- 7.6/1028 votes
#1 - Forgotten Lady
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1975
A fading actress kills her husband when he refuses to back her comeback show.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: William Driskill
- 7.5/1020 votes
#2 - By Dawn's Early Light
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1974
The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Howard Berk
- 7.4/1020 votes
#3 - Now You See Him
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/1976
Master magician the great Santini is amazing audiences at the Cabaret of Magic. What they don’t know is that Santini hopes to pull of the grandest illusion of his career - making club owner Jesse T. Jerome disappear. The crude Jerome is the only person who knows that Santini was a Nazi death camp guard named Stefan Mueller, He has been blackmailing the magician since learning his dark secret.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 7.0/101 votes
#4 - Terror in Northfield
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
When his teenage son Tommy is found murdered in the town of Northfield, John Cooley sets out to avenge the boys death. John is a religious fanatic who believes he is on a mission from God. When he finds a piece of car headlight at the murder scene, he seeks out and kills the car's original owner Frency La Font and an elderly librarian who had some connection to the car. With all the murders, the residents of Northfield are unstandably shaken. They demand that Sheriff Will Pearce solve the case. Unfortunately, Pearce's girlfriend Susan Marsh falls under Cooley's suspicions since she bought the car from La Font. His attempt to kill her, however, is foiled at the last second by the timely arrival of Sheriff Pearce. Pearce explains that La Font murdered Tommy and confessed to it in his last will and testament.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Leigh Brackett
- 7.0/101 votes
#5 - Lonely Place
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1964
Stella is married to a cowardly peach-farmer named Emory and takes in a passing hobo named Jesse. She hires him to help her husband harvest the peach crop. Unfortunately, Jesse's strange behavior and fascination with a knife he carries begins to frightens her. Emory, however, refuses to believe her. Stella tries to run away, but is caught by Jesse. He threatens to stab her, but she fights him off. She escapes in her husbands truck and heads home. There she awaken Emory and tells him about Jesse. Emory, however, confesses that he heard her screams, but was too afraid to do anything. Stella angrily stabs her husband and kills him. She then calls the police and blames the murder on the fleeing Jesse.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: C.B. Gilford
- 7.0/101 votes
#6 - Triumph
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/1964
Brother Thomas Fitzgibbon is a bumbling medical missionary that is living in India with his scheming wife Mary. When a new missionary Brother John Sprague and his wife Lucy arrive and disturb Mary's ambitious plans for her husband, she decides to kill them in order to protect her family's future.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Arthur A. Ross
- 7.0/101 votes
#7 - Death Scene
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/1965
Leo Manfred is an ambitious car mechanic who is fixing the limousine of a once famous movie director named Gavin Revere. Leo ingratiates himself to Gavin's daughter Nicky and the two are soon engaged to be married. Gavin is suspicious of Leo. He insists that he take out a life insurance policy naming Nicky as the beneficiary. Leo does so, and the two prepare to gte married. On the eve of the wedding, Leo insults Gavin by panning his famous silent film Death Scene. Gavin threatens to cancel the wedding. Leo responds by planning murder. He manipulates Gavin and Nicky to the edge of a cliff. Nicky, however, turns the tables and tosses Leo over the edge. Nicky removes her make-up and reveas herself to be Gavin's actress wife. She and Gavin manipulated Leo so that the couple could get their hands on his insurance money.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: James Bridges
- 7.0/101 votes
#8 - Power of Attorney
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/5/1965
James Jarvis is a con man that is posing as a expert in the stock market. Things begin to look good for James when he gets in good with the wealthy Mary Crawford and her friend Agatha. He begins to control all of Mary's money and claims that he lost it all in bad investments. When she hears the news, Mary is shocked and commits suicide. Agatha, however, wants revenge. She conceals any evidence of suicide and invites James over. She gets James's figerprints on the suicide weapon and locks him in the room with Mary's body. She, then, calls the police and tells them that James killed Mary. When James's is killed in a shootout with police, Agatha gets her revenge.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: James Bridges
- 6.7/1019 votes
#9 - A Deadly State of Mind
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/1975
A doctor kills the husband of the woman he is having an affair with but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
- 6.5/1046 votes
#10 - Mudd's Women
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1966
The Enterprise picks up a intergalactic conman, Harry Mudd, and three incredibly beautiful women who harbor a dark secret.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Gene Roddenberry