The BEST episodes written by Paul Savage

To Kill a Cop
star
9.00
2 votes

#1 - To Kill a Cop

T.J. Hooker - Season 5 - Episode 3

After an off-duty Officer is shot dead in a grocery store, Hooker – an old friend of the family's – promises the dead man's wife and son to find the culprit. A case in which the deceased Officer's partner sent a criminal to prison on a false testimony may be the key to the killing; but all the time, the killer has his next target in his sights... Meanwhile, Hooker looks into the recent murder of a local prostitute, only to discover that the two cases are linked...

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The Trial
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8.28
61 votes

#2 - The Trial

Dynasty - Season 5 - Episode 5

Blake visits Dominique at La Mirage to discuss her recent revelation. She tells Blake that her mother was a long-time mistress of his father and has evidence to prove it. At Alexis' trial, a neighbor offers powerful evidence that incriminates Alexis. Along with Mark, she saw a woman on the terrace wearing a cape that has been positively identified as Alexis. Blake is called to testify and states that Alexis would indeed commit a violent act if sufficiently provoked. In a dramatic courtroom scene, Steven is called to the witness stand and he must tell what he knows or protect his mother.

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The Bounty Hunter
star
8.28
17 votes

#3 - The Bounty Hunter

Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 7

Lured out of retirement with the promise of land, a bounty hunter is aimed by his boss at the man who killed his son. He just doesn't tell him the reward and charges had been dropped.

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Day of Infamy
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8.24
16 votes

#4 - Day of Infamy

The Waltons - Season 7 - Episode 10

Christmas 1941. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.

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Jacob's Boy
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8.20
15 votes

#5 - Jacob's Boy

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 7

The prime suspect in a murder case may be innocent of this crime, but he fears Stone and Keller will discover he got away with murder once before... 25 years ago.

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Owney Tupper Had a Daughter
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8.00
16 votes

#6 - Owney Tupper Had a Daughter

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 27

To earn money to recover the custody of his daughter, an aging man accepts the job of Dodge's first in-town hangman, work no one else wants.

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The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
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7.95
21 votes

#7 - The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 5

Victoria sells land to an old friend, keeping a promise made many years before, while Jarrod supports a plan to flood the land to benefit the entire valley.

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The Quest for Asa Janin
star
7.95
18 votes

#8 - The Quest for Asa Janin

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 38

A young man is convicted of killing the saloon girl he wanted for his own. Matt is so sure that the young man is really innocent that he goes on the road after another suspect to prevent an unjust hanging.

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Poisoned Snow
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7.93
14 votes

#9 - Poisoned Snow

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 1

Stone and Keller investigate the death of a cop who dies during a drug sting -- and tries to prevent the cop's partner from doing more damage.

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Caleb
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7.88
16 votes

#10 - Caleb

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 26

Childless and poor, farmer Caleb feels like a failure, and his wife assures him he is one. Caleb moves into town to seek some meaning in his life, and soon finds himself--a man who doesn't wear a gun--challenged to a duel.

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The Storm
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7.86
51 votes

#11 - The Storm

Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 2

A man is convicted of robbing and murdering his partner, but the sons of Matt's old friend are responsible. Matt must arrest the remaining son after the other's dying declaration and make it to Hays City in time to stop the hanging.

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The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner
star
7.86
20 votes

#12 - The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 36

Aaron, sweet on saloon girl Leah and wanting to make her his wife, is attacked and killed by Colie Fletcher. When Matt goes after him, Colie runs into Jubal Tanner, wounds him, and steals his horse. Jubal, ungrateful to those who help him, meets Leah, and each helps the other's outlook.

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Limo One is Missing
star
7.81
64 votes

#13 - Limo One is Missing

The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 1 - Episode 9

Leave it to Cooter to drive everyone wild. When government agents driving the U.S. President's limo through Hazzard stop at the Boar's Nest, Cooter hot-wires the vehicle and sets out on a joy ride.

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The Guilt of Matt Bentell
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7.77
13 votes

#14 - The Guilt of Matt Bentell

The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 13

Matt Toddman, the new foreman of the Barkley's logging operations to dinner, is discovered to be Matt Bentell, the former commander of a prison camp where Heath had been held.

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Pursuit [a.k.a. Hot Pursuit]
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7.75
4 votes

#15 - Pursuit [a.k.a. Hot Pursuit]

T.J. Hooker - Season 4 - Episode 3

Hooker and Romano give chase of a couple of armed robbers who have held up a local bank and taken a teller hostage - a high-speed pursuit which ends in the thieves' car ploughing into the side of a tanker. Hooker receives criticism over his decision to give chase, which deepens when it's learnt that the young woman taken hostage has lost her unborn baby as a result of the crash. An old girl-friend of Hooker's, now head of security at the bank, is concerned that the high-speed pursuit was unnecessary and is prepared to testify against him. Meanwhile, the extravagant couple of robbers, who go by the aliases of Bonnie and Clyde, are still at large and pulling heists...

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Zavala
star
7.74
23 votes

#16 - Zavala

Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 3

Matt pursues the Rawlins gang into Mexico to the village of Zavala. Here he meets Paco and his widowed mother. Paco's father had been killed when he stood up to outlaws intimidating the people of Zavala. In his whole life, the only strong willed people Paco had ever seen were outlaws. He first thinks of Matt as such a person, until Matt tells him that he's not there to kill the Rawlins' but to arrest them. "But only outlaws ever come to Zavala." Paco is fascinated with the fact that Matt is a US Marshal.

Jeb
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7.72
17 votes

#17 - Jeb

Gunsmoke - Season 8 - Episode 37

A prized Appaloosa, grazing alone and apparently without owner on the prairie, proves to be the ruin of more than one man.

The Empty Gun
star
7.71
14 votes

#18 - The Empty Gun

T.J. Hooker - Season 2 - Episode 3

Two armed juveniles rob a liquor store, and the ensuing Police pursuit results in an Officer being shot dead. Romano waits until the killer is out of bullets before he corners and apprehends him, resulting in a number of Officers being angry at Romano for not avenging their colleague's death. Hooker is torn as his partner is slated for going by the book and not taking the opportunity to shoot the cop-killer...

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The Cassie Tanner Story
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7.71
7 votes

#19 - The Cassie Tanner Story

Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 36

Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the only one who can make the dangerous journey to buy them.

Trial by Error
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7.65
181 votes

#20 - Trial by Error

Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 13

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

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Wishbone
star
7.65
17 votes

#21 - Wishbone

Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 22

Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.

The Heroine / The Warrior
star
7.60
5 votes

#22 - The Heroine / The Warrior

Fantasy Island - Season 4 - Episode 12

In "The Heroine" romance novelist Florence Richmond whose own life is rather dull, wishes to become one of her book's wild and lusty heroines. And in "The Warrior" mild-mannered Robert Graham wishes to become a martial arts warrior in a fight to the finish in order to fulfill his fantasy about beating the best.

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The Dust Bowl Cousins
star
7.58
48 votes

#23 - The Dust Bowl Cousins

The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 12

The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the mountain and immediately upset everyone's life by their shiftless dishonest ways.

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Black Pearl
star
7.50
6 votes

#24 - Black Pearl

Tales of the Gold Monkey - Season 1 - Episode 4

Jake, posing as a defecting U.S. scientist, and Sarah search for an experimental German bomb and a famed black pearl.

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Pa Hack's Brood
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7.40
20 votes

#25 - Pa Hack's Brood

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 13

A repugnant drifter hopes to use his nubile daughter to get his hands on a piece of land.

Tobe
star
7.36
22 votes

#26 - Tobe

Gunsmoke - Season 9 - Episode 4

Hard-luck Tobe, who's lost his farm, gets a job in town with Chester's help and takes up with a saloon gal, not knowing she's on the run from a beau who's a con man and a killer.

Trouble in Eden
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7.36
158 votes

#27 - Trouble in Eden

Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 9

Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.

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Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
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7.31
131 votes

#28 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 1

After Jessica's great-niece Carol receives a wedding gift of a silver leprechaun, she confides in Jessica that it was the one gift her grandfather had always promised her. Years earlier Neil was presumed dead in a boating accident, but his body was never found. Jessica agrees to search for Neil, and her search leads her to the Carmody circus, and a roustabout named Carl Schum, who she soon realises is Neil. Unfortunately, when a body is found on the grounds, Neil is the primary suspect, even though everyone had good reason to want Hank Sutter dead.

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The Affair
star
7.30
137 votes

#29 - The Affair

Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 3

Matlock represents the a maid accused of killing her employer, at the request of the man's widow. The request is a little odd, but it seems Christina Ward wants people to know exactly what kind of man her husband was. Matlock is more than a little uncomfortable when it seems Charlene is developing a tendre for the woman's son Clark, an old college chum of Charlene's.

The Prodigal
star
7.27
378 votes

#30 - The Prodigal

MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 9

A man wants to testify against his mobster brother in Federal Court, and MacGyver has the job of keeping him safe, but the man's mother is dying and he wants to visit her.

Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
star
7.22
161 votes

#31 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 2

Despite Neil's confession to Hank Sutter's murder, Jessica is convinced that he didn't do it, and soon Neil confesses that he only said he did to protect young Charlie McCallum after finding his baseball bat at the scene. When rival circus owner Harry Kingman is found dead in his motel room, Jessica realises that the connection isn't Hank Sutter, but rather the Kingman circus, where many of the employees used to work. Unfortunately, she's up against an arrogant mayor who fancies himself a cop, and a circus full of people who aren't too helpful.

Runaway
star
7.20
10 votes

#32 - Runaway

The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 23

Stone searches for a fugitive and is dogged by a runaway girl who is the fugitive's daughter.

Last Train to the Fair
star
7.20
5 votes

#33 - Last Train to the Fair

The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 30

While on their way to the fair in Sacramento, Audra is stricken with a severe case of appendicitis. Fortunately, there is a doctor on board, but he is being chased down by men who wish to see him hang.

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Trevor Hudson's Legacy
star
7.19
109 votes

#34 - Trevor Hudson's Legacy

Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 18

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

Murder in the Afternoon
star
7.17
226 votes

#35 - Murder in the Afternoon

Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 3

While filming a soap opera in which Mrs. Fletcher's niece plays a part, a 'pretend' victim is really dead.

Lac Duquesne
star
7.16
70 votes

#36 - Lac Duquesne

Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 6

Boone chases a river pirate (Emile Genest) who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

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The Town Tamers
star
6.67
43 votes

#37 - The Town Tamers

Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 17

Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.

The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)
star
6.67
49 votes

#38 - The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 3

Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.

The Good Samaritans
star
6.67
48 votes

#39 - The Good Samaritans

Gunsmoke - Season 14 - Episode 24

Matt is taking a signed confession paper to a Judge that will hang a man, the man has put a reward on the paper causing two bounty hunters to shoot Matt in an effort to get it. Meanwhile, Matt is taken in by a group of freed slaves heading West, and now being pursued by the hunters.

Murder to a Jazz Beat
star
6.62
213 votes

#40 - Murder to a Jazz Beat

Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 - Episode 13

While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.

Eleven Dollars
star
6.61
41 votes

#41 - Eleven Dollars

Gunsmoke - Season 18 - Episode 8

Festus heads to Abilene to bring a woman $11 left over from the sale of her things after her father's death, and finds time to teach two little boys a lesson along the way.

Mistaken Identity
star
6.54
41 votes

#42 - Mistaken Identity

Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 26

A drifter tries to settle in Dodge after switching identities with a man he found who had been bit by a rattlesnake, but his plans are complicated when that man is brought into town still unconscious.

The Moonstone
star
6.51
45 votes

#43 - The Moonstone

Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 13

Chad Timpson is taking care of his mentally challenged brother, Orv. But when a rider comes into Dodge we learn that Chad has a checkered past. A past that may break up the two brothers.

The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)
star
6.47
47 votes

#44 - The Guns of Cibola Blanca (2)

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 4

Matt, Festus and Newly attempt to rescue Doc and Lyla from Shindrow's camp.

The Hiders
star
6.23
43 votes

#45 - The Hiders

Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 15

When a young teenager from a group of squatters decides he can do better than stealing, he changes his ways. But the leader of the squatters will try to manipulate the young man with the people that has treated him the best.