors are the Kromaggs and are intent on conquering every parallel world.
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#14 - Double Cross
Sliders - Season 3 - Episode 2
On a world quickly running out of natural resources, Rembrandt meets his number one fan but finds her to be a little to friendly. Meanwhile, Quinn and the others meet Logan, a scientist at Prototronics that's trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for sliding are far from noble.
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#15 - Season's Greedings
Sliders - Season 3 - Episode 12
On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders get jobs as mall employees to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade his elves while Quinn gets an administrative job. Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.
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#16 - The Devil's Music
Charmed - Season 2 - Episode 4
Leo lures the manager of Dishwalla to P3, aware that the manager has made a pact with a demon that grants him fame and fortune in exchange for innocent souls. Meanwhile, Darryl soon becomes involved when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of young women from many of Dishwalla's past concerts, and suspects that more will disappear when they next perform.
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#17 - The Zone Troopers Build Men
Otherworld - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Sterlings settle into a new agricultural town called Tarka. For their safety they use the crystal they stole from Commander Kroll to change their names to the Hardins. After Trace's grades drop in school, he gets a yellow slip - meaning he is drafted into the Zone Troopers. Trace learns that being a Zone Trooper is for life unless he becomes an officer.
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#18 - Capital Crime
JAG - Season 7 - Episode 12
Mac's psychic vision talents come into play when a female Naval officer is found with her throat slashed in a local park. What originally seems like an open and shut case involving a love triangle that led to murder becomes much more when Mac's ""visions"" show her puzzling images that lead to evidence of an international conspiracy. Together with Sturgis Turner, Mac follows the clues to uncover information that leads them to a possible terrorist plot in Russia to steal nuclear weapons.
#19 - Believers
Babylon 5 - Season 1 - Episode 10
An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifically forbids it. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.
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#20 - Worst Block
The District - Season 1 - Episode 3
As Mannion vows to clean up the most crime-ridden block in the city, community tensions rise when Temple is accused of intentionally pushing a police suspect into oncoming traffic.
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#22 - Bump and Run
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 10
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
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#23 - The Lying Game
The Lone Gunmen - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Gunmen are stunned to find that FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner is somehow involved in the murder of Byers' old college roommate.
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#24 - Down for the Count (2)
Miami Vice - Season 3 - Episode 13
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
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#26 - The Arabian
Street Hawk - Season 1 - Episode 11
Jesse competes with a beautiful and intelligent Insurance Agent when they investigate a horse switching scheme and a murder of a stable hand.
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#27 - Coal Black Soul
The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 19
McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.
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#29 - Medusa
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 12
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
#30 - Nocturne
The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 2
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
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#31 - Invocation
The X-Files - Season 8 - Episode 5
In 1990 a young boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now—ten years later—and he hasn't aged a day.
#32 - Prelude
The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 1
Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.
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#33 - Infection
Babylon 5 - Season 1 - Episode 4
Dr. Franklin gets a visit from an old friend and former mentor, xenoarchaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks who wants Franklin's help to analyze some organic artifacts he found on a dead world. But the artifacts seem to have a will of their own and start to manipulate Hendricks' assistant.
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#35 - Reign of Terror
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 12
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
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#36 - China Rain
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 2
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
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#37 - Mr. Wilson's Opus
Home Improvement - Season 5 - Episode 23
Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play, but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.
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#39 - Pretenders
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 22
An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.
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#40 - No Conscience
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 20
A womanizer is abducted and threatened with death if he doesn't give his captors what they want-but he can't figure out what.
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#41 - The Young and the Relentless
Sliders - Season 2 - Episode 11
The Sliders arrive on a world where the young are in charge and Wade and Quinn's doubles were married corporate executives. Quinn winds up posing as his dead double and finds questions in his death. Meanwhile, Arturo and Rembrandt find themselves in trouble with the law and face jail time.
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#42 - Murder Most Vial
Diagnosis Murder - Season 2 - Episode 6
A cantankerous patient at Community General is given a double injection of his medication, eventually leading to his death. Jack suspects a doctor he's had a grudge against for a long time. Despite Mark's objections, Jack sets out to prove his "enemy" is the killer.
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#43 - Wash-Up
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 16
A window washer witnesses the murder of his pro-union partner by their anti-union boss, who has his own witnesses to back his self-defense claim.
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#44 - Out of the Past
The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 14
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
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#45 - Too Much, Too Late
Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 21
Tubbs' old flame Valerie returns to Miami to assist an old friend and her goddaughter. Tubbs wants to renew his relationship with Valerie, but she is intent on rescuing her friend from the threats of a drug dealer.
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#46 - Hotshoes
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 11
Mark is thrilled when he gets a shot at racing in big leagues only to learn that his sponsor's auto parts business gets their inventory from stolen cars.
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#47 - Eighteen with a Bullet
The Equalizer - Season 4 - Episode 4
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
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L.A. Law - Season 5 - Episode 5
A gay-rights case proves to be emotionally trying for the parents and lover of a terminally ill man; Van Owen is taken aback by Sollers' proposition; the firm goes to court behind Benny's back over his involvement with a cult.
#49 - Haven
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 11
Stardate: 41294.6 Lwaxana pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the pre-arranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her late husband's best friend.
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#50 - Into the Mystic
Sliders - Season 2 - Episode 1
After separating from Ryan and Henry the dog, the Sliders make a rough landing that reopens Quinn's bullet wound. On this world of mysticism and superstition, a witch doctor heals Quinn and has brains on the mind when they can't pay the bill. On the run from bounty hunters, the Sliders only hope is the mysterious Sorcerer, a man who could possibly get them home.
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