The BEST episodes written by Chris Ruppenthal
#1 - Peak Experience
Silk Stalkings - Season 6 - Episode 13
The murder of a motivational speaker points to his competition as the guilty party.
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Max Headroom - Season 2 - Episode 8
Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.
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#3 - Glitter Rock
Quantum Leap - Season 3 - Episode 17
April 12, 1974: Sam is a glitter rock star in danger of being stabbed to death after a performance, unless Sam can determine who, from a growing list of people, the real killer is.
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#4 - Hurricane
Quantum Leap - Season 4 - Episode 3
August 17, 1969: Sam meets Camille, and possibly a killer, when he leaps into a deputy sheriff in a small Mississippi town, lying in the path of a deadly hurricane.
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#5 - Good Morning, Peoria
Quantum Leap - Season 2 - Episode 6
September 9, 1959: Rock 'n' roll is about to become big, but not in Peoria. That is, unless Sam, as DJ Howlin' Chick Howell, can manage to keep the radio station where he's employed from being shut down by overly conservative town elders.
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#6 - Monster
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 18
The four people gathered in the top-secret research facility seem at first to have nothing in common: Ford Maddox (Harry Hamlin) is a former spy, Rachel Sanders (Nicole Deboer) is a nurse, Roger Beckersly (Aaron Pearl) is an Army Ranger and Louise McDonnaugh (Bridget O'Sullivan) is a computer programmer. What has brought them together is their telekinetic ability, a talent that Mr. Brown (Robert Guillaume), a CIA project head, hopes to exploit through the use of Teeks, devices that amplify telekinetic power. At first, Brown tries these individual's talents out on simple tasks - moving or crushing a granite block with their minds - but soon his true intentions are revealed. Their first real assignment, says Brown, is to use their powers to kill a Balkan terrorist leader and war criminal. Rachel objects to the assignment on moral grounds, but Brown forces her to take part by threatening to send her brother to jail for life.
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#7 - The Boogieman
Quantum Leap - Season 3 - Episode 5
October 31, 1964: Things do more than go bump in the night when Sam leaps into Joshua Raye, a horror novelist on Halloween. Although Ziggy claims he's there to prevent the death of a church deacon, things get even stranger when two more people die without warning.
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#8 - The Curse of Ptah-Hotep
Quantum Leap - Season 4 - Episode 20
March 2, 1957: It's almost as though Sam were on vacation when, as Egyptologist Dale Conway, he gets to read hieroglyphics, search lost tombs, and, of course, visit Egypt. But between an encroaching sandstorm, computer glitches back at the Project, the suspicious deaths of the guides, and a 3000-year-old curse to round things off, Sam has very little time to play in the sand.
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#9 - Josh
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 4 - Episode 7
Tabloid TV reporter Judy Warren (KATE VERNON) knows she's come across a big story when she sees the videotape shot by two tourists in a remote Alaskan park. The tape shows Josh Butler (Alex McArthur), a recluse who lives in a cabin near the park, bringing back to life a young girl who has died after a fall, a feat he accomplishes by generating a mysterious blue glow. But, she only discovers how big a story it is when her pursuit of the strange young man is cut short by a top-secret military unit that is also chasing him. It seems that the blue glow sent out electromagnetic pulses that knocked out two satellites orbiting 20,000 miles above the Earth and the Air Force wants to know what's going on. A battery of tests doesn't produce any answers, leaving the brass, lead by Col. Roger Tennent (Scott Hylands) and Major Samuel Harbeck (Larry Musser) to debate whether Butler is an alien or an angel - someone to be dissected or to be worshipped.
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#10 - Animal Frat
Quantum Leap - Season 2 - Episode 12
October 19, 1967: Trapped in the body of Knut Wileton, better known as "Wild Thing," the typical frat jock, Sam must win the confidence of an attractive campus radical before she bombs the college's chemistry building as a protest against the war in Vietnam.
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#11 - Those Lips, Those Lies
Moonlighting - Season 5 - Episode 8
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.
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#12 - One Strobe Over the Line
Quantum Leap - Season 3 - Episode 4
June 15, 1965: Sam is a photographer who must protect a fashion model from a growing dependency on amphetamines and a predatory manager's ambitions.
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#13 - Through a Glass, Darkly (1)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 3 - Episode 21
Two mysterious strangers put Superman through life-threatening tests that could alter the fate of the world.
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#14 - Show Me the Way Home
Touched by an Angel - Season 1 - Episode 2
Monica substitutes at a school for the history teacher, and also becomes the assistant coach for the baseball team. A student on the baseball team needs help with his game. Monica tries to help him as well as the stubborn coach.
#15 - Lucky Leon
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 2 - Episode 16
Jimmy is arrested for murder and Superman is wanted for stealing nuclear warheads. Lois and Clark go out on their first date...
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#16 - The Last Gunfighter
Quantum Leap - Season 4 - Episode 14
November 28, 1957: Sam finds himself in the life of Tyler Meanes, a teller of tall tales who faces death at the hand of an old friend in a shootout at high noon.
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#17 - Jarod's Honor
The Pretender - Season 1 - Episode 19
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - After completing a pretend, Jarod receives an email offering answers to his past. While investigating the lead, Jarod unexpectedly stumbles upon a dying hitman. When the hitman's last job comes calling, Jarod takes it. Meanwhile, Sydney and Miss Parker, following a lead from Jarod, attend a Twins Convention while Broots covers for them.
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#18 - Super Mann
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 3 - Episode 9
After 50 years in suspended animation, three Nazi soldiers are revived to help Nazis living in America take over the world.
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#19 - Roberto!
Quantum Leap - Season 4 - Episode 17
January 27, 1982: Sam, as "Roberto!" is a tabloid talk show host a la Geraldo who, with an asthmatic rival and co-worker, tries to uncover a mystery at a local chemical plant, a mystery, which may prove to be deadly for his co-worker.
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#20 - Roland
The X-Files - Season 1 - Episode 23
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.
#21 - The Heart of the Matter
Touched by an Angel - Season 1 - Episode 6
Monica must help a lawyer with an alleged heart condition and a quirky woman he inadvertently gave money to.
#22 - I Now Pronounce You... (1)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 3 - Episode 15
Lois and Clark's wedding day is complicated by a biologist who plans to replace the U.S. President with a clone.
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#23 - Stranded
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 5 - Episode 19
Thirteen-year-old Kevin Buchannon (Adam Hann-Byrd) lives at the bottom of the high-school food chain, scorned by other geeks, picked on by the jocks. At home, he lives in the shadow of his older brother Josh, a football star whose every accomplishment is celebrated by the boys' father, Alex (Daniel Hugh Kelly). Then one day, Kevin sees a plane crash in the woods near his house. He rushes to the scene with his dog Cody to find a mysterious ship occupied by the severely injured Captain Turner (Chris Potter). Turner tells Kevin the ship is a top-secret experimental aircraft and instructs Kevin on how to bandage and heal his wounds. But Turner reveals more than he intends to, when the strain of his injuries causes him to briefly lose consciousness. When he does, he inadvertently reveals himself to be a shape-shifting alien, lapsing into his real form - that of a monstrous alien. Once the secret is out, Turner admits that he is actually Tyr'Nar, an alien bounty hun
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#24 - Socrates' Sister
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Brisco catches a man whom he believes is a member of John Bly's gang, the man swears he is not THAT Jack Randolph. Things are further complicated when Socrates' lawyer sister arrives to defend the man.
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#25 - Individual Responsibility
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 2 - Episode 20
A payroll truck is hijacked, Perry is kidnapped and Superman doesn't even care.
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#26 - Sacrifice
Blade - Season 1 - Episode 7
Blade tries to solve the murder of a cop named Flanigan who helped care for him while growing up. Flashback scenes tell how Blade's father brought in Abraham Whistler once he could no longer do anything about Balde's need to feed. Krista copes with her mother's critical condition.
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#27 - Freedom
Quantum Leap - Season 2 - Episode 16
November 22, 1970: Rather than saving his grandfather's life, Sam has to escape from jail and elude the police long enough to get them both to the reservation, where the old man can die in peace, at home.
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#28 - 3
The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 7
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
#29 - Contact
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 3 - Episode 3
When a vengeful computer genius hypnotizes Lois into distracting Superman from protecting the world's computer software market, Superman must make a difficult decision.
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#30 - Jagged Sledge
Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 21
Hammer goes on trial for the murder of the city's leading crime boss. Capt. Trunk and Dori are called upon to give damaging testimony against Hammer and everyone is convinced he’s guilty, including Hammer himself.
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#31 - Perfetc
Moonlighting - Season 5 - Episode 9
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
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#32 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Moonlighting - Season 5 - Episode 7
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
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#33 - Suppose They Gave a War and Sledge Came?
Sledge Hammer! - Season 2 - Episode 16
To investigate the death of a prominent businessman, Sledge joins a weekend war gaming organization.
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#34 - Ripper
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 5 - Episode 11
In Victorian London, someone is killing prostitutes, someone the police have dubbed ""Jack the Ripper."" On the face of it, John C.V. York (Cary Elwes) is a likely suspect. A once-respected doctor who sunk to absinthe and laudanum addiction after his misdiagnosis killed the young daughter of a Duke. He retains a connection to polite society thanks to the devotion of Lady Ellen Chamberlain (Clare Sims), who loves him and hopes to marry him. But, he is also a habitue of the seedy district where the killings have taken place and has the medical knowledge to make the precise, surgical cuts that are the Ripper's modus operandi. But, this Jack is not the killer. Instead, he is a witness to the strange alien force that inhabits the prostitute's bodies, leaving them drooling a strange green bile, and then kills them when it jumps to another host. After seeing the alien force kill one woman, he does battle with a prostitute named Lizzie Stride, whose body has been taken
#35 - A Clockwork Hammer
Sledge Hammer! - Season 2 - Episode 1
Vile Video Concepts conditions cops not to testify against a mobster; Hammer meets a computerized version of himself.
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#36 - Starcrossed
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 5 - Episode 21
It is 2056, six years after the Hing, a humanoid race, invaded earth. While America fights on, Russia has reached an uneasy truce with the aliens, leaving some regions under their control and other declared neutral. In the neutral city of Archangel on the Barent Sea, cynical American expatriate Michael Ryan (Nathan Fillion) runs Heaven, a small coffee bar and music club, where shady Russians mingle with Hing soldiers and other dubious characters. Everything is agreeably corrupt until Alexandra Nevsky (Natasha Vasiluk) informs Michael that Hing commander Sulat Ray (Derek de Lint) is on the lookout for two NATO soldiers who might be interested in buying a Hing scout vehicle has gone missing. Those soldiers, Winston Meyerburg (Justin Louis) and Cass Trenton (Angeline Ball) have dodged Hing patrols and found their way Michael's bar. Cass, who was Michael's lover before the war - she only took up with Winston because she thought he was dead - suspects Michael can g
#37 - Seeds of Destruction
The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 6 - Episode 7
Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically- engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.