The BEST episodes written by Robert Schlitt
#1 - Captain Crocodile
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Monkees appear on a children's television show.
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#2 - The Monkees in a Ghost Town
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 7
Stranded in a ghost town, the Monkees are held captive by mobsters.
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#4 - Chapel of the Damned
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 2 - Episode 16
Stone and Keller work to crack a kidnap case where the mother is friends with an alleged psychic.
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#6 - You Took Advantage of Me
Jake and the Fatman - Season 3 - Episode 23
Jake goes undercover as a chauffeur to nab a husband for murder, but gets into trouble with the new wife.
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#7 - The Royal Flush
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Monkees help a pretty princess who is endangered by her evil uncle.
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Matlock - Season 8 - Episode 16
Matlock reluctantly agrees to spend the weekend as part of a murder mystery with Cliff, Leanne, and three people who each paid $10,000 for the privilege of matching wits with Ben Matlock. When the pretend victim turns up really dead, they know that one of the three paying visitors killed him. Leanne has her father keep the three suspects occupied with stories of previous cases while she and Cliff investigate.
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#9 - Iced Coffey
Hill Street Blues - Season 6 - Episode 18
Bates agonizes over identifying Coffey's killer; Hunter uncovers an unexpected thief in the station; a prostitute sells out Jesus and Attorney Brown in a bribery scandal; and Belker's harassed by an overzealous security guard.
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#10 - The Restless Remains
Diagnosis Murder - Season 1 - Episode 9
Financier Robin westlin dies in Dr. Sloan's house, but when the paramedics at the scene, the body's gone. Everyone is certain the event was a figment of Mark's imagination. Dr. Sloan goes on a quest to validate his theory.
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#11 - Come and Get It
Hill Street Blues - Season 6 - Episode 22
The Hill reaches a crisis point of outraged citizenry and stampeding press coverage when Hill and Renko rescue an escaped mass murderer captured by a vigilante mob, and Belker can't stop being a cop even as he coaches Robin through labor.
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#13 - Taking It Easy
Adam-12 - Season 6 - Episode 17
Reed is suffering from a wrist injury which puts him on desk duty, while Malloy has to break in a new rookie partner. Reed's day is far from routine as he has to handle a bomb threat that results in the evacuation of the station, and Officer Brinkman accidentally discharges his shotgun twice outside the station adding more tension, a young man wants to report misconduct by a police officer, an elderly man brings a shotgun into the station to drop off, Malloy brings in a group of children abandoned by their mother, and Malloy and his partner pursue a car into the police parking lot, where the suspects are arrested.
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#15 - The Mayor (1)
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 8
When Chris Reardon, a man determined to bring the sixties back into the late eighties, is charged with murdering mayor Brian Barelli, reporter Paul O'Neill brings Matlock to Chicago to defend him, convinced of his innocence. Matlock reluctantly agrees to follow through with the case after realising O'Neill tricked him, because he knows that dropping the case will seriously hurt Reardon's chances.
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#16 - The Gift
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 10
When Brian Emerson is arrested and charged with his wife's murder, Matlock takes the case, waiving his usual fee. His efforts to get the father out on bail fail when he lands a judge who has lost his Christmas spirit, and Matlock takes the young girl in with him.
#17 - The Husband
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 4
When Matlock agrees to defend Cassie's friend Judy, he is shocked to learn that Judy's husband had another wife. As the case continues, Matlock learns that there was also a third Mrs. Benson, and that Kevin Benson managed to successfully maintain three separate wives in three separate households.
#18 - The Vendetta
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 7
Michelle is taken hostage by Ned Billings, who blames Matlock for his brother (James Billings, The Professor) committing suicide after being convicted of murder, thanks to Ben. Tyler and Julie also show up and end up as Ned's hostages, and they try to use the tactics they've seen Matlock use in courtrooms and interrogations to stay alive and convince Ned not to kill Ben.
#19 - The Cop
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 8
Detective Joe Peters has been accused of taking bribes and murdering a fence, and also suspected in the death of a fellow cop. When it comes right down to it, one of the other cops on the force was more involved than they should have been.
#20 - The Best Seller
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 3
When Elizabeth, a friend of famous novelist Cynthia Slayton, is found dead after taking Cynthia's prescribed allergy medication, suspicion falls on Cynthia's long-suffering husband Philip, a friend of Julie's. While trying to clear his name, Julie realises that not everything is as it seems in the Slayton house.
#21 - The Mark
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 6
When Billy Wheeler comes back to town $250,000 richer after having won the lottery, he soon falls for contractor Judy Wilson. Unfortunately, when she takes him and every other partner for a ride, Billy is accused of her murder, and Matlock has to clear his name.
#23 - Santa Claus
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 11
When a down-on-his luck Santa Claus (Tom McCabe) is accused of killing the landlord who was about to evict not only him but everyone else in the apartment complex, the people in his building take up a collection and come to Matlock to ask him to defend him. They may not like Tom, but none of them believe him guilty of murder. Matlock ignores his own misgivings about a man he can't help but dislike and agrees to defend Tom.
#24 - The Model
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 17
Matlock has finally had the breakthrough in the case he was struggling with, but after being hit by a car, he needs to put the case together from scratch. Unfortunately, his nurse isn't too pleased to see him trying to work, and does her best to make sure he gets the rest he needs.
#25 - Crossties
Kung Fu - Season 2 - Episode 18
Caine is caught in the middle of a land-rights fight between farmers and railroad agents. He tries to convince the farmers to accept an offer of amnesty, and to keep the agents from using the offer as a fatal trap for the farmers.
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