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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

  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Around the World with Superman

    S2:E26

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

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  2. 8.0/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Blind Spot

    S2:E4

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

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  3. 7.6/10(24 votes)

    #3 - Troubled Waters

    S4:E4

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

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  4. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Unfinished Business

    S3:E3

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

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  5. 7.4/10(41 votes)

    #5 - Suitable for Framing

    S1:E4

    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?

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  6. 7.3/10(28 votes)

    #6 - Requiem for a Falling Star

    S2:E5

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

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  7. 7.2/10(24 votes)

    #7 - Lovely But Lethal

    S3:E1

    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.

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  8. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Defeat of Superman

    S2:E6

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

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  9. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Superman in Exile

    S2:E7

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

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  10. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Panic in the Sky

    S2:E12

    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).

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  11. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Machine That Could Plot Crimes

    S2:E13

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

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  12. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Golden Vulture

    S2:E21

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

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  13. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Great Caesar's Ghost

    S3:E5

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

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  14. 6.9/10(37 votes)

    #14 - Short Fuse

    S1:E6

    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.

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  15. 6.9/10(15 votes)

    #15 - A Bird in the Hand

    S10:E6

    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.

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  16. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - My Friend, Mr. Nobody

    S1:E7

    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.

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  17. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Flip Side

    S5:E2

    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.

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  18. 6.3/10(20 votes)

    #18 - Murder in Malibu

    S9:E6

    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.

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  19. 6.0/10(24 votes)

    #19 - Last Salute to the Commodore

    S5:E6

    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.

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  20. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - The Magic Mirror

    S1:E21

    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.

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  21. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Deadly Dolphin

    S3:E9

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

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  22. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Richest Man in the World

    S3:E17

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

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  23. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Thief from Outer Space

    S2:E9

    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.

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  24. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Haunted Lighthouse

    S3:E7

    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.

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  25. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - A Day at the Zoo

    S3:E12

    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.

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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".