The BEST episodes directed by Sutton Roley
#1 - Ambush
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 12
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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#2 - 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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#3 - Finest Hour
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 15
Caje forces a Frenchman to aid a wounded Hanley and himself. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau. There the Countess de Roy (two-time Academy Award winner Luise Rainer) walks a dangerous tightrope as she entertains a château full of German soldiers, while tending Hanley's wounds and keeping their presence a secret.
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#4 - 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.
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#6 - Soldier of Fortune
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 11
An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind, Private Marsh claims he has valuable intelligence — that will go back with him or not at all.
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#7 - 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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#8 - 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.
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#10 - Glow Against the Sky
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 8
Sgt. Saunders and his squad become trapped in a cellar of a French village as the Germans sweep through and capture the town. Billy Nelson is seriously wounded, delirious, screaming, and endangering the squad. Saunders leaves him in the street in hopes the Germans will take care of him. German Captain Neubauer (Kurt Kreuger) is bent on making Nelson reveal the whereabouts of the squad, as Saunders desperately devises an escape plan.
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#12 - Wish Upon a Star
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 11
Will and Dr. Smith discover a device that transforms wishes into realities.
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#13 - The Town That Went Away
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 14
In this largely comedic episode, Hanley and the men are sent to evacuate the town of Bonnaire, which is targeted for German attack. The mayor, his three beautiful daughters, and the townspeople thwart Hanley's every effort with elaborate ruses and deception.
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#14 - 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.
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#17 - Barrage
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 13
Lt. Hanley orders Sgt. Saunders up a hill to locate German artillery that has eluded all attempts to find and destroy it. But the hill is crowned by a dense ring of machine gun nests, and casualties have mounted. They separate and Saunders is wounded in the leg. He crawls until he falls into an abandoned mine, where he has an unusual encounter with Hans Oberst (Alf Kjellin).
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#19 - 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 Sky is Falling
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Robinsons encounter a family of crablike visitors who are far from friendly.
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#22 - 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.
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#24 - The Summit-Five Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 1
Visiting Berlin headquarters in preparation for a high level U.N.C.L.E. conference, ""Summit Five,"" Solo finds agent Heinz Newman (Don Chastin) mysteriously murdered. Illya goes to Berlin, as does Harry Beldon (Albert Dekker), one of Waverly's counterparts in Section 1. Beldon suspects that either Solo or Gerald Struthers (Lloyd Bochner) committed the murder, while Illya suspects Beldon's secretary Helga Deniken (Suzanne Cramer), but Beldon himself turns out to be the traitor, and he plans to kill Waverly at the conference.
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#27 - 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.
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#28 - Mountain Man
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 1
Saunders, Caje, and Kirby must scout a route through the Alps for a large troop movement. They hire an embittered French trapper and loner as a guide. They are captured by Germans and left to freeze but manage a daring escape. Caje (Pierre Jalbert, the top Canadian skier of his time), takes the German alpine troops to skiing school in a spectacular downhill run.
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#29 - 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.
#31 - 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.
#32 - Encounter at Boot Hill
Rawhide - Season 8 - Episode 1
Morgan Kane and his son Jethro hang two drifters who killed his son, Vance. Morgan kills Peters and seriously wounds Ian who tried to stop it. Rowdy takes Ian to Regis for medical attention. He tries unsuccessfully to get the law to investigate Peter's killing. Sheriff Blaine says the drifters broke Vance's neck. Blaine is blackmailing Jethro. The coroner's inquest finds the Kane's innocent. Rowdy tells Morgan he's taking him and his son to Wichita for a fair trial.
#33 - 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...
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#34 - Death in a Different Place
Starsky & Hutch - Season 3 - Episode 6
The intrepid detective partners investigate when a colleague - an old friend of Starsky's - is found dead in a sleazy red-light district hotel, and are shocked to uncover that the married murdered Lieutenant was a closet homosexual with a history of gay relationships. But just who is behind his death, and why?
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#35 - Dandruff
Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 8
The Detective pair are working undercover at a plush hotel as effeminate hair-dressers Mr. Marlene and Tyrone, to trim the plans of an international master thief known as The Baron, who is expected to strike at the private auction of a highly valuable cache of diamonds...
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#36 - 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.
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#37 - 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...
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#38 - 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.
#39 - The Hunter
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 24
Saunders and Kirby search an abandoned French winery when they are spotted by two Germans who are using the tower for an observation post. Kirby is badly wounded and captured by Hauptmann Heismann while Saunders is busy dealing with the other German. Heismann, a professional hunter, uses and abuses Kirby, while tracking Saunders with his hunting rifle.
#40 - 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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#42 - 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...
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#43 - The Avenger
Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 7
The intrepid Detectives investigate a woman's claims that a jealous brief acquaintance from San Francisco has followed her to the city and is responsible for the vicious murders of a string of the her lovers. But there is a sinister twist to the case, and Starsky unknowingly places himself in great danger...
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#44 - The Double or Nothing Raid
The Rat Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 28
Moffitt is about to be executed for "espionage against the Third Reich" when suddenly the Patrol comes to his rescue. A commandeered German truck unsuccessfully attempts to scoop up Moffitt, but manages to take a Nazi captain in his place--for exchange. Negotiations for a prisoner exchange are fruitful, but Troy doubts that the Germans will obey their own rules. Indeed, the Nazi's Colonel Voss wants to see the Patrol wiped out and uses the exchange as a trap. The captured captain tries to escape the Patrol and gets himself killed. Now Troy has no one to exchange for a seriously wounded Moffitt and must attempt to pass himself off as a German.
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#45 - The Mouse That Died
Mannix - Season 4 - Episode 5
Mannix is poisoned, and only the poisoner knows how.
#46 - A Question of Midnight
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 5
Mannix reopens a malpractice case against opposition.
#47 - 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.
#48 - Shadow of a Man
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 16
A attempt on his life forces Mannix into a complex search.
#49 - The Impostor
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 10
Hanley must take the place of a G-2 officer on a mission to spy on a German HQ. He is to meet three men for the mission. He discovers that one of them has been killed and although the corpse is dressed in a German Uniform, he is recognized by Kirby as an American G.I. They now suspect that one of the three men is a German disguised as an American G.I.
#50 - Dateline
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 23
After losing an intelligence officer in the field, Saunders and squad allow themselves to be captured by the enemy to liberate a famous American correspondent being held by the Germans.