The BEST episodes written by John Mcgreevey
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Honeymoon
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 16
Olivia and John go on a late honeymoon at Virginia Beach while John-Boy and Marcia Woolery try to come to an understanding in their relationship.
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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.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - 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.
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#8 - 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. After taking her to the doctor, they learn she is deaf. 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! This new skill comes in handy when the youngest of the Walton family gets locked by accident in a box in a haunted house, which later turns out to be the house where Holly lives.
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#9 - The Fawn
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 9
John-Boy secures a position as rent collector for a hated landlord while Erin, who is disappointed by her knight in shining armor, nurses an orphaned fawn back to health.
#10 - A Fish Story
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 19
Sister Sixto's uncle uses Sister Bertrille to help him catch fish.
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#11 - To Fly or Not to Fly
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 11
Sister Bertrille tries to keep from flying off during solemn ceremonies.
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#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Illusion
The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 8
Ester, Verdie's daughter, comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree and unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.
#16 - The Substitute
The Waltons - Season 2 - Episode 11
An inexperienced but brilliant young substitute teacher wreaks havoc in the Walton's Mountain School. Because of her insecurity, she refuses advice from anyone until Olivia steps in.
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#17 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - 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.
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#19 - 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.
#20 - The Star
The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 6
When a meteorite falls on the Baldwin's house, Zeb believes his time has come. The Baldwin sisters are cheated by their cousin until Zeb and John come to the rescue.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Love Me, Love My Dog
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 29
The convent children adopt Scraples, a kleptomanic dog.
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#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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.
#28 - 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.
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#29 - The Hunt
The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 4
John Boy prepares to go on his first hunt and is distressed over taking an animal's 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.
#30 - 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.
#31 - The Collision
The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 24
Selena Linville comes back to Walton's Mountain and lights a fire under John-Boy to go to Spain and write all about the rebel cause.
#32 - 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?
Watch Now:Amazon#33 - 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.
#34 - A Hearse, a Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse
Gidget - Season 1 - Episode 6
Gidget makes a deal with a surfer to buy his hearse so she can become more independent. However, after making a few payments the surfer sales it to a bunch of boys. Making her point about owning a small part of the hearse the boys decide to let her drive it, a very small part of the time. In the mean time she takes shop class at school to help with the upkeep of the hearse.
#35 - Piccolo Mondo
Hazel - Season 3 - Episode 6
George has a new client who is from Italy. Hazel decides to make a real Italian dish, but has to learn Italian so she can read the recipes.
#36 - 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.
#37 - 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.
#38 - The Elopement
My Three Sons - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher.
#39 - See You in C-U-B-A!
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 5 - Episode 8
Jeannie blinks Tony off of a plane in order to plan for a party, but when she puts him back in it he mistakenly lands in Havana, Cuba instead of Puerto Rico thanks to Jeannie's guidance of the plane.
#40 - It's an Ill Wind
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 11
Flying important papers to Mother Superior, Sister Bertrille interrupts a mobsters' meeting.
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#41 - Murder Impromptu
Ironside - Season 5 - Episode 8
An actor/producer is murdered during a series of comic improvisations, and all of the actors present at the time seem to be suspects. Given a number of aliases and false leads, the Chief embarks on the trail of the killer.
#42 - 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.
#43 - Where There's a Will
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 26
The convent inherits a prizefighter ,who hates to fight.
#44 - Tonio's Mother
The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 18
A little boy believes Sister Bertrille is his mother returning from heaven.
#45 - The Lotus Blossom
My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 11
At the Lotus Blossom Cafe, Steve is impressed by the timid and beautiful proprietress. The elegant Chinese widow contemplates returning to Hong Kong, but the Douglas family show her the American way of life, hoping she will stay.
#46 - Chivalry isn't Dead
Gidget - Season 1 - Episode 12
Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.
#47 - The Hide Hunters
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 2
Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryker, is a sociopath who enjoys antagonizing young Barnaby West. With the train desperately needing fresh meat, Cooper Smith, along with Barnaby, sets off with the hide hunters to look for buffalo. Along the way Gib continues to bait Barnaby, much to Coop's dismay until Barnaby is forced to defend himself, with disastrous results. Now Barnaby has to face Gib's brother Zach, who's out for revenge.
#48 - The Blane Wessels Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 30
Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life. They take refuge in a relay station where the stranger slowly relays his past to the others while they hope for help.
#49 - The Baylor Crowfoot Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 25
A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined the train. The man despises cowards and sees the teacher as one.
#50 - Good Influence
My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 34
Steve pushes Chip to go on a week-long vacation with a boy he really doesn't like. The boy is very shy and timid, and when Chip calls him a chicken-clunk, he cops an unexpected black eye for his trouble. Meanwhile Bub tries his hand at painting.