The BEST episodes written by Laurence Marks
#1 - Rites of Passage
Goodnight Sweetheart - Season 1 - Episode 1
Lost in the East End of London, TV repairman Gary Sparrow walks down Ducketts Passage, through a time warp into 1940. In the Royal Oak pub there, without either gasmask or identity papers, he is suspected of being a spy. His eye is drawn by the barmaid Phoebe, but she is a married woman whose husband is away in the war. In the cellar during an air raid he teaches the pub regulars some songs. He also helps Eric, Phoebe's father, who is injured during the raid. But what will he tell his wife Yvonne, when, and if, he gets home?
#2 - The Case of the Fiery Fingers
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 31
When wealthy Louise Gordon is poisoned to death her nurse is charged with the crime. Perry does some digging and discovers that the first wife of the victim's husband also died of poisoning. Is the husband really the culprit or could it be someone else?
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#3 - Fools Rush In
Goodnight Sweetheart - Season 1 - Episode 2
Ignoring Yvonne's advice, Gary goes for a promotion interview but does not wear a suit. His friend, Ron, hearing Gary's call to a radio phone-in program, is intrigued to know if he really did travel back in time. After another argument with Yvonne, Gary does buy a suit, though not quite what she had in mind. He returns to Duckett's Passage to see if he can go back to 1940, and what he found there.
#4 - Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
Goodnight Sweetheart - Season 1 - Episode 3
Gary & Yvonne argue about her preoccupation with her OU degree course and his obsession with WW2. Warning Phoebe that the bombing will start early that evening, Gary takes her to Holborn Underground station to shelter overnight. When they return to the Royal Oak next morning, he is questioned by the police. Back in their Cricklewood home, Yvonne is worried when Gary fails to return from work that evening.
#5 - Hogan's Hofbrau
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 13
When two ruthless German officers put the squeeze on Colonel Klink to contribute money to their phony cause "or else," Hogan and the gang must scramble to come up with the cash and deliver it in time to keep Klink out of harm's way as the camp's inept commandant.
#6 - The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 13
Restrauteur Morey Allen, a friend of Perry and Della's, has a problem: his waitress, Dixie Dayton, was struck by a car while fleeing the restaurant after spotting a man stalking her. The only item she left behind was a moth-eaten mink. When the stalker is found murdered, Morey and Dixie are both strong suspects and eventually get arrested for the murder. The case also ties in with the murder of a young policeman several months before.
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#7 - Operation Briefcase
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 4
Hogan is unexpectedly drawn into an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler when he is ordered to deliver a briefcase rigged with explosives to a German general involved in the plot.
#8 - Yankee Doodle Doctor
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 6
The 4077th is designated as the setting for the making of an army film on Mobile Army Surgical Hospital units. Hawkeye is chosen as the star while Margaret and Frank compose a screenplay. The Eye Of The Hawk objects to the piece of propaganda that filmmaker Lt. Bricker is producing and, having exposed the original film, reshoots a new one his way, starring himself as Groucho Marx-ish Yankee Doodle Doctor, and poking fun at glorifying doctors while concluding with a rather serious speech about the hell of war.
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#9 - Art for Hogan's Sake
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 16
An assertive General Burkhalter "requisitions" the famous Édouard Manet painting, "The Fife Player," from the Louvre museum in Paris to give to Hermann Goering as a birthday present. Undaunted by the seeming impossible logistics, Hogan and LeBeau decide to steal it back!
#10 - 5 O'Clock Charlie
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 2
An inept North Korean pilot, known as "5 O'Clock Charlie", makes his daily attempt to bomb the ammo dump. Frank puts in a request for an anti-aircraft gun, which is granted when Charlie hits General Clayton's jeep. Frank takes charge of the gun, while Hawkeye and Trapper are determined to prevent him using it, by getting rid of the ammo dump. Frank misses Charlie and destroys the dump.
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#11 - Adam's Ribs
M*A*S*H - Season 3 - Episode 11
Sick and tired of having liver and fish for an 11-day stretch, Hawkeye, driven near to insanity, starts a riot in the mess tent. He and Trapper then orders spare ribs and sauce from the best place he ever had them, in Chicago. Trapper calls a woman he spent a weekend with to pick up the ribs, and then they get choppered in. Unfortunately, right as they're sitting down to eat, wounded arrive, and Hawkeye is forced to postpone sinking his teeth into his beloved ribs.
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#12 - German Bridge Is Falling Down
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 7
Several attempts by Hogan and his men to destroy a German bridge end in failure --- until they decide to use the Nazis' own ammo to accomplish the task!
#13 - Sticky Wicket
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 21
Hawkeye and Frank argue over Frank's surgical ability. Hawkeye performs a difficult operation and the patient does not recover, as he should. Hawkeye begins to doubt his ability and moves out of The Swamp. He decides to open up his patients again, and discovers a nick in the colon that even Frank admits anyone could have missed.
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#14 - The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 2
Peter Cole is caught one night sleepwalking with a letter opener and standing over his wife's bed. His wife Doris is afraid and decides the next day to file for divorce. Exactly one year later, when the divorce is to be finalized, Frank Maddox, Peter's business partner, meets with Doris Cole. Together they arrange to force Peter Cole to pay Frank Maddox $500K to buy his share of the business or Doris will stop the divorce that Peter wants. That night Frank Maddox spends the night at Peter Cole's house and exchanges bedrooms with Phillip Kendall, Peter's stepbrother. The next morning Phillip Kendall is found dead in bed and Peter Cole is accused of murder due to his known sleepwalking.
#15 - Henry, Please Come Home
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 9
Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.
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#16 - Kim
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 6
Hawkeye operates on a 5-year old Korean boy, and Radar can't find his family. Henry plans to send him to the orphanage, and the camp enjoys his company while they can. Trapper decides to adopt him after consulting his wife, and has to rescue him after he wanders into the minefield. Kim's mother turns up at the orphanage looking for him.
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#17 - Carry On Hawkeye
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 11
The camp succumbs to the Asian flu, except for Hawkeye and Margaret, who have to do everything themselves. As the others start to recover, Hawkeye falls ill but he still manages to operate when wounded arrive. Finally the others are well enough for Hawkeye to stop working and rest. He is thanked for his service with a commemorative roll of toilet paper.
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#18 - Happiness Is a Warm Sergeant
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 11
Sergeant Schultz, while escorting Newkirk to the dentist, gets drunk and is replaced by a hard-lined, no-nonsense guard. Hogan and his crew must act fast to get the docile Schultz restored to his post.
#19 - Love Story
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 14
Radar gets a Dear John recording from home. Hawkeye and Trapper try to set him up with a date, but fail. Radar is taken by a new nurse at the camp and she is into poetry and music, so they coach him. Margaret wants to stop the relationship, so Hawkeye and Trapper get between her and Frank until she relents. Radar's "Ahhhh, Bach!" and "That's highly significant," quotes win him the girl.
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#20 - The Moose
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 5
Sergeant Baker arrives at the camp with his Moose. Hawkeye decides to find a way of getting her away from Baker. He tries ordering him to release her, tries buying her, and then resorts to cheating at cards. He releases her but she won't go, so he tries to teach her how to be independent.
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#21 - The Flame Grows Higher
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 31
Somewhere along the elaborate, intricate underground escape rout there is a disastrous weak link, Determined to find it, Hogan, Newkirk and Lebeau decide to break out of Stalag 13 by following the escape route themselves.
#22 - Cease-Fire
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 23
General Clayton calls so say that a ceasefire is to be declared. The camp celebrates, Klinger gives away his dresses and locals start to take pieces of the camp. But Trapper does not believe it. Hawkeye claims he is married to avoid promises he made to several nurses. The party to celebrate the cease-fire, which never really took place, is interrupted by incoming wounds.
#23 - Radar's Report
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 3
Radar writes the weekly activity report. Hawkeye operates on a wounded prisoner who grabs a scalpel and attacks the doctors. Frank wants Klinger thrown out on a section 8,so Henry calls in a psychiatrist, Major Freedman. Hawkeye is attracted to a new nurse but thinks she is married. Trapper loses a patient who developed complications during the O.R. fracas with the wounded soldier.
#24 - Request Permission to Escape
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 32
Jilted by his girlfriend back home, Carter requests permission to escape so that he can somehow woo her back. Hogan agrees—but only if Carter can accomplish one last task of passing bogus battle plans on to the Germans.
#25 - Top Hat, White Tie and Bomb Sights
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 10
Hogan's only chance to pass some important information of to an underground contact is via a rendezvous in a nearby village --- So he convinces Colonel Klink that he will reveal valuable military secrets if he's allowed to have "a night on the town."
#26 - The Big Gamble
Hogan's Heroes - Season 5 - Episode 9
Hogan plots to keep a secret device, hidden on board a downed plane, from the Germans.
#27 - Rainbow Bridge
M*A*S*H - Season 3 - Episode 2
As Hawkeye and Trapper are planning to leave for Tokyo, an unusual offer to swap POW patients between the Chinese and the 4077th comes in. Henry, after much debate, agrees to send Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Radar, and Klinger into enemy territory. Frank almost botches the swap when he brings a squirt gun to the exchange. Fortunately, the Chinese Dr. Lin Tam has a sense of humor; he went to the University of Illinois, after all.
#28 - It's Dynamite
Hogan's Heroes - Season 6 - Episode 10
Hogan's plot to hijack a dynamite truck takes a different tack when the truck makes an unscheduled stop.
#29 - The Scientist
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 12
LeBeau aids in the escape of a captured French scientist and his daughter, who are able to make it out of Germany. But now the men of Stalag 13 must find a suitable "replacement" scientist who can present and discuss the study's findings.
#30 - O.R.
M*A*S*H - Season 3 - Episode 5
The OR is filled with more wounded than the unit can handle. Hawkeye does heart massage on a soldier, which saves his life, but he dies four hours later. Sidney Freedman drops in during the deluge, and is dragged into the fray by Hawkeye.
#31 - The Great Impersonation
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 21
When LeBeau, Newkirk and Carter are captured by the Gestapo during a sabotage mission, Hogan must convince the affable sergeant Schultz to impersonate the stern Colonel Klink and demand their release.
#32 - L.I.P.
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 7
Corporal Walker is being sent home, and he wants to marry his Korean girl so she and their baby can return with him. CID sends Lt Willis to investigate, but when he refuses Hawkeye and Trapper frame him. Hawkeye is upset that a nurse he was pursuing does not approve of the marriage between "a gook" and "one of us".
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#33 - Deal Me Out
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 13
Sidney Freedman comes to the camp, and joins in the poker game at The Swamp. Radar hits a local with a jeep, although the local is famous for jumping in front of vehicles for the compensation. Hawkeye and Trapper operate on an intelligence officer against regulations. Sidney helps talk around a soldier who wants to kill Frank.
#34 - As You Were
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 20
While there are no casualties, Hawkeye & Trapper crate up Frank while he sleeps and receive gorilla suits through the mail. Henry gets a tan and gives another sex orientation lecture. When the wounded start pouring in again, their own side shells the camp, hitting the generator, and Radar tries to get through to someone to stop the shelling.
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#36 - The Defector
Hogan's Heroes - Season 5 - Episode 10
A defecting Field Marshal tailed by Major Hochstetter to Stalag 13 needs Hogan's help to get to England.
#37 - Big Mac
M*A*S*H - Season 3 - Episode 21
The camp prepares for a visit from General MacArthur. Klinger dresses as the Statue of Liberty as the General's jeep drives through the camp. MacArthur is so impressed, he salutes!
#38 - The Safecracker Suite
Hogan's Heroes - Season 1 - Episode 27
Colonel Klink's happy reunion with an old military buddy ends abruptly when the man is arrested by the Gestapo. Will Klink end up in the clink as well?
#39 - Gowns by Yvette
Hogan's Heroes - Season 5 - Episode 19
By having LeBeau design her gown, Hogan plans to use the wedding of Burkhalter's niece as a smokescreen to smuggle a defector out of Germany.
#40 - Diamonds in the Rough
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 3
After being double-crossed by a female lure, Hogan and his men are confronted by a Gestapo agent who knows all about their secret operation and demands "hush" money --- in the form of a million dollars in diamonds!
#41 - The Rise and Fall of Sergeant Schultz
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 6
Hogan is stymied over how to rescue a captured member of the underground until a potential diversion --- in the form of an old World War I buddy of Sergeant Schultz --- arrives at Stalag 13.
#42 - Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up?
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 12
With camp security raised, Hogan and his men are desperate to smuggle some top-secret photos of German fortifications to the allies. The solution? Make liberal use of Carter's remarkable impersonation of Adolf Hitler.
#43 - Funny Thing Happened on the Way to London
Hogan's Heroes - Season 3 - Episode 5
Newkirk, Kinchloe and LeBeau must help Hogan fool the Germans with a look-alike German official to thwart the Nazis' planned assassination plot against British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
#44 - Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 23
Captain Kurtz, General Burkhalter's brother-in-law, becomes the camp's tough new adjutant. What's worse he's keeping a watchful eye on every corner of Stalag 13 and ends up getting in the way of Hogan's plans to blow up an enemy munitions train.
#45 - The Collector General
Hogan's Heroes - Season 3 - Episode 27
An arrogant German general arrives at Stalag 13 and orders Colonel Klink to guard a truckload of ammunition. But when Hogan discovers that the "ammo" is actually a collection of valuable pieces of art stolen from France, he masterminds a little theft of his own.
#46 - Man in a Box
Hogan's Heroes - Season 4 - Episode 14
Hogan is ordered to capture an "escaped" Corporal Louis LeBeau --- but in a manner that will ensure LeBeau's completion of an espionage caper.
#48 - Don't Forget to Write
Hogan's Heroes - Season 2 - Episode 13
The aristocratic Colonel Klink fails a routine physical exam and lands a combat assignment at the Russian front! Fearing a hard-line replacement at Stalag 13, the men must do all they can to rescind Klink's marching papers.
#49 - Change Day
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 8
Charles plans a scheme to get rich when he discovers that blue scrip is going to be exchanged for red. Hawkeye and B.J. outsmart him, and he is left holding the worthless scrip. Klinger tries to get into West Point so that he can get out of Korea.
#50 - The Incubator
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 12
Hawkeye and Trapper recover from an all night party. Henry gets a barbecue, and Hawkeye puts in a request for an incubator. The Quartermaster turns him down. They locate a Major with 3 incubators, but he won't let them have one. A Colonel tries to sell them one, and then they get into trouble with a General at a press conference. Finally, Radar trades the barbecue for an incubator.