The Best Episodes Directed By Daryl Duke

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar / The Last Laurel

   S1:E61/20/1971

   A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past. Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   8.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Part 1

   S1:E13/27/1983

   When the wealthy but now elderly owner of a large sheep farm in the outback of Australia realizes that her affections towards a banished but ambitious young priest will never be returned, she sets out to manipulate his life and career from the grave once she discovers him giving his attention to her young niece instead.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Part 2

   S1:E23/28/1983

   Having left Australia with a significant sum of holdings in hand willed to the Catholic Church by the wealthy socialite and sheep farmer Mary Carson, Father Ralph de Bricassart finds himself courted by power brokers within the Vatican. Meanwhile, the Drogheda Ranch suffers a devastating brush fire that spawns more tragedy in the Cleary family, and eventually leads to an uneasy reunion between Meggie and Father de Bricassart. However Meggie soon meets a young suitor who captures her heart.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Part 3

   S1:E33/29/1983

   Now married, living on a sugar cane plantation, and working as a maid in Queensland, Meggie finds her new husband is more interested in his own work and dalliances than in her. She bears him a child but is still unable to change his ways. Meanwhile, Father de Bricassart has moved up in the Church hierarchy and eventually returns to Australia as a Cardinal. And in yet another uneasy reunion between himself and Meggie, he finally succumbs to temptation by consummating forbidden love and breaking his vow of chastity.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Part 4

   S1:E43/30/1983

   Meggie has repeated the mistakes of her past by favoring her son over her daughter. She finally admits the truth about Dane's paternity to Ralph and reconciles with both her mother Fee and her daughter Justine.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   7.3/10(26 votes)

   #6 - Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

   S10:E22/20/1991

   Wade Anders, a former security expert, hosts the show Crime Alert. A rival host, news reader Bud, discovers Wade was in a porno movie and plans to tell the world then take over his show.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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7. 

   7.1/10(30 votes)

   #7 - Columbo Cries Wolf

   S9:E21/20/1990

   Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Dian Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends lots of time with the young girls he works with.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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   1.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - No Sign of the Cross

   S1:E310/11/1972

   A golden cross, on its way from a Mexican church to an American gangster anxious to reform his image, turns into worthless junk without ever leaving the possession of the couriers sent to deliver it. Banacek must figure out where and how the switch was pulled off.

   Director:Daryl Duke

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