9.2/104 votes#1 - Tuttle
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1973
Hawkeye creates a fake doctor, Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity, Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Captain Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!
Director: William Wiard
Writer: David Ketchum
8.2/104 votes#2 - The Longjohn Flap
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1973
The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Alan Alda
8.0/106 votes#3 - Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1973
Frank throws his back out whilst spending the evening with Margaret, and ends up in traction. He promptly applies for the Purple Heart, having been 'technically' wounded at a frontline unit. Tommy Gillis, an old friend of Hawkeye's, is writing a book about the war, and pays him a visit. Later, Tommy is brought into the camp, seriously wounded, and Hawkeye can't save him. A 15-year-old kid is in the hospital to have his appendix out. He joined up to be a hero back home, but Hawkeye has him sent home, giving him Frank's purple heart.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt
8.0/104 votes#4 - Kim
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1973
Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Marc Mandel
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Fourth Man
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1976
Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/101 votes#6 - Just Another Polish Wedding
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1977
Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.0/101 votes#7 - To Protect and Serve: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/11/1977
Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: David Chase
8.0/101 votes#8 - A Deadly Maze
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1977
Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a man's missing wife.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/101 votes#9 - South by Southeast
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1978
Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/101 votes#10 - Heartaches of a Fool
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1978
Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.0/101 votes#11 - Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1978
A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/101 votes#12 - The Jersey Bounce
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1978
Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: David Chase
7.8/104 votes#13 - L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1973
Hawkeye cuts through red tape to help a GI marry his child's Korean mother, and cuts romantic ties with a bigoted nurse.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.5/104 votes#14 - Sleight of Hand
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1975
Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/102 votes#15 - Claire
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1975
Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.3/106 votes#16 - Henry Please Come Home
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1972
Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Laurence Marks
6.5/102 votes#17 - No Minor Vices
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1976
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Arthur Bernard Lewis
6.5/102 votes#18 - Gearjammers (2)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1975
Killers pursue Rocky, as Becker and Rockford investigate a hijacking operation.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
5.5/102 votes#19 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1976
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: N/A
2.0/101 votes#20 - The Deep Blue Sleep
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1975
The trail of a missing model leads to murder and an underworld operation within a high-fashion studio.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
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"Tuttle" is the best rated episode directed by William Wiard. It scored 9.2/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by David Ketchum. It aired on 1/14/1973 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Longjohn Flap".