The BEST episodes written by Michael Scheff
#1 - Murder Takes A Bow
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 19
Jennifer's death scene in an amatuer production could become the real thing when the director realizes she can identify him as a murderer of a young playwright.
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#2 - Too Many Cooks Are Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 1 - Episode 21
The menu features murder when the Harts take a gourmet cooking class. The Harts vie with an unscrupulous financier for a recipe which might benefit the world.
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#3 - The Murder of Jonathan Hart
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 16
The Harts' unscrupulous lawyer hires an assassin to eliminate Jonathan with plans to court and marry Jennifer and thus gain control of the sizeable estate.
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#4 - The Late Sarah White
Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 11
Jake and Corky fly to the Philippines to explore the reports of Sarah's death while on a mission involving MacArthur.
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#5 - Death of the Flowers
Magnum, P.I. - Season 7 - Episode 12
While Rick is planning a surprise birthday bash at the Club for Ice Pick, Carol asks Thomas to observe a court case she is presenting before Judge Kearns, who drops the case on a simple technicality. She considers the Judge to be her mentor, but is concerned that of late he has been acting uncharacteristically, and suspects him of taking bribes to dismiss cases. She asks Thomas to help her hopefully disprove her worries. But the investigation sees turns up evidence that implicates Ice Pick, who in turn faces having to implicate the woman he was in love with decades earlier, who is now involved with a crime ring. Carol, Rick and Ice Pick must all face up to the weaknesses and mortality of their mentors and idolised ones...
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#6 - Slow Boat to Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 11
Chief accountant of Hart Industries, Stanley Friesen, is set up to take a murder wrap after an evening on the town. In an attempt to clear him, the Harts retrace his steps and discover a gambling ring using the Nightlife as a cover.
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#7 - Christmas
Hotel - Season 1 - Episode 12
Christmas draws near as Susan Walker, a divorcee, checks in with her daughter, Lisa, at the same time that Paul Manning is rehearsing his ingenious robot, Tim. Lisa decides Paul should marry her mom. Lisa kidnaps the robot then insists that Paul join them for Christmas Eve at Grandma's house, where Lisa's matchmaking is a success. Christine hires Nicholas Edmund, a jovial old codger, to play Santa Claus for guests. When he requests a small advance, she borrows a ten-dollar bill from Peter, who is later distressed because the ten-dollar bill carried a girlfriend's phone number. Serendipitously, Peter's ten-dollar bill later returns to him, having passed through several hands. Lonely schoolteacher Agnes Simpson seeks yuletide companionship and discovers her former schoolmate Mrs. Cabot, who moves the employee party to Agnes's room. Room service attendant Ray Follard is forced by his bullying brother, Pike, to cooperate in a burglary scheme.
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#8 - The Murder's in the Mail
Moonlighting - Season 1 - Episode 6
Dave and Maddie find a dead body as they try to collect money for a collection agency, but it disappears without a trace when they try to report it.
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#9 - Murder Up Their Sleeve
Hart to Hart - Season 3 - Episode 5
A Jonathan Hart look-alike, with the help of his magician brother, plots Jonathan's murder intending to take over the Hart empire.
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#10 - Ex-Wives Can Be Murder
Hart to Hart - Season 2 - Episode 8
Max's ex-wife, presumed dead for over 10 years, arrives in Los Angeles. Her friend is murdered, so she calls Max for help. When two thugs try to grab her at the park, she is injured and Max is kidnapped. Demands are made for a necklace about which the Harts know nothing.
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#11 - Murder Takes the Bus
Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 19
Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.
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#12 - Murder Digs Deep
Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 11
An archaeological dig at the site of Coronado's City of Gold does not please everyone and a new corpse is dug up.
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#13 - Deadpan
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 21
Two critics take opposite views of a play based on one of Jessica's novels, 'Mainly Murder'. One is suspected of the murder of the other.
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#14 - The Reunion
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 13
Matlock heads to an old law school reunion where he meets up with his former classmates. After the reunion, one is murdered, and another stands accused of the crime, and Matlock faces the unpleasant task of having to prove that one of his former classmates murdered another.
#15 - The Prodigal Father
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 17
A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
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#16 - Killer Cop
Silk Stalkings - Season 3 - Episode 11
A young woman has an erotic passion for male police officers. After an unsuccessful inciden she drives her car and is stopped by a police vehicle. A uniformed man steps close to her car door and lays his leather-gloved hands around her neck and squeezes.
#17 - An Egg to Die For
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 11
A book fair in Miami becomes Jessica's backdrop when she teams with a Russian detective to solve an art theft and murder.
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#18 - Which Way Freeway?
Hart to Hart - Season 1 - Episode 15
Freeway runs away with a gun used to murder a wealthy neighbor. The Harts get involved in capturing the killer and intercepting a multi-million dollar jewelery shipment.
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#19 - The Thoroughbred
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 16
When the manager of a thoroughbred farm is murdered, her father begs Matlock to represent the mentally handicapped man accused of the crime.
#20 - The Price of Honor
Time Trax - Season 1 - Episode 11
A blackmailer from the future uses his knowledge of things to come - and high ranking people's secrets - to get his money. When he extorts a man who's destined to become president, Lambert takes notice of the event and tries to stop him. But the blackmailer seems to have his back covered. And the future president desperately wants to keep his dirty secret from interfering with an ongoing peace process. Can Lambert stop the secret from getting out? And what is the secret?
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#21 - Lone Witness
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 19
A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.
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#22 - The Honeymoon
The Colbys - Season 1 - Episode 19
Fallon and Jeff set off on their honeymoon. Miles face legal problems. Francesca is urged by Constance to move into the pool house. Bliss makes plans with Sean that will annoy her family.
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Hotel - Season 2 - Episode 12
Gayla and Steve Erickson are in San Francisco to confer with a specialist about their ten-year-old son, Josh, who is dying from a rare blood disease. In preparing for a bone marrow transplant, the doctor's tests reveal that Steve is not Josh's biological father. Alice and Bill Korman arrange a blind date for their unmarried, plain friend, Millie Broome, who is in town for a teachers' conference. When the date has to cancel, Alice hires a professional escort, Charles Vandoor, who spends the night with Millie and finds himself infatuated. While Charles waits for the right moment to reveal his line of work, Millie accidentally finds out from Charles's enthusiastic former client. Receiving most of the attention at the St. Gregory Hotel, however, is the celebrated clairvoyant Constantin Markos, who is in town to perform his unique skills. Markos, an old acquaintance of Mrs. Cabot's, impresses Peter when he predicts that a redhead will soon enter his life.
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