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
The best episode directed by Gerd Oswald is "Soldier", rated 9/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by Harlan Ellison". "Soldier" aired on 9/19/1964 and is rated 1.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Fun and Games".
9.0/10 2 votes#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
7.5/10 2 votes#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: Robert Specht
7.0/10 2 votes#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
7.0/10 1 votes#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
7.0/10 1 votes#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
6.5/10 39 votes#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
6.0/10 1 votes#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
5.3/10 36 votes#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
5.0/10 2 votes#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
5.0/10 2 votes#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
5.0/10 2 votes#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
5.0/10 1 votes#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: Clifford D. Simak
4.5/10 1 votes#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
3.0/10 1 votes#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
N/A/10 1 votes#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