The BEST episodes written by Mort Thaw
#1 - The Night They Shot Santa Claus
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 1
December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice cream to all the waifs. He walks outside, waves good-bye, and is promptly machine-gunned to death by hoods in a speeding car. Quite a shock for all the kiddies. Killing Santa is not a federal crime, but Eliot Ness investigates. Hap was a friend of Ness' for 10 years; they had sort of a truce. If Ness was on official business, they were on opposite sides of the law; unofficially, they were pals. Hap was a frontman for Mike Volney who owns the Criss Cross Club; Volney trusted him, and Hap also kept his books and records for him. It doesn't figure that anyone would rub out a small potatoes guy like Hap, especially since almost everyone liked him. The only motive could be because a month ago, Volney had shot another hood named Augie over some silly bet; there were 4 witnesses counting Hap. 2 of the witnesses had been killed. Now, with Hap rubb
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#2 - That Time of Year
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 4
Everyone gives Roy advice on where to go on vacation. Roy gets dizzy during a fire at a singles club. An instructor is injured during a self-defense class. A man with stomach pains is brought into Rampart. The firemen rescue two hang glider pilots from the face of a cliff.
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#3 - An Ounce of Prevention
Emergency! - Season 6 - Episode 13
A man with chest pains is trapped on a ferris wheel. A child ingests an illegal pesticide. While making a TV appearance to discuss fire prevention, Gage and DeSoto become stars of a real-life emergency.
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#5 - Tommy
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 14
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
#6 - L'Chayim
Ironside - Season 3 - Episode 12
A Torah is stolen from a local Synagogue, presided over by an old friend of the Chief's. Ironside personally takes on the case, determined to find out if the theft was an act of vandalism, as the evidence would seem to point out, or if it is really the work of thieves looking for some quick money.
#7 - Her Brother's Keeper
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 24
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
#8 - The Dublin Lad
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 15
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some investigating of his own.