The BEST episodes written by Ken Pettus
#1 - The Payoff
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 13
McGarrett must apprehend two abductors who are on the run with the proceeds of their crime in order to protect the lives of their co-conspirators.
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#2 - The Dancer / Nobody's There
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 9
In "The Dancer" a Texas millionaire sponsors the comeback of a famous ballerina, so that he can declare his love for her. And in "Nobody's There", a well-intentioned but bumbling lady private eye gets the chance to crack her first big case.
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#3 - A Ghost Story
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 21
Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start "haunting" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.
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#4 - The Rebel
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 - Episode 11
The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third one, Khora refuses to leave and is executed. Jim and Dana meet with his son Alex (a rebel leader) to get his notes and Dana is captured by the militia along with Alex's girlfriend, who has memorized the doctor's notes. Barney and Doiug parachute in with a giant hollow religious statue that Jim uses to get close enough to dig into the prison while Paris, pretending to be an Intelligence officer, plays the militia leader, Bakram, against the people. When Bakram discovers that the prisoners have escaped he destroys the statue, further enraging the country's people against him while the team make his escape.
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B.J. and the Bear - Season 3 - Episode 7
Captain Grant is coercing independent truckers to pay for a so-called protection. B.J. steps in and the sly cop sends B.J. and his girlfriends to jail.B.J. proposes a football game to regain his and the girls freedom
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 12
Victoria is captured by crooked prison guards, who plan to substitute her for a convict they murdered.
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#7 - The Crane
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 23
Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.
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#9 - The Martyr
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 26
As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.
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#10 - The Choice
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 25
A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.
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#11 - Missing in Action
Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 9
A new singer at the King Kamehameha Club who claims to have E.S.P. hires Magnum to find her childhood friend-come-fiancée Eric, a Marine who has been listed as Missing In Action since 1972, whom now she has started getting psychic visions of. As he investigates, Thomas discovers that Eric was a member of the top-secret “Delta Section,” and is refusing to come in from the cold until he exposes the division’s activities to the press – but is being pursued by a Delta operative who is determined to bring Eric in and keep him quiet, at any cost...
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 17
Wracked with grief when his new bride is murdered, an enraged Jarrod relentlessly hunts down her killer.
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#13 - The Amnesiac
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 13
Jim poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 18
A wealthy Mexican visits the Barkleys, asking for help and bringing a valuable necklace with him.
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#15 - Fool's Gold
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 5
Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
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#16 - Anyone for Suicide?
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 9
Everyone thinks that Pappy's bout with malaria has caused him to go insane when he proposes a suicide mission starting with a dead-stick landing on a Japanese-held island.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 23
Heath feels that his friend's injury and paralysis is his fault, and ends up being used by the man.
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#18 - The Guarnerius Caper
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 5
Shortly after giving a recital, the violin of a visiting Russian virtuoso is stolen, and McGarrett must retrieve it before the theft turns into an international incident.
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#19 - Chico
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 17
Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.
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#20 - High Jinx
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 4
Greg and Larry go to Espritos for a special briefing. Greg learns that the Japanese have a new kind of zero that is more difficult to shoot down. He and other squadron leaders are advised to not engage the enemy until a viable defense can be found. Greg can't believe that they are being told not to fight. After the meeting he goes to find Larry. He is in the middle of a poker game with several other officers. Greg watches them finish one hand then tells Casey that it is time to go. Before they leave one of the other players stands up and introduces himself to Greg as Doug Rafferty. When they are alone Larry tells Greg that Doug is Admiral Rafferty's son, and Boyington quickly deducts that Doug would come in handy as a contact if he was to be in the 214th. Pulling a few strings he has Rafferty assigned to the Black Sheep Squadron. When Doug arrives at Vella La Cava and deplanes, a mechanic tells Jim Gutterman that he won't believe who got off the transport...Doug Rafferty. Jim l
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#21 - Prisoners of War
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 5
An enemy plane is shot down as it flies over Vella La Cava during an attack by the Japanese. The pilot is taken prisoner and a strange device is found on his plane. Through a series of mistakes, word of the prisoner never makes it to the brass at Espritos. It turns out the Japanese pilot was born and raised in the US but still felt enough allegiance to Japan to fight on that side. The Black Sheep befriend the pilot who also plays a mean game of ping pong. The sheep set up a ping pong match with the Seabees and expect their star player, TJ, to clean up during the match, but when TJ is injured, ""Rocky"" as the squadron nick named him steps in to play. TJ and Rocky have a talk about what it is like being a fighter pilot and Rocky admits to TJ that he still gets scared everytime he goes up. TJ is grateful that Rocky wants to talk about this becuase no one else wants to discuss the issue with him. The form an awkward friendship becuase the enemies have so much in common. ""Rocky"" is unwil
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#22 - New Georgia on My Mind
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Black Sheep are ousted from their quarters when a Marine paratroop battalion takes over their island to use as a training area for an upcoming strike.
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#23 - The Connection
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 14
Reese Dolan is the new Syndicate heroin distributor on the East Coast. Dolan uses an island base off the coast of northwest Africa and is going to use it as a distribution point for heroin into the U.S - the IMF must identify his overseas opium source and get the evidence to convict him. Dolan is being financed by an underworld figure, Madame Renada, whom he has never met, so Jim and Barney fly him and his men not to the island but to a lookalike off the coast of Georgia, where Casey assumes the role of Renada. Reese calls his distributor in Istanbul and the IMF has the delivery plane taken into custody. An IMF flyer makes the delivery which Dolan apparently converts to heroin and sends on its way, while Reese's supplier, Hajii, suspects a double-cross when his pilot doesn't return and calls Dolan's distributor, Cleff. Willy tries to sell heroin to Clegg and then is "forced" to tell that Dolan still has it, then lead Clegg to the fake island. Dolan finds out he still has the opium, and
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#24 - The Pillbox
Combat! - Season 2 - Episode 17
While falling back under intense pressure from the attacking Germans, Lt. Hanley stops to help a severely wounded man. The Germans are advancing rapidly, so they take refuge in a vacant pillbox. As the rain begins to fall, Hanley attempts to head for his own lines, but is stopped when three German soldiers enter the pillbox.
#25 - Five the Hard Way
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 17
Squadron member Don French is surprised at all the press coverage he receives after he chalks up his fourth air victory, making him one shy of the five it takes to become an ace. The pressurre is turned up higher when his father arrives, hoping to be present when his son turns ace. A troubled father/son relationship is revealed as the elder French's visit continues.
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#26 - Poor Little Lambs
Black Sheep Squadron - Season 1 - Episode 20
Returning from Espritos on a 'borrowed' plane Pappy, Anderson and Boyle run into trouble. Boyle pilots the plane as Pappy and Anderson nap in the back and wakes them to tell them they must be lost. They've been in the air too long and should have reached Vella La Cava. Turns out the needle on the compass was stuck and now they are lost and running out of fuel. They spot an island and turn towards it. They are forced to parachute out. All three land on the island, but they become separated and do not know the status of the others. The island is Japanese occupied. Hearing the plane come down and seeing the parachutes, the Japanese send troups to investigate. Pappy lands very close to the enemy and they surround him as he is trying to get free of his chute. They are interupted by a jeep driving through and Pappy uses the opportunity to escape into the jungle. As the Japanese scoure the area to find the three men, Anderson and Boyle find each other and wonder about Pappy. Anderso
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#27 - And A Time To Die...
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 1
Five-O must act swiftly when the daughter of a top neurosurgeon is kidnapped by Wo Fat in order to make the surgeon operate on a wounded U.S. undercover agent who is carrying secret inforrmation of use to the Chinese.
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#28 - The Night of the Camera
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 10
While Arte's away, Jeremy Pike works with Agent West who raids a local warehouse in an attempt to apprehend a suspected opium gang member. As he struggles with the suspect, a new secret agent named Bosley Cranston rushes in and attempts to help, but only makes matters worse. Later, they learn Cranston isn't as inept as they first thought.
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#29 - The Night of the Iron Fist
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 14
At the request of the Bosnian government, Count Draja is to be turned over for extradition. Learning of a plot to free the Count, Jim and Arte make plans to see that Draja reaches his destination.
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#30 - The Night of the Fugitives
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 7
In the town of Epitaph, owned by Epitaph Mines, agents James West and Artemus Gordon arrest Norbert Plank, chief bookkeeper for the powerful syndicate that owns the mining company. Through Plank, the agents hope to get their hands on records that could build a case against the organization.
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#31 - The Night of the Winged Terror (1)
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 15
After a series of disturbing incidents involving a raven that seems to hynoptize high-ranking officials into committing dastardly deeds, Agents West and Harper decide to find out what's going on. The incidents lead the new partners to a group calling themselves "The Raven", led by Thaddeus Toombs and a man called Tycho.
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#32 - The Burning Ice
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 9
McGarrett finds holes in a convict's story and a husband becomes a suspect in the murder of his wife.
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#33 - Secret Witness
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 18
A young man witnesses a murder, and finds himself and his family are now the killer's targets.
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#34 - The Swinger / Terrors of the Mind
Fantasy Island - Season 3 - Episode 19
In "The Swinger" a middle-aged man wishes for the swinging youth he feels he never enjoyed. And in "Terrors of the Mind" Sharon Sanders Ward wishes to see what the future holds for her, unaware of the dangers such a vision can hold.
#35 - The Silent Gun
The Green Hornet - Season 1 - Episode 1
In this premier episode, Dave Bannister is shot at a funeral with 20 witnesses present and not a shot was heard, not even from the Green Hornet's friend, the District Attorney, who was also attending. A messenger from a Brokerage House, carrying $5000 in negotiable bonds, is the SILENT GUN's second victim. The Green Hornet and Kato respond in the infamous Black Beauty and hit the streets to track down this villainous culprit.
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#36 - The Night of the Diva
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 20
West meets up with Gordon who, urged by President Grant, has just arrived in New Orleans to escort a famous Italian diva and niece of the ambassador. Discovering that several divas had recently disappeared in New Orleans, the agents must rush to unravel a plot involving the secret Order of Lucia and reveal who, among their new acquaintances, is playing a role on and off the stage.
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#37 - The Night of the Death Masks
The Wild Wild West - Season 3 - Episode 20
An escaped murderer plots a bizarre scheme against James West, who had imprisoned him several years earlier. Attacked and knocked unconscious, West awakens in a strange deserted town filled with assailants wearing masks in the likeness of Stark.
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#38 - The Night of the Winged Terror (2)
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 16
The plans of The Raven seem to be successful when they hypnotize Jim, and he assassinates the Mexican Ambassador. Now West, and fellow agent Frank Harper, must work together to infiltrate and undermine the group.
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#39 - The Code
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 1
In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.
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#40 - The Wagon
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 4
After being taken into custody by a sheriff who does not care if he is guilty or innocent of a crime, Hoss escapes from the prison wagon with a woman he is convinced got a raw deal.
#41 - Blood on the Vine
Cannon - Season 1 - Episode 17
Mike Tampa owns a vineyard in northern California... his land alone is worth $2 million, but he loves wine-making and is not considering selling. His father started the vineyards, handed them down to him, and he hopes that his son Johnny Tampa will be the third generation. Mike Tampa, however, has been the victim of three murder attempts—in the last one, his brakes were tampered with, and he barely survived when he took his car down a mountain road. At this point, his secretary calls on Cannon—secretly, because the stubborn Mike has refused to do anything. Cannon is brought in to investigate. We learn that Johnny Tampa had only been re-united with Mike two years ago... after not having seen him for 20 years (Mike and his wife went through a bitter divorce 22 years prior and she took their son down to San Francisco). Cannon suspects that Johnny may be pulling a con and that he is not really Mike's son. The winery accountant says that they had Johnny checked out by a PI down in SF n
#42 - The Return
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 31
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married to Cordell's former girlfriend.
#43 - The Companeros
Bonanza - Season 5 - Episode 29
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara saved Will's life. For this reason, Will feels obligated to Ibara, but Ben is suspicious of the man's motives.
#44 - Logan's Treasure
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 5
Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth of gold dust. He is followed by a bounty hunter who believes Sam will lead him to where the gold is buried.
#45 - El Jefe
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 10
Ben and Hoss come to the rescue of Mexican farmers who are forced off their land by the greedy mine owner who runs the town of Prince River.
#46 - Joaquin
The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 1
A man is hired at the ranch who is believed to be a Mexican outlaw thought long dead.
#47 - Gideon, the Good
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 6
On the trail, Joe witnesses a woman kill a man, but the woman rides away before he can positively identify her. He rides into the nearest town, Black River and reports the crime to Sheriff Gideon Yates, and the two ride out to find clues. They find a handkerchief embroidered with the letter "L". Sheriff Yates knows who the killer is, his wife Lydia. She married him before she got a legal divorce from her first husband, Loomis, and killed him to silence him. Gideon tries to coax Joe out of town, but he recognizes Lydia's picture in a photographer's window. When Joe refuses to leave, Gideon tries to shoot him down in cold blood and orders a manhunt against him. Joe's only hope is a Mexican stable boy, who saw Gideon shoot him, and ultimately Joe and Gideon have one of the most memorable confrontations in the series' history.
#48 - Engaged To Be Buried
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 22
Chin Ho must face the fact that his daughter, Alia, is in love with the son of a local criminal under investigation, and that she plans to get married to him.
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#49 - Jury Of One
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 24
A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.
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Hawaii Five-O - Season 11 - Episode 10
The death of a prominent politician reveals a strange love triangle.