The Best Episodes Directed By Marc Daniels

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - The Experts

   S6:E29/27/1970

   When the Gestapo targets Colonel Klink's radio expert, Hogan helps save him before he's silenced for good.

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   8.5/10(57 votes)

   #2 - Space Seed

   S1:E222/16/1967

   The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century... and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.

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   8.5/10(55 votes)

   #3 - Mirror, Mirror

   S2:E410/6/1967

   A transporter mishap swaps Captain Kirk and his companions with their evil counterparts in a parallel universe. In the so-called Mirror Universe, the Enterprise is a ship of the Terran Empire, an organization as evil as the United Federation of Planets is benevolent.

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   8.1/10(54 votes)

   #4 - The Doomsday Machine

   S2:E610/20/1967

   The starship Enterprise and its heavily-damaged sister ship, the USS Constellation, must work together to stop an alien planet-killing machine headed for the heart of Federation territory.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Be a Pal

   S1:E210/22/1951

   Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The Diet

   S1:E310/29/1951

   To her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on twenty-two pounds since marrying Ricky. When one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, she tricks him into promising, she can be in the show if she fits into the dancer's size twelve costume.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Quiz Show

   S1:E511/12/1951

   When Lucy needs to balance her household accounts, she decides to go on quiz show. To win the $1,000 cash prize, she has to introduce her "long lost first husband" to Ricky.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Audition

   S1:E611/19/1951

   Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - The Fur Coat

   S1:E912/10/1951

   Ricky returns home with expensive mink coat that he has rented for an act at the club. Lucy jumps to the conclusion that it's her anniversary present.

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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Amateur Hour

    S1:E141/14/1952

    Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.

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    7.8/10(56 votes)

    #11 - The Menagerie (1)

    S1:E1111/17/1966

    Apparently summoned to Star Base 11, Kirk, Spock and McCoy visit a former Enterprise Commander, the paralyzed and horribly disfigured Christopher Pike. Uncharacteristically, Spock commandeers the Enterprise, then turns himself in for court martial.

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    7.8/10(57 votes)

    #12 - The Menagerie (2)

    S1:E1211/24/1966

    Spock's court martial reveals the actions of Captain Pike on his previous visit to Talos IV, where the powerful Talosians tried to persuade Pike to breed with women provided for the purpose.

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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Lucy Plays Cupid

    S1:E151/21/1952

    The Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself.

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    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #14 - By Any Other Name

    S2:E222/23/1968

    Beings from another galaxy commandeer the Enterprise in an attempt to return home.

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    7.6/10(47 votes)

    #15 - The Changeling

    S2:E39/29/1967

    The crew of the USS Enterprise deals with an indestructible planet-destroying space probe.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Gossip

    S1:E243/24/1952

    Ricky is disgusted by Lucy's obsession with gossiping about other people. According to Ricky, Lucy acts as if it is her ""life's blood."" Fred, too, is disturbed by Ethel's love of gossiping. The two girls then point out that both Ricky and Fred have been known to gossip, also. The boys then challenge the girls to a bet: They will see who can go without gossiping the longest, and the winners will receive breakfast in bed for a month. The bet commences, and everything is going fine until Ricky comes up with a plan to cheat so that he and Fred can win.

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    7.5/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her

    S1:E411/5/1951

    After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.

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    7.3/10(65 votes)

    #18 - The Naked Time

    S1:E49/29/1966

    An alien virus strips the enterprise crew of their inhibitions, causing chaos as each crew member is overcome by hidden emotions. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is being pulled inexorably into a nearby planet's gravity well.

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    7.3/10(48 votes)

    #19 - Court Martial

    S1:E202/2/1967

    Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm.

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    7.3/10(43 votes)

    #20 - Assignment: Earth

    S2:E263/29/1968

    While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.

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    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #21 - I, Mudd

    S2:E811/3/1967

    Captain Kirk has a second run-in with the conman, Harry Mudd. Mudd is now the supreme ruler of a planet of androids who cater to his every whim.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Lucy Fakes Illness

    S1:E161/28/1952

    Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.

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    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub

    S1:E110/15/1951

    An argument ensues among the couples when Ethel wants to celebrate the Mertzes's anniversary at the Copacabana while Fred wants to attend the fights. Ethel and Lucy decide that they will go to the club with dates.

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    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #24 - A Private Little War

    S2:E192/2/1968

    The crew of the Enterprise discovers Klingon interference in the development of a formerly peaceful planet and is forced to help maintain a balance of power.

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    7.0/10(85 votes)

    #25 - The Man Trap

    S1:E19/8/1966

    Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy meets a former girlfriend when the enterprise brings supplies to a remote archaeological survey group. Still attractive to McCoy, the woman's current appearance hides a dark and deadly secret.

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