The Best Episodes Written By Fred Freiberger

#1 - Dead Load

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1961

Cain searches for a waterfront racketeer.

Director: Tom Gries

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#2 - Nurse's Wild

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/4/1972

A store owner shoots an armed robber and is filled with remorse. Sparks fly between Johnny and a nurse. Dr. Early treats an alcoholic. A dog delays the rescue of an unconscious woman. Dr. Morton assumes an unconscious hippie is on drugs. The firemen rescue a man trapped at a chemical plant.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#3 - Incident of the Power and the Plow

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1959

Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#4 - Survival

Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1961

Director: David Orrick McDearmon

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#5 - Salvage

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1955

Gangster Dan Varrell, just released from prison, goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death.

Director: Jus Addiss

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#6 - Space Warp

Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/2/1976

Koenig and Verdeschi are sucked into a space warp. A feverish Maya is stricken with a fever that causes her to transform into a repulsive space monster.

Director: Peter Medak

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#7 - The Beta Cloud

Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/16/1976

A strange cloud drifts over the base and causes most of the crew to be stricken with illness. A monster, the 'cloud creature' appears out of the cloud and runs amok on the base. A voice from the cloud explains its purpose. The base must give up its life support in order to prevent the cloud from dying. With most of the crew indisposed through illness, it is down to Maya to employ her shape-shifting skills to beat the creature.

Director: Robert Lynn

Writer: Fred Freiberger

#8 - The Rules of Luton

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/1976

Whilst Koenig and Maya are exploring a planet called Luton,which is lush in vegetation, she picks a flower and he helps himself to some fruit. As a result they are put on trial for murder by three talking trees, the Judges of Luton. The trial is by combat and the pair must face three aliens, one with superstrength, one which can render itself invisible and one which can teleport.

Director: Val Guest

Writer: Fred Freiberger