The BEST episodes directed by Walter Grauman
#1 - Landscape with Running Figures (2)
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 10
In the conclusion to Part 1 (from last week), Kimble accompanies a temporarily-blinded Mrs. Gerard to a place where she can phone her husband for help. Mrs. Gerard, who is as inquisitive as her husband, continues to pepper Kimble with questions about himself and his life. As she starts to put the pieces together, she realizes that this man may be Richard Kimble. She begins to form a plan to trap him.
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The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 9
In Part 1 of a 2-part story, Lt. Gerard and his wife are on a much-needed vacation. When Gerard rushes off to answer the call to duty, an angry Mrs. Gerard decides that enough is enough, and leaves town on the bus. Unbeknownst to her, Kimble is on the same bus. When the bus crashes, Kimble helps her get away from the wreck. Due to a head injury, she is suffering from temporary blindness and doesn't recognize Kimble. Kimble, unaware of who SHE really is, decides to accompany her to a phone where she can contact her husband. Along the way Mrs. Gerard starts asking questions, and is starting to form an image of Kimble, and is intrigued with what she learns. Will she discover his true identity before they reach their destination?
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#3 - The End Is But the Beginning
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 17
Kimble takes advantage of a deadly car accident as a way to try and convince Gerard that he is now dead.
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#4 - The Purple Gang
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 7
Detroit, August 1932. The notorious Purple Gang-- long synonymous with terror in beer, booze, labor and prostitution-- gets into a new racket: kidnapping. They specialize in snatching other members of the underworld, since they can't go to the police for help. So far, they've kidnapped 9 hoods (the latest mug is Rocky Garver), for a total of 100 grand. The Purple Gang's leader is Eddie Fletcher, bank robber and murderer, who always wears gloves so he never leaves any fingerprints. Next on their list of gangsters to be kidnapped is Ian Tornek, who owns a novelty shop along with his brother-in-law Eric Vajda, who arrived from Europe 7 months ago. But Eliot Ness and his Untouchables also have their eye on Tornek: he's a Capone henchman, who makes a weekly pickup of narcotics every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. at the Railway Express Agency. So Ness and Lee Hobson and Enrico Rossi fly to Detroit. Fletcher's boys snatch Tornek just before his weekly pickup; they phone his wife Martha and dem
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#5 - Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (1)
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 22
On the run from the Nevada State Police, Kimble hitches a ride with Sister Veronica, a nun traveling to Sacramento where she plans to renounce her vows. After fixing her car when it breaks down, Kimble agrees to travel with Veronica only to the nearest train station. But Veronica believes Kimble to be her savior and insists that he tag along with her all the way to Sacramento.
#6 - Crack in a Crystal Ball
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 3
A scam artist posing as a psychic goes on TV to prove that he knows where Kimble will appear next-with a little help from an accomplice who is traveling with Kimble.
#7 - Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (2)
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 23
Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey to Sacramento, unaware that the Nevada State Police have put up a roadblock at the state line. While Kimble deals with a disgruntled ranch hand, named Chuck Mathers, who suspects his true idenity, Sister Veronica accidently discovers Kimble's idenity through a TV news report. However, she does not tell Kimble about her knowledge of whom he really is.
#8 - A Seat on the Fence
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 6
Chicago, late Summer 1932. Eliot Ness and his men had stemmed the supply of narcotics coming into the Windy City from Asia and southern Europe. Now the Underworld was using new ways to supply the city's 5,000 dope addicts. The Syndicate was robbing drugstores, doctors' offices, wholesale drug houses-- any place which kept a supply of painkilling drugs.* Ness and his men investigate one such robbery: a clue is a note with a list of items to be stolen (morphine, cocaine, etc.)-- numbered with Roman Numerals, written by an educated man. That man is Victor Bardo, one-time narcotics czar of all eastern Asia; he was imported by the Syndicate in 1931. His headquarters are some offices behind a legit front: an arcade. Crooked Dr. Hallet has just told him about a couple of nursing homes they can knock off. However Dino Patrone (age 46), a contact man for narcotics in Europe, has fallen out of favor with Bardo-- he tells his hitman Willie Dasher to rub Patrone out when he gets back. Ness
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#9 - The Mark of Cain
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 5
Chicago, late Spring 1932. There is public protest about the increase in drug addiction. Charlie Sebastino has amalgamated all the small distributors into one big empire, setting himself up as emperor. Ness and his Untouchables had virtually shut down dope dealings, by nailing the big operators, but this network is run through small-time pushers. One of Charlie's pushers is a park worker known as Ragpicker; right now he's selling some heroin to 19-year-old Carol Royce. Later, Ness visits Carol in the hospital, where she is dying of an overdose; she identifies the Ragpicker, who works at the Williams Street Park. Carol dies. Ness tells the reporters to print the story. At a nightclub, Sticks is playing the drums. Charlie Sebastino is coming on to the beautiful nightclub singer. Ness and Rico and Lee Hobson barge in; Charlie's boy Puffy Oselle says to his boss, ""Sorry, I couldn't stop him."" Ness has a search warrant to look for the Ragpicker, but he's not there. Frank and Joe
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The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 6
Kimble is working as a chauffeur for George Forster, a successful contractor who returns to his small Midwestern home town with big plans for the community. While Forster's homecoming is greeted by overall apathy and resentment, Kimble discovers that one of the townspeople is planning to kill Forster. Kimble must find out who it is before his secret is discovered
#11 - 90-Proof Dame
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 32
Chicago, April 1932. The city is ruled by underworld czars, one of the toughest of which is Nate Kester, former henchman for the Capone mob. To put up a pretense of legality, he owns and runs the Odeon Theatre, which specializes in Burlesque, but his real operation is bootleg booze. Kester has his boys drag in Henry Bogar, who has a 5-6 state territory selling imported brandy. Kester tells him that from now on he will carry his stuff-- cheap rotgut with forged ""de Bouverais"" cognac labels. Bogar tastes the stuff, and calls it slop; he says brandy drinkers will never buy it as long as the real stuff is available. So Kester decides to eliminate the competition, he destroys 200 cases of the good 90-proof stuff that Bogar has stashed in an old church. Next day, in retaliation, Bogar phones Ness and is about to blow the whistle on Kester: his booze, houses and dope operations. But Bogar is rubbed out by Kester before he can finish talking; luckily, Lee Hobson managed to have the call
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#12 - The Legacy of Borbey House
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 3
A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.
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#13 - Nicky
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 3
Chicago. By the middle of 1933, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had almost checked the manufacture and sale of whiskey in Chicago. But the biggest operator was still in business: Giuseppe Marconi a.k.a. Gus Marco. He was an apparently respectable owner of a garage of taxis by day; but he trafficked in bootleg booze by night, he had a huge distillery underground in which he processed stolen industrial alcohol. Gus Marco is pulling a big job tonight; one of his honest taxi drivers, Mario Bousso (Nicky's father), is going to drive one of the trucks because he needs the money for his 2 kids. Gus' cousin Mike Marconi will be riding with Mario. Gus Marco had schmeared the lone federal guard of a government warehouse; for $2,500 he was assisting in the heist. 2 of Marco's trucks pull into the warehouse. They siphon off thousands of gallons of pure alcohol, worth half a million dollars; they refill the government barrels with water. But Ness and his men raid the place. There is a huge
#14 - The Case of the Garrulous Gambler
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 3
Larry Benton is a hard luck guy. He gets in an argument in a poker game and knocks Mike Granger out cold. Then his "friends" inform him that Granger is dead. Unknown to Larry, the entire scenario is a scam to shake him down for money. Larry forges his brother's check for $5,000.00 but ring leader Johnny Clay tries to bleed him for an additional twenty grand. Johnny's greed proves to be his undoing as he ends up dead himself. Steve Benton tries to cover up Larry's involvement and ends up being charged with Clay's murder. Perry then tries to track down Mike Granger, the man Larry supposedly killed, in order to get to the bottom ot things. Writer: Ge
#15 - The Iron Maiden
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 13
An industrial accident traps Kimball and some government workers underground. A member of the trapped group wants to turn Kimball in as soon as they are rescued. To add to Richard's problems, Lt. Gerard is waiting above at the only exit.
#16 - Murder on the Thirtieth Floor
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 15
Jessica is shocked to learn that her editor has taken a flying leap from his high-rise office.
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#17 - Murder Takes the Bus
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 19
Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.
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#18 - Fear in a Desert City
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 1
Richard Kimble rides into Tucson, Arizona under the name James Lincoln. He checks into a hotel and finds a job as a bartender at the Branding Iron. He meets Monica Welles (Vera Miles), the piano player who escaped from her stalking jealous husband (Ed Welles) played by Brian Keith.
#20 - The Corpse Flew First Class
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 12
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
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#21 - Curse of the Daanav
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 14
Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.
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#22 - One-Armed Bandits
The Untouchables - Season 1 - Episode 17
Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the social atmosphere of the Gold Coast. Crooked attorney Paul Curtiz is attending a party being hosted by gangster overlord Augie Viale, king of the southside of Chicago. At the affair, Viale is openly paying off this guests with cash-- police commissioners, judges, lawyers, and businessmen; all of them ready to hand Chicago to Viale on a silver platter. There are also lots of women at these parties. However, Eliot Ness has the place under surveillance--one of his Untouchables, agent William Youngfellow, is working there as a waiter. The next day, he reports to Ness and his men. Viale's newest racket will be slot machines, One-Armed Bandits. While they are only nickel slots, it adds up-- to $15-million a year in St. Louis for the underworld; it would be twice as much in Chicago. Meanwhile, Frank Odine is just being released from the Illinois State Pen in Joliet, after doing 7 years, 6
#23 - The Murder Channel
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 6
In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.
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#24 - Night of the Headless Horseman
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 11
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
#25 - Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 14
A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.
#26 - The Case of the Wayward Wife
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 13
Ben Sutton is listed as the author of a best-selling book describing his experiences in a Korean POW camp. When the real author is released from an Army hospital, Sutton is slain before he can tell the truth and his widow is arrested for the murder.
#27 - The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 22
The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.
#28 - Shear Madness
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 20
Jessica’s cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.
#29 - Game, Set, Murder
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 21
A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems.
#30 - The Search for Peter Kerry
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 11
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
#31 - Murder at a Discount
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 9
A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.
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#32 - Unauthorized Obituary
Murder, She Wrote - Season 8 - Episode 3
After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
#33 - Family Doctor
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 11
In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.
#34 - We're Off to Kill the Wizard
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 8
Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.
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#35 - A Lady in the Lake
Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 7
While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.
#36 - Prediction: Murder
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 8
A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
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#37 - The Wind Around the Tower
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 4
While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.
#38 - Angel of Death
Murder, She Wrote - Season 8 - Episode 20
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
#39 - Family Secrets
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 2
Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.
#40 - Mourning Among the Wisterias
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 15
Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old friend, Jonathan Keeler. While helping clear Eugene's name, Jessica learns that her friend believes he is dying, and is surprised when he asks her to marry him so that she can look after his affairs once he's gone. Jessica agrees, but only so that they can expose Jonathan's true killer.
#41 - Southern Double-Cross
Murder, She Wrote - Season 12 - Episode 20
Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not all happy with this.
#42 - The Return of Preston Giles
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 7
This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
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#43 - The Perfect Foil
Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 21
At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while on her way to Houston. No sooner does Jessica get to New Orleans then she is tossed into a Mardi Gras party where the host ends up dead, and Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputation, Jessica delves into the world of cheating poker players, cheating girlfriends and vengefilled police officers while trying to convince a local lieutenant that Cal is not capable of murder.
#44 - Wheel of Death
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 21
It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.
#45 - Trevor Hudson's Legacy
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 18
A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
#46 - Twice Dead
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 15
When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then murdered, Jessica sets the record strait when the wrong man is arrested.
#47 - Roadkill
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 19
A truck hijacker comes to the end of the road.
#48 - A Little Night Work
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 2
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
#49 - How to Make a Killing without Really Trying
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 14
Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.
#50 - Final Curtain
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 11
The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.