The Best Episodes Written By Paul Playdon

Every TV Episode Written by Paul Playdon Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - The Reunion
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Reunion

    S3:E8

    A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.

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  2. undefined Season 5 Episode 19 - The Cataflaque
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Cataflaque

    S5:E19

    In San Pascal Premier Miguel Fuego and his nephew Ramone have signed a secret arms treaty with a Communist power to permit nuclear weapons aimed at the U.S. into their country. The IMF must expose the treaty before the missiles are installed. The team has Paris claim that Ramone's late father was killed by Miguel and that Paris' father at the closed Madrena Prison can verify this. The IMF secretly reopen Madrena prison and have Ramone arrested for fake-killing Doug, and Paris plays his previous character's father, who claims a diary will prove his claim. Ramone escapes and rejoins the younger Paris' character, who makes him believe the diary is on his father Victorio's body, lying in state. Barney and Doug have secreted replaced the body with a wax dummy behind the backs of the guards and planted a diary "proving" Miguel had Victorio lobotomized. Upon recovering it, Ramone goes to an asylum where a braindead "Victorio" is being kept. Enraged, Ramone takes Paris to the safe containing t

    Director:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 4 Episode 15 - The Falcon (2)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Falcon (2)

    S4:E15

    With the king's sister rescued during the wedding, the team now turns its attention to the true heir, who's locked up in prison.

    Director:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 4 Episode 22 - Orpheus
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Orpheus

    S4:E22

    An unknown assassin must be stopped, so Barney infiltrates the foreign agency that employs him while Jim poses as a drug addict with information to sell.

    Director:N/A

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - The Young Lords
    6.2/10(10 votes)

    #5 - The Young Lords

    S1:E9

    Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

    Director:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 4 Episode 12 - Time Bomb
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Time Bomb

    S4:E12

    The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.

    Director:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 4 Episode 14 - The Falcon (1)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Falcon (1)

    S4:E14

    Paris masquerades as Zastro, a magician who has come to entertain during an arranged wedding between the king's sister and a ruthless usurper.

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - CHiPs (Pilot)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - CHiPs (Pilot)

    S1:E1

    Jon and Ponch are chasing thieves who steal luxury cars. Ponch has problems with Sgt. Getraer and can't do anything right by him. The thieves are using moving vans with stolen licence plates, so the chippies can't get them first. Nice scene: Ponch and his sticky ticket.

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  9. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - The Glass Cage
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Glass Cage

    S3:E16

    Anton Reisner, a reistance leader in a tyrannical country, has been imprisoned in the automated Trast Prison and is being tortured by Major Zelinko in order to get the names of the other resistance leaders. The IMF must get him out of the prison. Reisner is in a video-monitored escape-proof glass cubicle. Barney and Willy get themselves imprisoned when Cinnamon as head of the country's prison system arrives for an inspection. She distracts Zelinko long enough for Barney and Willy to escape, wreck the video system, and get to Reisner. But..they tell him to stay in the cell but act different, then get recaptured. Zelinko notes the discrepancy between the door counter and the written log and puts two and two together (incorrectly) with Reisner's odd behavior and assumes Reisner is an imposter. Zelinko and Gulka plot to keep the switch secret but Cinnamon arranges for Zelinko's underling Vasney to overhear it. She has Zelinko arrested and takes Barney, Willy, and the Reisner-as-the-imposte

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  10. undefined Season 3 Episode 11 - The Freeze
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Freeze

    S3:E11

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 13 - The Mind of Stefan Miklos
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Mind of Stefan Miklos

    S3:E13

    Director:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 20 - The Bunker (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Bunker (2)

    S3:E20

    With Cinnamon-as-Anna in place, she is taken to her ""husband"" and tells Dr. Rojak to be near an air vent. Jim as a security officer has placed a small remote-control flying disk in the bunker's air vent system and it holds a hypo. Barney steers it to Rojak's monitored cell and he uses the hypo to induce a heart attack. Jim summons Rollin (as a heart specialist) who advises surgery and instructs that ""Anna"" be at her husband's side. Ventlos the assassin plans to disrupt the operation by taking Rollin's place in disguise and the IMF quickly has to readjust when Ventlos tries to kill Rojak and destroy the installation.

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 19 - The Bunker (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Bunker (1)

    S3:E19

    Dr. Erich Rojak and his wife Anna are being held in an underground laboratory/bunker by a totalitarian enemy government. Another unfriendly government has sent an assassin, Ventlos, to kill Rojak. The IMF must rescue Rojak and his wife, destroy the test missile Rojak is working on, and stop Ventlos. The IMF infiltrate the base and Jim introduces a handstamp system, unaware that Ventlos has already replaced the bunker's security chief. Jim uses his system to expose security officer Cinnamon as a phony and she is imprisoned near Anna. Willy breaks in via the furnace and rescues Anna while Cinnamon takes her place...

    Director:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 22 - Nicole
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Nicole

    S3:E22

    Jim is sent in to recover a list of Allied agents from the enemy's highest ranking intelligence minister, Anton Valdas. Nicole Vedette's, Valdas' secretary, is apparently on the IMF's side but Jim decides not to use her. Instead Jim and Rollin plansto break into Valdas' safe during a party. Jim and Nicole meet and have a romantic attraction. The effort goes awry and Jim is shot and captured while helping Rollin to escape. Nicole is imprisoned on suspicion but tells Jim that no one is looking for Rollin. Nicole also tells him that Rollin's contact is a double agent. Jim believes Valdas substituted a fake list that he wants them to take back. The two escape and Jim collapses from his wound in a barn. Nicole reveals she is the double agent and reports the success of their charade to Jim. But because of her attraction to him she blackmails Valdas into letting them escape for real. Jim realizes the deception and Nicole confesses, unaware that Valdas put a bug on her. They are caught by Vald

    Director:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 25 - The Interrogator
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Interrogator

    S3:E25

    Director:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 4 Episode 16 - The Falcon (3)
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Falcon (3)

    S4:E16

    Just as Jim Phelps and the others unwittingly become caught up in a royal power struggle, a bomb goes off, seriously injuring Paris and revealing his disguise.

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Paul Playdon Ratings Summary

"The Reunion" is the best rated episode written by Paul Playdon. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/4/1970 and is rated 2.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Cataflaque".