The BEST episodes directed by Stuart Hagmann
#2 - Live Bait
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 18
Selby, a double-agent for the U.S. within an enemy country's intelligence service, is suspected by his superior, Kellerman. The IMF must keep Selby in the clear and eliminate Kellerman. Selby complains when Marceau, a courier who knows about Selby's identity, is taken from him by Kellerman. Selby claims Kellerman is the double-agent. Rollin, as a government official, gives Kellerman 24 hours to break Marceau. Using his underling Brocke, Kellerman works with Rollin to trap Selby. Kellerman comes to believe that Agent Jim has kidnapped Brocke's girlfriend to force Brocke to give away Marceau's location to Selby. In reality, Stephanie is shown a fake split-screen of Jim conspiring with "Kellerman" (Rollin in disguise on tape!) to kill Brocke and eliminate Marceau. Brocke believes Stephanie and accuses Kellerman but she recants under pressure. Meanwhile, Marceau is wired to an explosive. When Stephanie recants the IMF break in using knockout gas and use liquid nitrogen to free Marceau. The
#5 - The Code
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 1
In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.
#6 - Edge of the Knife
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 7
A doctor's son is kidnapped to force a failed surgery.
#7 - Nicole
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 22
Jim is sent in to recover a list of Allied agents from the enemy's highest ranking intelligence minister, Anton Valdas. Nicole Vedette's, Valdas' secretary, is apparently on the IMF's side but Jim decides not to use her. Instead Jim and Rollin plansto break into Valdas' safe during a party. Jim and Nicole meet and have a romantic attraction. The effort goes awry and Jim is shot and captured while helping Rollin to escape. Nicole is imprisoned on suspicion but tells Jim that no one is looking for Rollin. Nicole also tells him that Rollin's contact is a double agent. Jim believes Valdas substituted a fake list that he wants them to take back. The two escape and Jim collapses from his wound in a barn. Nicole reveals she is the double agent and reports the success of their charade to Jim. But because of her attraction to him she blackmails Valdas into letting them escape for real. Jim realizes the deception and Nicole confesses, unaware that Valdas put a bug on her. They are caught by Vald
#8 - Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
Svengoolie - Season 24 - Episode 2
In this arachnoram from the '70s, a plane carrying coffee beans and deadly tarantulas crash-lands near a California orange growing town. Having finished their morning coffee, the spiders set out for their juice (as part of a balanced breakfast) and descend on the towns orange processing factory, killing several towns people on the way. The town folk are forced to come up with some lame pseudo-scientific way to rid the plant of poisonous arachnids and save their town.