The BEST episodes directed by Robert Douglas
#1 - Can't Win for Losing
Baretta - Season 3 - Episode 11
Baretta is investigating the takeover of a new drug dealer in town who is knocking off the existing dealers. One of Baretta's friends, Joey Rich, decides to take matters into his own hands after Joey's own son becomes a heroin addict.
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#3 - Behind the Locked Door
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 22
Newlyweds Dave and Bonnie Snowden visit the abandoned home of Bonnie's late father. In the home, Dave finds a locked door and comes to believe that there is something valuable inside. Later, Dave and Bonnie tell Bonnie's elderly mother Mrs. Daniels that they are married. Bonnie's mother is convinced that Dave is after her daughter inheritance. She tries to bribe Dave to annull the marriage. Dave refuses, but he is desperate for money. In an effort to convince Bonnie's mother of his good intentions. He convinces Bonnie to fake a suicide attempt by overdosing on sleeping pills. Dave hopes that Mrs. Daniels will see him caring for her and change her mind about him. Unfortunately, Bonnie is allergic to sleeping pills and accidently dies. After the funeral, Mrs. Daniels tells Dave that she has had a change of heart. She gives him the abandoned house. Dave heads to the home and again wonders what is behind the locked door. As he talks to himself, Dave accidently reveals to a secretly listeni
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#4 - Dutchman's Gold
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 19
Beau Maverick wins half-ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon in Arizona. In an attempt to raise funds for the floundering business, Beau and his partner Charlotte become partners with a mysterious gold prospector known only as the Dutchman. Along the trail to Superstition Mountain where the gold is located, Beau, Charlotte, and the Dutchman encounter danger in various forms.
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#5 - Second Sight
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 7
While working in a film supply store as a photo developer, Kimble spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, in a photo. After tracking down the freelance photographer, Howie Keever, whom took the photo, Kimble learns that Johnson works at a nearby chemical warehouse. Kimble goes to the warehouse and suprises Johnson. During the scuffle, Johnson accidently ignites some chemicals, chreating an expostion which leaves him badly injured and Kimble blinded by the flash. Johnson manages to escape and once again reports Kimble to the police. Kimble manages to escape from the hospital before the police arrive and tries to get back to Howie's apartment to ask him to hide him. But the police question Howie and his uncle whom learn Kimble's true idenity, as well as the $10,000 reward.
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#6 - Death on Deposit
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 11
When customer Sturmer wants to withdraw a large amount of money from his account, bank president Ellen Blazeford, who ravaged trust accounts for years, kills him by letting loose a bull. But Barnaby, hired by Sturmer's nephew, and two bank employees are on her trail.
#9 - The Long Silence
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 25
In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, state. She is bedridden and worried that her husband will try to kill her. She is also unable to speak and cannot tell anyone about her dangerous husband. When her nurse Jean Dekker allows her husband to adminster her medicine, she grows fearful that he will try to poison her. Fortunately, the nurse figures out a way to communicate with Nora. Nora squeezes her hand in response to yes or no questions. Jean discovers the truth about Ralph, but when Ralph finds out he tries to kill both Nora and Jean . Fortunately, Nora comes out of her paralysis in time to scream. She alerts her second son who manages to subdue Ralph before he can kill again.
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#10 - Asylum
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 21
Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital to uncover the truth about a string of mysterious deaths.
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#11 - Legion of the Lost
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 27
Stone and Keller look into the beating death of three homeless men.
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#14 - The Deadly Jinx
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 15
After several boyfriends of rich orphaned Jenny Sutherland have been killed or crippled, the housekeeper Kathy Revere asks Barnaby to investigate. Jenny believes she is a jinx, but Barnaby tries to find out whether these were accidents or murder was involved.
#15 - Timelock
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 8
Stone appears to be the only one willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a convict who is accused of a murder while out of prison on a 36-hour pass.
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#16 - You'll Be the Death of Me
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 4
During a lovers' quarrel Dandy Arthur kills his ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately, a button torn from her coats lands in his pocket during the struggle. His wife finds the button and Dandy sets out to kill her as well. Eventually, however, Dandy gives himself away by talking too much and is arrested by the police.
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#17 - In the Midst of Strangers
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 9
When a corner newspaper vendor goes after the muggers who stole his life savings, Stone and Keller discover that the crime is linked to the murder of a housing commissioner.
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#18 - The Sign of Satan
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 27
Karl Jorla is a European horror movie star that is contracted by a Hollywood studio to appear in his first American film. The producers of the film watch a demo film of Jorla as the leader of a satanic cult and feel that he will be perfect for their new film. After he comes to America, Jorla becomes worried that real satanists are after him. He thinks they may want to kill him for allowing his demo film to be shown. Jorla is given around the clock protection by the studio, but he is almost killed anyway. Jorla manages to convince the studio to allow him to stay at a secret location unknown to anyone but him. The studio agrees, but later become worried when he doesn't show up for the first day of filming. The director begins to film scenes around him, until Jorla suddenly appears on the set. He moans an address in Topanga Canyon and disappears. The police are called and everyone goes to the address where the find Jorla beaten to death. The murder becoms even more mysterious when it is r
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#19 - Kiz
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 12
Beau Maverick crashes a party in Virginia City thrown by eccentric socialite Kiz Bouchet. Kiz has a penchant for smoking cigars, playing poker, and fighting fires. Recognizing Beau as a fellow free spirit, she hires him to protect her. She believes her life is in danger. Beau discovers that Kiz's cousin Melissa, along with family doctor Pittman and attorney Hanford, are plotting to have Kiz judged incompent so they can split her $2 million inheritance. Beau comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on Melissa.
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#21 - The Diamond
Mission: Impossible - Season 1 - Episode 19
Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from the native miners, and the IMF are assigned to take it away from him. In London to auction the diamond, Durvard is approached by the team who offer to top all bids if they get exclusive rights to diamond production in Lombounda. Since Lombounda is not known for its diamond production, Durvard is suspicious. Eventually the team lets him figure out that they have a plan to use his country as a blind to distribute artificial diamonds that they claim they can manufacture. Durvard insists on being part of the scam, and forces the team to "make" a diamond from him using a piece off of the original stone. They do so, but when it comes time to fake the real diamond, the machine apparently overloads from the strain. The team slips the diamond out of the machine and leaves, as Durvard and the machine blow up.
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#22 - The Matchmaker
Daniel Boone - Season 3 - Episode 7
Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.
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#25 - Log 142: As High as You Are
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 11
Malloy and Reed encounter a lion in an apartment building and investigate a break-in at a medical supply warehouse. Malloy fends off cop haters and maintains the peace.
#26 - Log 083: A Different Thing
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 5
Malloy and Reed are called to investigate a hit-and-run incident that soon begins to look like a homicide.
#27 - Log 052: Good Cop: Handle with Care
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 3
A pair of freelance reporters are determined to do a story on police brutality, and harass Reed and Malloy as their marks. The officers warn the reporters to cease their behavior, but they don't and they end up causing a tragedy.
#29 - Log 024: A Rare Occasion
Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 17
Malloy and Reed deal with a purse snatcher focused on being jailed in time for dinner, a young boy on drugs with his dealer out to kill him, while enduring worry and concern over two policemen friends hospitalized in critical care resulting from a crackup in a high speed pursuit.
#30 - The Final Hour
The Virginian - Season 1 - Episode 30
Strip mining operations begin in the Medicine Bow area. While Judge Garth sees the mining as ""progess"" other locals see it as a threat to their way of life and also do not like the influx of polish miners. Amongst the miners' families is the beautiful Polcia (Ulla Jacobsson). A ""love quadrangle"" develops as three men desire Polcia: Jan (Dean Fredericks) the son of the leader of the miners, Jack Anderson (Don Galloway) the son of the rancher most opposed to the mining, and Trampas, who had been assigned by Judge Garth to assist the miners in getting settled and who is Polcia's true love. Fueled by ethnic sentiments events escalate into a series of conflicts and tragedies.
#31 - Old Fashioned Murder
Columbo - Season 6 - Episode 2
The female head of a museum hires one of the guards to rob the museum to collect the insurance money. But during the robbery she kills him and her own brother, and makes it look like they killed each other. The guard/robber's brother reports a strange message on his answering machine, that makes it seem that he has been killed. And Columbo gets the case. When Columbo first comes to the crime scene, he notices that the lights are off, a gold medallion in the robber's pants, and signs that pointed to the fact that he was going abroad after the heist. And he concluded that these clues mean that someone else was involved.
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#32 - The Prophet
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 11
David exposes an alien disguised as a prophet who capitalizes on his ability to glow red as a tool to deceive people into thinking that his ""gift"" is from God.
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#33 - The Doom Buggy
Shazam! - Season 1 - Episode 9
Don has dropped out of school to be a mechanic. But when he and Billy get lost in the desert, he sees that he doesn't know as much as he thought he did. Moral: If you close your mind to learning, sooner or later you're going to have it opened and be surprised at just how much you've shortchanged yourself. So if you ever think about dropping out of school, you're only hurting yourself.
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#34 - Counter-Attack
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 18
David deceives the aliens that he is willing to work with them for a fee, all the while with a plan of attack in mind.
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#35 - Double Death
Quincy, M.E. - Season 3 - Episode 19
A rushed autopsy by Dr. Asten places Quincy in a difficult position as he tries to clear his bosses' name.
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#36 - The Toymaker
Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 18
Will and Smith are trapped in a four-dimensional toyshop, where a toymaker mistakes them for playthings.
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