The BEST episodes directed by Dennis Donnelly
#1 - Key to Angela
Falcon Crest - Season 7 - Episode 24
Richard sends the children to Emma while Maggie dries out. He's mulling over what to do about Melissa's plan to get into Hobart now that she's decided not to spy on Lance for him. He takes turns with Emma watching over Maggie, who painfully weans herself of alcohol- until she gets a letter from Vickie, delivered by Emma. Maggie is shocked to find that her daughter is in jail in Switzerland and that her husband is responsible. She goes to call Geneva but finds that the telephones have been removed. Furious and frustrated and feeling totally deceived by her husband, Maggie reaches for a hidden bottle of brandy and pours herself a drink. Richard comes home and finds Maggie seated with a glass of brandy. She tells him she knows where Vickie is and what he has done to put her there. He begs Maggie not to take the drink. The smell of it alone makes her sick, Maggie tells him. She pours the brandy into a nearby planter and says, ""A toast to my daughter in Switzerland."" Richard can't find a th
#2 - Blue Chip Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 20
The Harts return home and find their house ransacked. During the clean-up, they discover a hidden hallway and vault. The Harts and their friend Ida are sealed in the vault when the crooks return to claim the municipal bonds hidden in the vault.
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#3 - My Hart Belongs To Daddy
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 12
Jennifer's reunion with her father is laced with danger and surprise when she learns he is a retired government agent and the target of an assassination.
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#4 - Design for Madness
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 5
Unbalanced widow Amy Cameron, Barnaby's niece, is suspected to have shot Clark Harrison, but cannot remember. After Amy's attempted suicide Barnaby analyzes her blood and finds traces of a hypnotic drug, producing black-outs. He uncovers a scheme involving Amy's house keeper Mary.
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#5 - Hartland Express
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 3
An Air Traffic Controllers' strike forces Jennifer and Jonathan to take a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. When Jennifer discovers a body in their compartment, the Harts become involved in protecting a government witness from would-be assassins.
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#6 - Lost and Found
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 4
Reed and Malloy rush 8-year old Jimmy to Rampart Emergency Hospital with an as yet undiagnosed illness. Upon arrival, the immediate conclusion, and diagnosis are the same: Diabetes. Scared of the hospital, Jimmy runs off, and it's up to Reed and Malloy to find him before he goes into a diabetic coma. They follow the only lead they have, to the one happy place he was before the attack began, at the pet store, to buy a puppy. Elsewhere, Malloy's new girlfriend Cathy mans a hospital telephone hotline which is about to go under due to lack of funds. One call has her worried, that from Sherry, a 15-year old junkie threatening suicide to escape her troubled life. Sherry won't discloes where she is while she takes some "reds," supplied by her similary junike mother. Malloy and Reed need to find her fast, before she OD's. NOTE: This episode is a crossover with "Emergency!", featuring Doctor Bracket and Nurse McCall but also featuring cameos of Dr. Early and Firemen Gage and DeSoto.
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#8 - Skywatch (2)
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 22
Malloy and Reed take to separate helicopter units to continue their observations. The choppers assist in a stolen light plane from LAX by a distraught man, track two robbery suspects fleeing in separate cars, and assist in a nighttime house fire.
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#9 - That Time of Year
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 4
Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a singles club. An instructor is injured during a self-defense class. A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.
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#10 - Rhinestone Harts
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 7
The Harts new musical investment (singer Lorene)is beginning an International tour. The singer's husband Jesse, a jewel thief, has a costume made for her that sparkles with diamonds. The outfit is loaned to Jennifer and Lorene's husband is desperate to retrieve it.
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#11 - A Couple Of Harts
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 2
While vacationing in Acapulco, the Harts borrowed car breaks down. They ask for help at the nearby estate and find themselves posing as domestics, attempting to prevent a politically motivated assassination.
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#12 - The Chaser
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 10
An out-of-state armed private investigator is inside a bar, Malloy and Reed arrive and determine the PI is legally allowed to carry but takes him to his car to stow the gun, and find he is in town looking for a bail jumper. Later the PI is in the middle of an altercation with two black men, one of which is seriously injured. The PI claims the men tried to rob him, later the men tell a different story, and Sgt. MacDonald orders the PI arrested. The PI is found after catching (and roughing up) the bail jumper, and is arrested. Other calls include an elderly man wanting a group of cars driven by hippies ticketed for illegal parking, and a woman who demands the officers ticket her husband's car because he refuses to replace the balding tires on it.
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#13 - Anatomy of a 415
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 22
The officers spot a runaway young boy hiding in the woods and prepare to take him home. En route, they get a 415 (disturbance) call from the boy's address and find his mother and step-father quiet, and are warned by the officers. They return a second time with the couple throwing things at each other and is broken up. Officer Woods lets Malloy and Reed know he has tangled with them before. A third call to the same address forces the officers to send the husband to his sister's house, but he returns to the apartment and when he does, shots ring out just as the officers arrive for the fourth time. Other incidents include a man waiting for his wife encounters a girl who jumps into his cars offering him drugs and a man trying to break into his truck after his dog locked him out.
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#14 - Curtain Call
The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 23
The A-Team reminisces (via flashbacks) about an injured Murdock as they look for a doctor and try to avoid a pursuing Decker.
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#15 - Bottom Line
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 17
Paramedics out in the field begin to question the judgment of overcautious Dr. Morton who believes in acting strictly by the book. The firemen respond to a complaint of severe back pain. A man with phosphorous burns on his arm and a boy hit in the head with a baseball are treated at the hospital. While the firemen respond to a case of difficult breathing, the victim's neighbor drowns in a hot tub. Officer Vince is injured in a traffic incident and begins to act irrationally.
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Hawaii Five-O - Season 11 - Episode 8
McGarrett assists a convict in his escape, so that he can go back to his gang and provide Five-O with inside information.
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#17 - Easy Rap
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 24
Reed loses a case against a young car thief in juvenile court, who is later spotted in his dad's car. Later, a robbery leads to a high-speed pursuit which ends in a traffic accident; the teen car thief is killed in the crash. Other incidents include a girl whose boyfriend died from a heroin "hot shot", and she provides the name and address of his supplier, but the officers need more, so she buys drugs from the supplier and provides the serial number of the $10 bill she used to buy them. The officers stakeout the house and arrest the supplier. An elderly woman insists on being arrested rather than ticketed for a traffic violation.
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#18 - Airdrop
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 3
Malloy and Reed are patrolling the countryside around Los Angeles (and finishing up a call on a drunk driver) when a girl on horseback alerts them to a small plane that landed in a secluded area. When the officers investigate, a Jeep is seen leaving the area and the pilot has an excuse for his landing there. Malloy and Reed find out from Detectives and DEA agent Edwards that a Mexican smuggling ring is behind the landings, with the pilot instructed to "play dumb" if caught. The officers find the pilot and trace the Jeep's location, whereupon the detectives and DEA bring down the entire smuggling operation after tracking the Jeep to the landing area.
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#19 - The Old Engine Cram
Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 2
John and Roy may finally have found someone to buy their antique fire engine. The squad helps a man who injures his back riding his motorcycle, a man who walks into the station and collapses, and a man who has fallen off a cliff. They also have to help one of their own when a firefighting practice session goes badly and volatile chemicals splash a trainee.
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#20 - Harbor Division
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 1
Malloy has to sell two ballet tickets after his date cancels on him and gets needled by the squad. The officers are patrolling the Harbor Division and handle calls for a boat owner overcharged for fuel by a dealer, pull over a driver with a suspicious box on top of his car, investigate a suspicious young couple, pull over an astrologer for reckless driving, and a drunk shooting from the crows nest of a ship.
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#21 - There Goes the Neighborhood
The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 10
The A-Team moves a rock star threatened with kidnapping into a quiet suburban neighborhood, which doesn't stay quite for long.
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#22 - Breakout!
The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 13
After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.
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#23 - Syndrome
Emergency! - Season 2 - Episode 16
John tries to convince Roy he has tonsillitis. An old flame of Dixie's, who is now a famous actor, is admitted to Rampart. Two kids are trapped on top of a gas tank; a girl's college lacrosse game turns violent; Boot has surgery to remove a tick; Dr. Early deals with a hypochondriac. Chet is injured during a rescue and is roomed with Roy, who has had his tonsils removed.
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#24 - Communications
Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 13
Cross-talk between squad 51, another squad and Rampart makes it hard for anyone to understand what's going on, creating a hazard. An airline stewardess wishes to end her life; she won't allow the paramedics to treat her, forcing them to wait until she passes out. A boy gets his arm caught in a press and may lose it. Two joyriding kids manage to get their car on top of a house! Chet purchases a pair of skis and while trying to wax them, accidentally sets them on fire. Roy and Johnny must cope with an explosion while rescuing someone pinned under a car.
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#25 - Involvement
Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 17
Millie Eastman, once head nurse at Rampart but not retired, attempts suicide and finds herself at the hospital she once served. A paraplegic child nearly drowns in a swimming pool. At the hospital, she and Millie form a bond. The paramedics also help a family poisoned by carbon monoxide, a woman wrapped in plastic and a man pinned under a fuel tanker.
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#26 - Sunburn
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 20
Reed returns from an off-day with a uncomfortable full-body sunburn, which causes him problems throughout the watch. Calls include responding to a traffic accident, acting on a tip from an informant, the officers bust a drug dealer working out of abandoned homes, search for a robbery suspect based on a vehicle description, and assist in the rescue of two boys when their boat capsizes.
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#27 - Road Games
The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 18
Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.
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#29 - Hate the Picture...Love the Frame
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 10
Hardcastle is arrested after a woman whom he had prevously had a chance encounter earlier is found dead in his home. Thinking the judge was framed due to his ruling on his latest case, McCormick tries to help his friend get out of jail.
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#30 - The Outsiders
Dallas - Season 2 - Episode 22
Sam Culver is someone J.R thinks is important, but Sam's wife, Donna Culver, is fooling around with Ray Krebbs. Bobby and Pam run into them one night while out, and Pam is worried about Ray being hurt again. Ray is not concerned, he is in love with Donna, and not Pam, Lucy or J.R is going to get in the way.
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#31 - Taking It Easy
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 17
Reed is suffering from a wrist injury which puts him on desk duty, while Malloy has to break in a new rookie partner. Reed's day is far from routine as he has to handle a bomb threat that results in the evacuation of the station, and Officer Brinkman accidentally discharges his shotgun twice outside the station adding more tension, a young man wants to report misconduct by a police officer, an elderly man brings a shotgun into the station to drop off, Malloy brings in a group of children abandoned by their mother, and Malloy and his partner pursue a car into the police parking lot, where the suspects are arrested.
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#33 - Hypochondri-Cap
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 23
Captain Stanley convinces himself he has arthritis. A man gets his hand caught in his garage door opener; a woman passes out and has an auto accident; the doctors treat a woman infected from plastic surgery gone awry; Johnny tests a new type of rope; the station responds to a two-alarm fire at an oil refinery.
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#34 - Pot Shot
Adam-12 - Season 7 - Episode 12
Malloy, off duty, heads to the laundromat and finds a man using one of the dryers to dry a pillow case full of marijuana. This leads into an investigation into a possible marijuana ring with others trying the same trick. Back on patrol, Reed and Malloy also have to deal with a belligerent preacher, a neighbor dispute, and a lost child who can't speak a word of English.
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#36 - Loose Ends
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 12
Johnny tries to win a ticket-selling contest. Dr. Backett blames himself when he is involved in a car accident that leaves the other driver dead and The driver's daughter refuses to speak. While repairing the squad, the paramedics find themselves in the middle of a shootout and treat a policeman with heart trouble. A boxcar full of ammonia complicates a fire on a pier.
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#37 - Simple Adjustment
Emergency! - Season 5 - Episode 10
Johnny's got another of his "brilliant" ideas: this time he's sure he knows a better way to log the squad's calls than the mountains of paperwork presently required. A diet pill overdose causes a personality change, and the daughter of a man who has suffered a stroke demands a specific hospital - one farther away than Rampart. Firefighters battle an oil fire on a cargo ship.
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#39 - Clear with a Civilian (1)
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 14
Reed spreads his flu to several other officers, leaving the station undermanned. Reed has a shootout with a rifle-toting man and finds he is wanted for bookmaking. Malloy has an argument with a storekeeper and a customer of the quality of merchandise while Reed writes a speeding ticket, later the officers catch a man on a rooftop of a store after Reed noticed flashing lights there, later another suspect gets away from a foot pursuit with Reed. Due to the understaffing situation, Malloy and Reed are asked to do double shifts, and Malloy tickets a woman for failing to stop at a stop sign, later when Sgt. MacDonald asks the officers to escort the police commissioner they get a surprise--it's the woman Malloy stopped earlier for running a stop sign!
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#40 - Van Nuys Division
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 7
Malloy returns from vacation sporting a mustache, prompting chuckles and guffaws from the squad. The officers then assist Air Ten in an airplane operated by a drunk pilot which crash-landed, and the police have to get the pilot out before he lights a cigarette which would have ignited the leaking gas coming from the plane, and rescue the pilot's son who required CPR. Reno West is suspected in the theft of some stamps from a mansion, a witness provides excellent descriptions of suspects involved in a jewelry store robbery, who is apprehended during a routine traffic stop, and a woman taking an alleged purse snatcher to the police station in her car rather than walk four miles to do so. Malloy shaves off the mustache when he has trouble trimming it.
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#41 - Deadly Carnival
Man from Atlantis - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mark goes undercover to investigate members of a carnival planning to break into a museum. The only way to break into the museum is through an underwater tunnel of which only Mark can swim. When he is approached, he refuses. The owner of the carnival is then kidnapped and threatened unless Mark helps.
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#42 - Day Watch
Adam-12 - Season 4 - Episode 10
Over the course of their shift, Malloy and Reed deal with a racist gas station owner who is tired of being the victim of repeated robberies, a hitchhiker who extorts money from drivers she leaves in embarrassing situations, a drunk who's seeing pink elephants, and get caught up in a shootout in a junkyard.
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#43 - Break-in at Santa Paula
Airwolf - Season 3 - Episode 19
The wife of a deceased old friend of Hawke's begs him to rescue her son Terry, who is in a corrupt Mexican prison after being framed, with a bad heart condition. After visiting the prison posing as the boy's uncle, in order to survey the layout, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin make the rescue bit; but the attempt fails when Terry attempts to take an ill friend with them, causing Hawke himself to be captured and held in the prison...
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#44 - Clear with a Civilian (2)
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 15
While on second shift, Malloy and Reed take Police Commissioner Dixon on a ride-along. They encounter a bar owner who locked a naked, elderly man inside, a fight with a knife-wielding man and another man with a gun, and a missing 17-year-old deaf boy with mental instabilities, which Reed recognizes as the boy that escaped his foot pursuit earlier. The officers and Commissioner Dixon observe the boy in a car running from another police unit, and they join in to alert the pursuing unit to the boy's condition.
#45 - Night Watch
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 19
Reed spends a Saturday night talking about buying a used car, during the watch the officers handle a possible DUI but the driver passes the field sobriety tests, a shooting during which a man kills his recently paroled son-in-law, a car stripper, trick a man into revealing his name after pulling him over for speeding and finding the car has over $900 of unpaid tickets, and two beatings at motels.
#46 - The Surprise
Adam-12 - Season 5 - Episode 8
It's Malloy's birthday and he makes it known to Reed, "no surprise parties". Sgt. MacDonald warns the officers about a rash of robberies using milk crates to break store windows. During a routine traffic stop, Reed notices a milk crate in the back of a car and surreptitiously marks it for identification later, and the thief is apprehended later using the same milk crate. Other calls include backing up a jewelry store robbery when the officers pull over for DUI the owner of said store, an embarrassed male purse snatching victim inside a negligee shop, a phony gas station worker at a closed gas station, a shootout in the police garage resulting from a drunk suspect officers failed to handcuff, and Officer Wells captures a B&E suspect based on a hunch by Malloy, who despite Reed's denials, continues to suspect a party is afoot until Reed gives his partner a present: a leather purse.
#47 - Lady Beware
Adam-12 - Season 7 - Episode 7
Malloy and Reed join forces with Sgt. Gloria Tyler to search for an attacker and rapist of teen girls.
#48 - Upward and Onward
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 22
Captain Stanley worries that the Chief will sabotage his attempt to pass the Chief's exam because of an incident in their past; a soap opera doctor with mono causes havoc on the set and in the hospital; John, Roy, and a retired doctor with a self-diagnosed heart aneurysm get stuck in an elevator.
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#49 - Pure-Dee Poison
The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 17
The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.
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#50 - Dinner Date
Emergency! - Season 2 - Episode 10
A woman almost hits a kid on a bike, who starts choking; she later has an epileptic fit. A man is shot by his father-in-law when he learns his daughter is married and pregnant. Roy tries to set John up with his wife's cousin. Three drug addicts are treated in the hospital: a woman with a gangrenous hand, a poison victim and a man showing signs of tetanus. In the field: an alcoholic, an obese man with a pacemaker, and a child whose arm is caught in a swimming pool drain.
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