The Best Episodes Directed By William D. russell

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Which Witch Is Which?

   S1:E243/11/1965

   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.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Pleasure O'Reilly

   S1:E253/18/1965

   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.

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   9.0/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Remember the Main

   S1:E345/20/1965

   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.

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - The Case of the Angry Mourner

   S1:E711/2/1957

   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.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Case of the Restless Redhead

   S1:E19/21/1957

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

   S1:E29/28/1957

   Peter Cole is caught one night sleepwalking with a letter opener and standing over his wife's bed. His wife Doris is afraid and decides the next day to file for divorce. Exactly one year later, when the divorce is to be finalized, Frank Maddox, Peter's business partner, meets with Doris Cole. That night Frank Maddox spends the night at Peter Cole's house and exchanges bedrooms with Phillip Kendall, Peter's stepbrother. The next morning Phillip Kendall is found dead in bed and Peter Cole is accused of murder.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Case of the Drowning Duck

   S1:E410/12/1957

   Donald Briggs is an unscrupulous private investigator hired by Clyde Waters to uncover information about Marv Adams, his daughter's fiancé. Later, Donald Briggs is found dead in his motel room, and Marv Adams is accused of the murder because he had a fight with Donald Briggs the previous morning.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Case of the Credulous Quarry

   S4:E29/24/1960

   Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - The Photographer

   S2:E284/6/1957

   Dodge City meets a Photographer who shows the residents how a camera works. Jacoby wants to take pictures of how the Wild West looks. When Matt learns someone died, he thinks the photographer may have hired someone to kill Grubby for a picture of the west.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Nervous Accomplice

    S1:E310/5/1957

    Sybil Granger hires Perry to help her buy stock in her estranged husband's oil company on the sly. By this, Sybil hopes to force her husband's latest girlfriend, Roxy Howard, out of the company and his life altogether. Things get complicated when George Lutts enters the picture and gets shot to death.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Jody and Cissy

    S1:E29/19/1966

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Gift Horse

    S1:E39/26/1966

    Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Marmalade

    S1:E510/10/1966

    Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

    S1:E710/24/1966

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - A Matter for Experts

    S1:E911/14/1966

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Take Two Aspirin

    S1:E1111/28/1966

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Love Me, Love Me Not

    S1:E1212/5/1966

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Hard Hat Jody

    S1:E151/2/1967

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - All Around the Town

    S1:E171/16/1967

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Once in Love with Buffy

    S1:E212/13/1967

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Everybody Needs Somebody

    S1:E243/13/1967

    Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Prize

    S1:E274/10/1967

    The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Award

    S1:E295/1/1967

    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.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Mother Tongue

    S1:E232/27/1967

    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.

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    3.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Other Cheek

    S2:E510/9/1967

    A girl picks on Jody, who doesn't dare hit her back.

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