10.0/101 votes#1 - The Experts
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1970
When the Gestapo targets Colonel Klink's radio expert, Hogan helps save him before he's silenced for good.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Laurence Marks
9.0/102 votes#2 - The Amateur Hour
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1952
Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.5/1046 votes#3 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1967
A transporter mishap swaps Captain Kirk and his companions with their evil counterparts in a parallel universe. In the so-called Mirror Universe, the Enterprise is a ship of the Terran Empire, an organization as evil as the United Federation of Planets is benevolent.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jerome Bixby
8.4/1045 votes#4 - Space Seed
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1967
The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century... and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene L. Coon
8.1/1047 votes#5 - The Doomsday Machine
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1967
The starship Enterprise and its heavily-damaged sister ship, the USS Constellation, must work together to stop an alien planet-killing machine headed for the heart of Federation territory.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Norman Spinrad
8.0/101 votes#6 - Be a Pal
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1951
Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Bob Carroll Jr.
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Diet
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1951
To her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on twenty-two pounds since marrying Ricky. When one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, she tricks him into promising, she can be in the show if she fits into the dancer's size twelve costume.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Bob Carroll Jr.
8.0/101 votes#8 - Lucy Plays Cupid
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1952
The Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/101 votes#9 - Lucy Fakes Illness
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1952
Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/101 votes#10 - The Ballet
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1952
Lucy learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer as well as a burlesque comic.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/101 votes#11 - Lucy Does a TV Commercial
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/5/1952
Desperate to be in Ricky's new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way; which eventually pays off. But her one-and-only chance flops when she is forced to test the sponsor's product over-and-over, a vitamin syrup called Vitametavegimin, which is 25% alcohol.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
7.8/1044 votes#12 - The Menagerie (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1966
Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.7/1042 votes#13 - The Menagerie (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1966
Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.6/1033 votes#14 - By Any Other Name
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1968
Beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.5/1040 votes#15 - The Changeling
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1967
The crew of the USS Enterprise deals with an indestructible planet-destroying space probe.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
7.3/1038 votes#16 - Court Martial
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1967
Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
7.3/1036 votes#17 - I, Mudd
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1967
Captain Kirk has a second run-in with the conman, Harry Mudd. Mudd is now the supreme ruler of a planet of androids who cater to his every whim.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.2/1054 votes#18 - The Naked Time
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1966
A strange alien substance causes the crew to lose their inhibitions.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: John D. F. Black
7.1/1037 votes#19 - Assignment: Earth
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1968
While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.0/101 votes#20 - The Shark Affair
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1964
Solo and Illya investigate a series of kidnappings that lead to a modern-day pirate ship run by Captain Shark (Robert Culp), who is filling his Noah's Ark with craftsmen from all walks of life to repopulate the world after the nuclear holocaust he feels is imminent. With the help of Harry Barnman (Herbert Anderson) and his wife Elsa (Sue Anne Langdon). Solo and Illya pose as shipwrecked sailors to in turn wreck his plans.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#21 - The Finny Foot Affair
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1964
Solo gets an unwelcome young companion (Kurt Russell), a ten year old who wants Solo to marry his widowed mother, in his efforts to find the source of a deadly chemical that killed an entire Scottish village. In a race to find the source with General Yokura (Leonard Strong), Solo eventually uses a ring on the finger of a statue to pinpoint a cave where the deadly chemical has leaked from, but has to use his wits to escape when he is trapped there by Yokura and his men.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jack Turley
7.0/1071 votes#22 - The Man Trap
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966
Kirk and his crew are at deadly risk from an alien creature that feeds on the salt in a human body and can take on any form.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
7.0/101 votes#23 - The Dropouts
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1970
When three Gestapo officers detain Hogan and Carter, the two frantically plan their escape --- until they learn the officers want to defect.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.0/103 votes#24 - The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1951
An argument ensues among the couples when Ethel wants to celebrate the Mertzes's anniversary at the Copacabana while Fred wants to attend the fights. Ethel and Lucy decide that they will go to the club with dates.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Bob Carroll Jr.
6.9/1033 votes#25 - A Private Little War
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1968
The crew of the Enterprise discovers Klingon interference in the development of a formerly peaceful planet and is forced to help maintain a balance of power.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
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"The Experts" is the best rated episode directed by Marc Daniels. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Laurence Marks. It aired on 9/27/1970 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Amateur Hour".