The Best Episodes Directed By Jackie Cooper
Every TV Episode Directed by Jackie Cooper Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jackie Cooper Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Jackie Cooper is "Limbo", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Jay Huguely". "Limbo" aired on 4/15/1987 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Dear Dad...Again".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Limbo
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 4/15/1987
Thomas is delivering key evidence at the courthouse when he is shot in the parking lot by a hitman. In a coma, Thomas needs to save Michelle from some killers, and meets up with the ghost of his former Naval buddy Mac. Then he bids each of his friends a personal goodbye, in case he doesn't make it.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Jay Huguely
8.0/10 5 votes#2 - Dear Dad...Again
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1973
Once again, Hawkeye writes home to his father, telling him of the latest gossip: the camp gets a new surgeon, who turns out to be a fake; Hawkeye bets he can walk into the mess tent naked for lunch, and no one will notice; Radar cheats on his final exam from the High School diploma company; Margaret rejects Franks advances and he gets drunk late into the night; the camp have a no talent night.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Sheldon Keller
8.0/10 4 votes#3 - Showtime
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1973
Captain Kaplan is to be shipped home, but becomes paranoid that something will happen to him before he leaves. He takes the wheel of the jeep to drive to Kimpo himself, but crashes and ends up in plaster. Henry's wife is in labor and gives birth while he has Radar calling the hospital every 5 mins.An entertainer, Jackie Flash, visits the camp to entertain the troops.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 3 votes#4 - Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1973
Hawkeye has been operating so long he just can't quit, and he decides to try to end the war while he's at it.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Alan Alda
8.0/10 2 votes#5 - Aura Lee, Farewell
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1975
Jim's old friend Sara Butler hires him to find out the real reason her employee Aura Lee Benton died. The police believe it was a drug overdose but Sara is convinced she was murdered.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.0/10 3 votes#6 - Say Goodbye to Jennifer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1975
John Micelli's an old war buddy of Jim', who's now a fashion photographer. He hires Jim to track down a beautiful fashion model, whom the authorities claim is dead; killed in a fiery multi-car accident, but, he thinks otherwise. As Jim starts to look into this, he runs into several intimidating figure who want to make certain she stays that way.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
8.0/10 1 votes#7 - In Hazard
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1976
Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - The Italian Bird Fiasco
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1976
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.8/10 6 votes#9 - Carry On, Hawkeye
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1973
A flu epidemic leaves yet-to-be infected Hawkeye and Margaret more overworked than ever.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Bernard Dilbert
7.8/10 6 votes#10 - The Incubator
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1973
Hawkeye and Trapper hassle the brass to obtain a vital piece of medical equipment.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.7/10 6 votes#11 - Divided We Stand
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1973
Gen. Clayton sends a psychiatrist to the 4077th to gauge the camp's cohesiveness and fitness as a unit.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.7/10 3 votes#12 - Counter Gambit
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1975
Two former cons hire Rockford to find an old girlfriend. They actually want her valuable pearl necklace and implicate him as the thief. With Angel's help, he'll get the pearls back and square himself with the police.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.6/10 5 votes#13 - For the Good of the Outfit
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1973
Hawkeye and Trapper receive high-level flak when they buck the brass to report the "friendly fire" shelling of a South Korean village.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Jerry Mayer
7.6/10 5 votes#14 - The Sniper
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1973
A lone sniper turns the hospital compound into a combat zone, traps Henry and Radar in the showers and forces surgery by candlelight after he knocks out the generator.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.5/10 4 votes#15 - The Ringbanger
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1973
Hawkeye and Trapper operate on a famous Colonel - after discovering that he is particularly ruthless about sacrificing his men, they come up with a scheme to get him sent back to the states with a little unwitting help from Frank, Margaret, and a drunk Henry.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Jerry Mayer
7.3/10 3 votes#16 - Hot Lips and Empty Arms
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1973
Depressed by news from home, Margaret examines her life and decides to request a transfer.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.3/10 3 votes#17 - The Chosen People
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1974
A local farmer claims the 4077th is on his land, and a Korean woman claims Radar is the father of her child.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Sheldon Keller
7.0/10 2 votes#18 - Officers Only
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1973
Something smells rank at the 4077th, and it might be the new officers' club--from which enlisted types are barred.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Ed Jurist
6.7/10 6 votes#19 - Radar’s Report
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1973
Radar chronicles the antics of a typical week at the 4077th, which includes Hawkeye falling for a new nurse, a POW going berserk in the OR and Klinger seeking a psychiatric discharge.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Sheldon Keller
6.0/10 1 votes#20 - Forever in Time
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1987
Thomas is running an errand to a local museum for Higgins' upcoming pageant for the Anglo-Hawaiian Historical Society, when he catches sight of a woman attending a funeral who, he soon learns, resembles a beautiful Hawaiian princess who tragically died in a fire in 1910. Thomas becomes enamoured with the elusive beauty, and experiences visions of himself, in 1900s naval uniform, with the woman. The mystery grows even more when he receives a package in the mail containing such a naval uniform, and a locket holding photographs of what looks like himself and the princess... Is Magnum once again experiencing something ethereal, or is somebody using the story of the princess to their advantage?...
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 1 votes#21 - Trapper John, M.D.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1979
Twenty-eight years after the Korean War, former M*A*S*H surgeon ""Trapper"" John McIntyre, now Chief of Surgery at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, is faced with a younger copy of himself - Vietnam vet Dr. ""Gonzo"" Gates.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Don Brinkley