The Best Episodes Directed By Virgil W. vogel

Every TV Episode Directed by Virgil W. vogel Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for Only the Rocks Live Forever
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Only the Rocks Live Forever

    S1:E1

    A feisty Quebec trapper meets Arapaho Chief Lame Beaver in his travels throughout the American West. Thus beginning a series of relationships that create a timeline of adventures from the late 1700's to the 20th century. On a trip to St. Louis to sell his wares, he encounters the wealthy silversmith Herman Bockweiss (Raymond Burr) and enters a partnership with him to bring guns and silver to the Indians. He agrees to marry Bockweiss' daughter Lise (Sally Kellerman) and leaves shortly thereafter to return to his trapping trade. He encounters and saves the life of his future partner, Alexander McKeag (Richard Chamberlain), a Scotsman attempting to escape his past. They make their way to an Arapaho camp where McKeag, who has been injured, is tended by Chief Lame Beaver's daughter, Clay Basket (Barbara Carrera). They fall in love, but she instead marries Pasquinel at her father's request. Accompanied by Clay Basket, the partners set out in search of Pasquinel's true desire - gold.

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  2. Background image for Luther Gillis: File #521
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Luther Gillis: File #521

    S4:E2

    Magnum joins forces with a hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis whey they find themselves investigating the same case but from opposite ends of the spectrum.

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  3. Background image for Distant Relative
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Distant Relative

    S4:E4

    Magnum does not count on murder when he chaperones Rick's convent-school sister on a night on the town.

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  4. Background image for Cuba Libre
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Cuba Libre

    S3:E14

    Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

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  5. Background image for Not a Drop to Drink
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #5 - Not a Drop to Drink

    S1:E6

    Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.

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  6. Background image for A Single Drop of Rain
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #6 - A Single Drop of Rain

    S4:E9

    September 7, 1953: A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.

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  7. Background image for Mad Dogs and Englishmen
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    S6:E14

    Magnum decides to investigate the mystery surrounding Higgins' sudden departure from Robin's Nest.

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  8. Background image for The Martyr
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - The Martyr

    S4:E26

    As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.

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  9. Background image for Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)

    S5:E12

    Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of opium farms to his chosen successor. He plans on turning power over to Carlos Empori, engaged to his granddaughter. Paris poses as a mobster and old friend of Eve's and "renews" his friendship with her, while Phelps, as Zembra's rival, warns Carlos that Paris plans to take over. Barney stages a fake assassination on Zembra, thwarting Carlos' security and making him look incompetent, then Paris and Paris-as-Zembra stage a conversation to make Carlos believe Zembra will give power to Paris. Carlos helps Jim kidnap Eve, but the plan goes awry when Eve reveals she knows Paris is a fake. Paris puts his life on the line by counting on her silence to complete the plot. Eve stays silent, Carlos is set up as a traitor to Zembra, and the dying mobster turns the information over to Paris.

    Writer:N/A
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  10. Background image for Bad Timing
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Bad Timing

    S5:E4

    Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

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  11. Background image for Cat's Paw
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Cat's Paw

    S5:E15

    Larry Collier, newspaper editor and Barney's brother, is killed while trying to establish a link between corrupt police chief Abbott and Corley, the head of a ghetto mob who masks his illegal activities with an insurance front company. Barney, set up with a past as a crooked accountant, gets close to Corley by rescuing his secretary Millie - Corley hires him on when he finds out about his "past." Barney plants money to make it look like Corley's assistant Goslin is working against him, while the IMF use a phony seance to convince Goslin to quit with some incriminating evidence. Jim arrests Goslin with the evidence, a codebook, and uses it to force Abbott to back him as a mob boss then bribes Corley's guard to try and kill the mob leader. Barney rescues him and Corley runs into Jim, who threatens to take him to Abbott - knowing Abbott will have him killed, Corley turns state's evidence.

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  12. Background image for Random Target
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Random Target

    S2:E11

    While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.

    Writer:N/A
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  13. Background image for Short Walk to Freedom
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Short Walk to Freedom

    S2:E22

    String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.

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  14. Background image for Takeover
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Takeover

    S5:E14

    Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his puppet, Mayor Steven Tallman to the governorship. Dana is a provocateur herself, arrested by Barney the current governor's representative. Walsh gets Dana out, and Paris is a blackmailer who convinces Tallman that Dana is his previously-unknown illegitimate daughter. Peck is concerned that Tallman (actually Paris in disguise) will confess their plans to save his "daughter", and orders Walsh to kill Barney and Dana. Barney stops Walsh on TV before he can blow up a crowd of demonstrators and police during a protest, and Paris-as-Tallman confesses to Peck's involvement.

    Writer:N/A
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  15. Background image for Hell Hath No Fury...
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Hell Hath No Fury...

    S4:E17

    The highly publicized release of a convicted rapist makes Trudy fear that the man's victim may have revenge on her mind.

    Writer:N/A
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  16. Background image for Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n

    S1:E3

    Hawke and Dom must stop a suspected traitor from turning an advanced military fighter over to the Russians in exchange for his son who was born in Vietnam. Things get complicated, though, when Hawke realizes that he was also involved with the boy's mother during roughly the same era as the child's birth.

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  17. Background image for The American Dream
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The American Dream

    S2:E13

    The Airwolf crew decides to help a group of Vietnamese farmers get their crop to market, after a warlord threatens their lives.

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  18. Background image for Natural Born
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Natural Born

    S2:E17

    The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.

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  19. Background image for Dambreakers
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Dambreakers

    S2:E19

    String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.

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  20. Background image for Eagles
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Eagles

    S3:E7

    At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...

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  21. Background image for Faith and Begorrah
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Faith and Begorrah

    S3:E23

    Higgins' half brother, an Irish Catholic priest from Northern Ireland, arrives in Hawaii to confront a British officer who he claims stole an ancient artifact from his church.

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  22. Background image for Theresa
    3.3/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Theresa

    S3:E16

    Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

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Virgil W. Vogel Ratings Summary

"Only the Rocks Live Forever" is the best rated episode directed by Virgil W. Vogel. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by John Wilder. It aired on 10/1/1978 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Luther Gillis: File #521".