The BEST episodes written by Lawrence Hertzog
#1 - Passing Chance
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 7
While in Greece, Jonathan and Jennifer race to save their lives and the future of Hart Industries when a European business magnate seeks to destroy them during a cross-country car rally.
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#2 - Hartstruck
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 20
A psychotic woman is obsessed with Jonathan and is killing anyone who gets her way.
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#3 - Emily By Hart
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 12
A young reporter influenced by Jennifer is murdered by her fiance's employer.
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#4 - Harts and Hounds
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 5
A traditional fox hunt is marred by murder during the Harts visit to England -- and sends them off on the trail of a killer.
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#5 - Year of the Dog
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 10
The Harts lives are at stake when a valuable ancient jade carving leads them into the heart of mysterious Macao, where they encounter a Chinese arms dealer who has become a threat to U.S. national security.
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#6 - Always, Elizabeth
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 21
The Harts and Max fear for their lives when the debt-ridden brother of Max's penpal believes Max is rich and comes to steal some of his fortune.
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#7 - Two Harts Are Better Than One
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 1
Jonathan and Jennifer remember how they first met and fell in love in the midst of murder and international intrigue in the picturesque locale of London.
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#8 - Rich and Hartless
Hart to Hart - Season 4 - Episode 7
Max is duped into thinking that he has won a million dollars and leaves the Harts to thieves who take over the house.
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#9 - Hart of Darkness
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 8
A psychotic man pours a blinding chemical into the Harts pool. Seconds after Jonathan dives in for his morning swim, he surfaces, screaming in pain.
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#10 - Harts Under Glass
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 6
A diamond ring given to Jennifer by Jonathan for their fifth anniversary enables their escape from a glass-walled room where they are being held captive.
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#11 - Whispers in the Wings
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 13
Jennifer is stalked by a psychotic stage manager who lurks in the wings as the Harts don top hats and tails to perform in a charity benefit in the Big Apple.
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#12 - Operation Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 18
Jennifer, flying a kite in the park, falls and hits her head. She's hospitalized with a slight concussion. While in hospital, she witnesses the murder of another patient and tries to convince Jonathan of the strange crime is being covered up.
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#13 - Stay Tuned
Nowhere Man - Season 1 - Episode 17
Veil's link, a traitor within the "Organization," directs him to the idyllic town of Darby, New York, where a suspicious degree of cleaniness, incessant hospitality and unequivocal support for one local politican prevails. As he settles among the neighborly, strangely cheerful people there, he surmises that nothing in Darby is what it appears to be. After a local teenager, Michael, and his school teacher, Janet, caution Veil that something is terribly wrong in the town, he delves into the possibility that the Organization is employing a version of mind-control.
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#14 - Hart and Sole
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 21
Jonathan's new suit has been switched with another. To save time he decides to make the exchange himself rather than through the taylor. At the other man's hotel room, Jonathan and Jennifer discover a body.
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#15 - Contact
Nowhere Man - Season 1 - Episode 13
A dissenter from the Organization surreptitously contacts Veil and supplies him with documentation that one of its highest ranking members, Richard Grace, is the one primarily responsible for the decision to erase his identity. This mysterious man also turns over photos of Veil's deceitful wife, Alyson, in compromising poses with Grace and then offers to furnish Veil with valuable information from the group's dossier on him if he reciprocates by killing Grace. Before long, Veil finds himself in a risky alliance with someone inside the enemy's camp.
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#16 - Gemini
Nowhere Man - Season 1 - Episode 25
Following up on secret information provided by the FBI, Tom finds two valuable clues: the original untouched photo of "Hidden Agenda" and a key to the safe house inhabited by the agent who gathered the data – an operative code named Gemini.
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#17 - Something Nasty in the Neighborhood
Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 12
Jane and Connor go undercover in a small town, posed as a married couple, after a federal agent's disappearance prompts an investigation.
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#18 - Jane 113
Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 18
Jane discovers the disturbing truth about her abilities while searching for a Neuro who escaped the team.
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#19 - 'Tis the Season To Be Murdered
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 5
Industrial espionage is a problem at Hartoy company. When the investigator Jonathan has hired is murdered, the Harts go undercover in an attempt to foil the crooks and save the company from financial destruction.
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#20 - Hardcastle, Hardcastle, Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 15
Hardcase's two aunts help out during a nursing home jewelry heist.
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#21 - It's Not Such a Wonderful Life
Nowhere Man - Season 1 - Episode 12
At long last (and just in time for time holidays), Veil's torment comes to an end as federal agents locate him, reveal the identity of his enemy and disclose why "The Organization," a well-funded group of political fanatics wreaking havoc with foreign policy, have been trying to destroy him. After Veil gives a sworn deposition to authenticate his "Hidden Agenda" photograph, he's reunited with his wife Alyson and his mother and is on the way to having himself a merry little Christmas, until he gets a form of "coal in his stocking." In the series' turning point, U.S. government official whisk Veil away to a safehouse where, as he awaits the arrest of the perpetrators, some semblance of Christmas holiday cheer can be had. Although it's the season to be jolly, Veil is suspicious about the sudden developments in his life. With some initial disbelief, he hears Alyson's explanation of what happened that fateful night at the Bullpen restaurant when he left the table, her meeting with Dr. Bella
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#22 - There Goes the Neighborhood
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 12
Hardcastle's neighbors begin a Neighborhood Watch program after a series of local burglaries have them worried. After being overlooked by the organization for the selection of their Captain, the judge forgets about his displeasure when the thieves are caught only to be found dead later from a mysterious virus.
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#23 - You Don't Hear the One That Gets You
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 17
Mark is thrilled when he wins $20,000 racing in the Arizona Modified. His joy quickly dissipates when thieves hold him up and steal his winnings as well as the Coyote.
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#24 - Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself
Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 5
When inhabitants of an FBI safe house start to experience unexplained dreams and visions, Jane and crew must investigate potential Neuro activity.
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#25 - Trial by Fire
Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 9
Connor is arrested for arson and murder while out hunting for a Neuro, which is believed to have started numerous house fires.
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#26 - You Made Me Kill You
Hart to Hart - Season 1 - Episode 5
A deranged woman who works for Hart Industries has an obsession for Jonathan. She sees Jennifer as a threat to her fantasies of love and finds it essential to eliminate her.
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#27 - Exposure
Missing (2003) - Season 3 - Episode 18
Nicole gets to know her mom and tries to get to know her better. They also try to find a missing Department of Justice agent and try to find out why and who blew the cover of the DOJ agent.
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#28 - The Committee
Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 2 - Episode 17
Walker goes undercover to foil a small town's local officials, who've been taking the law into their own hands by killing the town's criminals.
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#29 - Up the Rabbit Hole (2)
La Femme Nikita - Season 4 - Episode 21
Michael escapes Red Cell and is assigned to meet Nikita and kill her, however she doesn't show up and an Alpha Team is assigned to track her down. Michael leads the team with Kate Quinn. Before the mission, Michael discovers Quinn is Nikita and that he could leave Section. The Alpha Team is wiped out and Michael escapes with Nikita.
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#30 - You Would Cry, Too, if It Happened to You
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 3
After telling his poker buddies to clean up the house before he gets back from the airport with the judge, McCormick returns with Hardcastle to discover that everything valuable on the estate has been stolen, including all of the judge's files on past cases.
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#31 - 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
24 - Season 1 - Episode 10
Teri manages to call CTU using a stolen cell phone. She and Jack have an emotional conversation, but her signal dies before the call can be traced. Nina and Tony find themselves facing a new boss, Alberta Green, as they continue to secretly help Jack. Palmer's political associates begin to sweat as Carl plans to take serious action against Keith's therapist. Jack uncovers a new name from the key card that may lead him to Gaines.
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#32 - Playtime
seaQuest DSV - Season 2 - Episode 6
In response to the voice of a child calling for help, the seaQuest journeys through an underwater vortex and find themselves 250 years in the future where humans are on the brink of extinction.
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#33 - Did You See the One That Got Away
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 21
Hardcastle visits a man he sent to prison for life only to find that the man never made it there.
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#34 - It Coulda Been Worse...She Coulda Been a Welder
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 9
The proposed destruction of a popular college bar brings Hardcastle's niece in the spotlight. With her protests making him upset, he must put aside their differences when she narrowly avoids a kidnapping.
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#35 - Something in the Air
seaQuest DSV - Season 2 - Episode 18
The crew protects a group of researchers at an abandoned mining outpost while they study an ancient chest found buried deep in the Mediterranean. However the chest proves to be like Pandora's box, housing a demon who escapes and then preys upon the landing party.
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#36 - Patient X
Missing (2003) - Season 3 - Episode 11
When the teenage perpetrator of a high school hostage crisis disappears, the agents solicit some unusual help from their suspended boss, Pollock, to investigate the school psychiatrist's records. Then, when another student goes missing, suspicion falls on the mysterious Patient X.
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#37 - Duet for Two Wind Instruments
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 12
When the courts discover that a convicted felon named Randy Hopke had been defended by an incompetent lawyer, the original ruling is overturned and all charges are dropped. Hopke's release quickly prompts an argument between the judge and Mark. Hardcastle, having presided over the case, insists that, as originally determined, Hopke is guilty of assaulting his girlfriend Val Mickaelian. On the other hand, Mark, having known Hopke from when he was in prison, insists that the judge made a mistake. The two men, each hoping to prove they are right, set out to prove their respective positions. In the process of their investigations, both Hardcastle and McCormick realize that they are both wrong: While they learn that Hopke did not actually assault Val, they also discover that the released prisoner had planned the assault and was willing to serve a limited prison sentence to cover-up the fact that he had committed a murder during a diamond store heist. Theorizing that Val is probably working with Hopke, Hardcastle and McCormick follow her. As expected, she leads them to Hopke as well as the stolen merchandise. After an unusual "bus" chase, Hopke is captured and the case is finally resolved.
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#38 - And Everything Nice
seaQuest DSV - Season 2 - Episode 14
On the mainland, Lucas falls for a beautiful woman and asks to resign from his position, however plans change when she is suddenly kidnapped by terrorists in an attempt to take control of seaQuest.
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#39 - You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful and You're His
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 9
While judging the Miss Sixteen beauty contest, Hardcastle becomes wrapped up in the life of car salesman Ed Whitman, the pageants grand marshal. Worried when her boyfriend Victor Hernandez reveals that his uncle disappeared while sneaking across the Mexican-United States border, Melissa Whitman, Ed's sixteen year old daughter and one of the pageant's contestants, goes to Hardcastle for help. Although Victor's uncle does eventually turn up alive, Hardcastle decides to find out what happened. With Victor's reluctant help, Hardcastle discovers that a man was murdered during a transfer of illegal immigrants across the border. Thanks to Victor, Hardcastle also learns that a lawyer named Antonio Morales, who claims no knowledge of the murder, has been helping to arrange illegal immigrations. Before the judge can get more information from Victor's uncle, the illegal immigrant is murdered. With Morales' help, Hardcastle goes undercover as a perspective immigrant. The judge's plan works and the illegal immigration ring is stopped. At the same time, Hardcastle discovers that Ed Whitman is the mastermind behind the illegal operation. Returning to the United States, Hardcastle and McCormick help the police take Whitman into custody. As the episode ends, Melissa loses the pageant to a girl named Sara Jane Rose.
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#40 - Toys in the Basement
La Femme Nikita - Season 4 - Episode 18
While on her mission, Nikita gets shot. She was badly injured. Michael goes to the spot where she fell of the building's roof, but she isn't there. A man by the name of Henry takes out the bullet from her body, declaring he is a doctor. This guy won't let her go because he thinks she would want to stay after he helped her. She tries to break free, but she gets recaptured by him & his mother. Michael decides to go out to find Nikita. Henry wants to marry Nikita now, she wakes up in a wedding dress. He expects her to marry him after he rescued her from dying. Michael comes in time to help Nikita. He takes her with him to a serene campsite.
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#41 - Something's Going on on This Train
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 4
Although Hardcastle is initially pleased to be invited to a party on a private train, his emotion changes to anger when he discovers that he has been lured onto the train under false pretenses. His ire is further raised upon discovering that the train is not scheduled to stop for another day. One small consolation: Mark, accidentally trapped on board the train, is around to help him find out what is going on with the trip. The mystery takes a deadly turn when one of the passengers is murdered. Although the unknown murderer temporarily manages to get rid of Mark by throwing him off the train, the ex-race car driver, who is unable to identify his assailant, pools his resources and returns to the train down the track. Another murder prompts Hardcastle to set a trap for the killer. While Hardcastle pretends to be a victim, Mark purposely lets slip that the judge had obtained evidence against the killer. Taking the bait, passenger Carl Sharples tries to search Hardcastle's "body". Exposed as the killer, Carl reveals that he has been eliminating the people (strict teacher, ex-girlfriend, army commander, high school coach, that he selfishly believes "ruined" his life. With Mark's help, Hardcastle stops Carl before he can hurt anyone else.
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La Femme Nikita - Season 4 - Episode 5
Section's newest target is the son of a wealthy industrialist, by the name of Helmut Volker, who is supplying drugs at his parties when not funneling arms to Red Cell. The twist is Operations and Madeline have figured out that Michael has "restored" Nikita, so Operations uses this operation to once again drive a wedge between Michael and Nikita. Helmut Volker must marry if he is ever to inherit hit father's business, so Operations orders Nikita to marry Helmut when he proposes! Meanwhile, Michael does everything he can to prevent that from happening.
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#43 - By Any Other Name
seaQuest DSV - Season 2 - Episode 8
A distress call from an underwater horticultural colony leads the crew into an investigation of the mysterious disappearance of all human life inside the former paradise.
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#44 - Love and Country
La Femme Nikita - Season 3 - Episode 6
Section goes after Nikolai Markali, a politician whom Operations correctly believes is connected to the terrorist organization, Badenhein, although the suspicions at first appear to be unfounded. Other than these suspicions, he appears to be a man whose only crime appears to be being married to Operations' "widow," Corinne - the woman Operations was married to when he "died" upon his recruitment into Section. Madeline, posing as a therapist taking over Corinne's case, and Michael, posing as a therapist slowly drive Corinne insane using a highly addictive "medication" which makes her extremely unstable and an altered videotape making it appear Nikolai was having an affair with Nikita. According to the mission profile, Corinne takes her husband's life.
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#45 - When I Look Back on All the Things
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 15
Questioning his maturity, Mark decides to trade in the Coyote for a more conservative car. To his surprise, his credit application is rejected due to an $18,000 default. Investigating, Mark discovers that his name was used in a real estate deal put together by Melinda Marshall, the girlfriend that had helped put him in prison. (As revealed in a flashback sequence, Mark, having foolishly placed his car in Melinda's name for insurance purposes, was arrested for stealing his own car.) Hoping to clear his credit record, Mark pays a visit on Melinda. Confronted by Mark, Melinda reveals that she had faked the real estate contract in order to win a car. When someone tries to steal the car Melinda won, Hardcastle realizes that there is something more going on than a simple real estate deal. Hearing that Melinda works for Ted Rubin, a man in his files, Hardcastle realizes that the real estate company is running a land fraud scram. Realizing that there is probably something hidden in Melinda's car, Hardcastle and McCormick conduct a search. As a result, they discover valuable stamps in the car and learn how Rubin has been transferring his money. Although Rubin arrives at the estate ready for a fight, he is captured thanks to the timely intervention of the FBI agents that had been investigating him. [During this episode, both Mark and Hardcastle have extremely subjective recollections of Mark's original trial.
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#47 - Toy Soldiers
Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 2
When military stockpiles start to go missing before a presidential visit, Jane and the team are forced into high alert. Meanwhile, Jane confronts a Neuro with the ability to control the dead.
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#48 - Really Neat Cars and Guys with a Sense of Humor
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 22
Hardcastle & McCormick go undercover at a computerized dating service in order to find out why wealthy clients are turning up dead.
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#49 - D-Day
Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 2 - Episode 4
After finding his sister-in-law missing and her apartment ransacked, Hardcastle discovers that she had been secretly following her professor in hopes of earning extra credit in a police procedures course.
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#50 - Less Than the Eye Can See
Stingray (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 7
While relaxing at one of his favor-ower's homes, Ray finds himself drawn into a plan by an insane doctor to let loose a highly virulent strain of anthrax when one victim literally pulls up in front of the house. Fighting against time and the possibility of his own contagious infection, Ray dodges corrupt government officials trying to cover up the incident as he tries to prevent the scientist from infecting the local water supply with the anthrax.
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