The Best Episodes Directed By Donald P. bellisario
Every TV Episode Directed by Donald P. bellisario Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Donald P. Bellisario Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Donald P. Bellisario is "Lost Planet of the Gods (1)", rated 7.4/10 from 10 user votes. It was "written by Glen A. Larson". "Lost Planet of the Gods (1)" aired on 9/24/1978 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "A New Life (1)".
7.4/10 10 votes#1 - Lost Planet of the Gods (1)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1978
Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Glen A. Larson
7.3/10 7 votes#2 - A New Life (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1995
Lt. Harmon "Harm" Rabb, a JG Lawyer who investigates and litigates crimes committed by Navy and Marine personnel, looks into the mysterious death of a female pilot aboard an aircraft carrier. Harm is convinced the female pilot who fell overboard didn't commit suicide, but was actually pushed, with all the suspects aboard the aircraft carrier.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.2/10 8 votes#3 - The Hand of God
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/1979
Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.0/10 3 votes#4 - A New Life (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1995
Harm & Kate continue to investigate the death of Lt. Angela Arutti, all the while the carrier remaining on combat status.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.0/10 3 votes#5 - Shadow
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1995
A civilian tech rep aboard a submarine seizes control of an experimental torpedo after its launch during an exercise. The rep threatens to sink a cruise ship and demands a ransom. Harm and Ltjg. Meg Austin go to the sub and save the day.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
7.0/10 2 votes#6 - Death Watch
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1998
Mac arrives at Harm's apartment and is surprised to see that he has forgotten she was coming over and that he is getting to leave with a firearm. Stalling him, she gets him to tell her the story 2 years ago of the murder of his then-girlfriend, Lt. Diane Schonke, an Academy classmate, after her ship, the USS Seahawk docked in Norfolk. When Harm shows Mac a picture of Diane, Mac is stunned to see that Diane looks just like her. When Harm tells Mac that he believes he has finally figured out who the real murderer is (Agent Turque) and that he intends to confront him, she gets him to initially agree to take her with him. Harm however tricks her and drives off, leaving Mac behind standing in the rain. Desperate to find Harm before he does something he'll regret, Mac calls Bud to meet her at JAG. Bud was an Ensign on Diane's ship and was one of the people who found Diane's murdered body. Bud tries to help Mac fill in the gaps and helps Mac learn that Agent Turque isn't the murderer.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.6/10 25 votes#7 - Yankee White
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2003
While on Air Force One, a Navy commanding officer dies. Agents from the Navy NCIS decide to take the investigation into their own hands and also force a Secret Service Agent to help. Now the NCIS team has to figure out if the Navy Officer's death was of natural causes or not.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Don McGill
6.6/10 7 votes#8 - The Young Lords
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1978
Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.5/10 8 votes#9 - Catch A Falling Star
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1989
May 21, 1979: Sam leaps into Ray Hutton, the understudy for the role of Cervantes just seconds before curtain time. His mission: prevent the drunken star from falling and seriously injuring himself during a benefit performance of "Man of La Mancha." Sam isn't helped by the presence of his former piano teacher, on whom he once had a crush, and who now appears to have caught the star's eye as well.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Paul Brown
6.5/10 2 votes#10 - Ice Queen (1)
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/2003
A murdered JAG officer teams up the JAG staff with agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS).
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.0/10 5 votes#11 - China Doll
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/18/1980
Magnum is hired by a beautiful Chinese antiques dealer that he's making a play for, to protect a precious ancient vase, ""the Soul of Soong"", until it's buyer arrives in Hawaii to collect it. But unbeknown to him, the priceless ornament is wanted by a Tong gang from the girl's home country, and a deadly martial arts assassin who can kill in the blink of an eye is hot on the trail...
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.0/10 3 votes#12 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1984
While demonstrating the capabilities of the new prototype supercopter codenamed 'Airwolf', Dr. Charles Moffet goes rogue, steals the chopper and kills almost all of the observers. At least one man -- Michael Coldsmith Briggs III survives. Briggs, codenamed 'Archangel' is the head of a covert organization called 'The Firm' and Archangel calls upon the one man in the world he knows that can retrieve the copter. The problem is Stringfellow Hawke is not only a loner, but a recluse as well. The amount of money the Firm is willing to pay for Airwolf's recovery is irrelevant. Hawke wants just one thing - the safe return of his brother, Saint John, who was captured during the Vietnam war and is evidently a POW.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.0/10 2 votes#13 - Skeleton Crew
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/29/1996
A murdered female lieutenant turns out to be Lt. Schonke, a friend with whom Harm attended Academy, but neither Cdr. Krennick nor Agent Turque, an abrasive civilian investigator, buys Harm's claim that his relationship was strictly platonic. After the primary suspect of the murder is also found dead - a more than dubious suicide - Harm finds himself being the number one suspect for both murders ... Locations: US Naval Base Norfolk, Va.; Washington D.C.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.0/10 1 votes#14 - Boomerang: Part I (1)
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2000
At the request of Lt. Cmdr. Brumby, Admiral Chegwidden sends Harm and Bud to Australia to represent a U.S. Naval officer, Kevin Lee, who has suddenly surfaced 28 years after being "murdered" by an Australian sailor. Lee contends that he accidentally killed his Australian nemesis years ago and, in a panic, exchanged identities with the dead man. Now, charged with both deserting and murder, Lee is to be tried in an Australian court, pitting Harm against Brumby. Harm and Brumby are also about to go head-to-head outside the courtroom when Mac appears in Sydney and Brumby decides it's time to make her choose between him and Harm.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.0/10 1 votes#15 - Boomerang: Part II (2)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/2000
The murder/desertion trial of Kevin Lee takes a bad turn after his wife changes her testimony under cross examination. Harm and Mic fights to win over Mac
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
5.5/10 2 votes#16 - Ghost Ship
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1997
Harm discovers evidence that his father, an MIA from the Vietnam War, may be alive and under KGB control in Russia. Harm and Mac are investigating the murder of a Navy pilot whose body was found hidden aboard the decommissioned aircraft carrier the USS Hornet. With help from a local police lieutenant, they discover a motive for the crime, which involves a list of MIAs and POWs supposedly still alive and under KGB control in Russia -- and the list includes Harm's father. But before Harm can act on the information, the book mysteriously disappears along with the helpful police lieutenant.
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
5.0/10 1 votes#17 - The Woman on the Beach
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1981
One night, Rick, feeling down after learning that a girl he was serious about is getting married, meets an attractive young woman called Sara, a beautiful woman dressed in a white vale. As the pair befriend each other, she tells him that she is being terrorised by a man named Henry Ellison, after she didn't return his feelings of love. But during a walk on the beach with the girl, she suddenly disappears, seemingly into thin air. Rick insists that Thomas look in to it, and they learn that Sara died 35 years ago, after supposedly committing suicide, though there was rumour that suggested she was murdered; and sightings of her ghost are occasionally reported. Magnum digs into both the past and present to find if there is logical explanation and if someone is impersonating Sara, or if it really was something more ethereal that Rick encountered..
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Andrew Schneider