The BEST episodes written by Sidney Ellis
#1 - The 18-Wheel Rip-Off
B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 20
B.J. is arrested by a lady cop, while the sheriff and his deputies devote to themselves to ransack the truck.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Gang War
T.J. Hooker - Season 3 - Episode 21
Hooker and Romano are involved in a new neighborhood peace programme designed to reduce tension in an area where two Hispanic gangs are close to declaring all out-war on each other. But the whole programme and peace on the streets is jeopardised when the president of one of the gangs is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. Although the assailants are identified to be wearing the dress code of the victim's rival gang, Hooker suspects that someone else is fuelling the feud to benefit from the sale of fire-arms sold to both sides of the conflict, and must work fast to find the culprits before all-out war erupts between the two gangs...
Watch Now:Amazon
#3 - A Child's Game
Combat! - Season 5 - Episode 6
Saunders' men are ordered to take a farmhouse that is defended by a determined squad of teenage German soldiers. With time running out, Saunders tries to find a way to get the teens to surrender.
#7 - The Oath
Bonanza - Season 8 - Episode 11
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.
#8 - High Bleacher Man
Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 9
Hunter and McCall arrest a man named Gavin, who is a street thug. They are then shocked to learn that the D.A. has made a deal with him. It seems that Gavin can link crime boss Nate Demarest to four murders. And Hunter is not pleased with it, cause if they let Gavin go, he will kill someone eventually. After an attempt is made on Gavin, Hunter suggests that they limit the knowledge of Gavin's whereabouts to just two people, and Gavin says that he wants Hunter and McCall to be those two. Cause he knows that they only way Hunter can prove that he didn't sell Gavin out, is to take a bullet for him. And it is while they are protecting Gavin that McCall recalls an old case wherein she and her partner were investigating Demarest for murdering an undercover Fed. McCall begins by talking to the man's wife and tells about a girl named Crissy who worked for Demarest, whom her husband took an interest in. Hunter then goes to talk to a man who once worked for Demarest, Whitey McPhee. And when he g
Watch Now:Apple TV
#10 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
The Outer Limits - Season 2 - Episode 15
A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#11 - Ballad for a Blue Lady
Starsky & Hutch - Season 4 - Episode 14
The detectives are called when a witness is found dead before he can testify against a notorious racketeer. Hutch begins to suspect that his girfriend's brother may be involved.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - B.J. and the Witch
B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 17
B.J. befriends a woman who is suspected of being a witch by the people from the town in which she lives. They have to deal with a plot to get rid of her that is hatched by the supersticious locals.
#13 - Scrap Metal
Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 15
A dying criminal sends for Hunter and says that he's the man who killed Hunter's father, and that he was paid to do it by his father's partner. Hunter goes to the man who was originally convicted for the murder and asks him if he did it or not; he says he was just trying to rob the place when the police came and assumed he did it. So Hunter sets out to find if his father's partner did have his father killed.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#14 - Terror
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 10
A scientist experimenting with plant life on a remote island has run into trouble. A shore party from Seaview arrives only in time to hear his dying warning that the world will be taken over in eight hours. Nelson brings aboard the only unusual thing he can find -- a red orchid, which proves to be a malign alien (that proceeds to take over his mind and those of the crew).
Watch Now:Amazon
#15 - The Code
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 21
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
#16 - Mary Ellen
B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 8
B.J.comes to the assistance of a young women and her grandpa who need to transport an elephant
#17 - Ballad for a Ghost
The Fugitive - Season 2 - Episode 15
Kimble finds himself working with Hallie, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to his late wife. Hallie knows of the resemblance, and Kimble's danger is increased when Hallie's husband becomes jealous.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - All That Shatters
Baretta - Season 4 - Episode 9
War veterans are being blamed for a series of bombings that are actually the work of a wheelchair-bound bomber who is attacking buildings and transportation systems without handicap access.
#19 - The Appointment
Baretta - Season 4 - Episode 18
Baretta tries to find out why a laundry owner, who happens to be engaged to his cousin, refuses to identify the two men who held up his store and killed a cop.
#20 - Fire in the Hole
B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 13
B.J. brokers a reconciliation between Lil and her estranged father while also assisting Lil in fending off a crooked mining executive and his goons who are determined to lay claim to her gold mine.