The BEST episodes directed by William Wiard
#1 - The Lieutenant
The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 20
Men of the Cannon ranch are caught in the middle of a confrontation between a neighboring rancher and a young cavalry officer determined to arrest him. When Lt. Jason Adams reveals his intent to bring in neighboring rancher Henry Simmons on a long-standing desertion charge, Billy Blue makes an ill-advised effort to warn Simmons and his daughter Martha. Resigned to giving himself up, Simmons prepares to do so but, fearing for her father's life, Martha reacts and provokes a military siege of their home.
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The High Chaparral - Season 4 - Episode 1
Embittered former revolutionary Diego De La Paula leads his newly-formed army of liberation in a series of harassing raids on the vast lands and herds of the Cannons and Montoyas. He charges they won their wealth at the expense of his deposed hero, Maximilian. Aware of the seriousness and growing destructive power of the vengeful Diego, John Cannon and Don Sebastian Montoya join forces to thwart the attacks with a unique plan that results in a face-to-face confrontation between the elder Montoya and the self-styled liberator. good show
#4 - Dark Homecoming
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 9
After becoming a famous country singer Ruby Deems returns to her home town attracting her ex-husband Cliff again. When she slays a jealous Cathy in self-defense her manager Shine makes her believe Cathy is dead. Later Shine kills the presumed dead.
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#5 - Till Death Do Us Part
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 7
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.
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#6 - Mystery Cycle
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 8
Jonathan Yeager, a motorbike manufacturer, is killed in a bike test. Barnaby investigates for California Meridian Insurance Company and searches for the mysterious motorcyclist with a black helmet who was seen pursuing Yeager and smokes small cigars.
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#8 - An Eye for an Eye
Spenser: For Hire - Season 2 - Episode 1
New District Attorney Rita Fiori tries to prosecute Spenser for blackmail.
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#12 - Jonah
Daniel Boone - Season 5 - Episode 17
Josh's late uncle, who wanted him to give up his carefree ways, leaves him an inheritance--a plot of land near Boonesborough and an educated slave named Jonah. Josh, who doesn't believe in slavery, frees Jonah but he refuses to leave until he's made a proper gentleman out of Josh. Needless to say, Jonah's plow is in the hard ground especially when Josh enters him into a prizefight without asking.
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#13 - Big, Black and Out There
Daniel Boone - Season 5 - Episode 7
A former slave (Yaphet Kotto), adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
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#14 - Children of a Tempest Storm
Spenser: For Hire - Season 1 - Episode 4
Spenser kills a would-be thief in the course of thwarting a robbery. He and Susan take in the man's two children while investigating his past. Susan discovers she's pregnant.
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#16 - The Man Who Died Twice
Cannon - Season 5 - Episode 6
Cannon teams up with former officers who were on the force the same time he was. Their task is to find another colleague who they believed was dead for the past eight years, but now suspected of killing those he was involved with in crime.
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#17 - Widow's Walk
Spenser: For Hire - Season 2 - Episode 2
A small fishing family hires Spenser to investigate the death of their father. Spenser suspects a rival fishing family, the Almeidas.
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#19 - The Quasar Kill
Cannon - Season 5 - Episode 21
Cannon investigates the death of a scientist who designed a computer that searches for extra terrestrial signals. But was he murdered by an entity from outer space or by a fellow scientist with something to hide?
#20 - Affair at Bromfield Hall
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 2 - Episode 8
In London to investigate a security leak, Amanda gets involved with a seedy photographer and a sex scandal.
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#25 - Our Man in Tegernsee
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 2 - Episode 7
Lee searches for an Agency operative in the Bavarian Alps who may be able to clear Amanda after she's arrested in Munich on counterfeiting charges.
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#26 - Tuttle
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 15
Hawkeye creates a fake doctor, Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity, Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Captain Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!
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#28 - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1)
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 20
Jim helps Ritchie Brockleman set up a big con in order to retrieve money which the villain extorted from Ritchie's father.
#29 - Savior
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 16
Amanda is shocked when she learns that Lee Stetson has left IFF, to work a weapon dealer.
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#30 - The Times They Are a Changin'
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 2 - Episode 2
Amanda and Lee must oversee the return of a 1960s radical who is involved with Munich terrorists.
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#31 - Waiting for Godorsky
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 21
While visiting an estate style yard sale with her mother, Amanda meets a woman targeted by Eastern Bloc assasins. She is later invited to have to with her majesty, while unknowingly getting involved with an Agency assignment.
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#32 - Kim
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 6
Hawkeye operates on a 5-year old Korean boy, and Radar can't find his family. Henry plans to send him to the orphanage, and the camp enjoys his company while they can. Trapper decides to adopt him after consulting his wife, and has to rescue him after he wanders into the minefield. Kim's mother turns up at the orphanage looking for him.
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#33 - Henry, Please Come Home
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 9
Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.
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#34 - Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 17
Frank throws his back out whilst spending the evening with Margaret, and ends up in traction. He promptly applies for the Purple Heart, having been 'technically' wounded at a frontline unit. Tommy Gillis, an old friend of Hawkeye's, is writing a book about the war, and pays him a visit. Later, Tommy is brought into the camp, seriously wounded, and Hawkeye can't save him. A 15-year-old kid is in the hospital to have his appendix out. He joined up to be a hero back home, but Hawkeye has him sent home, giving him Frank's purple heart.
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#35 - Grizzly
Daniel Boone - Season 3 - Episode 4
Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man (Jeff York), accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
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#36 - A Deadly Maze
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 13
The pressure is on when a bizarre scientist asks Rockford to look into the disappearance of his wife in order to study Rockford's reaction to frustration.
#37 - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2)
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 21
The con continues and proves successful when one of the fellow con-artists appears to make of with the check.
#38 - To Protect and Serve (1)
The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 19
Rockford's search for a gangster lawyer's missing fiancée is complicated by a civilian with an unfortunate passion for police work.
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#39 - The Deep Blue Sleep
The Rockford Files - Season 2 - Episode 5
Beth hires Jim to investigate the death of her friend, a fashion model and the connection between the fashion house and organized crime.
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#40 - A Material Difference
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 19
Angel poses a high priced hitman but Jim must help when he collects his fee without making his hit, but the victim is apparently still killed, whilst Naval Intellegence and the Russians take an interest in the case and blue jeans...
#42 - To Protect and Serve (2)
The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 20
Rockford hides the missing woman on a boat, but her location is compromised when the police groupie reveals information to mobster thugs.
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#43 - L.I.P.
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 7
Corporal Walker is being sent home, and he wants to marry his Korean girl so she and their baby can return with him. CID sends Lt Willis to investigate, but when he refuses Hawkeye and Trapper frame him. Hawkeye is upset that a nurse he was pursuing does not approve of the marriage between "a gook" and "one of us".
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#44 - The Long-John Flap
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 19
The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.
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#45 - No Minor Vices
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 5
The father of a 16-year old girl murders her ""johns"" one by one, unbeknownst to her.
#46 - Love and War
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 12
The squadron is granted a few days of rest and relaxation at Espritos Marcos. There Jerry Bragg runs into Annie, an old acquaintance from his home town. She is a nurse that has just been stationed in the South Pacific. He introduces her to the rest of the guys and she seems to have the eye for Larry. An air raid alarm goes of and while trying to find shelter, Jerry and Annie find themselves drenched by sprinklers. Annie takes Jerry back to her quarters so that they can get dried off. They kiss and Jerry asks to see her again the next night. Annie only agrees to the date if he can find a date for her friend and she suggests Larry. Bragg reluctantly agrees and manages to convince Larry to join him in this double date.
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#47 - Heartaches of a Fool
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 1
When Rocky is hi-jacked and injured while delivering sausages, Jim investigates the sausage company through their spokesperson; a country and western singer...
#48 - Gearjammers (2)
The Rockford Files - Season 2 - Episode 4
In this exciting conclusion to this two-part episode, the mob boss continues to hunt for Rocky, while Rockford teams up with the police to solve the trucking case, which is speeding towards disaster.
#49 - The Jasper Ledbedder Story
Daniel Boone - Season 3 - Episode 19
Jasper Ledbedder arrives on the scene with a sad tale of woe about hostile Shawnees abducting his family. Daniel and Mingo accompany Jasper deep into Shawnee territory but then discover the real object of the journey.
