The BEST episodes directed by Ted Post
#1 - Incident at Poco Tiempo
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 8
The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.
#2 - Rescue
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 29
This episode is all Lt. Hanley in a tightly constructed plot. Concussed during an artillery barrage and separated from his platoon, Hanley starts to come out of his daze to find he is being taken prisoner by an SS soldier. The surprising plot twists start immediately and keep on coming, so one needs to pay attention.
#3 - Wagon to Fort Anderson
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 36
Flint comes across four survivors of an Indian massacre, the two Ellison sisters and two Carder brothers. One of the sisters is deaf and mute. The brothers are the only survivors of their Army unit. The older brother, Joe, wants to desert and take advantage of the situation in order to break away and look for gold. The younger brother, George, is simple-minded and good-hearted but loyal to the older one who raised him. Flint tries to lead the four to safety, but Joe Carder tries to mislead the Ellison sisters into believing that Flint is leading them into danger.
#5 - Nora
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 35
Lucas finds himself involved in murder when he gallantly steps to the aid of a beautiful woman.
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#7 - Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 3
An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.
#9 - Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
Rawhide - Season 3 - Episode 10
Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.
#10 - Incident of the Dowery Dundee
Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 17
Rowdy and Jim looking for strays, return with five - four bulls and a lost Scottish lady returning to Scotland. She says her husband stole her inheritance so she is taking her remaining items home with her plus a surprise for all.
#11 - The Larry Hanify Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 17
On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.
#12 - The Bridge at Chalons
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 1
Sgt. Turk (Lee Marvin) commands a small demolition team that Saunders and his squad is ordered to take behind German lines to destroy a bridge. Turk had a close friend killed on a previous mission, and does not believe the squad can handle the job. He is hostile and abrasive. As casualties mount, it begins to appear that his doubts may be well placed.
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#14 - Last Fling
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 26
Miss Kitty is suspected of taking a shot at drunkard John Peavy for harassing her earlier, and shortly thereafter someone fires a shot at her.
#15 - The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 17
Arlene Dowling reports the theft of all her belongings, including a diary she is anxious to get back.
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#16 - Old Yellow Boots
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 2
Matt becomes suspicious when drifter Frank Cassidy publicly announces his engagement to spinsterish Beulah Parker immediately after the seemingly unrelated murders of an old prospector and her abusive brother Leroy.
#17 - The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 13
Restrauteur Morey Allen, a friend of Perry and Della's, has a problem: his waitress, Dixie Dayton, was struck by a car while fleeing the restaurant after spotting a man stalking her. The only item she left behind was a moth-eaten mink. When the stalker is found murdered, Morey and Dixie are both strong suspects and eventually get arrested for the murder. The case also ties in with the murder of a young policeman several months before.
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#18 - Gone Straight
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 20
When Matt serves a warrant in another town for a wanted man, there are two men answering the possible suspect's description, and they both have gone totally straight.
#19 - Sins of the Father
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 30
After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brothers.
#20 - Laughing Gas
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 29
When town bully Cloud Marsh experiences public humiliation during a laughing gas show, he and his surly brothers assault proprietor Earle Stafford and attempt to molest his kind-hearted wife.
#21 - Blind Man's Bluff
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 24
Billy Poe is falsely accused of murder by a dying man, and flees to another town while Matt follows him, and encounters dangerous resistance from other men who hate lawmen.
#22 - Claustrophobia
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 20
Matt and Chester find a man shot in back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.
#23 - Buffalo Man
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 18
Doc finds a half-dead man on the side of the road and tells Matt. Matt and Chester ride out to a buffalo hunter's camp but before they get far, the occupants show up not treating them much better than the man the doc found.
#24 - Alarm at Pleasant Valley
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 39
While on the way back to Dodge, Matt and Chester discover a homsteading family fleeing Pleasant Valley, which is besieged by Indians.
#25 - Print Asper
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 36
Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.
#26 - Romeo
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 9
A powerful landowner threatens to wipe out Dodge when his daughter falls in love with the son of his archenemy. Matt has to find a way to stop it.
#27 - Bless Me Till I Die
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 31
Vengeful former convict Nate Bush sets off a tragic series of events when he informs Matt that well-liked new arrival Cole Treadwell is actually Cole Trankin, an escapee from the Arizona Territorial Prison.
#28 - Kitty Lost
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 15
Kitty takes a buggy ride with a dandified stranger. When he makes a pass, her spirited rejection of it results in her being left alone on the prairie.
#29 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 32
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
#30 - How to Cure a Friend
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 7
Matt is put in a difficult position by the arrival of Nick Search, an old friend who has since become a gambler with a fast draw and a reputation for dishonesty.
#31 - Carmen
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 37
When an Army payroll is stolen and two soldiers are murdered, the commanding officer of Fort Dodge threatens to put Dodge City under martial law unless Matt can capture the perpetrators within 48 hours.
#32 - The Long Way Home (2)
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 5
Interred in a German P.O.W. camp, Sgt. Saunders and his squad must find a way to escape before they all die in the hands of SS Capt. Steiner. Billy, who escaped, reaches Lt. Hanley, but no help is coming. Saunders plots a scheme to escape. He convinces Sgt. Akers and his men to work with them.
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#33 - Old Fool
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 15
A scheming woman (Else Hedgepath), who is after the money and wealth of Hannibal Bass, makes a play for Hannibal, but runs into some serious, SERIOUS trouble though when she tangles with *MRS* Bass!
#34 - Big Girl Lost
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 30
A saloon gal's old beau is in town, and she expects trouble when he finds out where she is working.
#35 - Shona
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 22
Gib Dawson brings his beautiful Indian wife, Shona, in to Dodge for treatment of a badly infected hand wound, at a time when racial tensions are running high against the Comanches.
#36 - Unmarked Grave
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 38
On a stage heading for Dodge Sheriff Darcy has a heart attack while guarding a murderer, Blackie. Mrs. Randolph is looking for her son Whitey. Matt tells her he was shot by a deputy two years ago. Darcy brings the kid in to Matt. He shot the cashier in a bank robbery in Caldwell. Mrs. Randolph fawns over the kid. Tasca Sloan and his gang, who the kid rode with, ride into town. Matt takes the kid to the Dodge House. Randolph tries vainly to try to help the kid escape. In the morning Blackie breaks a window to let Tasca know where he is. Matt heads for the train with Blackie. Mrs. Randolph follows. Tasca shoots Blackie. Matt shoots Tasca. Matt's wounded. The rest of the gang bite the dust. Mrs. Randolph tells Matt she was wrong.
#37 - Half Straight
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 20
A man has been hired to kill Matt, but when he meets and quickly falls in love with a decent girl, he has a change of heart--or does he?
#38 - Joke's on Us
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 27
A horse thief is headed for a rope. At least that's how his friends see it. They find out too late they may have the wrong man. The joke may be on all of them now as someone is killing them one by one.
#39 - Bureaucrat
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 25
A government official from Washington warns Matt that he will relieve him of his duties if he does not start using a firmer hand in Dodge.
#40 - The Will Santee Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 31
The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have been forced out of town after town because of a terrible thing a family member did. They confide in Hale, Hawks, and Charlie, who agree to keep their secret from the others on the train. But it soon comes out anyway, and things get complicated when Will falls for a young woman from the wagon train.
#41 - The Round Up
Gunsmoke - Season 2 - Episode 4
Matt closes up shops to a group of drunken cowboys, which causes trouble.
#42 - Dirt
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 25
The only man who didn't treat Beulah like dirt is marrying another woman, whose brother doesn't want him in the family. When the groom is shot leaving the church, everyone suspects the new brother-in-law.
#43 - A World of Difference
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 23
Businessman Arthur Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell, "Cut!" and see that his office is just a set on a sound stage. Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the decline, and "Arthur Curtis" is a character he is playing in the movie "The Private World of Arthur Curtis".
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#44 - Chester's Dilemma
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 35
A pretty girl arrives in town and chases Chester, who's happy for her to do so, but the young woman has a secret that may land her in jail.
#45 - The Jud Steele Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 31
Bill Hawks returns the horse and belongings of a horse thief he shot to the local town sheriff. These identify the thief as a long dead war hero with a monument in the middle of town who was declared dead after a payroll robbery.
#46 - The Eleanor Culhane Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 33
Flint goes to visit Eleanor Culhane, an old flame of his who had been married to a notorious gunman. He finds everyone in the town she lives in shunning her, and unwilling to discuss her, because they blame her for her husband's misdeeds and the shame he caused the town. When Flint finds her they begin to rekindle their romance. But then her husband, thought dead for the last five years, shows up in town. And Flint realizes there is another side to Eleanor that he was unaware of as well.
#47 - The Hostages
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 20
After capturing a town, Saunders, Caje, and Doc briefly enjoy a hot shower, when they are captured by SS Captain Aptmeyer (Mark Richman) and Sgt. Ecktmann (Hans Gudegast aka Eric Braeden). Doc is called well beyond his duty again and again to save his comrades, almost losing himself in the effort.
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#48 - The Fear
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
#49 - Doc's Revenge
Gunsmoke - Season 1 - Episode 29
Clem Maddow rides into Dodge. Doc tells Chester I'm gonna kill a man. Chester gets Matt. Doc's ready to shoot Clem, he won't say why. Clem says he won't defend himself. Matt tells Doc to put his Colt 36 away. Matt tells Clem to get outta Dodge. Matt can't find Doc. Clem is shot in the back and his brother George is hit on the head. Doc heard the shot and shows up. Doc digs a .45 caliber bullet out of Clem. George shot Clem. Doc says he doesn't hate Clem anymore. Doc loved a woman, she loved Clem. He left her after a miscarriage and never returned.
#50 - Stage Hold-Up
Gunsmoke - Season 4 - Episode 7
A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.