The BEST episodes directed by Virgil Vogel
#1 - New Hostess in Town
The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 22
Victoria is kidnapped by outlaws and forced to work as a cantina waitress. Enroute to the Montoya Ranch with a large sum of cash for a cattle purchase, Victoria and Buck are overpowered by bandits Bates and Gideon who take her to an outlaw refuge and leave Buck stranded in the desert. Made to work as a cantina hostess for town boss Robbins, the stunning Victoria soon has the entire outlaw band vying for her attentions. She decides to play one man against the other in a plan to escape.
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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 7
Stranded in the desert following an attack by bandits, John, Victoria and Manolito add to their troubles when they seek shelter in what they assume to be a deserted ghost town. While on their way to town in a buckboard, John, Victoria and Manolito are accosted by renegades Bennett, Lippert and Moore who make off with valuables and horses, leaving John seriously hurt. Manolito locates a makeshift shelter in what appears to be a deserted community only to learn the hard way that the town has other residents, among them Marcum, an aging former lawman who resents intruders.
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#3 - License to Kill
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 12
Stone's ex-partner comes to town with a deadly vendetta: kill the man who murdered his son.
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#4 - Sing a Song of Murder
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 8
When rock music star Rick Michaels accidentally falls into his empty pool his girl friend April thinks he is dead. Rick's managers Rooney and Paige believe the same and fearing for their salary they feign a kidnapping. Barnaby searches for April, who disappeared.
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#5 - Bad Timing
Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 4
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
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#6 - Takeover
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 14
Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his puppet, Mayor Steven Tallman to the governorship. Dana is a provocateur herself, arrested by Barney the current governor's representative. Walsh gets Dana out, and Paris is a blackmailer who convinces Tallman that Dana is his previously-unknown illegitimate daughter. Peck is concerned that Tallman (actually Paris in disguise) will confess their plans to save his "daughter", and orders Walsh to kill Barney and Dana. Barney stops Walsh on TV before he can blow up a crowd of demonstrators and police during a protest, and Paris-as-Tallman confesses to Peck's involvement.
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#7 - The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 13
A single .25 caliber pistol affects many lives in a single weekend.
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#8 - Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 12
Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of opium farms to his chosen successor. He plans on turning power over to Carlos Empori, engaged to his granddaughter. Paris poses as a mobster and old friend of Eve's and "renews" his friendship with her, while Phelps, as Zembra's rival, warns Carlos that Paris plans to take over. Barney stages a fake assassination on Zembra, thwarting Carlos' security and making him look incompetent, then Paris and Paris-as-Zembra stage a conversation to make Carlos believe Zembra will give power to Paris. Carlos helps Jim kidnap Eve, but the plan goes awry when Eve reveals she knows Paris is a fake. Paris puts his life on the line by counting on her silence to complete the plot. Eve stays silent, Carlos is set up as a traitor to Zembra, and the dying mobster turns the information over to Paris.
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#9 - Beyond Vengeance
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 23
After spending "a lousy" 12 years in prison for a rape / torture / murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone who was the arresting officer.
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#10 - The Lady and the Tiger
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jake is shot down and rescued by an Amish widow and her son, who hide him from the Japanese occupying their island.
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#11 - The Madame Sagittarius Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 3
Madam Sagittarius has a reputation as a con woman. The rest of the passengers on the train snub her because of this. Charley Wooster, often left out on a limb himself, feels sorry for her and takes her under his wing. It is the beginning of a close relationship.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jarrod defends a man accused of murder, even though the only witness to the crime is his own brother, Heath.
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#13 - The Unicorn
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 26
A priest (Fr. Scarne) won't tell Stone where a murderer (Abel Hoffman) is hiding. Stakes are raised by drug smugglers looking for a stolen shipment of heroin.
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#14 - Superstar
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 21
Stone clashes with an abrasive NYC cop who is on the trail of his partner's killer.
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#15 - Dead Air
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 10
A radio host is accused of murder when a woman who threatened him dies.
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#16 - Hot Dog
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 9
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make there get away.
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#17 - The Hard Breed
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 21
Two "Gunsmoke" writers teamed on this modern-day Western set at a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace. A bronc rider dies in what appears to be an accident. A rodeo clown looks around the scene after the police leave and discovers the rider's rope -- which was cut almost halfway through before it broke, leaving the bronc free to throw him. The police come back to investigate the scene, and before long the chief suspect is also murdered in another "accident."
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#18 - Distant Relative
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 4
Under protest, Thomas agrees to chaperone Rick's visiting 22-year-old sister Wendy while Rick works at the club, and quickly discovers that she's not the convent school innocent her brother thinks she is; after Wendy gives him the slip, Thomas scours the city searching for her and is devastated when the police find her murdered in an alley; when Rick blames Wendy's death on Thomas, the relationship between the men is dealt a severe blow, and Thomas vows to find her killers, even though Rick is determined to do the job himself with the help of information and an Uzi provided by Ice Pick; Thomas and T.C. follow Rick to Molokai, where the murderers are killed in a fiery crash as they are pursued by the three friends; to spare Rick's feelings and ease his grief, Thomas tells his friend the convincing lie that Wendy was a good kid who was just in the wrong place in the wrong time, instead of the truth that she was a drug mule murdered by the men for whom she worked.
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#19 - Death and the Favored Few
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 23
Stone and Keller investigate the murder of a society publisher whose method was to coerce subscriptions from wealthy clients by blackmailing them. The investigation leads the detective to a wealthy woman and her daughter, who were among the ones being blackmailed and who still have secrets to hide.
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#20 - The Most Deadly Species
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 2
When a high-ranking hoodlum's son is found murdered he brings in the help of the adrogynously named "Sydney"--a hit woman who's assigned to murder the three thugs responsible. Stone an Keller are looking for them, too. Somehow Sydney becomes Keller's next door neighbor and a relationship develops during their investigation. When Stone & Keller discover two of the hoodlums have died before they can be brought into custody, Stone suspects the worse: his partner is sleeping with the killer. Sydney is played by Brenda Vaccaro, who at the time was married to Michael Douglas.
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#21 - The Loose Connection
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 6
Barnaby travels to Baja California with Eleanor to find her father. Way back his car is damaged in an accident. Unwittingly he has been used as heroin courier. He calls Eleanor to account and they let themselves in for a dangerous gamble with the dope pushers.
#22 - Speed
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 19
Sam Hibbing, a major Syndicate drug dealer, stole three tons of amphetamines from a chemical plant and hit the stash in a secret location - the IMF must get it before he sells it. The IMF replaces Hibbert's drug-addicted daughter Margaret with Casey and her new friend Jim, who turns out to own a charter plane and served time for murder. Meanwhile Barney teams up with Hibbing's buyer Dayton to purchase the drugs but they must have them the next day - Jim sets it up so Hibbing's regular courier gave drugs to Margaret/Casey, leaving Hibbing with no other choice then to use Jim as the delivery man. Hibbing sees through Casey's disguise and she escapes, but Hibbing tries to stop Jim - Barney and Willy stop him and Margaret goes into rehab.
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#23 - The Thrill Killers (1)
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 1
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt ""movement leaders"" are being tried for murder.
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#24 - Police Buff
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 15
A suspected murderer of a police officer is tried and set free -- and then killed by a vigilante.
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#25 - Bird of Prey
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 11
Lieutenant Michael Stone and Inspector Steven Keller investigate the murder of women. The murderer was wearing an officers uniform of the United States Air Force.
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#26 - Blockade
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 17
A woman who has dedicated her life to a prominent family fails to see her neglected son has fallen in with a psycho - and may have helped him kill a woman.
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#27 - Deadly Silence
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 6
Stone is hit by a van, and has to undergo surgery to have his hearing restored.
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#28 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea
Spenser: For Hire - Season 2 - Episode 8
A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.
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#29 - Inferno
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 20
Stone looks for the arsonists who set a fire that killed two firemen.
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#30 - Judgment Day
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 19
The son of a disbarred lawyer targets "Bleeding Heart Liberal" Judges who ruined his fathers career as a lawyer.
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 8
A frantic Victoria searches for Audra, who has disappeared from a hotel and who no one claims to have seen.
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#32 - Luther Gillis: File #521
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 2
When Thomas and old-school private eye Luther Gillis encounter each other in a seedy hotel room with a dead drug dealer as they separately investigate the whereabouts of Nancy Perkins, a St. Louis runaway, they decide to team up to find the missing girl after the police burst into the room and arrest them on suspicion of murder. After Thomas finds out that Luther is actually Nancy's father, Higgins poses the question that leads Thomas to solving the drug dealer's murder and reuniting father and daughter.
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#33 - Letters from the Grave
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 16
If the walls of Alcatraz could talk, they would reveal the hidden body of an inmate who was believed to have escaped 20 years ago.
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#34 - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 14
Thomas is more than a little taken aback when Higgins suddenly leaves his position on the Estate, after seemingly being found out by Robin Masters for stealing large amounts of money and valuable art objects. As Higgins' replacement, a rather dizzy actress, arrives to take his place on the Estate, Thomas investigates the mystery surrounding his abrupt departure...
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#35 - Harem
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 7
Stone's daughter helps him break up a murderous prostitution ring. An unusual episode because of the appearance of Darleen Carr, who plays Stone's daughter, Jeannie.
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#36 - Badge of Dishonor
Miami Vice - Season 4 - Episode 18
When a string of murders is linked to another unit, Crockett & Tubbs believe an undercover officer may be the killer.
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#37 - Flags of Terror
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 8
When five terrorists whose plan to pass through a security checkpoint at a boating dock fails, they flee taking on several hostages including Inspector Steve Keller, in order to try and demand safe passage to flee the country or they'll blow up the hostages.
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#38 - Clown of Death
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 20
Two retired brothers, both having worked as riggers for circuses many years before, are found murdered while a circus happens to be performing in San Francisco at the Cow Palace.
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#39 - Cat's Paw
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 15
Larry Collier, newspaper editor and Barney's brother, is killed while trying to establish a link between corrupt police chief Abbott and Corley, the head of a ghetto mob who masks his illegal activities with an insurance front company. Barney, set up with a past as a crooked accountant, gets close to Corley by rescuing is secretary Millie - Corley hires him on when he finds out about his "past." Barney plants money to make it look like Corley's assistant Goslin is working against him, while the IMF use a phony seance to convince Goslin to quit with some incriminating evidence. Jim arrests Goslin with the evidence, a codebook, and uses it to force Abbott to back him as a mob boss then bribes Corley's guard to try and kill the mob leader. Barney rescues him and Corley runs into Jim, who threatens to take him to Abbott - knowing Abbott will have him killed, Corley turns state's evidence.
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#40 - The Martyr
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 26
As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
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#41 - Web of Lies
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 9
Keller and Stone must rely on a compulsive liar while investigating a jewel robbery.
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#42 - Theresa
Miami Vice - Season 3 - Episode 16
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
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#43 - Murder by Proxy
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 7
Property owners who refuse to sell their parcels find themselves murder victims at the hands of a developer. With Bradford Dillman and John Ritter.
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#44 - Legends Are Forever
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 5
A former Flying Tiger asks Jake's help in finding the fabled lost treasure of King Solomon.
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#45 - No Place to Hide
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 3
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't. An episode with exceptionally good dialogue.
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The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 18
Victoria goes undercover at a women's prison to investigate the conditions there.
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 17
Wracked with grief when his new bride is murdered, an enraged Jarrod relentlessly hunts down her killer.
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#48 - The Cat's Paw
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 12
Stone conducts a murder/robbery investigation with Inspector Irene Martin.
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#49 - For the Love of God
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 3
In order to stop a psychotic priest killer. Lt. Michael Stone goes undercover as a Roman Catholic Priest. The victims were all Clergymen who studied at the same seminary.
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#50 - Eagles
Airwolf - Season 3 - Episode 7
At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...
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