The Best Episodes Written By Jackson Gillis

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

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

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Jackson Gillis

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

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

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

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

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

Superman is rendered powerless by a kryptonite trap. This sounds like a job for...Lois and Jimmy?

Director: George Blair

Writer: Jackson Gillis

Beware of Superman! A nuclear incident leaves him glowing with radioactivity and lethal to anyone he's near.

Director: Thomas Carr

Writer: Jackson Gillis

Destination: Earth! Superman saves Metropolis from a plummeting asteroid -- and loses his memory in the process. Commentary available by Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen) and Noel Neill (Lois Lane).

Director: Thomas Carr

Writer: Jackson Gillis

Meet Mr. Kelso, the computer that plans split second bank heists...and may know superman's secret, too.

Director: Thomas Carr

Writer: Jackson Gillis

Avast, ye scurvy mates! A salvage-boat captain who fancies himself a pirate holds Lois and Jimmy captive.

Director: Thomas Carr

Writer: Jackson Gillis

He claims to be Caesar. But who's really behind the strange apparition vexing Perry White?

Director: Harry Gerstad

Writer: Jackson Gillis

A chemist rigs a bomb in his uncle's car to gain control of his uncle's company, then plants clues to make Columbo suspicious of the company's Vice-President.

Director: Edward M. Abroms

Writer: Jackson Gillis

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

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

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

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

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 Juran

Writer: Jackson Gillis

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

Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Writer: Jackson Gillis

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 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

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

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 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