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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Revenge of the Gods
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E7

    Tony and Doug arrive at the Siege of Troy, and are taken before Ulysses. Ulysses believes them to be gods, while his lieutenant Sardis doubts them. Doug wins a swordfight with Sardis to prove his divinity, so Sardis goes to Troy and tries to betray Ulysses and the Greeks. In the next battle the two travellers are almost overwhelmed, so the Project scientists send back Jiggs with a bag of hand grenades. Doug is captured during the next battle and put on the rack to be tortured. Jiggs is returned, but ages horrendously while trapped in the infinity of the Tunnel. The scientists manage to reverse the effects, but accidentally pull a Greek soldier forward (they manage to send him back). Tony ""inspires"" Ulysses to create the Trojan Horse, and goes inside it to rescue Doug. The ploy is successful. Ulysses kills Paris and rescues Helen, while Tony rescues Doug and the two vanish before the astounded Greeks.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  2. undefined Season 10 Episode 3 - Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
    7.4/10(29 votes)

    S10:E3

    Lt. Columbo is pitted against an equally brilliant, nationally recognized criminal defence lawyer who murders his rock star girlfriend when he discovers she is seeing another man.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Odds on Evil
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    S1:E6

    Prince Iben Kostas plans to use his money to finance a war. Infiltrating his casino, the IMF team goes to work.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - The Carriers
    7.2/10(5 votes)

    S1:E10

    Enemy agent Janos Passik is preparing to train 200 foreign agents to infiltrate the U.S. and engage in some form of bacteriological warfare.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  5. undefined Season 8 Episode 1 - Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    S8:E1

    Lt. Columbo delves into the world of magic, ESP and slight of hand as he investigates the death of a magician, and there appears to be a tie to a prodigal psychic supported by a government founded institute on parapsychology.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 24 - The Train
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E24

    Prime Minister Larya of Svardia is working to establish democracy, but is unaware that his personal protégé, Deputy Premier Pavel, plans to set up a dictatorship. The team must persuade Larya of Pavel's plans.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 15 - The Legacy
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E15

    The IMF must get hold of a horde of Nazi gold through four young men, sons of Hitler's top aides, who are sent to Switzerland to meet for the first time and pool their parts of the "puzzle" together.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - The Confession
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    S1:E22

    Andreas Solowiechek, a member of a Communist trade delegation, is arrested after assassinating a U.S. Senator, Townsend. Townsend's backer, McMillan, is rallying his supporters for the U.S. to break off all trade talks with the Russians.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 14 - Attack of the Monster Plants
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    S1:E14

    Plants grow to huge proportions and can duplicate any item placed in them - but those items are made of plant material and are useless. John Robinson must use the biggest batch of plant killer he's ever mixed up to stop these things from engulfing the spaceship.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - The Diamond
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E19

    Henrik Durvard has taken over the country of Lombounda by military coup, and holds the natives in terror. He has obtained a diamond from the native miners, and the IMF are assigned to take it away from him.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  11. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Wild Adventure
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    S2:E2

    Shortly after leaving their original crash-site planet, Smith spots a familiar star and, in an amazing show of stellar navigational skill, calculates the course to get back to Earth. He extracts a promise from Don and John that they'll return to Earth, or else he'll destroy his navigation data. They agree, but inform the family at dinnertime that they are headed for Alpha Centauri after all, mainly because the Earth is on the other side of the Sun (how do they know that? - do they know the date? And besides, from Alpha Centauri, Earth revolves clockwise, visible all the time). Smith changes course 180 degrees, then clumsily jettisons most of the fuel. They reach a refueling barge, one of several that Alpha Control put out in 1996, top up the tanks, and resume course for Alpha Centauri, not knowing that they've picked up a tailgater who follows them after Smith reverses course to Earth again. The alarm goes off in the night, and they expend a lot of fuel pulling away from the Earth's

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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

    S2:E3

    Two scientists and their wives have been kidnapped by enemy agent Eric Stavak. If Stavak doesn't get ahold of a third scientist, the other two are useless and will be killed. If he gets the third, than Stavak will have the key to an ""ultimate weapon"" project. Phelps and Cinnamon pretend to be the third scientist and his wife and alllow themselves to be kidnapped and taken to the other two scientists and their wives. Phelps predicts an upcoming earthquake, which the IMF team goes to work and fake-implements. Phelps digs out an escape route through a storm drain, only to be shoved aside by Stavak and his henchmen as they make their escape. While Jim leads everyone out of a perfectly-working elevator, Stavak and the others are captured as they emerge onto a perfectly-intact San Francisco street.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - The Slave (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    In the country of Elkabar, King Ibn Borca is conducting a brisk slave business with the aid of supplier Karl de Groot. de Groot raids into neighboring countries. The IMF team must put the two men out of business. Barney lets himself be captured by de Groot, gets the info on a cell, then escapes with the info so they can create an exact duplicate of the cell. Jim "sells" Cinnamon to de Groot, then Willy retrieves her and captures de Groot. Jim then approaches de Groot's partner Jara and tells him he killed de Groot and that Jara has a new partner...

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Slave (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E6

    Willy kidnaps Princess Amara, wife of the king's brother Fasar, who knows nothing of his brother's slave racket. They put Amara in the duplicate cell and then Rollin-as-Borca tells her she will be sold at the next auction. Jim delivers Cinnamon to Borca, and then they dress up a sedated Amara as Cinnamon, and Barney and Willy switch her for Cinnamon. Rollin, masquerading as an Interpol agent, convinces Fasar to go to a slave auction that Borca is holding. Disguised, the men watch as "Cinnamon" is put up for auction. Fasar reveals himself and Amara's disguise is revealed. She tells her husband of the slave cells. Borca is killed and Fasar puts an end to slavery in Elkabar.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 26 - A Cube of Sugar
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E26

    Vincent Deane is a jazz musician and undercover U.S. intelligence operative who has memorized the plans to a microcircuit code but was then captured and imprisoned. The IMF must get him out.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 28 - The Psychic
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E28

    An investment promoter, Alex Lowell, gained control of NATO top-secret defense hardware and absconded to South America to sell them to enemy powers. The IMF needs to recover the stock documents worth $80 mil.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - The Council (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E12

    Rollin-as-Wayne orders the death of Jim, who is impersonating a federal investigator, without getting the approval of the Syndicate Council. With Jim's killing a a distraction, Rollin breaks into the safe at Syndicate HQ and duplicates the financial records. The Council, unhappy with ""Wayne's"" independence and the fact that the murder is attracting headlines, condemn him to death. Rollin runs, but at the last moment switches place with the real Wayne, who has received plastic surgeon to make him look like Rollin. Wayne is killed by the hitman, Johnny, and the records are used to bust the Syndicate.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 15 - The Photographer
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E15

    David Redding is a photographer and a spy working for the other side, who has supervised the infiltration of 150 agents into the U.S. The agents are apparently carrying some kind of biological plague, and only Redding knows the code. The IMF must get it from him. To do so, they set up Cinnamon as a former fashion model and scientist married to Jim who is working with a bacillus-suspension formula. This gives Redding a reason to accept the assignment - he tortures ""Jim"" who claims the U.S. is planning a nuclear strike. Redding and his assistant Morley plan to take refuge in Redding's bomb shelter and command center after sending a signal to his country (which is blocked by Barney), but Rollin and Willy arrest them. When the IMF fakes a nuclear attack Redding leads the others to the shelter, then ""kills"" Willy. He tries to send more coded messages (again, blocked by Barney), and Rollin witnesses Redding coding them. At the end he leaves as it is revealed that the IMF switched Redding and

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 18 - The Emerald
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E18

    A plan to devaluate U.S. currency was concealed on a valuable emerald by a U.S. spy, and the emerald was inadvertently obtained by Victor Tomar, an international arms dealer. Tomar is traveling by ship, as is Yorgi Petrosian, an enemy agent sent to recover the emerald. Rollin as a card shark gets together with Petrosian and they make a deal - Rollin will cheat Tomar and give Petrosian the gem and keep the winnings. Cinnamon tricks Tomar into getting to a game when Jim pretends to take her expensive bracelet. Tomar loses to Petrosian, but Rollin double-crosses Petrosian and gets the cash and the emerald. Petrosian tries to kill Rollin but Willy knocks him out and they fake that he's been lost overboard and found by a passing trawler. Petrosian wires a message to his aide, William, to kill Petrosian. Then they knock out Petrosian, put him in Rollin's cabin with a mask, and Williams kills Petrosian-as-Rollin and disposes of the body.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - The Counterfeiter
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E20

    Raymond Halder is the owner of a chain of clinics and runs a drug counterfeiting ring. Gant Pharamaceuticals released a drug that helps against primary vascular disease, but the drug is being withdrawn since Halder flooded the market with potentially fatal counterfeits. Gant plans to resissue the drug and the IMF must stop Halder from counterfeiting the new version. The IMF as Federal agents put pressure on Halder, but he escapes. Cinnamon pretends to be a Gant employee in charge of protecting against counterfeits. Gang bribes Rollin the Federal Agent to frame Cinnamon to force her to give him Gant's anticounterfeiting strategy. However, the team use an ultarsonic laser to make Halder think he is suffering from primary vascular disease, and he ends up at one of his own clinics where Barney-as-a-doctor prescribes one of Gant's counterfeits. Terrified for his life, Halder confesses so that he won't get a dose of his own medicine.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  21. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Contender (1)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E2

    Charles Buckman is attempting to gain a stranglehold on all professional and amateur sports. If successful, the U.S. will be discredited in the world athletic community. Buckman is working with Syndicate man Dan Whelan. The IMF must eliminate them. Barney takes a crash course in boxing and impersonates Richy Lamoine. Barney-as-Richy announces a comeback, and Buckman forces manager-Rollin to sign with him. Meanwhile, Jim gets a job with Whelan. But as he sneaks through an access tunnel to get to Whelan's office, Whelan and his men come down the tunnel...

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - The Contender (2)
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E3

    Jim manages to avoid Whelan by hiding in the tunnel pipes overhead. He gets access to a list of Whelan's bookies. Meanwhile, Barney-as-Richy fights his way through a series of matches, helped by a concealed gas emitter in the ring beneath his opponents' corner. Finally Barney faces Buckman's champ Staczek, with orders to take a dive. He knocks out Staczek against Buckman's orders, leaving Buckman to be bankrupted covering the bets.

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    Writer:William Read Woodfield

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William Read Woodfield Ratings Summary

"Revenge of the Gods" is the best rated episode written by William Read Woodfield. It scored 7.5/10 from 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on October 21, 1966. It is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star".