The Best Episodes Directed By Gerald Mayer

#1 - Bluebird is Back

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/1977

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

#2 - Task Force

Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1967

David Vincent is called in to aid a huge magazine publishing company that has been experiencing disruptive behavior in its company heads, and David believes that the aliens are behind the troubles.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Warren Duff

#3 - The Case of the Irate Inventor

Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/28/1960

James Frazer wants a divorce and his cheating wife refuses to give him one. She's also stealing the plans to his invention in order to bait her engineer lover into staying around. Frazer leaves town for three months in order to cool down but on the night of his return he finds his wife murdered in his office and he has the only key to a unique burglar proof lock that he invented.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

#4 - Element of Risk

Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1971

At a London airport, a gang of crooks who are planning a bullion heist mistake Danny for a criminal mastermind when the man's suitcase accidentally ends up in Danny's luggage cart.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Tony Barwick

#5 - A Bionic Christmas Carol

Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1976

After an accident at a NASA contractor, Steve uses his bionic abilities to convince the gruff, penny-pinching head of the company to change his callous ways.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Wilton Schiller

#6 - Orpheus

Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1970

An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Paul Playdon

#7 - My Friend, My Enemy

Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1970

A Communist agent, Karl Maur, spots Paris on vacation, knocks him out and turns him over to Dr. Tabor, who is a brain specialist and mind control expert. Unable to break Paris, Tabor blanks out Paris' memories and uses an implanted electrode to program him to attack Jim by convincing the disguise expert Jim represents an authority figure, similar to the ones he has lost two women to in the past. Doug and Jim find nothing wrong with him, but Barney finds fingerprints pointing to Maur and Jim delays reporting to the Secretary and tries to find out what's going on with Paris. Paris is befriended by a Communist agent working with Tabor - Tabor murders her and makes it set up as if Jim did it. Paris attacks Jim but snaps out of it when Jim's life is threatened and turns against Tabor.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Gene R. Kearney

#8 - Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)

Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1970

Toshio Masaki, a powerful anti-American industrialist, kills his sister and frames her husband, an American businessman named Harry Kellem, so as to discredit America and discredit the Economic Council. Paris and Willy enter as a Kabuki artist and a fighter (along with Jim) while Barney and Dana sneak into the grounds and restage the murder as they believe it occurred but with no way of knowing how it ended well enough to convince Musaki. To create a distraction, Willy must engage in a fight with Osaki, Moshio's supposedly-unbeatable champion. Once the film is made Dana tries to blackmail Masaki and then Kellem's daughter Nobu. Paris tips the police to Dana's negotiations with Musaki and they show up as Musaki screens the film as Dana escapes (with Willy's help). Musaki panics and rips the film from the projector before it ends at the spot where the team couldn't recreate him performing the murder, thus confessing his guilt.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

#9 - Fear Factor

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1977

An evil scientist captures the three fugitives and plans to make them his latest patients. He is trying to remove the ability of people to experience emotions.

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: N/A

#10 - HX 1

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1984

When new hi-tech attack chopper HX1 is stolen by an elite group of mercenaries, the tactics used fits those that Hawke's MIA brother St. John was trained in, and Hawke is certain that his brother may somehow be involved. Dominic begs him to leave well alone, but Hawke is adamant, and with Archangel insisting that if it cant be retrieved, the Firm will blow HX1 and anyone flying it out of the sky, Hawke goes back into his past and some of the people he knows from it, to desperately try and get a lead on the group and mercenaries and possibly St. John... But the HX1 is so powerful, it may even be able to blow Airwolf out of the sky...

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Steve Hayes

#11 - Illusion

Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/13/1969

Skarbeck and Lom are rivals for the vacant post of Chief of Secret Police in the East European Peoples Republic. As they are both hardliners, the IMF must eliminate both of them and make sure Paul Trock becomes the new chief. Skarbeck killed his lover Carlotta years ago but never found the man she was sleeping with. Skarbeck framed her costar and killed him in a car crash before having a breakdown. The IMF plan to trigger another breakdown. Cinnamon recreates Carlotta's act and admits to Skarbeck that Lom is paying her to him. Meanwhile, Jim sets up Lom with a letter proving Skarbeck killed Carlotta. Lom plans to nail Skarbeck for Cinnamon's murder. The IMF slip Skarbeck a drug to hypnotize him into thinking of Cinnamon as he did Carlotta. The IMF then trick Skarbeck into thinking Rollin, Cinnamons cabaret comic/partner, is having an affair with her, and that he is actually the murdered Fritz Mueller. Rollin tells Skarbeck that Cinnamon is having an affair with Lom. Skarbeck tries to k

Director: Gerald Mayer

Writer: Laurence Heath