The BEST episodes written by Bill S. Ballinger
#1 - Road Hog
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 11
When a traffic delay prevents a dying boy from reaching the hospital in time, his bereaved father and brothers swear revenge on the salesman who hogged the road when a life was on the line.
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#4 - The Last Trophy
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 27
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves and murderers. During one early scene, after listening to Ben reminisce, Hoss says, "Always like to hear Pa get wound up. He don't do it often."
#5 - The Day of the Bullet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 20
When Clete Vine, a successful businessman, reads about a gangster's violent death, he recalls how he and a childhood friend were profoundly affected by an event that began with their innocent admiration of an elegant car.
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#6 - Dry Run
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 7
An aspiring hitman takes on a risky assignment to kill a rival gangster but then finds himself easily conned by his target in a treacherous game of cat and mouse.
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#7 - Escape to Sonoita
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 37
A pair of truck drivers stranded in the Arizona desert find themselves at the mercy of two kidnappers who are heading to the border ... and determined to take the last of the drinking water with them.
#8 - Firefall
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 6
A series of mysterious deaths plague the life of conductor Ryder Bond. In each case, the victim is incinerated by supernaturally hot flames. As Kolchak investigates, he finds out that an arsonist, Frankie Markoff, was a fan of Bond's, and was killed in a penny arcade. His funeral procession crossed Bond's car, allowing the spirit to become a "doppelganger" and try to take over Bond's life. Each victim was burned to death when they fell asleep, and if Bond goes to sleep the doppelganger will take him over for good. Fighting sleep himself, Kolchak must exhume Markoff's body and reunite it with his restless spirit before he too bursts into flame.
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#10 - Cell 227
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 34
A falsely convicted prisoner is determined to make his walk to the gas chamber on of dignity, but his plan suddenly changes when he hurls himself at the jovial guard known as "Pops".
#11 - Deathmate
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 27
A cash-strapped, treacherous couple set on being together no matter what the cost find that the price of love runs high when a private investigator comes onto the scene and discovers bigamy and murder are the perfect deathmate.
#12 - The Macabre Mr. Micawber
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 11
A rich man is murdered, and his man-servant is the prime suspect, until a talkative Mynah bird appears which may just have the solution to the whole case on the tip of his tongue.
#13 - Primal Scream
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 13
In a oil company's laboratory, the air conditioning fails, and a primate creature attacks a scientist. The creature, and others like it, begin going on a rampage throughout Chicago. The oil company was experimenting with cell samples brought back from the Antarctic, which began growing when exposed to heat. Now these bizarre missing links are wrecking havoc. Despite the government cover-up, Kolchak investigates, and must track the creatures down to their lair beneath the old nuclear-research labs of the 50's.
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#14 - The Hero
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 29
A wealthy entrepreneur is sure that the man he meets on a cruise ship is the same person he robbed and left for dead many years ago ... or is he?
#15 - Officer Bobby
Ironside - Season 1 - Episode 26
A baby is found abandoned in the Chief's van, following an explosion at an airport. The Chief suspects that the child's mother was the intended victim of the attack, and plans to make her come forward, using the baby as bait.
#16 - The Countdown
Ironside - Season 6 - Episode 11
A scientist is given a irremovable belt containing explosives, and the man responsible demands the release of three men from prison in return for the key to the device. The Chief sets out to find and trap the man before time runs out and the bomb explodes, taking an innocent person with it.
#17 - The Mice
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 15
A convicted felon volunteers for an interplanetary cultural exchange program, and chaos ensues when a bizarre alien materializes here on Earth.
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