The BEST episodes written by Mel Goldberg
#1 - The Lost Island
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 5 - Episode 16
While searching for a fallen satellite in the Pacific, Steve rescues a drowning victim who turns out to be an alien. She offers to help him acquire the satellite, which has landed on her race's invisible island. However, many of the island's populace in fear of a revolution, yet are unable to leave due to a lack of an immune system to Earth illnesses. Steve must get an experimental serum for her before she will help him.
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The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 13
While traveling through a strange town, a murder occurs and an innocent man is accused of it. Heath saw the man who really committed the crime, a fact which gets him more trouble than he bargained for.
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#3 - Just Lucky, I Guess
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 4
A middle-aged mainland hardware salesman uses a prostitute, and then witnesses her murder by a mobster. He refuses to testify because of the damage to his reputation and that he doesn't want to be involved. McGarrett must persuade him to do the right thing.
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#4 - A Thousand Pardons -- You're Dead!
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 1
An army sergeant and a office worker have a scam in which they use bar girls to claim G.I. widow benefits, and then murder them to take the cash. McGarrett and company must use the girls to get to the core of the plot.
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#5 - Nine, Ten, You’re Dead
Hawaii Five-O - Season 4 - Episode 12
A mob boss seeks revenge on a former boxer who smashed the hand of a novice to prevent him from ending up ruining his life in the boxing ring.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 3
While Stockton honors the memory of Tom Barkley, Victoria searches for answers about Tom and Heath's mother.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 15
Jarrod decides to bring Maybelle Williams, one of his clients, home for Christmas.
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#8 - A Time to Love, A Time to Cry
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 6
A probation officer with an eye for Julie joins the Squad in its search for a young photographer accused of murder.
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The Big Valley - Season 2 - Episode 21
Senator Judd Robeson, a former gunman, comes to Stockton, showing signs of paranoia.
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#10 - Samurai
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 6
McGarrett and the gang must simultaneously protect a gangster from Japanese assassins and also try to convict him for his underworld activities.
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#11 - Along Came Joey
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 20
When the boxing son of a policeman, Phil Kalama, is killed, he starts a personal vendetta, and McGarrett must both solve the crime and stop Kalama from committing another murder.
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#12 - Trouble In Mind
Hawaii Five-O - Season 3 - Episode 2
Singer Eadie Jordan has not only a comeback concert to perform, but also a serious heroin addiction. Poisoned heroin is being peddled on the islands, and McGarrett must try to save Eadie from scoring for the last time.
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#13 - Up Tight
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 16
Young Eadie Hastings cannot be saved by Danno from jumping of a cliff, and Five-O think that she was high on speed. They track her source to a crank teacher, Professor David Stone, and Danno must pose as a surfer to investigate the drug pushers and users.
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#14 - Hammerlock
The Untouchables - Season 3 - Episode 10
New York, middle of 1932. The Syndicate-- headed by Joe Kulak, Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter and Dutch Schultz-- has the city's huge garment industry organized and under control. Now they are setting their sights on bakeries; there are 500 independent wholesale bakers in the city. They give Bull Hanlon the word: get the biggest independent baker, Adam Stone, to sign up and all the rest will fall in line. Hanlon is to use any means at his disposal. And so Eliot Ness and his Untouchables arrive in New York. Ness wants to fight fire with fire: just as the Syndicate is trying to force all the truck drivers to join their crooked United Bakers Trucking Association, Ness wants honest Adam Stone to organize all the independent bakers into a legit union. Mr. Stone wants no part of it, he is independent, and says he can fight the hoods on his own; he's been fighting to keep his business going for 30 years, just him and his business partner, his life-long friend Max Turkin. When Ness says they m
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#15 - Thanks For The Honeymoon
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 15
McGarrett agrees to let Toni, a tough female convict, get married and have a honeymoon in protective custody as long as she will testify against a local hood.
#16 - Nightmare In Blue
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 21
A series of rapes and murders occur, and the main suspect seems to be a police officer...
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#17 - The Stranger
The Virginian - Season 7 - Episode 26
The Virginian encounters a stranger, Garrison, on a trip when both are victims of separate robberies. Garrison is very standoffish with everyone but The Virginian finds him a reliable person and hires him at Shiloh. When the foreman at a neighboring ranch is murdered and the owner is shot and robbed, Garrison is thought by the community to be guilty based primarily on his actions. However, The Virginian is not so sure but the case tightens against Garrison.
#18 - The Secret
The Big Valley - Season 4 - Episode 15
A wealthy and powerful rancher moves into Stockton to ruin the Barkley enterprises. His motive: intense hatred of Jarrod, who he thinks is having an affair with his young wife.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 17
Nick returns from a trip from San Francisco with a big surprise - a fiance.
#20 - Run, Johnny, Run
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 17
Two military policeman spot John Mala, a man who McGarrett has helped in the past, but who has gone AWOL. One of the policemen is shot, and tensions rise as Five-O and the army police clash in their techniques of investigation and their treatment of the local population.
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#21 - Bored, She Hung Herself
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 16
Don Miles, a health freak, uses a hanging-type exercise to promote his wellbeing, but his girlfriend Wanda tries it, and seemingly dies in the attempt. However, all is not what it seems…
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#22 - Shadow of a Hero
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 21
Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide towards all Indians.
#23 - Little Girl Blue
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 20
Two simple criminals kidnap a young girl, and hide out in a bunker at Diamond Head. McGarrett must unravel the reason why they are there and get the girl safely away from them.