The BEST episodes written by Philip Saltzman
#1 - Trial by Fire
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 4
Kimble's sister Donna summons him home with a possible break in the case: a letter from James Eckhardt, a former U.S. Army captain whom also saw the one-armed man fleeing from the Kimble's house on the night of Helen's murder. Kimble meets with Eckhardt who agrees to help the fugitive out. Eckhardt's story seems strong enough to clear Kimble. But unknown to either men, another witness comes forward: a convict in prison for drug dealing, who reveals that he used to sell heroin to Eckhart for a Korean War battle wound and that Eckhardt was on his way to see him that night to buy some drugs, which is more than enough for Gerard to discredit Eckhardt's testimony.
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#2 - The Coward
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 13
Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer and a cocky, bragging trail boss.
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#3 - A Case of Identity
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 17
Mark finds himself in grave danger when two unscrupulous detectives searching for a man's long-lost son claim that it is Mark.
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#4 - Sins of the Father
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 30
After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brothers.
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#5 - The Case of the Duplicate Case
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 27
An unsuccessful salesman has a lot of explaining to do when he throws down his sample case in disgust--- and large sums of money fall out.
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#6 - Cry Uncle
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 11
After finding refuge in an orphanage, Kimble becomes entwined in the plight of a troubled teenage boy who passes him off as his uncle.
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#7 - Detour on a Road Going Nowhere
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 12
While working as a hotel steward in Wyoming, Kimble is forced to run after learning that another hotel employee has stolen hotel funds, and Kimble becomes the suspect. Kimble escapes on a tour bus containing a bickering couple called the Langners, a visiting spinster named Louanne, a local guy named Sandy Baird, and the bus driver. But Kimble becomes trapped when the bus breaks down on a back road, and all the passengers discover his secret when his identity is revealed over the radio. Held at gunpoint, Kimble must find a way to escape by emotionally getting between his various captors before the bus driver returns with the police.
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#8 - The One That Got Away
The Fugitive - Season 4 - Episode 17
Ralph Schuyler is a government agent who goes undercover as a boat captain to spy on Felice Greer, the wife of an international embezzler hiding out in Mexico and she's presumably coming down to him with the stolen money. Kimble happens to be on the boat too as a hired deck hand. When Ralph learns that Kimble's identity is false, he takes Kimble's fingerprints and after an 'emergency' landing, the agent leaves the fingerprints with a local Mexican shopkeeper and notifies the authorities of Felice's whereabouts. But when Ralph is badly burned in a engine room fire, Kimble tries to save him and takes over the boat's steering to safely make it to their destination. But when Kimble intercepts a cable with the incriminating report on his fingerprints, Kimble is torn between fleeing or staying to help Ralph, while Kimble also discovers that Felice's husband is up to no good concerning the stolen money.
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#9 - The Promoter
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 11
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
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#10 - Flight from the Final Demon
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 24
While working as a health club masseuse, Kimble is recognized by Sheriff Bray, a local lawman with policial aspirations. But Kimble manages to escape with the help of co-worker Steve Edson. After confiding with Steve his secret, Kimble learns that Steve is a fugitive of conscience: five months earlier, Steve was tried and acquitted for the murder of his girlfriend Linda's abusive brother, a murder that Steve actually committed and he apparently cannot live with the guilt over having gotten away with it. Kimble reluctantly lets Steve travel with him. But Steve begins leaving behind clues that soon puts Sheriff Bray back on their trail, including contacting Linda for help and letting her vengeful other brother, Joey, track them down.
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#11 - Sheriff of Red Rock
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 13
The Sheriff of Red Rock allows his prisoners to escape, so two bounty hunters can collect the reward and split it three ways.
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#12 - The Martinet
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 7
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
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#13 - The Night of the Torture Chamber
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 13
Govenor Bradford of California requests help from President Grant, so he sends Jim and Artie to discover who's behind the conspiracy to take over the state government.
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#14 - The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 22
A woman goes on trial for murder when a fortuneteller's deadly prediction becomes a reality.
#15 - The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 3
Mona Harvey is the principal stockholder in a publishing company run by her uncle, Everett, and the wife of an eccentric sculptor named Hannibal Harvey who is being blackmailed. Unable to get at any money due to Mona's absence, Hannibal has ditzy model Bonnie Dunbar write a blackmail note to Mona's uncle. Everett gets the money out of petty cash and sends it to Bonnie. In the meantime, Mona returns, finds Bonnie's blackmail note, and decides to pay the model a visit. So does Hannibal. Without seeing each other, husband and wife both discover Bonnie's dead body. Mona gets arrested for the murder but she fears that Hannibal might be the real killer.
#16 - Underground
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 18
A cop seeks to catch his brother's murderer by going undercover in an illegal gambling operation.
#17 - Deadly Image
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 22
Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.
#18 - Masquerade
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 26
While traveling through an small Oklahoma town, Kimble is arrested, not because the police recognize him, but because they've mistaken him for Leonard Hull, a former numbers runner about to testify against a big-time racketeer, whom has run away from a witness relocation program in that very town. Kimble is taken to a motel where Leonard's wife, Mavis, knows he's not Leonard in which Kimble asks for her help to get away from the police, and a local hit man pursuing them.
#19 - The Pea
The Untouchables - Season 4 - Episode 5
Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapidated pool joint. Herbie, not being much of a pool player, gets cleaned out by Cooker. Herbie's best friend is Josh, a nice black man who happens to be blind, who is the employee working in the pool hall. Josh tells him, ""You'd be surprised at the things I can see, I'm an owl in the dark."" (""Owl"" is his nickname.) Since Herbie can't make money shooting pool, and only has a job working as a busboy, he is in the habit of getting a few bucks by giving Eliot Ness tips. However, today his tips are all stale. Herbie tells Ness that Wally Marcos is back in town; Ness says he already left again. Herbie has info on Angel Podaris; Ness says he sold out to Martin Rawlings. Herbie relates that there's a new place on Maple Street making bottles for imported Scotch; Ness says, ""We knocked it over last week."" Even though all the ""hot tips"" are useless, Ness slips him a fin