The BEST episodes written by Frank Lupo
#1 - Pilot (2)
Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 2
Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, have a run-in with the cops for which Vinnie is arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and decide to take possession of the guns and sell them back to the owner. The meeting goes down bad and ends with Dave Steelgrave's death. Vinnie gets rid of Tony by setting him up and having him arrested. To prove his loyalty, Vinnie shoots a federal agent for Sonny (but the agent was warned, wore a bullet proof vest, and was then moved out of state).
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#2 - Incident at Crystal Lake
The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 24
The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.
#3 - Judgment Day
The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 1
The A-Team goes to Italy to rescue a judge's daughter from mobsters, then must spend the journey home aboard an oceanliner dodging the boys trying to get her back.
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Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 8
A ruthless robbery of an armoured car goes awry when Dunbar, the leader of the gang, kills his partner only to have his car stolen with the $1,000,000 in the trunk. When the owner of the car is later killed, Hunter and McCall find themselves on a case that gets deadlier at every turn and puts Rick against as tough and mean a man as he'll ever meet
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#5 - No Need to Know
Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 5
Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters Estate, under tight security, until some IRA members he helped capture are tried. Two Secret Intelligence Agents hire Magnum to protect the Brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trail, but the "need to know" basis the Agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum...
#8 - Waiting for Insane Wayne
The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 16
When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.
#9 - The Snow Queen (2)
Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 14
Dee Dee's in danger as she moves closer to exposing a ruthless drug dealer, while Hunter fights to keep a rogue policeman from killing a material witness.
#10 - Hard Contract
Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 2
Dee Dee McCall's former partner, Gus Trancus, becomes a hit man for the mob. His victim is a police informant.
#11 - Bounty
Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 2 - Episode 1
After he robbed a bank Roy accidentally gets arrested because of a minor offense, but has to be freed after a short time. Walker and Trivette stay close on his heels but they are not the only ones. The bounty hunter Maxwell is also behind Roy. When Roy is (unprovable) killed by Maxwell, Walker and Trivette follow Maxwell, who is now behind Roy's partner Ned - who has the stolen money - and doesn't stop at nothing to get the money.
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#12 - The Battle of Bel Air
The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 14
The A-Team must rescue an employee of a security firm after she warns them about an ambush.
#13 - The Snow Queen (1)
Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 13
A cocaine dealer from New York escapes from the escort, who wants her dead. Hunter and Molinas team up for a major drug bust. Dee Dee's cover may be blown.
#14 - Mexican Slayride
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 1
Newspaper reporter Amy Allen sets out to prove the A-Team really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters who has been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws.
#15 - Harder Than It Looks
The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 19
The rescue of a kidnapping victim looks easy until the ransom is left behind and the victim insists on bringing along one of her captors.
#16 - Pilot (1)
Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 1
Vinnie (Ken Wahl) is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike (Jonathan Banks) and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco (Robert Miranda). Greco is killed and Vinnie demands to be put in to finish the investigation. He uses his ingenuity to get a foothold in the Steelgrave crime family, but it will take a while to finish this job.
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#18 - One More Time
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 10
The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.
#19 - Family Matters
Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 2 - Episode 6
Walker is not able to arrest Mick Flanders because his sister is in the Witness Protection Program. Mick, proving that he's invincible, kidnaps a boy named Archie who was staying at Walker's ranch.
#20 - Classical Gas
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 5
Ralph's students start a band, and a promoter lands them a spot on a big ticket concert while trying to get Pam to go out with him.
#21 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 8
Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog, after the attempted dognapping of the canine. "Sir Algernon Farnsworth" soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii, when his former owner, ageing gangster Victor DiGiorgio, has need to get him back. Magnum and an animal regulations officer are soon on the run with Algie from the would-be dognappers - and the fact that the officer seems to be scared of dogs doesn't exactly make matters any easier - but just why does DiGiorgio want the mutt back so badly?...
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Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 22
McCall's life is saved by a mysterious gunman and Hunter is missing.
#23 - Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 5
B.J. helps a girl who works for a motorcycle stunt circuit
#24 - The Murphy Contingent
B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 7
Facing an eviction, the murphy contingent devise a plan which BJ disapproves
#25 - Shine On
B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 2
Three young ladies abduct BJ and force him to work in an illegal still,asserting that they need money for their sick father.
#26 - Pilot (1)
Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 1
Nick and Cody investigate a yacht pirating that's disputed by a woman who says she saw the boat explode and sink. First of two parts.
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#27 - The Out-of-Towners
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 7
The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.
#28 - A Small and Deadly War
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 4
Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.
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#29 - The Young Lords
Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 11
Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.
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Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 1
Former NFL player Fred Dryer is Det.Sgt. Rick Hunter, a mobster's son turned cop, cut in the ""Dirty Harry"" mold. Hassled by his by-the-book captain (played by Michael Cavanaugh in the opener), Hunter enlists another maverick, brassy Det. Sgt. Dee Dee McCall to set a trap for a brutal murderer.
#31 - The Bend in the River
The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 2
Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.
#32 - A Nice Place to Visit
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 13
The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.
#33 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 6
The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.
#34 - Firing Line (3)
The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 3
General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.
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#35 - The Sound of Thunder
The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 22
General Fulbright captures the A-Team then offers to let them prove their innocence by accompanying him to Vietnam and rescuing a POW who could clear their names.
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#36 - The Heart of Rock n' Roll
The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 5
Singer Rick James asks the A-Team to help an old rock-and-roll legend whose life in prison has suddenly become very dangerous.
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#37 - Spaceball
Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 6
While Troy and Dillon try to stop the renegade Xavier from altering Earth's history, the Galactica children find themselves at a baseball camp for underprivileged children.
#38 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 5
The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.
#39 - Something Fishy
Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 14
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Murray is excited about taking Cody and Nick to meet Jody, an attractive dolphin trainer who he's been conducting sonar experiments with, and whom he has a huge crush on. But the trio find themselves on another case when they learn that Jody's boss was recently killed when escaping from two thugs that had kidnapped him. The P.I.s investigate to try and find out what the thugs wanted with the man, and must make the connection between a gangster, a missing package of drugs, and the two dolphins. But matters take a strain when Jody, uninterested in Murray's advances, starts making moves on Nick, unbeknown to Murray, which results in severely testing the old friends' relationship...
#40 - Catch of the Day
Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 3
An injured young woman appears out of the water to Arnie, a kind-hearted fisherman with learning disabilities, warning him that a ship named the Morning Rose needs help, before she sinks beneath the waves. Cody and Nick have agreed to allow an infamous reporter to come and do an article on the Riptide Detective Agency, much to the annoyance and upset of Murray, whom she has insulted in a previous article. The reporter is just beginning to get her claws into the trio, when a distressed Arnie arrives, telling them of the incident at sea. But when they report the incident to the Coast Guard, they are amazed and bemused to hear that Arnie claims the girl he saw was a mermaid; but believing Arnie's sincerity, the detective trio agree to investigate, much to the humour of the reporter. As they look into the case, they learn that the couple who were sailing on the Morning Rose were involved in some rather shady business, but exactly who or what did Arnie see that he believed to be a mermaid
#41 - Dead Men Don't Floss
Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 19
rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) After a female reporter with the hots for Nick writes an article naming him as the primary force behind the Riptide Detective Agency, an argument ensues between himself, Cody, and Murray. Lt. Parisi tries to put a stop to the squabble by taking three help wanted ads from the newspaper and giving one to each of them, with the first to complete their individual task to be declared the best detective of the trio. Murray's case is to find a biker's estranged girlfriend; while Nick must find a short-tempered battleaxe's missing man; and a gifted young boy, unhappy at home, wants Cody to prove that he's adopted. Meanwhile, the boyfriend of the woman who penned the article behind all the trouble sees Nick as a threat, and sets out to kill him...
#42 - Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
Stingray (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 4
A rather dimwitted garage worker and his criminal buddy steal $700,000 from a Mafioso who launders his money through the garage which he owns. The garage worker's sister is concerned that her brother is going to blow it: he doesn't seem to realize that quitting the day after you rob your boss and going crazy spending the money on coll stuff is a bad thing. She contacts Ray, who pretends to be another dimwitted crook and tries to get the two criminals out of trouble. The brother's buddy tries to double-cross them, and eventually despite Ray's best efforts to work things out, the sister is killed by the Mafioso Godfather. Her brother is left to mourn, as Ray warns him that he'll have to repay the favor his sister owed him.
#43 - The Hand-Painted Thai
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 11
Years ago, prisoners of war were brainwashed to respond to a code phrase. Now, someone is using them to commit acts of sabotage. Bill and Ralph investigate, but Bill inadvertently falls under a hypnotic trance, leaving the heroics up to Ralph.
#44 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 15
Ralph and Bill hunt for the sea creature "Carrie" in the Bermuda Triangle thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there. They undercover a stolen boat ring, and never find the creature.
#45 - There's Just No Accounting...
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 18
Bill convinces the parents of a kidnap victim to pay the ransom, certain that Ralph can recover it when he saves their little girl. Ralph finds himself being audited by an overzealous IRS agent who's convinced he took the ransom money. Meanwhile, Ralph and Bill keep getting shot at in drive-by shootings, but by who?
#46 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 20
Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
#47 - Pilot (2)
Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 2
Conclusion. Nick and Cody try to raise the sunken hull of the yacht to find out why anyone would sink it.
#48 - Operation: Spoilsport
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 2
Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
#49 - The Resurrection of Carlini
The Greatest American Hero - Season 3 - Episode 4
A magician killed performing his greatest trick seemingly returns from the grave to murder his three rivals. Ralph must use his suit to out trick the would-be killer.
#50 - A Train of Thought
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 9
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
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