The BEST episodes written by Calvin Clements
#1 - The Deadly Charade
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 12
Paul Nugent kills his rich cousin Sandra, hurts himself and fakes a jewel burglary. Sandra had a $1000,000 life insurance policy and Barnaby investigates for the insurance company. Suspicion falls on Lassiter since he and his wife were separated. Meanwhile Betty is charmed and starts dating Paul. Barnaby and J.R. must come to the rescue when Betty finds herself in danger
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#2 - Dead Man's Run
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lloyd Kellner fakes a fatal car accident so he can disappear with the money he embezzled from a firm of stockholders. With his wife Bernice he wants to leave the country in a boat and $4 million in diamonds. But Bernice prefers to join a third associate, Stayman.
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#3 - Foul Play
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 24
Sanderson, the manager of a basketball team, kills the brother-in-law of his star player Frank Hampton, when he is blackmailed due to Frank's foul play. Sanderson also kills Tony, an unwanted witness. But the blackmailing continues and Sanderson's team loses again.
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#4 - Fatal Flight
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 12
Theodore Gordon is killed in a plane crash when trying to transport important documents for an international company. Another member dies in a parachute jump. Barnaby finds out Gordon had a love affair. He sets a trap by repeating the flight with the documents.
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#5 - The Platinum Connection
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 16
When platinum manufacturers Nate Turner and Mitch Mitchell fake a robbery to collect money from the insurance company, Nate is killed by Mitch. Employee Mary Dwayne becomes witness of the fraud and joins a Mr. Smith in blackmailing Mitch with a secret video tape.
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#6 - Echo of a Murder
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 3
Gil Atkens is accused of murdering his wife as several people saw him quarrel with Claire in a boat and striking her with the oar when she fell into the water. Although Barnaby gets a film that proves Gil's innoncence, he discovers a clever insurance fraud.
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#7 - A Simple Case of Terror
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 15
Since Vietnam Peggy Landry cares for her husband Tom as he suffers from a weakness of memory. Lee Wallace stabs Stevens and makes his friend Tom believe that he is the murderer. Barnaby is hired anonymously by Peggy when Stevens doesn't show up for work and she fears Tom may have something to do with it. J.R. goes undercover as a worker at the warehouse where the anonymous letter came from in an attempt to find out the facts leading to Stevens death.
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#8 - Mystery Cycle
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 8
Jonathan Yeager, a motorbike manufacturer, is killed in a bike test. Barnaby investigates for California Meridian Insurance Company and searches for the mysterious motorcyclist with a black helmet who was seen pursuing Yeager and smokes small cigars.
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#9 - The Alpha-Bravo War
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 6
Two teams Alpha and Bravo compete in the development of missile designs. When a man of the Bravo team is killed by a misdirected missile, Barnaby is hired to find out whether it was an accident or sabotage. Or is it a jealous husband who kills Alpha marksman?
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#10 - Fatal Witness
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 9
Impaired by a skiing accident young Kathy watches Dr. Melford quarreling with neighbor Mrs. Rickers, then killing her. Barnaby is hired by Melford's lawyer. Kathy's credibility is doubted as after her accident she has been suffering from hallucinations.
#11 - Legion of the Lost
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 27
Stone and Keller look into the beating death of three homeless men.
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#15 - Rendezvous with Terror
Barnaby Jones - Season 2 - Episode 20
Juan DeVarga, a terminally ill Latin American leader, wants Barnaby to locate his son John Revez as he needs an heir. Barnaby finds out that Revez is also Javier, leader of a terrorist group opposing DeVarga. Jones arranges a meeting, but there is a traitor.
#16 - Sarah
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 6
Matt runs into an old flame named Sarah that now runs a one-woman saloon for bandits out in the desert. Matt will have to pass as a villain in order to save Sarah's reputation as a trusted confidante.
#18 - To Ride a Yeller Horse
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 23
The schemes of a mother trying to control the lives of her son and daughter lead to tragic results.
#19 - Orville Gant
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 4
With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery goes forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her. Zeb's and Beth's accounts of her rescue come under suspicion by authorities, causing her to leave abruptly, with her leading Zeb to a mountain cabin.
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#20 - Amnesty
How the West Was Won - Season 2 - Episode 5
Zeb learns Beth's husband is supposedly a dead, guilt-ridden Army hero involved in a military massacre. As Jessie nears death, Zeb decides to take her to an Arapaho medicine man - with a skeptical Luke and Josh in close pursuit.
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#21 - The Clarence Bibs Story
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 28
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot and a lot of gall.
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#22 - Vengeance! (1)
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 4
Bob Johnson, Zack Johnson and Floyd Binnes are accused of cattle rustling by Parker a powerful land baron, Floyd is killed while being drug behind a horse, Zack is crippled by a horse stomping his legs and back. Bob is beaten. Once in Dodge Bob meets Angel, while Zack dies of his wounds. Bob in getting revenge taunts Parker's hot-headed son into a gunfight kills him, and plans to go after Parker.
#23 - Day of Reckoning
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 28
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.
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#24 - Woman From Hog Ridge
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
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#25 - The Rustler
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 2
Jessie is blindly in love with a handsome young stranger named Bob, who rescues her from a nasty villain. Together they flee to a small town and finds a priest who agrees to perform the ceremony.
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#26 - Vengeance! (2)
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 5
Matt goes after Bob Johnson who is planning to kill Parker to avenge the death of his friends.
#27 - Long Gun From Tucson
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 11
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.
#28 - The Hanging of Newly O'Brien
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 11
When Newly performs emergency surgery on a patient in the back country and he dies, the ignorant families think it's murder and want to hang him.
#29 - Outlaw's Shoes
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 31
A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.
#30 - The Night the Town Died
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 21
Aaron Bell is on the warpath to bring his brother's lynchers to justice. Paladin is hired to protect a town from Bell.
#31 - Beta Delta Gamma
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 6
After a drinking contest, students decide to play a joke on one of their fraternity friends, Alan. Putting fake blood on one of them, they lead Alan to believe he has committed murder, placing into action a deadly chain of events.
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#32 - Lyle's Kid
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 1
Grant Lyle, a former lawman with crippled hands, brings his young gunfighter son to Dodge to settle the score with Hoxey, the man just released from prison who is responsible for his hands.
#33 - Luke
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 9
Luke Macahan finds out that there is still a $5000 reward on his head, and to expect more and more bounty hunters as an effect off that fact.
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#34 - Prairie Wolfer
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 10
In an attempt to get money two prairie wolfers steal money from Dolan, a hardened storekeeper, then when one tries to give it back trouble starts.
#35 - The Old Pro
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 8
A hit-man's retirement is jeopardized when he is blackmailed by a man threatening to reveal his past to his wife - who knows nothing about his wicked ways.
#36 - L'Affaire Riel
How the West Was Won - Season 3 - Episode 6
Zeb Macahan is asked by general Sheridan to find Louis Riel so he can be sent back to Canada since he is wanted.
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#37 - The Legend
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 6
Ma Colter tries to dissuade her youngest son from following his older brothers into a life of crime.
#38 - Patricia
Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 18
Newly falls in love with a woman he met while tending the injured after a tornado. It doesn't take him long to decide to ask to marry her. Doc notes an odd bruise on her arm and her lack of energy. After an exam he wars with his conscience over whether to tell Patricia that she's got a rare blood disorder. He tells Kitty, Matt, and Newly before he marries her. She dies shortly after in Newly's arms and prompts Newly to go back to studying medicine.
#39 - The First People
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 23
Matt has to intervene when a honest, but strict Indian agent charges an innocent Indian of murder of his assistant.
#40 - The Cage
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 26
When a gang tries to kill one of their captured members, the member turns around and teams up with Matt to bring the rest of the members to justice.
#41 - The Miracle Man
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 10
Con man, Bob Sullivan tries to trick a widow with three children out of money for a fake cattle herd, but instead ends up falling in love with her and her children.
#42 - The Night Riders
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 22
Kansas raider Judge Proctor and his men ride into Dodge looking for a man they blame for stealing their land during the war. With Matt out of town, Festus has to try to keep peace and keep the renegades from burning the town.
#43 - The Predators
Gunsmoke - Season 17 - Episode 20
A former gunfighter returns to Dodge which worries Matt because Howard Cane was the one to survive the rage war. Can Matt stop him before more trouble comes to Dodge?
#44 - The Prisoner
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 25
Steven Downing is being taken to Mathison County to be hung as a murderer. Kitty believing in his innocence does all she can to stop the bounty hunter Jarvis, and finally Bob Mathison from taking him from Dodge.
#45 - The Deadly Trail
Cannon - Season 4 - Episode 5
A general wants Cannon to find the daughter he put up for adoption years before, but there is opposition to the search.
#46 - The Prodigal
Gunsmoke - Season 13 - Episode 3
Amos and William Cole come to Dodge to find the backshooting killer of their outlaw father many years before.
#47 - Abelia
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 8
A young woman and her kids and Festus are held hostage from a man Matt is trying to find.
#48 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 23
In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.
#49 - Johnny Cross
Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 13
Newly intervenes when two bounty hunters try to kill a desperado who claims he's innocent.
#50 - A Man Called Smith
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 6
Abelia, the young widow who once saved Festus' life, returns. She learns that she isn't a widow when her outlaw husband appears and forces her to exchange his stolen gold for cash.