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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - High Jinx
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E4

    The Japanese have a new special modified armored Zero with the best Japanese pilots in the air. If Pappy or any of his men come up against them they are to disengage and get home. This doesn't sit well with Pappy or the rest of the squadron. Pappy pulls strings and has newly 'returned to service' Ace pilot Doug Rafferty assigned to his squadron. His father is an Admiral...but Jim remembers him from previous missions and believes him to be a jinx. Pappy won't have this kind of superstitious talk going around and tells Jim to keep his mouth shut.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  2. undefined Season 5 Episode 24 - Jury Of One
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S5:E24

    A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Living Legend (1)
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    S1:E10

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - The Living Legend (2)
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Missing in Action
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  6. undefined Season 4 Episode 26 - The Martyr
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  7. undefined Season 5 Episode 21 - A Ghost Story
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Fool's Gold
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    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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    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  9. undefined Season 4 Episode 17 - Chico
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  10. undefined Season 4 Episode 23 - The Crane
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    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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    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  11. undefined Season 4 Episode 25 - The Choice
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  12. undefined Season 5 Episode 11 - The Rebel
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    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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    Writer:Ken Pettus

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  13. undefined Season 4 Episode 13 - The Amnesiac
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    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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    Writer:Ken Pettus

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Ken Pettus Ratings Summary

"High Jinx" is the best rated episode written by Ken Pettus. It scored 9.0/10 from 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on October 5, 1976. It is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Jury Of One".