The BEST episodes written by Don Tait
#1 - Finest Hour
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 15
Caje forces a Frenchman to aid a wounded Hanley and himself. The Frenchman takes them to a German occupied chateau. There the Countess de Roy (two-time Academy Award winner Luise Rainer) walks a dangerous tightrope as she entertains a château full of German soldiers, while tending Hanley's wounds and keeping their presence a secret.
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#2 - Flood's Folly
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 23
Outside Denver, Colorado, Beau and his friend, Judge Scott, find shelter during a blizzard at the home of Martha Flood and her niece Sally. Martha and the judge are plotting to institutionalize Sally in order to take over her inheritance. However, Martha's lover, a professional killer named Chet Whitehead plans to kill Sally, the judge, and Maverick.
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#3 - Diamond Flush
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 21
Con artist Ferguson knocks Beau Maverick unconscious during an unsuccessful attempt to hoist a priceless diamond necklace from a French countess. Ferguson claims that the countess' diamond is fake and that he was in the process of replacing it with the real thing when Beau startled him. Ferguson offers Maverick $5,000 to switch diamonds. Beau is being set up for robbery by Ferguson and his equally devious wife.
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#5 - Operation Fly Trap
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 7
Bringing a wounded Doc to safety, Saunders, Caje, and communication Sergeant Meider stumble upon a German unit setting up a command post. Under constant harassment from Meider, Saunders must balance life, death, and the opportunity to capture an infamous German Colonel.
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#6 - Thunder from the North
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 9
Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.
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#9 - Two Men Named Laredo
The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 17
The Virginian hires some workers to help drive some cattle to Shiloh from Cheyenne, among whom is an easy going and timid hand who reads Shakespeare named Eddie Laredo (Fabian). Eddie accepts a full-time job at Shiloh but he is razzed by locals, including the unsavoury Bojo Sanders (Rayford Barnes) and saloon girl Molly Weems (Elizabeth McRae), because he likes literature. Bojo is murdered and Molly testifies that Eddie killed Bojo but because of her unsavoury reputation the charges are dismissed. Molly Weems is also killed and Trampas sees Eddie riding away from the scene. It looks like Eddie is guilty and will face the death penalty despite the efforts of Judge Garth to defend him.
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#10 - Silver Image
The Virginian - Season 7 - Episode 2
Dan Sheppard and his son Jeremy arrive at Shiloh to photograph the west. Dan learns that an old sweetheart Della Price is a widow with a ranch caught in a bidding war between an oil speculator and the other local ranchers who are afraid of the negative aspects of the oil industry. Unknown to everyone her foreman is working with the oil speculator to cover gambling losses he incurred with the ranch's money. Della tries to rekindle their lost romance while Dan tries to help the Graingers.
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#11 - The Pillbox
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 17
While falling back under intense pressure from the attacking Germans, Lt. Hanley stops to help a severely wounded man. The Germans are advancing rapidly, so they take refuge in a vacant pillbox. As the rain begins to fall, Hanley attempts to head for his own lines, but is stopped when three German soldiers enter the pillbox.
#12 - The Gentle Tamers
The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 19
Clay decides to take on three convicts on parole to test whether they can be rehabilitated at the urging of a prison warden. The three get off to a rocky start as they are obvious misfits with no experience and one has a bad attitude.
#13 - Hornet Save Thyself
The Green Hornet - Season 1 - Episode 24
As a surprise birthday party begins for Britt, a gift gun given as a present to Britt, seemingly shoots by itself fatally terminating ex-employee Eddie Rech, almost puts Britt in jail.
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The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 4
An old friend of Ryker's settles on a ranch with a new wife and stepson under a new name due to being wanted. Ryker helps him but loses his job when the man confesses to killing a Shiloh hand who was blackmailing him due to his past.
#15 - The Steeple
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 21
Saunders, Caje, and Kirby try to rescue a paratrooper captain before he is spotted by the Germans.
#16 - Patchwork Man
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 34
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impressed with him, especially his pie, that he hires him to work on the Ponderosa. Ben, however, is unimpressed with Hoss' new friend when the Cartwrights get into a gunfight with a mining outfit, and Patch cowers. He has a deepseeded fear of violence stemming from an incident in his teen years, but he knows in order to survive in the West, he must overcome it.
#17 - Last of the Comancheros
The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 12
While on a trip to buy cattle, Colonel MacKenzie becomes involved in the affairs of a woman reporter and a group of former Comancheros who are now trying to make an honest living raising sheep. In writing a story about the group, the reporter has mentioned their hunting down of a maverick steer. Gossip in the nearby town fails to note that the steer was a maverick, and a group of cattle ranch workers respond by killing the sheepherders' entire herd. The leader of the former Comancheros, Sosentes, responds by kidnapping the reporter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, MacKenzie finds that the local sheriff's hatred of Comancheros far exceeds his concern for the woman's safe return.
