The BEST episodes written by Larry Cohen

Escape Into Black
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9.54
35 votes

#1 - Escape Into Black

The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 9

On the verge of closing in on the shadowy one-armed man, Kimble is renderd amnesiac after a freak gas explosion at a roadside diner. While the Fugitive fights to regain his memory, a struggle ensues at the local hospital between Margaret Ruskin, a sympathic social worker whom regonizes Kimble and belives him to be innocent, while a local physician, named Dr. Towne, belives Kimble to be guilty. Meanwhile, the one-armed man slips away, but not before he makes an anonymous phone call to the police and Gerard about Kimble's whereabouts.

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Dirty Socks
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8.75
122 votes

#2 - Dirty Socks

NYPD Blue - Season 2 - Episode 17

Bobby's emotionally fragile witness for a double-murder keeps changing her story, she is really only interested in him. A family run business, that Andy used to work in, is held up and the owner's wife is killed, he participates in the investigation that involves some of his old friends. Donna's temporary replacement is gay. James enters in a department boxing tournament.

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Any Old Port in a Storm
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7.79
492 votes

#3 - Any Old Port in a Storm

Columbo - Season 3 - Episode 2

Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in.

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Candidate for Crime
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7.69
470 votes

#4 - Candidate for Crime

Columbo - Season 3 - Episode 3

A Senate Candidate running for office kills his campaign manager by making it look like he was the target for the killer's bullet.

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An Exercise in Fatality
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7.32
487 votes

#5 - An Exercise in Fatality

Columbo - Season 4 - Episode 1

A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident

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The Blind Man's Bluff Raid
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7.12
17 votes

#6 - The Blind Man's Bluff Raid

The Rat Patrol - Season 1 - Episode 7

During a skirmish with the Germans, Troy suffers a concussion from an explosion. He ends up alone and lost in the desert. By the time he is found he has a terrible case of sunblindness. Unknown to Troy, though, his ""rescue"" has been by a German unit that is pretending to be Americans so they can coax Troy to tell him where the rest of the Rat Patrol is. Dietrich is the engineer behind this ploy.In the end, recovering from the sunblindness in the nick of time, Troy escapes.

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Scapegoat
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6.17
6 votes

#7 - Scapegoat

The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 20

A man who knew Kimble during one of his disguises, meets him again. He tells him that on one of his hurried, silent departures from a town, he left behind evidence which indicated he was dead and an innocent man is being held for his murder.

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