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The Best Episodes Written By Ken Pettus

Every TV Episode Written by Ken Pettus Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 7.9/10(7 votes)

    #1 - The Living Legend (1)

    S1:E10

    While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

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    Director:Vince Edwards
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  2. 7.6/10(7 votes)

    #2 - The Living Legend (2)

    S1:E11

    The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

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    Director:Vince Edwards
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  3. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Martyr

    S4:E26

    As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.

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  4. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - A Ghost Story

    S5:E21

    Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start ""haunting"" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  5. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Missing in Action

    S1:E9

    Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Magnum befriends her and, in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One.

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    Director:Robert Loggia
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  6. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Fool's Gold

    S4:E5

    Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.

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    Director:Murray Golden
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  7. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Chico

    S4:E17

    Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.

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  8. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - The Crane

    S4:E23

    Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.

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    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  9. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Choice

    S4:E25

    A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.

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    Director:Alan Greedy
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  10. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Rebel

    S5:E11

    The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third one, Khora refuses to leave and is executed. Jim and Dana meet with his son Alex (a rebel leader) to get his notes and Dana is captured by the militia along with Alex's girlfriend, who has memorized the doctor's notes. Barney and Doiug parachute in with a giant hollow religious statue that Jim uses to get close enough to dig into the prison while Paris, pretending to be an Intelligence officer, plays the militia leader, Bakram, against the people. When Bakram discovers that the prisoners have escaped he destroys the statue, further enraging the country's people against him while the team make his escape.

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Ken Pettus
  11. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Amnesiac

    S4:E13

    Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Ken Pettus

Ken Pettus Ratings Summary

"The Living Legend (1)" is the best rated episode written by Ken Pettus. It scored 7.9/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Vince Edwards. It aired on 11/26/1978 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Living Legend (2)".