The BEST episodes written by Donald James
#1 - Have Guns- Will Haggle
The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 12
The spectacular theft of 3,000 top-secret FF70 rifles from a Government establishment brings Steed and Tara. Steed meets an old 'friend' and is invited to an auction. Tara has other reasons for being there.
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#2 - Twelve Hours
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 13
Richard and Sharron accompany a visiting President and his wife on a submarine journey, but an assassination attempt means that they will require all of their powers to save the President.
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#3 - The Man From Nowhere
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 15
In the bathroom, fresh from her shower, Jean Hopkirk hears a male voice call her name. She finds a strange man lying on the sofa, newspaper in one hand and drink in the other, making himself very much at home. The strange man has an even stranger claim: he is Marty Hopkirk, reincarnated.
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#4 - Vendetta for a Dead Man
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 24
Eric Jansen breaks out of the psychiatric unit of prison shortly before the anniversary of his arrest with vengeance on his mind. One problem, though: the man responsible for putting him behind bars, Marty Hopkirk, is already dead. Jansen decides that someone named ""Hopkirk"" is going to pay, so he sets his sights on killing Marty's widow, Jean.
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#5 - The Submarine
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 7
Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.
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#7 - For the Girl Who Has Everything
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 12
Self-proclaimed ""ghost hunter"" James McAllister offers Jeff half the money he's making from millionaire Kim Wentworth to prove that her home, Crake Castle, is not haunted, even though McAllister claims to have seen the ghost. After Jeff and Marty join the case, McAllister turns up murdered.
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#8 - Money to Burn
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 20
Just at a time when Jeff could use some money an old friend shows up with a money-making proposition. Not so much money ""making"" as money ""taking"": he suggests to Jeff that they steal old notes that are en route to the incinerator. Jeff watches from a distance to see if his friend shows up and ends up in jail charged with the crime when the police prove he was in the vicinity and his alibi falls through.
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#9 - You Can Always Find a Fall Guy
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 25
Jeff is charged with a break-in at an electronics company. He's obviously been set up, given that the first thing he saw when he walked into his apartment after an all-nighter was a nun telling him the electronics company was a convent. Everything has been made to look totally unbelievable, which is why Jeff has difficulty trying to convince the police to give him time to prove he has been framed.
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#10 - Kill Straker!
UFO - Season 1 - Episode 7
When a Lunar Module is attacked by a UFO, Straker makes a split-second decision that endangers the astronauts, but ultimately saves them. Later, he is surprised to find his authority being questioned by his most loyal officer, Colonel Paul Foster, who spearheads a campaign against him. Then an attempt is made on Straker's life...
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#11 - Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 17
Marty's headstone is knocked over, and Jeff is knocked out by a man dressed in 18th century attire when he goes to investigate. What does it have to do with a wealthy man and his agoraphobic son who live in a mansion next to the cemetery?
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#12 - Could You Recognise the Man Again?
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 18
Jeff and Jean see a man leave their car after a party. The man left a body in the back seat. The case is open-and-shut, with both Jeff and Jean identifying the man in a police line-up, but the day before they are to testify Jean is kidnapped by the man's mother. Marty tries to find her, but every time he concentrates on Jean's location he ends up at their apartment.
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#14 - The Man in the Middle
The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 14
When Brett's plan to capture a traitorous British spy by pretending to be him results in his own capture, Danny enlists the aid of one of Brett's relatives to rescue him.
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#15 - It's Supposed to be Thicker Than Water
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 22
Joshua Crackan is having a birthday party, gathering his relatives from various parts of the world. The assignment for Jeff is easy: he has to make certain that only those with invitations enter Crackan's property. Before the party Jeff and Marty have an argument and Jeff asks Marty to leave him alone. Now that the party guests are dying, Jeff is having second thoughts about handling the case without his ghostly partner.
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#16 - The Night People
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 23
Sharron takes a few days' holiday in Cornwall and disappears. Craig and Richard's search leads them into an encounter with hooded monks, ghostly woods and the supernatural.
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#17 - The Mission
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 19
Craig and Sharron pose as a gangster and his moll in an attempt to block an escape route for criminals.
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#18 - The Silent Enemy
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 20
Craig, Richard and Sharron have to follow the path of a nuclear submarine in which all of the crew were found dead.
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#19 - All Work and No Pay
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 3
When things start flying around her apartment, Jean comes to the conclusion that her late husband Marty is trying to contact her. She has fallen for the trap set by the Foster brothers, who claim to be ""scientific spiritualists"" and approach Jean with a job offer: she will have introduce them to people who are interested in contacting ""the other side"". What she doesn't know is their ""scientific approach"" involves murder.
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#20 - A Sentimental Journey
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 19
Jeff is hired -- much against his will -- by two rival criminals. The task seems simple: go to Glasgow, pick up an item worth £10,000, and bring it back to London. Things become complicated when the ""item"" turns out to be the girlfriend of one of the criminals -- and she promptly takes off, leaving Jeff to take the blame for a double-cross.
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#21 - The Invisible Man
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 2
Craig is captured by Dr. Hallam and has a small device implanted into his ear while unconscious. When Craig re-awakens, he hears voices in his head giving him orders. Richard and Sharron must get to Craig before he is killed.
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#22 - Full Circle
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 26
Craig poses as a prison inmate to find out who is attempting to free another prisoner. His subsequent escape leads him into further danger.
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#23 - Just for the Record
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) - Season 1 - Episode 6
Jeff and Jean are hired to be escorts for various contestants in the Miss World beauty competition. Jeff draws the assignment of escorting Miss London, who is working with a man to steal some documents from the Hall of Records that will prove he is the rightful heir to the throne.
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#24 - The Survivors
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 7
While investigating the murder of three students in the Austrian Alps, the Champions discover a map that leads them to a mine where a group of German soldiers were buried alive by the SS.
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#26 - The Sporilla
Terrahawks - Season 3 - Episode 12
Zelda lures the Terrahawks to Jupiter's moon Callisto by ransacking a listening post there. Once they arrive, they find themselves being stalked by the fearsome Sporilla.
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#27 - The Ghost Plane
The Champions - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Champions find themselves hot on the trail of a broker when asked to investigate a man whose plans for a revolutionary aircraft have been shelved.
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#28 - To the Death, Baby
The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 23
Brett and Danny both end up wooing an heiress after they are asked to break up a romance between a her and a gigolo who is courting her.
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#29 - Journey to Where
Space: 1999 - Season 2 - Episode 3
Moonbase Alpha learns that there is technology now on Earth that is capable of sending them home. However, the trip home hits an unexpected bump and Koenig, Carter and Dr. Russell find themselves in a strange place and time as a result.
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#30 - The Exiles
Space: 1999 - Season 2 - Episode 2
A large group of objects suddenly appear in orbit around the moon and when one is retrieved by an Eagle sent to investigate, it found to contain the cryogenically frozen body of a young man. The man pleads for the Alphans to help revive his frozen colleagues though his pleas may not reveal all of his future plans.
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#31 - The Seance Spectre
Space: 1999 - Season 2 - Episode 20
An Alpha crewman starts believing he's psychic and can sense a habitable planet nearby, leading his team to mutiny and endangering Alpha when Koenig finds that the Moon and the planet are actually on a collision course.
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