The BEST episodes written by John D.f. Black
#1 - Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 14
When a young female student is found murdered on campus, suspicions fall on her boyfriend but McGarrett senses that something is not right.
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#2 - Till Death Do Us Part
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 7
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife (Jessica Walter), in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.
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#3 - King of the Hill
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 15
Danno is taken hostage by a Vietnam veteran who is suffering delusional flashbacks and sees everyone as forces sent to kill him.
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#4 - The Phoenix
Mission: Impossible - Season 2 - Episode 23
Former internal security director Stefan Prohosh has been demoted to director of a museum. He has stolen an experimental metal alloy and concealed it in a modern sculpture at his museum, and plans to sell it to a foreign power to get them to back his bid for power. The IMF must recover the metal and stop Prohosh. Rollin fakes an attempt on Prohosh and his call is interecepted by Barney, who sends Jim, Barney, and Willy. Jim reveals Cinnamon as Rollin's accomplice, and Prohosh is obliged to interrogate the two of them. This is a distraction that lets Barney and Willy secretly dismantle the sculpture, remove the alloy, and replace it with explosives. Jim slips a detonator into Prohosh's pocket and then detonates the explosive himself to make it look as if the chairman was responsible. No one is harmed in the ensuing blast but the chairman finds the detonator in the unwitting Prohosh's pocket and has him arrested.
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#5 - Decoy
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 8
Anna Kerkoska plans to defect with a list of American agents given to her by her father, the late Premier. Her brother Alexi also plans to defect, but it's actually a plan to grab the list, turn it over to Police Chief Petrovitch, and sell out his sister. Jim and Dana pretend to be a publisher brother-and-sister team and Paris kidnaps Dana to fake-force Jim to kidnap Anna for the Americans. Petrovitch and Alexi let the plan go ahead, while Jim becomes romantically involved with Anna. The bad guys overhear Jim "confess" how he is going to smuggle Anna out of the country, unaware its a ploy to draw them away from the real means of escape via a mini-race car in the back of the hearse - Jim and Anna use it to bypass the mined security gate and exit the country.
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#6 - Commitment
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 15
accidental or intentional? the killing of a cop by another cop is the theme as one of our "81" investigators finds himself being investigated by his own department.
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#8 - Man of Violence
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 14
Trampas' Uncle Josh (Harry Shannon) is murdered during an holdup by Wismer (Leonard Nimoy) and Judson (William Bryant). On their trail, Trampas is eventually forced to illegally enter Apache territory where the two robbers had made a gold strike. He is joined on his quest by a guide who is after the gold (Michael Pate), a woman (Peggy McCay) who is looking for her husband who it turns out is Judson, and an army doctor who is attempting to escape court martial (DeForest Kelly).
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#9 - Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 12
When McGarrett is shot and badly wounded on a beachside jog, Danno and the team must work feverishly to find the culprit and prevent him from committing any more murders.
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#10 - Bess, You is My Daughter Now
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 3
When Phyllis's husband Lars takes ill, she asks Mary to babysit Bess for a few days. Bess decides she wants to stay permanently with Mary, to Phyllis's dismay.
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#11 - Harem
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 7
Stone's daughter helps him break up a murderous prostitution ring. An unusual episode because of the appearance of Darleen Carr, who plays Stone's daughter, Jeannie.
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#12 - ... And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 7
Danny Williams is accused of shooting an apparently unarmed young boy. Meanwhile, in his investigation, McGarrett comes up against Big Chicken, a nasty dope dealer.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 5 - Episode 38
Paladin is hired to find a killer. His usual fee is paid for instead with a ring. A ring that may tie his employer to his quarry with him in the middle.
#14 - Angels in Paradise (2)
Charlie's Angels - Season 2 - Episode 2
The new team's first assignment- find Charlie, who has been kidnapped during his vacation in Hawaii. Sabrina, Kelly and Kris follow teh kidnapper's instructions and meet their "client", Leilani Sako, a smuggler who orders the Angels to break her husband, Billy, out of jail in exchange for Charlie's release. They do the job as directed, but by then Charlie is taken from Leilani's clutches by a rival smuggling gang led by the crude Mr. Blue.
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#15 - Trouble in Eden
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 9
Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.
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#17 - The Ninety-Second War (2)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 17
Several faces from the past reappear as McGarrett must stop Wo Fat from carrying out his plan, a ninety second attack on a missile tracking base.
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#18 - ...And I Want Some Candy And A Gun That Shoots
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 6
Young Vietnam veteran and marksman Billy Shem Jr. buys a rifle under false pretences and proceeds to a bunker at Diamond Head. He then takes pot shots at the people on the road and then the police who arrive. McGarrett must neutralise the threat he poses by any means possible.
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#19 - The Naked Now
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Episode 3
Stardate: 41209.2 The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus they contracted while examining the mysterious deaths of the entire crew onboard the Starship Tsilkovsky.
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#20 - Rest In Peace, Somebody
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 10
A policeman who was kicked off the force blames McGarrett and Five-O and plans to kill the Governor.
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#21 - Angels in Paradise (1)
Charlie's Angels - Season 2 - Episode 1
Sabrina and Kelly voice their displeasure at Charlie's hiring of a new Angel, after Jill leaves the team to become a professional race car driver. Sabrina warns Charlie that maybe they won't like her but maybe they will. Seconds later, Kris Monroe bursts through the office doors of the Townsend Agency, having been plucked from the Police academy in San Francisco by Charlie. All of the Angels' concerns dissolve at first sight of Jill's younger sister, who is welcomed to the fold.
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#22 - Smoke Screen
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 7
A forest fire prevents access to a local hospital. Kimball, now a farm laborer, decides to risk blowing his cover when he elects to help deliver a woman's baby at the labor camp. When the news of Kimball's charitable act is reported to the press, Gerard gets wind of it and believes that Kimball is the unnamed doctor.
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#23 - The Box
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 18
Big Chicken returns in a tense prison hostage drama when McGarrett has to give himself over to the criminals as a bargaining chip and use psychology to take control of the situation.
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#24 - A Day Filled with Shadows
Mannix - Season 4 - Episode 20
A varsity basketball player vanishes strangely, and is sought curiously.
#25 - The Vegas Connection
Charlie's Angels - Season 1 - Episode 17
The Angels roll into Las Vegas disguised as a casino auditor and two aspiring showgirls. With Bosley playing the role of a big-spending gambler, the girls set a trap for a con artist.
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#26 - Pretty Angels All in a Row
Charlie's Angels - Season 2 - Episode 5
The manager of the Miss Chrysanthemum Pageant thinks someone is trying to ruin the pageant when several incidents occur to scare off the contestants. Kris and Kelly become contestants, and discover the competition is being eliminated and judges bribed to ensure the bad guy's daughter wins.
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#27 - Angel Baby
Charlie's Angels - Season 2 - Episode 11
The Angels help out Kelly's old friend who thinks his fiancee has deserted him. It turns out she is about to have his child and sell it on the black market, rather than force him to marry her. The Angels track her down at the Warfield Home for Girls, where pregnant girls are tricked into giving up their babies and then are held there as prisoners.
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#28 - Angels at Sea
Charlie's Angels - Season 1 - Episode 21
In a series of conspicuous accidents aboard a cruise ship to Hawaii, a young couple is murdered. The ship's owner hires the Angels to investigate. The murderer knows the Angels' true identities from the start and sends them death threats.
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#29 - The Jinn Who Clears The Way
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 5
Wo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him selling it off to the highest bidder.
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#30 - The Ninety-Second War (1)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 16
McGarrett is framed in an elaborate set up by Wo Fat, and has to contend with a foreign double amongst other problems.
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The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 2
Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arrived in Chicago by train; Lassiter traveled 1,000 miles because of a 250 grand deal: build a Ness-proof brewery. At the closed Bell Club (which Ness took apart last week), Lassiter meets with bootleg czar Louis Tully and his associates. 7 breweries have been wrecked by Ness and the Untouchables. Ness can always smell a brewery a mile away, because of the fumes they give off. So Joe Lassiter decides to build a brewery on the 6th story of a building-- the Cooker in the Sky; Lassiter leases the 6th story of an abandoned warehouse building. But Harry Gordon, who had been Tully's inside man, is worried for his job-- and his life. He tips Eliot Ness off to Lassiter's brewery. That night, Ness and Lee Hobson secretly check out the place; the brewery would be the largest ever constructed, when completed it'll be able to make 10,000 gallons of booze a day. Ness makes a ri
#32 - The Man in the Cooler
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 21
January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but it seems he won't get it. The guards put him in solitary, and Remp has a visitor: Eliot Ness. Remp tells him, ""I got nothing to say to you."" But Ness tells him that if he agrees to help him nail bigtime bootlegger ""Fat"" Augie Strom, his former boss, he'll get that parole; or else 2 more years is a long time. Remp is married to a good woman; the whole time he's been in prison, she did ""stand by her man."" Remp agrees to help Ness. ""Fat"" Augie Strom is a very heavyset man who perspires even in winter, his operation is at a meat packing plant by the Chicago stockyards; he likes the large refrigeration section where the meat is prepared, it's nice and cool in there-- he's the Man in the Cooler. A big man with a big temper, he has ""Bitsy"" Whyller rub out Pete Laffey for bungling a job. Remp is reunited with his faithful wife Marcie; but he also has to meet
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#33 - A King's Ransom
The Virginian - Season 8 - Episode 21
Clay Grainger is kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang hired by an Englishman (Patrick Macnee)who has posed as a friend of the Graingers. However, his true intentions are later revealed by his wife (Jackie DeShannon) but not before the Virginian follows the kidnappers - after the ransom drop-off - captures them, and convinces them to tell him where Grainger is stashed.
#34 - An Eye for an Eye
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 19
Chicago, Spring 1931. That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Solly Girsch. The 19-year-old driver has a high-speed accident; his car overturns and explodes in flames. Solly Girsch is the king of bootleg whiskey; he has 500 ""mom & pop"" stores pushing his hooch-- all together, they form the biggest single outlet of whiskey in Chicago. Next night, top boss Harry Mastrogeorge-- along with Solly's crooked lawyer Billy Baron and about half a dozen of Mastrogeorge's lieutenants-- are throwing a party for Solly, celebrating his getting his 500th outlet. They bring in a 2-foot-high cake. Solly quips he wishes a blonde would jump out of the cake. (she'd be pretty short.) But Solly has an announcement; he's buying 1,000 gallons of whiskey a day from them, and he wants to cut the price he pays from $8 a gallon to $4. They all balk, and Pete Topchinski is vocal about it. Big bucks are involved-- it's a $2-million a year busine