The BEST episodes written by Samuel Newman
#1 - Track of the Dinosaur
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 17
Tarzan is marked for murder when he clashes with a corrupt government official and his female co-conspirator. The pair are using the natives' beliefs in a monster to drive them away from a rich mineral deposit.
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#2 - The Case of the Witless Witness
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 28
A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook. The question though, is is he a crook.
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#3 - The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 26
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
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#4 - The Case of the Renegade Refugee
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 13
A journalist is murdered while tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal who may be posing as an executive at a company called Space Associates, Ltd.
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#5 - The Case of the Weary Watchdog
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 9
This is the episode where Della asks Perry how far he would go for a friend and then asks for $25,000. Della needs the money for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a ""weary watchdog."" The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Janet claims she only hit him once and Perry believes her. Perry takes the case knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory. There is a surprise in the plot, when a Red Chinese slave market is uncovered.
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#6 - The Case of the Hateful Hero
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 4
Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.
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Rawhide - Season 2 - Episode 15
Gil is allowed to continue the cattle drive, despite being accused of murder by the victim's wife and son, after Rowdy is deputized to guard him. Meanwhile, the real killers, three outlaws, scheme to steal church funds from a priest befriended by Gil and Rowdy.
#8 - The Case of the Bluffing Blast
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 14
A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.
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#9 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 19
A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
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#10 - The Case of the Elusive Element
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 24
A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.
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#11 - The Case of the Deadly Double
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 24
When Robert Crane is charged with the murder of his sister's estranged husband Perry needs the testimony of sister Helen Reed to clear him of the charge. Unfortunately for all concerned, Helen suffers from multiple personality disorder and the second personality, Joyce Martel, is the one who is needed as the witness. Helen's psychiatrist puts her under hypnosis so Joyce can tell what she knows about the case.
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#12 - The Case of the Resolute Reformer
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 14
Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.
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#13 - The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-A-Bout
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 18
Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers from a foreign minister backfire.
#14 - The Case of the Angry Astronaut
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 25
Astronaut Matthew Heller is suspected of killing his old service rival, General Addison Brand, after Brand is put in charge of the astronaut program.
#15 - The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 19
Eleanor Corbin pleads amnesia after police find her running and screaming through woods near her apartment building. Her loss of memory is of little help toher when she is later charged with murder.
#16 - The Case of the Roving River
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 15
Perry is hired to help settle a land dispute in the Manzana Valley but the key witness is blown up by a homemade bomb. As usual, Perry's client is accused of the crime.
#17 - The Case of the Jealous Journalist
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 1
The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper itself.
#18 - The Case of the Wrongful Writ
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 29
Ward Toyama is approached by a man claiming to be a government agent asking Ward to use his father's export business to help in a secret project. Ward comes to find the man is a first mate on a ship. When he is murdered, Ward is charged.
#19 - The Case of the Latent Lover
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 11
An investment broker tops off a series of peculiar actions by commandeering a taxi to rob a bank.
#20 - The Case of the Telltale Tap
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 18
Balancing private investigation with legal gymnastics, Mason tries to iron out a case of embezzlement and murder.
#21 - The Case of the Careless Kitten
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 24
A frustrated Helen Kendall is living with her Aunt Matilda. She receives a call one night from a man claiming to be Matilda's husband, who has been missing for 10 years. Perry goes with her to meet him but they find another man - dead.
#22 - The Case of the Wooden Nickels
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 12
Drake gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to act as courier in the sale of a rare Confederate coin.
#23 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 18
Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.
#24 - The Case of the Wintry Wife
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 17
Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.
#25 - The Case of the Difficult Detour
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 21
Contactor Pete Mallory is charged with the murder of a vacation resort developer.
#26 - The Case of the Blonde Bonanza
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 13
A model fails to read the fine print when she signs a curious contract paying her $200 a week to gain weight for an assignment.
#27 - Fear I to Fall
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 12
Mannix is called to testify against an ex-con he sent up, but his time suspects a frame.
#28 - The Case of the Accosted Accountant
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 14
Edward Lewis's increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law make him the suspect when the old goat is murdered.
#29 - The Case of the Decadent Dean
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 5
Perry has to defend the dean of a prep school on charges of murdering a teacher who had been stealing, embezzling and blackmailing.
#30 - The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 21
A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.
#31 - The Case of the Fatal Fetish
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 21
Burger tries to head off trouble when his young assistant falls for an unscrupulous woman.
#32 - The Case of the Festive Felon
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 9
Wealthy but dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the remainder of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.
#33 - The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 7
Gwynn Elston's best friend, Nell Grimes, asks her to move in with her due to the fact that Nell's husband, Felton, is often out of town on business. Gwynn, who has a door-to-door sales job, is then astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house where he's known as Frank Gillette. Felton, who's really a nasty mother, tries to poison Gwynn, when she confronts him but she survives and runs to Perry for help. Then Felton is found shot to death and things go from awful to good grief for poor Gwynn--she gets arrested for the crime.
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#34 - The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 19
Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.
#35 - The Case of the Illicit Illusion
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 25
Mason is hired by a woman who is convinced, after a series of bizarre events, that she's crazy.
#36 - The Case of the Bullied Bowler
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 7
Attorney Joe Kelly agress to represent Bill Jarvis, whose mother-in-law is trying to have his bowling alley shut down.
#37 - The Night of the Doomsday Formula
The Wild Wild West - Season 4 - Episode 2
Dr.Crane, inventor of a new explosive, is missing along with his daughter. If his "doomsday formula" falls into the wrong hands, especially foreign ones, it could mean the end of the United States. West and Gordon must rescue the professor, his daughter and the formula before it's too late.
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#38 - The Case of the Meddling Medium
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 6
Phony psychic Phillip Paisley meets a grisly death when an elevator that has been tampered with crashes. In the climactic scene Perry sets up another fantastic demonstration to prove his client innocent and expose the real culprit.
#39 - Algie B. for Brave
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 30
General Bertram returns, and gets Jai's help on a mission to locate a foreign power's nuclear-detection equipment.
#40 - The Case of the Sleepy Slayer
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 4
Abner Gordon threatens to press charges if his niece doesn't replace the money she lifted from his safe.
#41 - A Pride of Assassins
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 20
When Tarzan and a young woman threaten to expose his gunrunning scheme, a smuggler sends assassins after them.
#42 - Basil of the Bulge
Tarzan (1966) - Season 1 - Episode 22
A renowned war-time general, on a treaty mission in the jungle, is captured by a dissenting tribe with the connivance of a corrupt official.
#43 - Vendetta
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 2 - Episode 28
Josh captures and returns a wanted recruit to an Army Camp. The commanding officer re-instates the wanted man and refuses to pay Randall his bounty money.
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The Worst Movies of All Time - Season 9 - Episode 8
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture. (The Movie DB)