The Best Episodes Directed By Richard Benedict
Every TV Episode Directed by Richard Benedict Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Richard Benedict Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Richard Benedict is "Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Rod Serling". "Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll" aired on 1/13/1971 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Tiger By The Tail".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Pamela's Voice / Lone Survivor / The Doll
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/13/1971
A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped. A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled "Titanic", three years after the liner sank. A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Rod Serling
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Tiger By The Tail
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1968
A young singer, Bobby George, plans his own kidnapping as a stunt, but when his father offers $500,000 for his release, his co-conspirators decide to double-cross him and take the money.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 4 votes#3 - The Condemned
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/1967
The invaders frame Vincent for the death of an owner of an electronics plant who had made discoveries about the aliens.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Robert Sherman
8.0/10 5 votes#4 - Genesis
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1967
Vincent's search for aliens lead him to an underwater sea lab.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: John W. Bloch
5.5/10 2 votes#5 - Angels on Wheels
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1976
The Angels go undercover to investigate the mysterious ""accidental"" death of a roller derby star.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
5.0/10 1 votes#6 - The Legend
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1967
An imprisoned member of the Nazi party, Herbert Raynor, is released from prison and is being flown (along with his daughter) to Puerto Huberra in South America, along with other Nazis. All of them are being flown there by an unknown benefactor. Briggs and Cinnamon take the Raynors' place.They and the others are introduced to Martin Bormann, now a bedridden invalid. Borman's secretary, Rudd, informs them that Bormann will lead the Third Reich to new glories. Dan ducks a murder attempt, breaks into Bormann's room, and finds that he is a mannequin with a voice provided by Rudd. Rudd has recorded tapes duplicating Bormann's voice, and the last tape will turn leadership of the party over to him. To stymie Rudd, Rollin dresses up as Bormann and is suddenly not so bedridden. Of course, Rudd knows Rollin is an imposter but can't reveal it without exposing his own ploy. "Bormann" gives orders that eliminate Rudd once and for all and end the threat posed by the Nazis.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Mann Rubin
5.0/10 1 votes#7 - The Bargain
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1968
An exiled general, Neyron, is living in his private estate in Florida. He's cut a deal with Frank Layton, a Syndicate man. In return for a big payoff of several million dollars to finance his coup, Neyron will let Layton have all gambling rights in his country when he returns to power in Surananka. Rollin and Jim (as a billionaire financier and his aide) try to buy out Layton's hotel, but Layton finds out it's a ploy to distract Rollin from cutting a deal with Neyron over the Surananka gambling rights. Meanwhile, Barney, Willy, and Cinnamon are on Neyron's kitchen staff and use IMF wizardry to convince him he has a disease that lets him predict the future. Neyron then foresees his murder thanks to a projection of Rollin-as-Layton and shoots Layton as he arrives to confront the general.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Robert E. Thompson
5.0/10 1 votes#8 - The Vault
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/6/1969
Phillipe Pereda, finance minister of Costa Mateo has stolen $40 million from the vault of the country's president, De Varo. De Caro plans to announce the money will be used for an industrialization process. Pereda plans to frame the president for embezzlement when it is found the money is missing from the supposedly impenetrable vault, then take over the country. The IMF must stop him. Willy sneaks Barney into the vault and he gets it open and makes it look like it was robbed before setting off the alarm. Rollin (as an auditor) lets a guard see Barney before knocking him out, then knocking himself out. Pereda realizes that with this new robbery, he won't be able to frame De Caro. Cinnamon and Jim (as representatives trying to cut a deal with Pereda to buy land once he is in power) suggest he temporarily replace the stolen money with Treasury cash before De Caro confirms the theft. Pereda sneaks into the vault using an audio tape of De Varo's perfectly pitched code, he puts in the money
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Judy Burns
4.0/10 1 votes#9 - The Apes of Rath
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1969
Several agents have been murdered by someone with incredible strength. The only clue is an empty banana peel. It is soon deduced that the killer is an ape. CONTROL agents are receiving bananas in the mail and then being murdered, completely puzzling CONTROL. What they don't know is KAOS is using Chucko, an ape made to look like a human being, as the assassin. The plot thickens when Max receives a banana in the mail and a new agent, Chuck Armstrong, is assigned as his protector. Unfortunately, Armstrong is actually Chucko the Ape. Before Max discovers Armstrong's real identity, Armstrong reverts back to Chucko and takes 99 to the roof of Max's building, just like in King Kong.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Whitey Mitchell
1.0/10 1 votes#10 - Full Fathom Five
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1968
Victor Reese and his wife Nora are conning rich widows out of their savings, and then poisoning them and dumping them in the ocean. McGarrett and company hatch a plan to use a female officer to trap the duo.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A