The BEST episodes written by Michael Morris
#1 - The Great Casino Robbery (1)
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 16
The nuns are used as pawns in a scheme to rob the casino.
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Chico and the Man - Season 1 - Episode 18
When his car acts up, Sammy Davis, Jr. pulls into the garage to get it fixed. However, he quickly learns that this is just no ordinary garage, with Sammy Davis, Jr. fans crawling out of the woodwork.
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#3 - The Day They Captured Santa Claus
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 11
Mchale decides for Christmas he and the crew of PT-73 will pay a visit to Sister Monique and the children dressed up in a Santa Claus outfit and elf outfits. Mchale would parachute from a plane first and meet the kids and PT-73 would follow a little while after. Mchale jumps in his Santa outfit but when he lands he finds the island was overtaken by Japanese and was captured. Mchale as usual cons his way through the interrogation and he claims that a new secret weapon is on it's way, just then PT-73 arrives singing Christmas carols and dressed in elf outfits. The Japanese commander becomes scared fearing that this was some kind new of physiological warfare and he surrenders.
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#4 - Movies Are Your Best Diversion
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 5
When McHale and his men are assigned the duty of averting a Japanese attack on a US convoy, they use the soundtracks of movies starring John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn to confuse the enemies.
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Chico and the Man - Season 1 - Episode 8
Chico and Ed try getting Veterans financing from the Government.
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#6 - The Crooked Convent
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 2
The sisters support a shady policeman in a case of mistaken identity after believing their benefactor is actually a scam artist.
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Chico and the Man - Season 1 - Episode 22
Everyone thinks that Ed had died, and when Ed finds out about it, he gets upset because nobody had cried for him when they heard the misleading news.
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#8 - Bobby's Hero
The Brady Bunch - Season 4 - Episode 17
The principal calls home to alert Mike and Carol to the fact that Bobby's playing Jesse James at school. This leads Mike and Carol to learn just how obsessed Bobby about his "idol" and try to dissuade him from worshiping a cold hearted killer.
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#9 - Marriage, Witches' Style
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 21
Serena decides to do the same thing that Samantha did and tries to find a mortal to date. She finds Franklin Blodgett through a computer dating service, but like all TV Land computer dating agencies, the matches always turn out to be bad. This proves this fact when Franklin insults Serena's magic when they are about to be engaged.
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#10 - Hippie, Hippie, Hooray
Bewitched - Season 4 - Episode 21
Serena lands on the front page of the morning news, which lands Darrin in a lot of trouble with the Tates. Darrin tries to convince the Tates that the photo is Samantha's cousin Serena. But when Darrin makes matters worse by insulting her, she decides to teach him a lesson.
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#11 - The Private Ear
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 9
Peter eavesdrops on his siblings' private conversations with the help of Mike's tape recorder.
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#12 - Archie and the Quiz
All in the Family - Season 5 - Episode 21
Archie is troubled when a magazine quiz on life expectancy only has him living seven more years.
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Chico and the Man - Season 2 - Episode 5
Chico thinks that Ed is spending too much time living in the past and not getting on with life.
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#14 - McHale and His Seven Cupids
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 3
McHale decides that what Ensign Parker really needs is a girl friend. He convinces Parker that he is suffering from an advanced case of battle fatigue so that he can be sent to the hospital, where McHale hopes that he will find Nurse Casey Brown to his liking.
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#15 - Daddy Does His Thing
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 27
Maurice gives Darrin a magic lighter, which Darrin doesn't accept. Maurice turns Darrin into a donkey because of his ingratitude. Samantha tries to find her father and finds him in Paris. She returns to see that Darrin the donkey has been taken to an animal shelter. Darrin is released and Maurice back tracks everything that he did to turn Darrin back to a human.
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#17 - My Brother's Keeper
The Brady Bunch - Season 5 - Episode 8
After Bobby pushes Peter out of the way of a falling ladder, Peter volunteers to be Bobby's slave for life. But Bobby takes advantage of the situation.
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#18 - The Case of the Loquacious Liar
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 10
Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.
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#19 - Samantha and the Loch Ness Monster
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 3
Sam and Darrin visit Inverness, Scotland, the place famous for the Loch Ness and its legendary monster. It seems that the monster is actually a warlock named Bruce who was transformed by Serena. To save Bruce's life, Sam calls on Serena to get him out of the spell. Once transformed, Bruce decides to get even with Serena by giving her a mermaid's tail! The reporters go crazy about the Loch Ness Monster, and Bruce wants to be a monster again. So he changes Serena back and Serena returns the favor by sending him back to the way he used to be, but with a little understanding about how important he really is.
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#20 - Send Us a Hero
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 14
A U.S. Congresswoman comes to Taratupa, to find a War Hero to take on a Stateside War Bond tour, and Parker and the boys help McHale to get chosen for the job, thinking that they will be going along.
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#21 - Bewitched, Bothered and Baldoni
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 5
The Stephens are sightseeing in Rome, and Endora tries to test Darrin's loyalty by bringing the famous Venus statue to life. When Darrin meets her (now named Vanessa), he misses an important meeting with a client named Mr. Baldoni, who also falls for Vanessa. Samantha, deciding that this is just too much, takes it upon herself to bring the famous Adonis statue to life. Adonis and Vanessa meet and fall in love instantly and are zapped back to the museum in their original forms- but with a small difference: they hold hands!
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#23 - Business, Italian Style
Bewitched - Season 4 - Episode 3
To get in good graces with an Italian client, Darrin must learn how to speak Italian. Endora, anxious for Samantha to travel Europe again, gives Darrin a perfect Italian tongue. Her spell, however, is too strong, and "Dino" no longer understands English. His new clients begin to think that Darrin is mocking them, and Samantha interrupts Endora's bath and demands she remove the spell.
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#25 - Samantha Is Earthbound
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 16
In this crazy episode, Samantha gets a condition which makes her entirely 500 pounds heavier. Dr. Bombay comes and gives her an antidote that makes her lighter...a little too light as she floats to the air! This will be hard to hide when the Prescotts, McMann and Tate's newest clients, has Samantha volunteer for a charity bazaar and fashion show. Sam tries everything to help weigh her down, but to no avail. In a memorable scene, Samantha holds a giant urn on her shoulder as she goes down the runway half floating, half walking in the fashion show. It is there that Darrin comes up with a spectacular slogan for Prescott shoes.
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#26 - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Wig
All in the Family - Season 4 - Episode 11
Gloria's new wig raises Michael's libido.
#27 - Serena's Richcraft
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 17
Serena visits Samantha because she is stripped of her powers. She then falls for Darrin's newest client Harrison Wilcott and decides to go out with him. Samantha tries to tell Wilcott that Serena is bad news, but Wilcott has fallen for Serena. So Samantha finds Countess Pirhana (who took away Serena's powers) and makes Wilcott fall in love with the Countess.
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#28 - Samantha and the Beanstalk
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 1
As the 1969-1970 season begins, we are greeted by an all-new Darrin Stephens. Tabitha is jealous of the new baby and decides to run away in the storybook of "Jack and the Beanstalk". Phyllis sees Jack and is very confused about what is going on. Samantha finds out that Tabitha twitched herself into the storybook and goes in to get her back. She finds Tabitha shrinking the story's giant and messing up the entire story. Samantha tells Tabitha to put everything right back where she found it and brings her home.
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#29 - Salem, Here We Come
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 2
Samantha and Darrin are under close supervision by Hepzibah. How is it possible for a witch and a mortal to be married and happy at the same time. Hepzibah then meets a client of Darrin's named Ernest Hitchcock and, thanks to Samantha, Hitchcock falls for the Priestess. The Priestess then rules out that the witch/mortal marriage is a great thing after all when she invites Sam and Darrin to go to Salem.
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#30 - The Case of the Angry Dead Man
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 18
Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.
#31 - Out of the Mouths of Babes
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 24
Darrin gets changed into a little boy again when he bans Endora from taking Tabitha to a supernatural event. As a boy, Darrin beats the pants off of a few boys in a basketball game. One of the boys, Herbie, wants Darrin to play in a championship game. Darrin, throughout all this, is in the middle of working on a new account for Irish Stew which is not selling at all, but by the end, the stew is fit for dogs.
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#32 - Honest Abe
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 8
Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.
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#33 - To Go or Not to Go, That Is the Question
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 1
Samantha gets a call from the High Priestess of Witches, Hepzibah, to attend a meeting in Salem, Massachusetts, thus beginning the Stephens' first serial vacation. When Samantha doesn't answer, the Priestess herself appears in the Stephens' home. Hepzibah does not approve of Samantha's marriage to Darrin and decides to break it. She then changes her mind and observes Sam and Darrin's marriage, for if she doesn't like it......
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#34 - Weep No More, My Willow
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 12
Samantha wants to keep a willow tree in her yard and decides to treat it. She calls Dr. Bombay to make her tree weep, but Samantha gets caught in the spell and each time the wind blows, she starts crying. When Larry hears her cry, he thinks that she and Darrin are having a fight and comes over to comfort her, but not before Dr. Bombay comes by to give her an antidote to make her laugh. When Larry comes by, Samantha starts laughing and laughing, and Larry starts laughing too. Then Darrin comes in to find Samantha and Larry laughing for no apparent reason. Then Dr. Bombay comes by with another antidote to make everything and everyone normal again.
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#36 - Samantha's Old Man
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 10
Endora is at it again! This time, she changes Darrin into an old man and tries to hide him. Too late, the Tates spot Sam and old-man Darrin and she introduces him as Darrin's grandfather, Grover Stephens. Larry plays matchmaker when he brings his widowed aunt Millicent to woo Grandpa Stephens. To break up the date, Sam turns herself into an old woman who poses as Grover's wife! Samantha decides to stay an old woman as long as Darrin stays an old man, and Endora has no choice but to turn him back to normal.
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#37 - Hansel and Gretel in Samanthaland
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 10
Hansel and Gretel are brought to life by Tabitha and are very sad and hungry. Tabitha decides that they should spend the night and goes into the storybook to ask their father. Samantha finds out and goes in the book after her, leaving a confused Darrin and the Tates at the dinner table. Worse of all, Hansel and Gretel run away again to look for food in the real world. In the storybook world, Sam finds Tabitha locked in the wicked witch's house. She brings Tabitha home and after a whole lot of confusion and police involvement, Hansel and Gretel are sent back into the storybook. Now, to get out of the situation of putting on a play of "Hansel and Gretel".....
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#38 - Samantha's Bad Day in Salem
Bewitched - Season 7 - Episode 7
Another boyfriend of Samantha is still chasing her. The boyfriend, Waldo, wants Samantha so badly that he blinks up his own Samantha and take her around town. Larry sees Waldo and his Samantha together and thinks that the Stephens are breaking up. Darrin finds out from Larry and he confronts Waldo, only to be turned into a crow. The real Samantha finds out as well and she demands that Waldo turn Darrin back. Then they explain to Larry that Serena was with Waldo at the time that he seen them.
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#39 - Paris, Witches' Style
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 6
Samantha and Darrin are now in lovely Paree and Endora is home with Tabitha and Adam. Maurice comes by the house and finds out that the Stephens are vacationing in Europe. He is mad because they should have stopped by in London to see how he was doing. Endora flies to Paris to warn Samantha and then Maurice appears in a scary cloud of smoke. Out of rare kindness, Endora zaps up a fake Darrin who charms and pleases Maurice. Everything just seems all right until the real Darrin comes in. Maurice notices the trick and sends poor Darrin to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Unbeknownst to him, his very appearance there makes a perfect advertising campaign for one of his clients who runs a travel agency.
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#40 - School Days, School Daze
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 23
Tabitha has to take a test to prove her intelligence and is very nervous. Endora helps her out by puuting a spell on her, making her a super genius! Miss Peabody, the teacher from episode 246, is amazed about Tabitha's knowledge and tells the principal about it. Samantha find out about this, and tells Endora to take the spell off Tabitha. Miss Peabody will not back off, and she catches Tabitha and Adam using their powers one day. Samantha catches Miss Peabody trying to be like Gladys Kravitz and gives her a lesson about snooping she will never forget.
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#41 - Mona Sammy
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 28
A picture blinked up by Endora about Samantha gives Larry the impression that Darrin is a great artist and wants him to do a picture of Louise. Samantha helps Darrin out by giving him artistic magic to create a beautiful painting of Louise, but Endora zaps it to be the ugliest thing on earth!
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#42 - Goober, the Executive
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 8 - Episode 16
Goober buys the gas station with financial backing from Andy and Emmett.
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#43 - The Mothers of PT 73
McHale's Navy - Season 1 - Episode 25
Trouble ensues, when Parker inadvertently invites three of the 73 Crew's Mothers - including his own - to visit Taratupa for Mother's Day.
#44 - Andy's Investment
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 8 - Episode 11
Andy opens a coin laundry to save money for Opie's college education.
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#45 - How to Be a Spanish Grandmother
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 12
Sister Bertrille helps Carlos convince his visiting grandmother that he's a happily married man.
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#46 - The Great Casino Robbery (2)
The Flying Nun - Season 2 - Episode 17
Sister Bertrille sets a trap for the casino thieves.
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#47 - Serena's Youth Pill
Bewitched - Season 8 - Episode 19
Serena returns for the last time and babysits with Tabitha and Adam. Larry comes by to return a golf club and Serena does an Abby Cunningham on him. Larry hurries off, but not before Serena gives him a pill to be young and active (pre-Viagra!). It makes him younger, all right, by ten years! Larry gets even younger and younger and everyone is very worried about him. Serena gives him an antidote which turns him back to normal.
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#48 - Jan's Aunt Jenny
The Brady Bunch - Season 3 - Episode 17
Jan discovers that Aunt Jenny had closely resembled her in her youth. Jan corresponds with Jenny and receives a photo in return, leading her to worry that she will grow up to look just like her strange-looking aunt. But when Jenny visits, Jan comes to appreciate her unusual lifestyle.
#49 - The Tape Recorder
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 8 - Episode 8
Opie disobeys Andy and tape-records a bank robber's confession.
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#50 - Opie's Most Unforgettable Character
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 29
Opie has a hard time finishing one of his homework assignments.
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