The BEST episodes written by Paul Savage
#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 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#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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#8 - 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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#11 - 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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#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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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.
#21 - 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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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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#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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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#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.
#27 - 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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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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#29 - 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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#30 - 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.
#32 - 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.
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#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.
#37 - The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)
Gunsmoke - Season 20 - Episode 3
Doc and fellow stage passenger, Lyla are captured by renegade comancheros.
#38 - The Town Tamers
Gunsmoke - Season 19 - Episode 17
Marshal Dillon teams up with old friend Marshal Luke Rumbaugh to tame the town of Hilt.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.