The BEST episodes written by Cliff Gould
#1 - Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 22
Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.
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#2 - Trail of the Serpent
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 21
A gang takes Mike Stone hostage after killing a policeman in an attempt to flee from a grocery store robbery. They want to trade Stone in for their leader, Buddy Sims.
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#3 - The Thrill Killers (1)
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 1
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt ""movement leaders"" are being tried for murder.
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#4 - The Albatross
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 24
A father finds out that the man who murdered his son is released on a technicality.
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#5 - The Mole
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 15
Someone in the Agency is passing government secrets to Moscow. Lee and Amanda are assigned to plug the leak, or ""The Mole.""
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#6 - Deathwatch
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 15
Two fishermen (Colasanto and Caruso) decide to keep quiet after witnessing a human smuggling ring.
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#8 - Timelock
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 8
Stone appears to be the only one willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a convict who is accused of a murder while out of prison on a 36-hour pass.
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#9 - A Room with a View
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 19
One witness in a racketeering trial is killed with a booby-trapped car, and Stone worries that the remaining witness, Roy Chaffee, will be picked off by a hit man if he surfaces.
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Rawhide - Season 7 - Episode 14
Pop Stark promotes gunfights for profit. Billy his latest boy just lost. Carl Hatcher loaned Pop money. His brothers are coming to collect. Pop arranges a gunfight between Rowdy and Austin Ware, a professional gunfighter.
#11 - The Takers
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 10
The murders of a flight attendant and a nurse who were rooming together lead Stone and Keller to suspect a jewelry salesman and his wife.
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#12 - The Bullet
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 12
A college professor, shot accidentally while trying to pay off a blackmailer, refuses to co-operate with Stone's investigation for fear that the publicity will lose him an upcoming promotion.
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#13 - Whose Little Boy Are You?
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 5
A Vietnam veteran goes AWOL from the army in order to kidnap the son he has never seen.
#14 - Return to Summer Grove
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 3
Old home week, as Mannix looks into a murder and tries to make up with his father.
#17 - A Day Filled with Shadows
Mannix - Season 4 - Episode 20
A varsity basketball player vanishes strangely, and is sought curiously.