The BEST episodes written by Robert Hamner
#2 - Middle of a Heat Wave
The Fugitive - Season 3 - Episode 2
While dating a local woman named Laurel Harper, Kimble breaks off their romantic affair and she angrily storms out of the bar they are in and into the night. The next morning, Laurel is found on an abandoned road unconscious and badly beaten. While she is taken to a hospital for treatment, Laurel's paranoid and suspicious sister, Sheila, convinces the police to hold Kimble for questioning.
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#6 - Twenty Million Alibis
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 13
During a TV talk show presenting his memoirs former jewel thief Tony Neill plans to steal a diamond necklace unnoticed during a break. He succeeds, but kills the butler. Barnaby is hired by an insurance company to find jewelry and asks Neill for advice.
#7 - The Anti-Matter Man
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 15
Will and the robot try to rescue the kidnapped Prof. Robinson in a macabre world of orange grass, polka-dotted leaves, and animated rocks.
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#8 - The System
Mission: Impossible - Season 3 - Episode 15
A gangster, Constantine Victor (aka "Mr. V") has had the last witness against him on a murder indictment killed. Johnny Costa, Victor's associates and a casino owner, is the only one with enough evidence to get Victor convicted. The IMF must con Costa into talking. Phelps as a syndicate killer warns Costa that someone has put a contract on him. Cinnamon charms Costa and has him endorse minor credit slips which the IMF then forges for bigger ones. Rollin is a bookkeeper who supposedly works for Costa, finds an unlisted $25,000 planted by Barney, and the fake credit slips. Thanks to a prerecorded call from "Victor" mimicked by Rollin, Costa is relieved of duties. Costa confronts Cinnamon and gets her to admit she is working for Victor. Fleeing from Willy as another hit man, Costa locks himself in the casino vault to protect himself until he can testify against Victor.
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#10 - The Party's Over
Silk Stalkings - Season 3 - Episode 10
Rita's shot unrecognizably to death at her own apartment just to show herself very much alive a few days later. The victim was her flat-sitter, but who was the real target?
#12 - Exit from Wickenburg
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 3
Someone's trying to get the guys out of a town where they are helping a widow run from the saloon left to her by her late husband, but they can't figure out who's doing it or why.
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#13 - Prestidigitation
Emergency! - Season 4 - Episode 18
The paramedics rescue a magician trapped in his trunk. Dr. Brackett's father is treated at the hospital for phlebitis. A fireplace explodes and falls on top of the homeowner. An auto accident sends a power transformer flying into a man's bedroom. Roy and John are puzzled by a gift from the magician. A fuel truck collides with a car and a gas main, trapping a woman and starting a fire.
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#15 - The Big Ripoff
The Rockford Files - Season 1 - Episode 8
A life insurance investigation becomes more complicated than it first appeared when Jim believes the insuree is still alive...
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#16 - The System
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 1 - Episode 2
The team must force a mobster to turn evidence against his partner and mentor.
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#17 - A Fistful of Diamonds
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 8
After an embezzling banker / murderer sets up Curry and Heyes to take the fall for his crimes, the boys try to clear themselves by playing on his greed with a salted diamond field.
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#18 - Family Secrets
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 2
Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.
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#19 - Not With a Whimper, But a Bang
Ironside - Season 2 - Episode 26
A local college is plagued by false bomb alerts, and the editor of the campus paper is convinced that leftist militants are responsible. However, when the fourth bomb proves to be real, and a member of the bomb squad is killed, the Chief begins to look in another direction.
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#20 - The Night of the Flaming Ghost
The Wild Wild West - Season 1 - Episode 18
Jim and Arte follow the trail of stolen kerosene and sulfur to Harper's ferry, where they find an 1870's version of abolitionist John Brown.
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#21 - The Man Who Murdered Himself
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 10
While Curry drives a wagonload of dynamite across rugged country, Heyes hires on as a guide for two Englishmen searching for a tribe of giant redheaded Indians rumored to have lived in the area of Devil's Hole.
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#23 - Bloodlines
Murder, She Wrote - Season 10 - Episode 6
A racehorse trainer is murdered as he is on his way to expose a racing fraud and there is some friction concerning his daughter's permission to ride in the race.
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#24 - Fugitives in Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 20
Don and Smith are convicted on a false charge and sentenced to the toughest prison planet in the galaxy.
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#25 - Deadliest of the Species
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 11
The Robinsons’ robot flips over a mechanical beauty programmed for pure evil. Robot: Bob May.
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#27 - The Over-the-Hill Blues
Ironside - Season 8 - Episode 11
Peter Justin, a gentleman jewel thief and old adversary of the Chief's, returns from a five year stretch in San Quentin and is soon back to his old life. When a protégé frames him for a robbery and murder charge the Chief has to prove him innocent, despite his knowledge that another recent robbery is most definitely the work of Justin alone.
#28 - Kidnapped in Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 3
Mechanical men threaten the travelers with death unless someone can fix their robot leader.
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#29 - Death Carrier
S.W.A.T. - Season 1 - Episode 3
In a period of a year, model Janet Warren dated three young men, and each has been killed by a sniper's bullet. Police have been unable to find motives or suspects. Since Janet is the only link, Hondo assigns officer Jim Street to pose as the beautiful girl's latest boyfriend in a plan to draw out the sniper who apparently has Janet under constant surveillance.
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#30 - Space Destructors
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 6
Dr Smith activates a robot-manufacturing machine that turns out an army of obedient automatons.
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#32 - Attack of the Barbarians
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 26
Doug and Tony are captured by the Mongols in 1287, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Baku. Tony is tortured until Doug stages a rescue, where they meet with Marco Polo, who is aiding Kublai Khan. Tony falls in love with Sahib, daughter of Kublai Khan that Polo is aiding and who is kidnapped by Baku. The guys rescue her by using black powder that Polo has discovered in China. When Baku launches an assault on the fort where Polo is staying, the Project staff try and send artillery back to the guys. They thwart an attack on the fort while Tony considers staying with Sahib. In the end she returns to her duty and the two part. Doug provides the necessary ingredient to turn the black powder into gunpowder, while the Project try and send detonator caps to assist them. With the explosives the attack is thwarted and the guys are whisked out. (Copyright 2003 Steve Crow)
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#33 - Two Weeks in Space
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 13
Smith turns the Jupiter 2 into a hotel for humanoids, unaware that they are fugitives from space justice.
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#34 - The Prince / The Sheriff
Fantasy Island - Season 1 - Episode 3
In 'The Prince' a handsome young prince wants to live as a common man, but falls in love with a woman who despises poverty. And in 'The Sheriff' New York City Police Detective John Burke, wants to go back in time to become a sheriff in the old west.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 12
Nelson and Crane go undercover and risk their lives in order to bring a Communist defector back to the United States. But the man is injured in the attempt, and his lover is left behind. He won't speak to the agent waiting for him on Seaview (actually a double agent) until he is reunited with his Anna. But even Anna is not all she seems.
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#37 - Kill S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T. - Season 2 - Episode 3
Following a training exercise with S.W.A.T. officers from another division, Hondo and Street find the dead body of officer Frank Crane with the words "Kill S.W.A.T." pinned to his chest. The murder of Crane is the forerunner of a series of attempts to wipe out S.W.A.T. by brothers Mike and Simon Bishop and their fanatic sister-in-law, Joanna, who is convinced that the death of her husband was the result of S.W.A.T. "brutality."
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#41 - The Legacy
Planet of the Apes - Season 1 - Episode 5
Burke and Virdon are helped by a young woman and a young boy while searching for an underground computer in a ruined city, but their plans go awry when Alan is captured and Urko uses the boy to get information from the astronaut.
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#42 - King Kamehameha Blues
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 8
Four university students hatch a plot to steal the robes of King Kamehameha, and McGarrett and the team must apply pressure to the gang's weak point to retrieve the robes and catch the thieves.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 14
An old friend of Nelson's comes aboard Seaview to continue his research into the giant whale that destroyed his ship, crippling him and killing his son. His real motives, however, have more to do with vengeance than science, and Crane becomes concerned that the Admiral is caught up in his friend's obsession.
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#45 - The Abominable Snowman
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 18
"But that's not the goal of a man -- of a scientist!" Admiral Nelson At an experimental station in the Antarctic, the crew discovers a 'tropical paradise' -- but most of the scientists are missing. When two unconscious survivors are brought aboard Seaview, something deadly starts to stalk the corridors. Meanwhile, the temperature outside is still rising .... * The white furry monster costume also appears in at least one Lost in Space episode.
#46 - Most Likely To Murder
Hawaii Five-O - Season 2 - Episode 21
Lew Morgan and his wife are friends of Danno, but she is murdered, and Morgan sets out to find the culprit. However, his wife seems to be hiding secrets that may have caused her death.
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