The Best Episodes Directed By Leo Penn

#1 - Take Your Lover in the Ring

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1968

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#2 - Money Crop

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1975

A college-educated farmer named Joe moves to Walnut Grove with his pregnant wife. He tells the Walnut Grove-area farmers of a new hybrid of corn that would produce good crops, to which the farmers are very enthused. They decide to buy some of this new seed. While on the way back to Walnut Grove with the seed, Joe gets into an accident, as the farmers wait for his return.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: John Meston

#3 - Any Old Port in a Storm

Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1973

A wine connoisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross

#4 - Torah, Torah, Torah

Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/28/1985

Higgins asks Magnum to collect an old friend, Asher Solomon, from the airport – who Magnum finds is a Rabbi, arriving in Hawaii with a sacred Torah that was recently returned by the Antiquities Department of Taiwan. But on the journey back to the Estate, they are ambushed and the valuable Torah is grabbed from the Rabbi. As Magnum helps the Rabbi try to recover the sacred artefact, their search leads them to a ring of smugglers...

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#5 - The Enemy Within

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1966

A transporter malfunction causes Captain Kirk to split into his "good" and "evil" selves, and a landing party will freeze to death if they don't merge the two back together.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Richard Matheson

#6 - Any Portrait in a Storm

Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1985

Dean takes off for Florida, leaving Maddy alone to face the future; Myra gives birth to a son, Peter; Hufnagel haggles over her latest bill; Rosenthal struggles with life in the ER; the phone repairman is electrocuted; Dr. Auschlander, angry about his portrait, cancels the dedication ceremony; and Martin returns to medical practice.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#7 - The Naked and the Dead

Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1985

Dr. Westphall tries to deal with his critical sister-in-law and a reluctant hospital board; Luther becomes Axelrod's personal trainer; Roxanne asks Chandler to her recital; Rosenthal worries over the threats of an assaulted teenager; Dr. Caldwell's questionable behavior continues at the hospital; and Dr. Craig proves to be of little help to his grieving wife.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Russ Woody

#8 - Santa Claus is Dead

Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1985

Axelrod tries to keep Santa Claus alive after he collapses at a children's party; Ehrlich tries to brighten the holiday for his only obstetrical patient; Lizzie's boy friend finds the Westphalls' Christmas depressing; and Dr. Craig overindulges at his Christmas party.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Tom Fontana

#9 - There Were Giants in the Earth

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965

John discovers that the planet they are on will travel further from the sun.In an attempt to survive the Robinsons pack up and head south. Dr Smith stays at the Jupiter 2 site while the Robinson family encounter a terrifying cyclops and an ancient deserted city.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#10 - Ma's Holiday

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1974

Charles and Caroline decide to go on a second honeymoon and leave Mr. Edwards in charge of the children. The honeymoon doesn't turn out very well because Caroline keeps worrying about the children. Back at home, Mr. Edwards has his hands full with Carrie.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Dale Eunson

#11 - The Voice of Tinker Jones

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1974

The town becomes divided when Mrs. Oleson offers to buy a bell for the church, but only if she can put up a plaque. The differences and arguing begin to affect the school children. A mute craftsman, Tinker Jones, steps in and with the help of the school children, is able to make a bell.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#12 - Thou Shalt Not Steele

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1982

A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#13 - The Conspirators

Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/1978

An Irish poet, who fronts a peace organization while secretly running guns, kills an arms dealer who tries to swindle him.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Howard Berk

#14 - Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 2/6/1989

Lt. Columbo delves into the world of magic, ESP and slight of hand as he investigates the death of a magician, and there appears to be a tie to a prodigal psychic supported by a government founded institute on parapsychology.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: William Read Woodfield

#15 - Number Eight

Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 6/9/1984

A driver picks up a hitchhiker. They hear on the radio that a serial killer is on the loose, nicknamed Willow the Wisp, and the description matches that of the passenger.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Ross Thomas

#16 - Heal Thyself

Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1982

When Karen Harmon, a nurse whom Magnum knew in Vietnam whom was once traumatised when a wounded soldier she was treating was killed in a bombing, and is now a doctor, is accused of the murder of three patients in her care, he is determined to help her clear her name. All but one of the entire hospital board believe her to be guilty, and when his offer of help is rejected by Karen and her now husband, Thomas feels compelled to look into the case anyway. A hounding reporter determined for a story does not help the issue; and the whole matter only serves to trigger off delayed stress syndrome for Karen from that fateful bombing in 'Nam...

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#17 - This Island Isn't Big Enough....

Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1986

When Rick's boat returns from a cruise deserted, Magnum searches for the answers to what has happened to his friend and the passengers on-board, who are all presumed dead. His hunt is somewhat hampered by the separate investigation of a law officer who models himself on John Wayne, but as they both try to get to the bottom of the strange disappearance of the boat's passengers, they stumble upon a plot involving mobsters and two million dollars in counterfeit money...

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Chris Abbott

#18 - The Dirty Detail

Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 5/12/1984

Fred Pearson, a Vietnam veteran, is a broken man after years of punishment from his sergeant. One day, he walks into a bar and sees the sergeant, still very much the arrogant bully he always was.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: David Scott Milton

#19 - Max in Love

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1979

The Hart home is stripped of everything. It looks like an inside job and all clues point to Max's new love. When Max is framed for murder, the Harts intervene.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

#20 - Anyone for Murder?

Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1964

James Parkerson is a psychology professor who places an ad in the newspaper offering advice on how to murder one's spouse. He gets a response from the police, but manages to convince them that he is merely gathering research for an experiment. Later, he is contacted by a man named Robert Johnson who is searching for a way to kill his lover's husband. From Johnson's description of his lover and her husband, Parkerson realizes that Johnson is talking about his wife Doris and himself. Johnson is planning to kill him, but doesn't seem to realize that his target and the man on the phone are one and the same. Parkerson hires a hitman named Bingham to kill Johnson. Unfortunately, Johnson kills the hitman. Johnson realizes that Parkerson knows about him so he contacts Doris. He tells her that they should kill Parkerson and then make it look like the hitman did it. Unfortunately, Doris still loves her husband and has no plans to kill him.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: Arthur A. Ross

#21 - R&R -- &R

Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1972

A psychotic man named Ralston is killing the wives of members of his army unit, and Five-O, including Kono on his last case, must stop him before he commits any more crazed attacks.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A