The BEST episodes written by George F. Slavin
#1 - The Deal
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 3
The Syndicate plans to finance the head of the army's takeover of his country in return for the right to operate the country's vices. The IMF team must intercept the safe deposit key before it reaches the general. Willy replaces a crewman aboard the yacht, but can't find the key and is discovered. He is forced overboard, almost drowns, but escapes and helps warn the team. Jim, Barney and Mimi craft an elaborate plot to convince the bad guys' courier to reveal the location of the key.
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#2 - Flood's Folly
Maverick - Season 4 - Episode 23
Outside Denver, Colorado, Beau and his friend, Judge Scott, find shelter during a blizzard at the home of Martha Flood and her niece Sally. Martha and the judge are plotting to institutionalize Sally in order to take over her inheritance. However, Martha's lover, a professional killer named Chet Whitehead plans to kill Sally, the judge, and Maverick.
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#3 - Soldier of Fortune
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 11
An explosion destroys the cellar of a German communication center where Saunders, Marsh, and Wallace were tapping lines. Trapped beneath a beam and fearing he will be left behind, Private Marsh claims he has valuable intelligence — that will go back with him or not at all.
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#4 - The Town That Went Away
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 14
In this largely comedic episode, Hanley and the men are sent to evacuate the town of Bonnaire, which is targeted for German attack. The mayor, his three beautiful daughters, and the townspeople thwart Hanley's every effort with elaborate ruses and deception.
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#5 - See Some Evil...Do Some Evil
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 9
Harry Warren is shot by Stanley Lambert, the seemingly blind pianist at "The Offside" club. Barnaby finds out that larger amounts from Warren's account did not go to his mistress Jenny. He tries to expose Stanley as a person with eyesight and a blackmailer.
#7 - Dead End
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 4
After being hired to apprehend a ranch worker who stole money and disappeared, Josh undercovers more than he bargained for.
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#9 - Beneath the Ashes
Combat! - Season 3 - Episode 32
Lt. Hanley gets word that the wife of one of his men, Steve Kovac (Chad Everett), is dying. Hanley decides not to bring him in from patrol until they get confirmation from Red Cross, but the patrol soon becomes trapped in the basement of a German command post.
#10 - Off Limits
Combat! - Season 1 - Episode 20
PFC March runs into his wife, Lt. Amelia March, at a field hospital. He asks for a pass to spend time with her. While he is waiting for his pass, Kirby goes AWOL and ends up at the hospital. March must go out on a mission in place of Kirby.
#11 - Home from the Sea
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 31
A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights, who have no way of knowing the man and his accomplice plan on robbing them.
#13 - The Golden Noose
Hawaii Five-O - Season 12 - Episode 15
McGarrett is suspicious of an aide who arrives in Hawaii to retrieve millions of dollars held in trust for a Southern Asian state and he must prevent a daring gold robbery.
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#15 - The Chinese Connection
S.W.A.T. - Season 2 - Episode 20
Lt. Eddie Chew is assigned to aid Lt. Hondo Harrelson when an elderly shop owner is fatally beaten by an illegal Chinese alien working as a shakedown man for Albert Parker, the Caucasian leader of what appears to be an all-Oriental crime syndicate, a deadly drug and protection ring. Hondo begins to doubt Chew's integrity when it becomes obvious that Chinatown criminals are being given secrets of his investigation.
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#18 - Grandpa's Visit
Happy Days - Season 5 - Episode 14
Howard's father comes for a visit after being forceably retired as a captain of detectives due to his age. Not wanting to sit around, he gets a job at Fonzie's garage. After one day, Fonzie, not having the heart to do it himself, asks Howard to fire his father.
#19 - Eyes of the Lion
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 1
A man-eating lion is mistaken for the 'seeing-eye' lion of a young blind girl, who has trained the lion from infancy to be her eyes and protector in the jungle. Tarzan must prevent the hostile villagers from killing the wrong lion.
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#20 - Syndicate Sanctuary
The Untouchables - Season 1 - Episode 13
(No date given, but probably 1932 which was a presidential election year.) 30 miles from Chicago, the (fictitious) Calum City; population: 10,000. Judge Leon Zabo is running for mayor, to clean up the town. Working hard in his campaign headquarters is his lovely daughter, Rosetta Zabo. Judge Zabo tried to put an end to vice, graft and corruption; in the last 6 months, he had closed down 110 bars, clubs and gambling casinos in the notorious Barbary Coast district. Late at night, Judge Zabo takes a taxi home; driver Joe Donato makes it a point to tell him the right door is stuck, and he has to use the left door. In front of Zabo's house, Donato again tells him to use the left door, which opens to the street side. A car driven by gangster Harry Mauldin runs the judge over. Ness and his men are on the case. With Capone in prison, and a crime crackdown in Chicago, the Syndicate is looking for another city to make its headquarters for the nationwide narcotics racket: Ness knows they
#21 - Clash Of Shadows
Hawaii Five-O - Season 12 - Episode 17
The murder of a Nazi-hunter and discovery of a World War II medal set McGarrett and the team on the trail of a Nazi war criminal living in Honolulu...
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