- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - 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
- 9.0/103 votes
#2 - The Case of Mr. Pelham
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.5/102 votes
#3 - A Bullet for Baldwin
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1956
When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.3/103 votes
#4 - You Got to Have Luck
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1956
During a massive manhunt for escaped convict Sam Cobbett, Cobbett invades a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.0/103 votes
#5 - The Minstrel's Shakedown
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/1966
The Minstrel, a villain with both musical talent and electronic ingenuity, is wrecking havoc with the Gotham City Exchange in an attempt to blackmail the exchange members. When he soon realizes Batman and Robin are equally skilled with electronics, he deems them a threat to his plan and sets a trap for their demise.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - There Was an Old Woman
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1956
Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - Whodunit
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1956
Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.5/108 votes
#8 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.3/103 votes
#9 - Barbecued Batman?
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/1966
Failing to destroy Batman and Robin, the Minstrel enacts "Plan High C." He shakes the building of the Gotham City Exchange, and promises to send it crumbling down if his demands are not met in one hour. Batman assumes cutting off the building's power will thwart the villain, but when that plan fails, it's up to the Dynamic Duo to track down the Minstrel before it's too late.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.3/103 votes
#10 - Back for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.2/104 votes
#11 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.0/101 votes
#12 - Relative Value
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1959
When John learns that he has been made the beneficiary in his cousin's will, he decides he can't wait for nature to take its course and begins plotting murder.
Director: Paul Almond
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.0/101 votes
#13 - Banquo's Chair
Season 4 Episode 29 - Aired 5/3/1959
A retired Scotland Yard inspector goes to extreme lengths to prove the guilt of a suspect in an old murder case.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.0/101 votes
#14 - Expanding Human
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1964
A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 6.8/104 votes
#15 - The Joker Trumps an Ace
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1966
The Joker launches a new crime wave with robberies that appear to make no sense, such as stealing hairpins from rich women and a hole from a golf course. But the Joker knows exactly what he's doing. Batman and Robin are in pursuit and eventually invade the villain's headquarters. The heroes are placed in a chamber and are told if they can float for an hour, they'll go free. The Joker then begins to flood the chamber with poison gas. The Joker says the Dynamic Duo may not be able to swim in the gas "but you can drown in it!"
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 6.8/104 votes
#16 - Batman Sets the Pace
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/7/1966
After an ingenious escape, Batman and Robin again pick up the trail of the Joker. The villain's ultimate crime is designed not only to make him rich but to ruin Batman's reputation.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 2.0/101 votes
#17 - Tempted
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1959
Elizabeth Montgomery plays a rare pre-Bewitched role as a floozy jazz groupie who's the ex-wife of one of Staccato's former band mates. Out of the blue she shows up at Waldo's the jazz club (and Staccato's ""office"") to enlist Staccato's help, telling him she's almost just been robbed of expensive jewelry she was taking from work. What she was doing with the jewels and why she was taking them from the store she works at piques Staccato's interest (as does the fast-talking and shapely Ms. Montgomery). He's immediately suspicious, but cautiously takes on the case. While he's escorting her home (supposedly with the jewels) they're accosted by a mugger who knocks Staccato out, grabs the jewels, and takes off. The next morning, nursing the bump on his head, Staccato gets a visit from an insurance adjuster who reads him the riot act. Unfazed, Johnny tells the adjuster to take a hike, goes into the bathroom and viola! pulls the jewels out from the soap dispenser. Who set him up? Could it have
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell