The BEST episodes directed by Sidney Lanfield
#1 - Ophelia Finds Romance
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 20
Ophelia needs help with her latest romance, Horatio Bartholomew, whom she met at a Lonely Hearts' Club, but Grandma Frump objects to him, and Gomez and Morticia both think he's a phony, and try to convince Itt to marry Ophelia instead.
#2 - H.M.S. 73
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 26
Binghamton schemes to get McHale chosen for a Liaison Officer's position, in Sydney, Austrailia. But, when McHale finds out that he will be going alone, and for the duration, he and his crew cook up a plan to get him off the hook.
#3 - Alias Captain Binghamton
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 31
The 73 gets a new crew member, who turns out to be a trouble-maker. McHale and the 73 crew cook up a wild plan to get rid of him, but, when their plan backfires, they find themselves in hot water again. So, they turn to their new Crewman, and use his special physical qualities to their advantage.
#4 - Portrait of a Peerless Leader
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 28
A Naval Personnel Officer is coming to check out McHale for a stateside training position. Binghamton leads McHale and his crew to believe that the Officer is coming to check out Binghamton for a promotion, and transfer, so they shape up, so that Leadbottom will ship out. But, when McHale finds out the real reason for the Officer's visit, he and his crew cook up a plan, to get him off the hook.
#5 - The Julie Gage Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 14
Julia Gage is travelling west with her father. Early on in the trip it is obvious that she is an independent woman, who, although single, won't become any man's doormat. Along the way her father dies of fever and she is left to continue the journey alone. The Major is worried about her being able to cope and sends along a succession of likely men to help her but she proves stronger than any of them, in spirit if not physically. When one of them, Tobe Cannon, takes ill with a fever, Julia, alone of all the women on the train who fear for their own safety, offers to nurse him. As it wouldn't be right and proper for a single woman to be alone with a single man, she persuades the Major to ""half"" marry them, as her patient is in no fit state to object to the union. Luckily, when he recovers, he doesn't object at all!
#6 - The Jesse Cowan Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 17
Two brothers return to their home after the civil war to find their home and family wiped out. Their family, the Cowans, had long been feuding with a neighbouring family, the Beals, and so the Beal family are the prime suspects. The elder Beal son, Ruf, especially so. The Beals are nowhere to be found. The Cowan brothers discover that the Beals have joined up with a wagon train, heading west to start a new life. The Beals have joined Seth Adams train and when the Cowans catch up with it, Major Adams finds the wagon train becomes their new feuding ground.
#7 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 22
Gomez is juggling with his Indian clubs and hits himself on the head knocking himself unconscious. When he comes to, his personality has drastically changed.
#8 - The Emily Rossiter Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 7
It is still early days on the wagon train trail. So when one morning the body of one of the men is discovered and money and a land deed stolen, and the evidence points to Indians, Flint won't believe it. He can't convince the travellers, though, that they are unlikely to run into Indian trouble this soon into their journey and that Indians would have no need of the items stolen. The travellers point to a tomahawk left behind by the raiders. Given the conflicting evidence, Major Adams asks Flint to stay behind and see what he can find out. As the train moves out, Flint follows the clues which lead him back to a small settlement the wagon train passed through a few days earlier. A chance encounter with a teenage girl and her overbearing stepfather make him suspect that there is more to this little outpost than first appears.
#9 - Morticia Meets Royalty
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 4
Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrives for a visit in her sedan chair.
#10 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 33
Lurch records a song at the harpsichord which eventually attracts swarms of screaming teenage fans to the house.
#11 - Have Kimono, Will Travel
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 6
While trying to prevent McHale and the 73 Crew from putting on a show for the Taratupa personnel, Binghamton winds up in trouble along with McHale and the boys, and has to put on a show, himself, to help get them out of it.
#12 - The Addams Family and the Spacemen
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 27
There have been sightings of UFOs, and when Mr. Hinckley and Mr. Gilbert, investigators from the MSO (Mysterious Space Objects), comes across the Family on a moonlight picnic and snail hunt, they think that Lurch and Cousin Itt are aliens.
#13 - The Hillbillies of PT 73
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 34
Willy is devastated when he gets a letter from his best girl “ Back home, in the hills of Tennessee“ Informing him that she's marrying another man. So, McHale and the 73 Crew go all out to pick up his spirits. But Captain Binghamton wants everyone on their best behavior for the upcoming inspection tour of a certain budget-conscious V.I.P.
#14 - Nippon Nancy Calling
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 23
When a Japanese radio announcer broadcasts details about Captain Binghamton that only someone close to him would know, Binghamton immediately suspects McHale and The 73 Crew, and enlists Parker's aid in nailing the traitor.
#15 - To Binghamton with Love
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 5
McHale and The Crew are in hot water again, this time, over the mis-use of the 73. But Binghamton drops the charges, when he gets into a bit of hot water, himself, and needs help from McHale and the boys.
#16 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 15
Rockland ""Rocky"" Cartwright III, a beatnik, crashes his motorbike in front of the Addams' house.
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#17 - Morticia's Romance (2)
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 3
Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents' romance.
#18 - Camera, Action, Panic
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 30
A Combat Photographer comes to Taratupa, to film a P.T. crew in action. But trouble erupts, when Gruber swipes the Photographer's movie camera, for a little private enterprise. McHale and the 73 crew then have to scheme, to cover their own behinds, as well as the Photographer's.
#19 - McHale's Millions
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 33
The 73 Crew investigates the crash site of a Japanese transport plane, which is loaded with 4 million dollars' worth of American currency. McHale convinces the boys that the bills are counterfeit, and, later, Gruber trades the supposedly phony money to Urulu, for some island trinkets. But when they find out that the money is real, McHale and The Crew must scheme to get it back.
#20 - The Confidence Game
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 20
Parker requests a transfer, when he feels he's not getting the respect he deserves. So, to change his mind, and build up his self-confidence, McHale puts him in charge of an important test mission.
#21 - The Addams Family Splurges
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 19
Gomez and Pugsley build a new computer, Wizzo, because the family wants somewhere new and interesting to visit.
#22 - Uncle Admiral
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 36
An Admiral from Naval Operations “ Who just happens to be a ranking member of the Promotions Board“ Is stopping in, briefly, at Taratupa, and Captain Binghamton dreams of Admiral's stars, especially when he learns that the Admiral has a very close relative stationed on Taratupa.
#23 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 32
Cousin Itt is trying to decide on a career, and they call in Mr. Phelps, a vocational guidance expert.
#24 - The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P.'s
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 11
Visiting dignitaries from an Iron Curtain country want to see a ""typical"" American family. Mr. Harris, the Government agent, is resistant to the idea. Mr. Haan insists, so they get out the phone book and randomly select a name. They land on the Addams listing.
#25 - A Man Called Horse
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 26
A White man dressed as an Indian, caring for an elderly, sick Indian woman are unusual additions to the Wagon Train. Quietly the man tells Flint and the Major his story as Wooster tends to the woman.
#26 - The Jean LeBec Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 2
Before the Civil War Jean Le Bec was a young musician with a special talent for the violin. His family were too poor to pay for his musical studies so he was sponsored by a rich southern family. The daughter was called Mary. When her family lost everthing in the war, Mary's father entrusted her well-being to Jean. Mary had relatives in San Francisco so they decided to go there and they were going to get there via the wagon train. Jean didn't tell Mary that he was having trouble raising the cash for the journey. While the train was forming at St. Joseph, Missouri, as a last resort to raise the money, Jean used his precious violin as a stake in a card game, which he won but was accused of cheating. The allegation was false but it cost him his violin to get out alive. When Mary realised what he had done she went to the saloon to try to buy the fiddle back, but things went badly wrong and Jean ended up by killing the son of the man who practically owned the town. Flint McCullough witnessed
#27 - Morticia's Romance (1)
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 2
On Morticia and Gomez's thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met.
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#28 - Uncle Fester's Illness
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 18
Fester is becoming sick- He can't even run the trains.
#29 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 20
Cousin Itt arrives for a visit and settles into the attic. He's good at magic tricks, but restless.
#30 - Thing Is Missing
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 23
After Fester accidentaily insults Thing, Thing disappears and Gomez plays Sherlock Holmes to deduce who did it.
#31 - Today I am a Man!
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 7
Parker requests a transfer, when a cute blonde Nurse he's involved with unintentionally demoralizes him. So, McHale, The Crew, and the Nurse work out a plan to make him feel better about himself.
#32 - Lurch and His Harpsichord
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 25
Lurch' s harpsichord turns out to be a rare survivor of an extinct make, so Gomez is persuaded to donate it to the local museum. Lurch is left inconsolable, so the Family attempts to get him interested in other pursuits.
#33 - The Day the War Stood Still
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 1
During a search for some stolen goods, while McHale and the 73 Crew are out on a recon mission, Binghamton catches Fuji, and holds him as a spy. McHale and the boys then cook up a complicated plan to spring him.
#34 - The Binghamton Murder Plot
McHale's Navy - Season 2 - Episode 2
After laying some unusually harsh punishments on McHale and the 73 Crew, Binghamton mistakenly gets the impression that McHale and his men are out to kill him.
#35 - My Son, the Chimp
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 28
Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong.
#36 - A Wreath for McHale
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 27
McHale and the 73 Crew are missing, and presumed dead, and Binghamton uses the situation for attention from a visiting War Correspondent.
#37 - Progress and the Addams Family
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 30
Mr. Henson has now been made city Commissioner, and he condemns the Addams Family house to evict them and build a freeway in its place.
#38 - Parents Anonymous
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 32
McHale and the 73 crew return from a mission, to find that a young Asian orphan girl has taken up residence on their island. They decide to keep her on the island, and go all out to make a happy home for her, and to keep her a secret from Binghamton. But Binghamton becomes suspicious, when he observes the crew's unusual behavior.
#39 - Uncle Fester's Toupee
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 31
Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith, from Paris, Illinois, is coming to visit him, and he's told her he's a handsome, romantic type with a lot of hair.
#40 - The Winning of Morticia Addams
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 34
Fester reads an article that claims that apparently happy marriages are dangerous, because there is sickness hidden within. Since Gomez and Morticia are so happy, Fester thinks he'd better help out and make them have a few fights for their own good.
#41 - The Mothers of PT 73
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 25
Trouble ensues, when Parker inadvertently invites three of the 73 Crew's Mothers - including his own - to visit Taratupa for Mother's Day.
#42 - Fester's Punctured Romance
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 3
Uncle Fester puts an ad in the personals column and when he doesn't get an immediate response he's heartbroken. Later, the Addams family mistakes a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.
#43 - Halloween with the Addams Family
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 7
It was a dark and stormy Halloween night when Gomez recieves a new carving knife in the mail.
#44 - Wednesday Leaves Home
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 10
Wednesday packs up her spider and runs away after being scolded for using Uncle Fester's blasting caps instead of her own.
#45 - Lurch Learns to Dance
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 13
Gomez and Morticia are concerned when Lurch refuses to go to the annual Butler's Ball. They then learn the reason, Lurch can't dance. The Addams family then tries to help him by teaching him how to dance.
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#46 - The Great Treasure Hunt
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 19
In the attic the Family discovers Great-Grandfather Pegleg' s old sea chest, and there's a treasure map in it. Morticia wants to search for the treasure, but half the map is missing, so the search for the second half begins.
#47 - Morticia, the Breadwinner
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 26
The stockmarket has collapsed, and thousands of people are going broke. Fester and Morticia think that the Family has lost all its money, so Morticia rallies the Family to make money without telling Gomez, as it would upset him.
#48 - Cousin Itt's Problem
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 6
Cousin Itt is shedding hair, and the family is worried that he'll lose his great good looks along with his hair. Fester gets out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster.
#49 - Halloween... Addams Style
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 7
It's Halloween and, despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday's upset.
#50 - Morticia, the Writer
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 8
Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins, and ghouls, as the bad guys.