The Best Episodes Directed By Paul Krasny

#1 - The Two Faces of Betsy Morgan

Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/1984

Hooker and Romano by chance spot a van swerving dangerously over the road – in which a pair of teenage prostitutes are being held against their will by two men. When the van crashes off the road, they find one of the girls dead after being strangled – the latest victim in a series of killings by ""The Boulevard Strangler"" and his accomplice, who are prying on young runaways. Hooker finds that the surviving girl has run away after being abused at home, and leads a double life – a perfect high-school student, and as a prostitute. But now the girl is in danger with the killers after her, who are concerned that she can identify them in the murder of the other girl... Meanwhile, Corrigan considers leaving the force to take a job teaching...

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Robert Bielak

#2 - Witness for the Execution

Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1986

A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Jeff Reno

#3 - And the Flesh Was Made Word

Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/1988

Dave and Maddie try to recover their working relationship while dealing with the romantic writings of a man obsessed by one woman.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Kerry Ehrin

#4 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld

Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1989

Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Chris Ruppenthal

#5 - Tracks of My Tears

Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/1988

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Judith Kahan

#6 - Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/1982

Frank investigates a district judge's courtroom after it is booby-trapped with a powerful explosive. The main suspect is a recently paroled ex-convict with a history of similar bombings. Upon questioning the bomber's ex-wife, Frank and Ed find she's more interested in getting charity than the fact that her ex-husband may be up to his old tricks. Frank and Ed discover the bomber has a showgirl girlfriend on the side. She has the perfect alibi for her boyfriend, but Frank and Ed wonder if she's really just covering for him.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Neil Thompson

#7 - The Eraser

Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1986

Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, believing that he's helping a father find his lost son.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Stephen Kronish

#8 - Twice Stung

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1986

MacGyver and Pete have a surprise party planned for a colleague, but when the colleague doesn't show up, MacGyver goes looking for him, and finds him on the verge of committing suicide. When questioned why he would do such a thing, Kelly explains that a con artist has swindled him out of his life savings. MacGyver tells Pete about Kelly's situation and the two of them decide that they will get Kelly's money back from the con

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Bill Froehlich

#9 - Eagles

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1986

While hang gliding in the west, MacGyver crosses paths with an escaped felon who shot and wounded a rare eagle. Now, with the help of his new friend Susan Cooper and her son Darin, MacGyver must heal the eagle and trap the felon before he kills more eagles.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: George Lee Marshall

#10 - The Controllers (2)

Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1969

As Barney taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Laurence Heath

#11 - Submarine

Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1969

Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Donald James

#12 - The Crane

Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1970

Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Ken Pettus

#13 - The Amateur

Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1970

The team must steal a rocket laser and smuggle out Father Bernard and his list of Western operatives. Bernard puts the IMF in contact with Wittstock, who gets them the laser. Wittstock is killed after delivering the weapon and Police Colonel Eckert seals up the country to capture the IMF. Bernard dies of a stroke but gets the list, but nightclub owner Eric Schilling saw Dana with Wittstock and tries to take advantage of the situation to profit. When Barney splits the laser into five parts for the team to smuggle out of the country, Schilling gets hold of Dana's part and the team has to get the part from Schilling while escaping through the heavily-guarded airport. Paris in disguise buys the part from Schilling, leaving him to be captured by Eckert while Paris drops the disguise to escape, leaving the part to be recovered by the rest of the team. Then the IMF secretly blend in with an arriving broadcast crew from England just as the crew are told their visas have been revoked - the IMF

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Ed Adamson

#14 - The Killer

Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1970

Hired killer Eddie Lorca does everything randomly, making him impossible to anticipate. The IMF must find out who his boss, Scorpio, is and all they know is Lorca is arriving in town for an assignment - they don't know who he's going up against. The team creates a ""blank"" hotel and Paris as a cabdriver intercepts Lorca at the airport. Paris and Willy have to stall when it takes more time to set up the hotel then it takes according to the phone book to get to ""their"" hotel. They then put the room number Lorca randomly chooses on the bugged room they have set up. They intercept Lorca's call to his contact, and Paris-as-Lorca meets her instead to find out the target. Dana then delivers the contract to Lorca using the information Paris obtained. The target is a black union leader, and Barney must take the man's place. Lorca eludes surveillance and almost kills Barney with a planted explosive, but Jim figures things out just in time. The team then fake Dana's death, and she gives a dying-b

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Arthur Weiss

#15 - Liberation Day

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1984

Alien commander Diana escapes the Resistance and reunites with her fleet. The Starchild Elizabeth undergoes a strange metamorphosis.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Paul Monash

#16 - The Controllers (1)

Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1969

Jim and a female agent pose as scientists who have invented a new drug in order to replace a real drug that turns people into willing slaves.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Laurence Heath

#17 - Dreadnought

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/1984

Diana talks peace while readying the fearsome Triax super-weapon that could reduce Los Angeles to rubble. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters activate a new weapon of their own - a captured Visitor mothership.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Steven E. de Souza

#18 - The Mercenaries

Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1968

The IMF must bring down Colonel Hans Krim, the head of a mercenary army who has a ton of loot in gold bars hidden away in an inaccessible enclave. Rollin enlists while Jim and Cinnamon pose as gunrunners with Willy and Barney hidden in their truck. Rollin fakes finding a cache of gold and is then tortured into revealing it. Krim ""kills"" Rollin and then coerces Jim into moving it without revealing the secret gold to his aides. Krim tells the guards to ignore the truck with what he believes his gold, unaware that Barney has melted the real gold belonging to the army, melted it down to remove it from the vault, and put in the truck. While Krim's suspicious aide Gruner kills him over the betrayal, Jim drives away with the gold and the hidden IMFers, immune to being searched because of Krim's last orders.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Laurence Heath