The BEST episodes written by Jack B. Sowards
#1 - Homecoming for a Dead Man
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 8
At the Olympic gymnastic tryouts for young Kim Barnaby recognizes her father Richard Gibson, a man presumed dead after robbing the coin exchange ten years ago. While Barnaby is trying to find a ghost, accomplice Jordan orders Gibson alias Simmons to get rid of the private detective.
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#2 - Death on Deposit
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 11
When customer Sturmer wants to withdraw a large amount of money from his account, bank president Ellen Blazeford, who ravaged trust accounts for years, kills him by letting loose a bull. But Barnaby, hired by Sturmer's nephew, and two bank employees are on her trail.
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#3 - One Last Trick
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 11
A former prostitute (Purcell) goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
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#4 - One Last Shot
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 1
An alcoholic cop gets his partner killed in the line of duty, then tries to cover up his negligence before Stone and Keller uncover the truth.
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#5 - Winterkill
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 13
Angered by the rising cost of health care, an old man tries to pay his friend's bills by threatening a businessman with the bombing of his buildings.
#6 - Going Home
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 5
A small timer robs a hardware store and after smacking the owner finds the safe open with two bags of money inside. He think he's hit the big time until he finds "the book". Running from both the mob and the police he runs to Alcatraz.
#7 - Where Silence Has Lease
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2 - Episode 2
Stardate: 42193.6 A mysterious life form known as the 'Nagilum' threatens the life of the crew in his attempt to understand humanity.
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#8 - Stallion
Bonanza - Season 14 - Episode 9
The moving tale of Little Joe and his beloved black stallion, which Ben purchases for his son as a birthday gift.
#9 - My Friend, My Enemy
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 16
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
#10 - A Child is Missing
T.J. Hooker - Season 3 - Episode 7
A diamond thief and his partner trick a young boy and abduct him, in an act to spite and distress the boy's mother, who is the man's former wife. Hooker follows the trail to Mexico, where an eccentric local detective helps him to track down the thief and the missing boy...
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#11 - Easy Come, Easy Go
Bonanza - Season 13 - Episode 12
When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive consequences. Luke turns the ranch into a casino and Meena continues her frantic search for a husband, where she left off in season eleven's "Meena".
#12 - A Matter of Faith
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 2
Dusty takes in orphaned Jamie Hunter, the son of a recently-deceased rainmaker. Jamie is determined to carry on his father's tradition by using drought-stricken Virginia City to prove his talents.
#13 - Meena
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 9
Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.
#14 - Child
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 2
While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been killed, and the townspeople are less concerned with justice, rather the old man's money. They are convinced that if they threaten Hoss, he'll break down and tell them where he hid the fortune. A few of the town's top citizens, including the mayor, form a lynch mob, but only hang Hoss "part of the way". But when cowboy Child Barnett sees the lynch mob coming, he breaks Hoss out of jail, and the two men form a friendship on the run.
#15 - The Trouble with Trouble
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 7
When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had correctly been named. Hoss almost manages to arrest the whole town, and captures the Clanton gang all by himself.
#16 - The Horse Traders
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 26
In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stables in town is thwarted. Virgil and his two brothers also go into the livery business which creates troubles for Hoss and Joe.
#17 - What Are Pardners For?
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 27
Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank in the town they are going to. Hoss tries to stop them but he fails. Hoss decides to go into the town to warn the sheriff but is too late. The sheriff then arrests Hoss.
#18 - Abner Willoughby's Return
Bonanza - Season 11 - Episode 13
Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
#19 - New Man
Bonanza - Season 14 - Episode 6
In what was essentially the second part of a two-part episode centering on Griff King, the young parolee arrives at the Ponderosa and is hired as a ranch hand. Ben, Joe and the others exercise patience as they tries to help an arrogant, resentful Griff adjust to society and life an honest life.