The BEST episodes written by Paul Robert Coyle
#1 - False Witness
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 9
Betty's friend Leslie Jessup is raped near Webster House and identifies the first comer suspect, Eddie Tucker, as the culprit. As Betty believes Tucker is innocent she investigates, searching for more victims and witnesses. But the true rapist places more clues to incriminate Eddie.
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#2 - I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 22
An author who's a former cop literally kills for a best-seller, giving Jake and McCabe a plot that keeps them guessing.
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#3 - Be Deviled
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 6 - Episode 1
Sin came looking for Hercules in the guise of Serena. She said she needed Hercules' help to recapture Xerxos, a murderer who had escaped from her world of evil souls. In truth Sin was in league with Xerxos. She poisoned Hercules in hopes he would take a life in anger, which would condemn his soul to her domain. But Iolaus was able to keep Hercules from killing Xerxos. The murderer found his sister, the criminal Arciana, and encouraged her to reform before it was too late. Xerxos and Sin returned to their realm.
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#4 - The End of the Beginning
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 3 - Episode 19
Hercules was in the middle of a fight with bullies when Autolycus stopped time. Autolycus had stolen the Cronus Stone from King Quallius' palace museum. Suddenly he traveled five years back in time. Hercules witnessed the first meeting of Ares and Serena, the Golden Hind Hercules had married and lost. When Ares tried to kill her, Hercules forced the god of war to spare the Hind's human half. Later, when he and Autolycus returned to the present, Hercules encountered Serena, now a happy wife and mother. History had changed, wiping out everything they shared together.
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#5 - More Than You Know
Jake and the Fatman - Season 4 - Episode 7
After a journalist is dumped by her lover, she murders his wife and makes it look like the work of a serial killer.
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#6 - The Honorable Profession
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 16
Robert Reed plays a fictitious doctor. During Act IV he packs up to leave town. The well-written episode begs the question whether Reed's character did more good than harm posing as a doctor.
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#7 - Ten Little Warlords
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 8
Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger and she'll never recover her own body.
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#8 - The Academy
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 5 - Episode 17
Hercules and Jason arrived at Cheiron's academy to find things greatly changed. The youths were out of control, and the headmaster left the school in Hercules' hands. Zylus, an upperclassman, had a secret plan to take over the school. When Hercules discovered Zylus and his friends were the masked attackers he had fought off earlier, he expelled the group. Zylus tried to burn down the school, but was no match for Hercules. After the fight, Hercules named Jason the academy's new headmaster, and Lilith -- Jason's first love -- promised to visit often.
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#9 - Love Me or Leave Me
Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jake gets close to an aspiring rock star in order to catch a dirty cop who's involved in a million-dollar robbery
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#10 - It Had to Be You
Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 14
When Jake discovers that a serial rapist's weakness is cats, a victim agrees to help set a trap.
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#11 - I Only Have Eyes for You
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 1
Jake takes matters into his own hands when a woman is threatened and followed to Hawaii by the psychotic ex-convict who attacked her.
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#12 - The Inside Man
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 23
When Ralph Alcott foils an armored car robbery he is celebrated as a hero and befriends Chris, the daughter of his boss. Barnaby is hired to find a possible inside man, who turns out to be Ralph. As Alcott kills one of his accomplices, the other one abducts Chris.
#13 - Death Is the Punchline
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 18
The appearance of comedian Lindy Powell, friend of J.R.'s, at the Caravan Club results in a big disappointment and a quarrel between him and club owner Chapman. When Chapman is murdered, Lindy is the prime suspect. Loan shark La Palma also had a motive for killing.
#14 - Sky High
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 5 - Episode 12
When a volcano threatened to destroy the people of Mount Pelion, Hercules decided to blow a hole in the far side of the volcano, allowing the lava to flow into the sea. The Amazon Ephiny joined him, and for a third, Hercules enlisted Kurth, a young man condemned to die for murdering the Centaur Nagus' son. Hercules convinced Nagus to help pull the wagon of explosive crystals. Most of the crystals were lost in a mishap, so the remainder had to be deposited directly in the crater mouth. Kurth took care of this suicide mission, redeeming himself in the process.
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#15 - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 11
The man who attacked a blind woman is found dead, supposedly shot by the woman's cheating husband.
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#16 - War Wounds
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 4 - Episode 19
Hercules' brother, King Iphicles of Corinth, was not with his wife when she died -- he was out controlling rioting soldiers. For this he blamed the vetern warriors led by Ajax and demanded they leave Corinth without dedicating a statue. Hercules and Iolaus, friends of Ajax, tried to intervene. But deadly battles broke out when Iphicles killed Phidias, the statue's designer. Ajax tried to kill Iphicles as retribution, but he ended up devoured by giant sand worms. Tired of the madness, Iphicles relented by officiating at the dedication of Phidias' statue and extending land to the veterns.
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Midnight Caller - Season 1 - Episode 15
Assisting an injured woman on the street, a young doctor is faced with every mother's nightmare when her infant daughter is abducted by a young woman whose grasp on reality is failing. Jack uses the show as a forum to track down the kidnapped child, who, on top of everything, is desperately ill and will die without her medication.
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#18 - Armageddon Now (2)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 4 - Episode 14
While Hercules and his double, the Sovereign, were stuck in the Netherworld, Iolaus traveled back in time to protect young Alcmene. But he couldn't prevent Callisto from killing Hercules' mother. Callisto then found her own family and, through a series of instinctive actions, she killed her mother and father. As more events began to go wrong, Hercules sent Iolaus a telepathic message: Get the Chronus Stone from Xena's scepter to travel back in time without Ares' help. Using a makeshift lightning rod, Hercules joined Iolaus in the past and sent Callisto back into the vortex, setting the timeline right.
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#19 - State of Flux
Star Trek: Voyager - Season 1 - Episode 11
Stardate: 48658.2 When stolen Federation technology is found on a severely damaged Kazon Nistrim ship, Seska becomes the prime suspect. The evidence is further re-enforced when questions arise over her true heritage.
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#20 - Armageddon Now (1)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 4 - Episode 13
Hope, the treacherous daughter of Dahak and Gabrielle, went to the Ixion Caverns and freed Callisto. Hope gave the warrior-goddess a mission: rid the world of Hercules. Callisto joined forces with Ares, and the two reopened the vortex to the alternate universe. When the Sovereign appeared, Ares snatched his pendant of Hind's blood -- the only substance that can kill a god. But Callisto ripped the pendant from Ares' neck and used the blood to kill Strife. Hope then sent Callisto back in time to kill Hercules' mother, so Iolaus convinced Ares to send him back as well.
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#21 - Stranger in a Strange World
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 4 - Episode 5
A lightning bolt from the dying Zeus opened a vortex to a parallel universe, where Iolaus was a jester and Hercules was the malevolent Sovereign. This alternate Hercules and the alternate Xena were lovers, and they were attempting to kill Zeus with Hind blood. Ares, meanwhile, was the god of love, not war, and Aphrodite was a modest, sensitive goddess. When the vortex reappeared, Hercules, Iolaus, the Sovereign and the alternate Iolaus all wound up inside and fought a furious battle. Each managed to return to his proper universe except the Sovereign, who was trapped inside the vortex.
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#22 - A Necessary Evil
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 14
Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to asking for the help of the now immortal Callisto.
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#23 - Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 5 - Episode 4
Salmoneus and Autolycus obtained a Sultan's lamp and released Jinni the genie, who gave them three wishes to share. Autolycus asked to be invisible. Instead Jinni made him intangible, so he couldn't grab anything. Salmoneus, meanwhile couldn't decide whether to ask for more sensitivity or more ruthless energy, so Jinni gave him both in the form of two clones -- Cry Baby Sal and Hyper Sal. Forfeiting their third wish, they were returned to normal and imprisoned inside Jinni's lamp. But they escaped, and Autolycus used the third wish to give the lonely genie a roomful of clones.
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#24 - Whispers
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 2 - Episode 14
O'Brien returns from an away mission to discover that he has been locked out of every security system on the station, and that everyone has turned against him, including his wife.
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#26 - The Fatal Dive
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 4
The members of Trident Diving School hire Barnaby to investigate the death of their colleague. Barnaby meets Carl Everett and his assistant Alice Caldwell who claim to be searching for a sunken treasure. J.R. who is certified in scuba makes dives and searches for clues underwater while Barnaby and Betty do the same on land.
#28 - Regrets...I've Had a Few
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 4 - Episode 3
Celestra -- also known as "Death" -- came for Jaris, Hercules old friend. The goddess' appearance prompted Hercules to remember the time when, as a cocky youth, he met Celestra for the first time. It happened when young Hercules accidentally killed Jaris' brother, Bartoc. Hercules had kept the truth from Jaris and his family family for a while, but finally revealed his secret when a teenage gang attacked. But that was all in the past; now Hercules had to stop his friend from a rampage against the evildoers of his town. Celestra finally took Jaris, leaving Hercules with his memories.
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#29 - The Execution
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 17
Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.
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#30 - Two Against the Rock
Space Precinct - Season 1 - Episode 12
While transporting a prisoner to the space prison known as the Rock, Officers Haldane and Castle come across a plot to release a notorious ganglord.
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#31 - Metamorphosis
The Adventures of Superboy (1988) - Season 4 - Episode 20
A gym owner is using the blood of his younger customers, along with a gold derivative, to keep himself young. This results in an acceleration in the victims' aging process. Lana also falls prey to the man.
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#32 - After You've Gone
Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 13
Jake discovers a murder plot and takes the place of a dead hit man whose target happens to be McCabe.
#33 - Send in the Clones
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 6 - Episode 16
In modern times, a mysterious woman and three fans of Xena, use hair samples to create clones of Xena and Gabrielle, who face a familiar enemy from their past.
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