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
The best episode written by Jackson Gillis is "Around the World with Superman", rated 8/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Thomas Carr". "Around the World with Superman" aired on 3/13/1954 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Blind Spot".
8.0/10 1 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
8.0/10 4 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
7.4/10 35 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
7.4/10 19 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
7.3/10 20 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
7.0/10 18 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
7.0/10 1 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
6.9/10 15 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
6.5/10 2 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
6.5/10 2 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
6.3/10 18 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
6.0/10 20 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
6.0/10 2 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
6.0/10 1 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
6.0/10 1 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
5.0/10 1 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
5.0/10 1 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
5.0/10 1 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
5.0/10 1 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
4.0/10 1 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