The BEST episodes written by Leslie Stevens

#1 - An Attempt to Save Face

The Invisible Man (1975) - Season 1 - Episode 13

Westin and DiMaggio attempt to help an Eastern Bloc figure, in danger from his own entourage, who wants a face lift to maintain his political popularity.

#2 - Awakening (2)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 2

#3 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 8

Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

#4 - Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City

McCloud - Season 1 - Episode 2

(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Man from Taos, Part 1"). McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force McCloud to act as a courier to Paris.

#5 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 9

Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

#6 - Controlled Experiment

The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 16

Two Martians conduct an investigation at the scene of a murder to try to determine why humans kill one another.

#7 - The Galaxy Being

The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 1

A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth, where its radioactive nature causes havoc.

#8 - Awakening (1)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 1

In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its life support system and sends it into a long elliptical orbit of the Earth. In the year 2491, Ranger III again approaches the Earth, and is intercepted by the alien flagship Draconia, which is on a peace mission to Earth. Aboard the Draconia, Buck is revived by Princess Ardala and her second-in-command, Kane, whose true plan is to attack and conquer Earth. Buck is sent to Earth with a hidden homing device, which is soon discovered by Earth's Defense Directorate. After Buck convinces the humans of his true identity -- a man from the past -- he helps them to repel the Draconians' attack, with the aid of the mechanoids Dr. Theopolis and Twiki.

#9 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles

The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 30

A nuclear accident creates a rift in the space/time continuum, and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

#10 - The Borderland

The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 12

A man hoping to contact his dead son becomes involved in an experiment designed to open a gateway to the fourth dimension.

#11 - Walk in the Dark

McCloud - Season 1 - Episode 6

(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Murder Arena, Part 2"). McCloud complains about his assignment to rodeo detail, so Chief Clifford sends him to Special Auxiliary Force VI under the command of Sgt. Dameron, where he works to catch a murderer in Central Park.

#12 - The Best Man

The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 2

Trampas and his friend Pick Lexington visit some old friends in Mexico. But Trampas is caught between Pick and one of his Mexican friends as both men fall for the same girl, and he hopes to stop them from dueling each other while the girl chooses between them.

#13 - Lady at the Bar

The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 8

Trampas is arrested for the murder of a man he argued with over ownership of a mine. The judge and marshal seem primarily interested in wrapping up the trial as quickly as possible so they can go fishing. Trampas's hope lies with his attorney, Frances B. Finch.

#14 - Follow the Leader

The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 11

Ritter Miley, the leader of an unschooled backwoods clan of thieves, kills a cousin who wanted to go straight. Colonel MacKenzie finds that the type of gun used in the killing was sold to only two men, Ritter and Trampas. Trampas thus tries to prove his innocence by bringing Ritter in and locating his gun, but Ritter's brothers come up with their own ideas to force his release.

#15 - Power Play

The Invisible Man (1975) - Season 1 - Episode 12

An escaped mental patient holds Director Carlson hostage and demands that he be given the secret of Dan Westin's invisibility.

#16 - Eyes Only

The Invisible Man (1975) - Season 1 - Episode 5

The Westins must prevent a suspected spy from being assassinated before they find out how she has been stealing documents, and to whom she has been selling them.

#17 - Lady of the House

The Virginian - Season 5 - Episode 28

John Grainger asks an old friend from Maryland to come to Shiloh to take the rough edges off his grandkids. She does as he asks quite well but is less than popular with the kids and The Virginian. Unknown to them, she has a secret plan.

#18 - The Modoc Kid

The Virginian - Season 5 - Episode 19

Five men arrive in Medicine Bow intent on robbing the bank: Bob Archer (Harry Carey Jr.), Frank Cave (Gene Ellis), brothers Roy (John Goddard) and Cullen Tindall (Harrison Ford), and leader and well-known gunslinger, Del Stetler alias the Modoc Kid (John Saxon). However, they have been observed by Deputy Emmett Ryker and are ambushed by him, Sheriff Abbott (Ross Elliott) and other deputies. Cave is killed and Archer is wounded and captured but the others escape even though Roy Tindall is seriously wounded. They manage to elude the posse and go to Shiloh ranch where the hands are away on a trail drive and only the Graingers are home. They take the Graingers prisoner, forcing Elizabeth to tend to the wounded Roy, and it soon becomes clear the Modoc Kid is obsessed with his own notoriety as a gunslinger. Roy needs medical attention and so the Modoc Kid forces John Grainger to lure Dr. Hinton (Paul Fix) to Shiloh with the pretense that Elizabeth Grainger has broken her collar bone in an ac