The BEST episodes written by Jack Laird

#1 - Monkey on a String

Kojak - Season 4 - Episode 21

A veteran police officer whose gambling has put him in financial straits decides to go on the take.

#2 - Out of the Frying Pan...

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 8

A veteran cop who is battling alcoholism and demotion after being held responsible for the shooting death of a friend impedes Kojak's murder investigation as he tries to clear his name and win back his shield.

#3 - A Grave Too Soon

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 20

Kojak tries to find the parties responsible for the murder of an undercover cop.

#4 - Justice Deferred

Kojak - Season 3 - Episode 23

The discovery of a skeleton at a demolition site reopens an 18-year-old murder case.

#5 - Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 11

Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.

#6 - Shadow of a Man

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 20

Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.

#7 - The High-Graders

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 19

When his tailor is killed in an accident at a supposedly worthless gold mine, Paladin discovers that the man was murdered and his heirs are being swindled.

#8 - The Long Weekend

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 29

Paladin is hired to protect a town from a mountain man who occasionally wreaks havoc there.

#9 - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 20

Kojak is particularly affected by the murder of a beautiful Manhattan playgirl.

#10 - The Romance of Silver Pines

My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 15

Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.

#11 - A Summer Madness

Kojak - Season 4 - Episode 2

Already confronted with problems at home, Detective Jeff Braddock must face the inquiry of the murder of his mistress, while Kojak investigates the bombing of a restaurant.

#12 - Silent Death, Secret Death

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 29

Paladin is asked to look for a missing brother, no matter the cost. When he finds out he's been missing for seven years, he accepts this task even though it will take him into the hostile Indian territory of the Nez Perce.

#13 - Dead on His Feet

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 18

A detective (Harry Guardino) conceals his terminal illness from everyone while pursuing his partner's murderer.

#14 - The Chinatown Murders (1)

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 1

To head off a bloody war between rival crime families, Kojak must find out who committed a series of murders in Chinatown and bring them to justice.

#15 - The Fatal Flaw

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 23

Stranded in a mountain cabin during a snowstorm, a sinister, Satan-worshipping outlaw bets Paladin he can do the unthinkable: corrupt the soul of an honest lawman.

#16 - The Chinatown Murders (2)

Kojak - Season 2 - Episode 2

#17 - Eighteen Hours of Fear

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 16

A woman (Lynne Marta) who smuggled two twenty dollar plates in her fake cast is running from the man who murdered her boyfriend.

#18 - I'll Never Leave You - Ever

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 56

The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts.

#19 - Web of Death

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 2

A fellow cop Nick Ferro kills his wife's lover and tries to cover it up.

#20 - Conspiracy of Fear

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 9

Kojak tries to stall an urban redevelopment project until he can solve a murder.

#21 - The Merciful

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 6

Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering.

#22 - Requiem for a Cop

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 6

Kojak races a 48-hour deadline to prevent the burial with dishonor of his old friend, a veteran officer suspected of corruption.

#23 - Last Rites for a Dead Priest

Kojak - Season 1 - Episode 12

During a local jeweler's convention, A jewel thief (played by Jackie Cooper)disguises himself as a priest in order to pull off a multi-million dollar heist.

#24 - Lazarus

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 17

After local boozing champ Big Fontana cheats Paladin in a drink-off, sickly Boise Peabody convinced he'll die by morning, challenges the sneaky fast draw to a shootout. Paladin helped Boise hide from fellow miners who are so lonely for female company they want Boise to dress up like a woman. The dying Boise realizes he's been afraid all his life, so decides he'll go out like a lion.

#25 - Justice in Hell

Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 18

Paladin goes after a wagon-master who led the massacre of his own wagon train. Rusty Doggett hides out in a town entirely populated by wanted outlaws. Finding someone to betray Doggett in the Bide-a-Wee Saloon is no problem, but crossing the death-line with his prisoner is very tricky. How much justice can Paladin bargain for in Hell ?

#26 - Miss Lovecraft Sent Me

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 2

A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client.

#27 - With Apologies to Mr. Hyde

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 10

Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion.

#28 - Smile, Please

Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 6

A vignette about photographing a vampire.

#29 - Dead Weight

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 55

A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.

#30 - The Fugitive

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 1

An innocent man is pardoned by the governor, thanks to the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

#31 - Homer With a High Hat

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 15

A highfalutin lawyer from New York City gets caught up with a gang of outlaws who believe him to be a counterfeiter.

#32 - The Globe

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 17

A grizzled old prospector gets 2000 dollars for a worthless mine from two shady characters. When he is killed, the Lone Ranger and Tonto get into the act.

#33 - The Quiet Highwayman

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 21

The Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reid, helps the masked man and Tonto apprehend a silent, hooded outlaw and his gang who have been preying on travelers.

#34 - Death Goes to Press

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 43

The Lone Ranger upholds freedom of the press and prevents a great amount of abuse that is being perpetrated by the editor and publisher of The Daily Star.

#35 - Counterfeit Redskins

The Lone Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 51

The Lone Ranger and Tonto take on a band of outlaws who, masquerading as Indians, have been killing and destroying the homesteaders and their homes in Pine Valley.

#36 - Stop Killing Me

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 54

Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police.

#37 - The Late Mr. Peddington

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 47

A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy.

#38 - Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 25

While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.

#39 - A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 28

An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises restored health—or a resurrection—to a poor farmer's dying daughter.

#40 - An Act of Chivalry

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 34

A vignette about elevator manners.

#41 - How to Cure the Common Vampire

Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 17

Yet another vignette about vampires (and those who hunt them).

#42 - Quoth the Raven

Night Gallery - Season 2 - Episode 37

Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.

#43 - The Big Operator

Dragnet (1951) - Season 8 - Episode 36