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 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - A Man's Place

Family Affair - 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.

#7 - Put Your Dreams Away

Family Affair - 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.

#8 - Freddie

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 11

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

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - A Matter of Choice

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 10

#12 - 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.

#13 - The Gift Horse

Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 3

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

#14 - 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.

#15 - Family Portrait

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 30

A girlfriend urges Bill to stay home more.

#16 - The Great Kow-Tow

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 18

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

#17 - A Fish Story

The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 19

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

#18 - Goodbye Harold

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 13

Buffy's hamster runs away in the park.

#19 - Arthur, the Invisible Bear

Family Affair - 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.

#20 - To Fly or Not to Fly

The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 11

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

#21 - 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.

#22 - Fancy Free

Family Affair - 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.

#23 - The Good Neighbors

Family Affair - 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.

#24 - Lost in Spain (1)

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 19

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

#25 - 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.

#26 - A Matter for Experts

Family Affair - 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.

#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 - 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.

#29 - 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.

#30 - Love Me, Love My Dog

The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 29

The convent children adopt Scraples, a kleptomanic dog.

#31 - A Helping Hand

Family Affair - 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.

#32 - 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.

#33 - 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.

#34 - 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.

#35 - 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?

#36 - Lost in Spain (3)

Family Affair - 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.

#37 - Lost in Spain (2)

Family Affair - 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.

#38 - 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.

#39 - 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.

#40 - 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.

#41 - 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.

#42 - 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.

#43 - 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.

#44 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

Family Affair - 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.

#45 - It's an Ill Wind

The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 11

Flying important papers to Mother Superior, Sister Bertrille interrupts a mobsters' meeting.

#46 - 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.

#47 - Tonio's Mother

The Flying Nun - Season 1 - Episode 18

A little boy believes Sister Bertrille is his mother returning from heaven.

#48 - A Nanny for All Seasons

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 12

French contemplates marriage to raise his professional esteem.

#49 - We Got Each Other

Gidget - Season 1 - Episode 22

Gidget becomes jealous of her dad's dates.

#50 - Chivalry isn't Dead

Gidget - Season 1 - Episode 12

Gidget thinks that all the boys are taking girls for granted.