The BEST episodes written by Jackson Gillis
#1 - To Steal the Rising Sun
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 24
An exiled chief returns to the jungle with three thieves and a plan to steal his former tribe's valuable ruby - using Tarzan as his unwitting accomplice.
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#2 - Double Dead
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 20
Shanks and Blake are Syndicate men who run the loan shark racket in the Islands and are preparing to transfer $10 million to the mainland, leading to the Syndicate expanding their operations there. The IMF must stop the Syndicate's expansion. In Hawaii the IMF's in-and-out operation goes bad when Willy is captured and turned over to Dr. Matier, who injects him with a near-lethal truth serum. To get Willy out and finish the mission, Casey approaches Shanks and drugs him into helping the IMF steal the $10 million, while Jim approaches Blake and claims to be a Syndicate man from the mainland. The IMF make Shanks "disappear," presumed dead, to convince Blake his partner sold him out. Then Casey wakes up Shanks and Jim and Blake confront him - Casey's fake "confession" seals the deal but then Syndicate man Barney fake-shoots Jim and Casey just as Syndicate man Bolt arrives. Confused, Bolt takes them all to Willy hoping his information will straighten things out. Willy manages to escape wit
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#3 - Panic in the Sky
Adventures of Superman - Season 2 - Episode 12
Destination: Earth! Superman saves Metropolis from a plummeting asteroid -- and loses his memory in the process. Commentary available by Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen) and Noel Neill (Lois Lane).
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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.
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#5 - The Wedding of Superman
Adventures of Superman - Season 4 - Episode 8
Superman pops the question, Lois says "yes". Is it a dream come true for the smitten femme reporter?
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#6 - The Bride
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 15
Joe Corvin, a Syndicate money handler, ships millions through Swiss banks and the IMF must put him out of business. Corvin uses a courier that the IMF set up - Corvin has him killed and needs a new courier. Casey steps in as his mail-order bride addicted to drugs by airline employee-smuggler Jim. Corvin and Jim become partners but when the IMF fake-tightenes up security, they need a new way. Casey fakes her death and Corvin ships the cash in her coffin. Barney steals the money and the coffin is dropped on the runway, revealing a fake corpse. Corvin is confronted by the Syndicate, and an alive Casey shows up with two tickets to Miami. The Syndicate let Casey go and dispose of Corvin, permanently.
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#7 - Hutchinson - Murder One (a.k.a. Hutchinson for Murder One)
Starsky & Hutch - Season 3 - Episode 19
Out of the blue, Hutch's estranged former wife Vanessa suddenly contacts him, attempting to rekindle their relationship. Hutch doesn't want to know, until Vanessa claims that she's ill with a cancerous tumour. But the next day, Vanessa is murdered in Hutch's apartment - and Hutch is the prime suspect. With two Internal Affairs agents investigating and seemingly convinced that Hutch is guilty, Starsky must help his partner trace the real culprits in order to clear his name...
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#8 - Flip Side
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 2
The IMF must break up a drug-smuggling ring - Bracken gets his drugs from Mexico compliments of Diego Maximillian, who gets his drugs legally from C.W. Cameron. The IMF must connect Cameron to Bracken. Jim plays a Syndicate man who orders the pills from Bracken, and Barney tracks the shipment and switches out the drugs. The team has Maximillian picked up in Mexico so that Bracken has to go directly to Cameron to buy the drugs - the IMF get everything on camera and turn them both over to the authorities.
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#9 - The Case of the Flighty Father
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 26
18 year-old Trudy's mother has died leaving her $10 million and suddenly men claiming to be her long-lost father are coming into town. The only one who could identify the real father, a blind uncle, is killed, but by who?
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#10 - The Lucky Cat
Adventures of Superman - Season 3 - Episode 3
Ladders, black cats, Friday the 13th. All harmless -- but someone intends real harm to an anti-superstition society.
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#11 - The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 14
DA Hamilton Burger asks Perry to defend an old friend who once saved his life in a boating accident ten years before. The old friend of Burger's is now facing a murder charge.
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#12 - The Case of the Shapely Shadow
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 16
Naive secretary Janice Wainwright carries out boss Morley Thielman's orders and places a briefcase containing more than $100,000.00 in a train station locker. Then she waits for the arrival of Thielman's ex-wife but Lt. Tragg arrives instead with an arrest warrant for Janice on the charge of murdering her boss. It seems as though witness Fred Carlyle saw a woman's shapely shadow through the shades of Thielman's office window shortly before the murder occurred.Carlyle believes the silhuette belonged to Janice. Perry manages to get to the bottom of things once the courtroom proceedings begin.
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#13 - The Case of the Shifty Shoe-Box
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 2
John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch - until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.
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#14 - Superman in Exile
Adventures of Superman - Season 2 - Episode 7
Beware of Superman! A nuclear incident leaves him glowing with radioactivity and lethal to anyone he's near.
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#15 - The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 6
Donna Kress, a singer, is preparing a demo for a recording contract. She has been carrying on a long term affair with a married man, Frank Thatcher. That night Frank Thatcher is involved in a hit-and-run accident but does not report the incident. He is the son-in-law of Henry W. Dameron, a very wealthy businessman. To avoid publicity, Henry Dameron instructs Frank Thatcher to pay off the dead man's family anonymously. Frank uses Paul Drake to take care of the details. After Paul Drake speaks to the widow he uncovers the fact of the hit-and-run accident which Frank did not reveal. Later he confronts Frank Thatcher, a fistfight ensues, and Paul Drake is knocked unconscious. Later Frank Thatcher is found dead in the same apartment with Paul Drake after he wakes up. Paul Drake is accused of the murder when his gun is found to be the murder weapon.
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#16 - The Case of the Singing Skirt
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 18
The Big Barn is a legal gambling casino run by George Anclitis. Things are going well at the Big Barn until George's second banana, Slim Marcus, botches a crooked card game and is exposed for cheating. Slim's girlfriend, Vivan Ennis, is then killed and George plants a gun and marijuana on Betty Roberts, one of the girls who works at the club. Betty knows quite a bit about the shady activities going on at The Big Barn so George decides to feed her to the wolves in order to take the heat off himself. It's then up to Perry to try and extricate Betty from her predicament.
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#17 - The Case of the Violent Vest
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 24
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though horny Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.
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#18 - My Friend, Mr. Nobody
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 7
Penny discovers a deep cave inhabited by an invisible but seemingly friendly voice.
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#20 - Zorro Rides to the Mission
Zorro (1957) - Season 1 - Episode 3
Finding that Don Torres is in hiding at the Mission, Monastario forces the local Indians into hard labor until the Padre agrees to surrender the fugitive.
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#21 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 19
A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
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#23 - The Case of the Mystified Miner
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 21
Mason tries to clear his young, beautiful client after a twisting and wheeling plot of murder, kidnapping, and embezzlement unfolds.
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#24 - The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 22
In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.
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#25 - The Case of the Bartered Bikini
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 8
Wally Dunbar seeks Perry's help in securing ownership of his new summer line of swimwear but the sketches are stolen and worse yet, chief designer Rick Stassi is murdered. Wally's girlfriend, Kitty Wynne, who was being blackmailed by Stassi goes to trial for his murder.
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#26 - The Deadly Rock
Adventures of Superman - Season 4 - Episode 11
Mobsters use Kryptonite to capture the Man of Steel -- or at least a man they think is Superman!
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#27 - The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 27
A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.
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#28 - Hills of Fire
Knight Rider - Season 4 - Episode 18
Michael and K.I.T.T. have the seemingly easy, relaxing job of patrolling a national park for a couple of days, when they find themselves up against an arsonist driving an All-Terrain Vehicle, who escapes over rough terrain that K.I.T.T. can't cover. As they investigate to find just who is behind the spate of arson attacks, Michael must prove the innocence of a teenage boy, a reformed vandal, who is being framed for starting the fires...
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#29 - The Magic Mirror
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 21
Penny discovers an extraordinary mirror which reflects a world that does not exist.
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#30 - Blind Spot
Knight Rider - Season 2 - Episode 5
Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.
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#32 - The Galatea Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 3
In spoof of "My Fair Lady," Solo is recuperating from a fall into a Venice canal, Illya teams with Mark Slate to uncover Baroness Bibi de Chasseur, a THRUSH money courier who has contact with the treasurer of THRUSH. They recruit a barroom entertainer, Rosy Shlagenheimer, an exact double, to impersonate her. The switch is made, but in the confusion the Baroness makes another switch and poses as Rosy, then finds herself falling in love with Slate.
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#33 - The Deadly Dolphin
Wonder Woman - Season 3 - Episode 9
Trained dolphins are being used to put explosives on oil tankers.
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#34 - The Case of the Watery Witness
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lorna Thomas is a has-been actress who once gave up her baby fof adoption and lived to regret it. George Clark discovers that his wife might be Lorna's long-lost daughter and begins to see dollar signs. The Clarks go to Perry for advice but learn that since Lorna gave up her daughter for adoption she cannot inherit any of her mother's estate. George is devastated over the loss of potential income but he's also under arrest when Lorna is found murdered.
#37 - The Case of the Mischievous Doll
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 30
Dorrie Ambler breaks into Perry's office so he can verify who she is. She won't give details but says she is mixed up in some scheme. Della spots a gun in her purse. When the man who hired her is killed, she is charged. But, who is she?
#38 - The Case of the Ominous Outcast
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 24
When a notorious bank robber's son returns to his hometown it seems as though everyone is interested in missing loot supposedly hidden by the man's father. This leads to murder. Perry comes to the rescue once again.
#39 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 16
Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.
#40 - The Case of the Double-Entry Mind
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 6
A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.
#44 - The Case of a Place Called Midnight
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 8
In an offbeat case, Mason becomes involved in international intrigue wheh he travels to Switzerland to meet a friend's future daughter-in-law.
#45 - The Case of the Lover's Gamble
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 20
A woman turns to Mason when she becomes convinced that her boss is planning to murder his invalid wife.
#46 - The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 3
Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.
#47 - The Defeat of Superman
Adventures of Superman - Season 2 - Episode 6
Superman is rendered powerless by a kryptonite trap. This sounds like a job for...Lois and Jimmy?
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#48 - The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 28
Perry helps Josephine Kempton after Della buys the diary of a girl who committed suicide. Her ex-boss has been telling people she is a thief so she sued. Perry has to rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss.
#49 - The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 13
A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.
#50 - Unfinished Business
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 3
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
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