The Best Episodes Directed By Gordon Hessler

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

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

Trouble looms when married woman Gwen falls for a successful romantic novelist.

Director: Gordon Hessler

Writer: Ross Thomas