The BEST episodes written by Dean Hargrove

The Disposal Man
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8.00
2 votes

#1 - The Disposal Man

McCloud - Season 2 - Episode 4

McCloud is forced to do some fancy footwork when a wealthy man is stalked by a professional assassin with an unknown employer.

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The Gazebo in the Maze Affair
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7.71
13 votes

#2 - The Gazebo in the Maze Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 27

Squire G. Emory Partridge (George Sanders) kidnaps Illya and lures Solo to his manor in order to kill them off in his dungeon torture chamber in revenge for a past encounter. But Peggy Durance (Bonnie Franklin) helps them escape, with the unintended aid of Partridge's bumbling wife Edith (Jeanette Nolan).

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Candidate for Crime
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7.68
441 votes

#3 - Candidate for Crime

Columbo - Season 3 - Episode 3

A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.

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The Moonglow Affair
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7.67
8 votes

#4 - The Moonglow Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 23

While investigating a THRUSH plot to sabotage space shots, Solo and Illya are incapacitated by a quartzite radiation projector. Waverly assigns new trainee April Dancer along with over the age of retirement agent Mark Slateto find the antidote and destroy the plan. April infiltrates the cosmetics company of THRUSH agent Arthur Caresse as a model, but she is uncovered by Caresse's sister Jean.

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The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)
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7.64
11 votes

#5 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 2

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Ransom for a Dead Man
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7.62
657 votes

#6 - Ransom for a Dead Man

Columbo - Season 1 - Episode 2

A high-flying lady lawyer kills her husband for the insurance money, and tries to makes It look like a kidnapping gone wrong.

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The Never-Never Affair
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7.62
13 votes

#7 - The Never-Never Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 - Episode 25

U.N.C.L.E. Portuguese translator Mandy Stevenson (Barbara Feldon) hungers for more excitement, so Solo sends her on a fake mission to get Waverly's tobacco not realizing she has taken an important microfilm that THRUSH is after. Solo, Illya and THRUSH pursue her through the streets of Manhattan, and eventually she and Solo are captured by the THRUSH leader, Victor Gervais (Cesar Romero), and Solo has to use his skills as a marksman to escape.

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The Discotheque Affair
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7.33
9 votes

#8 - The Discotheque Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 5

Napoleon Solo is given the job of searching for Thrush security records.

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The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)
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7.31
13 votes

#9 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 1

Alexander (Rip Torn) a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix (David Sheiner) steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander (Dorothy Provine), Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon (David Opatoshu) leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements.

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The Doctors
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7.27
51 votes

#10 - The Doctors

Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 23

Dr. David Westlake was a nasty piece of work who had a reputation for making trouble for his medical students. Any one of four men had a motive to kill Westlake, but suspicion lands on Dr. Jacobs, who was seen fleeing the scene of the crime.

The Project Deephole Affair
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7.20
5 votes

#11 - The Project Deephole Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 26

THRUSH agent Elom tries to kidnap a geologist who has developed an earthquake activating machine, but mistakes debt-ridden salesman Buzz Conway for the scientist. Solo and Illya let THRUSH go on thinking Conway is the scientist, while Elom lets his attraction for THRUSH agent Narcissus Darling interfere with his judgment. Conway is captured, and Solo and Illya must rescue him and find the machine.

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Mind Over Mayhem
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7.14
399 votes

#12 - Mind Over Mayhem

Columbo - Season 3 - Episode 6

Dr. Marshal Cahill, head of a think tank, is forced to protect his plagarizing son by killing the professor, Nichols, who discovered the plagarized information. Cahill programs a robot to take his place during a war game exercise that he runs from an isolated room, then fakes a hit-and-run accident on Nichols and plants evidence to make it look like a drug theft gone awry. The first thing Columbo notices upon arrival is a match burned down to the base - something Columbo knows well because it's how you light a cigar. And Dr. Cahill is the only other cigar smoker around. There are a lot of other little things that Columbo notices as well, and with the help of a child prodigy he discovers how Cahill used the robot to provide himself with an alibi. But without one major clue, Columbo arrests the son to force Cahill, who was willing to kill for his son, to confess his crime to protect the boy.

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The Prince of Darkness Affair (2)
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7.00
5 votes

#13 - The Prince of Darkness Affair (2)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 5

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You're in My Power
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7.00
3 votes

#14 - You're in My Power

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 13

After acting as the subject for a stage hypnotist, Robbie decides that hypnosis could help in his latest romance, which leads to a chain reaction when they try it out on his grandfather Bub who consequently does a weird dance whenever someone whistles.

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An Explosive Murder
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6.92
39 votes

#15 - An Explosive Murder

Diagnosis Murder - Season 4 - Episode 8

A young undercover detective investigates a militia-type organization to solve a terrorist bombing witnessed by Mark. She has to decide whether to risk blowing her cover and warn Dr. Sloan of an attempt on his life or finish her assignment.

The Children's Day Affair
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6.75
8 votes

#16 - The Children's Day Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 12

A top-level U.N.C.L.E. conference is to be held in Switzerland, but a nearby boys' school is actually a THRUSH front run by Mother Fear and Dennis Jenks that is training its students to be assassins. Solo is captured by the boys, and, when he refuses to reveal the conference location, is forced to operate the controls of two electric trains so they do not collide with each carrying a vial of deadly nerve gas. Illya and Anna Paola, a social worker who resent children, are also captured. The escape, and arrive at the conference just as the boy's choir is ready to kill Waverly and the others with THRUSH rifles from under their robes.

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The Prince of Darkness Affair (1)
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6.50
6 votes

#17 - The Prince of Darkness Affair (1)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 4

Solo and Illya are assigned to investigate a mysterious ray from the sky that killed the inhabitants of an African village. They find expert safecracker and fugitive from justice Luther Sebastian (Bradford Dillman), now a leader of a cult called the Third Way, and enlist his help in their plan to break into to the safe of Parviz Kharmusi (John Dehner) and steal the thermal prism that powers that deadly ray. Solo runs into Annie Justin (Carol Lynley), who is looking for Sebastian, who framed her boyfriend. Azalea (Lola Albright) helps Solo escape from Annie, and takes him to Kharmusi. But Sebastian reveals he has stolen the prism for himself so he can put it into orbit and extort the world.

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The Indian Affairs Affair
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6.33
6 votes

#18 - The Indian Affairs Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 2 - Episode 30

THRUSH agent L.C. Carson uses an Indian reservation as a front for his plan to assemble a hydrogen bomb, and kidnaps the tribe's chief, High Cloud, to ensure cooperation. Solo arranges for the Chief's daughter Charisma to return, but she ends up being kidnapped along with Solo and Illya, who is disguised as an Indian. Solo and Illya, along with a band of young Indian warriors on Motorcycles, encircle Carson and his men and try to stop them before its too late.

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The Falling Angel Mystery
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6.00
2 votes

#19 - The Falling Angel Mystery

Father Dowling Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 8

An "angel" visits Father Dowling and Sister Steve at the parish and delivers a stern warning that big trouble is hiding just around the next corner. One of the parishioners is about to be "charged" with the "crime" of guilt by association when it is revealed that his late father was connected with the underworld.