The BEST episodes directed by James Frawley
#1 - Part IV
The Practice - Season 1 - Episode 4
A nervous Lindsay prepares for her first appearance before a jury in a wrongful death case against a tobacco company. Elsewhere, Bobby is stunned by the unexpected results of the Ronald Martin murder trial, involving a grieving father, the man's rabbi and the defendant.
#2 - Monkees in the Ring
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 20
Davy takes to the ring and becomes a star boxer.
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#3 - Captain Crocodile
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Monkees appear on a children's television show.
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Reunion - Season 1 - Episode 4
A wedding brings out old rivalries as Samantha must finally choose between Craig and Will. At the same time, Will pays the ultimate price for the one crime he did commit, after he brings down the family of a close friend. Aaron returns from Seattle with a secret, and Jenna puts her own career ahead of Carla's. Detective Marjorino learns he's carried a grudge against the wrong man for 20 years, and one of our friends receives an anonymous letter--from someone who claims to know who the murderer is.
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#5 - Victimless Crimes
The Practice - Season 4 - Episode 7
Jimmy defends a remorseless rape victim who murdered her attacker. Lucy is bitten by her dentist while under anesthesia.
#6 - Monkees in a Ghost Town
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 7
Stranded in a ghost town, the Monkees are held captive by mobsters.
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#7 - The Arrow That is Not Aimed
Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 14
Higgins sends Magnum to collect a valuable Kenzan porcelain plate, newly purchased by Robin Masters, from the airport, but the artefact, which was entrusted to the care of a Samurai warrior while in transport from Japan, has been stolen. At first, Thomas thinks the whole thing is a joke, especially when the Samurai, Tozan, claims that the plate was stolen by a ninja, but the situation is for real, and the pair team up to try and find the stolen artefact. But they must work fast, as Tozan’s centuries-old culture dictates that he must commit sepuku – which means taking his own life – if the precious plate isn’t retrieved...
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#8 - Guns 'R' Us
Picket Fences - Season 2 - Episode 11
Embarrassed by a prank, Matthew tries to get even with some boys, but the practical joking gets out of hand, which may result in paralysis for him. Meanwhile, budget cuts hit the sheriff's department and Max fills in as sheriff.
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#9 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 4
The manager of a rival group goes to extraordinary lengths to keep the Monkees out of a talent contest.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 16
The Monkees appear in a fairytale in which Peter pursues a young princess.
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Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 5
Everyone is enjoying the slice of Hollywood as a movie crew uses St. Michael's as a location, until a series of unexplained, and life-threatening, accidents put a damper on the mood. Father Dowling and Sister Steve are enlisted to assist in the investigation while Father Prestwick decides to make his screen debut...as a stand in.
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#12 - Monkee See, Monkee Die
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Monkees must spend the night in a haunted castle.
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#13 - End Game
Melrose Place - Season 1 - Episode 26
Billy's father dies of a heart attack. Amanda tries to exploit Billy's vulnerable state to seduce him, and then shows up at the funeral in an attempt to score points with her ex. Alison flies back from Seattle to comfort Billy. Billy feels that he let his father down, and decides to take over the furniture store. His mother says that she has sold the store to the employees, and that she wants Billy to use his writing gifts. She gives Billy a letter in which his father expressed his pride in him. Billy drives Alison to the airport, but she decides to move back to Los Angeles. Michael tries to convince Kimberly to move in with Billy, but she declines. She explains that seeing the death of his father reminded her of how much involvement she would have in his life if they were roommates. Michael lies about going to the hospital and instead helps Kimberly with a plumbing problem. She offers him dinner and tries to come on to him, but he resists. Billy's family tragedy prompts Matt to
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Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 2
The local hospital is the scene of some 'extra' deaths when Father Dowling and Sister Steve uncover a string of mystery murders. Father Prestwick insists on helping out and almost becomes the next victim.
#15 - The Christmas Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 10
There's a murder attempt on a woman who has left her son in the temporary care of St. Michael's and the search for the culprit leads to a department store on Christmas Eve.
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#16 - Suspicious Minds
Melrose Place - Season 1 - Episode 32
The apartment building goes up for sale. Lucy resigns from D&D, and tells Amanda and Alison that promotions may be in their future. Amanda asks Alison to keep her pregnancy under wraps, but Alison lets it slip while out drinking with a colleague to make Billy jealous. Amanda denies the man's allegations. She later suffers a miscarriage while working late with Alison. Billy and Amanda grow closer as he consoles her, and he is torn between the two women. An unidentified individual begins harassing Alison. Keith returns to Los Angeles, completely obsessed with Alison. Michael and Jane rekindle their romance during a weekend getaway. Jo tries to dodge Jake's discussions of commitment. She is arrested for carrying a concealed weapon while working on a photo essay about the homeless. Jake is enraged to learn that she went back on her promise to get rid of the gun. Rhonda proposes to Terrence. Keith stakes out Alison's apartment, and attacks Billy from behind with a tire iron. While Billy is
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#17 - The Bridge
Dirty Sexy Money - Season 1 - Episode 5
Nick finds he has a lot in common with Simon, Tripp's nemesis. In a case of sibling rivalry Jeremy and Juliet decide to try and outdo each other for their separate birthday parties. Brian Jr. wants to tell Brian's wife the truth. Karen tries to get Freddy into a fancy country club.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 20
Peter sells his soul to the devil to gain the ability to play the harp.
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#19 - Reach for the Sky
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 3 - Episode 8
Billy, against the advice of Lee, tries to prove a friend was murdered in connection with international electronic cash transfers.
#20 - Royal Flush
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Monkees help a pretty princess who is endangered by her evil uncle.
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#21 - Full Moon
Chicago Hope - Season 1 - Episode 21
As Jeffrey's anxieties grow over having a relationship with Geri, so does his model train layout, and he finds a fellow aficionado of the rails in Alan; after a terminally ill Charles Ellis is readmitted to the hospital with appendicitis, Dennis continues to honor his wish to stay alive as long as possible by fighting valiantly to get him the appendectomy he desperately needs; during the dinner party he arranges so that Geri and Laurie could meet, Jeffrey has a major meltdown after Laurie gets to the core of his problems with intimacy.
#22 - Every Day a Little Death
Chicago Hope - Season 2 - Episode 4
Billy arrives home just in time to save his dog Gordie from the fire that's engulfed his apartment, and ends up rooming with a reluctant Danny until he can find a new place to live; when a teething Alicia keeps her father up at nights, an exhausted Alan is thrilled when Diane offers to help out; when a racist teenager on the transplant list refuses the heart of a murdered black teenager, the hospital offers it to another candidate, but the boy's mother sues to have the heart transplanted into her son; Alan decides to get back into the social swing by asking Diane out on a date; Kate's inattention to pre-op labs results in the post-op death of the transplant patient; Danny overcomes his dislike of Gordie long enough to notice that he's critically ill, and by acting quickly, saves the dog's life.
#23 - Some Like It Lukewarm
The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 24
Davy dresses as a woman so that the Monkees can enter a lucrative band contest.
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Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 6
Sister Steve's return to her Mother's house to celebrate the convent's Silver Jubilee ceremonies should be a time of great joy for everyone. But shortly after arriving the Sister discovers a nun with a gun. Not quite what she expected. And her worst fears are indeed realized when another visiting nun is murdered.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 19
The Monkees acquire a Tibetan monkey's paw with strange powers.
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#26 - Escape from Death Island
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 6
Jake and Corky are imprisoned on an island penal colony when they try to free the son of an Englishman.
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#27 - Rembrandt's Girl
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 14
Magnum is hired by a bank teller from Robin Master's bank to investigate her father, world-famous counterfeiter Herbie "Rembrandt" Norton, who has recently been released from penitentiary and whom she suspects has returned to counterfeiting after coming into large amounts of money since his release. Before starting investigations, the pair go to retrieve a book for Higgins from a safe deposit box at the bank, but the woman accidentally locks them in the vault, and with the time-release door and a slowly dwindling air supply, the pair are trapped inside... Meanwhile, spurred on by getting the potentially lucrative case, Thomas had promised to take Rick and T.C. for a luxurious weekend away, but unaware that Magnum is trapped in the vault at the bank, they are annoyed to presume that he has gone without them, and - with T.C. having problems with his girl-friend - they decide to hold a party at Magnum's guest house - which does not go down well with Higgins, who is holding a meditation we
#28 - Pilot
Ed - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ed Stevens has just been fired for misplacing a comma in a 500 page contract, which cost his law firm employer millions of dollars. When he arrives home to give his wife the bad news, he finds her in bed with the mailman. He decides to pack it all in and head back to his hometown of Stuckeyville, Ohio. When he runs into Carol Vessey, the girl of his high school dreams who is now an English teacher at Stuckeyville High School, he decides to stick around and purchase the local bowling alley, where he sets up a law practice. Ed moves in with his best friend Mike and Mike's wife Nancy who are adjusting to life with a new baby. Still intent upon winning over Carol, Ed dons a suit of armor and enters her classroom carrying flowers and seeking a date. Although she is dating another faculty member, Carol agrees.
#29 - A Time to Kill
Chicago Hope - Season 3 - Episode 7
Aaron faces a huge moral dilemma when he's asked to operate on a death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in two weeks. McNeil treats a feisty old lady whose daughter is an old flame os his. Dr. Watters entertains an amnesiac, believing that he's a distinguished visiting doctor.
#30 - Helpless
Law & Order - Season 3 - Episode 6
Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.
#31 - Speed Demon
Ghost Whisperer - Season 2 - Episode 14
Melinda's Jeep breaks down on a deserted road and a young woman who owns an auto shop comes by to help. Melinda meets a ghost who comes to her in the form of a skeleton. Melinda must first decipher the mysterious code that is linked to the drag racing society. Melinda finds that Ned is involved with the society and needs his help. Ned lies to his mom and sneaks out to go to the drag races. At the end the ghost finds closure and crosses over into the light.
#32 - With the Greatest of Ease
Chicago Hope - Season 1 - Episode 4
Jeffrey tells Nadine about Laurie's schizophrenia and the death of his son; Aaron and Camille grieve about their impending divorce; several members of a family of trapeze artists are brought into the hospital in critical condition after a devastating accident during a circus performance; one of Aaron's former patients reveals his bigotry when he refuses to allow Nadine to remove his diseased gall bladder and insists that Aaron or another Jewish surgeon perform the procedure; Jeffrey exhibits signs of a meltdown when, in the space of a few hours, outrageous conduct in a nightclub gets him mistakenly arrested for soliciting a prostitute and he vandalizes the car of a man who stole his parking space; Phillip incorrectly attributes Aaron's angry outburst at one patient minutes after losing another young patient in surgery to tensions with Camille, and threatens to fire Camille if there's a recurrence.
#33 - One Man Shy (Peter and the Debutante)
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mike, Micky and Davy help shy Peter woo a pretty debutante.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 2
The boys are tricked into robbing a bank, thinking they are appearing in a movie.
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#35 - The Eighth Part of the Village
Magnum, P.I. - Season 3 - Episode 4
After narrowly avoiding being shot during a case, a fortune cookie has convinced Thomas that it’s time to repay his friends and associates. As a favour to Higgins in one such payback, he heads to collect a crate of books from the docks, only to find that the crate contains a Japanese stowaway, and promptly upon the discovery he his is attacked by two goons. The stowaway woman is the daughter of an old war comrade of Higgins, who claims to have hidden in the crate to escape from her father in Japan, whom she claims is nowadays a cruel man. Although finding it hard to believe that his old acquaintance has now turned so cruel, Higgins feels obliged to help the girl, who is searching for her American fiancée. Magnum however, is more sceptical, but investigates for himself in case Higgins is becoming entangled in some sort of trap...
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Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 17
While visiting the Chicago Museum to take in a Pharaoh's burial chamber, Father Dowling and Sister Steve encounter an ancient Egyptian curse. Father Prestwick almost becomes a victim himself when he attempts to uncover the tomb's deadly secrets.
#37 - High Stakes Lady
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 15
Jake acts as a bodyguard to a lady gambler during a high stakes poker game.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 1
When the Monkees' car breaks down in Mexico, Davy falls in love with a pretty waitress.
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#39 - Reap the Whirlwind
Picket Fences - Season 4 - Episode 2
A tornado threatens Rome and Zach is so worried for Kimberly's safety that he sets out on his bike to warn her. Kenny's hooker is arrested in a sting operation organised by Max, who ends up commiting a felony by covering for him. Wambaugh's wife leaves him after he embarrasses her at their anniversary party.
#40 - Murder, Smoke and Shadows
Columbo - Season 8 - Episode 2
An egocentric film director resorts to his mastery of special effects to murder a vengeful friend who discovers the director's role in the movie stunt death of the friend's sister years before.
#42 - Monkee Mother
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 27
A sweet older woman takes a motherly interest in the boys.
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Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 19
An author who used Dowling and Steve as characters in his murder mystery dies before its completion.
#44 - The Prodigal Son Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 14
A blast from the past rocks Father Dowling's world when a man he's never met shows up claiming to be his son. The man disappears before Father Dowling can question him. And then his would-be son is charged with murder.
#45 - The Confidence Mystery
Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 10
A flim flam con-man has his eye on a valuable church receptacle that Father Prestwick is taking to Romania. He'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the monstrance, even if he has to permanently inconvenience Father Prestwick. It's up to Father Dowling and Sister Steve to put a cap on the con.
#46 - Dance, Monkee, Dance
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 14
Peter is tricked into signing a lifetime contract with a ballroom dancing instructor.
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#47 - How to Dial a Murder
Columbo - Season 7 - Episode 4
A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning reflex on the psychiatrist's dogs. The other part is the word Rosebud as uttered by the victim. When Columbo arrives on the scene, the psychiatrist is very understanding when police say they may have to put his dogs to death. But Columbo notices how friendly the dogs seem, and then there's the telephone that's hanging from it's hook.
#48 - Scars and Souvenirs
Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 - Episode 18
Alex grows closer to Jane Doe as he continues to work on her case. Helen Crawford flies into Seattle for surgery. She knows someone on the staff. Colin Marlow enters the race for Chief of Surgery. George faces more problems with Callie and Izzie. Callie reveals a big secret. Someone treats a WWII veteran. Also Derek treats a patient near and dear to him.
#49 - Life During Wartime
Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 - Episode 6
The chief gives Bailey new power and responsibility. He also gives her a very difficult surgical assignment: remove a girl's inoperable tumor. Meanwhile, new trauma chief Owen (Kevin McKidd) challenges the attendings' methods and the residents' skills.
#50 - Critical
Vengeance Unlimited - Season 1 - Episode 14
Ben Newton, a greedy young man, murders his father, but claims that is was done by a burglar. His sister, who saw the crime, tries to tell it in court, but Ben's lawyer makes it look like it's she who is greedy. And then there's Ben's friend who gives him an alibi. Chapel starts to disturb Ben, but is hindered by Ben's young fan, a female computer whizz, who questions everything Chapel says. Finally she traces Chapel, and confronts him in his hotel room. She threatens to turn him over to the police, and Chapel agrees with her. He must be jailed... But who will then release Ben's alibi? And what does a bedpan has to do with anything?
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