The BEST episodes written by Norman Hudis

#1 - The Frightened Inn-Keeper

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 20

Simon finds he is unwelcome in Cornwall when he comes to the aid of a friend.

#2 - Dear Tony

Baretta - Season 3 - Episode 8

A story told mostly in flashbacks concerns the suicide of a policewoman whose officer husband was killed in a liquor-store hold-up.

#3 - The Imprudent Politician

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 10

The wife of an indiscreet politician asks Simon for help.

#4 - The Persistent Parasites

The Saint - Season 4 - Episode 5

A rich man invites Simon and his 3 ex-wives to his French villa.

#5 - The Big Kahuna

Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 25

Sam Kalakua, a distant cousin of Kono, is being frightened into an early grave by an fake apparition of a Hawaiian god created by his nephew, who wants to sell the estate to a land merchant.

#6 - Time of the Hawk (1)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 2 - Episode 1

Buck, Wilma, and Twiki set off into deep space aboard the Searcher, a starship on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth -- humans who fled to the stars after a nuclear holocaust that all but destroyed the planet. The Searcher encounters a severely-damaged spacecraft with one survivor, who tells them of a savage attack by a bird-man named Hawk. Searcher sets course for the planet where it is believed Hawk lives, and Buck soon becomes involved in a desperate battle of wits and piloting skills with Hawk. Hawk's mate, who was a passenger in Hawk's ship, is mortally wounded in the battle and Buck and Hawk form a shaky alliance to seek medical aid for her. Eventually, Hawk joins the crew of the Searcher, looking for others of his kind.

#7 - The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 19

Investigating the shipment of a tidal-wave machine by THRUSH, Illya ends up aboard a merchant vessel run by Captain Morton. Morton is obsessed with his past disgrace in a court martial, and the crew is on the verge of a mutiny, which Illya leads just as THRUSH arrives to take possession of the device.

#8 - The Checkered Flag

The Saint - Season 4 - Episode 1

Simon encounters race car driver who has had lots of bad luck.

#9 - The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (2)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 16

#10 - The Stage is All the World

McCloud - Season 1 - Episode 5

(NOTE: For televised repeats, this episode was known as "Manhattan Manhunt, Part 2"). McCloud, whose new-found celebrity (thanks to an article by Chris Coughlin in the Chronicle) vexes the Department, is assigned to protect a British theatrical maven who has received letters assailing his ""filthy, obscene"" productions and threatening his life.

#11 - The Night of the Tottering Tontine

The Wild Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 16

West and Gordon are assigned to protect Dr. Raven, who is developing a secret weapon. Raven is a member of a tontine, an investment group whose by-laws state that the surving member of the group gets the assets of the group. When one of the tontine's members is killed and an attempt is made on Raven's life, the agents decide to investigate.

#12 - The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (1)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 15

Mr. Webb (Mark Richman), a THRUSH agent, and Margitta Kingsley (Eleanor Parker), the wife of U.N.C.L.E. agent Robert Kingsley (Barry Sullivan), plot to steal a docility gas from General Maximilian Harmon (Leslie Nielson), who has kidnapped Professor David Garrow (Dan O'Herlihy) and his son Steve (Tony Bill). Harmon and a group of scientists consider themselves the ""Seven Intellectual Wonders of the World"" and, with the gas and the troops, plan to take over control of the world and ensure peace.

#13 - The Prisoner

Cannon - Season 4 - Episode 12

An ex-POW is in danger from a cowardly officer.

#14 - Fallout

CHiPs - Season 6 - Episode 10

Anti-nuclear protesters cause trouble for the patrol, not least due to the presence of Getraer's daughter Ellen in the group.

#15 - Shinda Shima

Danger Man - Season 4 - Episode 2

Drake infiltrates the killers' headquarters by taking the place of a British electronics expert hired by the Sect.

#16 - The 'J' for Judas Affair

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 4 - Episode 3

Solo and Illya are asked by Adam Tenza (Chad Everett) to protect his millionaire industrialist father Mark Tenza (Broderick Crawford) from assassination by THRUSH, much to the resentment of the elder Tenza. When Tenza is killed by a bomb, Solo and Illya must find out where J Tenza's other son, James is, to protect him also. But Adam Tenza is actually planning to kill J, in order to hand his father's empire over to THRUSH.

#17 - Time of the Hawk (2)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Season 2 - Episode 2

#18 - The Five Daughters Affair (2)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 29

#19 - The Five Daughters Affair (1)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 28

Solo and Illya visit the laboratory of Dr. True, who has discovered how to extract gold from seawater. But Dr. True dies from a poison given him by THRUSH agent Randolph, and Randolph also kills his wife Amanda. The gold extraction formula was distributed in portions by True to his daughters, in inscriptions on a photo of himself. Solo and Illya meet Sandy True, who accompanies them to Rome, to find her half sister Margo, now unhappily married to the destitute Baron de Fanzini to London, to find the next sister Imogen, who has been arrested by a Constablefor indecent exposure and finally the Alps, to find Yvonne, who is breaking off an unhappy relationship with Karl Von Kesser. But after decoding the message in Japan, Solo, Illya and Sandy are captured by Randolph and taken to THRUSH central for execution.

#20 - Koroshi

Danger Man - Season 4 - Episode 1

A young Japanese woman dies by inhaling gas from an artificial flower before she can report the existence of a Japanese death cult to her British contact. Drake infiltrates the cult as a journalist reporting on a floral festival.