The BEST episodes directed by Sutton Roley
#1 - The Sky is Falling
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Robinsons encounter a family of crablike visitors who are far from friendly.
#2 - Ambush
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 1
When the Americans liberate a town, the French shoot a man for collaborating. His daughter, Marie Marchand (Marisa Pavan), is angry at everyone and leaves town. The Americans soon learn her father was actually an undercover allied agent, and Saunders' squad is sent to find her. Saunders needs her help more than he thought, and must overcome her bitterness.
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#3 - The Anti-Matter Man
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 15
Will and the robot try to rescue the kidnapped Prof. Robinson in a macabre world of orange grass, polka-dotted leaves, and animated rocks.
#4 - Wish Upon a Star
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 11
Will and Dr. Smith discover a device that transforms wishes into realities.
#5 - Blast
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 18
Gregory Tolan leads an underground cell specializing in bank robberies with the money going to finance an American revolution. His mysterious sponsor is Jonathan Brace, who runs other such cells throughout the U.S. The IMF must find out Brace's identity and apprehend him. Phelps (as a demo expert) and Dana (as his insider at Tolan's next target) get recruited and has to make sure Tolan steals the money without the police knowing so he can lead them to Brace. When Jim stops Tolan from shooting Willy (disguised as a clerk), the police are alerted and Tolan's team takes refuge. Jim goes to get a (bugged) car since Brace won't come to them, Paris and IMF guest agent Grace play the homeowners, and Dana and Tolan exit with the money when Brace orders them to. Jim stops the hostages from getting killed and they follow Tolan to Brace and bring them both in.
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#6 - The Geneva Balfour Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 18
Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying supplies to get her husband to return east and Hale lies to train members about the danger's extent.
#8 - Elegy In A Rain Forest
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 16
The daughter of Attorney General John Manicote is kidnapped by a deranged rapist and murderer, and Steve must not only contend with the criminal but Manicote's emotional state as well...
#9 - A Capitol Crime
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 18
A pensioner threatens to blow himself and his hostages up if he doesn't stop the demolition of his home.
#10 - The Test Case
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 14
A scientist of an enemy power, Dr. Oswald Beck, has developed a bacteria which causes cerebral spinal meningitis and mutated it into a form that kills and then becomes inert after a few hours. The IMF must destroy the preliminary culture and stop Beck. Rollin replaces the prisoner chosen for a test of Beck's bacteria, and Barney switches the bacteria cylinder for one with knockout gas and then uses a balloon to capture the gas. Rollin "dies" but then Jim, who has infiltrated the base as a military medic, "discovers" that Rollin isn't dead. Meanwhile, Barney releases the knockout gas into the control room, knocking out Beck's superiors. Beck thinks they are dying from his bacteria and believes they'll think he's a traitor who tried to kill them rather than the test subject. He flees but is shot while Jim destroys the bacteria.
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#11 - A Way to Dusty Death
Mannix - Season 7 - Episode 2
A quiet town is ruffled by Mannix in his search for a missing youth.
#12 - The Nowhere Victim
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 9
A hit-and-run case lands Mannix in the middle of a gang war.
#13 - One of Our Dogs is Missing
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 13
Dr. Smith and the women discover that their spaceship has been looted.
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#14 - Double Exposure
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 10
A press photographer is pursued relentlessly after she takes a photo of a supposedly dead gangster who has returned to the islands to take control of the local syndicate.
#15 - The Phantom Strikes
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 17
Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.
#16 - Underwater
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 8
Berlinger, a millionaire manufacturer and stolen gem dealer, will be transferring diamond to a Syndicate boss for $75 million. Only one man knows where the diamonds are - Hoffman, Berlinger's former lieutenant, who stole them. Berlinger is torturing Hoffman for their location. The IMF must get the gems and the money. Barney springs Hoffman and they become partners so Hoffman dives for the gems (hidden on the body of a courier sunk at sea). Casey brings Berlinger to Jim, posing as a diver, who offers to get the diamonds. Willy follows Hoffman to the gems and the team knocks him out and takes him into custody - then Jim leads Berlinger to the same spot and offers to make a deal in return for his $5 million payment. Under pressure from the Syndicate, Berlinger agrees and in the subsequent meeting the police capture everyone.
#17 - A Step in Time
Mannix - Season 5 - Episode 3
Mannix is the eyewitness of a murder; reportedly, it occurred a year before.
#19 - Crack-Up
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 12
Peter Cordel, a hitman and grandmaster chess player, has evaded capture - the IMF must bring him to justice and determine who in the Syndicate he works for. Using a hypnotic drug given by guest-agent Sandy, the IMF condition Cordel to blackout every time he is told "When in doubt, take a pawn." Then they set it up so it looks like he kills several people during his blackouts and have him awaken in a mental hospital where an IMF orderly stages an assault to make it look like Cordel's boss wants him dead, so Cordel tells Sandy to warn his boss to call off his hit men, and the IMF capture the man.
#20 - The Cardinal
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 6
General Zepke plans to rise to power - the only threat to him is Cardinal Souchek who stands for a free people. Zepke has had Souchek imprisoned and plans to replace him with a double who will endorse him. The IMF use an infected mosquito to make the double, Nagorski, ill. Phelps and Cinnamon are called in as doctor and nurse to tend to him while Rollin impersonates a Cardinal and sees through Nagorski's impersonation. He escapes from an airtight sarcophagus and helps Barney and Willy enter the monastery through a booby-trapped tunnel before their air runs out. When Jim has Nagorski placed in an oxygen tent, the others open up the wall behind him, take out Nagorski and replace him with Souchek whom they've secretly freed. Zepke has Souchek-as-Nagorski-as-Souchek give a speech, but Souchek doesn't say what Zepke was expecting...
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#21 - The Other Game in Town
Mannix - Season 4 - Episode 7
A plunger disappears after a night in Vegas.
#22 - They Don't Make 'Em Like They Use To
Baretta - Season 3 - Episode 5
A heist goes wrong when Doc, an ex-con, is double-crossed by his hired hands during a jewelry robbery.
#23 - The Cathy Eckhart Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 7
One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians threaten the pass. Now there may be a renegade and murderer in their midst which Adams must resolve before continuing.
#24 - The Exiles
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 20
General Ortega hires Paladin to recover $16 million in French bonds. Where they are and who has them is already known. The aristocrats who have them will not give them to one they consider a tyrant and Paladin must intervene if he hopes to save their lives.
#25 - Fallen Angel (a.k.a. Angel of Mercy)
Airwolf - Season 2 - Episode 7
String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.
#26 - Merry-Go-Round for Murder
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 24
A boarding school marked for demolition sets off a mystery involving a corpse and a quarter-million.
#27 - The Games Girls Play
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 2
Three Beverly Hills wives who added some excitement to their lives by posing as call girls get more than they expected when a senator is threatened with blackmail photographs.
#28 - The Mouse That Died
Mannix - Season 4 - Episode 5
Mannix is poisoned, and only the poisoner knows how.
#29 - A Question of Midnight
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 5
Mannix reopens a malpractice case against opposition.
#30 - The Earl Packer Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 15
Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him get to Fort Kearny. Flint learns the itchy Strode is being hunted by bounty hunter Earl Packer and Strode has changed.
#31 - Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 18
While traveling though a small town in Arizona, Kimble is arrested by the brutal and sadistic Sheriff Jo Bob Sims whom has political ambitions. Sheriff Sims (unaware of Kimble's true identity) subjects him to slave labor with a group of other vagrants he arrests on a daily basis for no reason other than to torture or humiliate them. When Kimble witnesses Sims murder another prisoner and has the equally corrupt mayor and town council cover it up to look like an accident, Kimble becomes aware that his own life is in danger.
#32 - Shadow of a Man
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 16
A attempt on his life forces Mannix into a complex search.
#33 - The Need of a Friend
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 9
Mannix finds new evidence in the case of an embezzler he sent up the river.
#34 - The Man Who Wasn't There
Mannix - Season 6 - Episode 16
A boastful nemesis takes Peggy for bait.
#36 - Serve, Volley and Kill
Vega$ - Season 1 - Episode 11
An obnoxious and tempremental tennis player is about to have a grudge match with a rival at the Desert Inn. Now he has been receiving phone calls threatening him unless he throws the match. His manager hires Dan to protect him but he feels that his manager is overreacting. And Dan doesn't want to work for someone as obnoxious and inconsiderate as him and was about to quit when some men beat him up. Dan decides to look into it further and discovers that his girlfriend is involved with the man behind everything. When they try to get her he lets her go away. Later, his sister is kidnapped and he agrees to throw the match. Dan deduces that either the manager or the promoter is connected to the man, so when he goes to his office to find the sister, he subdues the man and his henchmen and discovers that it's the promoter. He finds the sister and arrives just in time to let her brother come from behind.
#37 - To Kill a Memory
Mannix - Season 6 - Episode 7
A amnesiac veteran is up to his stripes in mischief.
#38 - Light and Shadow
Mannix - Season 6 - Episode 14
A murder investigation bumps up against hard evidence.
#39 - To Bloom for Thee
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 6
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
#40 - The Solid Gold Web
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 23
A newspaper publisher's daughter is implicated in the death of a mobster.
#41 - Aunt Thede
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 13
Festus's ornery aunt arrives, squats on a piece of land, sets up a still, and comes to the rescue of a pair of star-crossed lovers.
#42 - The Return of the Phantom
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 26
Captain Krueger returns to compel Nelson to shoot Crane. Once that is done, Krueger takes over Crane's body and searches out a host for Lani, Krueger's dead lover, so the two can be reunited. Can Admiral Nelson save his friend and end the plans of the evil Captain forever?
#43 - The Hunted
Airwolf - Season 2 - Episode 5
Santini Air is hired for a 30 day period by agents on behalf of a industrial millionaire, to be on stand-by to pilot the man on an important journey when called upon. Dominic is excited at the prospect of the high-paying job, but Hawke is more sceptical and intends to find out just why they've been given the contract. But unbeknown to any of them, Caitlin's new boyfriend is plotting to assassinate the millionaire; and matters are not helped any by some malfunctions that Airwolf is suffering...
#44 - Dead Men's Doubloons
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 21
A 16th century pirate seemingly comes back from the grave to threaten Seaview.
#45 - Photo Finish
Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 4
Starsky and Hutch brush shoulders with high-society, at an exclusive party that photographer friend Marcie has invited them to, but the event grinds to a halt when an artist is shot dead by an unknown assassin. Marcie has caught the shooting on camera, and the Detective duo confiscate the pictures for Police evidence as they begin some black-tie sleuthing on the champagne circuit. But Marcie is determined to use the valuable photos to break into big-time journalism, and quietly holds on to one to sell to the highest bidder - only for her life to now be endangered by the killer, who is determined to get their hands on the incriminating film...
#46 - A Strange Kind of Love
Kojak - Season 5 - Episode 2
A psychotic murderer thinks that a television talk show host is subliminally brainwashing him to murder.
#47 - The Horn of Plenty
Airwolf - Season 3 - Episode 1
Hawke takes a seemingly luxurious Santini Air job, piloting and accompanying a beautiful, high-flying business woman for a few days, but ends up duped into being hypnotised in an elaborate plot by master criminal John Bradford Horn. Horn has desire to take over a small country as his own, and intends to have the hypnotised Hawke deliver Airwolf to him so he can use the chopper's fierce fire-power to succeed in his goal...
#48 - Quantity: Unknown
The Invaders - Season 1 - Episode 9
While investigating the theft of a mysterious cylinder from the site of a plane crash, Vincent is captured and suspected of being an alien.
#49 - The Innocent
The Invaders - Season 1 - Episode 10
An alien (Michael Rennie) captures Vincent and convinces him he'll be taken to a paradise as proof of the invaders' peaceful intentions.
#50 - Fortune Teller
Airwolf - Season 3 - Episode 4
Hawke and Dominic arrive for a rendezvous with Archangel in the desert, only to find his jeep abandoned and no sign of him. The F.I.R.M., who have reason to believe that he has turned traitor, give him 48 hours to be found before they send in the Zebra squad – an assassination squad that take out suspected traitors. Dominic asks for the help of a reluctant psychic in finding Archangel's whereabouts, much to Hawke's scepticism. Archangel is actually being held by a rich crime baron who is determined to get his hands on "The Fortune Teller" – an in-flight device that out-guesses the opponent's next move - of which Archangel has been involved of the development...