The BEST episodes written by Adrian Spies
#1 - Augie 'The Banker' Ciamino
The Untouchables - Season 2 - Episode 17
Summer 1931, Chicago. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned by the mobsters. But racketeers, taking advantage of the poverty and desperation of many immigrants, forced them to make a gallon of whiskey a day in small stills in their homes-- makeshift stills which could be put together for less than $3. The absolute boss of Little Italy is Augie ""The Banker"" Ciamino, and with whiskey pouring out of 1,000 tenement stills, he was cancelling the gains that Ness had made. August 16, 1931. That night, at a street festival, Giovanni gets a hold of some bad whiskey at Raineri's bakery, and is sped to a hospital in an ambulance. Ciamino wants to find out who is responsible; he says to Raineri, ""You tell me where Giovanni got the bad stuff, I buy all your sfogliatelle.""* Uncooperative Raineri says, ""I don't make sfogliatelle."" (even though we see a sign in his bakery: Special Today: Sfogliatelle.) When Ciamino finds out it was Stefano-- and twice he'd
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#2 - The Grandstand Play (2)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 24
The son of the baseball player becomes the vital witness in a murder, but he is reluctant to tell either his father or Five-O of the crime.
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#3 - The John Darro Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 8
There is a little boy on the wagon train named Bobby who worships his father, John Darro. Darro was badly injured during the civil war and now walks with a limp. To his son, this is as good as a medal as regards a testament to his father's bravery, and young Bobby makes sure everyone on the train knows how proud he is of his Pa. Then Major Adams sees an old man sitting out alone on the prairie. He seems the worse for drink but the Major won't leave him there to rot and takes him along. He too can tell a tale- of an Indian massacre of a wagon train and a coward who ran. He knew John Darro, but by another name. Suddenly Darro finds he must prove himself all over again. To the stranger, the Major, the people on the train, but most of all to his son.
#4 - Serial Murders
T.J. Hooker - Season 4 - Episode 20
Hooker's investigation into a series of gristly murders by a pair of religious crazies is accompanied by Sergeant Leigh Stockwell, a close, old friend, whom is somewhat his protégé. But Stacy becomes suspicious that Leigh is using cocaine, an addiction which not only jeopardises the case and Leigh's job, but also Hooker's life...
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#6 - Escape
Ironside - Season 4 - Episode 19
Ed and Eve travel to Mexico to assist in the interrogation of a former suspect in a murder case, who has been arrested for a similar offence across the border. The local police are determined to convict him, but Ed and Eve are equally certain that he is innocent; and when he is helped to escape from police custody, suspicion falls on them.
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#7 - The Grandstand Play (1)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 23
A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
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