The BEST episodes written by David Moessinger
#1 - It All Depends on You
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 6
After Derek blows his first big case for McCabe, Jake starts his own investigation of the defendant.
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#2 - Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 12
Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of opium farms to his chosen successor. He plans on turning power over to Carlos Empori, engaged to his granddaughter. Paris poses as a mobster and old friend of Eve's and "renews" his friendship with her, while Phelps, as Zembra's rival, warns Carlos that Paris plans to take over. Barney stages a fake assassination on Zembra, thwarting Carlos' security and making him look incompetent, then Paris and Paris-as-Zembra stage a conversation to make Carlos believe Zembra will give power to Paris. Carlos helps Jim kidnap Eve, but the plan goes awry when Eve reveals she knows Paris is a fake. Paris puts his life on the line by counting on her silence to complete the plot. Eve stays silent, Carlos is set up as a traitor to Zembra, and the dying mobster turns the information over to Paris.
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#4 - Chinatown, My Chinatown
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 26
The prime suspect in the attempted murder of a young cop is his own father, the head of a Chinatown syndicate.
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#8 - How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 2
Heyes and Curry meet up with an offbeat crook when they fall once gain for the old lady-in-distress gambit.
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#9 - Hill 256
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 27
Kirby is court-martialed, accused of desertion under fire by Sgt. Metcalf (Robert Culp). The potential sentence is death. As the trial proceeds, Sgt. Saunders and Caje try to gather evidence to prove his innocence. Conlan Carter, who plays Doc beginning in Season 2, appears here as an MP.
#10 - Let Me Light the Way
Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 13
A suspected rapist seeks revenge on Quincy by attacking his friend
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#13 - Bite the Big Apple
Murder, She Wrote - Season 8 - Episode 1
Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
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#14 - Walk Softly Through the Night (1)
Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 14
A top children's TV star, and a friend of Quincy's, is shocked when his son dies of a drug overdose. He had no idea his son was even on drugs and is angry when he finds out that a doctor prescribed the drugs to him. Quincy and the star, Brock, go to visit the doctor and find an enormous queue of addicts waiting outside the surgery. They are all waiting with money in hand to buy a prescription from the doctor. Quincy and Brock set about trying to shut this doctor down and to help a young would be doctor in his attempts to get some sort of drug counseling support system set up in his college.
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#15 - Badge of Honor
Murder, She Wrote - Season 8 - Episode 21
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
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#16 - The Night of the Big Blackmail
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 1
When President Grant attends an event at the German Consulate, Baron Hinterestoisser invites him to a special reception where he'll have something to show the president. West retrieves the mysterious box and they're shocked when they learn of its contents.
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#17 - Second Thunder
Blue Thunder - Season 1 - Episode 1
In this ""Pilot"" episode of the ABC half season spin-off of the original 1983 blockbuster smash hit under the same name starring Roy Scheider, Warren Oates and Malcolm McDowell, The Blue Thunder Unit take on a ruthless pilot who has been recently aerially assassinating police helicopter units over Los Angeles. In an attempt to settle an old long-lasting score with Frank Chaney, the pilot and leader of The Blue Thunder Unit, the crazed comedian who calls himself ""P.V.C."" contacts Chaney, Braddock and the rest of the team and warns Chaney personally that he is going to blow him out of the sky for what he did a year ago when he destroyed his aircraft with a 12-gauge shotgun during an unsuccessful drug bust while he was a police officer, plus to make sure that he succeeds in transporting a scheduled shipment of drugs over the Mexican border. Still continuing to wipe out airborne police units when very cannily evacuating the entire Astro-Division Building, and with the acknowledge of how the
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#18 - The Night of the Bubbling Death
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 1
When Victor Freemantle, a dangerous revolutionary, steals the U.S. Constitution and holds it ransom forr $1,000,000, agents James West and Artemus Gordon are sent by the government to the Panhandle Strip in Texas to recover it.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 10
A rapist whose latest victim was a college girl is sought by Pepper and Crowley.
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#20 - Ice
Police Woman - Season 1 - Episode 20
Posing as a couple of jewel fences, Pepper and Crowley travel to Masiaca, Mexico as part of a complex plan to nab a gang of diamond thieves.
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Alias Smith and Jones - Season 3 - Episode 5
Heyes and Curry are set up as witnesses for a man who kills two bushwhackers for his own reasons.
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Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 13
A boxer's life hangs by a thread as a hitman, who had failed to get him the first time, must finish the job or his employers will finish him off.
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#23 - Welcome to Paradise Palms
Quincy, M.E. - Season 6 - Episode 6
Quincy rushes to an Arizona Native American reservation when he hears that his foster son, Chester, is suffering from bubonic plague. When he confirms this and tries to warn the local authorities he finds that they have no interest in the potential disaster. They are much more concerned with the forthcoming opening of a new country club that will bring tourists to the area. They have a big golf competition planned with many big names arriving and they don't want to cause a panic that would ruin the resort before it has even opened.
#24 - Sixth Sense
Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 15
Crowley (Earl Holliman) discovers a woman near death in a car trunk, but the driver--her assailant--is freed on a technicality.
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Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 5
A serial rapist preys on hitchhikers and records their screams.
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#26 - Beyond the Open Door
Quincy, M.E. - Season 8 - Episode 15
A woman with psychic powers helps the police track down a serial killer.
#27 - Walk Softly Through the Night (2)
Quincy, M.E. - Season 4 - Episode 15
Quincy continues in his quest to get close down Dr. Colella's surgery and stop him from continuing to issue prescriptions for drug addicts. This becomes less of a problem though after Marty Herrera, the young would be doctor, is arrested for killing Dr. Colella! Quincy doesn't believe the boy did it but finds that the evidence seems to be pointing straight at him.