The BEST episodes written by Dale Mcraven
#1 - Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 26
In a hurry to go to the theatre, Rob, Buddy and Sally forget to cross out all the insults about Alan they wrote in this week's script.
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#2 - None But the Onely
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 2
Keith's scheme to meet a new girl at school using Laurie's newspaper advice column backfires.
#3 - Beethoven, Brahms, and Partridge
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 3
Keith meets Rachel Weston, a beautiful classical music student, at his junior college and is surprised when he learns he has never heard of """"The Partridge Family"""" and their music. Keith invites her home to meet the family and hear some of their hits. Rachel thinks their music is nice, but unimportant. She tells Keith that with his talent, he should write something classical. The family's eardrums suffer when Keith begins to compose """"Partridge's First Concerto for Cello in D Major,"""" which is played at the conservatory by the college orchestra. The concerto turns out to be a total disaster, but the family decides to be kind to Keith and help him over his failure. Keith, however, encouraged by Rachel, who loves the concerto, thinks he's on the road to musical immortality. He decides to use his trust fund to pay for a recording session with professionals to preserve his great work for posterity. Shirley, worried about Keith's wasting his money, has Reuben contact Walter Yost, a famous
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#4 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex... but Couldn't Pronounce
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 20
American's "heartthrob," Keith Partridge, is falling his sex education course at school. When the family hears about this they find it hard to stifle their laughter, until they realize that if he does fail, he won't graduate.
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#5 - Mork Meets Robin Williams
Mork & Mindy - Season 3 - Episode 14
Robin Williams is in town and Mindy can't get an interview. Mork doesn't think he looks anything like Robin Williams, but he gets chased by a mob of fans. Mork gets Mindy and himself into Robin Williams' dressing room, leading to a face-to-face interview with him.
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#6 - Is This Trip Necessary?
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 12
Everyone important in Washington suffers bad dreams and the president orders CONTROL to discover why. At that moment, KAOS' Mad Pharmacist Jarvis Pim appears on TV to demand $50 million in ransom. If he doesn't get it, he'll use his new hallucinogenic drug on the entire population of the city. Max and 99 track Pim to the Dartfoot Spring Water Company, where Pim captures them using "the old mortar in the mortar trick."
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#7 - This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went to Market
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 1
It's role reversal time in the Partridge household as Keith takes home economics and Laurie takes auto shop. Keith's struggles with cooking make him the target of barbs from the school bully, and things really heat up when Laurie gives the tough a Judo flip. Keith is then challenged to a fight, and must face up to the bully even if it means getting his face turned to hamburger.
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#8 - I Left My Heart in Cincinnati
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 17
One season before The Brady Bunch went to Kings Island, The Partridge Family does a gig there. Keith falls in love with the park director. When Keith asked her out on a date, he finds that Danny asked first. So Danny humiliates Keith by taking him on all the fast scary rides on their date! Shirley found out what happened & was mad @ Danny! Keith has a talk with Danny saying that she's 20 years older than him. And when gets ready to ask her out to a movie, she has a date, CHRIS!
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#9 - A Christmas Story
Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 11
Larry and Balki are snowed in Chicago on Christmas Eve which means they can't go to Madison to see Larry's family. So Larry is miserable until Balki spreads some Christmas cheer his way.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 15
On maneuvers, Carter gives Gomer false information---hoping he'll be captured by the enemy camp.
#11 - Hel-l-l-p
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 20
It's a battle of the sexes as Shirley and Laurie prove to their male chauvinist counterparts to be better able to handle the wilderness.
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#12 - The Last of Howard
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 7
The family and Reuben board the T.S.S. Fairsea, a cruise ship, to play a singing engagement while sailing to Acapulco. On board, Laurie meets a young man who introduces himself as Howard Wainwright III, the heir to a large fortune. Despite Wainwright's clumsiness and his attempts to impress everyone, Laurie agrees to go out with him. Keith is suspicious of the young man's intentions and enlist Danny's aid in spying on them. A few days later, Howard gifts Laurie with an expensive bracelet that he claims is a family heirloom, but which Keith believes to be the stolen property of a wealthy passenger. He's convinced that Howard is an international jewel thief who is using Laurie to smuggle the stolen bracelet through customs. Keith, Danny and Reuben concoct a scheme to steal the bracelet back and return it to the rightful owner during the ship's costume party. At the party, the idea backfires and the trio is caught.
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#13 - Swiss Family Partridge
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 9
After a few weeks on the road, the kids are overjoyed to hear that Shirley and Reuben have arranged for the family to spend a weekend in the mountains near Lake Tahoe. But as soon as they enter the cabin, which has no heat or electricity, the skies open and buckets of rain come pouring down. Fated to at least a few hours of being inside, the kids realize that there is no television with which they can plug the electrical musical equipment. Boredom takes over, and when they hear over the transistor radio that the rain will continue for at least another five days, everyone, including Shirley and Reuben, begins to panic. In fact, they feel doomed to die. All the melodramatics prove unnecessary, however, and a forest ranger knocks on the door, in the process of checking the area to see if anyone is in trouble. With his help the Partridges are able to leave, and once again they find themselves in the warmth and security of their own living room.
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#14 - The Honeymoon
Mork & Mindy - Season 4 - Episode 3
Mork and Mindy take their honeymoon on Ork, but Mindy becomes a tourist attraction. Things keep going wrong and Mork doesn't understand Earth honeymoon customs. He confesses to Mindy that he's scared of being married.
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#15 - Uhny Uftz
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 3
While working very late, Rob thinks he hears and sees a small flying saucer outside the office window.
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#16 - Mork's Night Out
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 21
When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley go for a night out at a singles bar.
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#17 - Mork's First Christmas
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mork learns about Christmas, and his thoughtful gifts are unforgettable.
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#18 - Dueling Skates
Mork & Mindy - Season 3 - Episode 4
When Wheels, the owner of the daycare center, announces plans to level the building, Mork challenges him to a skate-off through the city of Boulder.
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#19 - Sky Flakes Keep Falling on My Head
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 17
Mork and Mindy vacation in a cabin in the woods.
#20 - Pilot (2)
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mork continues his story about his date with Laverne. When Mindy's father, Fred, discovers that Mork had moved in with Mindy, Deputy Tilwick offers to scare Mork off. Tilwick believes Mork is insane and tries to have him committed.
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#21 - Up on a Roof
Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 20
Larry enters a photo contest and has the idea of a perfect picture. But to take it, him and Balki have to go up on a roof and shoot it before a storm comes in.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 10
Gomer dates a girl with similar interests, then discovers that she considers them engaged after the first date.
#24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls . . . and Tolls . . . and Tolls
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 15
The Partridge Family discovers that during the night someone has entered their house and burglarized their TV, radio and stereo. As a gift Reuben has a burglar alarm installed in the Partridge home. It has sensor pads in various places under the carpeting – one step on a sensor and the house is filled with a heart-stopping, loud, clanging bell. While the Partridges are trying to adjust to the alarm and remember to turn it off when they are in the house, the neighbors are getting more furious each time it is set off accidentally. Petitions are being signed asking that the alarm be removed. When Shirley goes to the garage to shut off another """"false alarm"""" she finds Morris Dinkler, an escaped-con who holds the Partridge family and Reuben hostage. He purposely chose their house because of the alarm, knowing that new alarms are frequently set off by accident and after awhile the police don't bother to come. Everyone assumes the bulge in Morris' pocket, which he refers to as """"Big Bertha,""
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#25 - Promise Her Anything, But Give Her a Punch
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 21
Danny is in love for the first time... with an 11-year-old girl named Gloria Hickey. He thinks he hates her and constantly hits her with mudballs and his fist, but his family sees that he has a big crush on her. When Gloria visits the Partridge family to sell them cookies, Danny buys 12 boxes for $1 apiece. After he is teased, Danny runs up to his room and Shirley goes up to talk to him. Danny confesses he gets a yearning whenever he sees Gloria – an overwhelming desire to run up and grab her and punch her in the arm. Shirley assures him that he is perfectly normal. Danny wants to ask Gloria to the 6th grade dance and tries to seek advice from Keith and Laurie. He's really afraid to make the move. Just then, Gloria rings the doorbell and Danny dashes away. She has come over to ask a Partridge to the dance... but unfortunately not Danny. It seems she is in love with Keith. Danny learns the truth and makes life miserable for Keith, the """"housewrecker."""" First he kicks Keith in the shins,
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#26 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Perfect Strangers - Season 1 - Episode 1
Larry Appleton has just settled in his new Chicago apartment after leaving home of one of nine kids and took a job at the corner discount store working for his greedy landlord Mr. Twinkacetti until he can eventually become a photo journalist. But one evening, Balki Bartokomous, his distant cousin and a Mediterranean sheep herder from the island of Mypos shows up on his door step looking for a place to stay. So Larry takes him in and tries to get him a job at Twinkacetti's store which may mean risking his own job.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 21
Gomer befriends the little daughter of a visiting colonel.
#28 - Mork & Mindy Meet Rick & Ruby
Mork & Mindy - Season 3 - Episode 17
Remo fires Ruby, the pregnant singer of the restaurant's band. Mindy takes in Rick and Ruby then tries to convince Remo to rehire them.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 27
Carter bets Gomer he can't get a date with Miss Camp Henderson.
#30 - Pilot (1)
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 1
Mork's boss, Orson, assigns Mork to study the planet Earth and, shortly after landing in the woods near Boulder, Colorado, he meets Mindy McConnell. Back at Mindy's apartment, she discovers that Mork is an alien, and offers to help him study Earth. In a flashback sequence, Mork tells Mindy about a previous visit to Earth when Fonzie arranged a date for him with Laverne.
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#31 - The Exidor Affair
Mork & Mindy - Season 2 - Episode 14
Exidor wants to propose to a meter maid and asks Mork for help.
#32 - Mork in Wonderland (1)
Mork & Mindy - Season 2 - Episode 1
Mork shrinks after taking a cold capsule.
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#33 - Days of Acne and Roses
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 8
Wendell is 16 years old, skinny, unsure of himself and a real klutz. He is a student at Laurie's and Keith's school and also delivers groceries to the Partridges. The family suddenly realizes that he has flipped over Laurie, but he is much too shy and awkward to ask her out. Danny goes to the store where Wendell works and asks him if he'd like to have a date with Laurie. He drags Wendell back to the house and recruits Keith to give him a few lessons concerning girls. Both Partridge boys take Wendell into the house and hold him there until he finally stammers out an invitation for Friday night. Laurie accepts. Later, the Partridge Family realizes that they will be doing a concert in Phoenix Friday night, so Laurie has the difficult job of breaking her date. Meanwhile, Wendell has gained such confidence from her acceptance that it is doubly hard for her. She tells him and he immediately slips back to his former self... stumbling and clumsy. Laurie wants to make it up to him the next week
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#34 - Mork in Wonderland (2)
Mork & Mindy - Season 2 - Episode 2
While shrunk, Mork finds himself in an odd world.
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#35 - Not With My Sister, You Don't
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 23
Tall, handsome Lester Braduck transfers to Keith and Laurie's high school and within two weeks he has taken out half the girls. Keith and the other boys are having fits. Meanwhile, Laurie comes home very excited one day and announces that Lester has asked her out. Keith tells Shirley about Lester's Don Juan reputation at school, but Shirley replies that the rumors could be false. Besides, she has enough trust in her daughter... but Shirley talks to Laurie anyway. Laurie assures her that Lester is very shy and the girls are annoying him. Keith goes up to Lester at school and introduces himself. He asks if Lester would like to double with him and a girl when he takes Laurie out. Lester says yes, but when he hears who the girls are that Keith would invite, he refuses since he has already taken them out. Laurie goes on the date and Keith and Danny follow in the bus.
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#36 - Me and My Shadow
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 25
The Partridge Family attend a lecture by Mike Rezo, a famous mystery writer. After the lecture they meet him and the discussion leads to the fact that everyone but Rezo feels that his stories are more fantasy than true to life. Rezo believes that using human nature and logic anything is possible. In order to prove his point, Rezo offers the Partridges a deal they can't refuse. He will give them a two-hour head start and then begin looking for them; if he can't locate them within 24 hours, he will donate $25,000 to their favorite charity. The next morning the chase begins. No matter where they go, Rezo and his agent, Lazaar Hannibal, seem to turn up. The family pretends to leave their house and drive around for an hour before returning to the house – thinking that's the last place he'd look. When they get out of the car Rezo is waiting. They try getting lost in a crowd, hiding in an apartment of a friend of Reuben's, even the local """"lovers' lane,"""" always to find Rezo waiting. Shirley
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#37 - My Dad Can't Beat Up Anybody
Mork & Mindy - Season 4 - Episode 6
Mork becomes insecure when he thinks he doesn't have Mearth's respect. Mearth finds Mork's spacesuit and Mork wears it as a superhero costume. Mork and Mearth go to a bar, looking for some bad guys and they find more than they bargained for.
#38 - Exidor's Wedding
Mork & Mindy - Season 2 - Episode 16
Exidor's mother shows up and tries to keep him from getting married.
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#39 - Road Song
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 22
The Partridge family and Reuben are eating in a seedy restaurant in New Mexico when a young girl, Maggie Newton, comes up to them and asks for a ride to Albuquerque. She tells them she is going to see her father who is an archaeologist. After they leave, a patrolman enters the restaurant and asks the waitress if she has seen a young girl. The picture he shows her is of Maggie. When the bus arrives at a hotel, Maggie says goodbye and goes on. The patrolman comes to the motel and tells Shirley he is looking for Maggie and when Shirley and Reuben find Maggie the next day, they ask her why the police are after her. She doesn't tell them the truth but they learn from a sheriff in Kumquist, New Mexico, that Maggie is a runaway she lives with her grandparents in Nebraska but runs away every other week to her father in Albuquerque. Shirley tells the sheriff that she will be responsible for getting Maggie together with her grandparents.
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#40 - The Curse of the Petrie People
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 18
Rob's mother gives Laura a family heirloom - a huge brooch in the shape of the United States.
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#41 - Go Directly to Jail
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 10
After performing at a penitentiary, the family must stay overnight in a jail cell.
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#42 - Dog Day Blind Dates
Laverne & Shirley - Season 1 - Episode 6
Laverne & Shirley double date with two criminals who secretly intend on robbing the bank next to the Pizza Bowl.
#43 - A Penny for His Thoughts
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 5
In the middle of the night a Hells' Angel-type named Snake zooms up on his motorcycle and rings the Partridges' doorbell. Irritated at being awakened, Shirley and the rest of the family feel obligated to listen to his friend of Laurie's tale of woe. He wants to commit suicide because after breaking all convention by proposing to his girlfriend Penny, she has the audacity to hang up on him. When Shirley realizes that Snake's proposal took place over the phone, she patiently explains to him that a marriage proposal, being the most important event in a girl's life, should not take place over a telephone. She suggests that he dress in a tie and jacket and go to propose in person. But Penny again refuses, for she feels that Snake is making fun of her by having donned such fancy clothes. Laurie goes to visit Penny and tells her that Snake will kill himself if she does not accept his proposal. Finally convinced that Snake truly loves her, Penny rushes to the Partridge house, where he has temp
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#44 - Remember the Alimony
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 20
In another flashback episode, Rob and Laura take a romantic trip across the border to Mexico only to find out that the hotel they are staying in is where couples go to get divorced.
#45 - Body and Sol
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 11
Rob tells Buddy and Sally of the time he became the middle weight champion of his Army Camp.
#46 - It's All Over Now, Baby Bird
The Odd Couple - Season 1 - Episode 10
Felix's parrot dies, and he insists on a formal funeral.
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#47 - Love Thy Other Neighbor
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 29
After Laura and Rob spend some time with their new neighbors, Jerry and Millie feel left out.
#48 - The Making of a Councilman
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 17
Rob wonders if he has enough experience to run for city councilman, after meeting his opponent.
#49 - Br-rooom, Br-rooom
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4 - Episode 31
Rob's new motorcycle causes him more problems than he bargained for.
#50 - I Do Not Choose to Run
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 16
Rob gives a speech at council meeting that impresses the nominating committee for city councilman of New Rochelle.