10.0/101 votes#1 - Trackdown
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/1985
A parking attendant's suspicion leads to the discovery of a woman's body in the trunk of a car, sending Hooker and the team on the trail of a psychotic killer who is on a cross-country murder spree. Meanwhile, the deranged killer lures a young woman into his clutches and takes her hostage, leaving behind her husband and sick baby. Hooker persuades the Detective in charge of the case to let him place a trap to try and catch the killer and get the woman back safely, but it places Stacy in great danger...
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Mark Rodgers
8.0/102 votes#2 - Camera Shy
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1999
While covering the opening of a local pickle factory, Miguel winds up in the middle of one of Gary's saves, when he falls head first into a barrel of kosher dills. After Miguel's pickled puss winds up in all the papers, he loses his job and must take a position at a museum, where he's forced to photograph uncooperative school children. When Gary reads that one of the kids at the museum will be injured, he races to prevent the tragedy - only to cost Miguel another job. To make matters worse, while at the museum, Miguel inadvertently takes a photo of Bruce Bryce a vicious criminal thought to be dead. When he realizes he has evidence that could potentially get him his newspaper job back, Miguel heads over to the Sun Times with the film. But Bryce tracks him down and threatens him with bodily harm if he doesn't hand over the photos. With Miguel's life in jeopardy, Gary must figure out how to save him before his days as an inquiring photographer are over.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
8.0/105 votes#3 - Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/1982
The mob sets up an "insurance" scam that threatens several businesses and residents. Frank and Nordberg go to investigate. After a dance instructor is beaten up, they set up their own shop - a key-making and locksmith store - and go undercover. When the mob stops by to offer them "insurance", Frank dismisses their threats and the mob strikes their store. Frank ends up having the key to stopping the crime wave, largely because of the key-making and locksmith shop he and Nordberg set up.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Nancy Steen
- 8.0/101 votes
#4 - Contact
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1996
A dissenter from the Organization surreptitously contacts Veil and supplies him with documentation that one of its highest ranking members, Richard Grace, is the one primarily responsible for the decision to erase his identity. This mysterious man also turns over photos of Veil's deceitful wife, Alyson, in compromising poses with Grace and then offers to furnish Veil with valuable information from the group's dossier on him if he reciprocates by killing Grace. Before long, Veil finds himself in a risky alliance with someone inside the enemy's camp.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Lawrence Hertzog
- 8.0/101 votes
#5 - Calaway
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/1996
Veil's twisted odyssey leads him back to Calaway, the Illinois psychiatric hospital where his ordeal began, and more revelations of what really happened to him while he was held there. Most astonishly, he discovers that former patient Joe "J.C." Carter has joined the medical staff and become one of "them." Veil attempts to convince J.C.—who is conditioned to believe he's Dr. Novik—that he's completely victimized by "them." Veil also witnesses another man, Michael Kramer, undergoing the first phase of conditioning, an ordeal identical to what Veil underwent months ago at the hands of "them."
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Joel Surnow
7.6/108 votes#6 - The Mating Dance
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/3/1991
Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Jacobs
7.5/102 votes#7 - Take Me out to the Ballgame
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1999
After Gary reads that Pedro Mendoza, a rookie pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, is going to pitch a no-hitter. Chuck convinces him to attend the game. But when Chuck inadvertently changes the course of the day's events by taking a cab meant for the ballplayer, the story is replaced by an item about the pitcher being injured while on his way to Wrigley Field. After preventing Pedro's impending accident, Gary races to protect a restaurant owner from being seriously injured by a loan shark. When it turns out that the man is Pedro's brother, Gary and Chuck find themselves in the middle of another potential tragedy. They read that the brother will be killed and the ballplayer's arm will be broken by the menacing thugs. With only a few hours left, the duo must try to save the day so Pedro can pitch the game and still make the history books.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.5/103 votes#8 - The End?
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/1990
An earthquake shakes Baywatch headquarters and causes many problems for the lifeguards and for one, a life altering decision is made.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: William Rabkin
7.3/103 votes#9 - Employee of the Month
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1991
Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: David A. Caplan
7.0/101 votes#10 - Recruit
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/22/1997
Nikita is assigned to evaluate Karyn, a recruit who is nearing the end of her two year training period. During her first live mission, Karyn kills her mentor, Brian, in cold-blood. When Nikita confronts her, Karyn confides that Brian had repeatedly raped her during her training. This reason, coupled with the fact that everyone in Section One seems to like Karyn, makes Nikita more insecure about her decision whether Karyn should have full status or be cancelled. Nikita realizes that Karyn is definitely not Section material when Karyn exhibits psychotic behaviors during a mission and decides that Karyn should be cancelled. Operations and Madeline inform her that Karyn was already set for cancellation, they were just testing Nikita and if she had made the wrong decision, she too would have probably been cancelled.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votes#11 - Common Ground
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/1998
The Sliders slide into a Kromagg weapons-testing area and Maggie saves the life of the Kromagg commander, Kromanus. While Maggie tries to get the timer back from him, Quinn and Rembrandt discover a Kromagg weapon designed to eradicate humans.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Chris Black
7.0/101 votes#12 - A Clockwork Hammer
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1987
Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
7.0/101 votes#13 - Haunted
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1979
David helps a young woman move back into her childhood home and stays to work as her gardener when it turns out she is haunted by her past, namely her deceased twin sister.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#14 - No Escape
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/1979
David 'Baron' is arrested as a vagrant but manages to escape along side a mental patient who thinks he's Ernest Hemmingway. Feeling guilty, David has to track the man down before he hurts himself or his loved ones.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#15 - The Quiet Room
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1979
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#16 - Brain Child
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1979
A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#17 - My Favorite Magician
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979
David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#18 - Beyond the Golden Door
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/1982
An illegal immigrant is murdered, and the trail leads to a large racket in modern-day slave trading.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votes#19 - Homecoming
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1970
When Jim returns to his hometown of Norville to donate family property to the community, he finds it plagued by a serial killer. Jim secretly brings in Barney to help investigate. A disturbed Vietnam vet is the suspected killer but Jim and Barney figure out he's innocent and get him out of jail one step ahead of a mob, then call in the rest of the IMF team to find the real killer.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.0/102 votes#20 - The Field
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1971
An enemy power has launched a satellite containing a thermonuclear bomb and the IMF must destroy it. The control center on an island in the Adriatic Sea is surrounded by an impenetrable minefield designed by an American defector, Norris. Barney secretly sets off some of the mines - without an explanation, the facility security call in Norris, whom they haven't seen. Paris takes Norris' place and using plans that Jim stole earlier, shuts down part of the field, and Barney gets in to program the system to drop the satellite out of orbit. Unfortunately, on the mainland the real Norris kills his girlfriend, a government spy, and Paris-as-Norris is arrested for the murder! This also leaves Barney trapped in the middle of the minefield. Jim and Doug manage to extract a confession and the location of the murder weapon from Norris before Inspector Koder (who knows the real Norris) can spot Paris. Dana comes in and manages to covertly slip Paris the information they've set up to make it look li
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Wesley Lau
7.0/102 votes#21 - A Ghost Story
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1971
Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start ""haunting"" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Ed Adamson
6.7/103 votes#22 - The Contest
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1996
Mitch judges a beachside beauty contest, but is tempted by two of the contestants, who both vie for his vote. Caroline's acting teacher puts her relationship with Logan in jeopardy. Logan designs a new rescue vehicle. Donna is blackmailed by a secret from her past.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#23 - Liquid Assets
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1996
C.J. befriends a homeless man, who then dies and leaves her a fortune in his will. Hobie helps aspiring lifeguard Manny make the Junior Lifeguard.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Berk
6.7/103 votes#24 - Bachelor of the Month
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1997
Mitch is approached by Molly McCoy, the young editor from 'Flash' magazine, who asks to nominate himself as Bachelor of the Month for her magazine, complete with a photo and video shoot. But Mitch has other things on his hands in helping Newman and Donna try to catch a large Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish that is infesting the area after having stung a swimmer.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: David Braff
6.5/102 votes#25 - Genesis
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/8/1998
After three months and ten worlds of searching for Wade and Rembrandt, Quinn and Maggie finally reach Earth Prime, only to find it under Kromagg control. Quinn and Maggie manage to rescue Rembrandt from a Kromagg prison, but Quinn is captured and learns the shocking truth about his family.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: David E. Peckinpah
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"Trackdown" is the best rated episode directed by Reza Badiyi. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Mark Rodgers. It aired on 1/26/1985 and is rated 2.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Camera Shy".