The BEST episodes written by Orville H. Hampton
#1 - Murder - Eyes Only (2)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 2
McGarrett must try his utmost to foil Wo Fat's plans which include hostages and brainwashing.
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#2 - The Last Of The Great Paperhangers
Hawaii Five-O - Season 9 - Episode 7
A masterful forger plans a massive robbery of Navy funds, and McGarrett is made to look rather inept...
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#3 - A Killer Grows Wings
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 21
Criminals threaten to use a special type of moth to wipe out the sugar cane on Hawaii and destroy the industry.
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#5 - The Case of the Misguided Model
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 27
Perry has all sorts of troubles in this one including a client who takes a shot at him. It starts when dim bulb prizefighter Duke Maronek gets into a fight with Ed Grover over pretty model, Sharon Carmody. Duke believes he killed Grover with his bare hands. Perry discovers that a vagrant, who stole a wallet from the corpse, has been charged with the crime. He quickly gets the vagrant off the hook only to discover that Duke has disappeared. It is Sharon Carmody, the model who is up for a big assignment, who holds the keys to Duke's whereabouts and what really happened on the night Ed Grover died.
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#6 - The Case of the Carefree Coronary
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 6
The Safeline Insurance Company notices an increase in heart attacks among their policy holders. The company suspects fraud and hires Perry and Paul to investigate. When Paul goes undercover as a construction worker, he almost doesn't survive the assignment.
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#7 - Carnival / The Vaudevillians
Fantasy Island - Season 2 - Episode 11
In "Carnival" a young coma victim believes that the man in her dreams really exists. In "The Vaudevillians" old timers Will Fields and Charlie Parks try their hand at bringing Vaudeville back, escaping exile to a retirement home neither wants.
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#8 - The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 19
An art dealer and his girlfriend are arrested for a two murders related to a series of hijacks. Paul goes undercover to ferret out the hijacking ring and Perry finds himself staring face down the barrel of a gun pointed by a killer even he never considered.
#9 - The Case of the Candy Queen
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 3
Things aren't going too good for the self-styled candy queen, Claire Armstrong, these days. Boyfriend Mark Chester steals her candy formula in order to pay back his gambling debts and Harry Arnold is blackmailing her. Then there's cousin Wanda. She'd like nothing better than to see Claire convicted when Arnold is murdered so that she can takeover the business.
#10 - Fires of Hell
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 4 - Episode 17
A crooked trio manipulate a conservation group into halting an oil drill so they can get at the uranium underneath, and Steve is sent in disguised as a oil worker to find out what's up.
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#11 - The Case of the Final Fade-Out
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 30
A nasty actor with a lot of enemies is murdered. Perry gets his accused killer off the hook but then HE turns up dead and an aging, eccentric actress is blamed for that one. Are there two murderers on the loose or are both the work of one person?
#12 - The Case of the Golfer's Gambit
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 18
Chick Farley is a low rent, semi-talented golf pro at an exclusive country club. He now mooches off his wife's money and occasionally blackmails members of the country club in order to keep his position. One night, ole Chick discovers that someone has been stealing from the pro shop. He calls club member Hamilton Burger at his home to inform him of the theft. While on the phone, somebody takes a sand wedge and bashes in Chick's skull. Chick is no great loss to humanity but, as usual, the wrong man is charged with the crime.
#13 - The Case of the Laughing Lady
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 1
Carla Chaney is caught seemingly red-handed at the scene of the murder of her ex-boyfriend. Perry agrees to take the case pro bono after three other attorneys drop out. Carla's only hope is an unseen woman she claims was also present at the scene. According to Carla, this woman had a sinister laugh.
#14 - The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 7
.An old Army buddy of restauranteur Terrence Clay, Lucas Tolliver, arrives in California from Oklahoma to meet the woman he was matched up with by a computer dating service. The woman, Miliicent Barton, is supposedly a rich widow. Lucas has money too having inherited it from his previous wife who died under mysterious circumstances. This doesn't prevent Millie from marrying Lucas but she dies at a party after drinking poisoned lemonade supposedly provided to her by Lucas. This one is a tough row to hoe for Perry.
#15 - The Homecoming / The Sheikh
Fantasy Island - Season 2 - Episode 1
In "The Homecoming" a Vietnam veteran, long presumed dead wishes to be reunited with his family. Realizing that his wife has remarried and his son doesn't know him, he must move on with his life. In "The Sheikh" a middle-aged school teacher wishes to have a harem of beautiful women, but instead becomes the target of an assassination attempt.
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#16 - The Case of the Vanishing Victim
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 17
Dr. Stacey Fielding takes off for Salt Lake City on business. When his plane crashes, Veronal poisioning is found in the body. Miriam Fielding is arrested since the last thing the good doctor drank was whiskey from a flask she had given him. Upon further investigation, Miriam is cleared when it's discovered that the man who really perished in the crash was Al Dolby, the plane mechanic. But where is Dr. Fielding and who did the poisoning?
#17 - The Case of the Baffling Bug
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 13
Tryon Laboratories hires the Drake Detective Agency to protect their latest formulas. In spite of Paul's best efforts, there is a leak in security and some top-secret information is stolen. One night, Leigh, an undercover agent working for Dr. Scranton, the head of the company, calls to say he knows the identity of the spy. Scranton and Paul rush to the laboratory only to find Leigh dead, floating in a vat of water.
#18 - The Beachcomber / The Last Whodunit
Fantasy Island - Season 2 - Episode 3
In "The Beachcomber" Charles Preston fed up with the pressures of his life gives it all up to become a carefree beachcomber and winds up in more trouble than he can handle. In "The Last Whodunit" an avid mystery reader decides to solve the case of murder involving the death of her favorite writer.
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#19 - Small Witness, Large Crime
Hawaii Five-O - Season 7 - Episode 17
When a young boy is arrested as a witness to a murder, McGarrett must contend with a fiery deputy public prosecutor.
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#23 - The Case of the Golden Girls
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 14
Victor Montalvo, co-owner of the Golden Bear Club, gives a ride to a sweet young thing named Debbie Conrad who later attempts to blackmail him by threatening to claim he took advantage of her. Debbie is working the scam with her boyfriend, Rick Durbin, and Montalvo decides to pay them off. But before he can make the payment his partner in the club is murdered.
#24 - The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 23
Imagine Gerard Van Ness's surprise when a long-lost tiara worth a fortune turns up in his hands. Imagine Perry and Della's surpise when the body of a jewel thief turns up in a trunk delivered to their building. Needless to say, Van Ness gets blamed for the death and it's up to Perry and company to save the day.
#25 - The Case of the Fanciful Frail
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 24
Things keep going from awful to good grief for poor Ethel Andrews. First she's left at the altar by her fiancee, Bruce Strickland, who also let's her take the blame for a $50,000.00 securities theft since her signature was on the transfer authorization. Ethel decides to leave town but nearly has an accident with a car driven by Peggy Sutton. Peggy, it seems, is on the run from a hired killer. Ethel foolishly agrees to swap identities with Peggy but then Peggy perishes in a car accident. Ethel then finds $50,000.00 in the trunk of Peggy's car and makes the mistake of informing Bruce Strickland who turns up murdered. Perry sends Paul Drake up to Lake Tahoe to find out about Peggy Sutton but it might be too late because the noose is getting pretty tight around poor Ethel's neck.
#26 - The Case of the Unwelcome Well
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 25
Nasty oilman Jerome Klee is shot to death and there's no shortage of suspects. Perry's client is Klee's foreman who tried to change his boss's mind about backing out on a drilling contract on a low income family's land.
#27 - The Case of the Twice-Told Twist
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 21
Perry plays Mr. Brownlow to young Lenny Beale who's involved with a gang of teenage car strippers. Lenny wants to quit the gang but when his boss, Bill Sikes, turn up murdered the police theorize that Lenny killed him in revenge for Sikes shooting his girlfriend.
#28 - The Ghost of the Dancing Doll
Ironside - Season 6 - Episode 20
An old friend of Ed's goes missing after promising to take him on a fishing trip, and it soon becomes clear that he has become involved in a Mob killing. Ed is determined to prove his friend's innocence, but the evidence soon mounts up; and Ed finds himself having to argue against even the Chief in order to show that his friend is not a killer.
#29 - Murder - Eyes Only (1)
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 1
When a letter bomb kills a Naval Officer whilst McGarrett is on Navy Duty, he is called upon to investigate and uncovers a plot involving an old nemesis...
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#30 - Fool for a Client / Double Your Pleasure
Fantasy Island - Season 1 - Episode 13
In "Fool for a Client" a brilliant yet insecure lawyer wishes to experience the excitement of a big courtroom trial. In "Double Your Pleasure" the winner of a raffle ticket for a weekend on Fantasy Island is caught between two girls - twins no less.
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