8.3/103 votes#1 - Man from the South
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1960
A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#2 - The $2,000,000 Defense
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1958
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#3 - Safety for the Witness
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1958
A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#4 - Six People, No Music
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#5 - Human Interest Story
Season 4 Episode 32 - Aired 5/24/1959
A newspaper reporter gets a tip about an out of this world story: a man who claims to be a Martian.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Fredric Brown
7.0/101 votes#6 - Anniversary Gift
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#7 - Special Delivery
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ray Bradbury
7.0/101 votes#8 - The Day of the Bullet
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1960
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
7.0/101 votes#9 - Hooked
Season 5 Episode 38 - Aired 9/25/1960
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#10 - The Contest for Aaron Gold
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1960
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?
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#11 - O Youth and Beauty!
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1960
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?
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#12 - Final Vow
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1962
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
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Henry Slesar
7.0/101 votes#13 - The Life Work of Juan Diaz
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1964
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ray Bradbury
6.8/1035 votes#14 - Lady in Waiting
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/15/1971
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votes#15 - Youth from Vienna
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 7/2/1983
Being admired by the inventor of an anti-ageing formula is handy for Caroline, who is eager to keep her looks.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: Ross Thomas
6.5/102 votes#16 - Very Moral Theft
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1960
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
5.3/103 votes#17 - The Jar
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1964
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: James Bridges
4.5/102 votes#18 - Wet Saturday
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 7/7/1984
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: John Collier
4.0/102 votes#19 - No Pain
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1959
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.
Director: Norman Lloyd
Writer: N/A
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"Man from the South" is the best rated episode directed by Norman Lloyd. It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 1/3/1960 and is rated 1.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The $2,000,000 Defense".