The Best Episodes Directed By Russ Mayberry
Every TV Episode Directed by Russ Mayberry Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Russ Mayberry Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Russ Mayberry is "Steve Austin, Fugitive", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Steve Austin, Fugitive" aired on 4/27/1975 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Last Laugh".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Steve Austin, Fugitive
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1975
Steve is arrested when an assassin he helped send to prison seeks revenge by framing him for murder. Steve escapes from the police and must find the assassin before the police find Steve. Lee Majors plays a comic bit part as an elderly Electrical Store Clerk credited as L Majors.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - The Last Laugh
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1993
A comedian becomes accused of murdering another comic who had insulted him on stage.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Stephen Lord
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - The No-Harm Charm
Season 4 Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1968
Uncle Arthur does it again. This time he gives Darrin an amulet that is proved to be magical. He really needs help when he tries to help a bank receive some credibility. Samantha discovers that the amulet is fake, and ends up saving Darrin from his mishaps. Darrin lands the bank account when he stops a bank robber.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Ed Jurist
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - The Countess
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - A.A.P.I.
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1986
At the 14th Annual Convention of Private Investigators, Magnum is to receive the 'Local P.I. of the Year' award, but the event is brought to a halt when Jean Claude Fornier, the famous French Detective, suddenly drops dead while giving a speech, after being poisoned. Magnum is helped - or rather, hindered - by several fellow crime-busting acquaintances as he seeks the murderer, and becomes entangled with a gang of drug smugglers, that the Inspector was hunting before he was killed...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#6 - Unfinished Business
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/1988
Magnum prepares for the trial of Quang Ki, who attempted to kill both him and his family. But when the case is suddenly, unexpectedly acquitted, angered Thomas suspects some other hand is behind Ki's release. It becomes evident that his arch-nemesis will stop at nothing to destroy Thomas and his family, when he receives a video-tape containing terrible information about the fate of his former wife and young daughter. As Thomas plans his revenge against Ki, he is thrust into a quagmire of intrigue endangering a sensitive P.O.W. prisoner exchange programme...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Chris Abbott
8.0/10 3 votes#7 - Charlie Harris at Large
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1975
Charlie Harris, Rockford's former cell mate, is suspected of murdering his rich wife and is on the run. He calls on Rockford to find his alibi witness, a mystery woman with whom he was having an affair.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Zekial Marko
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Resurrection in Black & White
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1975
A magazine writer seeks evidence to free a man she thinks was wrongly convicted of murder.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.0/10 1 votes#9 - Coulter City Wildcat
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1976
Rocky is forced to sign oil lease rights he owns away, leading Jim to investigate who and why someone wanted Rocky's seemingly worthless leases so badly.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - Mrs. Djinn Djinn
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1970
Roger spreads the word to everyone that Jeannie is expecting but all the while its a misunderstanding and the only one that is expecting is Mrs. Djinn Djinn (the dog).
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Dick Bensfield
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - Murder by Night
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1987
1940s San Francisco: Private Investigator Thomas S. Magnum investigates the murder of newspaper tycoon William Maxfield. The case involves characters that strangely bear a strong resemblance to (modern day) Magnum, T.C., Higgins and Rick...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#12 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1981
Colt chases a crooked sheriff and tries to protect a friend and his family.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Glen A. Larson
7.0/10 1 votes#13 - License to Kill (1)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1982
Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Glen A. Larson
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - Baker's Dozen
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1983
Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - Flying Misfits
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1976
Maverick WW2 Marine aviator forms his own fighter squadron.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 2 votes#16 - Over the Line
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/28/1989
In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 2 votes#17 - Deja Vu (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1985
Conclusion of this feature-length / two-part story. As Thomas and Penelope investigate the mystery surrounding Geoffrey's death, they become close to each other, and Thomas with this and with flashbacks to his haunting dream that seems to have predicted Geoffrey's death, he feels as though he's almost stepped into Geoffrey's life. The pair uncover that Geoffrey was once part of a powerful group of assassins, and seems to have been killed to stop him from having chance to expose the group. Meanwhile, Thomas learns that Higgins is reluctant to use the stay in England as an opportunity to visit his father, whom he has not seen in forty years after a falling out...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Chris Abbott
6.0/10 1 votes#18 - The Monkees in Manhattan (a.k.a. The Monkees Manhattan Style)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/10/1967
In New York City, the Monkees fend off an irate hotel manager (Philip Ober) as they help a producer (Richard Anders) get backing for a Broadway musical.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Dee Caruso
6.0/10 1 votes#19 - The Monkees at the Movies
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/17/1967
The Monkees have a run-in with a snobbish movie idol (Bobby Sherman) on the set as extras in a beach movie.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Dee Caruso
6.0/10 1 votes#20 - Blind Justice
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1984
Carol persuades Magnum to do some work for her, gathering additional evidence for the big murder case of a man accused of killing his wife that is due to come up in court in a couple of days. The only witness of the woman's death is her young daughter, but Thomas faces a crisis of conscience over just what to and what not to present as evidence in the court-room that could ensure the conviction of the violent accused killer... Meanwhile, Higgins, tired of Magnum's slackness around the Estate, has taken use of the Ferrari away from him, so Thomas must find a new vehicle to get around in...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Chris Abbott
6.0/10 1 votes#21 - Deja Vu (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1985
Magnum and Higgins travel to London, England to oversee the establishment of Robin Master's new castle, Robin's Keep, in time for a large banquet. While Higgins is busy training Ian MacKerras for the running of the castle, Thomas takes the opportunity to visit Geoffrey St. Clare, an old friend from Vietnam, but upon arrival, Geoffrey's wife Penelope informs him that Geoffrey has been killed, after being run down in a hit-and-run incident with a black Jaguar. But there is mystery surrounding the death - Geoffrey was supposed to be in France, and the circumstances suggest that, far from being an accident, the death was deliberate murder.The events of Geoffrey's killing seem to be echoing a disturbing, bizarre dream that Magnum had on the journey to England...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Chris Abbott
6.0/10 1 votes#22 - Paniolo
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1985
A supposed wealthy teenage ranch owner hires Magnum for $100,000 to stop a dangerous group of cattle rustlers on Hawaii's big island, that will soon force his ranch into bankruptcy if many more cattle are taken. But Magnum finds that his employer isn't quite all he makes out to be and will go to any extent to protect his cattle, and the neighbouring ranch owner implicated of being behind the cattle theft is a business partner of Robin Masters'...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Jay Huguely
6.0/10 1 votes#23 - Rapture
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1985
As he and T.C. deep sea scuba-dive, Thomas sees a young boy who appears out of nowhere with no breathing apparatus and signals him to follow. Low on air, Thomas is unable to follow him, and later faces the skepticism of T.C., Higgins and Rick about his vision. An adamant Thomas, determined to prove that he's right, learns that his vision matches the description of a young boy, Keli'i Parker, killed five years earlier in an explosion at sea. The boy's mother has always blamed herself for his death, and as Thomas learns more about Keli'i, he begins to believe that his vision of the boy was destiny reaching out to lead him to the cause of the fatal accident.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 1 votes#24 - Summer School
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1986
After being expelled from a number of expensive schools, R.J., Robin's rich, careless, teenage nephew, arrives at the estate to be reformed and educated by Higgins. R.J., however, has other ideas and decides to impersonate Thomas after being impressed by his adventures. Hired by a woman to find the only witness to her husband's murder, R.J. manages to get Thomas and everyone else involved in the case targeted for death by the men who killed the woman's husband.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 1 votes#25 - Forty
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1987
Thomas is in Chinatown with Rick and T.C. celebrating his upcoming fortieth birthday, but he has little to celebrate when he loses his lucky $2 bill that his Grandpa gave him as a boy. While looking for it, he meets a beautiful woman who may cost him not just his lucky bill, but his heart -- and possibly his life.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A