The Best Episodes Directed By Leslie H. martinson

#1 - Diamond in the Rough

Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1981

Steve makes a daring arrest for Grand Theft Moped, while Jon responds to a bank robbery that leads him on a wild car chase.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Steve Greenberg

#2 - Breaking Point

Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1982

Ponch's sister is in town. Plus he has a serious accident that has him contemplating never riding a motorcycle again.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Vander Cecil

#3 - The Candidates

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1969

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#4 - The Bionic Criminal

Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1975

Oscar and Rudy are performing a test on Barney Hiller to see if his bionic power can be turned on and off again when needed.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

#5 - Bright Flashes

Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1982

Ponch races in a sprint car and is temporarily blinded by a thief's laser, causing him to crash. HE and Jon pay a visit to an odd character (George "Goober" Lindsey) to get some answers.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: James Doherty

#6 - The Penguin Goes Straight

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1966

After his recent release from jail, The Penguin has started his own protective agency and is thwarting small time hoodlums everywhere he goes. Batman & Robin decide to send in an undercover Alfred to spy on the newly reformed Penguin and his recently acquainted high society friends. However, the Penguin has anticipated Batman and Robin's every move and manages to give them a makeover into wanted men instead of him.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#7 - Not Yet, He Ain't

Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1966

Already wanted for a robbery they didn't commit, Batman and Robin fake their own deaths with a little help from Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara. They even allow the Penguin to take hold of the Batmobile, now renamed 'Birdmobile' in order to keep track on them via a hidden camera.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#8 - Invasion

Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1971

An earthquake damages the U.S.'s Distant Early Warning (DEW) system and a Defense Department advisor, Whitmore Channing, steals plans from the Air Force identifying the weak spots. Channing has hid the information for pick-up by an enemy agent the next day, and the IMF must get the name and flight # of the agent from Channing. The IMF evacuate Channing's city block and drug him unconscious after a fake electrical shock, then wake him up after adjusting the clocks to a day later. He believes the information has already been picked up, an idea ""proven"" by a faked IMF invasion of the European People's Republic. But then the EPR invaders arrest Channing and put him on trial. Channing reveals the location of the drop to prove his ""innocence"", and then the IMF let him covertly know the whole thing is a fake. Channing calls his contact and mentions his name - the IMF get it via a tapped line and arrest the man before he can recover Channing's info.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#9 - Stone Pillow (aka Big House)

Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1972

A private detective, Edison, has pictures incriminating Syndicate boss Vochek in a murder and is using them to blackmail the mobster. The IMF need to get the pictures to get Vochek convicted, but Edison has been convicted and is in prison for six months. Since Edison is unaware that his accomplice Leona is dead, Casey takes her role while Jim is Edison's cellmate and helps him to escape, then fake their deaths. Casey-as-Leona tells Edison she sent the evidence to the D.A. after she heard Edison was dead, and Jim convinces Edison she is keeping the pictures to pull off her own blackmail scheme. When Edison confronts her, Jim fake-shoots her but she calls a confederate to get the film - desperate, Edison reveals the location himself as he goes for it, and ends up arrested.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Howard Browne

#10 - Two Thousand

Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1972

Joseph Collins, a nuclear physicist, steals plutonium and is going to sell it to a unidentified foreign interest through a man named Haig. The IMF must identify Haig and locate the plutonium, so they feed Collins fake news story about military action in the Middle East, then arrest him for murder and show him film of Los Angeles under attack before knocking him out. When he wakes up, for Collins its the year 2000, he's been unconscious for 28 years, and the state exterminates anyone at the age of 65...which Collins will be in two days. Desperate, he escapes from his cell and finds a secret meeting of military heads who are ready to surrender beacuse of their lack of nuclear material - Collins obligingly gives them the location of his cache.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#11 - The Deal

Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1972

The Syndicate plans to finance the head of the army's takeover of his country in return for the right to operate the country's vices. The IMF team must intercept the safe deposit key before it reaches the general. Willy replaces a crewman aboard the yacht, but can't find the key and is discovered. He is forced overboard, almost drowns, but escapes and helps warn the team. Jim, Barney and Mimi craft an elaborate plot to convince the bad guys' courier to reveal the location of the key.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#12 - Leona

Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1972

Syndicate boss Mike Apollo was being infiltrator by a Federal agent, Parnell, who disappeared - the IMF assumes Apollo is torturing him for information. The IMF must learn where Parnell is. Since fellow Syndicate boss Joe Epic's wife Leona died under mysterious circumstances while Apollo was elsewhere with Parnell, Jim as an insurance investigator reopens the case and hints to Epic his wife was involved with an affair. The IMF plants evidence the affair was with a fellow Syndicate boss, Apollo himself. Jim leaks a fake story to Epic's secretary that Epic is planning to kill Apollo. When Epic accuses Apollo of killing his wife at a Syndicate meeting Jim tells a different story, that it could have been Leona's husband or lover. To clear himself Apollo produces the imprisoned Parnell, at which point the police move in and arrest everyone.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Howard Browne

#13 - Boomerang

Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1973

Syndicater John Vayle, a member of the Luchek Family, dies in a plane explosion - the IMF believes Vayle's wife Eve set him up to get hold of records, which would be invaluable as evidence against Luchek. Eve has the records and plans to blackmail Luchek - Jim pretends to be a killer sent after her who Eve plays to find out who wanted her dead. The IMF set it up to look like her husband John is still alive and using truth serum on her in her sleep to provide the location of the records. Barney, a crooked cop, claims that he was working with Johnny and killed him afterward, and Eve has to check the records to make sure they still exist - the IMF follow her and Luchek to them and arrest everyone.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Howard Browne

#14 - The Question

Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1973

Nicholas Varsi, an enemy assassin, has been captured but claims to be a defector who will reveal his mission to a government agency, the FIS...when he is guaranteed safe asylum. But the FIS may have been infiltrated by a deep-cover operative and Varsi may be selling fake information, so the IMF must verify if he really wants to defector. Jim and Willy break Varsi out and Jim claims to be an agent for Varsi's former government and demands to know why he is defecting. Varsi says nothing and shoots FIS agent Andrea (actually a guest IMF agent) with an empty gun. They let him and Andrea go - he'll turn Andrea back to the FIS if he's a true defector, but instead Varsi goes to a hotel to meet with his former superior, Colonel Kremmer, and the IMF must figure things out before Varsi and Andrea are both killed.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#15 - Disco Devil

Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1978

Wonder Woman must stop a disco that lures government engineers, and then taps their minds, stealing national secrets.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Alan Brennert

#16 - Skateboard Wiz

Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1978

Diana's god-daughter, a teenage skateboard whiz, is used by a mobster for extortion and blackmail purposes.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Alan Brennert

#17 - Stolen Faces

Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1978

Wonder Woman uncovers a plot to steal millions of dollars in jewels from wealthy party-goers by impersonating her and her colleagues.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Richard Carr

#18 - The Boy Who Knew Her Secret (1)

Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/28/1979

Alien life-forms shaped like small pyramids come to earth and imprison the minds of humans who touch them, taking over a small town. Meanwhile, Diana isn't as careful as she should be.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Anne Collins

#19 - The Boy Who Knew Her Secret (2)

Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/29/1979

Humans who have been 'possessed' by the pyramid aliens search for an alien criminal who has the power to shape-shift into anyone, even Wonder Woman.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Anne Collins

#20 - The Western

Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1973

Van Cleve and his partner, Royce, robbed a museum of pre-Colombian artifacts - Cleve apparently killed his partner and has the artwork hidden somewhere in the U.S. and the IMF must find it and bring him to justice. The IMF convince Cleve that he has the ability to see the future with some rigged incidents. Then they convince him that he'll die in an earthquake that will cause a dam nearby to burst - Cleve flees to the desert where he has the art hidden. The IMF follow him and manage to grab him and Royce, who faked his death and planned to kill Cleve and grab the artifacts.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#21 - Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)

Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1984

String receives information that St. John is being held in a POW camp, but by the time a rescue operations put into effect St. John has been moved.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero

#22 - Trapped

Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1972

An $8 million army payroll has been stolen from a base in SE Asia by the Stafford family, Syndicate drug smugglers. The IMF must recover the money. Jim and Barney steal a Stafford truck and then offer to sell it back to the family if they pay ""protection."" Jim meets with brother Doug to convince him brother Art has ordered a hit on Doug - however, Art has put a hit on Jim and he is ambushed and gets amnesia. Meanwhile, lounge-singer Casey meets with Doug and sets it up so he thinks Art is trying to kill him. Doug makes a deal with Barney for protection from his brother in return for $2 million and leads the IMF to the money - they arrest everyone and convince Art to tell them about his plan to kill Jim. Meanwhile Art's killers are on Jim's trail and when Barney gets hold of him, he manages to recover his memory just in time to thwart them.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

#23 - Cosmic Whiz Kid

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1979

Hieronymous Fox, an 11-year-old child genius from the 20th Century is kidnapped for ransom by the sinister Roderick Zale. The boy is the President of the planet Genesia and his bodyguard fears that he will be killed because they cannot meet the ransom demand. Buck, Wilma, and the bodyguard then make separate attempts to rescue the boy.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Alan Brennert