The BEST episodes written by Kathleen Hite
#1 - The Stray
The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 2
Strange foorprints & 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 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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#3 - 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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#8 - The Beguiled
The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 17
John-Boy encounters a sassy but unprincipled girl whose selfish ways cause hard feelings and suspicion toward Danny, Jim Bob's friend.
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#10 - 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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#13 - The Test
The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 20
Olivia gets a job as a dress maker.She does very well & soon she gets full time work.She is pleased with the attention but realizes she wants too be home more than at work .Maude Gormley is put in an old folks home and loses her zest for life
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The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 15
John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.
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The Waltons - Season 3 - Episode 13
Zeb's old friend returns to Walton's Mountain without his wife. The Walton's learn that she died earlier but he will not acknowledge her passing.
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#20 - The Rebellion
The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 13
Corabeth gives Olivia a permanent that turns out badly. Grandma is up against a new competition for playing the church organ.
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#21 - 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.
#22 - The Nurse
The Waltons - Season 4 - Episode 13
As Mary Ellen nervously awaites word on her acceptance to nursing school, the rest of the Waltons prepares surprise good-bye gifts. Mary Ellen is accepted, but she needs more work in math and science and ends up studying with John-Boy and Miss Nora Taylor, the county nurse.
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#23 - 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.
#24 - Kitty Cornered
Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 29
Competing with Kitty is a fancy new woman in town with plenty of money to build a new saloon and a secret from the past life she recently left behind.
#25 - 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?
#26 - The Career Girl
The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 17
Erin's graduation from high school seems to be very painful because Erin has no firm plans for the future or any career.
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#27 - 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.
#28 - 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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#29 - 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.
#30 - The Volunteer
The Waltons - Season 6 - Episode 6
After Erin says no to the marriage proposal of G.W. Haines, he joins the Army. Erin visits G.W. at Camp Lee Army Base despite her father's reluctance.
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The Waltons - Season 5 - Episode 2
Mary Ellen, aspring nurse, makes a diagnosis about Grandma's illness which almost costs Grandma her life.
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#32 - 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.
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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?
#36 - 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.
#37 - 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.
#38 - The Calling
The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 2
Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.
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#39 - 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.
#40 - 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.
#41 - 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.
#42 - 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.
#43 - 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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#44 - 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.
#45 - 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.
#46 - 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.
#47 - 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.
#48 - 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.
#49 - 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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#50 - 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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