The BEST episodes written by Burt Prelutsky

#1 - Passion and the Palm Beach Detectives

Silk Stalkings - Season 8 - Episode 3

#2 - Strange Bedfellows

Silk Stalkings - Season 8 - Episode 13

#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.

#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.

#5 - 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?

#6 - 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.

#7 - Juvenile - DR-35

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 25

An infant girl is found in a garbage can; Joe and Bill use the child's blanket to track down the mother.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#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.

#12 - Burglary - DR-31

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 21

A costumed thief calling himself "The Crimson Crusader" has been stealing comic books, movie posters and publicity photos of various superheroes.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#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 - 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.

#19 - 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).

#20 - 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?

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.

#26 - 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.

#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 - Guess Who I Saw Today

Rhoda - Season 3 - Episode 13

Rhoda experiences a severe separation pain when she sees Joe with another woman.

#29 - 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.

#30 - 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.

#31 - 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.

#32 - 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.

#33 - 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.