The BEST episodes written by Joel Kane
#1 - Cave Woman
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 36
Kate is trapped by a cave-in just when the Shady Rest is a candidate for hosting a big convention.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 22
Richard Boone as Paladin is on the road with 4 others when a man in the distance yells to them and then falls off a ledge in an 'impossible to get to space.' John Hoyt plays a doctor who begins to assume the man is dead, but really, everyone is unsure, and worried. The entire episode concerns the issue of mercy killing. Richard Rust plays a young man named Corey who is deathly afraid of heights but who tries to get down to the man to make certain. At one point, they even feel perhaps they should shoot the man just in case he's alive. This episode shows exactly why the show is called a psychological drama western. It is very intense and intellectual, with superb acting. The other two characters are a man who hides his fear by constantly laughing and a man who cannot stop saying he cannot take risks because he has a family.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 37
With Kate incapacitated, Joe and the girls try to win the business of a large convention.
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#4 - The Reasonable Man
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 1 - Episode 18
A rancher having a dispute with his foster son hires Paladin to keep one of them from killing the other in a duel.
#5 - Some Like It Lukewarm
The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 24
Davy dresses as a woman so that the Monkees can enter a lucrative band contest.
#6 - The Spores
The Invaders - Season 2 - Episode 7
Vincent is horrified to learn the invaders are using strange seed spores that after cultivated will develop into full-grown aliens.
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#7 - Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 8
Kate counsels Bobbie Jo in the ways of attracting men.
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#8 - The Teeter-Totter Caper
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 14
When Bobby and Cindy are not invited to a wedding because they're too young, they set out to do something important: break a teeter-totter record.
#9 - The Best Man
Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 14
Howard's old army buddy, a black man, asks Howard to be the best man at his wedding. Howard and Marion consider holding the wedding at their home when the man can't find anyone else willing to do it.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 26
Kate's old school pal conspires with the girls to round up some marriage prospects for Kate.