The BEST episodes written by Scott Shepherd

#1 - Return to Nam (1)

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 6

Houston and Roy get information that Roy's son who is an MIA in Vietnam is alive.

#2 - Escape from Nam (2)

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 7

The Cambodian warlord who has imprisoned Matt's cousin might be getting a little help from someone close to Matt.

#3 - Deadly Games

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 11

The most dangerous game is revisited when a sporting goods mogul hunts athletes.

#4 - Company Secrets

Matt Houston - Season 3 - Episode 19

One of Roy's former intelligence associates tells him that a Russian agent whom they took down years ago and who swore vengeance is back. It's not long after that that the man is killed. So Roy tries to find the agents who helped him before the man gets them all.

#5 - Blood Ties

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 19

Matt's ailing father becomes the target of psychopath.

#6 - Over the Line

Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 15

In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.

#7 - The Crying Clown

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 10

A talented art forger is found murdered, and the clues may rest one of his paintings, which is now missing.

#8 - Bad Timing

Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 4

Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

#9 - Redemption in Blood (4)

Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 2

As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.

#10 - The Monster

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 13

Attorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teen-agers, then leaves C.J. to handle the details.

#11 - Hard Knocks

Miami Vice - Season 5 - Episode 8

Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

#12 - Waltz of Death

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 14

Matt sets out to prove that a touring classical pianist is responsible for strangling and murdering several women.

#13 - Blind Faith

Quantum Leap - Season 2 - Episode 5

February 6, 1964: Although the concert pianist he leaps into is blind, a fact, which bothers his girlfriend's disapproving mother, Sam can still see. At least until an exploding flashbulb blinds him at the crucial moment: when he must rescue his girlfriend from a serial killer.

#14 - Play It Again, Seymour

Quantum Leap - Season 1 - Episode 9

April 14, 1953: With looks that could double for Humphrey Bogart, Sam is Nick Allen, a private investigator looking for the murderer of his partner and, if he doesn't find the answer in time, himself. The case is solved with a number of Casablanca references as Sam launches a new pulp novelist along the way.

#15 - Mission: McCall (1)

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 6

Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.

#16 - The Old Switcheroo (2)

Haven - Season 5 - Episode 6

Mara capitalizes on the latest crisis, forcing Duke and Nathan to roll the dice to get Audrey back in a dangerous gamble.

#17 - In the Money

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 4

The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.

#18 - The Old Switcheroo (1)

Haven - Season 5 - Episode 5

When Vince and Dave travel to North Carolina, their probing of Dave's past uncovers a body-swapping problem back in Haven.

#19 - Trial by Error

Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 13

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

#20 - The Getaway

Tru Calling - Season 1 - Episode 15

When the reporter who has been trying to expose Tru's secret gets shot by a gunman on a crime spree, Tru is torn about saving her. To complicate matters, Tru's attempts to enlist the police in capturing the shooter before he strikes are hampered when his actions don't repeat exactly what he did before her day rewound.

#21 - A Portrait for Troian

Quantum Leap - Season 2 - Episode 11

February 7, 1971: Sam leaps into a renowned parapsychologist where he must prevent a young widow from joining her husband at the bottom of a lake, while proving that she's not crazy, despite her claims of hearing her dead husband calling to her.

#22 - Mission: McCall (2)

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 7

#23 - The Night Of....

Monarch - Season 1 - Episode 6

The Romans await the news of the Country Music Legacy Awards nominations; Nicky & Luke meet with district attorney "Uncle" Tripp DeWitt. Meanwhile, Luke looks into Jamie's past and Albie learns of a new family connection.

#24 - Confessions

Monarch - Season 1 - Episode 9

Nicky, Gigi and Luke discuss what they should do about Catt; Jamie pushes Albie to finish his album; Nicky blackmails Kayla; Ana is shocked when Catt confesses a secret.

#25 - Counterfire

The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 7

The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.

#26 - Coal Black Soul

The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 19

McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.

#27 - Tip on a Sure Thing

The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 9

A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.

#28 - Drift

The Dead Zone - Season 6 - Episode 10

While on a trip to visit Bruce, Johnny views a racehorse being stolen in a vision. He also realizes that he may have lost the chance to reunite with Sarah and J.J. thanks to Stilson's efforts.

#29 - Pretenders

The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 22

An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.

#30 - Breakpoint

The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 19

McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.

#31 - A Community of Civilized Men

The Equalizer - Season 2 - Episode 3

McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.

#32 - 'Til Death Do Us Part (2)

The Young Riders - Season 3 - Episode 22

Jesse must decide between his brother and his friends in the pony express. Noah tries to join the army but is turned down. When a disaster occurs with Frank's raiders, one of the riders is killed.

#33 - Needle in a Haystack

Matt Houston - Season 2 - Episode 5

Matt must rescue an insulin-dependent, special-needs boy who has been wrongfully deported to Mexico.

#34 - Unnatural Causes

The Equalizer - Season 1 - Episode 18

McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.

#35 - Encounter in a Closed Room

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 5

McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.

#36 - In God's Eyes

Angela's Eyes - Season 1 - Episode 3

Angela's team is stymied in their investigation of a wealthy socialite suspected of murdering an intruder, when he takes refuge in a church. Meanwhile, Angela's brother talks her into paying a visit to the mother she hasn't seen in years, who is dying.

#37 - Last Supper

The Outer Limits (1995) - Season 3 - Episode 4

Frank Martin can't believe his eyes when his son Danny brings home a beautiful new girlfriend from college. The girl, Jade, is a dead ringer for a woman Frank rescued from a top-secret military experiment when he was a private in the army 20 years earlier. Of course, she can't be the same woman. Or can she? The Martins' world is turned upside down as Frank's past catches up with him and they gain a deeper understanding of Jade's timeless beauty.

#38 - Always a Lady

The Equalizer - Season 3 - Episode 22

McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to save her life.

#39 - Lyin' Eyes

Angela's Eyes - Season 1 - Episode 9

Angela arranges for her brother Jerry to meet her boyfriend Dylan, but things are interrupted by a shooting involving an unexpected visitor from her past. Leo and Dozer hunt for the gunman with their only clue being the code word "bluebird," a reference to her first case with the FBI. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal how Angela was recruited to join the bureau.

#40 - 'Til Death Do Us Part (1)

The Young Riders - Season 3 - Episode 21

Lou and Kid prepare for their wedding. Meanwhile the army comes to town to recruit scouts. Teaspoon is especially upset when Cody agrees to join the army.