The BEST episodes written by Robert Sherman
#1 - Nightmare in Hawaii (Part 2)
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 3
After escaping from prison, J.R. enlists the help of Andy's sister, Toni and tries to meet with Andy, but a trap has been set, and Andy is killed. Convinced that J.R. is innocent of her brother's murder, Toni takes J.R. to a small cabin on the property, where J.R. witnesses the harvesting of marijuana and realizes that Toni's older brother Michael is involved in the smuggling of drugs in pineapple boxes.
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#2 - Bond of Fear
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 24
Shortly after a quarrel with his wife Florence Harold Armstrong is pushed over banisters and killed. Russ Madden hires Barnaby to prove Florence's innocence. Nora, Harold's mistress tries to blackmail her. Who is the mysterious person disguised as Florence?
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#3 - Double Vengeance
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 8
Brina Douglas kills her older husband in a buggy accident at Dryers Canyon as revenge for her father's death, whom he ruined. Barnaby investigates for the insurance company. Brina also wants to get rid of Ray Greenwald. Gil, a third associate, fakes Ray's murder.
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#4 - Dangerous Gambit
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 21
While Frank Dunlap distracts the bank manager, clerk Joyce Elkins hides $250 000 in a false ledger and her colleague Angie locks it in a safe deposit box. Double crossed Jerry Kennedy pursues Joyce, who runs into a car. The driver asks Barnaby to find the witness.
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#5 - Nightmare in Hawaii (Part 1)
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 2
At the request of his friend Andy Spencer J.R. flies to Maui, Hawaii, and is immediately caught up in a nightmarish situation: At the meeting-place J. R. is found with a stabbed dope pusher and arrested for the crime. Believing his friend will help clear him, Andy is summoned to the police station, but Andy disavows him. Police Lt. Walt Abbott finds marijuana and money in J. R.'s bag, further incriminating him. Barnaby and Betty arrive in aid of the framed J.R., but due to an old grudge Abbott denies any help. In desperation, JR escapes from jail to try to solve the crime.
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#6 - The Final Victim
Barnaby Jones - Season 8 - Episode 19
Being on hustler heading unwittingly young Susan Cooper tries to hitch-hike, is mistaken for a prostitute and accidentally killed by judge David Kingsley. Susan's father asks Barnaby to clear her name. During his investigations Barnaby meets ""Chronicle"" reporter Walt Di Angelo, a friend of Kingsley's.
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#7 - Portrait of Evil
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 14
Abby Reinhart and her lover, restorer Tony Barrer, plan to cheat her older, wealthy husband Gutherie with an art forgery. When Gutherie overhears the plot, he dies from a heart attack. Abby and Tony try to conceal the death until the paint of the fake is dried.
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#8 - The Prodigal
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 31
To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that he is the owner of Lucas's ranch.
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#9 - Circle of Treachery
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 18
After an attempt on his life Fritz Simon is reluctant to testify against Monte Kovell in a race track robbery. J.R. falls in love with pretty Laura and even gets her a job at the detective agency, not knowing she is spying for Kovell's accomplice Stroop.
#10 - Forfeit by Death
Barnaby Jones - Season 3 - Episode 6
Young law student Jim Wayburn makes common cause with defendant Ross Kemper who stole jewels and forfeited a large bond from the company of Jim's employer Roxy Morgan, an old friend of Barnaby's. But when Kemper cheats, Jim kills him and tries to sell the jewels.
#11 - The Captives
Barnaby Jones - Season 6 - Episode 8
Attempting to locate Gloria, a runaway wife, Barnaby goes to the small town of Las Mesas, which is deserted due to the fair at Colverton. Earl, Ritchie and Tom plan to rob an armored car transport. They hold Gloria, the remaining townspeople and Barnaby as captives. It is up to J.R. to rescue Barnaby and the others when he can't convince the local authorites that something is wrong in Las Mesas.
#12 - Mister Nobody
The Streets of San Francisco - Season 3 - Episode 14
When a humble shoe repairman confesses to murder, Stone and Keller suspect that he's taking the fall for the real killer.
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#14 - The Wedding Picture / Castaways
Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 7
In "The Wedding Picture" a woman, unhappy with her marriage, wishes to relive her wedding day to determine if she did indeed marry the wrong man. And in "Castaways" a man wishes to spend the weekend on a desert Island with a gorgeous model.
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Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 16
In "Baby on Demand" Joanna Jones, once a very successful rock-and-roll singer wishes to become a mother. And in "The Last Dogfight" an elderly couple brought to the Island to re-enact his glorious past as a World War II fighter pilot.
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#16 - Voice in the Night
Barnaby Jones - Season 5 - Episode 7
Barnaby investigates the murder of three people, a medic, a judge and the owner of a lodge. Shortly before their death they received phone calls from Cynthia, who after being raped was confined to a mental institution and was supposed to have drowned a year ago.
#17 - Uninvited Peril
Barnaby Jones - Season 6 - Episode 20
A desperate mother, Verna Davis, requests Betty's help to find her missing son, Duane. Betty does not know that he is an escaped criminally insane killer. She locates Duane, who is seriously injured by a bullet. Verna abducts a doctor and forces him to help.
#18 - Target for a Wedding
Barnaby Jones - Season 7 - Episode 24
Barnaby visits his god-daughter Laurie for her wedding with Lester, but the murder of Laurie's uncle Tully, a prospector, casts a shadow on the event. Laurie falls for Blue Simpson, not knowing that he killed Tully and wants to marry her as she will inherit a gold mine.
#20 - Second Chance
MacGyver - Season 5 - Episode 5
Renegade America service men steal everything that's not nailed down in Thailand, creating a life-threatening situation. MacGyver helps set things right, while helping an old friend get acquainted with a son he never knew he had.
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Rawhide - Season 2 - Episode 5
Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's family and friends had to manage to steal the drovers' horses.
#22 - The Picture Pirates
Barnaby Jones - Season 7 - Episode 11
To pay the debts of his girl friend Rita, Jimmy Collier gives brand new motion pictures to film pirates. Editor Ken discovers him, but is killed by Jimmy's accomplices. J.R. arranges a meeting with Francesca and Barnaby poses as a black market film buyer.
#23 - Surrogate Mother / The Ideal Woman
Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 22
In "Surrogate Mother" a mother wishes to find out how she will feel when she gives up the baby. And in "The Ideal Woman" a man's fantasy is to be reunited with the love of his life.
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#25 - Panic
The Invaders - Season 1 - Episode 14
The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.
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#26 - The Condemned
The Invaders - Season 1 - Episode 17
The invaders frame Vincent for the death of an owner of an electronics plant who had made discoveries about the aliens.
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#28 - The Murdering Class
Barnaby Jones - Season 1 - Episode 4
When caught stealing exam questions Paul accidentally kills George Enright. His friend Charles Lomax makes it look like a drunken George stole money and fell to death. When Barnaby is hired to investigate, Charles drops false clues that point to Ron Fannon.
#29 - Legacy
Dallas - Season 6 - Episode 19
Pam leaves Bobby and Southfork, to J.R.'s delight, and moves into a hotel. The cartel celebrates J.R.'s losing his variance. J.R. tells Mark Graison that Pam and Bobby split up. J.R. vows to keep selling cut-rate gas, despite the loss of the variance. Mark visits Pamela at the hotel. Rebecca's will is read and Pam, Katherine, Cliff, and even Afton get their shares. Lucy and Mickey become friends. Cliff and Katherine reconcile. J.R. and Walt Driscoll continue collaborating on the Caribbean deal. Clayton tells Sue Ellen that he used to be in love with her but now he's seeing Miss Ellie. J.R. offers Bobby a "compromise solution" to the battle for Ewing Oil but Bobby rejects the offer. J.R. succeeds in making Bobby look in front of the family like he wants an all-out war.
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#31 - The Decoy Raid
The Rat Patrol - Season 2 - Episode 19
A village's typhus serum is confiscated by the S.S. in order to exchange it for capturing the Rat Patrol. Dietrich questions their methods.
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#34 - Knight of the Chameleon
Knight Rider - Season 3 - Episode 11
Michael poses as a mercenary to flush out the Chameleon (Dick Gautier), a master of disguise who stole a prototype jet pack from the Government to sell on the black market.
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#36 - Murder, a Self Portrait
Columbo - Season 9 - Episode 1
A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next door. Together, these women comprise Max's own little harem. He loves them all in different ways, but, more importantly, likes to control them. In fact, Max derives a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that they all fight for his attention and are reliant upon him financially and emotionally. The competitive jealousy between the women reaches a head at the dinner table one night when Max asks each of them what they think of the other. Their answers prove the intense rivalry between the women.
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T.J. Hooker - Season 3 - Episode 5
Hooker is on a date with Lisa Jericho, an infamous ""muck-raking"" reporter, when the restaurant they're in comes under gun-fire. A man whom Lisa had previously done an article on is killed in the shooting, but Hooker begins to theorise that Lisa was in fact the intended target when later her life once again is endangered. Unbeknown to them, the crooked head of a construction company that the reporter is investigating, is determined to see that she isn't around to print an up-coming article revealing his corruption...
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Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 3
Three nurses are brought to the Island as guests of a mysterious benefactor who appreciated the care he received during his stay at their hospital.
#39 - Awakening of Love / The Impostor
Fantasy Island - Season 7 - Episode 17
In "Awakening of Love" a world-renowned high fashion model wishes to form a lasting, loving relationship. And in "The Impostor" a couple come to the Island in hopes of "curing" her partner of his compulsive need to create other personalities.