The BEST episodes directed by Charles Picerni
#1 - A Deadly Parlay
Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 22
After Houston's friend Winston Fowler's top jockey Cindy Gaines breaches her contract with him to move to England, she is fatally pitch-forked in a stable. Houston is found standing over her remains and subsequently arrested for her murder.
#2 - Partners
Starsky & Hutch - Season 3 - Episode 21
Starsky's reckless driving in pursuit of two robbers lands both himself and Hutch in hospital, with Hutch seemingly suffering from amnesia, unable to remember his partner or anything about their jobs. Starsky reminds him of some of their past adventures in an attempt to revive his memory...
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#3 - A Clear and Present Danger
Blue Thunder - Season 1 - Episode 2
A paramilitary group who call themselves the ""Posse Magistratus"", have been the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies, and one particulary involving a heavily-modified World War II fighter plane. In order to track down this plane and stop the whole game, Chaney and Wonderlove attempt to track it down, based on various aerial police sightings. When accomplishing this, Chaney spots gun mounts on a plane that they performed an unauthorised thermograph upon, and results in not in the state of valid evidence to charge the Sheriff who owns it for the state-threatening operations. However that same day, the same World War II figher plane attacks them, and ends up being shot down by Chaney in Blue Thunder. To posess reliable and sufficent evidence to charge the ''Posse Magistrates'' of the crimes they have took out, Ski goes undercover as a mechanic, but it isn't long until Chaney and Wonderlove discover that the group plan to kill one of the cities' main councilmen at the Queen Mary s
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#4 - Television Terror
Tales from the Crypt - Season 2 - Episode 16
Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.
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#5 - Ancient Eyes
Stingray (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 1
On the trail of a missing fieldworker Ray discovers a marijuana farm whose owners kill the workers when the harvest is over.
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T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 2
The latest in a series of armed robberies on super-markets leaves a young cashier possibly paralysed when the thieves take her hostage and then push her from their speeding car to slow up the pursuing cops. The cars used by the robbers are specially modified ""hill racers"", leading to the local hill racing champion, an old friend of Hooker's, being wrongly arrested as the prime suspect. Hooker must prove his innocence by speeding after the real culprits...
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T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 7
A traffic hold-up leads by chance to Romano spotting a freshly stolen car, and when he goes to approach, one of the offenders opens fire, badly wounding him. As the juvenile roped into the robberies makes a run for it, one of the ring-leaders shoots him too - but to a watching TV camera, it looks as if it was Hooker who fired the shot! With Hooker facing an investigation over the shooting and Romano on the verge of loosing his nerve after being shot, the masterminds behind the car-theft operation are still at large...
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#9 - China Doll
Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 8
C.J. asks Matt to solve the murder of an old college friend, Connie Ling, who was involved with heroin dealers.
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#12 - Houston is Dead
Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 15
While on a case investigating unnecessary drugging of convalescent patients, Matt is seriously wounded.
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#16 - Birds of a Feather
Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 15
A former partner of Hutch's arranges the murder of a witness in order to pay off his wife's gambling debts.
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#17 - Autumn
Stingray (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 7
Ray ends up in real trouble when he gets involved in a fantasy case made up by an author who needed an idea for his book.
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