The BEST episodes written by James Allardice

Keep Me from the Church on Time
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9.00
2 votes

#1 - Keep Me from the Church on Time

My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 4

Uncle Martin takes a photo of Tim with his future telling camera. They are both shocked by the resulting photo showing Tim at the alter with an unidentified woman who's back is to the camera.

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Family Portrait
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7.81
91 votes

#2 - Family Portrait

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 13

The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the average American family. Grandpa is insulted by being labeled ""average."" He disappears, jeopardizing the family's photo opportunity and the large amount of prize money that came with it. When a journalist and photographer arrive at the Munster home, Herman and Lily think they are burglars.

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Autumn Croakus
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7.71
163 votes

#3 - Autumn Croakus

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 10

Grandpa is feeling lonely and depressed so he contacts a matrimonial agency to find a mate. The agency sends over a nice looking elderly woman who find Grandpa to be delightful. She turns out to be the Black Widow: she makes her living by marrying her suitors, getting them to sign a life insurance policy naming her as beneficiary, and then murdering them.

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A Man for Marilyn
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7.66
37 votes

#4 - A Man for Marilyn

The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 10

To provide poor unfortunate Marilyn with a future husband, Grandpa tries to turn a frog into a prince. Conveniently, he chooses a nearsighted frog who won't be put off by Marilyn's hideous looks. Not realizing that the potion has failed, Grandpa and Herman mistake a passing stranger for their princely frog.

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The 43rd, a Moving Story
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7.63
270 votes

#5 - The 43rd, a Moving Story

Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 23

Hogan's plan to destroy a mobile Nazi anti-aircraft battery is hampered by Colonel Klink's power-hungry peer, Major Kuehn.

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Love Locked Out
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7.61
110 votes

#6 - Love Locked Out

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 24

After Herman attends an office party that goes on until the wee hours of the morning, Lily locks Herman out of their bedroom and makes him sleep on the sofa. When they are unable to reconcile, Lily and Herman each see a marriage counselor independently.

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Dance with Me, Herman
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7.48
78 votes

#7 - Dance with Me, Herman

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 22

In order to accompany Marilyn to her school dance, Herman decides to take dancing lessons. He goes to Happy Havemeyer's Dancing School, where he is suckered into signing a ten-year contract for 1500 lessons (at $7.50 a lesson). Herman is under the wrong impression that he is going to become a dancing instructor for the school.

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The Sleeping Cutie
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7.48
155 votes

#8 - The Sleeping Cutie

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 12

Marilyn has insomnia and in a attempt to cure it, Grandpa accidentally gives her a Sleeping Beauty potion instead. Now Marilyn can't wake up unless she has been kissed by a prince. Lily and Herman advertise for a prince in classified section the newspaper, but this only attracts a couple of out-of-work actors. Meanwhile, Grandpa is negotiating with an oil company for the rights to use his magic pill that turns water into gasoline.

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Herman, Coach of the Year
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7.38
72 votes

#9 - Herman, Coach of the Year

The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 5

When Eddie is called Lead Foot by the other kids on his track team, Herman offers to become his athletic coach. While demonstrating his out-of-this-world prowess in shot put, discus-throwing and pole-vaulting, Herman causes untold destruction and makes a fool of himself. Grandpa decides to come to the rescue by creating a magic speed pill that will make Eddie a champion runner.

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Lonesome George
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7.36
10 votes

#10 - Lonesome George

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 10

TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.

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Munster the Magnificent
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7.36
97 votes

#11 - Munster the Magnificent

The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 34

Eddie volunteers Herman as a performer for his school's Talent Night. Since Herman has no discernible talent, Grandpa conjures up a pair of magic ballet shoes that will transform whoever wears them into a gifted dancer. But Herman is uneasy about strapping on this footwear. Fortunately, Eddie already has him billed as the world's greatest magician.

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Get Me to Mecca on Time
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7.32
160 votes

#12 - Get Me to Mecca on Time

I Dream of Jeannie - Season 1 - Episode 16

When it is discovered that it is the day of the ramda, Jeannie says that Tony and her must make a trip to Mecca and cite the sacred words or else Jeannie will lose her powers forever and go into limbo.

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Sergeant Carter Gets a “Dear John” Letter
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7.32
53 votes

#13 - Sergeant Carter Gets a “Dear John” Letter

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 20

Carter discovers that his girlfriend dumped him -- for Gomer.

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Herman, the Tire-Kicker
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7.25
54 votes

#14 - Herman, the Tire-Kicker

The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 28

Herman buys a convertible for Marilyn from a fly-by-night used-car dealer named Fair Deal Dan. Once he gets it home, it explodes into a piece of junk. Herman later finds out that the car is a stolen piece of junk when he is placed under arrest.

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Sergeant Carter, Marine Baby Sitter
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7.19
58 votes

#15 - Sergeant Carter, Marine Baby Sitter

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 12

Carter gives Gomer a lift in his jeep and finds himself helping Gomer babysit.

Grandpa Pyle's Good Luck Charm
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7.13
52 votes

#16 - Grandpa Pyle's Good Luck Charm

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 15

Grandpa Pyle gives Gomer a good luck charm to help him gain self-confidence.

How to Impress a Woman
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7.00
3 votes

#17 - How to Impress a Woman

My Three Sons - Season 3 - Episode 17

Mike has the job of recruiting some campus models for a fashion show and when a gorgeous store representative stops by to give him help, he forgets there are any other girls in the world. With Robbie's help, he tries hard to capture her affections with displays of serenading on the guitar.

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The End of The You-Know-What
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7.00
3 votes

#18 - The End of The You-Know-What

My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 8

Chip and Ernie, having heard two scientists calculate that the world will be destroyed in one week are faced with the classic problem of what to do in the time they have left.

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The Time Machine is Waking Up That Old Gang of Mine
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7.00
3 votes

#19 - The Time Machine is Waking Up That Old Gang of Mine

My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 11

The time machine brings Tim, Martin, and Mrs. Brown face-to-face with Frank and Jesse James.

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Lady President
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6.67
3 votes

#20 - Lady President

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 7

Political overtones arise in the Douglas house when Steve becomes escort to a visiting congresswoman. Meanwhile Chip must entertain a small girl who aims to be class president -- even though Chip is campaigning to be.

Man from Uncle Martin
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6.67
3 votes

#21 - Man from Uncle Martin

My Favorite Martian - Season 3 - Episode 20

Martin helps Mrs. Brown's brother build a robot that does household chores.

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He Wanted Wings
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6.50
2 votes

#22 - He Wanted Wings

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 20

Robbie follows the fad and buys an antique aircraft to impress his new girlfriend. Steve lets him go ahead with trying to restore it, convinced it will never fly but as it becomes more airworthy, Steve becomes concerned.

Steve and the Computer
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6.33
3 votes

#23 - Steve and the Computer

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 30

Steve is having nightmares and his vision of the future has a computer named Betsy join the family. It interferes with wedding plans when it selects different mates for Mike and Sally. Hoping to prove the computer wrong, Mike decides he will have Steve fill out a questionaire for his dad and his mother. His reasoning is that they will submit the two forms and the computer will pick someone else for their perfect match, thereby proving to Sally how wrong the computer can be. But lo and behold the computer mates Steve and Mike's mom.

There's a What in the Attic?
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6.33
3 votes

#24 - There's a What in the Attic?

My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 5

An escaped circus lion makes a midnight call at the Douglas house, and Ernie sees it and awakens the understandably skeptical Steve who accompanies his new stepson to investigate. Steve eventually sees the lion and nervously plays a game of tag with it, warning the family to keep their bedroom doors closed.

Robbie and The Little Stranger
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6.33
3 votes

#25 - Robbie and The Little Stranger

My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 22

Robbie Douglas is practically engaged to his girlfriend Joanne, and when they discover how their friends are both successfully attending university while raising a baby they begin to think that perhaps teen-aged marriages are workable.

Call Her Max
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6.33
3 votes

#26 - Call Her Max

My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 23

Two tomboys - a pretty lady engineer named Max and a member of the girls Hockey team named Georgie prove tough to handle for both Steve and Chip. Hoping to become a hero to his peers, Chip goes out for the girls hockey team when Georgie insists the coach must let her join the boy's track team.

Fly Away Home
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6.33
3 votes

#27 - Fly Away Home

My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 2

Steve Douglas takes his family to his birthplace of Bedford Springs. He tries to locate his 1940 fiancee Ellen, married and still living in town, but he is disenchanted by the changes in her. Still pretty, she lives with her obnoxious husband and ill-mannered children.

The Sure Thing
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6.00
5 votes

#28 - The Sure Thing

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 28

Robbie's friend has a grandfather that trains horses, but on the day of the big race when the thoroughbred racehorse loses her mascot, a rabbit, she loses her speed. But once she hears Robbie serenade on the guitar, the mascot problem is solved.

You Saw a What?
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5.67
3 votes

#29 - You Saw a What?

My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 15

Ernie's excited reports of seeing a flying saucer are received with skepticism, but the next day he not only sees the weird vehicle again, but he snaps some pictures and is later told by the Air Force to keep quiet about it.