The BEST episodes written by Bernie Orenstein
#1 - A Little Extra Security
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 13
After Grady receives an extra Social Security check, he gambles the money away in Las Vegas.
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#2 - Donna Pops the Question
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 8
With another marriage proposal in hand, Donna gives Fred an ultimatum.
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#3 - Aunt Esther Has a Baby
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 11
When Woody gets drunk just before a visit from the adoption agency, Fred must stand in as Esther's husband.
#4 - The Stand-Ins
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 16
When Fred's friend Bowlegs finds himself a man short for a nightclub engagement, Fred and Lamont must take the stage to help him out.
#5 - The Director
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 21
Fred becomes the director of a community theater production starring boxer George Foreman.
#6 - The Oddfather
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 13
After witnessing a murder attempt, Fred is a target for assassins as he recuperates in a hospital bed.
#7 - The Surprise Party
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 1
Fred returns from his extended trip to St. Louis but feels unwanted because Grady took better care of the house and Lamont.
#8 - Ebenezer Sanford
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 12
Fred plays the role of Scrooge in his dream version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
#9 - Steinberg and Son
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 5
Fred sues NBC for airing a show called Steinberg and Son, which seems to copy his life exactly but with white Jewish characters rather than black ones.
#10 - Going Out of Business
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 6
With business bad and the tax bill due, Lamont takes a job at a local haberdashery.
#11 - 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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#12 - Fred Meets Redd
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 15
Fred enters a Redd Foxx look-alike contest.
#13 - The Hawaiian Connection (1)
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 1
A band of jewel thieves lures Fred and Lamont to Hawaii to unwittingly smuggle diamonds off the island.
#14 - Bank on This
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 3
At the bank to seek a loan to open the Sanford Arms, Fred and Lamont find themselves hostages in a robbery.
#15 - Fred's Extra Job
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 9
To keep Lamont from quitting the business, Fred takes out a loan and must secretly work as a waiter to pay it off.
#16 - Aunt Esther Meets Her Son
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 12
Esther and Woody adopt a teenage boy whose attitude and beliefs don't sit well with Esther.
#17 - Sanford and Niece
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 9
Fred's niece, who closely resembles his late wife, comes to visit.
#18 - The Hawaiian Connection (3)
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 3
When Fred and Lamont discover stolen diamonds intended to be smuggled to the mainland, the thieves chase them all over Hawaii.
#19 - Brother, Can You Spare an Act?
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 6
To help new brother-in-law Rodney, Fred teams up with an old friend to make Rodney's gig as nightclub impresario a success.
#20 - Julio and Sister and Nephew
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 10
When Julio's sister and nephew visit and must stay with the Sanfords, Fred becomes involved with the nephew's problems at school.
#21 - Success Story
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 6
When Davy's British grandfather visits, the boys try to fool him into believing that Davy is rich.
#22 - Della, Della, Della
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 7
An encounter with Della Reese causes Fred to support a political candidate whose opponent is backed by Lamont.
#23 - Sanford and Gong
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 13
Lamont, Fred and Bubba face the music as contestants on The Gong Show.
#24 - The Will
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 20
Fred draws up his will and holds a reading of it in the living room.
#25 - Love and the Hidden Meaning
Love, American Style - Season 5 - Episode 43
A woman questions a novel.
#26 - Monkees à la Carte
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Monkees go undercover to help the owner of a restaurant that has been taken over by mobsters.
#27 - The Family Man
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 25
In this backdoor pilot for the '"Grady" spinoff series, Grady gives his daughter a tasteless painting to hang over the fireplace just in time for a high-class party.
#28 - You Have to Know Someone to Be Unknown
That Girl - Season 1 - Episode 26
Ann reads that a famous producer is looking for an unknown for his play and has Donald put in a good word for her. He tries to tell her that the producer had found his star a long time ago, but she doesn't listen.
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That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 10
Ann wins a part in an Italian movie, but turns it down when she discovers it includes a nude scene.
#30 - He and She and He
That Girl - Season 2 - Episode 22
Donald is stunned when Ann receives a marriage proposal from a fashion photographer.
#31 - My Part Belongs to Daddy
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 3
Ann is assigned to direct an annual play, but has to tell her father that he will not have the starring role.
#32 - Hearing Today, Gone Tomorrow
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 6
Ann's temporary hearing loss ruins a commercial spot for her.
#33 - Shake Hands and Come Out Acting
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 9
Don is doing a story on a fighter who wants to be an actor.
#34 - Fix My Screen and Bug Out
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 10
Ann tries to help out her neighbors in saving their hotel from the ownership of her ex-boyfriend.
#35 - She Never Had the Vegas Notion (1)
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 12
Ann gets a job in a show in Las Vegas with an egotistical actor who tries to ruin her relationship with Donald.
#36 - She Never Had the Vegas Notion (2)
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 13
After Marty tries to trick Ann into believing Donald had married a starlet, Ann and Donald turn the tables on him.
#37 - Ten Percent of Nothing is Nothing
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 15
Ann joins her agent's comedy act in the Catskills, with disastrous results.
#38 - Fly by Night (1)
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 18
Flying to Vermont in a friend's plane, Ann and Donald are forced to endure an emergency landing.
#39 - The Reunion
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 22
As class secretary-treasurer, Ann loses track of money she is to use for a high-school reunion.
#40 - They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 24
Donald's film catches a neighbor kissing a mysterious man.
#41 - Easy Faller
That Girl - Season 4 - Episode 25
Donald hurts his back trying to demonstrate skiing in Ann's apartment.
#42 - Counter Proposal
That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 1
After four years of dating, Donald finally asks Ann to marry him and presents her with an engagement ring - which he was talked into buying second-hand by a co-worker against his better judgement.
#43 - There Sure are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (1)
That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 6
Ann learns that killing two birds with one stone is almost too much when she goes to St. Louis with Donald to meet his parents and to star in a play. She is convinced that Don's mother hates her and decides that she might be able to turn it around if she were to have a larger, starring role in the play instead of her more modest part.
#44 - There Sure are a Bunch of Cards in St. Louis (2)
That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 7
In St. Louis to appear in a play and meet Donald's parents, Ann once again finds that nothing is ever easy.
#45 - That Girl's Daddy
That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 9
Lou feels as though he is getting too old, and Ann introduces him to Jeanie, who makes him feel more younger. Ann thinks that he is going to leave her mother when actually he wants to please her.
#46 - Super Reporter
That Girl - Season 5 - Episode 11
Don is stuck in a ""super Don"" costume when his friends steal his clothes and forget to give them back to him. All before he is to accept an Humanitarian award from the deputy mayor!
#47 - The Birthday Present
What's Happening!! - Season 1 - Episode 2
To earn money to buy Mama a birthday present, Roger resorts to playing dice and is accused of shoplifting along with Dwayne and Rerun.
#48 - The Burger Queen
What's Happening!! - Season 1 - Episode 6
Dee is selected for a series of TV ads for a burger chain.
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#49 - Christmas
What's Happening!! - Season 1 - Episode 9
With Mama having to work on Christmas, Roger and Dee have Christmas dinner at Bill's apartment.
#50 - The Play's the Big Thing
What's Happening!! - Season 2 - Episode 7
Roger writes and directs a play that is to be performed with a TV executive in attendance, but casting Rerun as the lead threatens to doom Roger's big opportunity.