The Best Episodes Directed By Norman Lloyd

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   #1 - You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life

   S7:E711/21/1961

   When a young wife is assaulted in her home, her husband is enraged upon her selecting who she thinks was the culprit from a police line-up. But his wife is on the brink of making a shocking discovery.

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   #2 - I Spy

   S7:E912/5/1961

   Private detective Al Frute falls love with his client's wife when her husband hires him to prove her infidelity. Al decides the best way forward is to provide the required evidence to ensure a happy ending for all.

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   #3 - Incident in a Small Jail

   S6:E233/21/1961

   An arresting tale of crime and misdemeanor in a small town sees a traveling salesman embroiled in deceit and murder. In a twisted variation on the prince and the pauper, the swapping of clothes reveals the true identity of a murderous fiend.

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   #4 - Strange Miracle

   S7:E192/13/1962

   Following a train accident, Mr. Sequiras fakes being paralyzed from the waist down so he can collect compensation from the train company. When tiring of having to pretend he cannot walk, Sequiras comes up with a plan to "walk" again when meeting a girl who really is paralyzed.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Six People, No Music

   S4:E131/4/1959

   A funeral parlor owner is put in an awkward position when a deceased client comes back to life and demands a much smaller affair than what was planned for his funeral.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Hooked

   S5:E389/25/1960

   Believing that financial reasons prevent him from leaving his wife, an unhappily married man and the woman he really loves hatch a scheme that they believe will solve all their problems.

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   8.3/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Man from the South

   S5:E151/3/1960

   In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.

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   #8 - Safety for the Witness

   S4:E811/23/1958

   A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - The Contest for Aaron Gold

   S6:E410/18/1960

   A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display?

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Day of the Bullet

    S5:E202/14/1960

    When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Final Vow

    S1:E610/25/1962

    Sister Pamela suffers a crisis of conscience just as she is about to take her final vows. Is her belief real or is she just hiding from the rest of the world? The sisters in the convent give her time to think everything over by letting her pick up a valuable statue from a reformed gangster. As she is returning, however, the statue is stolen by a young criminal named Jimmy Bresson. In order to get the statue back she leaves the convent and hunts Jimmy down. She arranges to have a date with him to get into his apartment. Unfortunately, she discovers that he has pawned the statue. She takes the pawn ticket and heads for the pawn shop. As she is about to get it back, Jimmy catches her. Jimmy and the dishonest pawn shop owner want to kill Pamela, but they want to have the statue appraised first. They call an appraiser, but it turns out to be the man who originally offered the statue to the convent. He tells them that the statue is worthless and convinces them to let Pamela go. Having confr

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz

    S3:E410/26/1964

    Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Human Interest Story

    S4:E325/24/1959

    A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - O Youth and Beauty!

    S6:E811/22/1960

    A midlife crisis for a man with a teenage past boasting athletic prowess and vigor puts a dangerous strain on his marriage, and his own physical state. How much more can a wife take living under starter's orders?

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Anniversary Gift

    S5:E611/1/1959

    Sick of his wife's menagerie of strange and high-maintenance animals, a frazzled husband decides to get her the perfect present - a highly poisonous coral snake.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Very Moral Theft

    S6:E310/11/1960

    Lumbered with more than an enormous debt, a businessman needs money - and fast. His doting fiance-in-waiting provides an instant solution, but in so doing, her act of desperate kindness leads to fatal consequences.

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    7.0/10(47 votes)

    #17 - Lady in Waiting

    S1:E512/15/1971

    A woman shoots her overbearing brother, claiming she thought he was a burglar. Columbo doesn't buy the self-defense claim - he know's it's murder.

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    #18 - The $2,000,000 Defense

    S4:E511/2/1958

    A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Special Delivery

    S5:E1011/29/1959

    After his neighbor warns him about suspicious disappearances around them, a man wonders if the vanishings have anything to do with a delivery to his young son.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Faith of Aaron Menefee

    S7:E171/30/1962

    When a faith-healer cures a mechanic's stomach ulcer, it leads to love and murder.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Youth from Vienna

    S6:E137/2/1983

    Being admired by the inventor of an anti-ageing formula is handy for Caroline, who is eager to keep her looks.

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    5.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - The Jar

    S2:E172/14/1964

    At a carnival sideshow, a farmer named Charlie Hill buys a strange jar, which brings him notoriety and respect in the community because people travel for miles to gather in his parlor and look at the jar and it's obscure content. But his young wife, Thedy Sue, is frightened of it and insists that he throw it out.

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    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - No Pain

    S5:E510/25/1959

    Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.

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    #24 - Wet Saturday

    S7:E87/7/1984

    George Princey has a high standing in the community, and when his daughter kills a man, he endeavours to cover it up to prevent a scandal.

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