The BEST episodes written by Carey Wilber

#1 - Man Killer

Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 31

Tarzan's search for a murderer is complicated by a village whose natives employ drugs in their ceremonial rituals.

#2 - The Day the Earth Trembled

Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 18

Tarzan reluctantly enlists the aid of three escaped convicts to escort a group of endangered children to safety.

#3 - Incident of Iron Bull

Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 2

Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.

#4 - Jeopardy for Two

Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 23

Colonel Redford, a British intelligence agent, seeks Barnaby's help to trace double agent Raven who stole the famous Habsburg Porcelain Collection and sells the pieces at the Jennings Art Gallery. Raven /Jennings kills his associate Sinchek and nearly strangles Redford.

#5 - Charter For Death

Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 3

When a large amount of diseased rats are found on a boat with all the crew dead, Five-O must contend with an outbreak of bubonic plague.

#6 - Cry Wolf

Cannon - Season 5 - Episode 20

Cannon investigates when the grandson of the billionaire fakes his own kidnapping to get his trust fund money, but get gets involved with the wrong type of people.

#7 - The Perils of Charity Jones (1)

Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 26

A missionary from America's midwest enlists Jai's help to fulfill her father's last wish and deliver an organ to a primitive tribe, but their boat is disabled.

#8 - The Child-Woman

Rawhide - Season 4 - Episode 24

Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.

#9 - Valley of the Damned

Cannon - Season 3 - Episode 14

Airport drug smugglers frame a worker for murder.

#10 - Incident at Ten Trees

Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 14

The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.

#11 - Incident of the Wanderer

Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 21

Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.

#12 - Heritage

The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 6

While Heath investigates violence at one of the Barkley mines, he discovers that the miners hate the Barkley family for promises that have not been kept by the mines' managing partner.

#13 - On To Richmond

The Americans - Season 1 - Episode 5

Ben's having difficulty disciplining his men—most of them are short-term volunteers who won't take the war seriously. He is rebuked by Captain Cardiff, who foresees a real battle at a place called Manassas Junction, Virginia—better known as Bull Run.

#14 - The Escape

The Americans - Season 1 - Episode 8

#15 - The Sisters

Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 14

This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Adam and Adam generously shoots in the air to end the duel. Sue Ellen lives with her sister, who seems nice but turns out to be fairly evil, consumed with jealousy because she's getting older and her sister is a young beauty. When Adam drops Sue Ellen off after a date one night, half way through this episode, someone shoots her dead, and Adam becomes a suspect and is thrown in jail. When the sheriff suggests that Adam escape, he does it, but when he walks out, someone tries to shoot him. He chases after them but doesn't find them, and soon after hears Sue Ellen's sister scream. He runs up the stairs to find her dead, and of course, is then suspected of that murder as well. Of course, his family helps him during the last half hour, and it all turns out that someone we should not have suspected did all the murders, but that he actually wasn't trying to hit

#16 - Big Image... Little Man

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 7

Millionaire Paul Leland (Linden Chiles) treats everyone like dirt and ends up in the desert after getting shoved off a train by a disgruntled employee. He is found and taken on by the Virginian and Shiloh crew who are driving a herd of cattle to Seattle. Leland has several run-ins with the crew as well as former employees met along the way but in the end becomes a better man for his tribulations.

#17 - The Eddie O'Gara Story

The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 7

Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, looking for Bugs Moran.  Ness says there used to be 2 gangs in town, now there's just one.  Ness figures if they get to Moran first, maybe he'll talk-- he might just be mad enough to give them the information they need. Someone else looking for Moran is Eddie O'Gara, a small-time hood who has been on the run for the past 3 years; he's decided to come home. Eddie's brother Vince, a trolley driver, isn't happy to see him; but Eddie's mom welcomes him back with open arms. Eddie finds Moran at his old hideout: a big storage room in the lakefront Midway.  But Moran is ready to blast him; O'Gara was a punk until Moran made him a highly-paid gangster, and 3 years ago Eddie double-crossed him.  Eddie fast-talks his way out of it.  Moran has lots of money, but no gang; Eddie can get him a new gang, but he'll need lots of money.  So they decide to work together-- but Moran warns

#18 - Cain's Birthday (1)

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 25

Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

#19 - No Tears for Savannah

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 3

In Santa Rita the Virginian meets an old flame, Savannah (Gena Rowlands), who has been seeing a local man, a very jealous Gordie Madden (Robert Colbert). Savannah is accussed of murdering Madden and the Virginian gets Judge Garth to come and defend her. However, the cards are stacked against them as Madden's wealthy father (Everett Sloan) controls the town, including the Sheriff (Stephen McNally), and wants revenge.

#20 - The Stallion

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 3

A wild stallion escapes its owner, John Slaughter (Don ""Red"" Barry), killing a handler in the process. The animal injures itself and is found by Randy Benton who takes him to the nearby ranch of alcoholic horse trainer Charlie Orwell (Robert Culp) who nurses it back to health. Most believe the horse bad and wish to have it destroyed but Randy gets Charlie to help him save the animal and with the help of Jodie Wingate (Jenna Engstrom), they save Charlie too.

#21 - The Hostages

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 13

A band of Senecas kidnap Rebecca and ransack the Boone cabin. The unusual thing about this little group is that they are led by a white Tory officer.

#22 - The Sky Pirate

Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 18

The Robinsons meet a space traveling Earth man, Alonzo P. Tucker, who was abducted by aliens in 1876.

#23 - The Trail Gang

Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 11

On a cattle drive back to Nevada from Texas, Ben hires a young man who is both an outlaw and the son of the sheriff whose town the Ponderosa cowhands are entering.

#24 - Dealer's Wild

Emergency! - Season 1 - Episode 5

John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim.

#25 - There Were Giants in the Earth

Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 4

The Robinsons discover strange forms of life where they have established a self-sustaining community.

#26 - Chase Through Time

The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 24

The guys arrive in Arizona, 1547, as a technician named Niman kills a scientist. After a shootout, he flees into the Tunnel. Niman is a spy who has planted a nuclear device in the complex. The guys need to find Niman to get him to reveal the location of the bomb. They lure him in with a fire but he slips, and the Project transfer Doug and Tony after him to 1,000,000 A.D. Niman is already there and has established himself with the ruling clique. The guys get the info on the detonation time, bypass a force field, and with the aid of a local female "defective" manage to get to Niman. The Project transfers everyone, including two of the future-types, back to 1,000,000 B.C. After some running around from dinosaurs, they rescue Niman from a quicksand pit in return for the location of the bomb. The head alien eventually comes around and forces Niman to give the location of the bomb which they defuse. Everyone ends up in a giant bee hive and the Project gets everyone but Niman out.

#27 - Night Flight to Murder

Cannon - Season 3 - Episode 7

On behalf of an insurance company, Cannon investigates an airplane full of securities.

#28 - The Gunmen

Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 19

In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notorious Slade Brothers, also played by Blocker and Landon.

#29 - His Majesty, Smith

Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 24

Visitors from Andronica are looking for a king – a position Dr. Smith feels uniquely qualified to fill.

#30 - Not With a Whimper, But a Bang

Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 26

A local college is plagued by false bomb alerts, and the editor of the campus paper is convinced that leftist militants are responsible. However, when the fourth bomb proves to be real, and a member of the bomb squad is killed, the Chief begins to look in another direction.

#31 - The Prophet

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 15

A Shawnee prophet (John Russell) predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough; guest Patricia Huston.

#32 - Farewell to Honesty

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 27

A deputized Virginian arrives in the very misnamed Honesty, Wyoming looking for Major Ralph Forrester (Richard Carlson) who had defrauded Judge Garth. However, the local judge is in the Major's pocket and, using the excuse that the Virginian is not a full-time deputy, refuses to let the man be taken back to Medicine Bow. While waiting for Deputy Ryker to arrive, the Major is murdered and the Virginian is accused of the crime. Ryker arrives and with help of a local lawyer, John Harrison (Harold Gould), tries to sort out who the murderer is from amongst a number of suspects including the murdered man's wife (Dorothy Green), a former acquaintance of the Virginian who runs the local saloon and was being blackmailed by the dead man (Kathleen Crowley), and the Major's business partner(Douglas Henderson).

#33 - Town of Terror

The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 30

The guys arrive in a brick basement on the North Atlantic coast in 1978. It has advanced electrical equipment, and they are attacked by an overalled man. He collapses dead, then gets up and disappears in a cloud of smoke. They go upstairs and are paralyzed by an alien-android disguised as an old woman. The aliens are preparing to steal Earth's oxygen. The Project staff execute a lateral transfer and free the guys. They escape to a seemingly empty town surrounded by a force field and filled with paralyzed townspeople. A young couple, Paul and Joan, find the guys and tell them about the oxygen-stealing plot. Meanwhile the alien androids infiltrate the Project base, seal it off, and start sucking out the oxygen through the Tunnel itself. The guys must destroy the operation at their end. They fight off the androids and use explosives to blow up the alien HQ.

#34 - Cain's Birthday (2)

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 26

Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

#35 - A Visit to Hades

Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 12

Smith is transported to a hellish place where he becomes the terrified tool of a satanic stranger.

#36 - Triangle of Terror

Cannon - Season 3 - Episode 24

Cannon is called to the West Indies by Jackie Akers to investigate the death of her father, Sir Arnold Masters.

#37 - The Salt King

The Adventures of Robin Hood - Season 3 - Episode 1

In the days of Robin Hood, various essential goods were in short supply, and certain lords held monopolies on them. One such commodity was salt, and Lord Guthrie is plotting with the Sheriff to hold up supplies so the price will rise. The plan works well, until Robin steps in.

#38 - The Courtship of Jericho Jones

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 29

Jericho Jones kidnaps a Creek princess and elopes with her. Needless to say, this event causes considerable disruption of settler-Native American relations.

#39 - The Brazos Kid

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 6

Samantha Frye (Barbara Eden), who has been fired from many newspapers for her exaggerated stories, arrives in Medicine Bow where she begins working for the newspaper and becomes courted by the Virginian and Emmett Ryker. She begins a series of articles for the ""Police Gazette"" about a legendary but supposed dead outlaw called the Brazos Kid and her hints he is still alive bring a bounty hunter, a detective and a man seeking revenge on the outlaw, to Medicine Bow. Complicating matters even more are the facts the Kid is really alive and living incognito nearby and that the Virginian is his friend and is aware of his identity. Because Samantha's descriptions of the Kid resemble the Virginian, the Shiloh foreman becomes the target of the Kid's pursuers.

#40 - The Astral Traveler

Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 29

While exploring a mysterious cave, Will is transported through space to a haunted Scottish castle.

#41 - Massacre

The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 8

The guys arrive in South Dakota in June 24, 1876, near Little Bighorn. They are captured by Indians, although Doug manages to escape and make it to Custer's camp. Custer refuses to believe Doug's tale. Meanwhile, Tony has tried to warn Sitting Bull. The Indians prepare to burn Tony at the stake, but Sitting Bull intervenes, impressed by Tony's bravery. A trial-by-combat settles the matter when Tony wins against Yellow Elk but spares his life. Tony tries to convince Sitting Bull to approach Custer peacefully, much to the disgruntlement and skepticism of Crazy Horse. Sitting Bull lets Tony go to Custer's camp with a message of peace, but Custer refuses it and locks both travellers up. They manage to escape, and are forced to watch as history plays itself out and Custer and his men are massacred.

#42 - The Hanging Posse

Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 12

Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnson. The posse is run by Paiute Scroggs and Flint Johnson, the dead woman's husband. When Adam and Joe clash with them, they both separate and try to reach the three men before the posse does. This episode's storyline is a variation of the 1943 film "The Ox-Bow Incident".

#43 - The Drifter

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 19

This episode recounts in flashback how the Virginian came to Shiloh Ranch. The Virginian comes to Medicine Bow and first works for Miles Peterson (Leif Erickson) whose spread is run by ranch foreman Hugh Stager (Michael Forest). Stager tries to gain control of the ranch by romancing Peterson's daughter Maria (Mariette Hartley) and plotting to remove Peterson and blame it on Judge Garth. However, he has not reckoned on the Virginian and his growing friendship with Judge Garth.

#44 - The Long Quest

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 27

The Virginian is friends with Mary Ann Martin (Patricia Breslin) and her young son Cricket (Casey Peters) who live near Shiloh ranch. A detective named Corbett (Joseph Campanella) and his client, Judith Holly (Ruta Lee), claim that Cricket is actually Holly's son and that she wants him back. The Virginian attempts to ferret out the truth of the situation in order for Mary Ann to retain custody of the boy. The affair culminates in a series of surprising events at a judicial hearing.

#45 - Six Graves at Cripple Creek

The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 19

Emmett Ryker learns that a man named McMasters, who had killed his good friends, a rancher and his daughter, two years before, was one of six men supposedly killed by Indians. Believing the man still alive, and seeking revenge, he accompanies a young woman, Lucille Carver (Sheilah Wells), whose father was also reported as among those killed, to the massacre site at Cripple Creek. The trail eventually leads him to Deadwood where he suspects a man who has made a gold strike, and may be Lucille's father, is McMasters.

#46 - Roar from the Mountain

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 16

A cougar kills a Shiloh hand and Steve Hill, experienced in hunting these animals, tracks it into the mountains where he comes upon a homestead owned by Nancy Mayhew (Joyce Bulifant) and her husband Charles (Jack Klugman). The Mayhew's have strained relations and it is learned Charles son was killed by the same cougar. Nancy blames this on Charles' cowardice and indicates a romantic interest in Steve, an interest which eventually endangers Steve's life.

#47 - Sergeant Mike

Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 13

A old woman is murdered, and the only witness appears to be a large, grumpy Alsatian. The Chief enlists his help in a search for the murderer, and uncovers a story of con-jobs and blackmail suggesting that the old woman was far from being just a helpless victim

#48 - The Questing Beast

Lost in Space - Season 2 - Episode 17

Will learns the meaning of chivalry and honor when he serves as page to a knight-errant.

#49 - Stopover in a Western Town

The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 10

The well-off Caroline Witman (Joan Freeman) and her Aunt Grace (Lillian Bronson) visit Medicine Bow on their way from San Francisco to New York. Caroline falls in love with the Virginian who generally ignores her but a Shiloh hand, Jefferson Tolliver (Dick York), becomes smitten with her and she encourages Tolliver's advances in order to make the Virginian jealous. Tolliver's ambitions are thwarted by a lack of money and when he catches an unemployed hand rustling cattle, rather than turn him in, he joins him in crime. However, they end up murdering a ranch hand and this eventually leads to a penultimate confrontation between Tolliver and his friend, the Virginian.

#50 - To Stop a War

Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 6

Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion is questionable.