The BEST episodes written by Dick Nelson (I)
#2 - Gallagher's Sons
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 11
Hoss helps Charlie and Will (Charlotte and Willomina), two young girls who just lost their father. They go on a journey to find their only nearby relative, Aunt Cloe. Charlie takes with her a stolen sack of money that her father gave her and tries her best to lose Hoss. Four bandits show up looking for the loot Charlie has. In the end, Hoss finds out about the stolen money and talks the girls into giving it back. He puts them in dresses and sends them off to Boston on a stage, telling them they did the right thing and will probably get the money back as a reward for helping capture the bandits!
#3 - The Lawmaker
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 25
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pistol-whipping a Ponderosa hand.
#4 - The $100,000 Nickel
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 14
A thief known for using sleight-of-hand is hired to steal a valuable nickel, but the coin ends up on a journey across many miles and through many hands.
#6 - The Schoolmarm
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 20
After being raped, Dodge City school teacher Sarah Merkle struggles with the implications of being an unwed mother.
#7 - Incident of the Peyote Cup
Rawhide - Season 6 - Episode 31
Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.