The BEST episodes written by Ed Adamson
#1 - Bag Woman
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 19
The Syndicate is bribing a major politician, codenamed "C6", through their operatives Harry fife and his chief killer Jenkins. The IMF must find out who C6 is and get the evidence against him. Fearing a IMF man he had killed got too close, Jenkins recommends someone new, Jean Royce, to make deliveries. Barney takes Jenkins place while Casey becomes Royce. Fife gives Casey a bag of explosives to deliver to C6 to silence his payoff demands for good. Barney finds out but is exposed and wounded, but warns Jim and Willy...but an accident destroyed the tracer. Jim allows Jenkins to escape and return to his boss, then visits Fife himself as a Syndicate head and tells him that C6 must stay alive. Fife sends Jenkins to warn C6 and reveal Casey is a cop, and Jim traces the call and Willy saves Casey just in time.
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#2 - Barney's Bounty
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 26
Josh stops at his friend Barney's to get horses for his two prisoners, they manage to escape, leaving Josh and Barney to get them back for the reward.
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#3 - A Ghost Story
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 21
Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start "haunting" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.
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#6 - The Amateur
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 9
The team must steal a rocket laser and smuggle out Father Bernard and his list of Western operatives. Bernard puts the IMF in contact with Wittstock, who gets them the laser. Wittstock is killed after delivering the weapon and Police Colonel Eckert seals up the country to capture the IMF. Bernard dies of a stroke but gets the list, but nightclub owner Eric Schilling saw Dana with Wittstock and tries to take advantage of the situation to profit. When Barney splits the laser into five parts for the team to smuggle out of the country, Schilling gets hold of Dana's part and the team has to get the part from Schilling while escaping through the heavily-guarded airport. Paris in disguise buys the part from Schilling, leaving him to be captured by Eckert while Paris drops the disguise to escape, leaving the part to be recovered by the rest of the team. Then the IMF secretly blend in with an arriving broadcast crew from England just as the crew are told their visas have been revoked - the IMF
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#8 - Shape-Up
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 5
Syndicate boss Delaney controls the waterfront and eliminates any potential witnesses - the IMF have 72 hours to bring him to justice before the grand jury closes. Barney infiltrates Delaney's waterfront organization and sabotages it, while Jim is a captain of a Norse ship, The Orion, on which Delaney once killed a man. Casey poses as the dead man's daughter and tries to implicate Delaney. The team capture Saunders, Delaney's killer, and Barney then claims to be employed by Delaney's Syndicate liaison Morgan and forces Saunders to set up a meeting on-board the Orion. Saunders "escapes" and warns Delaney, and they kill Morgan. The Syndicate head Mr. C is also present, lured to the ship, and witnesses the killing. He leaves one of his men to kill Delaney but the police arrive and Delaney testifies in return for protection.
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#10 - Journey for Josh
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 3
Josh is delivering a female prisoner and becomes smitten with her, unknown to him is her accomplice, who is following them to break her loose.
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#11 - The Showdown
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 6
Johnny Haywood, a childhood friend of Josh's claims to be innocent of the crime he is accused of. When he escapes, Josh is ordered to bring him back - dead or alive.
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#13 - Knight Errant
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 7
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
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#16 - Run Quiet
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 9
Steve Hill befriends a dishevelled deaf mute named Judd (Clu Gulager) and convinces the Virginian to gives him a job at Shiloh ranch. Judd is accussed of murdering a gambler, runs off and is befriended by spinster farm owner Ruth Ferris (Gail Kobe). Steve Hill manages to track down Judd, tells him to give himself up and then sets off after the real perpetrators. The murderers try to kill Steve but he is saved by the arrival of Judd who then returns to the waiting Ruth with whom he has fallen in love.
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#17 - Murder Revisited
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 23
A TV host's murder proves difficult to investigate, as everyvbody wants it canceled.
#18 - Between Heaven and Earth
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 9
When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, intending to crawl up after it. But as he looks down, things begin to spin. He realises he can't go any higher, and he retreats down the hill. Needing to prove himself, Joe spars against Mitch.
#20 - The Inheritors Part II
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 11
An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.
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#21 - Squeeze Play
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 10
A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.
#23 - The Trial
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 1
Daniel Trenner is wanted for court martial because of his cowardice several men is his platoon lost their lives. Josh is after Trenner for other reasons and wants to stop the trial.
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#24 - The Cure
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 2
Emily Kendrick hires Josh to keep her beloved Harry from drinking himself to death, she has matrimony on her mind and with the arrival of Harry's brother for the wedding, she wants to make sure that all goes as planned.
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#25 - The Voice of Silence
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 20
Josh is hired by Frank Hagen to protect his deaf-mute daughter Carol Hagen while he's away on business. During Josh's stay at the Hagen Farm, he encounters a strange drifter and former bank robber named Harry Brice accompanied by his criminal partners.
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#26 - The Inheritors Part I
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 10
After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.
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#27 - The Guest
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 23
New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure before business: he's been hired to kill Lucas.
#28 - Conflict
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 13
Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.
#29 - First Wages
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 2
Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.
#30 - The Decision
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 6
Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.
#31 - The Torpedo
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 28
April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners. The blue plate special is 35 cents; a nickel would buy either a hamburger, or a cup of Joe and a sinker. The backroom is the headquarters of Victor Kurtz, bootleg czar of the Chicago southside. Right now he, along with his enforcer Holly Kester, The Torpedo, are having a meet with the boss of the northside, Monk Lyselle and his lieutenant Carl Danzig. Victor Kurtz uses a knife to draw a line bisecting a map of Chicago, then he says, ""Cross that line and you get cut down,"" and then jams the knife through the map and into the table, making his point. No more knocking off each other's speaks, warehouses and booze trucks. Everything's quiet until the night of September 3rd. A 3-truck convoy carrying Canadian whiskey to Chicago is hijacked. One of the masked bandits is Enrico Rossi; Eliot Ness and Lee Hobson and the rest of the Untouchables are there, too. Since th
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#32 - Surprise Witness
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 7
Josh captures a notorious killer but no one wants to testify against him, until a surprise witness come forward, his mother.
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#33 - To the Victor
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 8
Josh is hired by the men of the town to try and persuade the ladies to return to their homes after rebelling against their husbands gunplay.
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#34 - Bounty on Josh
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 17
Josh is asked to meet a client at the hotel, at his arrival he is shot. Josh tries to figure out who is behind the shooting.
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#35 - El Gato
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 21
A timid photographer named Archie Warner comes west with hopes of being the first to shoot a photo of a famous Mexican bandit. Josh happens to be a friend of 'El Gato', and is hired by Archie to met him.
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#36 - Monday Morning
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 23
Overridden with guilt Charlie Glover hires Josh to help him return the money he stole from his employer. Complications arise when the head head of operations, Sam Vickers finds out.
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#37 - Dead Reckoning
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3 - Episode 25
Paul Decker is wanted for murder. His wife asks Josh to find her husband and bring him back alive before the Taggert brothers catch up with him for murdering their brother.
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#38 - To Own the World
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 29
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben says the ranch is not for sale and Hackett refuses to give up.
#39 - Paniolo
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 15
A cowboy fears the loss of his land to a crooked estate agent and accidentally kills him by hitting him. McGarrett and his team must track the cowboy into the mountains and persuade him to give himself up.
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