The BEST episodes written by Kathleen Hite
#1 - The Stray
The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 2
Strange footprints and a stringer of catfish lead the Waltons to find 12-year-old Josh, a runaway, in the barn hiding. He attaches himself to John immediately.
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#2 - The Vivian Carter Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 23
Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.
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#3 - The Annie Griffith Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 21
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his savior finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
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#8 - Daddy Went Away
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 35
Chester is sweet on a widow dressmaker. When the widow is not only intent on marriage but eager to make changes in Chester as well, he has second thoughts--especially after a talk with her child suggests that the widow may still be a wife.
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#11 - Amy's Good Deed
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 31
Amy Slater gets to Dodge and tells Matt she came to die. He suggests seeing Doc Adams, she says she's not sick but that Matt could help. When asked how, she says "you're going to kill me." Learning the truth, he decides how to handle it.
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#17 - Kate Heller
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 1
A teen-aged boy who robbed and killed to impress a saloon gal is pursued by Matt. The boy waylays Matt and leaves him for dead, then goes home to his grandmother's house to find her nursing Matt back to health.
#18 - The Jenny Tannen Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 38
A young girl is injured while on the way to San Fransico to find her famous mother who abandoned her as a baby. The crew helps her with her pending blindness and find her mother who has her own problem unknown to her daughter.
#19 - Miss Kitty
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 3
Kitty has her friends in Dodge buzzing when she meets the stage in the early hours to pick up a small boy. All wonder, especially his foster parents: could his real mother be Kitty?
#20 - Cotter's Girl
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 19
A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Expecting to find a little girl, Matt finds a near-grown woman, but one who's wild and desperately in need of civilizing.
#21 - Friend
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 17
A man carrying a tempting sum of money is attacked from behind by someone who beats him and leaves him for dead. Lucky for the injured man, an old friend of Matt is there to take him in to Doc Adams for mending.
#22 - Comanches Is Soft
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 23
After some horsing around, Festus breaks some of Quint's equipment. To repair or get anew, they travel to Wichita and meet a saloon girl who tells them she needs to get away from town but her jealous boyfriend is now hot on their trail.
#23 - Chester's Indian
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 32
On his way to a fishing vacation, Chester stumbles into a human drama when he wounds a fleeing Indian he mistakes for a thief, who has touched the heart of a lonely young white woman.
#24 - Quint's Trail
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 7
Quint is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On the way, he learns the reason for their going, a motive that could have repercussions for Quint.
#25 - Mavis McCloud
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 7
On her way to Dodge to marry, Mavis McCloud sends a telegram to the Marshal of Dodge City. Chester and Doc want to know "Is she coming here to marry Matt" or is something else going on?
#26 - Apprentice Doc
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 11
A young outlaw finds he has a knack for medicine and turns straight, telling Doc he wants to be his pupil.
#27 - Old Dan
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 18
Beginning with Doc, who rescues him from a ditch, everyone wants to give amiable drunk Dan a chance, or a job, or both.
#28 - The Imposter
Gunsmoke - Season 6 - Episode 34
A man claiming to be a sheriff from Texas comes to Dodge and asks Matt for help tracking down a named fugitive, but the man may not be a sheriff.
#29 - May Blossom
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 20
Festus's beautiful young cousin, whom he has not seen since she was a little one, arrives in Dodge to keep the pact her father made for her when she was a baby: to marry Festus.
#30 - My Sister's Keeper
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 6
A despondent widower goes to work on a farm for two sisters, each of whom finds him fascinating in her own way.
#31 - Scot Free
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 32
Rob Scott considers himself a man who could stay or go when it came to women. He may have met his match though when a woman he desires and her husband take over an abandoned homestead and they come to where he works to look over some stock.
#32 - The Sermon
The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 1
Reverend Fordwick asks John-Boy to deliver the Sunday sermon and Miss Hunter asks Olivia to act as the substitute teacher. It proves to be an interesting experience for both as Reverend Fordwick and Miss Hunter plan their wedding and honeymoon.
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#33 - Tea Time
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 10
It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating.
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#34 - The Summons
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 29
Loy has always felt he could do what he pleased. When he shoots one of his gang members in the back just for the reward, he takes the body into Dodge to Matt Dillon who isn't as ready as he thought to give him his bounty.
#35 - Panacea Sykes
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 31
Kitty welcomes her mentor from New Orleans, but the colorful old lady takes liberties with the truth and with Kitty's possessions.
#36 - Innocent Broad
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 33
Lou and Linda met in St. Louis and are engaged to be married. Lou is waiting in Dodge for her but a man he says he never met rides in on the stage too and makes Matt suspicious when Lou says he doesn't know him.
#37 - The Morning of the Bride
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 19
A young woman with her eye on marriage wonders why she still hasn't met her boyfriend's mother.
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#38 - Cale
Gunsmoke - Season 7 - Episode 31
Cale is a bullheaded young drifter who takes a nap in a barn he comes across only to wake up to a shootout between a horse thief and the owner. Cale is shot, wounded, and becomes a suspected accomplice.
#39 - Root Down
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 4
Chester may find himself entrapped into marriage with a drifter's daughter who isn't particular about how she lands a husband.
#40 - For Love or Money
Falcon Crest - Season 1 - Episode 11
After a bitter argument with Angela regarding plans for him to marry Melissa Agretti, the wine empire heiress, Lance leaves in a fury. After he nearly runs over a girl, he falls in love with her and decides to move to San Francisco to be close to the girl. However, when Angela attempts to stop him, Lance succumbs and leaves the love of his life. In an old room that Jason had walled up, Chase finds some writings, which lead him to believe that Angela may have been involved in crippling a girl forty years ago. Confronted with the evidence, Angela turns the tables on Chase, playing a small excerpt of a recording that leaves Chase believing that his father hated him.
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#41 - Kitty's Outlaw
Gunsmoke - Season 3 - Episode 4
While Kitty dines with Matt on the edge of town, Kitty's old beau robs the bank.
#42 - Home Away from Home
Falcon Crest - Season 2 - Episode 6
Against Maggie's wishes, Cole moves in with his new lover, Katherine Demery. Richard finds out and plasters The Globe with clandestine photographs of Cole and Katherine kissing. Jacqueline Perrault, Chase's mother, arrives from Zurich for a surprise visit and gives Chase money for Cole's legal defense, but Richard uses his contacts in Zurich to force Jacqueline to leave town. Angela buys up expensive stock in The Globe and continues tracking Emma to get her proxy. Lori demands that Lance come out in the open about their relationship. Lance is defiant when Melissa confronts him about his late night trysts. After a sudden complication in Melissa's pregnancy confines her to bed, however, Angela pressures Lance to spend more time with his wife.
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#43 - Call Me Dodie
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 2
An adolescent escapee from a cruel orphanage knows she has a lot to learn, and she starts learning it from the rough-and-tumble characters and loafers she encounters in Dodge.
#44 - Heir Apparent
Falcon Crest - Season 1 - Episode 15
Chase begins to make inquiries into the circumstances surrounding his father's death. Angela, in an attempt to foil Chase, has Philip mislead Chase into believing he might inherit Falcon Crest. However, Chase doesn't fall for her trickery. Following a party at the Gioberti's, Cole's friend is killed in an auto accident after Cole refuses to drive him home. Angela attempts to force Lance to marry Melissa, who instead has become deeply involved with Cole. However, when Melissa learns she is pregnant, she tells no one.
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#45 - Legends Don't Sleep
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 3
A young rascal meets the outlaw idol of his youth, but the aging gunman, newly released from prison, wants only to go straight.
#46 - Help Me, Kitty
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 7
When a young pregnant woman seeks Kitty's aid in escaping from the child's father, the two women take the stagecoach from Dodge and meet with greater danger.
#47 - The Search
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 1
A young man named Cale may have earned Marshal Dillon's respect, but Tate Gifford says Cale has just ridden off on a stolen horse - Tate's horse.
#48 - Disappearing Trick
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 27
A debonair tennis player looks into his attractive partner's past and her presumed dead husband.
#49 - Collie's Free
Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 6
Released after eight bitter years in prison, Collie Patten has difficulty adjusting to the fact that things have inevitably changed with respect to his relationships with his wife, his son, and the citizens of Dodge.
#50 - Aunt Thede
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 13
Festus's ornery aunt arrives, squats on a piece of land, sets up a still, and comes to the rescue of a pair of star-crossed lovers.