The BEST episodes directed by Richard Pearce

The Road to Memphis
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8.17
6 votes

#1 - The Road to Memphis

The Blues - Season 1 - Episode 3

Director Richard Pearce (The Long Walk Home, Leap of Faith, A Family Thing) traces the musical odyssey of blues legend B.B. King in a film that pays tribute to the city that gave birth to a new style of blues. Pearce's homage to Memphis features original performances by B.B. King, Bobby Rush, Rosco Gordon and Ike Turner, as well as historical footage of Howlin' Wolf and Rufus Thomas. Says Pearce: "The Blues is a chance to celebrate one of the last truly indigenous American art forms, before it all but disappears, swallowed whole by the rock and roll generation it spawned. Hopefully we'll get there before it's too late."

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The Last of the Watermen
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8.08
175 votes

#2 - The Last of the Watermen

Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 3 - Episode 7

After uncovering the fact that an elderly woman's tongue was cut out, Kay decides it is time to take a vacation. She returns home and while she is there she looks into the murder of an environmentalist. The suspects include her brother, an ex-beau and their co-worker. Pembleton reluctantly becomes Felton's partner and they finish investigating the murder of the elderly woman. Munch is against having a television put in their bar.

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The Line
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7.66
47 votes

#3 - The Line

Law & Order: Trial by Jury - Season 1 - Episode 9

Kibre tries a man who got away with murder, and she is desperate to convict him.

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Dead Aim
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7.65
409 votes

#4 - Dead Aim

Medium - Season 2 - Episode 6

Allison helps the district attorney with a case where the defense lawyer keeps upstaging him in court.

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Kiss Me Kate
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7.31
26 votes

#5 - Kiss Me Kate

Party of Five - Season 1 - Episode 8

Bailey is shocked when Kate tells him that she plans to stay a virgin until she marries. When Bailey doesn't accept her decision and Kate doesn't change her mind, they break up. Julia teams with a songwriter who wants to put her poetry into music. Claudia is named one of the Bay area's most gifted young musicians and lets her success go to her head.

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Pilot
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7.24
70 votes

#6 - Pilot

Party of Five - Season 1 - Episode 1

Six months after their parents were killed in a car accident involving a drunk driver, the five Salinger orphans are struggling to make ends meet and keep their family together. They try to search for a replacement for Owen's 65-year-old nanny, Mrs. Kelleher, who suddenly quits. Bailey assumes most of the responsibility for the family. Julia turns her back on the family after a classmate named P.K. shows an interest in her. After her heart is broken, she longs for her mother's advice and comfort. Charlie loses $12,000 of their money in a bad real estate investment. Joe Mangus, their father's partner in Salingers Restaurant, loans Charlie enough money to tide them over on the condition that Charlie work at Salingers as a bartender, a job which Charlie accepts reluctantly. Young Claudia pawns her violin and announces that she'd rather be a regular kid than a child prodigy. Her violin instructor, Ross Werkman, reminds her that she has a rare gift and encourages her to stick with it.

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Breakdown
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7.20
41 votes

#7 - Breakdown

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 8

After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.

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