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The Best Episodes Directed By Gerd Oswald

Every TV Episode Directed by Gerd Oswald Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Gerd Oswald Ratings Summary

"Soldier" is the best rated episode directed by Gerd Oswald. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by Harlan Ellison. It aired on 9/19/1964 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Fun and Games".

  • Soldier
    9.0/10(2)

    #1 - Soldier

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/19/1964

    Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Harlan Ellison

  • Fun and Games
    7.5/10(2)

    #2 - Fun and Games

    Season 1 Episode 27

    Aired 3/30/1964

    Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Joseph Stefano

  • Corpus Earthling
    7.0/10(2)

    #3 - Corpus Earthling

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/18/1963

    A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Louis Charbonneau

  • It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
    7.0/10(1)

    #4 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 12/9/1963

    An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Joseph Stefano

  • Expanding Human
    7.0/10(1)

    #5 - Expanding Human

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/10/1964

    A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Francis M. Cockrell

  • The Conscience of the King
    6.7/10(45)

    #6 - The Conscience of the King

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 12/8/1966

    Kirk is one of the last survivors who can identify a mass killer, who lurks among a Shakespearean troupe aboard the Enterprise.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Barry Trivers

  • The Special One
    6.0/10(1)

    #7 - The Special One

    Season 1 Episode 28

    Aired 4/6/1964

    Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Oliver Crawford

  • The Alternative Factor
    5.6/10(41)

    #8 - The Alternative Factor

    Season 1 Episode 27

    Aired 3/30/1967

    Kirk and Spock encounter an alien named Lazarus who claims to be from an anti-matter universe.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Don Ingalls

  • The Beacon
    5.0/10(2)

    #9 - The Beacon

    Season 1 Episode 26

    Aired 12/6/1985

    When Dr. Dennis Barrows's car breaks down, he goes to an unusual town where visitors are disliked and townspeople are terrified of lighthouse and where it might shine. The house where Barrows stays the night is shined upon by the lighthouse. It holds a sick child, one which he helps with his medicine. The child recovers, but when Barrows goes to the lighthouse, the townfolk confront him with the truth: the lighthouse keeper is long dead, but in return for ensuring the town's prosperity, it demands the occasional sacrifice. Since Barrows saved the girl and was in the house where the light shined, he becomes the townsfolks' next sacrifice.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Martin Pasko

  • Don't Open Till Doomsday
    5.0/10(2)

    #10 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

    Season 1 Episode 17

    Aired 1/20/1964

    A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Joseph Stefano

  • The Invisibles
    5.0/10(2)

    #11 - The Invisibles

    Season 1 Episode 19

    Aired 2/3/1964

    A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Joseph Stefano

  • The Duplicate Man
    5.0/10(1)

    #12 - The Duplicate Man

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 12/19/1964

    A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • O.B.I.T.
    4.5/10(1)

    #13 - O.B.I.T.

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 11/4/1963

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

  • The Premonition
    3.0/10(1)

    #14 - The Premonition

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 1/9/1965

    An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: Ib Melchior

  • The Case of the Purple Woman
    0.0/10(1)

    #15 - The Case of the Purple Woman

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 12/6/1958

    An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings named ""The Purple Woman"" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. After he finds out the dealer knew it was a forgery, he realizes the news would damage his reputation as an art collector. At the Girard home, an artist Aaron Hubble, tells Evelyn Girard, the wife of the art dealer, that he painted a forgery of The Purple Woman for her husband. Milo Girard is found dead in his office the next morning and his wife Evelyn is charged with his murder.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: N/A