The BEST episodes written by Robert W. Lenski
#1 - A Gathering of Thieves
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 1
Whit Brewer sells lots at Shadow Lake Estates, but the construction works did not start yet. Claude Meecham discovers the fraud and is killed in a car accident. When Whit tries to get rid of his associates, the two rivaling women Madge and Irene ally.
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#2 - The Killing Point
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 14
During his investigations to find millionaire Kirkland's girl friend Ursula P.I. Gannus is shot, because he ""knows too much"". He asks his old friend Barnaby for help. Ursula steals items from Kirkland's art collection and her accomplice Nick smuggles them. Gannus wants to get a piece of the action by extortion.
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#3 - Dark Legacy
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 21
During his honeymoon Paul Barringer falls to death from a cliff. Barnaby investigates for his widow Marilyn and finds out that there is one heir who wants to inherit the Barringer family fortune, killing the others. Marilyn waived, but learns she is pregnant.
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#4 - Murder Once Removed
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 15
When her rich father-in-law R.B. Catlin repudiates her, Melissa kills him in a boating accident. His sister Meg hires Barnaby. When the family reunites at the opening of the will, Arthur, Melissa's brother-in-law, recognizes her as party girl Melinda.
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#5 - A Taste for Murder
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 12
On her 21th birthday Allison Clark gets an emerald necklace, that is stolen. Barnaby investigates for the insurance company. The accomplice of the thief is Kathy Cooper, Allison's friend from the Riding Academy, who romances Alison's wealthy widowed father.
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#6 - Fantasy of Fear
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 19
One year after the death of her daughter Sandy, Kay Lewiston is haunted by a mysterious call from a little girl. She also finds Sandy's pet panda bear and hires Barnaby to clear the mystery and to prove that she is not mad. But the haunting continues.
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#7 - Child of Love, Child of Vengeance (Part 1)
Barnaby Jones - Season 7 - Episode 22
Shortly after lawyer Adams of Nettleson Corporation withdraws a commission from Barnaby, he is killed. In trying to solve the case, Barnaby and J.R. are assisted by Stephanie Capello, a young colleague of Adams, who tells he was searching for Diana Scott. Diana went to the ""Center for Spiritual Enlightment"".
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#8 - Child of Love, Child of Vengeance (Part 2)
Barnaby Jones - Season 7 - Episode 23
During the course of their investigations Barnaby gets his license revoked due to a false accusation, and J.R. joins the ""Center"" to find Diana, who turns out to be the illegitimate child of Mimi Nettleson Chiles of Nettleson Corp. and the leader of the religious cult, Garrison, rejected by Mimi's family.
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#9 - Trial Run for Death
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 5
Curt Fowler discovers his brother-in-law, race car champion Mark Landy, kissing Lori Wright. As he threatens to tell his sister, Mark kills him and tries to fake a trial run accident. When Barnaby comes on to scene, Lori wants to make profit from being a witness.
#10 - Stand-In for Death
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 9
Medic Marshall Briggs watches his wife Ellie leaving Gary Denning's boat. He kills the assumed rival and fakes a boating accident. When Barnaby discovers that Ellie's lover is tennis teacher Victor and Marshall wants to correct his mistake, he tries to help them.
#11 - A Short Happy Life
Barnaby Jones - Season 7 - Episode 21
Buoyant Foxey comes to visit her cousin Betty, and is dated by fellow passenger Arnie. She doesn't know that he hid the key to a locker in one of her pinching sandals, now sent to a shoe repair. Foxey is pursued by two men, who try to get the key after killing Arnie.
#12 - Theater of Fear
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 2
Shirley Evans, a former theater star, had to stop her career due to blows of fate, a fatal car accident and alcoholism. Now she plans a comeback, but is harassed by telephone calls and pursued by a prowler. Is it Lloyd Kilgore, who is found dead in Shirley's pool?
#14 - Who Killed Helen French?
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 14
The police learn that a victim of spousal abuse has been leading a double life.
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#15 - Band of Evil
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 6
During a fishing vacation Barnaby and J.R. are hired by rancher Tim Carter to investigate a conversation overheard by Carter's daughter,Cassie, on her CB radio. Cassie believes that a hired hand, was the victim of foul play on his way out of town. J.R. uses his knowledge of the lingo used on CB radios to help Barnaby figure out that the disappearance is tied to a drug smuggling operation.
#19 - The Deadly Jinx
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 15
After several boyfriends of rich orphaned Jenny Sutherland have been killed or crippled, the housekeeper Kathy Revere asks Barnaby to investigate. Jenny believes she is a jinx, but Barnaby tries to find out whether these were accidents or murder was involved.
#21 - The First Day of Forever
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 3
Stone and Keller finally get a lead on a serial killer who has been knifing prostitutes when one of the victims survives the attack.
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#24 - Deadline for Dying
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 2
Ben Ross falls to death after telling reporter Larry Christopher about an ecological association that is a fraud. Barnaby and J.R. investigate for Ross' wife. Christopher spots Ross' informer Ruth Sorrell and becomes a murder suspect when she is killed.
#25 - The Stalking Horse
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 24
Stayley Kircher, a warehouse owner, hires Barnaby to find out who tried to kill him. Barnaby poses as long lost brother Harry Kircher with Betty as his Girl Friday. They discover that several employees of unwitting Stayley are involved in a munition contraband.
#26 - Cry Danger
Mannix - Season 7 - Episode 12
An old girlfriend makes Mannix the man in the middle of rival smugglers.
#28 - The Man Who Wasn't There
Mannix - Season 6 - Episode 16
A boastful nemesis takes Peggy for bait.
#29 - Die Before They Wake
Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 14
A prostitute with a drug addiction (Tina Louise)holds the key to solving the murders of her roomate and a local TV reporter.
#30 - To Quote a Dead Man
Mannix - Season 6 - Episode 22
Someone is trying to kill a bum for his ""coat of many colors.""
#32 - The Good Seeds
Planet of the Apes - Season 1 - Episode 4
Burke and Virdon have to seek the help of a gorilla farmer and his family when Galen falls sick.
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#33 - Hear No Evil
Cannon - Season 2 - Episode 11
Dale and Laura Corey are a happily married couple who own an electronics store; he does a lot of electronic eavesdropping for clients, she was a cop on the force with Cannon a few years back, and hires him because Dale is being threatened after bugging some hotel rooms for the owner and catching three guests in compromising positions. The three are being blackmailed, and think Dale is behind it. Cannon interviews them and determines that one of the three is blackmailing the other two.
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#36 - Tomorrow's Tide
Planet of the Apes - Season 1 - Episode 6
An ape who runs a fishing business plans to use Virdon and Burke as slaves after he captures them.
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