8.6/105 votes#1 - Panic
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/1967
The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Robert Sherman
8.5/102 votes#2 - Happy Birthday, Adolf
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1966
The British plan to bomb a strategic German beach on Hitler's birthday, unaware that a major gun emplacement is at the site and the Allied planes will be sitting ducks. Hogan and his crew must figure out how to silence the guns in order for the air raid to be a success.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.0/102 votes#3 - Kommandant of the Year
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965
A Secret rocket bomb developed by the Germans is being hidden at Stalag 13. When an Allied scientist is sent to photograph and sabotage the weapon, Hogan and his men plan a distraction — in the form of a bogus "Kommandant of the Year" ceremony for the clueless Colonel Klink.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.0/103 votes#4 - The Enemy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1967
Despite Vincent's warnings, a nurse tries to help an injured alien survivor of a saucer crash.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: John W. Bloch
8.0/103 votes#5 - The Trial
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1967
A man seek's Vincent's aid after he is arrested and put on trial for murder after the incineration death of an alien.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: George Eckstein
7.8/1044 votes#6 - The Menagerie (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1966
Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.7/1042 votes#7 - The Menagerie (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1966
Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
7.6/105 votes#8 - The Informer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965
At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war camp, Colonel Robert Hogan and his fellow cohorts are a subversive group with many hidden talents. However, a spy has been planted amongst the men by the Germans. And when he learns of the gang's subversive operations, "Hogan's Heroes" must act fast to discredit him.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.6/1011 votes#9 - Hi Diddle Riddle
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1966
While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.5/106 votes#10 - The Penguin's a Jinx
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1966
Bruce Wayne escapes the Penguin's deathtrap and returns to the Batcave. What he doesn't know is that one of the Penguin's clues, an umbrella, has a listening device.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.4/1027 votes#11 - Double Shock
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1973
A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: William Link
7.3/1019 votes#12 - Publish or Perish
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/1974
A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.3/109 votes#13 - Smack in the Middle
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1966
The Riddler fashions a mold of the face of the unconscious Robin. He contacts Batman with two more riddles. The Riddler tells Batman if he can solve the riddles, he'll know where Robin is.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.2/106 votes#14 - Instant Freeze
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/1966
Mr. Freeze, thought to have perished, has returned and is seeking revenge on Batman. The villain is committing crimes involving diamonds, or "ice," in one form or another. He freezes Batman and Robin, who look like goners.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Max Hodge
7.1/1015 votes#15 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1985
After an embezzling accountant leaves her penniless, ex-model Maddie Hayes decides to sell the few failing businesses she still owns, among them a detective agency. But private eye David Addison wants to keeps his job, so he persuades a reluctant Maddie to form a partnership. Their first case gives them little to go on: Maddie gets a broken watch from a dying man.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
7.1/108 votes#16 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1993
Clark Kent becomes embroiled in a story involving Lex Luthor and a plot to sabotage a space launch.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine
7.0/102 votes#17 - License to Steele
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1982
"License to Steele" is the premiere episode of the television series Remington Steele. This episode introduces and sets all the central elements of the series; the truth about Laura's fictional boss, the mysterious character posing as Steele, the romantic tension, Steele's love of old movies, et cetera.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.0/102 votes#18 - Tempered Steele
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1982
Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.0/102 votes#19 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1982
Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
7.0/101 votes#20 - Steele Belted
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1982
A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.0/102 votes#21 - The Late Inspector General
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965
To prevent Colonel Klink from being transferred to the Russian front, Hogan and his men attempt to convince a visiting Inspector General that the Colonel is a cold, heartless disciplinarian. But their plan backfires when, as a result, Klink is promoted to a post in Berlin!
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Richard M. Powell
7.0/107 votes#22 - Fine Feathered Finks
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1966
The Penguin plots to manipulate Batman into inadvertently devising capers for him.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
7.0/106 votes#23 - Rats Like Cheese
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/3/1966
Vince, a temperamental physician at a Gotham City hospital (apparently a takeoff on Ben Casey), saves Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo resume their pursuit of Mr. Freeze. Eventually, Batman substitutes himself for Paul Diamonte, a baseball player, Mr. Freeze has kidnapped. Robin, disobeying Batman's orders to stay away, is also captured by the villain. Now, in his headquarters, Mr. Freeze is using his climate controls so that only Batman or Robin will have access to life-giving warmth.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Max Hodge
6.7/109 votes#24 - The Encounter
Season 5 Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1964
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Martin Goldsmith
5.9/109 votes#25 - Caesar and Me
Season 5 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1964
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Adele T. Strassfield
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"Panic" is the best rated episode directed by Robert Butler. It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. It was written by Robert Sherman. It aired on 4/11/1967 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Happy Birthday, Adolf".