The BEST episodes written by Burt Prelutsky
#1 - Passion and the Palm Beach Detectives
Silk Stalkings - Season 8 - Episode 3
Tom and Cassy pursue a well known romance novelist who they suspect in a string of murders.
#2 - Strange Bedfellows
Silk Stalkings - Season 8 - Episode 13
Cassy's investigation into a hit and run death leads to a U. S. Senator's suicide.
#3 - Narcotics - DR-21
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 16
The Captain ask Joe and Bill to investigate having dogs trained to sniff out narcotics. They contact a dog trainer to train dogs for the job. Joe and Bill do a demonstration for Judges to prove the effectiveness of using a dog to detect marijuana.
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#4 - The Fire Within (1)
Space Precinct - Season 1 - Episode 20
Officer Took joins a religious cult called the Pyrists. When one of their elders is immolated in a fire, her colleagues believe that the Pyrists themselves, were responsible.
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#5 - Playing God
Diagnosis Murder - Season 8 - Episode 10
Dr. Mark Sloan seeks the murderer who killed a med student, drained his blood, and stored him in the Community General morgue.
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#6 - The Fire Within (2)
Space Precinct - Season 1 - Episode 21
Precinct 88 continues its investigation at the Pyrist Temple in the wake of the disappearance of Captain Podley's daughter.
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#8 - Forgery - DR-33
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 23
An actress' pay checks have being stolen and someone have cashed them. Joe and Bill visit the actress' apartment and find her roommate the prime suspect. They try to track the roommate down, but are unsuccessful until her husband contacts them.
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#10 - Burglary - Mister
Dragnet - Season 4 - Episode 5
An old woman has all her possessions including her cane stolen by her grandson, "Mister Daniel Lumis". Joe and Bill try to locate Lumis and find a trail of bigamy and thievery.
#11 - The Easy Sunday Murder Case
McMillan and Wife - Season 1 - Episode 2
After the crosswords... a woman's husband is kidnapped, and her dog.
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#12 - Frauds - DR-28
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 19
Joe and Bill investigate someone who has fraudulently obtained disability checks. This person has been renting apartments and only using them as a mail drop. Joe and Bill meet with a group of apartment owners to ask for their help.
#13 - Brother's Keeper
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 4 - Episode 4
Brian's dog Pup gets bitten by a rabid raccoon. Then Matthew's fiancée gives the dog water. She also gets bitten.
#14 - Being of Sound Mind
Diagnosis Murder - Season 8 - Episode 16
Dr. Sloan tries to save Jesse and Amanda from a murderer who is out to kill them in order to obtain a multi-million dollar inheritance.
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#15 - Santa Claude
Diagnosis Murder - Season 7 - Episode 11
Hospital horticulturist Claude is revealed to be an escaped convict living under an assumed name for the past 10 years. Mark fights to shelter Claude from extradition while striving to prove his innocence.
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#16 - The General's Practitioner
M*A*S*H - Season 5 - Episode 20
In the midst of Hawkeye being considered, much to his distaste, for the position of a general's personal physician, Radar becomes a surrogate father to a Korean woman and her baby, until the baby's GI father returns.
#17 - The Grim Reaper
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 11
Colonel Victor Bloodworth predicts that 280 wounded will arrive at the 4077th. Hawkeye is antagonized by Bloodworth and shoves him against a wall. Bloodworth presses for a court martial until he becomes one of the wounded and watches Hawkeye saving a soldier's life. Realizing Hawkeye's value as a doctor, Bloodworth drops all charges.
#18 - Images
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 9
Radar notices a number of tattoos on one of the wounded, and convinces himself that with a tattoo he will be irresistible to women. Everyone tries to discourage him, and he admits to having received a tattoo that will wash off. Meanwhile, Margaret is frustrated with a new nurse who keeps getting upset at the sight of combat injuries.
#19 - Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler
M*A*S*H - Season 4 - Episode 9
Intelligence officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapples over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who claims to be Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most poignant scene is when Radar asks Chandler to bless his teddy bear.
#20 - The Light That Failed
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 6
With supplies low, the 4077th gets a truckload of ice cream churns and salt tablets. But what it needs are light bulbs, and in the dimly lit post-op Charles makes an error for which he draws the ultimate wrath of his two surgeon bunkmates. Meanwhile, B.J. receives a mystery novel that everyone in camp reads in turn. The last page is missing and the solution to the mystery is undiscovered until B.J. calls the author by long distance.
#21 - Hawk's Nightmare
M*A*S*H - Season 5 - Episode 13
After Hawkeye bemoans the young age of the wounded, he appears to develop problems. Sleepwalking and bad dreams, according to Sidney Freedman, are taking Hawkeye back to a simple time, but the horrors of war continue to intrude. After Sidney's assurances that he is as sane as can be, Hawkeye's life once again seems to settle down.
#22 - Support Your Local Shifflet
Newhart - Season 6 - Episode 12
Dick encourages Officer Shifflet to go on strike after the town refuses to give him a raise.
#23 - Souvenirs
M*A*S*H - Season 5 - Episode 22
Korean children and American soldiers are often badly wounded when they hunt for souvenirs which the enemy have booby-trapped. Potter asks for it to stop, and Hawkeye and B.J. put a local junk dealer out of business.
#24 - Public Affairs - DR-07
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 1
Joe and Bill appear on the TV talk show "Speak Your Mind" debating the topic "The Police, Who Needs Them?" with a professor and a hippie (played by Howard Hessman, though listed in the credits as Don Sturdy).
#25 - A Resting Place
Diagnosis Murder - Season 7 - Episode 19
Doc Sloan goes undercover as a patient in a retirement home to solve the murder of an ex-cop.
#26 - Narcotics - DR-16
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 11
Someone is selling LSD to teens. Joe and Bill are asked to speak to a local High School group that want to form an anti drug club "Smart Teens". They plan to create posters and Joe gets a Disney artist to draw them. But will the kids follow through?
#27 - On the Beach
Diagnosis Murder - Season 8 - Episode 21
Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.
#28 - Getting Mad, Getting Even
Diagnosis Murder - Season 7 - Episode 24
Madison moves in with her new paramour, unaware that he's trying to kill her. Jesse is suspected of being the anonymous author of a tell-all book that places hospital workers in spicy relationships.
#29 - You Bet Your Life
Diagnosis Murder - Season 8 - Episode 14
Dr. Mark Sloan investigates the apparent suicide of a gifted heart surgeon who was also a compulsive gambler.
#30 - Murder by the Barrel
McMillan and Wife - Season 1 - Episode 1
On moving day, Sally discovers a dead body in a moving barrel. When she leaves to tell Mac, the barrel disappears. What happened to it?
#31 - Officers and Gentlemen
Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 3 - Episode 5
Spoon and Ice look for a new roommate who can serve as a buffer between them. They and Capone undergo survival training. Kate goes out with their training officer, Capt. Ray Hartley, and becomes a victim of date rape.
#32 - At Poverty Level
Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 3 - Episode 14
After a case of spousal abuse, Kelly goes to Washington to ask for raises for enlisted men. There he meets Ali, an old flame, and they rekindle the fire. Ice goes out with Dr. Brandon. Hammer has a close call.
#33 - Guess Who I Saw Today
Rhoda - Season 3 - Episode 13
Rhoda experiences a severe separation pain when she sees Joe with another woman.