The Best Episodes of The Outsider
Every episode of The Outsider ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Outsider!
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The series aired for one season on NBC and was a precursor of sorts to The Rockford Files in that it featured a loner private detective who had previously done time in prison for a crime he didn't commit and who never quite fit into a rapidly changing environment.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Outsider" is "A Wide Place in the Road", rated 8.2/10 from 7 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "A Wide Place in the Road" aired on 10/9/1968 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Love Is Under "L"".
8.2/10 7 votes#1 - A Wide Place in the Road
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1968
Ross travels to a small town in search of a car thief and bail jumper who was once an athletic hero in the town.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 7 votes
#2 - Love Is Under "L"
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968
A millionaire hires Ross to find his missing galpal. Ross finds her and soon discovers that she is in hiding for good reason.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 9 votes
#3 - Periwinkle Blue
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/2/1969
A woman has already buried two previous husbands and her third hires Ross to make sure she's not planning on being a widow for the third time.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 7 votes
#4 - A Time to Run
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1968
A defense attorney hires Ross to find a missing witness in a murder case. Ross finds him but then things go from bad to worse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 11 votes
#5 - I Can't Hear You Scream
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1968
Ross is running down leads to save a convict from the gas chamber but he doesn't have much time remaining.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10 7 votes
#6 - The Flip Side
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1969
A homely looking woman hires Ross to find her missing glamorous model twin sister. He finds her and discovers that she's mixed up in extortion and a narcotics trafficking ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#7 - For Members Only
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1968
Ross is hired to go undercover in an exclusive club to ferret out a cardsharp who has been fleecing some of its members.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#8 - What Flowers Daisies Are
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1968
Ross is hired to find a missing model. At first the case seems routine but then he stumbles into a million dollar con game and murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#9 - Along Came a Spider
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1968
Ross is hired by a woman who lent her fiancee $6,000. Then the poor fellow got himself killed and now his erstwhile intended wants her money back.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#10 - Cold as Ashes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1968
Ross is hired to carry the ashes of a recently deceased man from Los Angeles to San Francisco but soon discovers that others are following him with mayhem in their hearts. He then tries to figure out why.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#11 - The Twenty-Thousand Dollar Carrot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1968
Ross must try to return a man who supposedly died from his hiding place in Mexico back to the United States along with the insurance money he got after faking his death.
Director: Michael Ritchie
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#12 - One Long Stemmed American Beauty
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1968
Ross begins to wonder if the suicide of a renowned stage and dancing legend was murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#13 - Tell It Like It Was--and You're Dead
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1968
A former burlesque queen hires Ross to find out who's been making death threats against her personage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#14 - The Land of the Fox
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1968
On a case, Ross falls for a woman involved in the case and with some rough characters.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#15 - There Was a Little Girl
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1968
Ross is hired when a woman shows up on a millionaire's doorstep claiming that the girl she has raised is his. It all has to do with a twelve year old kidnapping case for which a ransom was paid yet the victim never seen again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#16 - The Girl from Missouri
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1969
A naive midwestern gal hires Ross to locate her missing brother. He soon learns that the sibling is involved with some very unsavory types.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#17 - The Secret of Mareno Bay
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1969
Ross searches for a missing novelist in a town where most of the residents are glad that the man is gone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#18 - The Old School Tie
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1969
Ross's old prison buddy, who once saved his life, insists that the gumshoe join him in an extortion plot and he won't take no for an answer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#19 - A Bowl of Cherries
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1969
When Ross offers to help out the son of an old friend he soon finds himself tangled up in a homicide.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#20 - Behind God's Back
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1969
Ross goes to Acapulco to find a millionaire's runaway daughter. He locates her among the jet set there then tries to convince her that some of her playmates are up to no good.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#21 - Take the Key and Lock Him Up
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1969
Investigating a shooting in a rural town, Ross is arrested on charges of selling marijuana.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#22 - Handle with Care
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1969
Hired by an insurance company to investigate a series of truck hijackings, Ross poses as a drifter named Leo Martin and joins the hijacking ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#23 - All the Social Graces
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/12/1969
A crude and rough hewn millionaire hires Ross but he's killed before our protagonist can discover why he's been hired. Ross's investigation leads to an elegant tennis club which considered the deceased too uncouth for membership.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#24 - A Lot of Muscle
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/26/1969
Ross is hired by a hard as nails, unbending cop who's facing an indictment on a bribery charge. Suspecting a possible frame-up, he begins checking out the cop's enemies and the man has a whole bunch.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#25 - Service for One
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/9/1969
Ross is hired to tail a recently paroled convict who is supposedly the only person who knows the exact location of missing money in the amount of $250,000. But, as could be expected, he's not the only one searching for the missing loot.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A