The BEST episodes written by John Mcgreevey

#1 - Lost in Spain (3)

Family Affair (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 21

The Civil Guards are putting an APB out on the twins. Buffy and Jody are spotted by Carlos and Maria and are afraid to ell the guards. So They take care of them and take them to a church, where thankfully, Bill and his friends find them.

#2 - Lost in Spain (1)

Family Affair (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 19

A fantastic family trip in Spain goes absolutely wrong when Mr. French and the twins get lost.

#3 - The Good Neighbors

Family Affair (1966) - Season 5 - Episode 1

Tired of the unfriendliness from all of the tenants in the building, Buffy and Jody decide to throw a party for all of the neighbors. Then the neighbors get stuck in an elevator and they work together to fix the problem.

#4 - To Fly or Not to Fly

The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 11

Sister Bertrille tries to keep from flying off during solemn ceremonies.

#5 - Freddie

Family Affair (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 11

Freddie, Bill's old friend from Terre Haute, wishes that she had children after spending time with Buffy and Jody.

#6 - Put Your Dreams Away

Family Affair (1966) - Season 5 - Episode 19

Cissy meets up with her old friend Russ Brooks, who is joining the Peace Corps in Chile. Cissy wants to join Russ, but Bill tries to discourage her decision. Russ and Cissy decide to run off to Chile and get married, but Cissy backs out when she finds out the risks involved.

#7 - Family Portrait

Family Affair (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 30

A girlfriend urges Bill to stay home more.

#8 - The Trace McCloud Story

Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 24

A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of the town's population which it becomes apparent includes the strangler.

#9 - Goodbye Harold

Family Affair (1966) - Season 4 - Episode 13

Buffy's hamster runs away in the park.

#10 - A Man's Place

Family Affair (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 17

A new romance that Mr. French has puts him in the position to make him think that his current life as a butler is not good enough for his date.

#11 - A Helping Hand

Family Affair (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 20

A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.

#12 - Lost in Spain (2)

Family Affair (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 20

While Mr. French desperately searches for Buffy and Jody, the twins are going into unknown parts of Spain where they are picked up by a nun and a bunch of schoolchildren.

#13 - A Matter of Choice

Family Affair (1966) - Season 3 - Episode 10

#14 - Fancy Free

Family Affair (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 19

Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.

#15 - A Matter for Experts

Family Affair (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 9

Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.

#16 - Arthur, the Invisible Bear

Family Affair (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 4

Jody's new imaginary friend is really getting him in trouble and it tales a trip to a psychologist to figure out what is going on.

#17 - Those Who Stay Behind

Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 8

Hale is unable to take everybody on the next phase and has to turn down some of those applying. One is Ben Campbell, an ex-convict who is being hunted by his escaped former partner, who believes Ben turned him in to the law among others.

#18 - The Great Kow-Tow

Family Affair (1966) - Season 2 - Episode 18

Buffy and Jody go Chinese when they are "adopted" by a elderly Chinese man.

#19 - The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story

Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 15

Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer (played by John McIntire's real-life wife Jeanette Nolan) working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come with him and join the wagon train. He comes to realize that he's getting more problems than he bargained for.

#20 - The Fort Pierce Story

Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 2

As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, but the Colonel refuses due to Army orders. In fact, he wants the lone woman there to leave with the train.

#21 - The Gift Horse

Family Affair (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 3

Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!

#22 - The Honeymoon

The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 16

Olivia and John go on a late honeymoon at Virginia Beach while John-Boy & Marcia Woolery try to come to an understanding in their relationship.

#23 - The Best Christmas

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 11

The 11 members of the Walton family are together for Christmas This would be the last time that all of the Waltons would be together

#24 - Bub Leaves Home

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 16

When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind.

#25 - The Fawn

The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 9

John-Boy secures a position of rent collector for a hated landlord while Erin, who is disappointed by her knight in shining armor, nurses an orphaned fawn back to health.

#26 - The Foundling

The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 1

When a young girl is left on the doorstep of the Walton's home, they take her in. Not Before learning she is deaf after taking her to the doctor. One night while the Walton family listen to the radio John boy takes matters into his own hands when Holly (the deaf girl) runs up to her room crying. He teaches her sign language...or really Sign spelling! This new skill comes in handy when the youngest of the Walton family gets locked by accident in a box in the Haunted House, which later turns out to be the house of which Holly lives!

#27 - Other People's Houses

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 20

When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.

#28 - The Melanie Craig Story

Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 22

Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her. Also, Rudd Basham, father of three boys, uses the wrong ideas about women to win her.

#29 - How to Be a Spanish Grandmother

The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 12

Sister Bertrille helps Carlos convince his visiting grandmother that he's a happily married man.

#30 - The Annie Duggan Story

Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 25

An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.

#31 - A Fish Story

The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 19

Sister Sixto's uncle uses Sister Bertrille to help him catch fish.

#32 - What's Cooking?

My Three Sons - Season 3 - Episode 8

A cooking contest at school upsets Chip when he realizes he doesn't have a mother to submit a recipe. But there is much rejoicing when Steve's favourite recipe reaches the finals. The prospect of winning keeps Steve on edge, much to the displeasure of the boys and Bub.

#33 - The Illusion

The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 8

Ester Verdie's daughter comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree & unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.

#34 - The Substitute

The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 11

An inexperienced but brilliant young sub teacher wreaks havoc in the Walton's Mountain School. Because of her insecurity, she refuses advice from anyone until Olivia steps in.

#35 - Soap Box Derby

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 27

Unaware of each other's problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.

#36 - Mike's Brother

My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 14

Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry—and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.

#37 - The Link Cheney Story

Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 30

Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is nursed back to health by Dorthea Gillford, and the two fall in love, but Dorthea hopes Link will quit gambling.

#38 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

Family Affair (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 7

Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is found in a trash bin.

#39 - The Mist of Silence

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 4

On a rendezvous mission, Crane and several crewmen are drugged into unconsciousness on a deserted yacht. Waking up in a South American prison, the men are taken out to the courtyard, one per hour, and executed. All will die unless Crane breaks his oath and confesses what he cannot. Will Nelson's rescue mission succeed? Will the country in question survive the machinations of the evil man who wants to take over?

#40 - The Hunt

The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 4

John Boy prepares to go on his first hunt and distress over taking an animals life. During the hunt he saves John's life from an attacking bear. Meanwhile Mary Ellen debates over a new dress or a baseball mitt.

#41 - The Eve Newhope Story

Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 12

Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the popular owner of a saloon, Hawks, Wooster, Duke, and Eve's favorite patrons decide to change Eve.

#42 - The Matchmakers

The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 16

Corabeth Walton, a cousin of the Waltons, comes for an unannounced extended visit. Ike Godsey is instantly taken with her and they quickly marry. Erin enters the Jefferson County Sweetheart Contest.

#43 - The Legend

The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 10

John's old army buddy, Tip Harrison, tries to cover his lack of success with childish actions and comments culminating in an accidental fire and the shooting of reckless the family dog.

#44 - The Big Brother

The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 19

John-Boy meets up with a runaway girl named Muffin who's 12 years old. Muffin tells him that she was abused and is trying to find her mother. John-Boy takes her home and she fools everyone but Grandpa.

#45 - The First Edition

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 1

The first edition of The Blue Ridge Chronicle is published by John-Boy. He publishes a story about Ben and it makes his mother mad.

#46 - First Things First

My Three Sons - Season 3 - Episode 27

With his Air Force Reserve crew depending on him for an engine maintenance exercise, Mike is faced with having to abandon a date, as well as a baseball match, all of which is just part of his same crowded weekend.

#47 - Part 6

Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 - Episode 6

Seven years have passed since Alex's mother's death and the Haley family has moved to Elizabeth City, North Carolina where Simon is teaching agriculture at the local state teacher's college after remarrying. Alex has decided to drop out of college and return home, immediately finding a job with the WPA for $1 a day. Simon, realizing that Alex was apparently too young when he was sent off to college, recommends that Alex enlist in the military. Alex decides to join the Coast Guard in Norfolk, Virginia, but sadly discovers that his only opportunity there is working in the ship's galley. Alex eventually meets a young lady at a weekly church social and after war is declared, marries her before he is sent off to the south pacific. While at sea, he learns that he is the father of a baby girl and otherwise finds popularity and solace when writing. When the war is over, he returns home and re-enlists despite his father's disapproval, taking an assignment at a Coast Guard station in New York City. However he finds that racism is alive and well in his day to day life and his struggle to become a professional writer eventually alienates his wife.

#48 - The Hiding Place

The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 22

The Baldwin's niece, Hillary Von Kleist, comes for a visit from Vienna. Jason joins the National Guard over Olivia's objections.

#49 - The Jenna Douglas Story

Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 6

Jenna Douglas is found by scouts for the wagon train. She appears to have been a victim of a scavenger attack and is adopted by the train. As time goes on people on the train begin to have doubts about her story and her mental state.

#50 - The Coffee House Set

My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 10

Robbie's new girlfriend offers to get him and his guitar an audition at a club, and introduces him to a strange new world of far out youngsters who comprise the audience. When Robbie becomes a smash his family struggles to bring him back from stardom.