The BEST episodes written by Elroy Schwartz
#1 - Christmas Came a Little Early
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 7
Buffy throws an early Christmas party for a sick little girl who might not live to see it.
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#2 - Lucy Gets a Roommate
The Lucy Show - Season 5 - Episode 7
Lucy advertises for a roommate to help with the expenses, and after reading the correspondence, she finally decides on Carol Bradford (Carol Burnet), a frumpy off-kilter librarian. Carol soon starts taking over, reorganizing the apartment, laughing like a hyena, and generally driving Lucy nuts. Lucy and Mary Jane scheme to help Carol develop a social life (to keep her out of Lucy's hair), so they have a small party to introduce her to some boys. It isn't long before usually mild-mannered Carol begins drinking, singing, and being the life of the party.
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#3 - The Big Bet
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 18
Bobby and Greg make a bet on how many chin-ups each can do. Confident Greg relaxes while Bobby practices, and when the two finally compete, Bobby ends up on top, with Greg doomed to be his servant.
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#4 - Raffles No. 2
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 10
When Martin almost gets a parking ticket, Tim thinks it might be a good idea if Martin legitimizes his Earthly driving by getting a driver's license. Down at the Department of Motor Vehicles, finger-printless Martin has to do some fancy work when he is about to be finger printed. He steals the prints of another man at the DMV. Unfortunately for Martin, that print matches the only unidentified print at a major jewel robbery the previous year. In a routine cross check, the police find the print in Martin's file. And Tim covered the jewel robbery for the paper, something the police find probably more than just a coincidence. Martin and Tim find out that the police are watching them and the reason, and so Martin thinks it a good idea to flush out the jewel thief: he reads that there is a party where Mrs. Summer Winthrop will be displaying the galaxy diamond necklace around her neck, a lure too irresistible for the thief. At the party, the guests are populated predominantly by police - both in uniform and under cover - and the thief, Brian Henley, and his female accomplice, who Martin recognizes from the DMV office. Henley manages to slip the necklace off Mrs. Winthrop, slip it to his accomplice, who in turn slips it into the crown of the cap of Captain Farrow, the lead police investigator. Henley plans to steal the necklace back after the place has been unsecured, and he is no longer a suspect (he was the only person close the Mrs. Winthrop when the necklace went missing). Martin, seeing where the necklace was stashed, plans to plant it back on Henley. No matter what Henley does to get rid of the necklace Martin plants in his pocket, he is no match for Martin's levitation finger. Henley is quickly apprehended, and Martin and Tim cleared.
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#5 - My Sister, Benedict Arnold
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 5
Greg is furious when he discovers Marcia is dating a rival who had beaten him out of a spot on the basketball team. Seeking revenge, Greg begins seeing the girl who had bested Marcia in cheerleading.
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Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 16
The siblings take action to solve a financial crisis.
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#7 - The Red Knights
Baywatch - Season 4 - Episode 13
Some old lifeguards known as the Red Knights are having a reunion at Baywatch. Among the lifeguards are the legendary Bud Gates who was the first lifeguard ever to swim to Catalina and back in the nude. But after a couple of years he mysteriously disappeared from the beach. Later it's revealed that he is convinced he saw Marilyn Monroe on the beach one day. When he was about to make a move on her, he got a call that someone had seen sharks at Topanga Beach. Later when he got back, she was nowhere to be seen. When Marilyn Monroe died, he retired as a lifeguard and went back to Omaha and opened a hardware store. Meanwhile, Ben isn't to pleased about the reunion. All the other Knights are still in good shape, but Ben isn't because of his broken hip. Bud asks Mitch how Ben got injured and he tells Bud that a couple of years ago, Ben was hang-gliding and saw a surfer in trouble. Ben was the only one who could rescue him and then he jumped from 30 feet and rescued the surfer. But during the
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#8 - Going, Going, Gone
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 17
Something is causing Martin's metabolism to go haywire. In succession, he loses control of his levitation finger, he magnetizes his clothing, he levitates, he becomes electrically charged, he shrinks and then he disappears. He finds out the cause is an increased activity of sunspots, and on Earth there is no way to control their effects on Martians. After five days, the sunspots are still occurring and Martin is still invisible. The authorities, based on a recent insurance policy Mrs. Brown sold Martin with Tim as beneficiary, suspect that Martin's "disappearance" is due to Tim killing him for the insurance money. Circumstantial evidence points in that direction. Martin can't let Tim go to jail for this, and Martin decides to tell the authorities the truth about his Martian identity. Just then, the sunspots cease and Martin reappears, just in time to save Tim and protect his own identity.
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Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 10
When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.
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#10 - Law and Disorder
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 14
Bobby is crestfallen when he is picked to be safety monitor at school. But with Mike's and Carol's encouragement, Bobby becomes determined to do the job well but goes overboard, becoming the most unwelcome person both at school and at home.
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#11 - Slightly Hot Parking Meters
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 10
Chaos erupts when Captain Fomento installs parking meters.
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Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 2
Uncle Bill leaves Cissy in charge of babysitting the twins, but neglects her duties when Gregg takes her on a plane trip to Dartmouth. Cissy calls for a sitter for the twins and leaves but when the sitter cannot make it, the twins have to stay ll by their lonesome. Especially on the night of a blizzard, which would be totally scary if the phone lines are down and nobody can reach them. Cissy then comes home around dawn. Uncle Bill returns home and Buffy fesses up.
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Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 19
The twins get a small inheritance.
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#14 - The Other Cheek
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 5
A girl picks on Jody, who doesn't dare hit her back.
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#15 - Greg Gets Grounded
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 15
Bobby tells his parents that Greg nearly got into a freeway accident because he was reading the cover of a new record. Mike and Carol suspend Greg's car privileges for a week, but Greg has plans to take out his girlfriend Rachel. When Greg decides that his father's directive has a "loophole" and takes a buddy's car to procure rock concert tickets for the date, Mike really hits the roof and grounds him. Greg talks his way out of the severe punishment but is bound by "exact words" ... and it leads to a drive-in movie date that neither Greg nor Rachel will ever forget.
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#16 - Plant You Now, Dig You Later
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 16
While working for Mr. Howell, Gilligan unearths a chest. The castaways think it must contain a pirate's treasure. When ownership of the chest is disputed, the case goes to court, with the Professor presiding as judge.
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#17 - Rocket to Mars
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 9
When the junk men come by, they mistakenly empty Martin and Tim's garage instead of Mrs. Brown's, and in doing so take Martin's space ship. Mrs. Brown has no idea the name of the junk yard, but there was a witness to the incident: Booboo, a neighborhood dog. Booboo, with the help of his dog friends and acquaintances, helps Martin track down the junk yard. When Martin and Tim get to the junk yard, they find out that the ship has already been sold to a Mr. Carter, who is using it as a "rocket" carousel at a children's amusement park. Mr. Carter refuses to sell it back to Martin. So Martin decides to disappear and fly the spaceship away, although he does slip Carter the money for the ship anonymously. Martin has one other debt to pay: a steak dinner for Booboo and all his friends for all their help.
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#18 - X Marks the Spot
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 18
In a test of a deadly new missile, called "Operation Powder Keg," the Air Force chooses an "uninhabited island" which just happens to be Gilligan's Island. When the rocket lands and does not explode, Gilligan is chosen to crawl inside to defuse it, because he is the only one that can fit inside.
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#19 - Voodoo Something to Me
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 3
The Skipper fears that the island is full of 'voodoo' when he thinks that Gilligan has been turned into a monkey.
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#20 - Tiger, Tiger!
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 18
One afternoon, Bobby briefly leaves Tiger unattended and returns to find him missing. Soon a city wide search is on. Meanwhile, a string of burglaries in the neighborhood has Alice paranoid. Could the robbers have lured Tiger away in order to rob the Brady house?
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#21 - Vote for Brady
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 11
Both Greg and Marcia rush home after school with the news that they're both running for student body president. May the best candidate win, as the boys and girls each take sides and soon each one of them is accusing the other of sabotage. Later, rudeness and apathy abound as each candidate rehearses their campaign speech, leading to a stern lecture from Mike about family unity and how they will be a family far longer than either Greg or Marcia will be class president. It's a speech that Greg take seriously when he fires his campaign manager for recommending that they spread a lie around school that Marcia was seen in the balcony of the local movie theater with an older boy. Marcia (who witnessed the exchange without Greg knowing it) realizes that, while Greg is indeed intensely competitive, he also has integrity and will stick up for his siblings ... and then understands that Greg is the best for the job after all.
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#22 - The Hero
The Brady Bunch - Season 1 - Episode 21
While shopping at Driscoll's Toy Store, Peter looks up to see a wall about to fall on a little girl. He quickly pushes her out of the way. This leads to immediate media attention and Peter is named a hero. However, Peter lets all the attention go to his head, annoying his friends and his brothers and sisters.
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#23 - The Friendly Physician
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 29
A mad scientist lands on the island and takes the Castaways to his castle . . . on a nearby island . . . to perform experiments on them.
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#24 - Formula 407
Wonder Woman - Season 1 - Episode 12
Wonder Woman goes south of the border to recover a top secret formula stolen by the Nazis.
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#25 - You've Been Disconnected
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 17
A storm washes up a Trans-continental telephone cable up into the lagoon. Once again the Castaways are given hope for a rescue, as the Professor manages to break into the cable and rig up a telephone so they can dial out for help.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 9
A composition titled “What My Mother Means to Me” has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
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#27 - Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 12
During Christmas, the Castaways get homesick and remember the first day they were shipwrecked. When Santa Claus ""appears"" on the island, many suspect he is the Skipper in costume. However, just as Santa departs while wishing the Castaways a Merry Christmas, the Skipper appears from the other direction.
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#28 - Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 22
A gorilla is enchanted by Mrs. Howell's perfume and kidnaps her. After Gilligan accidentally spills the perfume all over his shirt, the gorilla decides to release Mrs. Howell and exchange prisoners.
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#29 - Breaker, Breaker
Good Times - Season 5 - Episode 8
While using a CB radio, Michael makes a connection with a teenage paraplegic girl.
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#30 - Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs
The Lucy Show - Season 5 - Episode 8
Lucy fakes sick so she can get out of work and accompany Carol, who's going to entertain at a golf tournament in Palm Springs. When they arrive, the hotel staff realizes that there's two women rooming together, so Lucy finds herself having to partake in the show. Lucy later weasels her way into an encounter with a distinguished actor, Collin Grant (Dan Rowan), and gets herself invited to a dinner dance. It's a good excuse not to go back to work when she finds that Mr. Mooney is Mr. Grant's partner in the golf tournament...
#31 - Morticia's Favorite Charity
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 29
There's a local charity auction being run by Mr Henson, and the Addams Family hears about it. He doesn't want their help, but they insist on donating items to it after Morticia complains that the attic is too full and needs cleaning out.
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#32 - Pass the Vegetables, Please
Gilligan's Island - Season 3 - Episode 3
Gilligan finds a crate of radioactive vegetable seeds. The plants grow quickly and grossly misshapen, but the Castaways are so hungry for new items in their diet that they consume them quickly. The plants, when eaten, give the castaways super-human powers. Of course, after he realizes that the vegetables are radioactive, the Professor saves the day by making a homemade soup to absorb the radioactivity.
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#33 - A Nose by Any Other Name
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 36
A fall from a coconut tree gives Gilligan an inflated nose and a deflated ego. When Gilligan decides he wants the Professor to perform plastic surgery on his nose, the Professor pretends to perform the surgery, and instead, relies on the recuperation time behind the bandages to allow the swelling to go down. When the bandages are finally removed, Gilligan decides he is happy with his old nose!
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#34 - Dr. Wells is Missing
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 1 - Episode 9
When a group of international criminals kidnap Dr. Rudy Wells in order to force him to build them a bionic man, Steve is sent to find and rescue him.
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My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 25
Mike feels that Sally should learn how to fish, since she's joining a family of avid fishermen - Except that Sally really hates the pastime. How coincidental then that Mike hates bird watching as well.
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#37 - Seer Gilligan
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 19
Gilligan discovers an island bush that produces seeds which, when eaten, give a person the ability to read the minds of others. This leads to disaster when everyone insults each other through their honesty and thoughts.
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#38 - Topsy-Turvy
Gilligan's Island - Season 3 - Episode 10
Gilligan bumps his head and suddenly sees everything upside down. The Professor tries to help by brewing an antidote made of keptibora berry extract, but the antidote causes Gilligan to see double. After consuming more juice, he sees four of everything. Meanwhile, the island is invaded by three headhunters who slowly capture all of the other castaways. Gilligan saves the day by serving the headhunters lots and lots of keptibora berry extract, which causes them to see ""hundreds"" of castaways running toward them!
#39 - Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump
The Addams Family - Season 2 - Episode 22
Granny Frump's birthday is coming up and she's been invited over. Gomez and Morticia plan to send her to a beauty spa, but Pugsley thinks she's heading for the retirement home.
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The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Addams are selecting stuff to donate for the charity auction but donate Pugsley's tiger-head clock, much to his annoyance!
#41 - One of Our Running Backs is Missing
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 3 - Episode 8
Football player Larry Bronco is kidnapped as part of a plan to make his team lose and generate a fortune for his abductors, who have wagered heavily on the game. Steve determines to find him before the start of the game.
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#42 - Alice's September Song
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 23
An old boyfriend of Alice's, Mark Millard, comes to town and begins to wine and dine her, unknown to her he has other intentions in mind.
#43 - The Coward
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 1 - Episode 12
When an earthquake in the Himalayas uncovers a DC-3 plane containing secret papers that went down during World War II, Steve is sent to recover the papers. Steve also tries to clear the name of the pilot, his father, who was accused of bailing out, leaving the rest of the crew to die.
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#44 - Meet the Meteor
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 - Episode 32
A huge meteor lands on the island, causing everything nearby to age very rapidly. The Professor determines the rapid aging is being caused by strong cosmic rays (he makes this determination by using his bamboo Geiger counter!).
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#45 - The Winner
The Brady Bunch - Season 2 - Episode 21
After discovering he is the only Brady without a trophy, Bobby enters numerous contests in order to win one. Including, selling magazines and a televised ice cream eating contest.
#46 - The Town Killer
The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 22
On the way to a cattle purchase, The Virginian meets up with Ben Hunter and his group when they interrupt a holdup attempt on him. He finds that Hunter is leading a protection racket that now covers a number of towns on the way between Medicine Bow and Billings, and that the people in these towns are cowed into paying him outrageous fees to keep their homes and businesses safe. When The Virginian is forced to kill one of Hunter's men the citizens of one town are ordered to turn him over to be killed, and except for the daughter of one man are too willing to do so.
#47 - Above and Beyond
Police Woman - Season 2 - Episode 7
After a parole officer is murdered, Pepper goes undercover as a parolee to find out why and how he was killed.
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My Three Sons - Season 3 - Episode 3
Tramp supposedly takes a nip out of pampered young Alan Edgerton and the court case that follows, gives Robbie the chance to help out the family's lawyer with some special investigating when he realises he can prove that the dog acted in self defense.
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My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 11
When Ernie sends for a picture of Chip's favourite movie star, planning to give it to him as a birthday gift, Chip gets an actual date with the movie starlet for a publicity stunt and is astounded by all the resulting hoopla.
#50 - The Toupee
My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 9
The pungent smell around the Douglas home proves to emeante from Bub's head for his baldness is anointed with yet another hair restorer as he's in a panic to cover his bald spot when the sister of an old buddy comes to visit.