The BEST episodes written by Joe Gannon
#1 - War of the Words
A Different World - Season 1 - Episode 5
Maggie prepares to debate Whitley on the topic of whether women can balance a career and family life. She is distracted by a surprise visit from her boyfriend, Mike, who stuns her by revealing that he has left school to take a job with the National Pork Council. He asks Maggie to transfer to a school in Washington, D.C. to be near him, and proposes marriage. Maggie is so overwhelmed by her relationship crisis that Denise must take her place in the middle of the debate. She wins easily by detailing the way in which her parents have employed compromise to make their situation work. Maggie and Mike take her words to heart and decide to slow down their relationship. Meanwhile, Dwayne tries to get a permanent spot on campus radio after successfully filling in for an ailing disc jockey.
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#2 - Read the Mind -- See the Movie
Moonlighting - Season 1 - Episode 3
Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.
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#3 - Graansha
Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Season 2 - Episode 21
Goren and Eames enter the closed world of a thieving Irish Traveller clan when they investigate the death of a Ann Lawson, a probation officer who was run over three times after meeting a friend at the bar. They soon learn that Ann, a probation officer, had been involved with Malcolm Bryce, the father of Paul, one of her charges. It appears as though Ann is also very close with the thieving Irish Travellers they are investigating, determined to save a young girl from their style of life.
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#4 - Blipverts
Max Headroom - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 7 - Episode 17
Virgil accepts a position at a prominent law firm.But as a former police officer he feels conflicting emotions when he realizes that one of their clients is guilty of murder.
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#6 - Brother's Keeper
Law & Order - Season 11 - Episode 21
Briscoe and Green discover a murdered businessman may have been the target of a well-known criminal , but the investigation stumbles when the FBI acts as the suspect's alibi.
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 6 - Episode 1
Big city crack dealers invade Sparta.Eugene witnesses the drive by shooting of a friend and his offer to help the police identify the shooters leaves Harriet frightened and angry at Bill.
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 6 - Episode 15
A woman asks Harriet to help her get an eviction order rescinded.The chief gives Parker a new radar gun - and soon comes to regret it.Sheriff McComb requests that Gillespie and Bubba help investigate a murder.Meanwhile Lonnie and Luann search for the boy who reported the murder.
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 6 - Episode 13
Sweet is the target of false accusations by two corrupt and racist car salesmen.
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 7 - Episode 14
Maybelle's new phone sex business is a great success - until one her girls decides to moonlight as a prostitute.
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#11 - Mesmer's Bauble
Friday the 13th: The Series - Season 2 - Episode 20
A homely record-store clerk is obsessed with pop diva Angelica, and happens to stumble upon a jewelry robbery where the thieves drop one of the items: a cursed pendant that first belonged to Dr. Mesmer. The curse lets the clerk fulfill his every wish by mesmerizing a victim into doing whatever he wants them to. He wishes first for attractiveness, and then for the diva's love and the chance to be close to her. Ultimately, however, none of this is good enough for him, and his final wish is to _be_ Angelica. The wish is successful, but Micki and Ryan, close on his trail, manage to intercept him/her at a concert and grab the necklace, undoing all the benefits it bestowed.
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In the Heat of the Night - Season 5 - Episode 19
Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.
#13 - By Means Most Foul
In the Heat of the Night - Season 5 - Episode 17
A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.
#14 - A Turning
In the Heat of the Night - Season 4 - Episode 22
Althea thinks Virgil needs a new line of work after seeing the aftermath of a deadly shooting at a roadhouse.Virgil finds himself in danger when they arrest the man who committed the crime.
#15 - Unfinished Business
In the Heat of the Night - Season 5 - Episode 6
Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.
#16 - A Love Lost
In the Heat of the Night - Season 7 - Episode 6
Lana's ex- boyfriend comes to see her and brings a load of stolen rifles with him.
#17 - Company Town
Pensacola: Wings of Gold - Season 1 - Episode 12
The SeaDragons are sent in civilian clothing to investigate who hacked into a military computer. The ""company town"" they are sent to employs computer programmers and is developing software for the government. A.J. and AnnaLise kiss, albeit undercover. (As part of a cover story when they are discovered where they shouldn't be.)
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#18 - Dreams for Sale
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 4
A woman in the future traps herself in an idyllic, computer-generated fantasy in her mind.
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