8.1/1027 votes#1 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
No one can see the gremlin tearing apart an airplane's wing, except a newly released mental patient.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Richard Matheson
8.1/1011 votes#2 - Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/10/1989
A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
7.5/1012 votes#3 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/1990
A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
7.1/109 votes#4 - The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 Episode 29 - Aired 4/17/1964
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Rod Serling
7.0/101 votes#5 - The Iowa Scuba Affair
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1964
Solo investigates the curious death of an air force man in Iowa with scuba gear, and with the help of Jill Denison (Katherine Crawford) uncovers a plan by Clint Spinner (Slim Pickens) to steal a missile- plane from a secret base under a farm.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
7.0/101 votes#6 - The Quadripartite Affair
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1964
In Yugoslavia, Solo and Illya are aided by Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) in stopping Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) and her partners from using a fear gas to overthrow various governments. While two of them are captured, two of them escape, and the story continues in "The Giuoco Piano Affair"
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Alan Caillou
7.0/101 votes#7 - The Giuoco Piano Affair
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1964
The conuation of "The Quadripartite Affair". Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) returns and Solo and Illya again enlist Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) to help them pursue her through the Andes, where the treachery of police lieutenant Manuera (James Frawley) impedes their efforts to capture Ravel.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Alan Caillou
7.0/101 votes#8 - The Terbuf Affair
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1964
On vacation Solo is asked by an old love interest, Clara Valdar (Madlyn Rhue) to help her smuggle Gypsy leader Emil (Jacques Aubuchon) out of Terbuf with evidence that the corrupt head of the secret police, Colonel Morisco (Alan Caillou), has been embezzling foreign aid money with the aid of the repulsive Major Vicek (Albert Paulsen).
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#9 - One for the Morgue
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1973
Kojak is suspicious of anonymous tips suggesting that an underworld boss is attempting assassination of his rival which would lead to a mafia war.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Jerrold Freedman
6.5/102 votes#10 - Washington 4, Indians 3
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1965
Indians threaten to use a bomb if they don't get all of their land back. Smart then goes into their camp and foils their plan. While on his three-week vacation Agent 43 is confronted by a group of rebel Indians. They demand the return of all Indian lands or they will fire their secret weapon on Washington. Max calls an all-out alert, though we're not sure if it's because of an Indian attack or because he doesn't get three weeks vacation. Once saturation bombing of Arizona is discarded as a plan, Max and 99 mount 'em up and head out to disarm the secret weapon. Max, disguised as a Papawahsee, infiltrates the camp. The Papwahsee is actually the Indian word for fiancee and Max is forced to romance Chief Red Cloud's daughter to fulfill his assignment. A jealous 99 raids the camp to prevent Max from kissing the daughter and tries to prevent the Indians from launching their secret weapon, a giant arrow.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Gerald Gardner
6.5/102 votes#11 - Commitment
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1974
An undercover cop is murdered with Stone's gun, and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.5/102 votes#12 - A String of Puppets
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1974
Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.4/108 votes#13 - From Agnes – With Love
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1964
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
6.3/107 votes#14 - The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season 5 Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1964
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Rod Serling
6.3/103 votes#15 - Showdown
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/1992
A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Frank Darabont
6.1/108 votes#16 - Come Wander with Me
Season 5 Episode 34 - Aired 5/22/1964
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Anthony Wilson
6.0/101 votes#17 - Home Sweet Hut
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1964
A hurricane is coming, so the Castaways must quickly build one large community hut in which to weather the storm. However, they soon get on each-others nerves, so they later decide to branch out and build individual huts.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#18 - President Gilligan
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1964
The castaways decide that they need someone to be the leader on the island, and so they hold elections. As you might imagine, both Mr. Howell and the Skipper imagine themselves to be the natural choice to lead the Castaways in their island society. However, when the votes are counted Gilligan is elected president of the island! Just as we recently learned in Florida, every vote counts!
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.0/102 votes#19 - St. Gilligan and the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1965
Angry because the men haven't kept their promise to build them private houses, the women decide to move to the other side of the island in protest. Gilligan and the Skipper dress as a monster, in an attempt to frighten the girls and cause them to come running back.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
6.0/102 votes#20 - Our Man in Leotards
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1965
Enilio Naharana steals a new drug invented by CONTROL named Immobilo, in order to use it against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Max and 99 disguise themselves in order to save the day. Dancer and rebel Enilio Naharana steals a new CONTROL drug, Immobilo, to use against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Immobilo paralyzes people instantly and Naharana plans to use it to prevent the Ambassador from signing a treaty with the U.S. Disguised as dancers, Max and 99 try to foil a peach of a plot. Unfortunately, Max is not a dancer and he gets caught! Keep an eye out for the bass drum sequence, which is one of the funniest bits in the entire series.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
5.5/1011 votes#21 - Sounds and Silences
Season 5 Episode 27 - Aired 4/3/1964
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Rod Serling
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"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is the best rated episode directed by Richard Donner. It scored 8.148/10 based on 27 votes. It was written by Richard Matheson. It aired on 10/11/1963 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone".