The BEST episodes written by Glen A. Larson

#1 - McCloud Meets Dracula

McCloud - Season 7 - Episode 6

Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper.

#2 - The Eyes of Texas

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 7

B.J. helps two detectives stop a criminal preying on wealthy widows in New Orleans.

#3 - The Girls on the Hollywood High

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 19

BJ's sister is kidnapped by the rebel truckers

#4 - Night of the Shark

McCloud - Season 6 - Episode 7

The American mob plans an Australian expansion, with the help of a planted Chairman on Sydney's Police Board. McCloud, on airport duty at JFK, has a shootout with a hit man and goes to Sydney as a witness.

#5 - Return to the Alamo

McCloud - Season 5 - Episode 9

On the graveyard shift one lengthy night, Chief Clifford and much of the staff are out with the flu, the American Brotherhood Movement is blowing up buildings, Chris Coughlin is writing a story with a feminist angle on the NYPD, a robbery suspect's brother (an addict) tries to break him out (and both are sons of an Albany bigwig) by kidnapping the Acting Watch Commander (Sgt. Broadhurst), McCloud pulls in New York's top drug dealers in a citywide search for a junkie whose addicted newborn infant needs urgent treatment, and Sgt. Phyllis Norton is the Acting Deputy Watch Commander in charge.

#6 - Our Man in the Harem

McCloud - Season 6 - Episode 5

A patrolman's daughter is held captive in the Middle East.

#7 - Butch Cassidy Rides Again

McCloud - Season 4 - Episode 1

The NYPD demonstrates a bank robbery on live closed-circuit TV, and is bushwhacked by a gang of antiquated outlaws.

#8 - The Day New York Turned Blue

McCloud - Season 6 - Episode 6

During a New York City snowstorm, a union lawyer is placed in protective custody as a witness to graft, a working girl is slipping out-of-towners a mickey and painting them blue, a Federal Inspector is auditing the Department books, the mob plans an invasion of headquarters, and patrolmen have a strike meeting.

#9 - 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.

#10 - License to Kill (2)

The Fall Guy - Season 1 - Episode 10

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#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 - Defection to Paradise (1)

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 7

When the daughter of a Russian official defects to the U.S. by hiding in one of the rock band Bread's speaker cabinets sent to Hawaii, the Hardy Boys must track her down before the KGB does.

#15 - Snow White and the Seven Lady Truckers (1)

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 1

The boss of a trucking syndicate pursues B.J. to get rid of his competition. B.J.looks for assistance of some lady truckers.

#16 - This Must Be the Alamo

McCloud - Season 4 - Episode 5

During a heat wave, Chief Clifford is called away and leaves Sgt. Broadhurst in charge. A football gambling ring that scores with ""inside dope on injuries"" loses a little black book and begins eliminating witnesses in a search for it, leading to an assault on precinct headquarters.

#17 - 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.

#18 - Bad Night in Big Butte

Alias Smith and Jones - Season 2 - Episode 23

Heyes and the Kid tracks friend Georgette to borrow some money for a high stakes poker game, but finds that George has plans of her own. She intends to get the loot from a insurance fraud, that will soon be statute-barred - a diamond, hidden somewhere in the hotel where the thief was captured. Present is also a professional bounty hunter, who also wants the diamond, and the sheriff who caught the original thief. Who will find the diamond first? George, the sheriff, the bounty hunter, or the diamond-seeking animal that Heyes brings?

#19 - 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?

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.

#26 - Awakening (2)

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

#27 - 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.

#28 - Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue

McCloud - Season 1 - Episode 3

(NOTE: For repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 1"). McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups.

#29 - 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.

#30 - 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.

#31 - 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.

#32 - 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.

#33 - 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...

#34 - 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.

#35 - The New Mexican Connection

McCloud - Season 3 - Episode 1

A TV commentator's critique of police shootings tarnishes the department's stakeout squad, and Chris Coughlin is threatened to force the release of a murder suspect extradited to Taos by McCloud.

#36 - Knight of the Phoenix (2)

Knight Rider - Season 1 - Episode 2

#37 - 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.

#38 - 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.

#39 - 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.

#40 - The Mystery of the Haunted House

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 1

Frank and Joe end up in a haunted house and a cemetery when they follow two men trailing their father, Fenton.

#41 - 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.

#42 - 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.

#43 - 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.

#44 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

McCloud - Season 3 - Episode 2

A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.

#45 - 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.

#46 - 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?

#47 - A Haunting We Will Go

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 8

The stage is set for mystery when Nancy and her friends decide to produce a 20 year old play in order to raise money for a youth center. The play is to be presented at the allegedly haunted Palace Theatre. When members of the original cast arrive in town, strange events begin to occur both onstage and off. Nancy must figure out why the actors have come together to appear in her modest production, or the drama might just end in real life tragedy.

#48 - The Last Kiss of Summer (1)

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 3 - Episode 1

After Joe Hardy's fiancée is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the FBI won't let the police arrest the man until their own case against him is finished. Joe takes the law into his own hands and goes undercover as a rich gambler with underworld connections.

#49 - 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.

#50 - 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