The BEST episodes written by Rick Mittleman
#1 - Gomer, the Welsh Rarebit Fiend
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 24
Gomer's love for Welsh rarebit causes him to sleepwalk -- and to tell off Carter.
#2 - Sensitive Steele
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 16
Laura and Steele go undercover at a self-improvement spa to find out why there have been a series of mysterious accidents.
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#3 - Forged Steele
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 5
Steele awakens from a 36-hour blackout to find that he has apparently gambled away the agency.
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#4 - Sweet Leilani
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 8
A friend of McCabe's who's a gossip columnist puts her "Honolulu Hunks" story on hold to learn the truth about a woman's murder when the deceased's body washes up on the beach.
#5 - Darrin the Warlock
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 11
Samantha is worried about Darrin who seems to be enjoying his new found powers too much.
#6 - Foreign Trade
Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 9
Johnny and Roy consider trading cars. Dixie takes on hospital management after budget cuts affect her nursing staff. A frat pledge chokes during initiation. The station rescues a woman trapped in her car on the edge of an open drawbridge, and a famous basketball player is involved in a fender bender. Dr. Early has the hiccups.
#7 - Camera Bug
Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 10
John thinks he can be a photographer and pesters Roy for candid shots. A teenager suffers smoke inhalation at an elementary school structure fire. A fireman thinks he's having a heart attack, but it's really just his chili. A woman is bitten by a scorpion. Dixie has 'one of those days' as she and Dr. Brackett deliver a baby in a restaurant on their lunch hour. The driver of a truck full of dynamite is pinned behind the wheel of his vehicle as it catches fire.
#8 - Samantha Fights City Hall
Bewitched - Season 5 - Episode 9
Sam fights city hall to save a park that is also owned by one of Darrin's clients.
#9 - Ol' Brown Eyes Is Back
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 3
Fred becomes convinced that a ring given to him by friends and family was actually stolen from Frank Sinatra.
#10 - The Slaughter Affair
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 17
Murray takes on a night job as a cab driver in order to save up and buy his wife Marie a new car for their 10th wedding anniversary. However, Marie becomes suspicious about Murray's absences and fears that Murray is having an affair with Mary Richards.
#11 - The Day They Raided the Knights
Get Smart - Season 4 - Episode 16
Agent 99's new job is at the Knights Trading Stamp Redemption Center. KAOS uses the center as a means of passing out a new secret weapon to their agents. KAOS agents Marco and Sonja run the center. The Chief has assigned several agents to find the secret weapon. The trail is cold, until 99 accidentally discovers that she is working for the other side.
#12 - Second Base Steele
Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 4
A reunion of high-school athletes at an adult baseball camp is marred by a series of ""accidents"" that Laura and Steele are hired to investigate.
#13 - Grappling Steele
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 4
Laura and Steele are hired to protect a professional wrestler who has been receiving death threats and having mysterious ""accidents.""
#14 - The Great Debate
Welcome Back, Kotter - Season 1 - Episode 1
The sweathogs out debate a smarter debate class.
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#15 - That Was No Chick, That Was My Wife
Bewitched - Season 4 - Episode 10
When Samantha pops back from Chicago to check on Tabitha and Louise Tate sees her, Larry mentions it to the client who thinks that Darrin is passing someone else off as his wife.
#16 - Children of Light
MacGyver - Season 5 - Episode 7
MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.
#17 - Daddy Comes to Visit
Bewitched - Season 6 - Episode 10
Maurice comes for a visit and gives Darrin a magical charm challenging Darrin to try their lifestyle instead of just condemning it. Maurice also gives Darrin a warlock's point of view on the subject.
#18 - Murder at a Discount
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 9
A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.
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#19 - Two to Tangle
Early Edition - Season 3 - Episode 17
A couple is fighting with each other over their lingerie company, and Henry befriends their daughter.
#20 - Hey, Doc
M*A*S*H - Season 4 - Episode 5
Its quid pro quo at the 4077th: two bottles of Scotch for secret surgery, and a tank to scare off snipers for an unauthorized shot of penicillin.
#21 - A Pain in the Neck
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 22
Fred resorts to desperate measures to overcome his sudden back pain in time for an awards banquet in his honor.
#22 - The 'Hood
MacGyver - Season 7 - Episode 2
Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.
#23 - Off the Wall
MacGyver - Season 7 - Episode 12
Mac battles a callous slumlord when a young graffiti artist asks for help when his grandmother faces eviction from the apartment where she's spent her life.
#24 - Corporal Duke
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 5 - Episode 2
Duke is promoted to corporal, but finds his old reputation getting in his way.
#25 - A Nest of Vipers
Murder, She Wrote - Season 11 - Episode 1
When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.
#27 - Being Divorced is Never Having to Say I Do
The Odd Couple - Season 2 - Episode 11
Oscar's ex-wife is remarrying, but Felix interferes and ruins Oscar's hopes to stop paying alimony.
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#28 - School Daze
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 25
Fred and Bubba take evening classes to earn their high-school equivalency diploma.
#29 - Second Honeymoon
Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 27
Uncle's Joe solicitude threatens the 10-year marriage of a couple who have returned to the Shady Rest for a second honeymoon.
#30 - Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 14
In a flashback episode, The Alan Brady Show goes on summer hiatus and Rob is worried how he'll support Laura (who is pregnant with Richie).
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#31 - Go Tell the Birds and Bees
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5 - Episode 10
Rob and Laurie Petrie are asked to Richie's principal's office to discuss things that Richie has been telling the other kids.
#32 - Hind-Sight
MacGyver - Season 6 - Episode 21
As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.
#33 - Hearts of Steel
MacGyver - Season 5 - Episode 19
MacGyver is reunited with Lisa, whose help cleared him of assassination charges in Switzerland, when a steel plant executive kidnaps her as revenge against her cold corporate-raider father.
#34 - A Night to Dismember
The Odd Couple - Season 2 - Episode 21
The night when Oscar and Blanche split up is seen from three different points of view.
#35 - Strike Up the Band or Else...
The Odd Couple - Season 5 - Episode 6
Felix and his band perform at a square dance to keep Oscar out of hot water.
#36 - The Paul Williams Show
The Odd Couple - Season 5 - Episode 9
Felix's daughter is obsessed with entertainer Paul Williams.
#37 - Twenty Questions
MacGyver - Season 6 - Episode 4
MacGyver tries to help his teenage friend Lisa admit she has a drinking problem, but it takes a brush with the law when she's implicated in a string of home break-ins to really wake her up.
#38 - To Re-enlist or Not to Re-enlist
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 22
Sgt. Carter attempts to keep Gomer from re-enlisting.
#39 - Gomer Goes Home
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 18
Gomer goes home to Mayberry and becomes involved in the search for a bank robber.
#40 - Live and Learn
MacGyver - Season 5 - Episode 13
MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.
#41 - Gloria, Hallelujah
The Odd Couple - Season 3 - Episode 1
It's a computer-dating disaster when Oscar gets matched with Felix's ex-wife.
#42 - The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly in Vain
The Odd Couple - Season 5 - Episode 1
Felix gives Myrna a total makeover to help her get back with her boyfriend.
#43 - Repo Man
CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 14
The officers apprehend a repo man who has been stealing cars.
#44 - Photo Finished
Simon & Simon - Season 8 - Episode 12
Rick and AJ are asked by Tom Huntley, a State Senatorial candidate, to find out whether his wife Colleen is having an affair. Despite their rule against working on cases involving marital difficulties, they agree. Naturally, it's all a setup. The Simons are put in place as witnesses to the apparent murder of Mrs. Huntley. They report the murder and turn over the pictures they've taken to the police. After her body turns up, they realize that what they saw was a scripted scene played out between two hired actors.
#45 - CHP-BMX
CHiPs - Season 2 - Episode 21
Jon and Sindy are training a BMX team for kids. Ponch takes care of a young boy who was caught vandalizing his school. Getraer is so distracted over his son's accident that he accidentally releases a dangerous drug dealer.
#46 - The Hawk and the Hunter
CHiPs - Season 4 - Episode 18
Jon and Ponch probe into a case involving an environmentalist's allegations that Baricza's father, Pete, is polluting their town with his insecticides.
#47 - Gomer Pyle, Civilian
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 16
When Sgt. Carter orders him to take a furlough, Gomer becomes a civilian employee at the base.
#48 - Sergeant Carter Dates a Pyle
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 20
Gomer arranges a date for Carter with his cousin Bridey Pyle.
#49 - Vacation in Las Vegas
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 25
Gomer wins a trip to Las Vegas. Problem: whom should he take? Then he and Carter win a fortune gambling.
#50 - Gomer the Carrier
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 3
Gomer and Carter are the only ones who don't come down with German measles.