The BEST episodes written by Lloyd Turner
#1 - Each Dawn I Diet
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 4
Because he wants to take Gloria Hickey to a swimming party, Danny suddenly becomes self-conscious about being overweight. At the end of his first week of dieting, not only has he not lost any weight, he has gained four pounds – he could not resist the temptation of a few candy bars and tacos, just as """"energy food."""" Reuben tells Danny that he is too young to have enough will-power to diet in order to shame Danny into continuing his effort. But his plan backfires as Danny challenges him to a contest which involves Reuben's breaking the cigarette habit for as long as Danny diets. While Reuben is feeling withdrawal symptoms, Danny is fantasizing about chocolate cake. Shirley decides that both Danny and Reuben should turn to the other members of the family at any time for added incentive if they feel themselves giving in to temptation. This plan fails miserably because no one is getting any sleep, and Shirley's new tactic is to present Danny with a bowl of chocolates and Reuben with a pac
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#2 - A Case of Black and White
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 17
George's latest business deal is with a black man married to a white woman, so when he invites them over for dinner, he also has Tom and Helen come over, to make it look like he doesn't have racial prejudices. However, when Tom and Helen discover his plot, they storm out before the guests have arrived. This leads to George having Florence and Ralph impersonate Tom and Helen.
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#3 - Archie and the Computer
All in the Family - Season 4 - Episode 7
A computer informs Archie that he's been declared dead.
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#4 - George Meets Whittendale
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 21
George is excited that he's going to finally meet Mr. Whittendale, however a previous engagement with Harry could foil George's plans. Things get even worse for George when he becomes trapped in the bathroom with Tom and Helen.
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#5 - Louise's Cookbook
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 20
Louise is offered the opportunity to write a cookbook for Tom's publishing company, Pelham Publishing. However, just as she gets started, a green-eyed George tries his best to put an end to her cookbook.
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#6 - Mork in Love
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Mindy tells Mork that he has to experience love in order to understand the human experience, he takes her advice and falls head over heels for the lovely Dolly, oblivious to the fact that she's a mannequin.
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#7 - Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 7
Mary begins seeing an author who appeared as a guest on WJM-TV's Scrutiny, and becomes extremely self-conscious after discovering he is several inches shorter than her.
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#8 - Louise Gets Her Way
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 2
Florence breaks down and tells Louise that she's losing her apartment due to the fact that the building is going to be torn down, this leads Louise to offer Florence a live-in maid position at the Jeffersons. Now the only problem is to get George to allow her to accept the job.
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#10 - The Wedding
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 24
After reading an article about Harry Belafonte renewing his marriage vows, George decides to do the same thing. However, Louise has second thoughts when she gets into an argument with George over her being an equal partner in Jefferson Cleaners.
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#11 - See Here, Private Partridge
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 4
When Danny mistakenly receives a draft notice, he becomes convinced that he will have to join the military.
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#12 - Mork the Tolerant
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 15
Mork and Mindy get a new neighbor and invite him to dinner, where Mork cooks.
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#13 - A Day of Honesty
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 10
Danny gets caught trying to sneak into a movie theater without a ticket and the police bring him home. Shirley punishes Danny for his dishonesty by taking away his movie privileges for a month. Danny, depressed about his punishment, begins to write down every instance when other members of the family tell a lie or are dishonest. Later he confronts them with his notes. Shirley, trying to teach Danny a lesson, proposes that the family try to be completely honest for 24 hours. As the day of honesty progresses, everyone, including Shirley, gets into trouble when they have to tell the truth. But Danny, seeking revenge, keeps them all in line. Then Danny is faced with the problem of telling Laurie that basketball player Jim Benson has canceled his date with her for another girl and he lies, rather than hurt Laurie's feelings. Danny confides to his mother about his lie and offers to do another 24 hours of honesty. But Shirley feels that Danny has finally learned his lesson about how people's
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#14 - Mork Goes ERK
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 18
Mork tells Mindy that he's been transferred to another planet and will be leaving in a few days.
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#15 - The Evans Get Involved (3)
Good Times - Season 5 - Episode 3
Willona and the Evanses are stunned to discover that Penny and her mother have moved, but soon find the girl hiding in the Evans apartment. Later, Penny's abusive mother abandons her, leaving Willona to ponder adopting the battered youth.
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#16 - Archie and the Miracle
All in the Family - Season 5 - Episode 11
A workplace accident makes Archie into a regular churchgoer.
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#17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 17
Max is serving as a courier on board an airplane when he is forced to release his package from the plane, sending it to land on the roof of Hester Van Hooten's mansion. The only problem is Van Hooten hasn't allowed visitors to her house in 20 years and she and her brother aren't about to start now.
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#18 - Lunch with Mama
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 14
Louise realizes that Mother Jefferson has a strong hold on George when he refuses to cancel a monthly lunch with his mother and go with Louise to a funeral for a family friend.
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#19 - The Agreement
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 10
George interferes in Lionel and Jenny's relationship by suggesting to Lionel that he have Jenny sign a pre-nuptial agreement. This leads to Jenny and Lionel to get into an argument which ends in them calling off the wedding.
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#20 - The Breakup (2)
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 17
Tom and Helen debate on whether or not to take the first step and try to patch things up with George and Louise while Louise debates the same thing. Meanwhile, Lionel makes a final decision about whether or not to use the ready made term paper.
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#21 - Physician Impossible
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 9
Mistaken for a doctor and his nurse, Max and 99 are kidnapped and forced to operate on a wounded gangster. CONTROL is transporting vicious killer Big Eddie Little to jail by pretending to run in a marathon with him. Little breaks away from Max, but not before Max shoots him in the shoulder. Little gets away, vowing to kill Max. Max ignores his threats and goes to visit 99 and the twins in the hospital. Dressed in hospital scrubs, Max and 99 are taken for a doctor and nurse by KAOS and taken to a remote cabin to remove the bullet from Little's shoulder. Only by pretending to remove the bullet can Max escape from the cabin alive.
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#22 - A Partridge Up a Pear Tree
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 21
Keith has a new possession... a 1952 Hudson... which is his pride and joy. The car is a lemon, however, and Keith has borrowed money from everyone in the family to make payments and fix it. Danny decides to become his business manager and teach him how to handle money. Keith can't bring himself to tell Carol, his girlfriend, that he is broke. Instead, he takes her to a kiddie show and gives her homemade popcorn. She tries to get Keith to tell her the truth, but when he refuses she runs away hurt. As Keith tries to follow her in the car... it breaks down again. Shirley suggests that Keith get a job to make extra money. He first becomes a trainee to a plumber, but can't quite get the knack of plumbing. Then he tries to learn to become a salesman of a vegetable slicer, but ends up buying the slicer for his mother. His attempt at a newspaper route ends disastrously when he sees a beautiful girl walk by.
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#23 - Leadside
Get Smart - Season 4 - Episode 23
Wheelchair bound mastermind Leadside is caught in a robbery by Max and announces a three-part plan. Phase one, he will escape from Max. Phase two, he will destroy CONTROL. Phase three, he will kill Maxwell Smart. After Leadside follows through on Phases One and Two, Max holes up in his apartment, vowing "Leadside will only complete Phase Three over my dead body." This is one of my favorite episodes and Ronald Long is brilliant as Leadside. "My mother gave me Norman." The wheelchair in the back of the truck bit is still side-splittingly funny.
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#25 - Bentley's Problem
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 14
Harry is having problems with the person who parks his car next to him in the garage. Seeking advice, Harry goes to George. However, George's advice lands Harry in jail, after he punches out a police officer. Meanwhile, Louise is looking forward to a trip to California.
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#26 - Morning Becomes Electric
The Partridge Family - Season 4 - Episode 20
Scheduled to appear at a rally for energy conservation, the Partridge family is chagrined when Danny's guitar blows all the fuses in the auditorium. To make amends they decide to be the """"model"""" family, showing everyone how easy it is to cut down on use of electricity. Danny suggests printing the name of """"energy hogs"""" in the local newspaper for all to see. Things go well until two days before the end of the electricity billing period when Danny realizes he has been reading the meter wrong – instead of 270 kilowatts they only have 27 left! To prevent the """"model family"""" from being exposed as """"energy hogs,"""" the Partridge family must spend one day without any electricity at all – including lights, stoves and heat! Sitting around the fireplace toasting marshmallows and singing, they realize the situation isn't really so bad – it's fun and it's brought the family closer together.
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#27 - The Apes of Rath
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 10
Several agents have been murdered by someone with incredible strength. The only clue is an empty banana peel. It is soon deduced that the killer is an ape. CONTROL agents are receiving bananas in the mail and then being murdered, completely puzzling CONTROL. What they don't know is KAOS is using Chucko, an ape made to look like a human being, as the assassin. The plot thickens when Max receives a banana in the mail and a new agent, Chuck Armstrong, is assigned as his protector. Unfortunately, Armstrong is actually Chucko the Ape. Before Max discovers Armstrong's real identity, Armstrong reverts back to Chucko and takes 99 to the roof of Max's building, just like in King Kong.
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#28 - Widow Often Annie
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 4
When The Chief orders Max to romance and betroth Ann Cameron, a beautiful widow suspected of murdering her 12 husbands for the insurance money, which she donates to KAOS, the wedding coincides with The Smarts' first wedding anniversary, much to 99's dismay.
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#30 - Requiem for a Wino
Good Times - Season 5 - Episode 11
When local wino Fishbone is mistakenly believed to have been killed, he attends his own wake dressed in drag as a mourner.
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#32 - Mork Moves In
Mork & Mindy - Season 1 - Episode 3
After constant hounding from Fred, Mork agrees to move out of Mindy's apartment. But Mork's plans are complicated when he becomes drunk on ginger ale.
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#33 - They Shoot Managers, Don't They?
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 20
The Partridge Family's concern about manager Reuben Kincaid leads them to believe he needs a wife. After one unsuccessful attempt by Danny, Shirley decides to do some matchmaking of her own. She has a barbecue and invites Reuben and Cathleen D'arcy, a wealthy cosmetic manufacturer. For Cathleen and Reuben, it's love at first sight, and it isn't long before they announce their marriage plans to the family. Bad news accompanies the good when Reuben tells them that he'll no longer be able to manage the group because Cathleen wants him to handle all of her affairs. He does, however, set up one last booking for the family and after going over the details, he bids a sad farewell to Shirley and the kids. When the family arrives in Miami Beach for their show, everything starts to go wrong their hotel room is too small, the new press agent never shows up and there's a dispute over their contract.
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#35 - All's Fair
All in the Family - Season 5 - Episode 18
Gloria gives Edith a lesson in marriage assertiveness.
#36 - Bedknobs and Drumsticks
The Partridge Family - Season 3 - Episode 19
Reuben arranges for the Partridge family to make a TV commercial for Erwin Tully, owner of a large take-out chicken outfit. Up until now """"Uncle Erwin"""" has been making all his own commercials, very corny ones complete with chicken costumes. His sales have dropped and he feels he needs a new image. The family films the commercial -- the setting is a picnic; all the kids are playing and enjoying Uncle Erwin's chicken. Everyone is very pleased with the ad, everyone but Erwin! He feels something is missing – chicken suits! The Partrides are 100% against it but are forced by a contract to make another commercial. They try to make it as bad as possible, hoping Erwin won't like it and use the first one. He loves it. Erwin is going to preview his new commercial at a convention for all his franchise owners. Shirley realizes everyone there will hate the ad. So, when the conventioneers assume the commercial is a joke and ask for the """"real one,"""" Shirley saves the day by having the first ad read
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#37 - George's Diploma
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 5
George sets out to get a diploma after Lionel lies about George's education to his college pals saying he graduated from Harvard.
#38 - Louise Suspects
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 3
George is sneaking around trying to hide the fact that he's opening another store. He goes so far as to convince Louise he's having an affair after she discovers a love letter she thinks is to him from a woman named Adele. However, Adele is really Bentley's girlfriend, and Adele wrote the letter to Bentley.
#39 - Dear Me
The Facts of Life - Season 3 - Episode 9
To avoid a campout with boys, Tootie writes love letters to herself from an imaginary boyfriend.
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#40 - Dora, Dora, Dora
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 1
Keith's infatuation with a pretty young singer whom Reuben has sent prevents him from realizing that she is a terrible singer.
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#41 - Witness for the Execution
Get Smart - Season 5 - Episode 19
Max is assigned to protect KAOS Agent Dietrich. Dietrich has turned informant, and will give testimony on the inner workings of KAOS that would put an end to KAOS. The only obstacle is a man name Kibbee, a ruthless KAOS assassin who has never failed an assignment. Will Max be able to protect Dietrich, and himself, from Kibbee also known as the Exterminator?
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#42 - Louise's Physical
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 24
George, Tom, Helen, Harry and Florence are all sneaking around to set up a surprise birthday party for Louise. However, Louise is not exactly in a party mood after she comes back from a checkup at the doctor's office.
#43 - Bowery Bugs
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 14
Bugs tells the story about why Steve Brody jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886.
#44 - The Stupor Salesman
Looney Tunes - Season 1948 - Episode 30
When notorious bank robber Slug McSlug escapes the police dragnet by hiding out in an abandoned country house, he is visited by salesman Daffy Duck, who is absolutely determined to sell him something.
#45 - Archie is Missing
All in the Family - Season 5 - Episode 9
The family faces the possibility that Archie may have run off with another woman.
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#46 - Harry and Daphne
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 4
Harry is sure that his latest girlfriend, Daphne is going to pop the question and doesn't have the heart to let her down. So he bolts to the Jefferson's bathroom. Meanwhile, George tries to handle an inspector who's inspecting one of George's stores. However, George's method to avoid paying a fine by blackmailing the inspector, doesn't go over too well.
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#47 - Tale of Two Hamsters
The Partridge Family - Season 2 - Episode 9
Danny, Chris & Tracy start a hamster raising business. It turns out that hamsters really multiply. When they were going on the road, they can't find no one to take care of all the hamsters. So they take them with them. The hotel doesn't allow those pets, so they have to drive around the block to keep them warm. Shirley tells Danny that he has to dispose the hamsters, so he has an idea. Danny makes a deal with a department store manager to give out free hamsters with a purchase of The Partridge Family's newest album.
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#48 - Music Hath Charms
Maude - Season 2 - Episode 13
For their 5th wedding anniversary, Maude makes a big mistake in giving Walter an electric organ as a gift. He's driving everyone up the wall with his constant playing. Maude soon confronts him and they end up a huge argument, leading to Walter storming out and crashing his car into a tree.
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#49 - Porky Chops
Looney Tunes - Season 1949 - Episode 5
Lumber jack Porky Pig intrudes upon the peace of a squirrel vacationing in the North woods by trying to chop down the squirrel's tree.
#50 - Dough Ray Me-ow
Looney Tunes - Season 1948 - Episode 21
Louie the Parrot finds a written will stating that his master bequeaths the family fortune not to him, but to his fellow household pet, a lunkhead-ed cat named Heathcliff, with the proviso that Louie is next in line to inherit the wealth if Heathcliff dies. So, Louie plots the untimely demise of Heathcliff.