The BEST episodes written by Fred Freeman
#1 - Take My Garage, Please
Empty Nest - Season 5 - Episode 2
Carol begins dating Patrick, the Westons' sprinkler man. When his apartment is condemned, Carol persuades Harry to let Patrick move into the garage.
#2 - Waiting for Watubi
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 10
While digging, the Skipper uncovers a carved statue of a Tiki God. He then believes a curse has fallen on him for disturbing the resting-place of Watubi, and that his days are numbered. Gilligan dresses up as Watubi, and performs a special ritual dance that the Skipper believes will lift the curse. It is an earth-shaking experience!
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#3 - Almost Like Being in Love
Empty Nest - Season 4 - Episode 2
Harry's lust for his girlfriend sparks marital thoughts.
#5 - Abner Kadabra
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 29
Gladys catches Sam and her magic at work when she is rearranging pictures. Of course, Samantha convinces Gladys that she's the one doing the magic, by ESP. Then, Gladys goes crazy with the notion that she had powers, so Samantha sets up a seance to scare Gladys. Using her magic, she creates ghosts and turns Abner into a pile of dust. Gladys swears to give up her powers to bring Abner back, and he returns to his original form.
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#6 - Two on a Raft
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 1
The shipwrecked castaways awaken to find themselves marooned on an uncharted island, so Gilligan and Skipper set out on a flimsy raft to find civilization.
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#7 - See Rob Write, Write Rob, Write
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 12
To help sell a local artist's illustrations, Rob and Laura each write wildly different children's stories to go along with them.
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#9 - The Sound of Quacking
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 7
The Castaways are faced with running out of food, when a blight threatens to destroy many of their plants. When Gilligan finds a duck in the lagoon, a difficult decision must be made. Should they eat the duck, or tie a rescue note to it and let it fly away?
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#10 - Wrongway Feldman
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Gilligan finds an old airplane hidden in the jungle, the Castaways discover a long-forgotten aviator living on the island.
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#11 - Aunt Bee on TV
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 6 - Episode 10
While the Taylors were in Hollywood, Aunt Bee won $4800 worth of prizes on a game show. She is the envy of Mayberry, until she her friends think that she's gloating about her winnings. The IRS comes to call, telling Andy that he'll have to pay over $1100 in taxes for the winnings. Aunt Bee sells most all of the prizes to pay the taxes. Worth noting in this episode is that Howard McNear (Floyd the barber), who had suffered a stroke, has a particularly shaky scene, when he's checking out Bee's new dishwasher.
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#12 - Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 10
While Andy is away in Raleigh considering a job offer, Barney is left as acting sheriff and dreams of the day he'll have the job. When he ends up causing more trouble than he prevents, he wonders if he really wants the job as much as he thought.
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#13 - Trick or Treat
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 7
In the second Halloween episode of the series, Endora turns Darrin into a werewolf when he refuses to let Samantha go to a witches Halloween ceremony. The worse part of it is, Darrin has to entertain a new client for McMann and Tate! Samantha tells Endora that she is acting like the witches stereotype, and Endora removes the spell.
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#14 - Prodigy
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 38
In the final black and white episode, Samantha and Darrin meet Gladys' violinist brother Louis. Because of an embarrassing moment when he was a child (His pants fell down while playing), Louis is scarred for life and refuses to pick up another violin. Samantha wants him to play again, but he refuses when she signs him up to do a show for the hospital. He tries anything and everything to keep from playing a violin, even trying to leave town. Samantha shows him that everyone gets embarrassed at some part in their lives, but that doesn't mean that he should stop living and doing what he likes to do. Louis does a great job and ends up on TV. History does repeat itself when his pants fall down while playing the violin again!
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#15 - The Return of Wrongway Feldman
Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 24
The castaways are revisited by 'Wrongway' Feldman.
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#16 - Opie and the Carnival
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 31
Opie goes to the carnival to try and win a present for Andy's birthday but ends up spending all his money on a crooked shooting gallery. When Andy hears about it, he visits the gallery himself to teach the operators a lesson in straight shooting.
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#17 - A Farewell to Writing
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 2
Rob finds out trying to write a novel all by himself is a bit harder than he thinks.
#18 - The Rehabilitation of Otis
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 18
Barney's attempts at getting Otis to stop drinking through psychotherapy only succeed in driving him away to Mount Pilot. When Andy sees how bad Barney feels, he takes him up to Mount Pilot to convince Otis to come back, only to find that Otis prefers their jail over Andy's.
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#19 - A Warning from Warren
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 6 - Episode 6
Warren is convinced he has e.s.p. and feels that Andy and Helen are in grave danger if they go to the lake. He tries to warn them but they do not take him seriously. He takes it upon himself (with Goober's help) to "protect" them.
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#20 - Guest in the House
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 24
The pretty daughter of a friend of Aunt Bee's comes to stay with the Taylors and develops a crush on Andy, who tries to be nice for Aunt Bee's sake without getting in trouble with Helen.
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#21 - Otis, the Artist
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 6 - Episode 16
Warren decides that Otis needs some constructive rehabilitation activity - so he has him take up art. Otis works hard on a large mosaic of a cow that he is proud of and gives it as a gift to the Taylors. Much to Andy's embarrassment, Otis wants them to hang it up on their living room mantle!
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#22 - The Hollywood Party
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 6 - Episode 9
Andy has some explaining to do to Helen when photographs of him getting cozy with a famous and attractive Hollywood starlet make it back to Mayberry.
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#23 - Goober and the Art of Love
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 5 - Episode 20
Goober starts to annoy Andy and Barney by hanging around during their dates with Helen and Thelma Lou. They decide to set him up with a girl he likes, only to find they now have twice the trouble.
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