8.0/102 votes#1 - The Big Ripoff
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1974
Suspecting her ex-lover was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford to jet to Europe to compile evidence. After a fling with the widow, Rockford suspects Steve Nelson faked his death.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.9/1040 votes#2 - A Taste of Armageddon
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1967
The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.0/101 votes#3 - Attack of the Barbarians
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1967
Doug and Tony are captured by the Mongols in 1287, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Baku. Tony is tortured until Doug stages a rescue, where they meet with Marco Polo, who is aiding Kublai Khan. Tony falls in love with Sahib, daughter of Kublai Khan that Polo is aiding and who is kidnapped by Baku. The guys rescue her by using black powder that Polo has discovered in China. When Baku launches an assault on the fort where Polo is staying, the Project staff try and send artillery back to the guys. They thwart an attack on the fort while Tony considers staying with Sahib. In the end she returns to her duty and the two part. Doug provides the necessary ingredient to turn the black powder into gunpowder, while the Project try and send detonator caps to assist them. With the explosives the attack is thwarted and the guys are whisked out. (Copyright 2003 Steve Crow)
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.0/101 votes#4 - The Wasteland
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1991
Mac seeks to stop a shortsighted developer whose latest project will create an environmental ruin and could result in his premature death at the hands of his greedy children.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.7/103 votes#5 - The Legacy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1974
Burke and Virdon are helped by a young woman and a young boy while searching for an underground computer in a ruined city, but their plans go awry when Alan is captured and Urko uses the boy to get information from the astronaut.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.5/102 votes#6 - The Prince / The Sheriff
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1978
In 'The Prince' a handsome young prince wants to live as a common man, but falls in love with a woman who despises poverty. And in 'The Sheriff' New York City Police Detective John Burke, wants to go back in time to become a sheriff in the old west.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.0/101 votes#7 - Kidnapped in Space
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1967
Dr. Smith answers a distress call from an alien space ship. He arrives there using the Space Pod, and discovers that the aliens want him to operate on (actually, repair), their leader. It turns out that the aliens are a race of some sort of robot that survive as long as their leader, who functions as their central control timepiece, is in working order. The Robinsons come to Smith's rescue in the Jupiter II. The leader is repaired by the robot, and the extended space family Robinson leave the alien space ship safely.
Director: Don Richardson
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.0/101 votes#8 - Space Destructors
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1967
Dr. Smith and the Robot are exploring a cave. Smith pushes several buttons on a conspicuous control panel. The buttons activate a cyborg creating device. It up to Will to stop Dr. Smith.
Director: Don Richardson
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.0/101 votes#9 - Fugitives in Space
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1968
Poor Don West is sent to a prison camp.....WITH Dr. Smith! Don and Dr Smith are installing some equiptment, when Dr Smith comes across and alien prison escapee. The priosoner alien makes Dr Smith change jackets and then runs away. When the prison guards catch up with Dr Smith and Don, they arrest them for aiding an escape of a prisoner.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.0/102 votes#10 - The System
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1988
The team must force a mobster to turn evidence against his partner and mentor.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Robert Hamner
6.0/101 votes#11 - Formula 407
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/1977
Wonder Woman goes south of the border to recover a top secret formula stolen by the Nazis.
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Writer: Robert Hamner
5.0/101 votes#12 - Deadliest of the Species
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1967
The Robinsons encounter two Aliens who are on a mission to seek and destroy an escaped Robot Prisoner, whom they believe to be hiding at the Jupiter Two. Meanwhile, the Robot meets and falls in love with this evil, female Robot. She tries to turn the Robot bad, but ultimately, is defeated by the Robot and the Robinsons, but not before wreaking havoc over the planet.
Director: Don Richardson
Writer: Robert Hamner
5.0/101 votes#13 - Two Weeks in Space
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1967
Two aliens, who are actually intergalactic bank robbers, transform themselves into Earthlings. They revive a man named Zumdish who operates a tour agency and they pretend to be his clients. The Robinson's head off and Dr. Smith is left alone, Smith's decides to turn the ship into a hotel and doesn't realize how dangerous his guests are.
Director: Don Richardson
Writer: Robert Hamner
5.0/101 votes#14 - The Anti-Matter Man
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1967
Professor Robinson is caught in a matter transfer emission ray, and subsequently ends up in another dimension where he is confronted by a version of himself and Don. However this realm is the opposite of his own dimension, the anti-matter world, where everything in reality is twisted. The evil John returns to the family and attempts to take over the Robinsons and take over John's life. Will he get away with it, or are Will and the Robot able to defeat him, and restore the world to it's natural order.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Robert Hamner
5.0/101 votes#15 - The System
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1969
A gangster, Constantine Victor (aka ""Mr. V"") has had the last witness against him on a murder indictment killed. Johnny Costa, Victor's associates and a casino owner, is the only one with enough evidence to get Victor convicted. The IMF must con Costa into talking. Phelps as a syndicate killer warns Costa that someone has put a contract on him. Cinnamon charms Costa and has him endorse minor credit slips which the IMF then forges for bigger ones. Rollin is a bookkeeper who supposedly works for Costa, finds an unlisted $25,000 planted by Barney, and the fake credit slips. Thanks to a prerecorded call from ""Victor"" mimiced by Rollin, Costa is relieved of duties. Costa confronts Cinnamon and gets her to admit she is working for Victor. Fleeing from Willy as another hit man, Costa locks himself in the casino vault to protect himself until he can testify against Victor.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Robert Hamner
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"The Big Ripoff" is the best rated episode written by Robert Hamner. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Vincent McEveety. It aired on 10/25/1974 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Taste of Armageddon".