9.0/105 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
7.0/101 votes#2 - Countdown
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1986
A mysterious person who calls himself "Viking" has just bombed the cruise ship Victoria, underway in the North Pacific Ocean. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver gets called in, along with his old Vietnam bomb-defusal partner, Charlie Robinson, to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more than one bomb on the ship. Complications arise when MacGyver's partner sets off one of the bombs, and the bomber decides that DXS operated in bad faith and refuses to hand over the bomb-disarming instructions after he gets the extortion money.
Director: Stan Jolley
Writer: David Ketchum
6.0/101 votes#3 - Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/28/1976
Perhaps the most discussed and favorite episode of WW fans during the show's run, Wonder Woman faces her deadliest test when an evil female Nazi operative comes to America to capture Wonder Woman and learn the secret of her amazing powers, then brainwash her into using her powers to help Hitler's quest during World War 2. Fausta disguises herself as Wonder Woman during a Bond selling rally, and with a little help from her fellow Nazi agents (not to mention a trick stage and a cloth soaked with chloroform), bags her prey and takes the real Wonder Woman to Germany. Can Steve Trevor save the day? Stay tuned!
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: David Ketchum
6.0/101 votes#4 - Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/1976
The Amazon Princess must fight a Nazi gorilla named Gargantua, trained to retrieve a defecting agent, whose knowledge poses a threat to Hitler's agenda.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: David Ketchum
6.0/101 votes#5 - The Pied Piper
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1977
Wonder Woman must use all her powers to save Joe Atkinson's daughter from the evils of Super Rock Star.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: David Ketchum
5.0/101 votes#6 - Haunted
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1974
After experiencing a few strange happenings, Richie begins to buy into the legend that the place where their Halloween party is to be held, the old Simpson house, is haunted.
Director: Garry Marshall
Writer: David Ketchum
1.0/101 votes#7 - The Joker is Mild/First Time Out/Take My Granddaughter, Please
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1977
An old friend of Julie's father turns to her for help reviving his sputtering stand-up comedy career. A meddling woman tries to interfere in her granddaughter's love life; she pushes her to date Doc, but her granddaughter wants to pursue romance with an old friend. A young man's fraternity brothers pressure him to lose his virginity during the cruise.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: David Ketchum
1.0/101 votes#8 - Identical Problem/Julie's Old Flame/The Jinx
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1977
Identical twins pretend to be one person in order to take the cruise on one fare. They leave Doc completely bewildered. Julie gets re-acquainted with an ex-lover, who claims to have broken things off with his wife. After suffering a series of accidents, the crew comes to believe that an elderly couple--which survived the Titanic--is cursed.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: David Ketchum
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"Tuttle" is the best rated episode written by David Ketchum. It scored 9/10 based on 5 votes. It was directed by William Wiard. It aired on 1/14/1973 and is rated 2.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Countdown".