The Best Episodes Directed By Bernard L. kowalski

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

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1983

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: David Braff

#2 - Blind Spot

Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1983

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Jackson Gillis

#3 - Chariot of Gold

Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1983

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: William Schmidt

#4 - Playback

Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/2/1975

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Booker Bradshaw

#5 - Fakeout

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1966

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Leigh Chapman

#6 - No Big Thing

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1982

Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops. Devon's the only one who knew the man was in jail. Town name is Lindhurst Flats.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Judy Burns

#7 - The Final Verdict

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1982

Memorial to: R.A. Cinader--He was the original. A meek accountant can clear a friend of murder if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

#8 - Fade in to Murder

Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1976

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Peter S. Feibleman

#9 - An Exercise in Fatality

Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1974

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

#10 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1966

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Bruce Geller

#11 - On the Fly

Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1987

T.C. is giving Thomas helicopter flying lessons when he is shot. With T.C. hospitalised, Mac appears on the scene, ""volunteering"" his services to stand in running Island Hoppers. But it seems that the assailants were actually gunning for Magnum, after a week previously, somebody impersonated him when trying to blackmail a Mexican Mafia King. With Magnum marked as a dead man as a result of the mistaken identity, confusion and chaos reigns, and as per usual, Mac 'just happens' to be in the middle of it all...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Jay Huguely

#12 - Death Lends a Hand

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1971

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: William Link

#13 - A Spool There Was

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1966

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Ellis Marcus

#14 - Big Iron

Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/27/1984

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Julie Friedgen

#15 - Dead of Knight

Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1984

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

#16 - Mrs. Kennedy

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1960

Trouble's brewing when Dave is hired to work for a rancher whose wife has eyes for him.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Sam Peckinpah

#17 - Letter to a Duchess

Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1983

Magnum is preparing for this year's big surf-ski race, while in a chance meeting, Higgins meets Lady Wilkerson, an English Duchess whom he has been smitten with after two brief encounters years before (which she does not identify him from). She is in the islands incognito, and must sell some valuable family jewels after being strapped financially, but Higgins ends up saving her from two men who accost her in an alleyway. As smitten with the woman as ever, Higgins offers her a job on the Estate, and plans to reveal his feelings towards her via a letter, but due to a mix-up and misunderstanding, she assumes the letter to be from Thomas instead, whom it becomes apparent she has eyes for, blind to Higgins' desires. But these confused matters of the heart seem trivial when the Duchess is kidnapped by the two men who had made a grab for her previously...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

#18 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1984

While Higgins is preparing to direct a selection of pieces from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' to be staged at the Estate, Thomas is hired by an attractive young woman to find her missing brother, who she claims has disappeared after joining a religious cult. The girl has musical experience and agrees to help out with rehearsals of Higgins' production while Thomas seeks out her missing brother, but Thomas uncovers more than he expects and finds himself dealing with a radical political group and an assassination attempt revolving around a visiting cast member of Higgins' production...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

#19 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken

Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1985

Thomas is hired by Jack Damon, Carol's Uncle, to find his seventeen-year-old daughter Becky, who has been missing for two months, after leaving home against his wishes to pursue a career as a dancer. After a little investigating, Thomas finds that the last person known to have seen the girl was her former boyfriend Darryl Jacobs – who is now behind bars after being involved in a stolen guns deal that went bad. Magnum decides the only way to find out from Jacobs what happened to Becky is to go undercover as a convict at the prison farm where Jacobs is being detained...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Jay Huguely

#20 - Birds of Paradise

Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1986

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Robert Janes

#21 - Flight #093 Is Missing

Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1984

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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Calvin Clements Jr.

#22 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1980

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Al Martinez

#23 - Paradise Blues

Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1984

T.C. drags a reluctant Magnum along to the newly-opened club of an old flame – a beautiful jazz singer who he fell in love with in Vietnam – who has just moved to the islands. Thomas doesn't dislike the woman, but insists to T.C. that trouble always follows her wherever she goes – but T.C., still infatuated with the girl, refuses to listen. But sure enough, the woman is in trouble, searching for a man who owes her $18,000 and mixed up with Detroit drug dealers that are out to kill her...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Chris Abbott

#24 - Jennie

Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1985

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...

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Katharyn Powers

#25 - The Thirty-Year Pin

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1972

When a police officer is fatally shot 3 days before he is due to retire, Stone undertakes a relentless search for the killer.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Robert Lewin