The BEST episodes directed by Richard Whorf
#1 - Lady on the Stagecoach
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 18
Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 12
Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.
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#3 - The Giant Jackrabbit
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 2 - Episode 16
While out hunting, Granny confuses the Drysdale’s new kangaroo with a giant jackrabbit.
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#4 - The Case of the Blushing Pearls
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 4
Mitsuo Kamuri has been seeing a great deal of Grover Nichols, son of wealthy businessman Hudson Nichols. Nichols doesn't approve of his son's relationship and when Mitsuo is "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to Mrs. Nichols he agrees to drop all charges provided she stops seeing his son. Things then get even more complicated when Mitsuo's uncle, who had originally strung the pearls. is found murdered. The death has been made to look like hara-kiri but the police are not fooled.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Death of a Gunfighter
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 26
A ruthless gunfighter who has killed 9 men is wanted by the townspeople, who hire Paladin. The gunfighter's brother has been hanged and left out in the sreet to trap the gunfighter. On seeing this, Paladin quits the job. The gunfighter shows up and kills all the townspeople who were gunning for him. Then he and Paladin come to an agreement that if he hangs up his guns he can go back to his hometown to marry his sweetheart. But it turns out that she has fallen in love with someone else, and more trouble ensues.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 39
Paladin finds a sick old man and his son trying to protect their mine from claim jumpers. The old man is delirious and thinks that Paladin is the devil and has only offered to help in exchange for their souls.
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#7 - Getting Settled
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 - Episode 2
When the Clampetts arrive at their new Mansion, they are mistaken by miss Hathaway for a staff of bumbling, insubordinate, backwoods servants.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 19
Paladin wins part of a treasure map in a poker game and goes in search of the treasure with three other men.
#9 - The Fifth Man
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 2 - Episode 36
Ben Talman, who has murdered 12 men, escaped from jail. He kills four men in Yucca Bend within one week. Paladin is hired to bring him in.
#12 - The Romance of Silver Pines
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 15
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
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#13 - The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 - Episode 33
Jethro needs a health certificate to graduate from the 5th grade, but he ends up at a psychiatrist.
#14 - Sunday Supplement
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 22
"There's no law west of Dodge." Two writers in from New York want to see if that's true. When a Pawnee Indian uprising seems to be brewing, they may have found their story.
#15 - Milly
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 9
The plain but nubile daughter of a hopeless drunkard decides to marry herself off so that she and her little brother might avoid starvation.
#16 - Jed Buys Stock
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 - Episode 5
Granny prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem while Jed follows Mr. Drysdale’s suggestion to buy “stock” by buying cows, pigs, and chickens.
#17 - Incident at Alabaster Plain
Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 2
Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.
#18 - Birds And Bees
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 1
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 8
Robbie is heading for an “F” in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don’t even compensate for her loss of mind.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 9
A composition titled “What My Mother Means to Me” has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 19
Bub reads an article in a magazine which is directed at bored homemakers and he begins to think that he fits the description. Steve warns him that he should control his Irish temper as it could lead to the demise of his position should he find one.
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#22 - Letter of the Law
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 5
When Matt is forced to serve an eviction notice on farmer Brandon Teek, Matt tries every way he can to help the farmer. Matt tries to speak with Judge Rambeau in the hope the Judge will stop the eviction process in the proper legal manner. When the Judge refuses to stop the court order eviction of Brandon Teek, Matt refuses to serve the eviction. The Judge hires another man to evict Teek, but the man finds the job of evicting Brandon Teek harder than he ever thought it would be. The man hired to evict Brandon Teek meets resistance from Brandon Teek and a scuffle ensues. Brandon's pregnant wife, Sarah Teek, is injured in the scuffle and loses her child because of the injuries suffered.
#23 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 6
Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumors that an escaped group of Aztecs now live there, almost 400 years after Cortez wiped them all out.
#24 - Doc's Reward
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 14
Doc kills a man who shoots his horse. The man's brother comes looking for Doc because he thinks Doc killed his brother for reward money.
#25 - Matt for Murder
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 1
Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old freind Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.
#26 - Spur Line to Shady Rest
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 1
Homer Bedloe from the railroad company tries to shut down the Cannonball train, but he's no match for Kate Bradley of the Shady Rest.
#27 - Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 - Episode 3
The Clampetts find that the comforts of the mansion do not always compare to the comforts of their former mountain shack. Meanwhile, Cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man.
#28 - The Girls Next Door
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 18
Four beautiful airline stewardesses move into the vacant house next door and Mike and Robbie immediately are attracted to the glamorous career women. Meanwhile Steve is at the drawing board trying to meet a work deadline that requires his total concentration.
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#29 - The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 - Episode 4
When Mr. Drysdale describes Mrs. Drysdale as being a hypochondriac, the Clampets assume she must be a drunk.
#30 - Incident of the Tumbleweed
Rawhide - Season 1 - Episode 1
Two outlaws kill their lawman escort in Favor's camp, saddling the trail boss with the responsibility of bringing them in for trial.
#31 - Mike in Charge
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 10
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 26
Steve's friend asks him to come up with a solution when she thinks her daughter is dating an older man. Steve is shocked when he sees that the initials of the fraternity pin the man gave her identifies his oldest son Mike. However it is really Robbie who took the use of Mike's pin to fix his button-less shirt.
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#33 - Lost Rifle
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 8
Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.
#34 - Thoroughbreds
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 6
Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.
#35 - Gunsmuggler
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 3
When renegade Pawnee Indians attack some local ranchers, Matt and Major Evans think that white gunrunners supplied the Renegades the rifles. Matt, Chester and Indian scout Tobeel, go the scene of the massacre to pick up the trail of the renegades in the hopes that the Indians will lead them to the camp of the gunrunners. One thing that the gunrunners were not counting on was that the riffles that were sold to the renegades were an outdated Henry 44. Matt thinks that once the Indian renegades find out that they have been cheated and have purchased outdated rifles that no longer have the ammunition in supply, the Indians will go after the gunsmugglers. The Indians do take out revenge on one of the Gunsmugglers, but the other man tries to flee. With the information supplied by a cowboy on the prairie, Matt finally arrives in the camp of the remaining gumsmuggler to confront the man.
#36 - Chip Leaves Home
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 14
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to do them all a favour by running away from home. His solution is to strike away for far-east India very early the next morning. He takes fright while downtown and secretly returns home and hides in the attic, forgetting the farewell note he's pinned to Tramp's collar.
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#37 - Kitty Caught
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 19
Kitty is taken hostage during a bank robbery and killer Jed Gunther warns everyone not to follow them, or he will use Dillon's gun to kill her.
#38 - Wild West
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 23
On the prairie, Matt meets up with a young boy who tells him that some men tied up and abducted his father the night before.
#39 - Crossing at White Feather
Rawhide - Season 8 - Episode 13
Rowdy hires Jonas Bolt to guide the herd to and across the river. Rowdy finds Jonas drunk and fires him. The saloon owner tries to trick Rowdy out of a 1000 head using Jonas.
#40 - Grass
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 12
White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
#41 - Lynching Man
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 10
After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.
#42 - How to Kill a Friend
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 11
Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.
#43 - The Night of the Fatal Trap
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 15
Jim, disguised as a notorious outlaw, is sent to arrest Colonel Vasquez, the leader of a band of Mexican bandits terrorizing U.S. border towns.
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#44 - Gypsum Hills Feud
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 16
Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.
#45 - Robber Bridegroom
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 14
Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.
#46 - Instant Hate
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 2
The good neighbour policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
Watch Now:Amazon#47 - A Lesson in Any Language
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 7
Mike wants to go skiing on the weekend with his friends but must also keep up his Spanish studies. So he adopts the learn while you sleep method via use of a pre-programmed record player. Steve's room has just been painted so he decides to sleep in Mike's bed. Mysteriously, he wakes up speaking Spanish, and the next night Bub does the same. Before long they are both uttering phrases they couldn't possibly know.
Watch Now:Amazon#48 - Second Time Around
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 17
Attractive Pamela MacLish whom Steve took to Chip's grade school dance a year ago, is still trying to melt his bachelor heart. She arrives at the house on the pre-text of soliciting Bub's help to join an Irish Society called the 'Daughters of the Emerald Isle'. Soon Bub thinks that Pamela is after him.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 27
Chip puts his father into the uncomfortable position of defending the importance of his profession. Chip is unenlightened by the tour of the Air Force base until a full-scale emergency arises and Steve is asked to help a desperate pilot down from the air.
Watch Now:Amazon#50 - Air Derby
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 31
Robbie's only real competition for winning a school scholarship in a model airplane contest is a young boy named Roly Bates, a studious lad who has his heart set on first prize as its his only chance to get a college education.
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