The Best Episodes Directed By Barry Crane

Every TV Episode Directed by Barry Crane Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for High Explosive
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - High Explosive

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    S2:E12

    Jon and Ponch sort out an accident caused by a misguided youth with a pellet gun. And an ambulance driver steals a van and fills it with dynamite after being fired from his job.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  2. Background image for To Your Health
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - To Your Health

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    S4:E3

    The daring duo investigates a series of sabotaged trucks, while Ponch "goes green" to impress two pretty proprietors of a health food store.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  3. Background image for Rally 'Round the Bank
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Rally 'Round the Bank

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    S2:E18

    A series of robberies at drive-in bank windows is frustrating the CHP - especially Jon and Ponch, who unsuccessfully chased the bandit's car three times. The thieves have joined a 150-car road rally that enables their vehicles to elude the police. Meanwhile, Ponch gets a surprise visit from his mom, who refuses to tell him the reason for her trip.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  4. Background image for Black Magic
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Black Magic

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    S2:E7

    Jaime is sent to a remote island to impersonate the niece of the Carstairs family. When the family is sent on a scavenger hunt to find their dead brother's fortune, it's up to Jaime to locate it first and obtain the formula for a top-secret alloy.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for Jaime's Shield (2)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Jaime's Shield (2)

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    S2:E11

    After graduating from the police academy, Jaime discovers that foreign agents are plotting to kidnap a visiting diplomat by impersonating the police force.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The DeJon Caper

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    S2:E19

    Jaime travels to Paris with art forger Pierre Lambert to trap a master criminal and recover valuable paintings from him.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  7. Background image for The Psychic
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #7 - The Psychic

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    S3:E18

    A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  8. Background image for Target: Red
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Target: Red

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    S3:E3

    Bill Bixby plays a former CIA hitman who is hired by some kooky generals to assassinate a Red Chinese envoy on a state visit to San Francisco.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  9. Background image for King of the Beach
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - King of the Beach

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    S4:E9

    A body-builder gets signed up in a body-building contest, only to be at odds with some questionable people who are involved in the competition.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  10. Background image for Death Squad
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Death Squad

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    S4:E24

    Barney kills a man in self-defense and is marked for execution by the victim's brother, a chief of police who heads a death squad.

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  11. Background image for Mark of the Saurian
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Mark of the Saurian

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    S2:E6

    The Saurians plot to destroy the Searcher and start a galactic war by infiltrating the starship and a space station in human disguise. Only Buck, who has contracted a strange virus, is able to see the true form of the Saurians, but no one believes him. When the Suarians realize that Buck is a threat to them, he becomes the target of their assassination attempts.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  12. Background image for Kill Oscar (II)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Kill Oscar (II)

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    S4:E6

    With Jaime Sommers critically injured, Steve Austin races to Dr. Franklin's secret hideout to find the kidnapped Oscar Goldman. Austin plans to rescue his friend and boss despite Oscar's own orders to kill him lest he spill state secrets. The crossover starts on The Bionic Woman S02E05 Kill Oscar (I). It continues on The Bionic Woman S02E06 Kill Oscar (III).

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:W.T. Zacha
  13. Background image for Falling Angels
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Falling Angels

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    S3:E16

    The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  14. Background image for Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther

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    S1:E2

    Steve Trevor battles for his life and his career when he's accused of espionage and treason in relation to a series of military missions that have gone awry due to acts of sabotage. Investigating the situation and determined to clear the man she loves, Wonder Woman learns that Trevor is being framed by a Nazi spy ring.

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  15. Background image for Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman

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    S1:E3

    Perhaps the most discussed and favorite episode of WW fans during the show's run, Wonder Woman faces her deadliest test when an evil female Nazi operative comes to America to capture Wonder Woman and learn the secret of her amazing powers, then brainwash her into using her powers to help Hitler's quest during World War 2. Fausta disguises herself as Wonder Woman during a Bond selling rally, and with a little help from her fellow Nazi agents (not to mention a trick stage and a cloth soaked with chloroform), bags her prey and takes the real Wonder Woman to Germany. Can Steve Trevor save the day? Stay tuned!

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    Director:Barry Crane
  16. Background image for The Double Circle
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Double Circle

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    S4:E10

    An art lover is made to believe he can own a priceless work of art, but it is really a plot to retrieve a valuable formula from his impenetrable safe.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Gitano (aka Toys)

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    S4:E18

    A 12-year-old king whose life is in danger is rescued by gypsies - Paris and Willie in disguise - and forced to dress up like a girl to fool his assassins.

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  18. Background image for The Rebel
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Rebel

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    S5:E11

    The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third one, Khora refuses to leave and is executed. Jim and Dana meet with his son Alex (a rebel leader) to get his notes and Dana is captured by the militia along with Alex's girlfriend, who has memorized the doctor's notes. Barney and Doiug parachute in with a giant hollow religious statue that Jim uses to get close enough to dig into the prison while Paris, pretending to be an Intelligence officer, plays the militia leader, Bakram, against the people. When Bakram discovers that the prisoners have escaped he destroys the statue, further enraging the country's people against him while the team make his escape.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  19. Background image for The Hostage
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Hostage

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    S5:E13

    After completing a mission Paris is undercover as an American businessman and still in disguise when he is kidnapped by Latin American revolutionaries led by terrorist Robert Siomney - they ask for the release of three prisoners in return for Paris' life. Paris fakes a disease forcing the government to drop medication, which the IMF has planted a tracking device in. Once they know where the revolutionaries' compound is, Jim fakes the exceution of two of the prisoners, putting pressure on the revolutionary leader Jorge Cabal since his son Luis is the third prisoner. Dana poses as Luis' girlfriend to get close to Jorge so Siomney orders her covert death to keep Jorge on track - Barney takes the killer's place and rescues Dana. Then Jim fakes Luis' death as well - Barney fake-kills Paris and then they reveal that Luis got a last-minute reprieve. With nothing else to bargain with, Jorge turns over Siomney, Barney in disguise, and the ""dead"" Paris in return for the government commuting his

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  20. Background image for The Cataflaque
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - The Cataflaque

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    S5:E19

    In San Pascal Premier Miguel Fuego and his nephew Ramone have signed a secret arms treaty with a Communist power to permit nuclear weapons aimed at the U.S. into their country. The IMF must expose the treaty before the missiles are installed. The team has Paris claim that Ramone's late father was killed by Miguel and that Paris' father at the closed Madrena Prison can verify this. The IMF secretly reopen Madrena prison and have Ramone arrested for fake-killing Doug, and Paris plays his previous character's father, who claims a diary will prove his claim. Ramone escapes and rejoins the younger Paris' character, who makes him believe the diary is on his father Victorio's body, lying in state. Barney and Doug have secreted replaced the body with a wax dummy behind the backs of the guards and planted a diary ""proving"" Miguel had Victorio lobotomized. Upon recovering it, Ramone goes to an asylum where a braindead ""Victorio"" is being kept. Enraged, Ramone takes Paris to the safe containing t

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    Director:Barry Crane
  21. Background image for The Connection
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - The Connection

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    S6:E14

    Reese Dolan is the new Syndicate heroin distributor on the East Coast. Dolan uses an island base off the coast of northwest Africa and is going to use it as a distribution point for heroin into the U.S - the IMF must identify his overseas opium source and get the evidence to convict him. Dolan is being financed by an underworld figure, Madame Renada, whom he has never met, so Jim and Barney fly him and his men not to the island but to a lookalike off the coast of Georgia, where Casey assumes the role of Renada. Reese calls his distributor in Istanbul and the IMF has the delivery plane taken into custody. An IMF flyer makes the delivery which Dolan apparently converts to heroin and sends on its way, while Reese's supplier, Hajii, suspects a double-cross when his pilot doesn't return and calls Dolan's distributor, Cleff. Willy tries to sell heroin to Clegg and then is ""forced"" to tell that Dolan still has it, then lead Clegg to the fake island. Dolan finds out he still has the opium, and

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  22. Background image for Ultimatum
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Ultimatum

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    S7:E10

    The IMF has 16 hours to find a nuclear bomb placed by an extortionist, Dr. Cooper, in one of seven Pacific Coast cities and find Cooper's associates in charge of disarming the bomb. The IMF track Cooper to a cafe and fake a radio broadcast announcing his demands will be met - then Jim and Mimi break in as convicts and take Cooper and the others hostage. The IMF eventually ""let"" Cooper call his associate Rogers to disarm the bomb but Cooper's wife Adele kills Rogers when she fears the plan has gone awry. When Rogers' death is announced on the radio, a frustrated Cooper convinces Jim and Mimi to take him to the bomb (beneath City Hall) which he shuts off with seconds to spare - the IMF take him into custody.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  23. Background image for Incarnate
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Incarnate

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    S7:E14

    Hannah O'Connel rules over a Syndicate family, including her two sons who act as her lieutenants. Hannah masterminded the theft of a million dollars in gold bullion, and escaped to the Caribbean with her surviving son Thomas - Robert turned government witness but Hannah shot and killed him. The IMF must get her to return to the U.S. and recover the gold. The O'Connel's are set up in a house run by Casey and led to believe it's haunted by Robert - their gunsels turn up ""dead"" and Hannah contacts shopkeeper Barney to arrange a voodoo exorcism. Hannah blacks out thanks to the IMF and they send her son Thomas running after faking him killing Willy over Casey. When Hannah wakes up Barney tells her that Robert is alive and got her to tell him the location of the gold while she was unconscious. Hannah hires Jim as a pilot to take her to the gold and the IMF move in for the arrest.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  24. Background image for The Fountain
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - The Fountain

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    S7:E17

    Syndicate exec Tom Bachman has stolen the computerized records from his rival Matthew Drake in a power struggle. Bachman is hiding in a village in Mexico from the crippled Drake, waiting for a hired pilot to take him to safety. Barney takes the pilot's place and then fakes a crash where he and Bachman stumble across the ""Fellowship of the Golden Circle."" Bachman discovers they have a fountain of youth - when Drake's men catch up to him, he takes Casey along as proof of his claim and offers to return the records if Drake backs him in distributing the water. Casey ages and dies before their eyes, and Drake agrees so he can get a shot at the water's healing properties. Bachman leads Drake (and the IMF) to the hidden tapes and the crooks gets arrested.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:N/A
  25. Background image for Half Nelson
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Half Nelson

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    S4:E16

    David travels to Baltimore where he befriends a midget wrestler who has a habit of telling tall tales. Unfortunately, one of those tales gets David in trouble with mobsters.

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Barry Crane Ratings Summary

"High Explosive" is the best rated episode directed by Barry Crane. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Suzanne Ryder. It aired on 12/9/1978 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "To Your Health".