The BEST episodes written by Rudolph Borchert
#1 - Blood Sport (1)
T.J. Hooker - Season 5 - Episode 16
Hooker is delivering a captured criminal to the Federal court building when he meets Senator Grayle, an old friend; when a bomb intended kill the Senator explode. With Hooker having saved the Senator's life, himself, Stacy and Corrigan at the Senator's request travel to Honolulu, Hawaii, to work with the local Police department there and protect the Senator and his wife from the ruthless gangsters out to assassinate him. But in his time protecting the Senator, Hooker finds that he does not approve with many of his old friend's ways and methods; and it's a tangled web leading to finding just who is behind the threats...
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#2 - Plague
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 8
A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
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#5 - The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 10
Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you know it, there's curse on the darn thing. The six previous owners have all kicked the bucket under mysterious circumstances. Needless to say, Wentworth becomes victim number seven but is he really the victim of a mummy's curse or is there some other motive in this wild, wild case?
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#6 - Weekend
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 20
Amanda and Lee pose as newlyweds at a resort to prevent a kidnapping, and actually enjoy each others company.
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#7 - The Good Samaritan
The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 19
Tired of using the suit to fight crime, Ralph decides to branch out. He tries to intervene in a battle between an old man fighting for his home and the city taking it away, but Bill has him on the hunt for bank robbers.
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#9 - Space Ranger
The Greatest American Hero - Season 3 - Episode 8
One of Ralph's students invents a radio telescope capable of decoding Russian satellite messages. The KGB tries to steal his system. When that maneuver fails, they decide to kill him before he can share his discovery with the CIA.
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#10 - Filming Raul
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 18
Agency Parking Attendant/Part time film maker, Raul hold the main clue in finding an Agency courier who disappeared when Mrs. King wrecked her station wagon.
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#11 - Vigilante Mothers
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 2 - Episode 23
Lee's efforts to find out who stole some nerve gas from a Government lab get him involved in Amanda's environmental group.
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#12 - Waiting for Godorsky
Scarecrow and Mrs. King - Season 1 - Episode 21
While visiting an estate style yard sale with her mother, Amanda meets a woman targeted by Eastern Bloc assasins. She is later invited to have to with her majesty, while unknowingly getting involved with an Agency assignment.
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#13 - An Unfriendly Radiance
Quincy, M.E. - Season 2 - Episode 10
Quincy is called in on his day off after a car crash victim is brought in and seems to have an extremely high level of radiation in his body. Ray Sanchez, who was helping out the now dead man, Bigelow, is arrested for manslaughter, even though Quincy is convinced of his innocence and makes no effort to hide his viewpoint. To help Sanchez Quincy decides to look more into the radiation aspect of Bigelow's death and tries to dig into his background and find out where he worked.
#15 - The Ripper
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 1
A serial killer who preys on women haunts Chicago, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is in fact the original Jack the Ripper, a seemingly immortal killer who has killed women in many cities over the last century. The reporter must track the killer to the old house where he has taken up residence and put an end to his existence once and for all.
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#17 - The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep
Ellery Queen - Season 1 - Episode 20
Inspector Queen is in charge of protecting a mob witness but the witness is murdered before he can testify. Wouldn't you know it, the evidence points to none other than Sgt. Velie. The Inspector must also deal with rivals in the department who feel he's gotten long in the tooth and relies too much on Ellery. Will Ellery be able to figure out the correct solution? Not in this episode, he doesn't.
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#22 - Say Goodbye to Jennifer
The Rockford Files - Season 1 - Episode 19
Hired by Mitch, a photographer friend, Jim must travel to Seattle to find a missing model who stands accused of shooting a gang member...
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#24 - With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 13
While investigating the death of a young model, Jim keeps stumbling into the murder of a jet setting model and the connection between them and a fashion house about to sport a new line...
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#26 - A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 8
Jim is hired by a toy manufacturer asks babysit a a cop turned tv writer who keeps falling into trouble and is desperate to solve one last big case involving a mob hit...
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#29 - They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 3
A bizarre alien presence invisibly sweeps through Chicago, killing a petty thief and a UFO nut. The alien or aliens have the strength of a hurricane, generate a massive electromagnetic field, steal lead and electronic equipment, and suck the bone marrow out of humans and animals alike. Kolchak must track the alien(s) from an electronics warehouse to an observatory to Lincoln Park and drive them off before they kill again. His camera seems to hold the key to the creatures' weakness, although initially Carl is wrong in guessing what the weakness is. Carl follows the aliens and manages to keep them from feeding on him before they depart once and for all.
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#30 - The Devil's Platform
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 7
A series of mysterious deaths plague the election trail of Sen. Robert Palmer, as does a mysterious black dog with a pentagram for a dog tag. Carl investigates and finds that the Senator has made a pact with Satan in return for the ability to assume the form of an indestructible black mastiff, and destroy his enemies both within his own party and opposing him. Kolchak must confront Palmer and destroy the pentagram before Palmer kills him.
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#31 - A Different Drummer
The Rockford Files - Season 5 - Episode 22
Hospitalized by an accident, Jim is convinced he sees a doctor perform an organ extraxion on a live patient...
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#32 - The Youth Killer
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 19
Young swinging patrons of an exclusive dating service are turning up, dead of old age. The police don't believe they are the same persons, but Kolchak investigates and discovers that the head of the dating service is actually Helen of Troy, who sacrifices perfect young victims to Hecate, her patron goddess, in return for eternal youth and beauty. The fact that Helen is unaware one of the victims had a glass eye and lied about it on their form proves vital to Kolchak when he accidentally dons one of the rings that lets Helen sacrifice her victims in the appropriate manner.
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#34 - The Trevi Collection
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 14
A fashion industry spy is thrown to his death from a room filled with nothing but mannequins as Carl looks on from the street below. This is but the first in a series of strange murders that point to a supernatural origin: apparently Madame Trevi, a leading designer in the fashion industry, is using witchcraft to stop those who oppose her. With the aid of a witches' coven, Carl is pointed to the source of Trevi's power and destroys it, only to find who the witch truly is. Armed with a mojo bag, Carl must confront the witch and publicly accuse her to strip her of her powers.
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Police Woman - Season 3 - Episode 19
A loan-shark operation terrorizes borrowers to collect bad debts.
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#36 - The Energy Eater
Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1 - Episode 10
Several Indian construction workers are killed during high-rise work on a new hospital. They leave the job, and the hospital is completed. However, a series of strange electrocutions continue to plague the hospital after its grand opening. Kolchak investigates and finds that a "bear-god" spirit, Matchemonedo, was resurrected from its burial spot beneath Lake Michigan by the hospital construction. Now the creature, which feeds on energy, is beginning to awaken. Kolchak must convince the hospital officials to re-refrigerate the "bear-god" and drive it back into hibernation before it awakens once and for all.
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#37 - Sanctuary Earth
The Bionic Woman - Season 3 - Episode 16
A satellite returns unexpectedly to Earth, and Jaime discovers that a 14-year-old girl from another planet is on board.
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T.J. Hooker - Season 5 - Episode 17
In the conclusion of this feature-length / two-part story, with Howie Kalanuma murdered, Hooker becomes even more determined to find the gang behind the threats on Senator Grayle and his wife...
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