The BEST episodes written by Bob Mitchell
#3 - Evasion
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 6
Lieutenant Hanley is a POW in an ancient castle. Because he has strategic information, his fellow prisoners provide him with a fake Albanian uniform and papers for his escape, which begins a long and harrowing trip to the Allied lines.
#4 - Decision
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 9
Saunders is uneasy about Pvt. Charles Harris, who is with the squad as a demolition man. The assignment is to destroy a communications station. On the way, Doc learns that Harris is a doctor. Harris must make a decision whether to continue running away from what he is.
#5 - The Leader
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 31
Kirby, who is given command of the squad in Saunders's absence, finds the challenges mounting quickly and learns a lesson in leadership.
#6 - The Old Men
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 10
On patrol to snatch an enemy prisoner, the squad is saddled with three over-aged replacements: an injured vet of the Italian campaign who refuses to accept that he is incapable of fighting as he did as a youth, a homesick family man, and a politician with senatorial ambitions.
#7 - Run, Sheep, Run
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 30
In his first battle, Private Corey freezes. Afterwards, the squad commends him for his actions, believing he destroyed a machine gun nest.
#9 - The Bridge at Chalons
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 1
Sgt. Turk (Lee Marvin) commands a small demolition team that Saunders and his squad is ordered to take behind German lines to destroy a bridge. Turk had a close friend killed on a previous mission, and does not believe the squad can handle the job. He is hostile and abrasive. As casualties mount, it begins to appear that his doubts may be well placed.
#10 - The Mockingbird
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 17
Lt. Hanley, Caje, Kirby, and Pvt. Banning are sent behind German lines to find an American intelligence officer, Capt. Thorpe, who has important intelligence to get back to American G2. Three days before a big German advance, a German spy poses as a downed American flyer, Lt. Asher, to secure information on the French underground.
#11 - The Case of the Badgered Brother
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 12
Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a successful chain of clothing stores. Martin ends up with a knife sticking out of his back one night and Todd is charged with the murder.
#12 - The Eyes of the Hunter
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 19
Private Jessie Burgess is assigned to guide Sgt. Saunder's squad to a hidden German artillery site because he has done detailed reconnaissance. Saunders is warned to keep a close watch on Burgess but he doesn't know why. Burgess is popular with people who don't work with him.
#13 - Anatomy of a Patrol
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 11
When a U.S. reconnaissance plane crashes, Sgt. Saunders' men race a German patrol to recover the pilot and his film. The Americans get there first, but carrying the wounded airman on a stretcher over heavily wooded hills slows them down. The wily German Sgt. Beckman (James Caan) and his squad counter Saunders' every trick.
#14 - The Case of the Crippled Cougar
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 22
Mike Preston is a bitter man who despises Hugh Jamison because he mistakenly believes Jamison stole $100,000.00 from him and is responsible for him being crippled. Trying to entrap Jamison, Preston makes a mistake and is set up for murder by the real thief.
#15 - The Case of the Fickle Filly
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 11
When Jennifer is alone after her father's heart attack, her only friend is her filly Tiger Lily. She's penniless until a present from her late father is dropped in her lap, but it turns out that the present is worthless, although Brad Shelby did pay $50,000 in order to capitalize on it.
#16 - The Gun
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 1
Saunders and his squad accompany a tank to destroy a German bunker. After their tank is destroyed, Saunders decides to use a German cannon for the mission. Moving the gun to the target is a physical and mental challenge.
#17 - The Case of the Ruinous Road
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 14
The foundations of a large company are shaken when the chief engineer uncovers evidence of budget tampering.
#18 - The Case of the Torrid Tapestry
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 23
Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.
#19 - The Short Day of Private Putnam
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 28
A new squad member is aggressive and naive. When Putnam puts his unsubtle moves on a knowing French bartender, Fauvette, she befriends him and learns he is really only 15. In a perilous situation, he panics, endangering himself and Sgt. Saunders.
#20 - Angels in the Stretch
Charlie's Angels - Season 3 - Episode 13
The Angels are called in to find the murderer of a gambler killed while investigating the suspicious antics of a dull racehorse.
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#21 - Billy the Kid
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 29
Lieutenant William Benton, the son of celebrated General Bull Benton, leads a mission to locate a big artillery piece that is cutting up the American lines. It is his first field experience, and he has a lot to prove.
#22 - The First Day
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 2
The squad, worn-out and exhausted, receives four green replacements. The story follows these four teenagers as they attempt to survive their first day on the front line.
#24 - A Rare Vintage
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 12
Saunders, Caje, Doc and a disgruntled straggler, Pvt. Garrett, are flushing a winery when a squad of Germans enter carrying a badly wounded Lt. Hanley. They need the help of the old winemaker to try and get away with Hanley. The winemaker might be able to teach Garrett something about courage.
#25 - Teen Angels
Charlie's Angels - Season 3 - Episode 20
The Angels assume false identities in order to investigate a murder at a posh girl's school. During their probe, they discover that some of the girls are involved in the sale and abuse of drugs and alcohol.
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