The BEST episodes written by Chris Abbott
#1 - Resolutions (2)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 13
As Rick's wedding looms ever closer, Thomas continues surveillance on Linda to catch the psychopathic killer who is stalking her; T.C. faces a reconciliation with his estranged wife; Thomas gets surprising news about his theory that Higgins is really Robin Masters, as well as the true fate of Lily.
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#2 - For The Love of Nancy
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 9
An overweight boy comes to school at Walnut Grove. The schoolkids pick on him because he is so heavy. Nancy persuades the boy to bully the other school children. The jokes of the school children get so bad that the obese boy decides to quit school. The school children then decide that enough is enough. They go over and apologize to him.
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#3 - Operation: Silent Night
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 10
It is Christmas Eve, and T.C. is flying Rick to judge a beauty pageant, Thomas to play Santa Claus at a charity event, and Higgins to deliver a payroll to some of Robin Master’s workers, before he goes home to spend Christmas with his family in New Orleans. But the helicopter suddenly develops problems and they are forced to make an emergency landing on nearby deserted Frenchman’s Island. The remote isle is used by the Navy for shelling manoeuvres – and as the foursome try to find a way to safely make it off of the island, hopefully in time for Christmas, a Naval Captain, unaware of their presence, is hell-bent on upping his ship’s target practice scores, and a shelling on the island is imminent...
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#4 - The Nephews
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 14
Almanzo gets suckered into watching his brother Royal's two bratty boys.
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#5 - Transitions
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 11
When Higgins asks his help in finding Robin's latest manuscript after it is stolen, Thomas gets some unexpected help in the case when St. Louis P.I. Luther Gillis arrives unannounced on vacation. They set about trying to work out who is so desperate to get hold of the manuscript that they are willing to resort to attempting to kill Higgins and drugging Zeus and Apollo to get it, in scenes reminiscent of those portrayed in the stolen book...
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#6 - Unfinished Business
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 8
Magnum prepares for the trial of Quang Ki, who attempted to kill both him and his family. But when the case is suddenly, unexpectedly acquitted, angered Thomas suspects some other hand is behind Ki's release. It becomes evident that his arch-nemesis will stop at nothing to destroy Thomas and his family, when he receives a video-tape containing terrible information about the fate of his former wife and young daughter. As Thomas plans his revenge against Ki, he is thrust into a quagmire of intrigue endangering a sensitive P.O.W. prisoner exchange programme...
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#7 - Deja Vu (2)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 2
Conclusion of this feature-length / two-part story. As Thomas and Penelope investigate the mystery surrounding Geoffrey's death, they become close to each other, and Thomas with this and with flashbacks to his haunting dream that seems to have predicted Geoffrey's death, he feels as though he's almost stepped into Geoffrey's life. The pair uncover that Geoffrey was once part of a powerful group of assassins, and seems to have been killed to stop him from having chance to expose the group. Meanwhile, Thomas learns that Higgins is reluctant to use the stay in England as an opportunity to visit his father, whom he has not seen in forty years after a falling out...
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#8 - The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 20
Magnum's Private Investigator license has expired, and he is in the awkward, red-tape laden task of trying to renew it. But he has a welcome surprise when his Aunt, best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Phoebe Sullivan, pays an unexpected visit to Hawaii from New York. The rather eccentric authoress has just finished writing a new play, but now is convinced that someone is trying to kill her for it, and that they have trailed her to the Islands. Is someone really after Phoebe, or is her mind getting the better of her?...
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#9 - I Witness
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 21
When the King Kamehameha Club is robbed late one evening by thieves wearing animal masks to conceal their identities, Lt. Tanaka becomes so frustrated by the inability of Higgins, Rick and T.C. to agree about what transpired that he enlists Thomas's help in getting their stories straight. Since the men tell widely divergent versions of the night's events designed to show themselves in the best possible light as the evening's hero, it takes Thomas quite some time and effort to uncover the inside man at the club who tipped off the robbers.
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#10 - Limbo
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 22
Thomas is delivering key evidence in his latest case to the court house, when he is shot in the parking lot by a hit man. Thomas, in a coma, discovers he is not dead, but not alive, and needs to help Michelle, who is in danger, and being chased by killers. He meets up with the ghost of his former Naval buddy Mac. He also spends time with each member of the cast individually, and, in one way or another, says good-bye and how important they are all to him, in case he does not survive.
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#11 - Tran Quoc Jones
Magnum, P.I. - Season 5 - Episode 9
At request of Robin Masters, Thomas begrudgingly is to provide protection for a political candidate whom he has reason to dislike. He is also waiting for a female client, but in her place arrives a young Vietnamese boy, Tran Quoc Jones, who wants to hire Magnum to find his long lost father, a pilot in the Vietnam war. Tran cannot go to the authorities for help as he is an illegal immigrant and would face deportation, and as Thomas does his best to trace the boy's father, he and his friends, especially T.C., become attached to the boy. But Magnum learns that the woman who was originally to have hired him was found murdered - and the politician, the dead woman and the young Vietnamese boy all tie in to the same case...
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#12 - L.A. (2)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 2
Conclusion of this feature-length / two-part story. Magnum and Cynthia became ever closer to each other as they investigate Marti's murder. Their search leads them to a drug trafficker, but their snooping around sees them almost killed. Back in Hawaii, T.C., with help from Rick and Higgins, continues to search for the missing Kenny, and get him out of the trouble he is in...
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#13 - L.A. (1)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 1
Thomas arrives in Los Angeles to deliver lawsuit papers to a small film company on behalf of Robin Masters, and during the trip befriends a stand-up comedienne. But when he finds her murdered in his hotel room, he investigates to find who is behind the killing. When he goes to deliver the subpoena to the film company, he strikes up a relationship with the attractive young attorney, and the pair work together to find the murderers... Meanwhile back in Hawaii, one of the players on T.C.'s baseball team is mixed up with some small time car thieves, who witnesses his friends being shot dead after stealing a car...
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#14 - Going Home
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 7
After thirteen years away, Thomas returns to Tidewater to attend the funeral of his beloved grandfather, Everett, and reopens a long-running family feud when he suspects his stepfather of stealing and selling a missing family heirloom -- a letter from Abraham Lincoln.
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#15 - Resolutions (1)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 12
Thomas ponders his future while paying a visit to his family in Virginia, where he unexpectedly meets his grandfather and considers an offer to be reinstated to the Navy; Thomas returns to Hawaii to ascertain whether former girlfriend Linda Lee Ellison is being stalked; Rick prepares for his wedding to Cleo; Thomas and Linda renew their relationship as he searches for her stalker; Thomas becomes increasingly certain that his daughter Lily may still be alive.
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#16 - A Wiser Heart
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 5
Laura goes to visit Eliza Jane because of a literature seminar that is going on in town. Laura has to find a part-time job to pay for meals and other stuff. She ends up hating the job. There is a person who Laura met on the train who begins to like Eliza Jane. Eliza Jane in turn begins to like the professor teaching the seminar and the professor likes Laura. The professor tells Laura that her writing is bad when Laura tells him she is happily married. The man on the train eventually defends Laura's writing. It only takes one punch by the man to get the professor to take off and leave.
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#17 - Compulsion
Magnum, P.I. - Season 5 - Episode 14
Carol asks Magnum for help when a series of strange events lead her to believe that someone is trying to scare her. At first she thinks that she just may be imagining it, but as the happenings turn more sinister, her fears grow. It seems that the threats are connected with the leader of a religious group that her father, also a District Attorney, sent to prison over fifteen years earlier, whom she is about to testify for parole to be denied. Meanwhile, Higgins is expecting a visit of three old friends from Sandhurst, but he isn't particularly looking forward to the visit...
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#18 - Deja Vu (1)
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 1
Magnum and Higgins travel to London, England to oversee the establishment of Robin Master's new castle, Robin's Keep, in time for a large banquet. While Higgins is busy training Ian MacKerras for the running of the castle, Thomas takes the opportunity to visit Geoffrey St. Clare, an old friend from Vietnam, but upon arrival, Geoffrey's wife Penelope informs him that Geoffrey has been killed, after being run down in a hit-and-run incident with a black Jaguar. But there is mystery surrounding the death - Geoffrey was supposed to be in France, and the circumstances suggest that, far from being an accident, the death was deliberate murder.The events of Geoffrey's killing seem to be echoing a disturbing, bizarre dream that Magnum had on the journey to England...
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#19 - The Seven Deadly Sins
Diagnosis Murder - Season 7 - Episode 10
Mark matches wits with a beautiful jewel thief who's being framed for murder.
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#20 - A Cry for Help
Cagney & Lacey - Season 2 - Episode 21
Cagney and Lacey work to arrest a con-man involved in a Ponzi scheme against elderly women; and Mary Beth learns that one of the detectives they are working with is beating his wife.
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#21 - Blind Justice
Magnum, P.I. - Season 5 - Episode 7
Carol persuades Magnum to do some work for her, gathering additional evidence for the big murder case of a man accused of killing his wife that is due to come up in court in a couple of days. The only witness of the woman's death is her young daughter, but Thomas faces a crisis of conscience over just what to and what not to present as evidence in the court-room that could ensure the conviction of the violent accused killer... Meanwhile, Higgins, tired of Magnum's slackness around the Estate, has taken use of the Ferrari away from him, so Thomas must find a new vehicle to get around in...
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#22 - Rembrandt's Girl
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 14
Magnum is hired by a bank teller from Robin Master's bank to investigate her father, world-famous counterfeiter Herbie "Rembrandt" Norton, who has recently been released from penitentiary and whom she suspects has returned to counterfeiting after coming into large amounts of money since his release. Before starting investigations, the pair go to retrieve a book for Higgins from a safe deposit box at the bank, but the woman accidentally locks them in the vault, and with the time-release door and a slowly dwindling air supply, the pair are trapped inside... Meanwhile, spurred on by getting the potentially lucrative case, Thomas had promised to take Rick and T.C. for a luxurious weekend away, but unaware that Magnum is trapped in the vault at the bank, they are annoyed to presume that he has gone without them, and - with T.C. having problems with his girl-friend - they decide to hold a party at Magnum's guest house - which does not go down well with Higgins, who is holding a meditation we
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#23 - This Island isn't Big Enough...
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 16
When Rick's boat returns from a cruise deserted, Magnum searches for the answers to what has happened to his friend and the passengers on-board, who are all presumed dead. His hunt is somewhat hampered by the separate investigation of a law officer who models himself on John Wayne, but as they both try to get to the bottom of the strange disappearance of the boat's passengers, they stumble upon a plot involving mobsters and two million dollars in counterfeit money...
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#24 - Laura
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 18
Rick persuades Thomas to take a high-reward, supposedly simple missing person case, but the person paying for the case is actually New York City cop Michael Doheny, who has his own reasons for wanting to find the man in question. Doheny has come to Hawaii to track down those responsible for the rape and murder of his young grand-daughter on the night of his retirement dinner, a hunt in which he asks Magnum's help...
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#25 - A Matter of Conscience
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 3
Sully is wanted for treason and murder. In order to keep him safe, Michaela pretends that Sully is dead and has a memorial service for him. Hank and Jake find out Sully is alive. Cloud Dancing and Sully meet with Black Moon.
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#26 - Last Dance
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 6
Dr. Mike faces the prospect of leaving her practice and friends for Wyoming when Sully is offered a job surveying Yellowstone National Park.
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#27 - The Kona Winds
Magnum, P.I. - Season 6 - Episode 4
Magnum is on the sea-front, watching the approaching storms brought on by the Kona Winds, when he sees a woman either slip or jump into the turbulent waters. After rescuing her, he takes her back to the estate, where she tells him that the previous night, she witnessed her husband - owner of a reel-estate empire - murder his business partner, and now fears that he'll kill her too. As Thomas investigates her husband, he begins to fall in love with the woman, but as he observes, the Kona Winds make people behave in uncharacteristic ways, and the whole situation spells big trouble and danger for him...
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#28 - Hostage
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 20
Sully, depite being wounded by two bank robbers, works to free his wife, Brian and Katie when they are taken hostage by the desperate men.
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#29 - Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts
Magnum, P.I. - Season 8 - Episode 1
Thomas lies hospitalized in a coma, caught between life and death, after being shot; as his friends and family attempt to pull him out of the limbo in which he is trapped, Thomas has an out-of-body experience in which he sees himself in heaven, guided by Mac; Thomas recovers physically from the gunshot wound in time, but finds it hard to face life again; although three of the criminals who almost killed him are already dead, one is still free.
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#30 - Sleeping Murder
Diagnosis Murder - Season 7 - Episode 2
Mark worries that his sleepwalking brother may be guilty of murder.
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#31 - Paradise Blues
Magnum, P.I. - Season 4 - Episode 15
T.C. drags a reluctant Magnum along to the newly-opened club of an old flame – a beautiful jazz singer who he fell in love with in Vietnam – who has just moved to the islands. Thomas doesn’t dislike the woman, but insists to T.C. that trouble always follows her wherever she goes – but T.C., still infatuated with the girl, refuses to listen. But sure enough, the woman is in trouble, searching for a man who owes her $18,000 and mixed up with Detroit drug dealers that are out to kill her...
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#32 - Confession
Diagnosis Murder - Season 8 - Episode 9
Dr. Mark Sloan, Lt. Steve Sloan and Dr. Amanda Bentley become involved when a priest is accused of murdering an old friend.
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#33 - State of Flux
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 1 - Episode 11
Stardate: 48658.2 When stolen Federation technology is found on a severely damaged Kazon Nistrim ship, Seska becomes the prime suspect. The evidence is further re-enforced when questions arise over her true heritage.
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#34 - Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow (2)
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 18
Almonzo, bitter at his apparent life-crippling illness, nearly gives up on life, despite the birth of little Rose. His attitude nearly drives Laura to consider leaving her husband. A tornado that destroys the farmstead may hold the key to both of their futures.
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#35 - Lead Me Not
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 7
Marjorie, Dr. Mike's sister returns to town as a member of the Women's Temperance League to try to outlaw alcohol. Jake starts believing that there may be something going on between Hank & Ms. Teresa. Meanwhile Grace has turned to drinking to help comfort the recent death of her adoptive son Anthony.
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#36 - Liberation
Quantum Leap - Season 5 - Episode 13
October 16, 1968: Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.
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#37 - The Legend of Black Jake
Little House on the Prairie - Season 8 - Episode 7
Nels is kidnapped by two crooks. The crooks try to get Mrs. Oleson to pay ransom for her husband, but she refuses to. This makes Mr. Oleson upset and causes him to help the crooks. The kidnappers aren't very lucky. After kidnapping several different people, the crooks decide that they need to try another line of work. They leave without hurting any of the kidnapped people.
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#38 - Oleson Versus Oleson
Little House on the Prairie - Season 7 - Episode 12
A female activist arrives in Walnut Grove to encourage the men to share equal property rights with their wives. After getting into a huge fight about it with her husband, Harriet Oleson goes to live at the hotel. Caroline decides to follow Harriet's lead.
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#39 - Life in the Balance
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 16
Chinese immigrants set up camp. Dr. Quinn discovers a young woman posing as a man in order to practice medicine, which is forbidden in her culture. Her Grandfather is stunned, but supportive.
#40 - To Have and to Hold
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 20
While away with Sully, Michaela falls and hits her head. She suffers a concussion. The pain of losing her baby is finally discussed and resolved with Sully.
#41 - The Most Fatal Disease
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 16
Kid Cole and Sister Ruth visit Dr. Mike at a difficult time in their marriage.
#42 - May I Have This Dance?
Little House on the Prairie - Season 9 - Episode 21
No longer a mama's boy, Willie announces his engagement and plans to marry his sweetheart. All this upsets his mother greatly, who makes several attempts to get her way.
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The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 199
Brooke narrowly misses seeing Taylor in Hector's arms, while Taylor tries to convince Hector that he must go. He kisses her before he leaves, which Brooke, having come back into Taylor and Ridge's bedroom, sees. Stephanie is concerned to learn that Ridge didn't come home as scheduled. Eric warns Stephanie that she needs to learn to accept Brooke.
#44 - Ep. #4514
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 18 - Episode 254
Helen and Stephanie are both taken to the hospital, where Stephanie looks to be in worse shape. She is talking to her family, when Hector comes in to give her the devastating news that there were complications, and Helen didn't make it.
#45 - Ep. #4585
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 71
Brooke thinks that Stephanie will use her condition to manipulate everybody into her own way of thinking so she calls Eric, but Stephanie refuses to let him talk to Brooke. Eric secretly calls Brooke and tells her to get to the hospital. Eric begs Ridge not to renew his vows to Taylor simply just for Stephanie's sake, but Ridge insists that's not what he is doing. Thorne and Darla stand in as best man and matron of honor. With thoughts of Brooke in his mind, Ridge and Taylor renew their vows. Brooke races to the hospital, but arrives too late.
#46 - Ep. #4591
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 77
Brooke brings R.J. and Hope to their new home, happily surprised to see the welcome Nick has laid out for her. While Bridget heads off to talk to Ridge about what has happened with Brooke, Nick tries to bolster Brooke's spirits, and to cheer Hope up as well. Bridget rips in to Ridge, and returns home in time to hear Nick tell Brooke that she and the children are everything to him. Philip Dunn from Immigration stops in to see Gaby and Thomas, interrupting a fun moment between the two. Thomas manages to pull it off, but after Dunn leaves, Gaby panics.
#47 - Ep. #4598
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 84
Dante is at the Logan home at Bridget's invitation to have dinner with her and Brooke, and Nick is very displeased to find Dante there. When Nick heads upstairs with Brooke to read Hope a bedtime story, Dante tells Bridget that it looks like Nick's allegiance is to Hope and Brooke, and asks Bridget to go away with him. Ridge is furious to learn of Thomas and Gaby's marriage, but Taylor is touched by what a loving man her son has turned into. Jackie is just about to get the information she needs from Mark when his pager goes off.
#48 - Ep. #4604
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 90
Jackie and Brooke confront Stephanie with their proof that she faked her heart attack, a nervous Mark standing by. Unable to keep the secret going, Stephanie agrees to break the truth out as Bridget and Nick prepare to say their vows.
#49 - Ep. #4611
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 97
Nick manages to cut Hope's hair free, and does CPR on her. Hope starts to convulse when the paramedics arrive. Brooke arrives home to find no one home and she spots one of Hope's water wings floating, and Brooke become very worried. Taylor tells Gaby that she can live in the house with Thomas to make the marriage look real.
#50 - Ep. #4629
The Bold and the Beautiful - Season 19 - Episode 115
Spectra has a rehersal for Thomas' first collection debut. Gaby arrives with good luck wishes. Gaby admits to Darla that she loves Thomas and wants to be with him sexually, but Darla advises her not to go against Taylor's rules. Eric informs Jackie of Bridget's abortion and the grieving grandparents find comfort together. Nick tells Brooke that he wants to be with her and believes that they should tell Bridget, but Brooke demands that he forget about her now that Bridget is really pregnant.