The BEST episodes written by Robert C. Dennis
#2 - The Mind Reader
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 40
When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.
#3 - The Badge Racket
Dragnet - Season 2 - Episode 3
Three con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap as Gannon pretends to be a manufacturer from Lincoln Nebraska.
#4 - The Investigation
Dragnet - Season 2 - Episode 26
Friday and Gannon are screening applicants for the Police Academy. One seems to have all the right qualifications, except that six months are missing from his application.
#5 - Homicide - DR-06
Dragnet - Season 3 - Episode 6
Joe and Bill review the progress report of a homicide (thus the name of the episode). Joe has invited Bill and his wife to his apartment for dinner. The dinner is constantly interrupted by neighbors asking for advice and complaining about a loud party. One neighbor calls to say that someone is breaking into the coin boxes in the laundry room. Joe and Bill grab their guns and investigate.
#6 - Sweet Terror
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 7
McGarrett must counter a threat by international terrorist Erich Stoss to use a fungus to wipe out Hawaii's sugar cane, half of the world's supply.
#7 - Joey's Here
Matt Houston - Season 1 - Episode 10
When the owner of a company that manufactures among other things robots is killed by one. Murray asks Houston to help his friend, the designer who was at odds with the man because he was planning to shut his project down. And among the suspects are the man's brother who was battling him for control and an unscrupulous businessman whom Houston knows who was in the building at the time of the incident.
#8 - The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season 2 - Episode 3
After a young woman denies the handbag he recovered is hers, Frank is left with a stolen Egyptian idol and a pile of trouble.
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#9 - Carnival of Spies
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 4 - Episode 19
Steve trails a East German scientist who fakes a heart attack at a conference, then goes to a traveling carnival located suspiciously close to the test flight of a new B-1 bomber.
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#10 - The Case of the Golden Fraud
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 7
Richard Vanaman is up for a promotion at his investment firm but is sabotaged and framed for murder.
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#11 - S.I.U. - The Ring
Dragnet - Season 4 - Episode 3
Joe and Bill are working the Special Investigation Unit. Informant “Black 10” asks for a meeting with Joe and Bill and gives them a tip about a bartender who is fencing stolen jade ring. Joe and Bill set up a sting to recover the ring and other stolen jewelry.
#12 - The Grenade
Dragnet - Season 2 - Episode 1
A surly teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with a live hand grenade.
#13 - Missing Persons - The Body
Dragnet - Season 4 - Episode 20
Joe and Bill investigate the identity of a dead 23 year old woman found under the Venice Pier. They check missing person reports to try to identify the woman, and they use a ring she was wearing and a piece of paper found on the body to track down the identity.
#14 - Cry of Silence
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 6
A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are trapped by animated tumbleweeds.
#15 - The Missing Realtor
Dragnet - Season 2 - Episode 10
A woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives' one suspect - the woman's ex-boyfriend - is cleared; then credit card bills for purchases made after the woman's death start appearing.
#16 - Forty Feet High and It Kills!
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 3
A tsunami warning is called and a geneticist is evacuated from a conference. He is then kidnapped under the orders of Wo Fat, but he uses his diabetic medical condition as a ploy to stop Wo Fat from carrying out the plan to return him to China.
#17 - To Denise, With Love and Murder
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 11
Alex Chandler kills his mistress Denise during a quarrel, because she talked to his rich wife Hazel hoping to encourage a divorce. A disappointed Hazel leaves home and as she does not return her brother hires Barnaby to find out whether Alex murdered Hazel.
#19 - The Gladiators
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 27
Allison Windrom hires Paladin to stop her father and Graham Beckley from dueling.
#20 - Somebody to Remember
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 26
While working as a warehouse worker, Kimble is recognized by the Greek-born owner, Gus Priamos. Gus tells Kimble that he is dying from cancer and has only six months to live and hopes to aid the Fugitive with a scheme to make it look that Kimble has fled the country to Greece. But when Gus' jealous girlfriend Sophie learns Kimble's idenity through a magazine article, she contacts Gerard whom gets a heads-up on Kimble and Gus' plan.
#21 - Brushfire
Emergency! - Season 1 - Episode 4
Station 51 is called up to fight an out-of-control brushfire. An elderly woman breaks her ankle, a man is injured by a horse stampede, a looter is injured in a motorcycle accident, a boy breaks his arm and loses his dog, and a firefighter is trapped and injured under a fallen tree. The out-of-control brushfire also threatens the house of a pregnant woman in labor, who cannot be moved.
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#22 - Perchance to Kill
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 5
Tony Bloom accuses his associate Steve Kingston of a theft and of having an affair with his wife. Steve kills Tony pretending an assault by two hippies. Barnaby is hired to find Christie and her hippy friend Eric who will be arrested under suspicion of murder.
#23 - Task Force
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 4 - Episode 12
other characters: Jim (helicopter pilot) Steve goes undercover as Steve Ferguson, a hired mercinary, in order to infiltrate a ring of thieves attempting to steal a military missile called the Hornet.
#24 - The Sanctuary
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 4 - Episode 16
Coming off the trail, Paladin pulls into a mission seeking a night's rest and ends up helping a man running from a lynch mob.
#25 - The Case of the Violent Vest
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 24
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though horny Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.
#26 - The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 7
An unscrupulous uncle, who is in reality the father of his niece, returns home from the sea seeking money from the sale of oil leases on his land. When the uncle is found murdered, his shipmate is charged with the crime.
#27 - Our Cook's a Treasure
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1 - Episode 8
A man fears that the new cook he's hired is actually a murderess.
#28 - The Right Kind of House
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 23
After the death of her troubled son, a mother decides to sell her house, but a potential buyer discovers she may be hiding something.
#29 - Face of the Dragon
Hawaii Five-O - Season 1 - Episode 17
A man is found dead after having been robbed by a motorcyclist with a gun, and McGarrett is shocked to discover that the man was suffering from bubonic plague. The islands are quarantined, and the team must follow a series of clues to discover the cause of the outbreak.
#30 - Don't Come Back Alive
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1 - Episode 4
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
#31 - The Case of the Polka Dot Pony
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 12
A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.
#32 - Face of a Shadow
Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 6 - Episode 32
Paladin is hired by a man to deliver ten thousand dollars. When the man is found dead, with the money missing, Paladin has to sift through a numbr of suspects, including a band of gypsies and the men who found the body.
#33 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 19
A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
#34 - The Case of the Absent Artist
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 23
Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when the owner of the comic strip "Zingy" offers to sell him the strip for a song. Pete is less than elated when he learns that his girlfriend Leslie is running away to Europe with Gabe Phillips, the strip owner. When Phiilips is murdered, Pete is charged with the crime and retains Perry's services. Investigating the case, Perry soon discovers that the deceased Phillips was leading a double life.
#35 - The Case of the One-Eyed Witness
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 23
Della and Perry's dinner at a fancy French restaurant is interrupted by a phone call and an envelope containing $500.00 from a mysterious woman named Marian Fargo. She wants him to make an exchange for her: the money for some documents regarding her fugitive brother. Unbeknownst to Marion, her own husband is in on the blackmail scheme which is being masterminded by one Samuel Carlin. Marion's husband and Carlin both turn up dead but Marion, who has fled on a bus, has an eyewitness, Diana Maynard, who can provide her with an alibi for the murders. Unfortunately for all concerned, Ms. Maynard has only one good eye and may not be telling the truth about who she is.
#36 - I, Robot
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 9
A grotesque, but gentle, robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.
#37 - The Case of the Crying Comedian
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 5
Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she was forced to commit herself by her husband, Tom. When Tom Gilrain is murdered, Charlie is afraid that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a likely suspect to protect her. Perry arrives on the scene to try and free Charlie from his abysmal stupidity.
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#38 - Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 12
Two women plot to do away with an irascible old man and seize his money, but their plan is foiled when one of them decides she deserves more of the fortune.
#39 - The Case of the Tandem Target
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 29
Irma Hodge's wealthy step-father, Sumner Hodge, is withholding her inheritance because he dislikes her folksinger boyfriend, Con Bolton. When someone supposedly takes a shot at Sumner, he suggest to the police that Con is to blame. Then another attempt is made on Sumner's life which proves successful. His car goes over a cliff with him behind the wheel and an investigation reveals that the brake line had been severed. Witnesses then claim Con was fooling around with the brakes minutes before the crash and he's charged with murder.
#40 - The Devil and Mr. Frog
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 12
When a young son of a businessman escapes from captivity by 'The Devil' and 'Mr. Frog', Five-O must recover the $300,000 ransom money that the desperate father paid.
#41 - The Case of the Antic Angel
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 26
A recovering alcoholic takes to the bottle after he sees his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. Then she turns up dead for real and he's arrested for her murder.
#42 - The Case of the Prankish Professor
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 15
On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.
#43 - The Derelicts
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1 - Episode 19
Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.
#44 - The Morning After
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 14
Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.
#45 - Post Mortem
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 33
When a newly married couple realizes that a lottery ticket is in her recently deceased ex-husband's burial suit, they put their love on the line to exhume the winnings.
#47 - Crack of Doom
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2 - Episode 9
Mason Bridges plays poker with one of his company's wealthy clients. He gambles everything he has and everything his company owns on one single game.
#48 - Glass Tightrope
The Fugitive - Season 1 - Episode 12
Working as a stock clerk in a department store, Kimble witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland, accidentally kill a business associate in the parking lot after hours. When Kimble learns that a local vagrant found near the crime scene is the prime suspect, Kimble anonymously phones Rowland to get him to confess to the murder. But Rowland and his wife, Ginny, thinking that the caller is blackmailing them, hires the store detective, Angstrom, to find the person "blackmailing" Rowland.
#49 - The Singapore File
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 9
McGarrett gets a phone call from Singapore and goes to rescue Nicole Wylie, a witness who has changed her mind and wants to testify. However, the pair must face many dangers on their return trip back to Hawaii.
#50 - Mail Order Prophet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 - Episode 2
When an ordinary clerk starts receiving letters which accurately predict the outcome of future events, he takes a dangerous gamble with his life.