The BEST episodes written by David Chase
#1 - The Blue Comet
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 20
The spectre of disloyalty among the crew hangs over Tony as Phil Leotardo decides how to handle recent issues with the Soprano crime family; a hit gone wrong comes at a huge cost; A.J.'s conquering of his depression is challenged
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#2 - Irving the Explainer
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 8
The legacy of a famous director haunts Rockford as he digs into the man's past and discovers Nazi sympathies and a missing painting worth millions.
#3 - All Due Respect
The Sopranos - Season 5 - Episode 13
Tony faces pressure from his own crew to give up his cousin to Johnny Sack. Tony does some soul-searching on Melfi's couch and finally decides on a course of action. A.J. proves himself to be a schemer, while Christopher tells Carmela that he and Adriana have ended their relationship. Tony meets with Johnny Sack to restore peace between Jersey and New York, but the Feds play a surprise card that sends Tony fleeing to safety.
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#4 - Made in America
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 21
Tony seeks to find a peace with the Leotardo crew while dealing with rumors a member of his own crew may have flipped. A.J. makes a decision regarding his future and Junior's slide into dementia continues.
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#5 - I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano
The Sopranos - Season 1 - Episode 13
Tony begins to retaliate for the attempt on his life, but he is stunned when he learns that his mother and uncle were behind it. Junior tries to escape when he suspects that Tony will come after him, but the Feds intervene before Junior can get away. Livia pits Artie against Tony in a last-ditch effort to save herself. Carmela finally lays down the law with Father Phil.
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#6 - Funhouse
The Sopranos - Season 2 - Episode 13
Tony is stricken by a nasty bout of food poisoning and has a strange dream conversation with Pussy in his delirium. When Tony wakes up, his suspicions are aroused. The FBI catches Livia at the airport with incriminating evidence against her son. The Feds decide to move against Tony just before Meadow's graduation.
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#7 - Whitecaps
The Sopranos - Season 4 - Episode 13
Tony and Johnny Sack prepare to move against Carmine, but Tony second-guesses the deal and considers another option. Meanwhile, Tony haggles with a lawyer when he decides to buy a beach house as a gift for Carmela. Junior finds that his legal worries are over when the judge makes a ruling in his case, and Christopher returns clean and sober from rehab. Carmela reaches the breaking point and throws Tony out of their home when Tony's ex girlfriend taunts her over the phone. Tony resists at first, but eventually decides that its best for his family if he leaves.
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#8 - Army of One
The Sopranos - Season 3 - Episode 13
Tony and Carmela quarrel over the prospect of sending A.J. to military school after he is expelled. Ralphie is forced to make a decision about Jackie, while Meadow reflects upon her life as a Soprano.
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#9 - Kennedy and Heidi
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 18
The Soprano and Lupertazzi crime families quarrel over asbestos removal; Tony deals with a problematic associate; Paulie suffers a devastating personal loss; A.J. questions his friendship with Jasons Parisi and Gervasi
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#10 - College
The Sopranos - Season 1 - Episode 5
Tony takes Meadow to Maine on a college tour. While there, Tony stumbles across an ex-mobster who went into the witness protection program after ratting out several of Tony's old comrades. Tony and the mobster begin stalking each other while Tony does his best to hide his activities from his daughter. Carmela receives a visit from Father Phil and the two have a close encounter.
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#11 - Soprano Home Movies
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 13
Bobby and Janice host a wild 47th birthday bash for Tony at their Adirondacks vacation home. Tony's actions following Johnny Sack's arrest come back to haunt him.
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#12 - The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 2
Rockford is double-crossed by the supernatural when a psychic points to him as the potential killer of a suddenly wealthy dope pusher.
#13 - The Sopranos
The Sopranos - Season 1 - Episode 1
Tony Soprano, a Capo in the Jersey mafia, begins seeing a therapist because he is stricken by panic attacks. During his session, Dr. Melfi learns of his two conflicted families. Tony is stressed by his unhappy wife, rebellious kids and his demanding mother. On the business side, Tony feels pressure from his willful nephew, while also engaging in a power struggle with his Uncle Junior.
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#14 - Live Free or Die
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 6
Tony seeks guidance from overseas to solve a local problem; and decides whether a top earner deserves another chance.
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#15 - The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti
The Sopranos - Season 1 - Episode 8
The Soprano crew begins to do some frantic house-cleaning as rumors of FBI indictments begin to surface. Christopher gets depressed when he isn't named on the list and it results in some poor decisions. Livia tells Junior about Tony's therapy.
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#16 - Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood
The Sopranos - Season 3 - Episode 1
While the Soprano family goes about their day-to-day activities, the FBI begins an elaborate operation to bug their home. Tony ponders his options when Patsy starts asking too many questions about his brother's death.
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#17 - 46 Long
The Sopranos - Season 1 - Episode 2
Christopher and Brendan take some initiative in a truck hijacking, but their plan backfires when it angers Uncle Junior. Tony's crew does a favor for A.J.'s science teacher. After one too many accidents, Tony forces Livia to move into a nursing home against her will.
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#18 - Two Tonys
The Sopranos - Season 5 - Episode 1
Tony, now separated from Carmela, takes a romantic interest in Dr. Melfi. Carmela is forced to call Tony for help when a wild bear keeps visiting their home. Johnny Sack sees an opportunity for advancement when Carmine suffers a stroke, while new parolees readjust to life on the outside and Janice adjusts to married life with Bobby. Christopher and Paulie face off when Christopher is constantly stuck paying for dinner.
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#19 - Join the Club
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 2
The family tries to cope with Tony's hospitalization and possibly impending death, while Tony begins to hallucinate a new life parallel to his own.
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#20 - No-Show
The Sopranos - Season 4 - Episode 2
Meadow clashes with her parents when she decides to drop out of college and travel to Europe. Tony sends her to a psychologist, but it only makes things worse. Christopher is made a capo in Paulie's crew while Paulie serves a jail term, but Christopher shows a lack of talent for leadership. Danielle's under cover work with Adriana falls flat. The Feds then bring Adriana in for a meeting, threatening to send her up for drug possession if she doesn't turn on the Sopranos.
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The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 19
Rockford's search for a gangster lawyer's missing fiancée is complicated by a civilian with an unfortunate passion for police work.
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#22 - Proshai, Livushka
The Sopranos - Season 3 - Episode 2
Racial tensions flair and Tony suffers another panic attack when he meets Meadow's new boyfriend from college. The FBI finds a new member of the Soprano crew to use as a rat, while another Soprano soldier resorts to violence over garbage routes. Livia's sudden death puts an end to Tony's worries about her testimony against him. Janice returns to participate in her funeral, but all does not go smoothly when the guests start airing their true feelings about Tony's departed mother.
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#23 - Dwarf in a Helium Hat
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 17
A wrong-number phone call has Rockford rushing to find and protect its intended recipient, Jay Rockfelt, from imminent kidnapping and death.
#24 - Kaisha
The Sopranos - Season 6 - Episode 12
Phil Leotardo seeks to continue a cycle of retaliation between the New York and Jersey families. Christopher wrestles with his addictions. Tony decides keeping Carmela occupied with the spec house is for the best. A.J. gets a new girlfriend.
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#25 - Commendatori
The Sopranos - Season 2 - Episode 4
Tony, Christopher and Paulie travel to Italy on a business trip. Meanwhile, Carmela ponders her own situation when Pussy's wife starts talking divorce. Pussy takes action against an old friend when he spots him having a conversation with the FBI.
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#26 - For All Debts Public and Private
The Sopranos - Season 4 - Episode 1
Tony and Carmela both worry about family finances during the recession. Junior faces his own financial woes as his trial approaches. Adriana brings her new friend to the Soprano Sunday dinner, but Adriana has no idea who Danielle is working for. Tony bonds with Christopher by giving him the opportunity to avenge the murder of his father.
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The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 20
Rockford hides the missing woman on a boat, but her location is compromised when the police groupie reveals information to mobster thugs.
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#28 - Calling All Cars
The Sopranos - Season 4 - Episode 11
Tensions mount between Jersey and New York when Tony and Carmine argue over the profits from a real estate scam. Janice grows impatient with Bobby's grief, while Tony makes a decision about his therapy. Junior must find a new course of action to get out of his trial when the judge rejects his latest defense strategy.
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#29 - Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 7
Jim is taken before a family of Arabs who want to know why his client hired him to find their missing daughter. Jim must find the client, the daughter and figure how the case is connected to a real estate broker...
#30 - Quickie Nirvana
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 7
Rockford thinks he's doing a good deed when he allows a hippie girl camping outside his trailer to use his mailing address. But their harmonious relationship comes to a jarring end when thugs working for a high-powered attorney come to call.
#31 - The Zombie
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 2
A voodoo priestess animates her dead son to take revenge on the gangsters that killed him.
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#32 - The Test Dream
The Sopranos - Season 5 - Episode 11
Tony escapes to the Plaza Hotel for a night of rest and relaxation, but his dreams are haunted by past faces. Another casualty falls in the war between Johnny Sack and Little Carmine, and Tony B. heads to New York for revenge.
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The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 8
Angel thinks he's marrying his way into a fortune, but his new wife's family may also be guilty of using this unholy union to scheme their way into ill-gained riches.
#34 - The Dog and Pony Show
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 5
It's mind over matter when Rockford helps a frightened young woman with mental issues overcome her problems with the mob.
#35 - Sticks & Stones May Break Your Bones, but Waterbury Will Bury You
The Rockford Files - Season 3 - Episode 13
Rockford sees how competition can be a killer when fellow private investigators turn to him for assistance after they are forced out of business.
#36 - Chopper
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 15
The strange disappearance of an antique motorcycle is the first indication of trouble. What follows are a rash of murders where each victim is decapitated with superhuman force by what witnesses report is a headless motorcyclist. As Kolchak investigates, he discovers that the victims were all members of a cycle gang back in the 50's. A prank they played on a rival gang member, Harold "Swordsman" Baker, resulted in his unintentional decapitation. Baker's ghost killed several of their gang back in the 50's until his head was reunited with the rest of his corpse. However, the cemetary where Baker was interred was dug up and his head and body separated once more. Now, Kolchak must reunite the head and body once more before the headless cyclist finishes off the gang.
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#37 - The Devil's Platform
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 7
A series of mysterious deaths plague the election trail of Sen. Robert Palmer, as does a mysterious black dog with a pentagram for a dog tag. Carl investigates and finds that the Senator has made a pact with Satan in return for the ability to assume the form of an indestructible black mastiff, and destroy his enemies both within his own party and opposing him. Kolchak must confront Palmer and destroy the pentagram before Palmer kills him.
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#38 - The Werewolf
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 5
Bernhardt Stieglitz, a NATO soldier bitten by a wolf, leaves a string of murder victims behind him. When Vincenzo is forced to abort his long-awaited vacation and report on the last cruise of an ocean liner, the USS Hanover, Carl takes his place, only to find that Stieglitz is one of the passengers on board...and the full moon is rising. Trapped aboard the liner, Kolchak must use a shotgun and silver buckshot to kill the creature once and for all.
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#39 - The Vampire
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 4
Catherine Rawlins, a female victim of Janos Skorzeny (the vampire from the original Night Stalker TV movie) is accidentally resurrected outside Las Vegas, and makes her way to Los Angeles. She takes up her old profession of call girl and Carl wrangles an assignment there to investigate.
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#40 - Love is the Word
The Rockford Files - Season 6 - Episode 6
Jim meets with Megan who asks for his help in clearing her fiance of murder charges.
#41 - The Spanish Moss Murders
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 9
A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun. However, Langois has an iron-clad alibi: he's been the subject of a sleep experiment and been kept asleep for several weeks. Eventual, Carl realizes that somehow Langois' sleep state has caused him to manifest a subconscious ""boogey-man"" from the Cajun bayou: Peremalfait, a huge creature covered in Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you. Peremalfait ""kills"" Langois to prevent him from being woken up, and Kolchak must travel into the sewers of Chicago to kill Peremalfait with the only thing that can destroy it: a spear made out of bayou gum wood.
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#42 - Enough Rope For Two
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 16
A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her ""cousin"" along.
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#43 - The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 20
Hazing rituals at a local fraternity get fatally out of control when Rockford's young friend and an Arab student are murdered.
#44 - The Knightly Murders
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 18
Various Chicago citizenry are being killed with medieval weaponry. Upon investigating, Kolchak finds that they were all tied to the conversion of a small museum into a disco. It turns out that the museum houses the armor of Guy de Metancourt, a misanthrope who swore upon his death that his final resting place would never know gaiety and laughter. Now, his ghostly armor animates and kills those who would disrupt his resting place. The only way for Kolchak to stop the unchivalrous knight is to destroy it with a holy axe blessed by the pope.
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#45 - Primal Scream
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 13
In a oil company's laboratory, the air conditioning fails, and a primate creature attacks a scientist. The creature, and others like it, begin going on a rampage throughout Chicago. The oil company was experimenting with cell samples brought back from the Antarctic, which began growing when exposed to heat. Now these bizarre missing links are wrecking havoc. Despite the government cover-up, Kolchak investigates, and must track the creatures down to their lair beneath the old nuclear-research labs of the 50's.
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#46 - The Jersey Bounce
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 3
Jim stands accused of murdering one of Rocky's neighbours party guests when matters get out of hand, but Jim's counsel seems pre-occupied so puts his fate in the hands of legal researcher John Cooper...
#47 - Demon in Lace
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 16
On a college campus, young men are dying of heart attacks. According to witnesses, they are last seen with young women who apparently died shortly before meeting the men. When Kolchak investigates, he finds that the men were associated with Professor Spate, who is researching an ancient Middle East tablet, and that a series of similar deaths plagued his expedition to recover the tablet. The tablet is tied to a supernatural creature known as a succubus, who possesses young women at the moment of their death and then reveals her true visage to men, frightening them to death and feeding upon their energies. Kolchak must destroy the tablet to destroy the succubus once and for all.
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#48 - The Queen of Peru
The Rockford Files - Season 4 - Episode 12
A dangerous beachside transaction between Rockford and some jewel thieves has a change of fortune when a family barbecuing nearby happens upon the priceless gems.