7.3/1031 votes#1 - Return to Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1968
Ancient alien minds are given control of Captain Kirk's and First Officer Spock's bodies.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: John T. Dugan
7.2/1026 votes#2 - The Most Crucial Game
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1972
The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: John T. Dugan
6.5/1035 votes#3 - Dead Weight
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1971
A famous general kills a business associate, then woos a neurotic female witness to thwart Columbo's investigation.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: John T. Dugan
5.0/101 votes#4 - The Cardinal
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1968
General Zepke plans to rise to power - the only threat to him is Cardinal Souchek who stands for a free people. Zepke has had Souchek imprisoned and plans to replace him with a double who will endorse him. The IMF use an infected mosquito to make the doiuble, Nagorski, ill. Phelps and Cinnamon are called in as doctor and nurse to tend to him while Rollin impersonates a Cardinal and sees through Nagorski's impersonation. He escapes from an airtight sarcophagus and helps Barney and Willy enter the monastery through a booby-trapped tunnel before their air runs out. When Jim has Nagorski placed in an oxygen tent, the others open up the wall behind him, take out Nagorski and replace him with Souchek whom they've secretly freed. Zepke has Souchek-as-Nagorski-as-Souchek give a speech, but Souchek doesn't say what Zepke was expecting...
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: John T. Dugan
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"Return to Tomorrow" is the best rated episode written by John T. Dugan. It scored 7.3/10 based on 31 votes. It was directed by Ralph Senensky. It aired on 2/9/1968 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Most Crucial Game".