The BEST episodes written by Herman Groves
#1 - A Fist of Five
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 10
Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lamberto's dope-pushing punks."" Mike thinks Captain Bellows is corrupt for not going to bat for him. There is a tense moment when the Captain asks for Mike's gun-- Mike points it at him. But then, Mike turns the gun over and leaves. The dollar value of the city's wholesale industrial trade is $6-billion; the revenue of organized crime is $200-million. ""Tough Tony"" Lamberto's Market Street Produce Co. is just a legit façade; it takes in a percentage off the top-- from every racket dollar in the Southside of Chicago. Tony Lamberto is often the target of rival gangsters, so he rides around in a steel-plated limo with bulletproof glass; it cost $30,000. (this is a time when most people make $600 to $1,000 a year, and cars cost $500.) Right now Tony has another problem: a visit from Eliot Ness and his men. One of Tony's boys, Max Templar, is eating a honeydew melon; bu
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 8
1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be vying for his throne. All Radick wants to do is see his long-lost daughter before he dies. Ness visits Radick; Ness is afraid a gang war might break out, as rival gangs scramble to take over. Ness says, ""Turn over your books to me; names of the people in your organization, distribution points, contacts in City Hall."" Radick says while he was in prison, he left his daughter with a couple; 3 years ago she ran away. Radick tells Ness, ""Find Margaret, and I'll give you everything you ask for."" Ness never makes deals with hoods; but this time the gangster isn't asking for a break, or to plea bargain: he only wants Ness to find his daughter. Ness doesn't promise him anything, but he starts the search. Eliot Ness is getting help from Lt. Agatha Stewart and Frank-- they do some legwork, and find out Margaret Radick is now going by the name Margaret Wilson. T
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - House of Dolls / Wuthering Heights
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 11
In "House of Dolls" window dresser Francis Elkins becomes infatuated with a mannequin and has her brought to life with some surprising results. And in "Wuthering Heights" social worker Clarissa Bevis in love with the character from the classic Emily Bronte novel, risks her life to actually meet her literary lover in person.
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 13
June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missing Persons has a John Doe on its hands. And so, Lt. Agatha Stewart and her sidekick Frank Benson are on the case. At the City Morgue, all the coroner can tell about the decomposed body is the approximate age, 50, and that the deceased might have had a bad heart. Outside, Lt. Stewart runs into Eliot Ness, who came down to do an I.D. on a Joe Fuselli. (not the Joe Fuselli from ""The Scarface Mob."") The morgue will keep the body for 10 days. July 20, in Potter's Field, the John Doe is buried in the rain; there are no mourners, only Lt. Stewart and reporter Walter Rimer attend. But then a clue-- a huge wreath is delivered by O'Banion florists; the delivery man doesn't know who ordered it, so Lt. Stewart goes to the flower shop. It had been owned by the notorious gangster Dion O'Banion (1892-1924), until he was rubbed out 5 years ago by Johnny Torrio. Now, the shop is
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 13
In "King Arthur in Mr. Roarke's Court" an English history buff meets up with his hero, the legendary King Arthur, he is in for a major disappointment. And in "Shadow Games" a singing star Sara Jean wishes to bring her lover back from the dead.
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Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 8
In "The Kleptomaniac" A kleptomaniac comes to the Island to rid himself of the urge to steal. Tattoo is asked to keep a constant eye on Fred Simpson, but to no avail! And in "Thank God, I'm A Country Girl" A waitress wants to appear to be a wealthy heiress for a daughter she gave up for adoption as a baby.
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#7 - Face of Love / Image of Celeste
Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 19
In "Face of Love" a young woman who is a long hardened criminal, has the chance to straighten out her life. And in "Image of Celeste" a young woman discovers she looks exactly like the face in a famous painting, she is determined to learn the identity of her historic double.
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Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 17
In "King of Burlesque" Tom Vail a Wall Street economist wants to experience the world of old time burlesque by becoming a comic headliner and discovers his love for Abby Boudreau. And in "Death Games" Vanessa Walgreen, an amateur sportswoman whose fantasy is to win the annual Fantasy Island pentathlon. Mr. Roarke tells Tattoo that Vanessa has appointed herself his judge, jury and executioner. Vanessa wants revenge for her husband, Michael, who was killed during his fantasy a month earlier.
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 20
In "Forget-Me-Not" a woman who has completely lost her memory in an accident wishes to find out who she really is. And in "The Quiz Masters" the two most famous game show hosts in the world become contestants and challenge each other to an ultimate game to the death.
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#10 - The Journey Back
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 5
Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.
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#11 - Rodeo
The Bionic Woman - Season 3 - Episode 5
When OSI scientist Billy Cole insists on riding in a rodeo competition, Jaime is sent to secretly look after him.
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#12 - The Secret of Brynmar Hall
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 26
Betsy Garth is driven by Randy to Brynmar Hall, a large mansion, where she meets several other old acquaintances and invitees (Brooke Bundy, Tom Skerritt, Mark Goddard). All knew Mildred Brynmar, a young woman who was killed in a fire two years before, and have been invited to the house by Mildred's mother (Jane Wyman). A masked figure spies on the proceedings and several mysterious events occur which culminate in death.
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#13 - The Sky is Falling
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Robinsons encounter a family of crablike visitors who are far from friendly.
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#14 - Stryker
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 2
Former Dodge Marshal Josh Stryker arrives in town just being released from prison for killing a outlaw in cold blood. He holds Matt responsible for the loss of his arm and the years he spent in prison.
#15 - Strangers In Our Own Land
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 4
Five-O probes into the death of an official who was instrumental in the development of the islands, and discovers a tangled web of lies and deception.
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Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 4
In "The Angel's Triangle" Michael, the angel of death, spares Brent Harris in a horse accident because he has always loved Catherine Harris and doesn't want to see her hurt. And in "Natchez Bound" Las Vegas blackjack dealer Jenny Ryan wishes to spend her weekend aboard a Mississippi riverboat.
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#17 - A Vision of Sugar Plums
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 15
A repeat of Season 1 episode of the same name, this episode begins with Samantha and Darrin getting a card from the boy they took in last year for Christmas. They then have an episode-long flashback of the previous season's holiday episode.
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#18 - No Blue Skies
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 10
When a singer, Joey Rand, finds that his career doesn't pay well enough, he turns to cat burglary. However he doesn't reckon on Hawaii Five-O.
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#19 - The Cheerleaders / Marooned
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 12
In "The Cheerleaders" two young women wish to become glamorous cheerleaders for their favorite football team. And in "Marooned" truck driver Melvyn Mews is infatuated with a movie star and is in for a rude awakening when his wish to spend the weekend with her is fulfilled.
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#20 - Heads, You're Dead
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 8
When yacht racers are found dead on their craft, Five-O launches a desperate search for high-seas buccaneers.
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#21 - Elegy In A Rain Forest
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 16
The daughter of Attorney General John Manicote is kidnapped by a deranged rapist and murderer, and Steve must not only contend with the criminal but Manicote's emotional state as well...
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#22 - Duke of Duke
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 2 - Episode 13
Gaylord Duke, the Dukes' cousin from London, England comes to Hazzard to claim a property that was willed to him, but the property has back taxes owed on it, which Boss Hogg is planning to buy for nothing at an auction.
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#23 - A Bum Raps
Bewitched - Season 2 - Episode 32
Two ex-actors are robbing the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Darrin is expecing a visit from his Uncle Albert and Samantha welcomes Horace, one of the crooks, thinking that he is the said uncle. But eventually, the real Uncle Albert arrives and is told that the Stephens had moved. Horace's masquerade doesn't last long when Sam catches him stealing Harriet's watch. Sam finds out that Horace is an imposter and really gets him and the other crook good when they steal their stuff.
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#24 - Eye of the Beholder
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 22
Endora tries to make Samantha seem older than she actually is by putting her face on an old painting dating back to 1690. Darrin notices this and wonders if he's growing old while she remains young. Samantha finds out that her mother is to blame for all this mess, and Endora tells her that she can age along with Darrin.
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#25 - A Vision of Sugar Plums
Bewitched - Season 1 - Episode 15
Seven year old Tommy, who lives in an orphanage, is happy to spend Christmas with Gladys and Abner Kravitz. Six year old Michael, also an orphan, derides Tommy's belief in Santa Claus. When Samantha and Darrin bring him home for the holidays, their efforts to get Michael to share in the festivities of the season fail. After Michael admits that he would believe in Santa Claus if he really existed, Samantha takes Michael and Darrin on her broom-stick to the North Pole, where Michael meets Santa Claus. Later, back at home, Darrin and Michael awake. Although both feel they have dreamed the trip, Michael now believes in Santa Claus. Gladys overhears Michael tell Tommy he has met Santa Claus. When she tries to pin Tommy down, he denies that Michael has ever mentioned it. Mrs. Grange, the director of the orphanage, comes to the Stephens home with George and Sarah Johnson. At the Kravitz home, both Gladys and Abner, who are about to return Tommy to the orphanage, express their wish to have som
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 16
In "The Challenge" Douglas Picard, the richest man in the world comes to the Island with specific intentions of claiming it for his own. And in "A Genie Named Joe" Rebecca Walters a florist wishes to meet and marry the man of her dreams and ends up encountering a two-thousand-year-old genie instead.
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Rawhide - Season 7 - Episode 29
Favor and Mushy are driving six prize bulls toward the American border in Mexico. A band of Mexicans tell Favor they are looking for El Hombre Bravo. General Velasquez's men rope a drive steer and search the wagons for El Hombre Bravo. Favor and Mushy meet Pajarito, a school teacher and eight orphans heading to a mission north of the border. Pajarito wrote pamphlets for the revolutionaries and signed them El Hombre Bravo.
#28 - Spending Spree / The Hunted
Fantasy Island - Season 2 - Episode 19
In "Spending Spree" two girlfriends are given half a million dollars to spend and realize that friendship is more important than anything is. In "The Hunted" a thrill seeking big game hunter unexpectedly becomes the prey in the hunt.
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#29 - The Red Baron / Young at Heart
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 6
In "The Red Baron" Cornelius an avid World War I buff and locksmith has the opportunity to experience first hand what it's like to be a Flying Ace and encounter the greatest enemy in the air. In "Young at Heart" Helen a 52 year old librarian wishes to be twenty-five again and find true love.
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#30 - Jungle Man / Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 21
In "Jungle Man" David Farley an actor who's life has been centered on the television character "Jungle Man" he created wishes to have one last adventure in that role before it's taken from him. In "Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate" Mary Ann Karlen a ventriloquist wishes to rid herself of the tormenting split personality she shares with her puppet, Miss Sophisticate.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 21
Paladin is lured to Oregon under the pretense of a widow in distress. The real reason is to engage him in a deadly hunt with a bored prince. The winner takes all; including a large purse and his own life.
#32 - The Abduction
Bonanza - Season 2 - Episode 8
Hoss and Joe take their sweethearts to a colorful and strange carnival for the day. Joe's recent girlfriend Jennifer Beale is abducted by the sinister owner, Philip Reed and his accomplice Gerner. Her father is Joshua Beale, the richest man in the Comstock. Gerner convinces Reed to hold her for a $1 million dollar ransom, and her father will gladly pay them to ensure her safe return. Reed's girlfriend Della Thompson is jealous of Jennifer and has second thoughts about the abduction. Hoss and Joe take notice of Jennifer's disappearance and travel deep into the bowels of the carnival, meeting fierce resistance from the carnival people at every avenue. They come up without a trace of finding her.
#33 - Rogues and Riches / Stark Terror
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 16
In "Rogues and Riches" Mark Hendricks, an attorney must travel to 18th century England to try and convince his client to go back to the present. And in "Stark Terror" Amy Marson a traumatized girl wishes to relive the night of her mother's murder in order to see, once and for all, if she is guilty of the death.
#34 - The Quietists
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 20
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter; guests Alexander Scourby, Jay Silverheels.
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#35 - The Devil's Four
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 21
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough; guests Sean McClory, Gordon Jump.
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#36 - Empire of the Lost
Daniel Boone - Season 2 - Episode 1
Daniel receives a major surprise upon his return from a journey when British Colonel Worthing orders Boonesborough to be evacuated. He says it's because he's battling a Native American rebellion but Daniel suspects otherwise.
#37 - Love Island / The Sisters
Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 22
In "Love Island" two phony playboy wannabe's fanatisize about being on an Island surrounded by beautiful wild women, are in for a huge surprise when their island paradise turns out to be something very prehistoric. And in "The Sisters" Stephanie Wilson is in search of her sister Linda. She is having visions of her sister and her abusive captor Richard Winston, she wants to help her sister escape.
#38 - The Lost Warrior
Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 6
Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.
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#40 - Coreyville
Gunsmoke - Season 15 - Episode 3
Matt is summoned to Coreyville, a run-down cowtown, by a young woman whose brother is on trial for murder.
#41 - The Truckee Strip
Bonanza - Season 1 - Episode 11
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Strip. One of Bishop's employee's has a grudge against the Cartwrights and wants to stir up the feud again, while also harboring designs on Bishop's pretty daughter, Amy. Joe meets and falls in love with Amy, in spite of the family differences and the two want to marry. Just when it looks like the feud will end with the union of the two young people, Bishop's man attacks Amy and Joe must come to the rescue.
#42 - Backlash
Vega$ - Season 3 - Episode 12
A mother hires Dan to find out why her grown daughter goes out at night dressed like a teenager. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Anthony: Clive Revill. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Stryker: Morgan Woodward. Nelson: Greg Morris. Kier: Jeff Cooper. Allison: Morgan Hart.
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Fantasy Island - Season 5 - Episode 17
In "Funny Man" a stand-up comic's imaginary family is brought to life and his own life is endangered. In "Tattoo, the Matchmaker," Tattoo's computer dating service is off to a terrible start when his first two lady clients are matched up with the same prospective husband -- Mr. Roarke.
#44 - Requiem For A Saddle-Bronc Rider
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 22
A missing rodeo cowboy and the murder of a young couple pose a puzzling mystery for Five-O.
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#46 - The Assailants
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 7
An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target: Sen. Jim Borden. Their weapon: a Gatling gun.
#47 - Murder by Mirrors
Vega$ - Season 3 - Episode 11
Beatrice witnesses a murder from a plane, but when the police arrive the body is gone. Dan: Robert Urich. Lyle: Patrick Macnee. Nelson: Greg Morris. Margaret: Julie Adams. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Marcus: Gene Evans. Richardson: Richard Dana. Michael: Robert Hoy. Janet: Jenny Sherman.
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#49 - Naughty Marietta / The Winning Ticket
Fantasy Island - Season 6 - Episode 9
In "Naught Marietta" a mother's fantasy is for her little girl to play the part of Marietta in "Naughty Marietta." And in "The Winning Ticket" Tattoo is left the "winning ticket" in the Irish sweepstakes by his friend who discovers that money does not buy happiness.
#50 - Junk Man
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 20
Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangster Victor Salazar. Ness and his men are on the case; they keep intercepting his trucks, carrying shipments of narcotics. Barney Howe tells his boss Salazar that his problem is the operation's too spread out; but one big shipment will give him the Northside, too-- Barney says he will ""put Chicago in his pocket."" Late at night, they get a call from a hood named Kierson who has info in his briefcase: the time and route of a $2-million commercial shipment of morphine crystals to a medical research center; he's to meet them at the corner of Mohawk and 23rd in 10 minutes. But rival hood Steve Ballard takes out his silencer, and pumps Kierson full of lead, and makes off with the briefcase. Around midnight, Salazar orders all his boys to find Kierson; ironically, one of Salazar's ""Enforcers"" is Steve Ballard, the guy who bumped Kierson off! But it seem
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