The BEST episodes written by Jack Curtis
#1 - The Murdered Party
The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jarrod defends a man accused of murder, even though the only witness to the crime is his own brother, Heath.
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Rawhide - Season 4 - Episode 7
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
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#3 - The Horse Traders
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 20
When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use trickery to obtain it.
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Rawhide - Season 7 - Episode 30
Favor brings five of his men, sick from either food or water, into a ghost town to the Gray Rock Hotel. Lottie was on the way to Fort McCloud when her horse went lame. Favor asks Lottie to help care for the five. Favor sends Quince to Gold Ridge for a doctor. Four guys are looking for Lottie. She tries to create dissension among the drovers. Lottie tells Favor she is on the run. Mushy defends Lottie from Marty's advances. Quince falls off his horse. The four find him. Lottie asks Favor to teach her to use a gun.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 28
A desert town hires Paladin to deal with three brothers who have been poisoning the municipal water supply.
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#6 - The Baby Sitter
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 12
A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.
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#7 - Shotgun Man
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 29
Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.
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#8 - Strange Town
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 5
Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorious for shooting people in the back.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 5
After being arrested along with several others for fighting in a barroom brawl, Paladin wakes up in a cell and discovers that one of the other men has been murdered.
#10 - The Uneasy Grave
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 37
After encountering a woman burying her fiancee in an unmarked grave, Paladin is persuaded to go after the deceased's killer.
#11 - The Grover Allen Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 20
After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed daughter-in-law Della and grandson Jeff. A detective searching for Allen joins the wagon train.
#12 - The Illustrator
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 12
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
#13 - The Hunger
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 10
Matt and Doc come to the rescue of a farm wife and daughter who essentially are kept as prisoners by the farmer and his son.
#14 - The Long Goodbye
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 9
Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.
#15 - A Bald-Faced Boy
The Virginian - Season 4 - Episode 29
Trampas, Emmett Ryker and Randy Benton spend some time at the Grand Teton Hotel in Medicine Bow spinning tall tales when four hillbillies arrive. They include Randy's brother Brett (Andrew Prine), his Uncle Del (Royal Dano), and his two cousins, Peck (Michael Stanwood) and Razz (Kay E. Kutzer). They tell him they are there to protect him. Jim Claiborne (Andrew Duggan), with whose family the Bentons have had a long history of feuding, is on his way to Medicine Bow to seek revenge on Randy whose testimony sent Jim to prison for six years. Claiborne and his daughter Glory (Karen Jensen) arrive in town. Jim has learned about Medicine while in prison and hopes to set up in Medicine Bow helping a doctor but he has kept from Glory his reasons for choosing that town. They meet Randy accidentally in the hotel and Randy offers to show Glory around town but Jim is reluctant to have anything to do with Randy. When the Benton clan sees Jim Claiborne in the street they attack him but are stopped by