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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

  • The Living Legend (1)
    7.9/10(7)

    #1 - The Living Legend (1)

    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 11/26/1978

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

    Director: Vince Edwards

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Living Legend (2)
    7.6/10(7)

    #2 - The Living Legend (2)

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 12/3/1978

    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.

    Director: Vince Edwards

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Martyr
    7.0/10(2)

    #3 - The Martyr

    Season 4 Episode 26

    Aired 3/29/1970

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

    Director: Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • A Ghost Story
    7.0/10(2)

    #4 - A Ghost Story

    Season 5 Episode 21

    Aired 2/27/1971

    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.

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • Missing in Action
    7.0/10(3)

    #5 - Missing in Action

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 2/5/1981

    Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Arriving in Hawaii, where she occasionally has flashes involving Eric, Laura goes to work for Rick at the King Kamehameha Club as a singer. 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. Magnum's search brings him into opposition with the sensitive intelligence organization, resulting in a dramatic preordained conclusion.

    Director: Robert Loggia

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • Fool's Gold
    6.5/10(2)

    #6 - Fool's Gold

    Season 4 Episode 5

    Aired 10/26/1969

    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.

    Director: Murray Golden

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • Chico
    6.5/10(2)

    #7 - Chico

    Season 4 Episode 17

    Aired 1/25/1970

    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.

    Director: Herb Wallerstein

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Crane
    6.5/10(2)

    #8 - The Crane

    Season 4 Episode 23

    Aired 3/8/1970

    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.

    Director: Paul Krasny

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Choice
    6.5/10(2)

    #9 - The Choice

    Season 4 Episode 25

    Aired 3/22/1970

    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.

    Director: Alan Greedy

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Rebel
    6.5/10(2)

    #10 - The Rebel

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 11/28/1970

    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.

    Director: Barry Crane

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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  • The Amnesiac
    6.0/10(2)

    #11 - The Amnesiac

    Season 4 Episode 13

    Aired 12/28/1969

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

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: Ken Pettus

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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)".