The Best Episodes Directed By John Brahm
Every TV Episode Directed by John Brahm Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
John Brahm Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by John Brahm is "ZZZZZ", rated 9.5/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by Meyer Dolinsky". "ZZZZZ" aired on 1/27/1964 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Cheaters".
9.5/10 2 votes#1 - ZZZZZ
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1964
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - The Cheaters
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1960
A pair of very unusual glasses allow the wearer to see the absolute truth about whatever they look upon. We see what happens as they pass from one owner to another.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 51 votes#3 - Time Enough at Last
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1959
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Rod Serling
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Dark Legacy
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/30/1961
The patriarch of a family of magicians dies and leaves his nephew his book of secrets - and it is indeed a dark legacy involving satanic spirits and black magic.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 19 votes#5 - Shadow Play
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/5/1961
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.6/10 23 votes#6 - Mirror Image
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1960
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Rod Serling
7.6/10 8 votes#7 - You Drive
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1964
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
7.5/10 2 votes#8 - The Bellero Shield
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1964
A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Lou Morheim
7.3/10 23 votes#9 - A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1960
After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.3/10 12 votes#10 - Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 3/23/1962
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - The Prediction
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1960
A phony clairvoyant suddenly starts having genuine premonitions. Will he be able to save those closest to him when he sees death in their future?
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Well of Doom
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1961
A man is kidnapped on the eve of his wedding and held prisoner by a ghoulish creature claiming to be the devil himself.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#13 - An Attractive Family
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1962
An attractive family of serial murderers plan the death of another victim - their young sister-in-law.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 2 votes#14 - A Wig For Miss Devore
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1962
A washed-up actress selects for her comeback vehicle the story of a real woman who was accused of being a witch and susequently hanged. When she purchases the actual wig owned by the real woman an odd change occurs in the actress. It seems the wig holds a strange and hideous power.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - Touché
Season 4 Episode 35 - Aired 6/14/1959
A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#16 - Dry Run
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1959
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
7.0/10 1 votes#17 - Madame Mystery
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1960
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - The Cuckoo Clock
Season 5 Episode 27 - Aired 4/17/1960
A sensible widow beginning her stay in a remote summer cottage refuses to be alarmed by news of an escaped mental patient, but her resolve weakens as she visits with an off-beat local.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Robert Bloch
7.0/10 1 votes#19 - The Hero
Season 5 Episode 29 - Aired 5/1/1960
A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - Insomnia
Season 5 Episode 30 - Aired 5/8/1960
Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Henry Slesar
7.0/10 1 votes#21 - The Five Forty-eight
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1960
Two passengers on a train leaving Grand Central station at 5:48 - one in fear of his past catching up with him at long last, the other intent on exacting a revenge which will restore the balance of power.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#22 - Pen Pal
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1960
Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped?
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 2 votes#23 - Murder Case
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1964
Lee Griffin is an actor who is reunited with his old girlfriend Diana at a London production of a play being financed by Diana's husband Charles Justin. Lee and Diana rekindle their old romance and hatch a plot to kill her husband who is a wealthy diamond merchant. Lee's first attempt to kill Charles fails, but he succeeds on his second try. On a trip to Paris, Lee assumes Charles's identity. Unfortunately, Charles was aware of Diana's unfaithfulness and murderer her before he was killed. He hid her body in a car which is being shipped to Paris. Customs officials find the body and Lee, who is posing as Charles, is arrested for the crime.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: William Link
7.0/10 1 votes#24 - The Final Performance
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1965
Cliff Allen is a television writer who is on way to Hollywood. On the way, he picks up a pretty hitchhiker named Rosie. As he is driving, Cliff is stopped by the police and Rosie accuses him of kidnapping her. Cliff denies everything, but the police make him go into town. On the way to town, Cliff's car breaks down and he is forced to stay over night in a run down hotel run by a washed-up vaudeville actor named Rudolph Bitzner who dreams of a comeback. At the motel, Cliff runs into Rosie who, not only works at the motel, but also is part of Rudolph's act. He apologizes for what she did and tells him that she only did it to get away from Rudolph who is planning to marry her. She tells Cliff that she still wants to leave and asks him to take her. He agrees and when his car is fixed he heads over to Rosie's. There he finds Rudolph who tells him that Rosie changed her mind. After cliff insists on hearing this from Rosie herself, Rudolph takes him to his rehearsal hall where Rosie sits wait
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Robert Bloch
7.0/10 1 votes#25 - The Trap
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1965
Peg is bored with her marriage to Ted Beal, a wealthy toy manufacturer. She decides to have an affair with his young assistant John. She tells her lover to kill her husband. When John drags his feet on the murders, she decides to take matter into her own hands. She commits her crime and discovers that she was only being toyed with.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Lee Kalcheim