The best episode directed by Gordon Hessler is "Disaster Squad", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Max Hodge". "Disaster Squad" aired on 10/7/1978 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Great 5K Star Race and Boulder Wrap Party (1)".
A television news crew - the Disaster Squad - edit a report to make it look as though Ponch had threatened them with violence. However, the reporter is forced to confess all during a later report when Jon and Ponch rescue a child from a river.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Max Hodge
The guys save Hollywood icon Milton Berle's Malibu mansion from a threatening boulder. Gilligan's Island's Tina Louise costars.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
A gang of thieves steals construction equipment, while the CHP drag race threatens to be a real drag. Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street films) costars.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Schmerer
Jon and Ponch attempt to catch a gang of thieves who have been stripping car parts from parked vehicles. And Ponch fakes illness in order to conceal his fear of flying.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Schmerer
A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun. However, Langois has an iron-clad alibi: he's been the subject of a sleep experiment and been kept asleep for several weeks. Eventual, Carl realizes that somehow Langois' sleep state has caused him to manifest a subconscious ""boogey-man"" from the Cajun bayou: Peremalfait, a huge creature covered in Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you. Peremalfait ""kills"" Langois to prevent him from being woken up, and Kolchak must travel into the sewers of Chicago to kill Peremalfait with the only thing that can destroy it: a spear made out of bayou gum wood.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: David Chase
Browbeaten husband seeks nothing but the best for his late-lamented wife. The most expensive casket from the best in the business, every detail attended to in the making of final arrangements. Just one item left of the to-do list: kill the wife.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: N/A
Trouble looms when married woman Gwen falls for a successful romantic novelist.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Ross Thomas
Wonder Woman helps a leprechaun recover his stolen gold.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Michael McGreevey
Billionaire Harlow Gault has found a way to keep his disembodied brain alive and now wants a new body for it.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: Arthur Weingarten