The BEST episodes written by Glen A. Larson

#1 - License to Kill (2)

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 10

#2 - Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 1

Two non-violent bandits begin to feel the inroads of high technology and decide to try and earn a pardon from the Governor of Wyoming.

#3 - The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 1

Big Jack sends Colt, with Howie, to find a driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run that hospitalized a young child, and who has since jumped bail. Arriving in a small backwater town, Colt discovers that the man is actually a crooked sheriff, and finds himself up against the entire town's police force.

#4 - The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 1

Curry must clear his name when someone claiming to be Kid Curry admits to a murder charge and is scheduled for hanging.

#5 - License to Kill (1)

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 9

Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

#6 - Return to Devil's Hole

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 7

An outlaw leader faces a dilemma; he must decide who is telling the truth, Heyes' lady friend or the man she's trying to kill.

#7 - How Do I Kill Thee...Let Me Count the Ways

The Fall Guy - Season 2 - Episode 9

A man is tricked into supplying computer tapes by using a fake auto accident and telling him the other victim died, thus making him a murderer. Two bumbling detectives take the case.

#8 - The Ives Have It

The Fall Guy - Season 2 - Episode 2

Terri sends Colt to Aruba to bring back a burglar, but it turns out she is one of twins and had a good reason for the breaking and entering. But which one did it?

#9 - Go Fight City Hall... To the Death

Quincy, M.E. - Season 1 - Episode 1

A young woman is raped and strangled on a Los Angeles beach. Further down the coastline a young boy is shot and arrested for her murder. Quincy doesn't think that it would have been possible for the boy arrested to strangle the woman and decides that he is going to go out and begin a little investigation of his own. He visits City Hall where the woman worked to ask some questions and, after a little checking, finds out that there seem to have been a rash of unexplained deaths there.

#10 - Greetings from Earth (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 19

When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

#11 - In a Plain Paper Wrapper

The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 29

Kimble, working as a bartender in a local diner, becomes involved with waitress Susan Cartwright. But their growing romance is complicated by the arrival of Susan's orphaned nephew Gary, who is trying to break into a small group of local boys. When Gary recognizes Kimble from growing up in Stafford, Gary tells them of his find and they decide to capture the fugitive with a rifle they purchase from a magazine ad. Meanwhile, Susan's social worker, Mr. Shaw, investigates Susan and her ability to raise Gary, but then focuses on Kimble.

#12 - The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 2

Milton Bach is a computer hacker who ripped off the bank and ran. His wife, Rhonda, and friend Jerry stole the money and went to Mexico. He wants her back.

#13 - The Hitchhiker

The Highwayman - Season 1 - Episode 2

The Highwayman is assigned to transport a supposedly dead alien body from a U.F.O. crash site to a research lab. But a reporter is determined to find out what is going on - and the alien is far from dead...

#14 - The Living Legend (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 12

While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

#15 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (2)

Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 2

Conclusion of the feature-length / two-part Pilot. Magnum and Alice continue in their quest to find out the truth behind Lt. Dan Cook's death, and find themselves uncovering a case of gold smuggling, and a criminal mastermind whom Magnum and Dan once knew in Vietnam. But in trying to find out what really did happen to his deceased friend, Magnum puts his own life on the line as someone tries to stop him from investigating, using any means necessary...

#16 - War of the Gods (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 16

Count Iblis has delivered the Colonials' enemy, Baltar before the Council of Twelve. As the Colonials celebrate, Adama and Apollo come to the conclusion that the secret to Iblis' identity can only be found within the wreckage of the ship where he was first encountered.

#17 - Saga of a Star World (3)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 3

While most of the crew members from Galactica enjoy themselves in the casino, Apollo and Starbuck discover a dark secret in the mines below.

#18 - The Great Shell Game

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 6

Heyes seems to be reverting to his old thieving ways when he sets up a pretty young woman to lose $10,000 in a phony horse betting operation.

#19 - Saga of a Star World (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 1

The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

#20 - Knight of the Phoenix (1)

Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 1

Pilot feature length episode. When a young detective is ambushed in a failed police stakeout, he is believed to have been killed. In reality, he survives and learns that his face has been altered and his identity has been changed to Michael Knight. The man responsible for this is Wilton Knight, a dying billionaire who, convinced that one man can make a difference, has selected Michael for the role as a crime-fighter.

#21 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1)

Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 1

When Thomas's childhood friend and Naval comrade Dan Cook turns up dead, Thomas is adamant that the official cause of death, a burst bag of smuggled cocaine, is bogus, and enlists the aid of Dan's sister Alice in taking on the Navy to uncover the true nature of the top-secret assignment Dan was working on before his death.

#22 - War of the Gods (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 15

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

#23 - A Good Smack in the Mouth

Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 8

Asten's wife Melissa picks up a young boy wandering at the side of the road at night. Soon afterwards they are involved in an automobile accident. Quincy is told, Asten is out of town, and he goes and visits Melissa, and the boy. As soon as he sees Joey's bruises he knows that they are not new ones caused by the crash, they are older and look like being beaten caused them. He looks at the x-rays taken of the boy and they confirm his opinion that the boy is being abused, probably at the hands of his parents.

#24 - The Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 5

While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

#25 - Awakening (2)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 2

#26 - Experiment in Terra

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 22

Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

#27 - A Star Is Dead

Quincy, M.E. - Season 1 - Episode 3

Roberta Rhodes, a famous movie star, is found dead in her bedroom. The police think that it was probably suicide but Quincy thinks not. A gossip newspaper editor approaches Quincy and tells him that on the night of her death his friend, and prospective senator, Congressman Charles Sinclair was with her. Quincy cannot believe that his friend could have killed Roberta but if he didn't then why does he keep lying to Quincy?

#28 - Knight of the Phoenix (2)

Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 2

#29 - Saga of a Star World (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 2

When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel and pick up supplies, a newly-elected member of the Council seizes power from Commander Adama. Boomer and Starbuck check out a shady casino resort on the planet.

#30 - Galactica Discovers Earth (2)

Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 2

When treacherous Xavier travels back in time, Troy and Dillon must race to capture him before the space-age technology falls into the hands of the Nazis.

#31 - The Living Legend (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 13

The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

#32 - Greetings from Earth (2)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 20

When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.

#33 - Galactica Discovers Earth (1)

Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 1

Thirty years after its voyage began, the Galactica finally nears Earth, but to their utter disappointment they find Earth's technology is no match for the Cylons. Adama dispatches two pilots with a mission to secretly speed up Earth's defence development.

#34 - No Way to Treat a Patient

Quincy, M.E. - Season 5 - Episode 22

A young physician may lose his license over his alleged mishandling of a gunshot victim.

#35 - The Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 4

Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

#36 - Galactica Discovers Earth (3)

Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 3

Xavier appears on Earth before the arrival of the Galactica and it is up to Tory and Dillon to stop his schemes before all hope for a future colony is lost.

#37 - Lobo

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 10

B.J. testifies at Sheriff Lobo's trial.

#38 - Wheels of Fortune

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 8

B.J. is hired to haul for a fraternity and later discovers it was gambling equipment

#39 - Lobo's Revenge

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 6

It's an "unbearable" situation for B.J. when Sheriff Lobo kidnaps Bear in order to lure B.J. back into Orly County.

#40 - Crackers

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 9

B.J. runs afoul of Clearwater's power broker Jason T. Rockman when he agrees to take Dr. Winters and a group of her mental patients to a local carnival.

#41 - Which Way to the OK Corral?

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 20

Curry and Heyes sneak into Tombstone looking for a witness who could clear Big Mac McCreedy of a murder charge while trying to escape the notice of sheriff Wyatt Earp.

#42 - Dreadful Sorry, Clementine

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 10

The fellows get involved in a $50,000 swindle.

#43 - The 5th Victim

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 12

The guys become involved with a friendly rancher in a not-so-friendly poker game.

#44 - Guess Who's Coming to Town?

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 17

With Colt injured and laid up from a stunt accident, he reluctantly agrees to let Howie and Jody take the case of bringing in a criminal from a small rural town. The case is made more difficult by the fact that the wanted man is related to a local bigwig.

#45 - The Magnificent Warriors

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 10

When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

#46 - Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?

Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 7

Monahan wants someone to examine a body that he thinks is involved in 'smuggling' gems, a woman about to be autopsied is surprisingly found to be alive and Dr. Quincy is nowhere to be found. In his place is the brilliant, strict and feared Dr. Hiro.

#47 - The Night the Cylons Landed (1)

Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 7

The Cylon Empire has built a new type of Cylon, a humanoid android; and when one of them survives a crash near New York City, Troy and Dillon must hunt the Cylon down.

#48 - Awakening

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 1 - Episode 1

In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its life support system and sends it into a long elliptical orbit of the Earth. In the year 2491, Ranger III again approaches the Earth, and is intercepted by the alien flagship Draconia, which is on a peace mission to Earth. Aboard the Draconia, Buck is revived by Princess Ardala and her second-in-command, Kane, whose true plan is to attack and conquer Earth. Buck is sent to Earth with a hidden homing device, which is soon discovered by Earth's Defense Directorate. After Buck convinces the humans of his true identity -- a man from the past -- he helps them to repel the Draconians' attack, with the aid of the mechanoids Dr. Theopolis and Twiki.

#49 - With Love, Bullets, and Valentines

The Virginian - Season 9 - Episode 4

Trampas wins a riverboat from an old man named Skeet in a poker game. He also wins a substantial amount of money, which two railroad detectives confiscate as it was previously stolen. He finds his new boat very dilapidated, and works to fix it with the help of Skeet and his granddaughter. But two aging outlaw brothers and their gang also want to use the riverboat to stage one last big crime.

#50 - The Super Scouts (1)

Galactica 1980 - Season 1 - Episode 4

When the Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, Adama sends Troy and Dillon to take the children to Earth for their own safety.