The BEST episodes written by James Doherty

#1 - Intelligence - DR-34

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 27

Joe is invited to a night school alumni party. Joe goes and is approached by one of the alumni to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license. Joe works with the ATM to join the Militia to locate Militia’s cache of illegal automatic weapons.

#2 - Log 044: Attempted Bribery

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 25

Malloy and Reed prove they cannot and will not be bribed, no matter how good the offer, resulting in desperation from a young man charged with his third drunk driving offense. An elderly man admits mercy killing his wife.

#3 - Log 75: Have a Nice Weekend

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 7

Malloy and Reed investigate a series of robberies, an arson attempt and a violent argument.

#4 - Log 55: Missing Child

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 6

Officers Malloy and Reed search for a missing child whose disappearance becomes increasingly serious as time passes.

#5 - Log 95: Purse Snatcher

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 3

A teen-age purse snatcher thinks he can outwit the police and graduate to bigger crime.

#6 - Log 16: Child in Danger

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 22

Officers Malloy and Reed interrupt a robbery in progress, worry about a possible child-beating case, and warn a heedless girl about driving alone in a dangerous area of town.

#7 - Log 105: Elegy for a Pig

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 8

One of the finest episodes in the series' run, Malloy (who narrates this episode, Jack Webb-style) recalls the rainy night his previous on-duty partner was killed during a robbery. But Malloy's story goes much deeper, as he relates the life of the slain officer, confiding that the officer was more than just his partner, but a loyal and trusted best friend with a young family. Malloy also remembers how he met Reed and the early days of their relationship (before Malloy and Reed became a team). The opening and closing credits are shown over a black screen (in lieu of the usual sequences) without the music and with Jack Webb himself speaking, in apparent tribute to police officers who died in the line of duty.

#8 - Steve Austin, Fugitive

The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 2 - Episode 22

Steve is arrested when an assassin he helped send to prison seeks revenge by framing him for murder. Steve escapes from the police and must find the assassin before the police find him.

#9 - Log 115: Gang War

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 14

Singer Trini Lopez portrays a Mexican-American priest who calls in police in hopes of preventing a needless teenage gang fight.

#10 - Log 144: Bank Robbery

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 24

Malloy and Reed respond to a domestic abuse call where they become the abused. Later they become suspicious of a man whose apartment has been burglarized, help a man who found the stolen hood and front fenders of his VW on another car, and complete their day catching bank robbers.

#11 - Log 175: Con Artists

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 13

Malloy and Reed answer a string of calls about a family who swindle residents with phony home repairs.

#12 - Log 45: Bright Boy

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 4

An 11-year-old boy with a photographic memory assists Officers Malloy and Reed on a burglary case.

#13 - Log 65: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 5

Reed and Malloy investigate a car theft ring, where pretty young women bait new car owners into giving them rides to a nearby convenience store (presumably to buy cigarettes). While the car owner is in the store, the women make off with their wheels. The cars are taken to a local chop shop, where they are disassembled for parts to be sold on the black market. As the officers make the arrests at the show's end, one of the women complains of being treated like "a common criminal," but Malloy refuses to give in.

#14 - Log 106: Post Time

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 24

A bewildered printer, an elderly retiree, and an unusual motorist create some special problems for Officers Malloy and Reed. Guest star: Morey Amsterdam.

#15 - Log 35: Easy Bare Rider

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 2

Officers Malloy and Reed have to exercise all their wits when they encounter an amiable drunk driver who presents an unusual problem.

#16 - Log 174: Loan Sharks

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 1

When a courageous teen-ager who comes forward to testify against loan-sharking racketeers is abducted, Officers Malloy and Reed must find him.

#17 - Log 155: I.A.D.

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 16

Officers Malloy and Reed search for an elusive bar girl who might be able to clear a fellow officer accused of blackmail.

#18 - Log 125: Safe Job

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 26

A safe cracker who gets into buildings without any evidence of forced entry baffles Officers Malloy and Reed.

#19 - Eyewitness

Adam-12 - Season 4 - Episode 23

Malloy and Reed are searching for a missing six-year-old boy and they believe a elderly witness' inaccurate account may actually be for a different crime. They also respond to a suspicious dog complaint, a domestic dispute over a husband's desire to watch football, a college prank, and search a train station with a police helicopter for fleeing robbery suspects.

#20 - Log 103: A Sound Like Thunder

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 6

Malloy and Reed double date on their day off to a ghost town only to be confronted by a motor cycle gang. It takes their quick police instincts to save the day as Mrs Reed gets too close to delivering the baby.

#21 - Log 36: Man Between

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 18

Officer Reed gets needled by Officer Ed Wells for having too much faith in his fellow man, as Reed and Malloy handle a variety of cases.

#22 - Log 164: The Poachers

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 21

Officers Malloy and Reed capture a joy-rider in a police car, arrest a girl attempting forgery, and Reed even delivers a baby during their rounds.

#23 - Log 023: Pig Is a Three Letter Word

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 4

A pair of black hoodlums shoot and kill a respected black couple during a grocery store robbery. Reed and Malloy sent in to ward off a potential riot, knowing that given the heightened racial tensions, the wrong thing said could spark deadly violence.

#24 - Log 165: Once a Cop

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 19

A bitter ex-cop and a Hollywood starlet and her agent present some unusual problems for Officers Malloy and Reed.

#25 - Log 134: Child Stealer

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 23

Once Malloy and Reed get an aggressive dog out of the squad, they investigate the kidnapping of a child by its father, contend with an elderly miser who attempts to pay a bill with trading stamps, capture an escaped convict on a bus, and rescue a liquor delivery man from two serial van hijackers.

#26 - Log 094: Vengeance

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 19

Malloy and Reed contend with an ambush aimed at them, search for a missing boy, track down a car thief who is being crushed by his loot, and deal with a recent parolee who has sworn revenge on Malloy.

#27 - Log 76: Militants

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 20

Two officers are shot down in ambush by members of a vocal black militant group. Complicating the matter is that both shooters are brothers of a friend of Officer Reed's, and the two disagree over the vigilantism.

#28 - Log 56: Vice Versa

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 23

Officer Malloy overlooks renewing his driver's license and, much to his discomfort, has to temporarily turn over the driving of the squad car to Officer Reed.

#29 - Log 25: Indians

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 9

The officers search for a suspect involved in a series of bombings and investigate a bar fight.

#30 - Log 124: Airport

Adam-12 - Season 2 - Episode 18

Malloy and Reed respond to a drunk who has stolen a plane for a joyride, look for a 17 year old runaway, receive a call for a 2-11 in progress where they encounter two armed robbers, and track down a stolen 3-ton safe containing $10k that was booby-trapped by the owner against safe crackers.

#31 - Log 96: Pilgrimage

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 11

Christmas Eve brings mixed blessings for Officers Malloy and Reed when they have to arrest a sidewalk Santa Claus and launch a search for a small Indian child.

#32 - Log 66: The Vandals

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 17

A simple traffic violation turns into a serious case and a teen-age girl proves to be too popular for her own good as Officers Malloy and Reed ride their beat.

#33 - Log 26: LEMRAS (Law Enforcement Manpower Resources Allocation System)

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 15

Two armed robbers take hostages in hopes of making a clean get away until Malloy and Reed thwart their plans. The officers then must contend with a group of burglaries committed by motorcycle riders. Computers help solve crimes.

#34 - Drive, Lady, Drive: Part 1

CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 9

Ponch, Jon, Bear and Lenny go to Palma Vista to cover for the striking Palma Vista Police Department. While there, they help an orphaned 10-year-old girl find a new home, arrest a councilman's two sons and city manager's daughter on some serious traffic charges, and break up a hijacking ring. Ponch falls for a lady race car driver, but loses out in the end.

#35 - Log 135: Arson

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 10

Officers Malloy and Reed encounter frustrating cases involving arson in the Rampart district, a family fight, and a dangerous mental patient.

#36 - The Hidden Man

Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 11

A returning Vietnam vet sees his supposedly dead father at the airport, and initiates a search for him against the Commissioner's wishes. The father, a one time member of the SFPD, turns out to be in hiding from a crime family eager to kill him for his part in their downfall, and the last thing that he wants is to be found.

#37 - Fall of an Angel

Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 13

A retired assassin kills the son of a mob chief, and tries to escape town after anonymously leaving his own young son in the care of Chief Ironside. The Chief soon puts two and two together, and figures out who the boy is; but he still has to find the father, before a major league gangster out for revenge can get to him first.

#38 - The Last Payment

Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 13

A friend of Mark's is being unfairly shaken down by a crooked loan shark with crippling interest demands. Worried for his friend Mark goes undercover, despite objections from the Chief, and sets himself up as a potential customer in the hope of digging the head of the operation out of the woodwork.

#39 - Set Up: Danger!

Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 6

When Ed returns from a holiday he finds the Chief missing, and a series of obscure clues pointing to the suggestion that he has been kidnapped. In truth Ironside has been waylaid by an old enemy, a mobster seeking his help to solve a murder, but a gang war is brewing and the Chief needs his team to find him in time to stop it erupting unchecked.

#40 - The Helping Hand

Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 7

Fran Belding's Mexican cleaning lady turns out to be an illegal immigrant, brought into the country against her will by an employment agency who are little more than slave traders. The team tries to help her, but she may be too scared to accept their help before it is too late.

#41 - Log 88: Reason to Run

Adam-12 - Season 3 - Episode 25

Officers Malloy and Reed handle a burglary at a riding school owned by a former Western movie star.

#42 - The Rolling Y

Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 19

A young man befriended by the Chief is framed for a series of cattle rustlings near to the ranch owned by his father. Ironside and Ed head out for the ranch to try to prove him innocent, whilst at the same time helping him to convince his father that his artistry is an acceptable career.

#43 - The Return of Eleanor Rogers

Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 15

Ed befriends the daughter of the judge presiding over his latest case, only for the girl to come to him in fear for her father's life. It seems she is overreacting to a series of accidents, but events soon suggest her suspicions may be correct; especially after it turns out that her father's new wife has old Underworld connections she thought she had left behind.

#44 - Amy Prentiss: AKA The Chief (2)

Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 25

#45 - Amy Prentiss: AKA The Chief (1)

Ironside - Season 7 - Episode 24

The promotion of a new Chief of Police leaves an opening for a new Chief of Detectives, and the front runner for the job is Lieutenant Amy Prentiss. Much of the force is opposed to her appointment, but she is determined to prove them wrong. With Ironside and his team alone in supporting her, she has to make her mark in a difficult case beset with problems, whilst at the same time convincing her male dominated staff to accept her as their new leader.

#46 - Love Me in December

Ironside - Season 6 - Episode 19

When her fiancé is accused of murder, a young woman comes to Ironside for help; but when it transpires that the fiancé in question is an old Naval acquaintance of the Chief's, a man with whom he did not get along, the assistance is both offered and accepted somewhat grudgingly. It soon becomes clear, however, that the prejudice which exists in the couple's home town is in serious danger of destroying an innocent man's life.

#47 - Internal Affairs - DR-20

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 12

Joe and Bill investigate a charge of police brutallity against a patrolman. The patrolman was attempting to stop someone from driving drunk when things got out of hand and the drunk tears the patrolman's uniform. This is a crossover episode with Adam-12, taking place in Rampart Station and featuring appearances by Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed.

#48 - Public Affairs - DR-12

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 8

Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX

#49 - Homicide - DR-22

Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 14

Joe and Bill are called to an apartment where the manager has found a young woman bound and dead. The 91 year old manager of the apartment building is a suspect until joe find out that the old man was chief of detectives in Chicago. Finger prints lead Joe and Bill to a couple.

#50 - Dead Man's Riddle

CHiPs - Season 4 - Episode 20

A psychiatrist joining the Accident Investigation Team fears that she may have been responsible for a serious high-speed collision that the CHP is currently trying to recreate in an investigation.