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The Best Episodes Written By Jackson Gillis

Every TV Episode Written by Jackson Gillis Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Jackson Gillis Ratings Summary

"Around the World with Superman" is the best rated episode written by Jackson Gillis. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Thomas Carr. It aired on 3/13/1954 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Blind Spot".

  • Around the World with Superman
    8.0/101 votes

    #1 - Around the World with Superman

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1954

    Paging Dr. Superman! His x-ray vision helps a surgeon restore a girl's sight, then he flies her on a world tour.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Blind Spot
    8.0/104 votes

    #2 - Blind Spot

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1983

    Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Suitable for Framing
    7.4/1035 votes

    #3 - Suitable for Framing

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1971

    An art critic, Dale Kingston, kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. All the clues lead to the dead man's first wife. Can Columbo correct the Lieutenant's error before it is too late?

    Director: Hy Averback

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Troubled Waters
    7.4/1019 votes

    #4 - Troubled Waters

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/1975

    While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.

    Director: Ben Gazzara

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Requiem for a Falling Star
    7.3/1020 votes

    #5 - Requiem for a Falling Star

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/21/1973

    A fading movie star tries to murder a writer who is attempting to blackmail her, but accidentally kills her P.A.

    Director: Richard Quine

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Lovely But Lethal
    7.0/1018 votes

    #6 - Lovely But Lethal

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1973

    Viveca Scott, the founder of Beauty Mark Cosmetics, is being threatened by her rival David Lang. When he finds out that her revolutionary cream formula actually removes wrinkles, he has the formula pirated.

    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Unfinished Business
    7.0/101 votes

    #7 - Unfinished Business

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1986

    A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

    Director: Walter Grauman

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • A Bird in the Hand
    6.9/1015 votes

    #8 - A Bird in the Hand

    Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1992

    Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • My Friend, Mr. Nobody
    6.5/102 votes

    #9 - My Friend, Mr. Nobody

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1965

    Penny "imagines" a new companion, which is a disembodied life force living below the surface. Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny, leading to the creature taking his anger out on the entire planet.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Flip Side
    6.5/102 votes

    #10 - Flip Side

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1970

    The IMF must break up a drug-smuggling ring - Bracken gets his drugs from Mexico compliments of Diego Maximillian, who gets his drugs legally from C.W. Cameron. The IMF must connect Cameron to Bracken. Jim plays a Syndicate man who orders the pills from Bracken, and Barney tracks the shipment and switches out the drugs. The team has Maximillian picked up in Mexico so that Bracken has to go directly to Cameron to buy the drugs - the IMF get everything on camera and turn them both over to the authorities.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Murder in Malibu
    6.3/1018 votes

    #11 - Murder in Malibu

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/1990

    An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.

    Director: Walter Grauman

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Last Salute to the Commodore
    6.0/1020 votes

    #12 - Last Salute to the Commodore

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/1976

    The family and friends of brilliant naval architect Commodore Otis Swanson have gathered for the company’s annual party. The commodore, however, has become increasingly discontented with the way his son-in-law, Charles Clay, has developed the shipbuilding firm into a vast, impersonal corporation. He is tired of being surrounded by freeloaders like his alcoholic daughter, Joanna, his irresponsible nephew, Swanny, and of course, Charles. The only man he respects is Wayne Taylor, the head of the boatyard. In fact, the Commodore intends to sell the company. That night, Charles is wiping clean the belaying pin used to bash the Commodore’s skull.

    Director: Patrick McGoohan

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • The Magic Mirror
    6.0/102 votes

    #13 - The Magic Mirror

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1966

    Penny and Judy stumble upon a mirror. They discover someone is on the otherside. Before they know it they are transported to the mirror universe which is occupied by only one person, a boy who is lonesome for companionship.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • The Deadly Dolphin
    6.0/101 votes

    #14 - The Deadly Dolphin

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1978

    Trained dolphins are being used to put explosives on oil tankers.

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • The Richest Man in the World
    6.0/101 votes

    #15 - The Richest Man in the World

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1979

    Diana must find a reclusive millionaire who is the only one who can help her with a secret device that scrambles missile-guidance systems.

    Director: Don McDougall

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • The Thief from Outer Space
    5.0/101 votes

    #16 - The Thief from Outer Space

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1966

    A person know as ' the thief from outer space' appears in a puff of smoke, will agrees help help him rescue a princess who was lost more than 200 years ago by evil vizier.

    Director: Sobey Martin

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • The Haunted Lighthouse
    5.0/101 votes

    #17 - The Haunted Lighthouse

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1967

    Before leaving their planet, the Robinsons meet a boy alien called J-5. They take him with them to return him to his home planet. They meet a strange ship, which turns out to be an earth ""lighthouse"" for lost ships. Thinking this ship will help them with extra fuel and star charts they celebrate, however when J-5 learns that they don't have enough fuel to take him home, he angrily sets about to destroy them all with a creation of his imagination. J-5 begins a new life at the lighthouse, and the Robinson's leave in the knowledge he will be looked after by the kindly, old lighthousekeeper.

    Director: Sobey Martin

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • A Day at the Zoo
    5.0/101 votes

    #18 - A Day at the Zoo

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1967

    A caveboy appears and attempts to lure Penny away, but she refuses, and is instead caught in a net. She is transported to an intergalactic zoo, were she will be puton show, meanwhile Dr. Smith tries to take over the zoo.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Princess of Space
    5.0/101 votes

    #19 - Princess of Space

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1968

    A crew led by Captain Kraspo is searching for the missing Princess Alpha. They bring Will aboard their ship who makes them think the Penny might be there princess, because of this the train Penny to be the future ruler of there planet.

    Director: Don Richardson

    Writer: Jackson Gillis

  • Space Beauty
    4.0/101 votes

    #20 - Space Beauty

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1968

    The galactic showman, Farnum B returns as the producer of the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant. They want to Judy to be in the contest, she doesn't want to but Dr. Smith for forges her name and the fun begins.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: Jackson Gillis