The BEST episodes written by Norman Lessing
#1 - Track of the Dinosaur
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 17
Tarzan is marked for murder when he clashes with a corrupt government official and his female co-conspirator. The pair are using the natives' beliefs in a monster to drive them away from a rich mineral deposit.
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The Littlest Hobo - Season 1 - Episode 3
The innocent fugitive continues to evade his pursuers while the Hobo acts as decoy.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Target For Terror
The Littlest Hobo - Season 1 - Episode 7
Two political radicals abduct a judge's son and his girlfriend. Fortunately for them, the Hobo's ingenuity is brought to bear on the kidnappers.
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The Littlest Hobo - Season 1 - Episode 2
Hobo helps a man accused of murder escape from angry villagers.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - The Million Dollar Fur Heist
The Littlest Hobo - Season 1 - Episode 17
A drunken ex-trucker goes on a joy ride with the Hobo and is surprised to find that the truck he borrowed is full of stolen furs. His problems run deeper when the thieves learn where he (and his grandson) live.
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The Littlest Hobo - Season 1 - Episode 4
An Eastern European ballerina tries to defect but is caught. The Hobo, along with a human sidekick, try to rescue her, but unfortunately, her kidnappers have help from the local police.
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#7 - The Drop
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 4
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
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#9 - Flash Of Color, Flash Of Death
Hawaii Five-O - Season 6 - Episode 9
A glamorous woman sets up an opal smuggler so her accomplices can rob both the smuggler and a jewellery store at the same time.
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#11 - The Actress
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 22
Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Unfortunately, she is the only one who does.
#12 - All the Scared Rabbits
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 7
Kimble responds to a newspaper ad for a driver and is hired to drive a certain Peggy Franklin and her 10-year-old daughter, Nancy, to California. But Kimble doesn't realize that Peggy has abducted Nancy from her ex-husband, a pathologist named Dean Franklin. Nancy innocently removes a rabbit from Dean's research lab, unaware that the rabbit has meningitis. When Nancy contracts the sickness, Kimble risks keeping his secret safe to save Nancy before she dies.
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#13 - The Wooing of Abigail Jones
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 24
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones. When their first plan backfires, they convince Adam (who doesn't want to get involved) to help and this makes things worse because Abigail believes it is Adam who is wooing her and Hank Meyers believes Adam wants to steal her away.
#15 - The Deserter
Bonanza - Season 4 - Episode 5
An Indian-hating officer, Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, comes to the Ponderosa looking for army deserter Bill Winters, who is a good friend of the Cartwrights. Bill happens to be his son and is married to an Indian. It seemed Bill deserted when he was ordered to massacre the Shoshone, by poisoning their food and water, genocide. The Shoshone find out and abduct Bill's father.
#16 - Island in the Sky
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 3
John descends from the orbiting spaceship to explore a planet that the Robinson's are planning to land on.
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#17 - The Frenchman
Bonanza - Season 3 - Episode 12
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
#18 - Hang Tough
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 16
A narcotics cop (Beatty) who has only four months to go till retirement, roughs up a drug pusher (Campos) and plants a knife on him. In the cop's efforts to cover this up, blackmail and murder ensue. A parallel story has to do with uncovering the ""Tucson connection"", a major drug ring operating in San Francisco.
#19 - The Pyramid Swindle
Dragnet - Season 2 - Episode 12
A female con-artist uses an evangelistic approach to lure buyers into her pyramid scheme. The Bunco division can't charge her with false advertising, so they prosecute her for operating a lottery.
#20 - The Odd Lot Caper
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 18
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
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#21 - Termination With Extreme Prejudice
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 4
A British agent, Harry Wells, arrives in Hawaii in pursuit of a turncoat, but not all is what it seems for Five-O...
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Love, American Style - Season 1 - Episode 1
An ex-wife makes matters difficult for her ex-husband who's about to propose to his new girl.
#23 - Hara-Kiri: Murder
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 13
McGarrett and Five-O need to find out why a Japanese banker ritually killed himself and catch a true criminal into the bargain.
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The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 16
Kimble arrives in the factory town of Hempstead Mills, West Virginia to assist Andrew McCallister, his longtime mentor whom is dying from lung cancer which he is confined to a wheelchair. McCallister's vigorous anti-smog campaign has earned him a reputation as a local crackpot. But the old man plans to go out with a bang; by having a bomb hidden in a package where he has Kimble deliver to the local factory. But when McCallister discovers that a group of school children will be inside the factory during a school tour at the time of the explosion, he dispatches Kimble to evacuate the building and deactivate the bomb before time runs out.
#25 - Percentage
Hawaii Five-O - Season 5 - Episode 21
A travel agent who operates gambling trips is killed in order to send a warning to others that the syndicates will not tolerate competition.
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