The BEST episodes written by Robert Malcolm Young
#1 - The Killer Within
Spenser: For Hire - Season 1 - Episode 7
Spenser is a Private Detective who is hired by a woman to watch her sister and protect her from an old boyfriend. Susan Silverman is Spenser's girlfriend, a research assistant in a psychologist's office. Susan is elated to have been chosen by handsome Dr. Ed Howard from all the other research assistants to accompany him to San Francisco for a psychology conference. Spenser is less elated. Ed Howard enters the picture when Spenser realizes that his client has multiple personalities, she is herself and her sister. Or is she her sister and . . .she's both Diane and Donna, ok? Susan points out that this is Howard's speciality and should be the one to counsel the woman. Spenser is less than elated to bring in the doctor.
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#2 - Beyond Vengeance
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 23
After spending "a lousy" 12 years in prison for a rape / torture / murder, a young punk returns to San Francisco to seek revenge against Mike Stone who was the arresting officer.
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#3 - River of Fear
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 20
A twelve-year-old girl sets out to prove that he stepfather killer her mother.
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#4 - Act of Duty
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 16
Roommate (played by Brenda Vaccaro) of a slain police officer agrees to be bait in a rape investigation. After Mike Stone kicks her off the case, she continues on her own, hurtling headlong into peril.
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#5 - Mask of Death
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 4
John Davidson plays a drag role of "Carole Marloe", which I think he's a female impersonator doing Carol Channing. Davidson dates older men as "Carole" and kills them using a hatpin to the heart.
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#6 - The Runaways
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 12
Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.
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#7 - The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case
Columbo - Season 6 - Episode 3
Two former college friends, now partners in an accounting firm, become enemies when one realizes the other has embezzled funds. The reason for his embezzling ways is his wife, she demands nothing but the best.
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#9 - No Place to Hide
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 4 - Episode 3
Prison gangs intimidate weaker prisoners into having their wives smuggle drugs into prison -- and kill the wives if they don't. An episode with exceptionally good dialogue.
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#10 - A Trout in the Milk
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 1 - Episode 14
Stone and Keller suspect that an artist's fatal fall from his studio window was not an accident.
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#11 - The Amnesiac
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 13
Jim poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.
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#14 - The Canine Collar
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 5 - Episode 24
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds
#15 - The Twenty-Four Karat Plague
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 9
Four men plan to heist radioactive gold over a poker game. Then find out that it is mixed with Uranium. The man smelting and forming the planchets gets radiation poisoning and it goes down hill for them fast.
#16 - The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 11
The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.
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#17 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 2
A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive - yet frightening - glow.
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#18 - Fright Night
Night Gallery - Season 3 - Episode 8
An author and his lovely wife move into an old big house left to them by his late uncle Zachariah on the condition that they are never to open a mysterious trunk there that someone will come for. The house starts driving them insane.
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