The BEST episodes written by Stanley Ralph Ross
#1 - A Million the Hard Way
Banacek - Season 1 - Episode 4
A million dollars in cash disappears from a Las Vegas casino's tamperproof display case.
#2 - The Three Million Dollar Piracy
Banacek - Season 2 - Episode 3
A precious jewel-encrusted coach is stolen from a sealed container as it's loaded onto a cargo ship.
#3 - The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack
Banacek - Season 1 - Episode 8
Banacek is hired to retrieve valuable stock certificates stolen from a major food company on the eve of a planned merger.
#4 - The New Original Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman - Season 1 - Episode 1
American war hero Steve Trevor is downed over the Bermuda Triangle and lands on "Paradise Island", home of the Amazons. The Amazons hold a contest and choose a champion among them - Wonder Woman - who will return with Steve Trevor to America and remain there to fight the Nazi threat. In the pilot episode, there is a Nazi plan to destroy a new bomb site to ruin America's war effort. The Nazis have a mole in Steve's office who is sabotaging him, and only Wonder Woman can stop this catastrophe.
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#5 - Any Old Port in a Storm
Columbo - Season 3 - Episode 2
Wine producer Adrian Carsini discovers that his younger brother Enrico plans to sell the family vineyards to pay his playboy-life debts, and sets out to murder him. He locks him in a wine vault and turns off the air and conditioning, then drags the body out to the ocean and makes it look like Enrico died during a scuba-diving accident. Columbo is suspicious of the contradictions that show up in the autopsy, and soon realizes that Adrian is the murderer. The final clue is the wine that was spoiled when the vault's air conditioning was turned off. Only Adrian could tell the difference, so Columbo secretly gets him to sample the wine and declare it unfit. Once Adrian realizes his wines were ruined, he is forced to throw them over a cliff, as Columbo looks on. In the end, Columbo takes in a relieved Adrian, confessing that Carsini is one of the few killers he was reluctant to bring in.
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#7 - Oh, My Aching Back
All in the Family - Season 1 - Episode 3
Archie tries to collect a large settlement from a petty traffic accident by hiring a Jewish lawyer.
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#8 - Hot Off the Griddle
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 3
Catwoman makes her return known with a string of robberies. Hoping to lure her into a trap, Batman plants a news blurb giving the whereabouts of a rare canary, but Catwoman is tipped off and arrives prepared. Batman and Robin follow a lead to Catwoman’s hideout, the Pink Sandbox, but soon discover that this villain has been waiting for them.
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#9 - The Thor Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 7
Solo and Illya are assigned to protect Dr. Fazie Nahdi, a Gandhi like peace advocate, during a conference. Nellie Canford, a high school teacher, becomes linked to their efforts when her dental work begins receiving radio transmissions. Mahdi stays at the home of Brutus Thor, who is actually a THRUSH leader who is trying to kill him and Illya is trapped in a room full of toys that begin firing real bullets.
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#10 - Curiosity Killed
Tales from the Crypt - Season 4 - Episode 14
A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.
#11 - The Purr-fect Crime
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 19
Catwoman initiates a series of thefts that cause Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman and Robin. But the importance of the crimes go beyond the taking of the objects involved. The Dynamic Duo eventually find Catwoman’s lair. But Robin is whisked away while Batman is given a choice between two doors. If he picks the right door, he’ll find Catwoman. If he picks the wrong one, he’ll face certain doom. The hero makes the wrong selection and is about to be attacked by a tiger.
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#12 - Scat! Darn Catwoman
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 41
Batman agrees to let the Catwoman drug him. But he appears to have a headache and the Catwoman permits him to take an aspirin. After the drug is administered, Batman appears to assist Catwoman on her crime wave. However, the police receive anonymous telephone calls that enable them to pick up members of Catwoman’s gang, including the drugged Robin. Meanwhile, the Gotham City police try to trace the hot line to the Batcave. Batman is there with Catwoman. He uses a device that foils the trace. Eventually, Batman reveals he hadn’t taken an aspirin but his universal drug antidote that prevented the drug from working. Catwoman tries to flee on top of a warehouse near the Gotham River. Batman is in pursuit and corners her. But, unwilling to go straight, she falls into the river. Has she lost her life, or just one of her nine lives?
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 8
The Monkees are marooned on an island where they have been searching for treasure.
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#15 - That Darn Catwoman
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 40
The Catwoman manages to drug Robin. The junior member of the Dynamic Duo is now the Catwoman’s mindless slave. Batman is on the trail of the sultry villain, but he’s hampered by the fact he can’t harm his partner. Eventually, Batman is trapped by the Catwoman. He’s in a giant trap and Robin is cutting the rope that will cause a giant mouse trap to snap on Batman. The Catwoman offers Batman a choice – die by Robin’s hand or agree to be subjected to the same drug.
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#16 - The Cat and the Fiddle
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 4
Catwoman disguises herself as a wealthy recluse – Minerva Matthews – to exchange a quarter million dollars for two Stradivarius violins. Once the instruments are safely in her hands, the villain reveals her true identity and demands the cash back. But Catwoman is surprised to learn that her business partner – Zubin Zucchini – is also not who he appears to be.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 10
A motorcycle gang menaces the Monkees.
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#18 - Batman Displays His Knowledge
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 50
Catwoman goes ahead with her scheme to steal several Batagonian Cat’s Eye opals, but she has trouble finding someone to fence them since such rare stones would be easily spotted. With little recourse left, she decides to turn them in for the reward money. It seems like the perfect job for her acquaintance, Freddy the Fence. But when he notices that the gems are fakes, Catwoman realizes she has been tricked by Batman and vows to get revenge on the Caped Crusader once and for all.
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#19 - Catwoman Goes to College
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 49
Catwoman is released from prison, and claiming she wants to enrich her education, enrolls at Gotham City University. She dresses one of her own henchmen as the Caped Crusader in order to frame him for a robbery. With Batman in jail, she goes ahead with her plan for a mass sit-in at Chimes Square. Catwoman is more than surprised when Batman himself shows up at the event. However, his efforts to expose the villainess are futile, and she prepares to terminate him and Robin in front of the whole crowd.
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#20 - The Cat's Meow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 29
The Catwoman “steals” the voice of a television talk-show host in the middle of an interview with Bruce Wayne. She plants clues to suggest either the Joker, Riddler or Penguin may have committed the crime. In the meantime, she has fooled Commissioner Gordon into thinking she has gone straight. She makes her first mistake when she masquerades as Miss Klutz, a dance instructor visiting Wayne Manor. Allergic to dogwood, she sneezes and gives herself away. Her next target is to “steal” the voices of British singers Chad and Jeremy. Batman and Robin eventually track her to a dance studio, where a fight erupts. After it appears the Dynamic Duo has triumphed over Catwoman’s forces, she drugs them. The heroes are placed inside a chamber where the sounds of water dripping will be magnified many, many times and drive them insane.
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#21 - The Bat's Kow Tow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 30
Batman and Robin escape Catwoman’s trap by hitting the precise note needed to shatter the glass chamber in which they’re prisoners. They quickly get on the trail of Catwoman. The feminine feline criminal eventually “steals” the voices of Chad and Jeremy, Commissioner Gordon and talk-show host Allen Stephens. She blackmails the British government, which faces the lost of revenue from the taxes on Chad and Jeremy’s performances. Batman and Robin eventually capture Catwoman and her gang, but not before Batman and Catwoman express obvious affection for each other.
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#22 - Better Luck Next Time
Batman - Season 1 - Episode 20
Batman evades the attacking tiger thanks to his utility belt. First, he scales the wall. Then, he uses a sonic device “to split the tiger’s skull,” as narrator William Dozier informs us. The hero still has to free Robin, who is facing a separate death trap. Once that task is completed, the Dynamic Duo are back on Catwoman’s trail. It turns out the feline villain is after the lost treasure of Captain Manx, which is in a remote spot outside of Gotham City.
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#23 - Catwoman's Dressed to Kill
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 14
The Catwoman targets the fashion industry by first terrorizing a banquet honoring Batgirl and then attacking a fashion show. During the attack on the fashion show, Catwoman captures Batgirl and takes her back to her hideout where she threatens to kill her with a pattern cutter. She then tells Batman that if he attempts to rescue her that it will leave the visiting Queen Bess of Bellgravia vulnerable for attack. Now the Caped Crusader must find a way to save Batgirl and prevent any harm to Queen Bess.
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#24 - The Great Train Robbery
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 22
After his previous battle with the Terrific Trio, Shame now has Batgirl as a hostage. He agrees to a swap when he realizes that Batman and Robin also have Calamity Jan’s mother, Frontier Fanny. Batgirl informs the Dynamic Duo of a plan for a “great train robbery” that she overheard as a hostage. The three work to figure out Shame’s plan and race to stop him. But when they realize they are too late, Batman attempts to lure him out of hiding with an offer of man-to-man combat.
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#25 - The Yegg Foes in Gotham
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 14
When the lease payment for Gotham City fails to be made on time, possession of the city falls into the hands of Egghead. Chaos ensues as the villain fires Commissioner Gordon and bans the Dynamic Duo from city limits. While the criminal underworld enjoys free reign, Batman and Robin search the city charter’s fine print for a solution.
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#26 - The Joke's on Catwoman
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 17
Following a tip from Batgirl, the Dynamic Trio meet up at the Grimalkin Novelty Company, hideout of the Joker and Catwoman. There, they overhear the arch-criminals’ plot and secretly trail them to a stash of hidden gunpowder. A careless mistake spoils the villains’ evil plan, however, and they are captured and brought before the Gotham City judge. But when the jury seems less than interested in justice, courtroom mayhem ensues.
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#27 - The Funny Feline Felonies
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 16
The Joker, just released from prison, teams up with Catwoman. They follow the clues of an ancient riddle to retrieve a nightshirt and an antique crib, which together form a map to a hidden cache of gunpowder which they plan to use for their next crime. Batman and Robin, together with Batgirl, follow their trail, little knowing that they are about to walk right into an ambush.
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#28 - An Egg Grows in Gotham
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 13
Egghead steals the Gotham City charter. He finds a loophole that could give him control of Gotham City if descendants of the original founding families (including Bruce Wayne) do not pay nine raccoon pelts to Chief Screaming Chicken on time. Not only is he interested in stopping the payment, but Egghead believes he also has a lead on Batman’s true identity.
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#29 - Batman's Waterloo
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 54
Though Batman escapes his watery trap, Robin is left in the hands of King Tut. The deluded villain still believes that Lisa Carson is really Queen Cleopatra, and calls Lisa’s father to demand a ransom of $8,300,487.12, the mortgage on the Pyramids. Using the Jolly Jackson radio show to communicate, Tut negotiates the terms of payment with Batman. However, the villain most likely intends to keep both the money and Lisa, and has further plans to fry the Caped Crusaders in his royal boiling oil.
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#30 - The Great Escape
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 21
Shame escapes from prison, and together with Calamity Jan, goes to work on his newest caper. He leaves a cryptic clue for Batman, Robin, and Batgirl describing the first part of his scheme – the robbery of two opera singers. The Terrific Trio decipher his riddle and attempt to stop him, but when Shame breaks out his “fear gas,” the three are left quaking in their shoes.
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#31 - King Tut's Coup
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 53
After a blow to the head, Yale’s Egyptology professor once again believes he is King Tut. He mistakes Bruce Wayne’s friend Lisa for Queen Cleopatra, and kidnaps her so he can bring her to Egypt as his bride. Batman and Robin soon locate Tut’s hideout, thanks to a hidden tracking device. But soon after entering, they are captured by Tut’s cronies, and Batman is submerged in a sarcophagus under five feet of water.
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#32 - The Wail of the Siren
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 3
Lorelei Circe, aka The Siren, launches a two part plan to become the richest and wickedest woman in Gotham City. First she puts Commissioner Gordon under her stunning spell and orders him to stow away in the Batmobile in order to find out the location of the Batcave as well as Batman & Robins secret identities. Secondly she entrances millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and implores him to sign over all his wealth and belongings to her.
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#33 - I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 23
With plans to build an indestructible empire, King Tut goes in search of Nilanium, the world’s strongest metal. But with the only known deposit lying directly beneath Wayne Manor, Tut’s tunneling soon leads him to the discovery of a lifetime – the Batcave itself. With their secret identities in jeopardy, Batman and Robin race to stop him before his find is leaked to the world.
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#34 - The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 25
Dr. Cassandra and her husband Cabala are behind a string of invisible robberies, thanks to their camouflage pills. When Batman, Robin, and Batgirl attempt to stop their next theft, the crooks turn them into 2-dimensional figures with their ray gun. Dr. Cassandra then begins work on her final plan – releasing all the super criminals from prison to join her invisible force.
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#35 - The Unkindest Tut of All
Batman - Season 3 - Episode 6
King Tut has been predicting crimes, then secretly making sure they happen in order to gain the police’s confidence. He hopes to then send them on a false lead while he commits the crime of the century. After failing an attempt to discover Batman’s true identity, he gives his biggest prediction – a jailbreak of several super criminals. While the entire police force is sent to the penitentiary, Tut nabs a collection of priceless Egyptian scrolls from the Gotham City Library. The scrolls contain the key to an ancient statue, rumored to give its possessor control of the universe.
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#36 - Shoot a Crooked Arrow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 1
Archer and his gang have come to Gotham City, winning the public’s favor with their Robin Hood style deeds of stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Batman and Robin set out to discover the location of their hideout and stop these villains, only to find themselves caught by a trap in the Archer’s lair.
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#37 - Walk the Straight and Narrow
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 2
Batman and Robin escape their previous peril and are back in action seeking to foil the Archer and his gang. After pulling off a counterfeit job, the villains head for their boat, planning to take their loot safely to Switzerland. The Dynamic Duo set off in the Bat boat to try to stop their escape.
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#38 - The Deadly Smorgasbord Affair
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 18
Solo goes to Sweden to obtain a new suspended animation device from Dr. A.C. Nilson, but the device and its inventor are taken by THRUSH. The doctor's daughter Neila helps Solo find him, and the doctor's assistant, Inga Anderson also feigns cooperation but is actually working for THRUSH agent Heinrich Beckmann. Beckmann uses the device to invade U.N.C.L.E.'s Scandinavian headquarters, and only Solo has a chance to stop him.
#39 - Come Back, Shame
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 25
Shame is back, and is using stolen vehicle parts to assemble a truck so fast even the Batmobile won’t be able to catch him. Bruce Wayne tricks him into stealing his limo, which he (as Batman) and Robin use to track down his hideout. But the villain gains the upper hand in the ensuing fight, and the Dynamic Duo find themselves staked to the ground in the path of a cattle stampede.
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#40 - It's How You Play the Game
Batman - Season 2 - Episode 26
With his special truck finished, Shame goes to work on his final caper – the theft of four prize cattle worth over one million dollars. Batman and Robin deduce his plan, but realize they are too late to stop him and too slow to catch him. With little left to go on, the Dynamic Duo employ their “bat-logic” to try to figure out his next move.
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Love, American Style - Season 4 - Episode 20
A man's wife invites her old high school sweetheart, now a Minister, for dinner.
#42 - The Big Lie
Kids Incorporated - Season 2 - Episode 5
Renee's rumor about Riley blows up into a big lie. Don't Make Me Sorry - Kid, Gloria Good Lovin' - Stacy You're My Friend - Renee Dead Giveaway - Gloria Over And Over - Renee info: kidsincorporated.us
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Kids Incorporated - Season 2 - Episode 6
Kid tries to make over a guy from Africa. Middle Of The Road - Stacy Karma Chameleon - Renee Would I Lie To You - Gloria Say It Again - Kid Stay With Me Tonight (Babe, When your with me) - Kid info: kidsincorporated.us
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Kids Incorporated - Season 2 - Episode 8
Kids Inc is taken by a con man who convinces them to do a benefit concert. Sussudio - Ryan, Stacy Bad, Bad Trouble - Gloria Wrapped Around Your Finger - Gloria Running With The Night - Kid Last Train To Clarksville - Gloria info: kidsincorporated.us
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