The Best Episodes Directed By Bernard L. kowalski

Every TV Episode Directed by Bernard L. kowalski Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 7 Episode 15 - On the Fly
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - On the Fly

    S7:E15

    A case of mistaken identity leaves Magnum hunted by a Mexican mafia boss.

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death

    S1:E14

    Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Blind Spot
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #3 - Blind Spot

    S2:E4

    Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - No Big Thing
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #4 - No Big Thing

    S1:E7

    Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops.

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - Chariot of Gold
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Chariot of Gold

    S1:E17

    Michael investigates the mysterious deaths of members of an exclusive club for geniuses, involved in an archaeological dig.

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Final Verdict
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #6 - The Final Verdict

    S1:E10

    A meek accountant can clear a friend of murder—if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Fakeout
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Fakeout

    S1:E12

    Anastas Poltroni is the head of an international narcotics syndicate, and has taken refuge in a country with no extradition treaty. The IM Force is assigned to lure him out without kidnapping him (to avoid the publicity). Cinnamon woos Carson until Briggs, pretending to be her husband, interrupts. Carson refuses to bribe Briggs, while Barney plants some of Carson's heroin in his own hotel room and tip off the police. The IMF ambush Carson and steal the heroin, and Carson later escapes. He grabs Cinnamon and follows Briggs to a deserted lodge to retrieve his own heroin. The police are hot on his trail, and he flees with Cinnamon still in his grasp. Thanks to confusing road signs altered by Barney, Carson ends up over the border where he is arrested and the heroin is taken into custody.

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Playback
    7.5/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Playback

    S4:E5

    An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.

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  9. undefined Season 4 Episode 15 - Paradise Blues
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Paradise Blues

    S4:E15

    An old friend from Magnum and TC's Vietnam days turns up in Hawaii asking for their help.

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  10. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - Fade in to Murder
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #10 - Fade in to Murder

    S6:E1

    Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man.

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    IMF team leader Dan Briggs assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa. Jim and Willy sneak safecracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Dead of Knight
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Dead of Knight

    S3:E8

    A young dancer ingests a poison meant for Michael, who races the clock to find the only man with a clue to the antidote.

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  13. undefined Season 4 Episode 1 - An Exercise in Fatality
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #13 - An Exercise in Fatality

    S4:E1

    A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Death Lends a Hand
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    #14 - Death Lends a Hand

    S1:E2

    A private investigator kills his client's wife after she threatens to expose his blackmail scheme. The client then hires the detective to assist Columbo in the search for the killer.

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 21 - Big Iron
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Big Iron

    S2:E21

    While investigating the theft of heavy-duty construction equipment. Michael and KITT are pushed into a quarry and buried with tons of gravel.

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - A Spool There Was
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - A Spool There Was

    S1:E9

    Rollin and Cinnamon go it alone to recover a reel of recording wire containing information on a chemical warfare project aimed at the U.S. The courier carrying it was killed by the enemy, and the wire is missing. The two fake a lovers' reunion and then Rollin slips out during a pre-recorded conversation. To duplicate the circumstances of the courier's demise as closely as possible, Rollin lets himself be discovered and then chased along the same route. He finds the wire, hidden in plain sight as part of a fence. He and Cinnamon plan to recover and smuggle out the wire the same way, but it is taken by a young boy looking for fishing wire. Rollin manages to recover it, and they send the wire out disguised as the wire on a balloon.

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 22 - Birds of Paradise
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Birds of Paradise

    S3:E22

    String comes to the aid of his nephew who asks String for help when his mother disappears for a week.

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  18. undefined Season 4 Episode 6 - Letter to a Duchess
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Letter to a Duchess

    S4:E6

    A flowery note of admiration from Higgins to a titles English woman, traveling the Islands incognito, is mistakenly attributed to Magnum.

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  19. undefined Season 4 Episode 17 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

    S4:E17

    A young woman who persuades Magnum to look for her brother also finagles a role in Higgins' musical production for a visiting British politician.

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  20. undefined Season 5 Episode 22 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken

    S5:E22

    Magnum goes undercover and into a prison farm to find Darryl Jacobs who is the last person and former boyfriend of a missing young girl.

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - Flight #093 Is Missing
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Flight #093 Is Missing

    S2:E9

    Caitlin is a passenger on board a plane which Airwolf is sent to search for after the plane is hijacked and forced down at sea.

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 9 - Jennie
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Jennie

    S3:E9

    Arriving in Airwolf in a war-torn South American country, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin rendezvous with ""living legend"" freedom fighter leader El Gato, in a mission to rescue a US scientist who is being held captive. Dominic and Caitlin wait at the pick-up point as Hawke and El Gato set off on the rescue bid, but during the escape after locating the scientist, El Gato is killed, and Hawke's radio to Airwolf is destroyed. Hiding in from the pursing terrorist army in the area's dense growth, Hawke and the rather arrogant scientist meet a teacher and her group of hearing-impaired children, who are homeless after village was destroyed by the terrorists. Hawke attempts to lead the group to safety as they head to the pick-up point, trying to find a new home for the teacher and her students, and all the time avoiding the terrorist army along the way...

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Bernard L. Kowalski Ratings Summary

"On the Fly" is the best rated episode directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 1/21/1987 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death".