7.7/1040 votes#1 - This Side of Paradise
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1967
The Enterprise crew try to rescue colonists from deadly radiation, but instead encounter strange alien spores that seem to offer paradise.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: D.C. Fontana
7.4/1036 votes#2 - The Tholian Web
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1968
Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the Enterprise works to retrieve him. All the while, the Tholians demand that the Enterprise leave their space.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Judy Burns
7.3/1031 votes#3 - Return to Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1968
Ancient alien minds are given control of Captain Kirk's and First Officer Spock's bodies.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: John T. Dugan
7.0/1038 votes#4 - Metamorphosis
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1967
A shuttle crew from the USS Enterprise encounters a man out of history and his mysterious alien companion.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene L. Coon
7.0/1035 votes#5 - Obsession
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1967
Captain James T. Kirk becomes obsessed with destroying a deadly entity he once encountered in his youth.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Art Wallace
6.9/1035 votes#6 - Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1968
The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador whose appearance induces madness.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
6.9/1012 votes#7 - Printer's Devil
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1963
A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Charles Beaumont
6.8/1033 votes#8 - Bread and Circuses
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1968
The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
6.0/103 votes#9 - The Tyrant
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1974
Aboro, a despot, is making community life a misery; Burke, Virdon, and Galen decide to rob him of his powers.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
5.0/101 votes#10 - The Train
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1967
Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protege, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans. The IMF fakes a train ride for Larya, Pavel, and Pavel's aide Androv. They then fake a crash, put Androv and Pavel in a fake hospital, and tell them that Larya is dead. They immediately begin plans to eliminate anymemory of Larya and start arresting dissidents. Then the hospital wall slides away to reveal that Larya has heard the whole thing, and dismisses them both.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Allan Balter
2.0/101 votes#11 - Girl in the Night
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1967
Ed falls for a girl he meets after hearing her playing the piano in a bar in Las Vegas. While they are out together Ed is knocked unconscious and the girl disappears. Ed, Ironside and the team try to figure out the mysterious circumstances behind her disappearance.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Dean Riesner
1.5/101 votes#12 - Oil (3)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/1981
Blake and Krystle finally get married. Blake talks a bit with his son about the homosexuality. There's a big wedding at the mansion, and among the guests are Cecil Colby and his nephew Jeffrey Broderick ""Jeff"" Colby. Cecil is a big oilman like Blake, but he's much bigger, and Blake's company, Denver-Carrington, is just a newsstand compared to Cecil's ColbyCo Oil. Walter blurs into the big wedding, furious about the sabotage on his rig. He and Blake fight about this, and Matthew takes Walter's side in the fight, which leads to Blake firing Matthew.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
1.0/101 votes#13 - Return of the Hero
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/4/1968
A decorated Vietnam war hero is found guilty of murder, but the Chief, amongst others, does not believe that he is guilty. Whilst he is trying to find out the truth, somebody else is killing off the witnesses, and the Chief himself may be next on the list.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Robert Pirosh
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"This Side of Paradise" is the best rated episode directed by Ralph Senensky. It scored 7.7/10 based on 40 votes. It was written by D.C. Fontana. It aired on 3/2/1967 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Tholian Web".