The BEST episodes written by Donald Ross
#1 - Hostage Harts
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 3
Jennifer fears for Jonathan's life when ruthless jewel thieves take him hostage during a robbery while he's on a business trip in Paris.
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#2 - As the Hart Turns
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 17
Jennifer wins a walk-on role on a soap opera which leads to a writing job that nearly gets her killed by the leading man.
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#3 - Two Harts Are Better Than One
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 1
Jonathan and Jennifer remember how they first met and fell in love in the midst of murder and international intrigue in the picturesque locale of London.
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#4 - Blue and Broken-Harted
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 16
Jonathan and Jennifer enact a troubled marriage in very public places in an attempt to flush out the culprit who is trying to cause a rift between them.
#5 - Blue Chip Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 20
The Harts return home and find their house ransacked. During the clean-up, they discover a hidden hallway and vault. The Harts and their friend Ida are sealed in the vault when the crooks return to claim the municipal bonds hidden in the vault.
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#6 - Harts On Campus
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 4
Jonathan joins Jennifer at her prep school reunion and is drugged by a former admirer who wants Jennifer for himself.
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#7 - Hunted Harts
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 11
While visiting a wildlife reserve, Jonathan and Jennifer are hunted as prey by a competitor of Hart Industries.
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#8 - Deep in the Hart of Dixieland
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 18
While attempting to clear a friend of murder charges, the Harts become entangled in a disturbed woman's fantasies.
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#9 - Murder is Man's Best Friend
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 4
Normally finicky, Freeway is quite fond of a new dog food and ends up in a dog food commercial. When the Harts have a party, some of Freeway's new food is mistakenly ingested by some guests who then behave as if drugged. Jennifer and Jonathan are in danger when they attempt to find out its secret formula.
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#10 - Portrait of Death
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 13
A piece of sculpture does double duty as a murder weapon.
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#11 - Skin Deep or True Blue (a.k.a.) Guess Who?
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 22
Kimberly's new beau, Roger, suggests pairing his sister with Willis for a double-date, until he finds out the color of his true love's brother. When Kimberly discovers her new friend is a bigot, her face burns red and then a far darker shade.
#12 - The Petrified Florist
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 15
Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?
#13 - Football Father
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 3 - Episode 8
After Arnold fails to measure up to the demands of the basketball, baseball and volleyball teams, Drummond convinces the boy to try football on for size and then pays the coach a clandestine visit to ensure Arnold a place on the team.
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#14 - The Professor
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 10
Professor Erskine Tate wakes from a drunken stupor behind the wheel of his car. He doesn't know how he got there or what happened. When he's accused of having hit a mailman during his drunken joyride, he goes to a former student, Ben Matlock, for help, and Ben investigates two students and a teaching assistant.
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#15 - Film Flam
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 16
Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.
#16 - Death in the Slow Lane
Hart to Hart - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Harts become involved in the world of espionage when Jonathan purchases an antique car for Jennifer. A mysterious jet-setting couple will stop at nothing to acquire the classic auto.
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#17 - The Corpse Flew First Class
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 12
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
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#18 - The Body Politic
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 22
The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites the press.
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#19 - Murder is a Drag
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 9
At the opera, Jonathan is mistaken for a hitman and is given an envelope containing $100,000 for the job. When the messenger is murdered, Jonathan poses as the hitman in an attempt to save the victims life.
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#20 - A Body to Die For
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 6
Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.
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#21 - Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow
Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 17
When Charles and Buddy foil an attempted holdup at the pizza parlor, their names appear in the local newspaper. They can't resist capitalizing on their new found popularity with the girls at the sorority house. The holdup man is released on bail, and the boys change their tune, remembering that he threatened to get even with them. A strange man then calls to say he'll be coming to the house. Everyone joins in barricading the doors and windows. When the caller, who turns out to be a reporter, arrives to interview Charles and Buddy, he is pounced on. Charles and Buddy decline the interview and send the reporter away. It is only when Jamie sees the same criminal on the 6 o'clock news arrested for another robbery, then everyone breathes easier. They realize the only thing they had to fear was, of course, fear itself.
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#22 - Dear Deadly
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 5
While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.
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#23 - Death by Demographics
Murder, She Wrote - Season 12 - Episode 24
In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is trying to change their image by firing every staff member who is past a certain age and playing music for teen-agers only.
#24 - A Fashionable Way to Die
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 1
Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself entangled in a case involving fashion, finance and murder.
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#25 - Brother Can You Spare a Crime
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 16
After 10 years, the judge is paid a visit by his brother Jerry. Suspicious, Hardcastle begins to wonder when his brother, a habitual gambler, will ask him for money. Although he decides not to tell his brother, Jerry is in fact in debt to a hood named Manny. Hoping to find a way to get out of debt, Jerry decides to bet on the outcome of a high profile murder trial. Thanks to Judge Sheila Mooney, one of his brother's friends, Jerry gets all the particulars about the case in which model Tori Van Zandt is on trial for killing Harland Eagle, her fiancee. After a private investigator named Horace Munson provides Tori with a convenient alibi, Jerry is confronted by Manny about his debt. Drawn into the Van Zandt case by his brother's involvement, Hardcastle begins to look into the case. Searching Munson's office, Hardcastle discovers that the private investigator, who has since been murdered, lied in court. Hoping to incriminate Tori, Hardcastle publicizes the fact that he has evidence in the case. As expected, Tori tries to kill the judge and the police gather the proof they need to convict her. At the same time, the police also arrest Mooney.
#26 - Teacher's Pet
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 23
Parent-teacher night leads Mr. Drummond to a romance with Arnold's teacher and poor Arnold to the jealousy of his classmates. Arnold tries every trick in the book to win back his classmates, including one which may have him expelled.
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#27 - The Taxman Cometh
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 15
The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.
#28 - The Error of Her Ways
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 4
When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.
#29 - Bahama Bound Harts
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 16
Jonathan and Jennifer travel to the Bahamas to meet with a recluse and discover that his assistant has replaced him with an imposter to gain control of his fortune.
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#30 - From Russia... with Blood
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 14
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
#31 - For Whom the Ball Tolls
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 2
One of the partners trying to raze a Brownstone where Hemmingway once wrote is erased--permanently.
#32 - Nailed
Murder, She Wrote - Season 12 - Episode 1
Gossip is rampant in a stylish Fifth Avenue beauty salon where an expert hair-dresser is involved in several intrigues.
#33 - The Cat's Meow
Small Wonder - Season 2 - Episode 22
To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
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#34 - Three Strikes, You're Out
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 20
A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
#35 - Murder of the Month Club
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 10
Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.
#36 - Hello, Daddy
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 4 - Episode 10
Does Drummond have a third son? There's a young man at the door who thinks so.