The BEST episodes written by Don Balluck
#1 - An Anger Greater Than Mine
The High Chaparral - Season 4 - Episode 1
Embittered former revolutionary Diego De La Paula leads his newly-formed army of liberation in a series of harassing raids on the vast lands and herds of the Cannons and Montoyas. He charges they won their wealth at the expense of his deposed hero, Maximilian. Aware of the seriousness and growing destructive power of the vengeful Diego, John Cannon and Don Sebastian Montoya join forces to thwart the attacks with a unique plan that results in a face-to-face confrontation between the elder Montoya and the self-styled liberator. good show
#2 - God Child / Curtain Call
Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 4
In "God Child" little Laurie Shannon who lost her parents in an accident wishes to ask God why he took them. And in "Curtain Call" a once-famous comedian whose TV show was canceled wishes to do one last shot.
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#3 - The Lost Ones (2)
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 22
The Cooper children go home with Charles, but as they're adjusting, a set of adoptive parents arrive.
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#4 - License to Kill
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 12
Stone's ex-partner comes to town with a deadly vendetta: kill the man who murdered his son.
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#5 - The Lost Ones (1)
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 21
While making an out-of-town delivery, Albert and Charles meet and travel with the Cooper family. An accident occurs en route with the parents, leaving Charles in charge of their two children.
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Hawaii Five-O - Season 11 - Episode 18
A private detective is rescuing girls from prostitution, and using the opportunity to kill the pimps as well.
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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 25
Determined to seek a new career as an artist, Blue announces his decision to leave the Cannon Ranch for good. Blue is chided by men of the Chaparral for assuming his drawings have merit. Blue has the last work, however, when an editor sees some of his work and offers him a high-paying job in the city.
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#8 - A Christmas They Never Forgot
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 11
Mary, Adam, Hester Sue, the Wilders, and the Ingalls are all together for Christmas. The snow begins falling and soon they are snowed in by a blizzard. To pass time, several of them tell stories. Laura talks about the Christmas in Kansas when Mr. Edwards came.
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#9 - Men Will Be Boys
Little House on the Prairie - Season 5 - Episode 10
Jonathan and Charles allow their boys to prove their manhood by allowing them to take a trip to Sleepy Eye by themselves. Jonathan and Charles secretly follow the boys. The boys end up making the trip with no problems at all. However, the fathers get into some embarrassing situations following their boys.
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#10 - The Enchanted Cottage
Little House on the Prairie - Season 5 - Episode 21
Mary starts to be able to distinguish light from dark and the Ingalls believe she is regaining her sight. Mary is taken to the specialist only to discover that a brain impulse was causing her to see light when she felt the heat from the sun coming through a window. While Mary is away, Albert and Laura fix up Mr. Edwards' old home. However, the only colors of paint that the mercantile has is pink and purple. Mary returns and talks to Laura in the old Edwards' cabin. Laura tells Mary that her and Albert were building a club house. Mary tells Laura she is glad she can't see the room after Laura tells her what colors they used.
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#11 - The In-Laws
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 9
Charles and Almanzo expand their business by delivering goods to Sleepy Eye. After arguing about the quickest way to get there, they decide to make it a race.
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#12 - I Do, Again
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 20
When Laura announces her pregnancy, Caroline believes that she herself is also expecting—until Doc Baker confirms it is menopause.
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#13 - The Aftermath
Little House on the Prairie - Season 4 - Episode 8
Jesse and Frank James hide out in Walnut Grove. The people of Walnut Grove find out who they really are when bounty hunters come looking for them.
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#14 - Divorce, Walnut Grove Style
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 7
Newlyweds Laura and Almanzo have been bickering more than usual lately, and it escalates when Laura suspects Manly of unfaithfulness.
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#15 - Barn Burner
Little House on the Prairie - Season 5 - Episode 20
It all starts when a local farmer, who is hateful and bigoted, refuses to set a fair price for wheat, since black farmers would be entitled to the same price. The whole thing escalates when the farmer assaults Andy and is later accused of setting fire to the Garvey's barn.
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#16 - Down to a Sunless Sea
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 - Episode 17
Steven Bass, Catherine's ex-fiance resurfaces. He has all ready been in a mental institute and is very strange. Vincent has dreams of disaster connected to Catherine. He warns her but she thinks that he is paranoid or jealous. When trouble does come to her Vincent is right there.
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#17 - Second Chance
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 16
Hester Sue's ex-husband, Sam, comes to town. He tells Hester Sue that he was no longer a drinker and a gambler. Hester Sue believes he has changed and soon decides to marry him. Hester Sue learns the truth about Sam when his wife and kids come and warn Hester Sue that Sam is still a drinker and gambler.
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#18 - A Faraway Cry
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 20
A longtime friend of Caroline writes to her and asks for help. Her friend is pregnant and lives at a gold prospector's camp where there is an outbreak of influenza. Caroline finds out that her friend's husband doesn't like her wife. In fact, he wants his wife's baby to die. Caroline's friend dies during childbirth, but the child survives. In another tent, a mother's child dies while be born. Caroline decides to give the baby to the other mother since she knows that the baby will be taken care of properly.
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#19 - Uncle Jed
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 15
An elderly relative of James and Cassandra tries to get custody away from Charles. He ends up being unsuccessful in the lawsuit, which means that Charles kept custody of the children.
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#20 - Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow (1)
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 17
The Wilders' budding marriage is put to its first major test when Almonzo, soon after recovering from an illness, is felled by a stroke.
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#21 - Crossed Connections
Little House on the Prairie - Season 6 - Episode 12
The telephone comes to Walnut Grove, and Mrs. Olesen is hired as the switchboard operator. She takes advantage of her responsibilities to engage in her favorite pastime: gathering gossip. It will have a very damaging effect on the Garveys' marriage when she learns about Alice's hidden past.
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#22 - The High Cost Of Being Right
Little House on the Prairie - Season 4 - Episode 9
After Mr. Garvey's barn burns to the ground with the crops inside, his wife, Alice, takes a job at the post office. Mr. Garvey opposes this believing that a man should be able to support his family. He is ready to get a divorce until he realizes what his stubborn pride was doing to his family.
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#23 - The Bait
Starsky & Hutch - Season 1 - Episode 9
Starsky and Hutch work undercover as snazzy-dressed drug dealing pimps in an operation to put a heroin-pushing syndicate out of business. They spring a young woman, arrested for unwillingly acting as a drug courier, from jail, and convince her to act as a lure in a bid to trap the elusive drug kingpin at the head of the syndicate...
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#24 - Fight Team Fight!
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 4
A former football star settles back into his childhood town of Walnut Grove with his wife and son. His zealous coaching is in conflict with Laura's schooling, and his interest in Albert's talent alienates his own son.
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#25 - The Godsister
Little House on the Prairie - Season 5 - Episode 14
In this episode starring twins Lindsey and Sidney Greenbush, Charles takes a job on a telephone crew that is working in southern Minnesota, which requires him to be away from home for several weeks. Carrie, heartsick for her Pa and craving attention, only manages to get into everybody else's way, so the lonesome tyke creates an imaginary friend, Alyssa, to ease the pain.
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#26 - The Return Of Nellie
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 8
Nellie returns to Walnut Grove and discovers that Nancy is a lot worse than she ever was. When Nancy isn't the center of attention, she runs away. Nels and Nellie search until they find her. Just when they think Nancy has learned a valuable lesson, she proves that she really hasn't.
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#27 - Once Upon A Time
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 15
Laura writes a book for a book writing contest. Her book is chosen. She travels to Minneapolis to work out a deal with the publisher. However, when the publisher wants her to change some parts in her book, she withdraws from the contest and goes back home.
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#28 - The Faith Healer
Little House on the Prairie - Season 6 - Episode 10
A preacher who works as a faith healer establishes a congregation in Walnut Grove, taking parishioners from Rev. Alden's church. But things grow deadly serious when a teen-age boy dies from a ruptured appendix after being healed from the pain.
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Hawaii Five-O - Season 10 - Episode 10
A gang of university students plan a hoax tidal wave in order to steal priceless jewellery.
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Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 8
It's hot and the air keeps going out in the police station. A street kid threatens Pepper while she drags him into a prison cell, making her wonder why the guys seem to take their rage out on women, if there's one around.
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#31 - Hello and Goodbye
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 22
Mr. Montague stays at the Wilder boarding house while he is at Walnut Grove researching for a book that he is writing. Matthew Roger has a hard decision to make when his biological father shows up. Matthew decides to leave Mr. Edwards and go with his father. Mr. Edwards moves into the boarding house so he wouldn't be lonely anymore.
#32 - A Child With No Name
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 18
Laura gives birth to a baby boy. The baby is fine and healthy for a while. Then for no apparent reason the baby dies. To ease her mind of the death, she blames Doc Baker for what happened to her baby. Doc's reputation declines so much that he must leave town to find work. Just before Doc Baker leaves, Rose comes down with small pox. Doc must stay quarantined with the Wilders for two weeks. Watching the Doc save Rose's life causes Laura to rethink her attitude about Doc Baker. Laura and the rest of the town convince him to stay on.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 14
Pepper is the decoy in a strategy to capture a schizophrenic young man who strangles middle-aged women.
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#34 - Alden's Dilemma
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 11
A minister that is passing through Walnut Grove arouses the suspicions of Reverend Alden and Mr. Edwards. Reverend Alden believes that he will lose his congregation to the other reverend. Mr. Edwards notices that this minister spends a lot of time with Mrs. Carter and Laura, which causes him to suspect the worse.
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The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 12
The Cannon Ranch is threatened by an Indian war when the military sends a bounty hunter after an Apache brave accused of murder. Johnny Ringo reveals to his old friend Manolito that he has been assigned by the cavalry to arrest Keono. Manolito, fearing Ringo may trigger an Indian uprising, insists on accompanying the bounty hunter. Ignoring Manolito's warnings, Ringo gets his man and involves himself and the men of the Chaparral Ranch in a hopelessly one-sided shoot-out with attacking Apaches.
#36 - Too Many Chiefs
The High Chaparral - Season 3 - Episode 23
Convinced by Victoria that he needs a vacation, John reluctantly leaves Buck, Manolito and Blue in charge of the ranch and returns to an Indian uprising. Victoria convinces John that he needs a break from the rigors of his work. The Cannons take what is intended to be a carefree vacation, leaving the ranch in the eager but inexperienced hands of Buck, Manolito and Blue. John returns to find that the boys have made a few mistakes, not the least of which is the provoking of an all-out Apache uprising.
#37 - Pale Warrior
The High Chaparral - Season 4 - Episode 12
Claiming to have been imprisoned by the Apaches for 15 years, a white man is befriended by the Cannons who soon regret their helpfulness. After aiding Talbot whom they find injured, John Cannon, Victoria, Buck and Manolito become suspicious of the man's true purpose for being in the Cannon Ranch area. It is Wind who uncovers evidence to confirm their suspicions.
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The High Chaparral - Season 4 - Episode 14
Gilbert Roland guest stars as the surprise heir to the Montoya ranch in this special two-hour presentation. The sudden, peaceful passing of Don Sebastian Montoya brings his daughter Victoria, his son Manolito, John Cannon and Buck to the Montoya ranch to attend funeral services and to settle estate matters. All are amazed to learn the will leaves the vast Montoya holding to Don Sebastian's ne'er-do-well brother Don Domingo, a charming, irresponsible rascal currently living in Mexico City. Upon his return to the family home to claim his legacy, Domingo shocks the family by announcing he plans to sell the ranch and travel. A series of unexplained raids on his new-found cattle and property serves to uncover a little-known dimension of Don Domingo