10.0/101 votes#1 - The Case of the Restless Redhead
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1957
Perry drives to the scene of a shooting and finds the police recovering the body of Harry Merrill from a car that went over the side of a mountain. MerriIl has a bullet in his body and a pillowcase over his head. Meanwhile, Perry's client, Evelyn Bagby, claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car near the same cliff that day. She fired two shots at the man's car to scare him off, and now the police want her for murder.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Russell S. Hughes
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Case of the Angry Mourner
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1957
Carla Adrian is having trouble fending off amorous neighbor Mark Cushing. When another neighbor hears a shot and a woman's scream, then witnesses Carla's Mother, Belle Adrian, in Mark Cushing's cabin—it's not long before the police discover Cushing’s body and arrest Mrs. Belle Adrian.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
9.0/101 votes#3 - Which Witch Is Which?
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1965
To assist her daughter in a dress fitting, Endora transforms herself into a double of Samantha. While at the fitting, Robert Frazer, a young writer, becomes smitten with her. Endora decides to cavort with him as Samantha. Meanwhile, Gladys Kravitz thinks Samantha is having a secret affair. There are further complications when it turns out that Bob is an old friend of Darrin's. Endora shows up as Samantha at a dinner that Darrin, Sam and Bob are having. Bob now believes Endora is Sam's twin.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Earl Barret
8.0/101 votes#4 - The Case of the Credulous Quarry
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1960
Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#5 - Pleasure O'Reilly
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1965
Flirtatious neighbour Pleasure O'Riley moves in next door to the Stephens. Samantha doesn't really appreciate Pleasure's ignorantly blissful helpless girl demeanour, or Darrin's seeming fawning over her at her beck and call because of it. Her incredibly jealous boyfriend, 'Thunderbolt' Swenson, mistakenly suspects both Darrin and Abner Kravitz of impropriety.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Ken Englund
7.0/101 votes#6 - Remember the Main
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/20/1965
Samantha volunteers to work on the election campaign of Ed Wright, who is running for Morning Glory Circle councillor against long time incumbent John C. Cavanaugh. Wright wants to expose Cavanaugh's immoral and illegal dealings in past capital works projects. With Endora's help, that is what happens.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Mort R. Lewis
6.0/101 votes#7 - Jody and Cissy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#8 - The Gift Horse
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966
Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
6.0/101 votes#9 - Marmalade
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1966
Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#10 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1966
Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is found in a trash bin.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
6.0/101 votes#11 - A Matter for Experts
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1966
Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
6.0/101 votes#12 - Take Two Aspirin
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1966
Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
6.0/101 votes#13 - Love Me, Love Me Not
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1966
When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#14 - Hard Hat Jody
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1967
Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#15 - All Around the Town
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1967
Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#16 - Once in Love with Buffy
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1967
Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#17 - Everybody Needs Somebody
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1967
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Ed James
6.0/101 votes#18 - The Prize
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/10/1967
The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#19 - The Award
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/1/1967
Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#20 - The Other Cheek
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1967
A girl picks on Jody, who doesn't dare hit her back.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
4.0/101 votes#21 - The Mother Tongue
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1967
Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
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"The Case of the Restless Redhead" is the best rated episode directed by William D. Russell. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Russell S. Hughes. It aired on 9/21/1957 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner".