The BEST episodes written by Anne Collins
#6 - The Nightmare
Matlock - Season 6 - Episode 3
After a bump on the head, Matlock has a nightmare where he is trapped in the Old West, and needs to save Conrad from an angry lynch mob when he is accused of murder. His is frequently distracted by Michelle, a beautiful saloon girl, and Julie, the vengeance-seeking sister of the dead man.
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#7 - The Boy Who Knew Her Secret (2)
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 21
Humans who have been 'possessed' by the pyramid aliens search for an alien criminal who has the power to shape-shift into anyone, even Wonder Woman.
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#10 - The Boy Who Knew Her Secret (1)
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 20
Alien life-forms shaped like small pyramids come to earth and imprison the minds of humans who touch them, taking over a small town. Meanwhile, Diana isn't as careful as she should be.
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Matlock - Season 8 - Episode 2
Matlock, Leanne and Cliff go to North Carolina to attend Billy's sister's funeral. While there, they end up getting involved in a pair of murders connected to two young women. As a way to catch them, Leanne sets up a trap using Cliff as bait.
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#13 - The Girl from Ilandia
Wonder Woman - Season 2 - Episode 21
A young girl flees her own dimension into ours to escape a man who would force her to misuse her special powers.
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Hawaii Five-O - Season 10 - Episode 3
McGarrett must solve both a mysterious kidnapping and the problem of having a nosy reporter analysing his every move.
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Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 12
In "The High Cost of Living" a workaholic account executive wishes to find a husband and be taken care of. And in "To Fly With Eagles" an aging affluent lawyer and amateur sportsman wishes to win one more flying competition.
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Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 15
In "Return to the Cotton Club", Charles 'Diggs' Whelan comes to Fantasy Island to get a big break in his singing career. He sacrifices his chance to stardom by helping a young singer at "The Cotton Club". And in "No Friends Like Old", Doreen Murphy wants to impress her old college friends and win their respect, but soon learns that money can't buy respect.
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Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 7
In "The Wedding Picture" a woman, unhappy with her marriage, wishes to relive her wedding day to determine if she did indeed marry the wrong man. And in "Castaways" a man wishes to spend the weekend on a desert Island with a gorgeous model.
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Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 6
In "The Beautiful Skeptic" a female reporter comes to the Island to prove it's a fraud. And in "The Lost Platoon" a man goes back to World War II to prove his brother was not a coward and was never engaged in black marketeering.
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#20 - The Library
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 55
Landing a new job at a private library a girl is warned never to look at the books. Taking a peek she learns that there's a book for everyone alive. When a neighbor pesters her, she rewrites his biography.
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#26 - The Revenge
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 10
Matlock witnesses a robbery at a convenience store, but when things start happening that make him look like he's losing it, including messing with his papers, sending him to the wrong parties, and submitting phony pictures of his hind end to the papers, Matlock begins to realise that someone is trying to set him up. He, Cliff and Conrad begin to go through some of his old cases, trying to figure out which recently released killer is out to get him, but everyone they think of seems to have an alibi.
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#27 - The Formula
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 17
Matlock receives a call in the middle of the night from a young man who once painted his house who claims he's been arrested for stealing the formula to cure baldness from a company who fired his friend and stole his work. Twenty-four hours later Ben gets another call from the same young man, who has been accused of murdering the man he claims he stole the formula for. The biggest problem is that none of what Jeff Duvall claims seems to be true; not only did Tim Crider not ask him to steal the formula, but he was never fired in the first place!
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Matlock - Season 6 - Episode 1
Matlock goes back to his hometown for a family reunion, but things turn sticky when a good friend of his nephew's son dies, and his rival is charged with murder. Not only that, but the whole town seems to hate Matlock, as many of them believe he thinks he's better than them because he's a big city lawyer.
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#29 - A Touch Of Guilt
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 14
Three boys commit a gang rape on a waitress, but one is the son of a Senator and the crime is covered up...
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#30 - The Perfect Gentleman / Legend
Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 3
In "The Perfect Gentleman" a famous rock singer who witnessed a murder in Las Vegas and faked his own death comes to the Island to assume a new identity. And in "Legend" an actress wishes to start an illustrious career in musicals.
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#31 - The Man Who Could Not Die
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 22
Wonder Woman goes up against a super-man who is as strong as she is, and a criminal genius who has special powers.
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#32 - The Ambassador (1)
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 2
Anthony Stewart is charged with murdering Michael Russell, the husband of the woman he was sleeping with. Although Stewart, a visiting British ambassador, has diplomatic immunity, he refuses to use it, and wants to clean his name. Matlcok agrees to defend the young ambassador, but his case is almost over when Stewart is nearly killed in a hit and run.
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#34 - The Don (1)
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Nicholas Baron, a well known mobster, is accused of murdering one of his rivals, he asks Ben Matlock to represent him. Ben initially refuses, but agrees to represent Baron despite threats on his own life. He soon meets the entire family, and realises that despite what Baron has always done for a living, at heart he's a worried father who wants to clear his name.
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#35 - The Hunting Party
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 1
Spencer Hamilton came to Manteo, North Carolina, as soon as he could to locate the man who killed his brother, Frank, in a supposed duck-hunting accident. When Ryan Bartell (the shooter) is found dead, Matlock heads to North Carolina to defend Hamilton, and finds an unlikely ally in local deputy Conrad McMasters.
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#38 - The Ambassador (2)
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 3
After Anthony Stewart is nearly killed in a hit and run, Matlock realises that the only way to clear him is to find Shelby Russell, the supposed witness whose claim put Stewart in the hot seat in the first place. He tracks her down via her mother, and tells her that if she doesn't take the stand, her lover will go down for Michael Russell's murder.
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#41 - The Rat Pack
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 14
When Beverly Hills cookie entrepreneur Adam Gardner's girlfriend is found dead in his hot tub, the case against him looks bleak, especially when an eye witness points the finger at him. After his corporate lawyers advise him to plead guilty, Gardner hires Ben Matlock to defend him. While Matlock believes in his client's innocence, the more he learns about the victim, the greater the motive his client has, especially once love letters turn up that were exchanged between the victim and Josh Sinclair, Adam's supposed best friend.
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#44 - Cosmic Whiz Kid
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 11
Hieronymous Fox, an 11-year-old child genius from the 20th Century is kidnapped for ransom by the sinister Roderick Zale. The boy is the President of the planet Genesia and his bodyguard fears that he will be killed because they cannot meet the ransom demand. Buck, Wilma, and the bodyguard then make separate attempts to rescue the boy.
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#45 - The Trial (1)
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 18
When assistant D.A. Howard Wright is murdered in his workshop, the attorney general approaches Matlock and asks him to take on the assignment of special prosecutor. With Michelle and Conrad's help, Matlock begins to investigate Wright's past, and realises the man was spending money that he could not have earned legitimately. In investigating names that Wright had left behind, Matlock finds himself embroiled in a lawsuit involving Maxwell Toys.
#46 - See How She Runs
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 23
The daughter of a LA detective and friend of McGarrett is framed for murder and then joins a cult.
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#47 - The Billionaire
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 1
Matlock flies all the way the England to represent Eric Gordon, a man accused of murdering his wealthy businessman father. His sister Laura is convinced of his innocence, but brother Mitch isn't so sure.
#48 - The Court-Martial (2)
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 18
As the case progresses, Ben discovers that the lieutenant and four other officers may have been involved in some kind of illegal activities. Charlene who has been working undercover and gets close to one of those officers, examines him on the stand and he reveals that they have been smuggling drugs. Ben then examines one of the officers and has him reveal to the court the scar that the lieutenant left on him after he killed him. He then reveals that he and the other two officers drew straws on who would kill him cause, an investigation might reveal their activities.
#49 - The Seduction
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 4
Matlock is hired to defend Brad Bingham, an aging football star with a reputation as a womanizer who was about to be cut from the team. Charlene is resistant to Ben's choice, as she believes everything the tabloids have to say about Brad...not only that, but years earlier, he'd had a brief relationship with her friend Ellen Hawley, who had tried to kill herself after they broke up. As the case continues, Charlene realises that not everything that's printed in the papers is true and that maybe Ellen wasn't quite honest with her, even though a call girl (Caryn Nelson) hired to make Brad look guilty almost convinces her that he is.
#50 - Vegas in Space
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 5
Buck is sent to the gambling city Sinaloa with Directorate special agent Marla Landers to rescue a young woman who has been kidnapped by the city's ruler, Velosi. Velosi plans to extract some information from the woman's mind in order to destroy one of his competitors. The information involves plans for the Draconian Hatchet fighters, which have been plaguing Earth's defense forces.
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