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.
#2 - Trail to Nevermore
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.
#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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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#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 - 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.
#10 - My Enemy, My Friend
Spenser: For Hire - Season 3 - Episode 2
A streetwise young kid gets involved over his head in the underworld. Spenser and Hawk try to protect him from would-be killers.
#11 - The Murdered Party
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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#12 - 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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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 23
Convinced by Victoria that he needs a vacation, John reluctantly leaves Buck, Manolito and Blue in charge of the ranch and returns to an Indian uprising. Victoria convinces John that he needs a break from the rigors of his work. The Cannons take what is intended to be a carefree vacation, leaving the ranch in the eager but inexperienced hands of Buck, Manolito and Blue. John returns to find that the boys have made a few mistakes, not the least of which is the provoking of an all-out Apache uprising.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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...
#17 - The Disappearance
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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#18 - 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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#19 - Blood Moon
The Young Riders - Season 2 - Episode 4
Fear of a cholera outbreak turns the citizens of Sweetwater into a mob intent on lynching a deaf-mute boy suspected of being the carrier.
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#20 - 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.
#21 - The Sultan of Swat
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 12
Jake tries to help a former baseball hero who is accused of murdering a local girl on Boragora.
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#22 - 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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#23 - Theresa
Miami Vice - Season 3 - Episode 16
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
#24 - 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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#25 - 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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#26 - 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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#27 - In a Safe Place
Spenser: For Hire - Season 1 - Episode 17
Spenser and Susan look for a Mexican labor organizer who has suspiciously disappeared. ('On the Waterfront' redux.)
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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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The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 18
Victoria goes undercover at a women's prison to investigate the conditions there.
#30 - Decoy
The Young Riders - Season 1 - Episode 17
On a wild ride to deliver a top-secret Government message, Cody helps a mortally wounded mountain man, who asks Cody to care for his pet bear. Meanwhile, back in Sweetwater, the other riders look after an abandoned baby.
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#34 - Natural Born
Airwolf - Season 2 - Episode 17
The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.
#35 - The Prize
The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 11
Heath takes in his care and protection a baby entrusted to him by an outlaw's dying wife.
#36 - God Save the Queen
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 14
Jake helps foil an attempt to hijack an ocean liner carrying the Duke of Windsor.
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#37 - Dr. Wells is Missing
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 1 - Episode 9
When a group of international criminals kidnap Dr. Rudy Wells in order to force him to build them a bionic man, Steve is sent to find and rescue him.
#38 - Bully and Billy
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 3
Jeff and Bogg arrive in the Cuban revolution, to find history changed because Teddy Roosevelt never led the charge up San Juan history. He was killed by Billy the Kid in 1889. The Voyagers head back to that time, stopping briefly to help Ben Franklin get his kite in the air. Once back in the Old West, the two infiltrate Billy's gang and then save Roosevelt's life. Billy turns out to be a coward without his gun, much to Jeff's dismay. Travelling back to Cuba to make sure history is on track, they meet up with Roosevelt and help the Cuban rebels, setting history right.
#39 - One Riot, One Ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 1 - Episode 1
During a bank robbery in Dallas, Walker's partner is killed. Trying to solve this case, Walker finds out that this raid could have been only a test for a much bigger goal: simultaneously robbing four banks lying next to each other. No one believes him. After a bomb explodes in a far away bank, which has just gotten a valuable load, everyone goes there. When the actual raid starts Walker must face the gang alone.
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#40 - Dead Ringer
The Young Riders - Season 2 - Episode 3
Hickok sets out to catch a vicious gunman impersonating him.
#41 - A Good Day to Die
The Young Riders - Season 1 - Episode 9
Kid finds a young warrior at the scene of a way-station massacre, and although the warrior denies any wrongdoing, Kid hauls him back through Indian territory to face justice in Sweetwater.
#42 - The Littlest Cowboy
The Young Riders - Season 2 - Episode 6
Ike, bitter after being beaten by men who take advantage of his handicap, befriends Arthur, a terminally ill boy.
#43 - A Flock of Trouble
The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 3
To pay off a gambling debt, Josiah Freeman pawns off his flock of sheep on Nick.
#44 - Right is the Fourth R
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 24
While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that others prefer remain hidden.
#45 - The Shepherds
Centennial - Season 1 - Episode 7
The late 1800's, Hans Brumbaugh leads the farmers in the war against the wealthy ranchers and cattlemen led by Oliver Seccombe. Messmore Garrett settles in Centennial with thousands of sheep and more competition against the cattlemen. The new sheriff, Dumire can't stop the fight from both sides. Charlotte Buckland, the daughter of one of the Venneford Ranch's British owners, arrives in America and falls in love with Seccombe.
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#46 - The Longhorns
Centennial - Season 1 - Episode 6
Representing a group of British investors, Oliver Seccombe arrives in Centennial with money to start a cattle ranch. He hires John Skimmerhorn to get some men and launch a large cattle drive to the West's largest cattle ranch, the Venneford. Skimmerhorn hires R.J. Poteet, an experienced trail boss, who picks a handful of seasoned drovers and young trail hands.
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#47 - Cuba Libre
Miami Vice - Season 3 - Episode 14
Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.
#48 - Danger Road
The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 24
An Englishman with a large gambling debt agrees to smuggle whiskey onto an Indian reservation to pay off his losses.
#49 - Created Equal
Voyagers! - Season 1 - Episode 2
Arriving in Italy in 73 B.C., the pair discover that Spartacus is being sent to die in the arena in Rome, altering history and preventing him for leading the slave revolt in Capra. They are bought as slaves but when their escape attempt fails, they have to Omni out. That puts them in Hannibal Missouri in the 19th century, where they encountered Harriet Tubman. She is still a slave, having never formed the Underground Railroad. While Jeff and a young Sam Clemens try to free her, Bogg manages to ""purchase"" her in a poker game. With history back on track, it's back to Rome, where Bogg ends up fighting Spartacus in the arena. Jeff and his newfound friend Calpernia manage to steal a chariot belonging to her father Cicero, break out Bogg and Spartacus, and get history back on track.
#50 - The Scream of Eagles
Centennial - Season 1 - Episode 12
1978: Historian Professor Lew Vernor and writer Sidney Enderman arrive to do a article on Centennial. Paul Garrett, the current owner of the Venneford Ranch and a direct descendant of Pasquinel, tells them the history of the town. Morgan Wendell, son of Philip is running for the newly formed office of Commissioner of Resources and Priorities for the State of Colorado. When it is realized that Wendell is running only for the money and power, Garrett is persuaded to run against him.
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