The Best Episodes Directed By Joseph Pevney

#1 - Your Witch Is Showing

Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1965

Darrin forbids Samantha to attend her cousin Mario's wedding in Egypt. Endora, who is livid, states that Darrin is in "big trouble". Darrin gets a new assistant named Gideon Whitsett. Darrin is convinced Gideon is a warlock enlisted by Endora as a series of events makes Darrin look bumbling and stupid in front of a new client, and in turn makes Gideon look fantastic. Samantha uses a little magic to find out that Gideon is actually a conniving young man.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Joanna Lee

#2 - The Slavers

Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/23/1979

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Dick Nelson

#3 - The City on the Edge of Forever

Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1967

Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: D.C. Fontana

#4 - The Trouble With Tribbles

Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1967

The Enterprise must protect a very important shipment of grain from both Klingons and some adorable creatures called tribbles.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: David Gerrold

#5 - Amok Time

Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1967

First Officer Spock returns to his home world for a brutal Vulcan mating ritual.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Theodore Sturgeon

#6 - Journey to Babel

Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1967

The Enterprise must transport dignitaries to a peace conference, with an assassin on the loose.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: D.C. Fontana

#7 - The Devil in the Dark

Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1967

Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Gene L. Coon

#8 - A Taste of Armageddon

Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1967

The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Gene L. Coon

#9 - The Immunity Syndrome

Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1968

The crew of the Enterprise encounters an energy-draining field which may be able to destroy the galaxy.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Robert Sabaroff

#10 - The Deadly Years

Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1967

Strange radiation exposes the command crew of the Enterprise to the effects of rapid aging.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: David P. Harmon

#11 - Arena

Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1967

When a mysterious alien race destroy an Earth colony, the Enterprise pursues, but Kirk and the alien captain are forced to fight each other by powerful aliens.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Fredric Brown

#12 - The Return of the Archons

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1967

The Enterprise encounters a seemingly peaceful civilization run by a "benevolent" being named Landru... who intends for them to join his people.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

#13 - The Confession

Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1979

McGee reluctantly takes on an intern as his assistant, who takes an interest in a lonely little man claiming to be the Hulk. David 'Beeman' worries if the man might actually know his secret identity.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: N/A

#14 - The Brawlers

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965

A group of irish immigrants settle down on Barkley land, believing that they bought the land legally. Nick, along with the others at first, believes they are merely squatters. They, however, refuse to believe that the land does not belong to them.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: N/A

#15 - Bonfire

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1962

Robert Evans is a revivalist preacher who is desperate for money to build his own church. He romances a rich woman named Naomi Freshwater and kills her. Some time later, Robert meets Naomi's neice Laura. He tries to romance her as well, but she is not interested. When Laura discovers that Robert killed her aunt, the preacher kills her and stuffs her body in a trunk. He drags the trunk to a pit and sets it on fire. Later, as Robert is delivering a sermon, it begins to rain. The rain puts out the fire and the contents of the burned trunk are revealed. Robert is promptly arrested and charged with murder.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: William D. Gordon

#16 - Starring the Defense

Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1963

Miles Crawford is a former actor turned lawyer. He gets an oppotunity to practice both professions when his son Tod is arrested an put on trial for murder. Tod is guilty but Miles makes an impassioned summation that manages to sway both the judge and the jury. Unfortunately, the prosecutor is a movie fan and he points out that Miles's summation was lifted word for word from a old movie in which Crawford played a defense attorney in charge of a case very similar to the one he is in charge of now.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Henry Slesar

#17 - Memo from Purgatory

Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1964

Jay Shaw is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates a particularly violent gang named "The Barons". He manages to get the trust of Tiger the leader of the gang but trouble arises, when Filene, Tiger's girl friend, falls in love with him. Filene's love, however, is not the only source of tension. Other gang members grow jealous of Jay's growing power within the gang. When gang members break into his room and find his notes, they tell Tiger that Jay's an undercover cop. Jay is sentenced to death by Tiger and the gang. He manages to get away, but in the process Filene is killed. The murder is witnessed and Tiger and the rest of the gang are hauled off to jail.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Harlan Ellison

#18 - One of the Family

Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1965

Dexter Dailey and his wife Joyce hire a German nursemaid named Frieda to take care of their newborn infant. Dexter treats Frieda like one of the family, because long ago she was his nursemaid when he was a child. Joyce, however, doesn't feel the same way. She becomes worried when she hears about a nurse who is wanted for a child killing in San Francisco. When she calls the murdered baby's aunt she discovers that Frieda may be the baby killer and that her child may be the next victim.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Oscar Millard

#19 - Wolf in the Fold

Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1967

A series of bizarre murders points to Mr. Scott as the prime suspect.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Robert Bloch

#20 - The Apple

Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1967

The crew of the Enterprise visits a mysterious paradisical planet controlled by a computer that is served by the local inhabitants.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Gene L. Coon

#21 - Friday's Child

Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1967

The crew of the Enterprise become entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: D.C. Fontana

#22 - Catspaw

Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1967

Two powerful aliens threaten the well-being of the Enterprise and her crew.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: D.C. Fontana

#23 - A Cube of Sugar

Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1967

Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out. Deane's interrogator, Brobin, has hooked Deane on drugs to try and break him using the withdrawl symptoms, unaware that the chip is concealed among some sugar cubes Deane had. Pretending to be Deane's wife, Cinnamon implicates Rollin as the real enemy agent. Brobin has Rollin captured and imprisoned,but Rollin manages to escape and tamper with Deane's drugs so that he goes into a coma. Briggs pretends to be a U.S. representative demanding Deane's body, so Brobin has it cremated to prevent a revealing autopsy. Barney and Willy switch out the ""dead"" Deane. Rollin then agrees to tell Brobin where the microcircuit is, knocks out the interrogator, and with the aid of two masks makes his escape.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Allan Balter

#24 - A Nice Touch

Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963

Larry Duke is an actor making his motion picture debut in Hollwood when he gets a phone call from his New York girlfriend Janice Brandt. Janice is an olderwoman who sacraficed her marriage and Hollywood career in order to advance Larry's career. She informs Larry that her husband Ed followed her to New York showed up drunk at her apartment and was knocked unconscious in a scuffle. Larry convinces Janice to smother Ed with a pillow so that she can come back to Hollywood. She agrees and reluctantly commits murder. In Hollywood, Larry calls the police and tells them about the murder in New York. He then head upstairs where he joins his new bride who he married to further advance his Hollywood career.

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writer: Mann Rubin