The BEST episodes written by Stephen Kandel
#1 - The Shooting
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 18
Jennifer takes on a glamorous modeling assignment, not knowing that the camera is rigged with an explosive device, as Jonathan races to stop the deadly scheme concocted by a vengeful man from her past.
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#2 - Flight Five Doesn't Answer
The Mod Squad - Season 1 - Episode 15
While transporting a prisoner by commercial airline, Pete, Linc and Greer face death in a forced plane crash.
#3 - Harts On the Run
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 12
Jennifer takes refuge in a convent after witnessing a gangland slaying. Jonathan must race to save her when the killer discovers her hiding place.
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#4 - The Dog Who Knew Too Much
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 15
Jennifer and Jennifer are stalked by dangerous industrial spies after they are entrusted with a dog that happens to be carrying a valuable biogenetic formula.
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#5 - The Question
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 16
Nicholas Varsi, an enemy assassin, has been captured but claims to be a defector who will reveal his mission to a government agency, the FIS...when he is guaranteed safe asylum. But the FIS may have been infiltrated by a deep-cover operative and Varsi may be selling fake information, so the IMF must verify if he really wants to defector. Jim and Willy break Varsi out and Jim claims to be an agent for Varsi's former government and demands to know why he is defecting. Varsi says nothing and shoots FIS agent Andrea (actually a guest IMF agent) with an empty gun. They let him and Andrea go - he'll turn Andrea back to the FIS if he's a true defector, but instead Varsi goes to a hotel to meet with his former superior, Colonel Kremmer, and the IMF must figure things out before Varsi and Andrea are both killed.
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#6 - Love Game
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 6
Jonathan teams with tennis great Martina Navratilove in a game of doubles aimed at exposing a deceitful tennis pro and the stockbroker who is blackmailing him.
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#7 - Movie
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 8
Norman Shields is a Syndicate man controlling the entertainment industry with money supplied by Theodore Dane, and is sending his brother Benjamin with the money to finance a takeover - the IMF must get the records and bring Shields down. Jim takes Theo's place (he and Shields have never met) and backs a production of a movie based on a murder which Shields committed years ago. Willy replaces Shields' gun with blanks and during a late night confrontation he "shoots" Jim - the IMF get the whole thing on tape and redub it with Theo's voice. Benjamin insists on seeing the money-making film that Shields is so worried about - instead, Shields ends up showing him the IMF film where brother Theo is "killed." Dane takes the syndicate records from Shields, who in turns has them taken by Willy and Jim.
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#9 - The Hostages
Daktari - Season 1 - Episode 14
Clarence the lion and Judy the chimp are kidnapped and held for ransom.
#10 - The Deal
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 3
The Syndicate plans to finance the head of the army's takeover of his country in return for the right to operate the country's vices. The IMF team must intercept the safe deposit key before it reaches the general. Willy replaces a crewman aboard the yacht, but can't find the key and is discovered. He is forced overboard, almost drowns, but escapes and helps warn the team. Jim, Barney and Mimi craft an elaborate plot to convince the bad guys' courier to reveal the location of the key.
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#11 - The Deadly Conspiracy (Part 2)
Barnaby Jones - Season 4 - Episode 1
Cannon and Jones try in vain to convince Lt. Biddle that Bud McKenna's death was murder. Betty occupies Gordon's secretary Alice Parks, while Cannon searches her apartment. The detectives uncover an international conspiracy and escape two attempts on their lives.
#12 - To Steal a King
Banacek - Season 1 - Episode 5
Banacek must discover how a coin collector's priceless collection is stolen from a locked vault inside a state-of-the-art secure hotel room.
#14 - The Fighter
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 18
Syndicate man Jay Braddock has corrupted promoter Paul Mitchell into working with him - they had middleweighter Loomis killed when he refused to throw a fight and the IMF must bring both men to justice. They do so by convincing Mitchell that his partner plans to kill him. Barney and Jim steal $37,800 from Braddock and then as a rival mob offer the partners the same amount to buy out their fighter Novick. Braddock decides to have Novick killed but the IMF intercept the call and send in Jim as the hit man. He "kills" Novick with a firebomb along with Susan Mitchell (actually Casey in disugise), the promoter's daughter. Mitchell tries to back out as the IMF pressure him, but Braddock messes things up by offering to kill Jim to reassure Mitchell. He manages to escape and they arrest both men.
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#15 - Madness
Dynasty - Season 3 - Episode 14
Jeff's temper continues to grow more volatile. Adam attempts to implicate Jeff in the Cecil Colby/Logan Rhinewood scandal. After learning that Blake and Krystle intend to adopt Steven's son Danny, Alexis demands custody of her grandson. Because Krystle's divorce from Mark is not yet finalized, Blake explains they must wait two months before adopting the child. Finding Fallon alone in Mark's hotel room, Jeff attacks his wife, calling her a whore. Mark arrives and rescues her. Concerned with his erratic behavior, Alexis decides to send Jeff away on vacation. Adam confesses to his mother that he's had Jeff's office painted with a lethal compound. He warns her that if she tries to remove it he'll implicate her in his scheme.
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#16 - The Cross-Country Kidnap
The Six Million Dollar Man - Season 2 - Episode 12
Steve is assigned to protect Liza Leitman, an equestrian trying to make the olympic team; also the creator of the cryptography code that links computers and secret communications world-wide.
#17 - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Hart to Hart - Season 5 - Episode 22
Max is taken hostage. The Harts scramble to save him by participating in a scheme aimed at robbing an international jewel salesman of $20 million in gems.
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#18 - Incarnate
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 14
Hannah O'Connel rules over a Syndicate family, including her two sons who act as her lieutenants. Hannah masterminded the theft of a million dollars in gold bullion, and escaped to the Caribbean with her surviving son Thomas - Robert turned government witness but Hannah shot and killed him. The IMF must get her to return to the U.S. and recover the gold. The O'Connel's are set up in a house run by Casey and led to believe it's haunted by Robert - their gunsels turn up "dead" and Hannah contacts shopkeeper Barney to arrange a voodoo exorcism. Hannah blacks out thanks to the IMF and they send her son Thomas running after faking him killing Willy over Casey. When Hannah wakes up Barney tells her that Robert is alive and got her to tell him the location of the gold while she was unconscious. Hannah hires Jim as a pilot to take her to the gold and the IMF move in for the arrest.
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#24 - The Return of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman - Season 2 - Episode 1
Wonder Woman convinces her mother, the Queen of the Amazons, that she must once again go into the outside world to help protect the free world from its enemies as well as the secret of Paradise Island and its ancient culture.
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#25 - Wrong Train to Brimstone
Alias Smith and Jones - Season 1 - Episode 4
Heyes and Curry gain passage on a train that is full of Bannerman detectives who are setting a trap for them and their gang
#27 - Target Earth
Mission: Impossible (1988) - Season 2 - Episode 7
When an IMF operative at a commercial orbital launch site goes missing, Shannon takes her place, only to find herself trapped on a space shuttle in orbit when terrorists take it over to launch a global blackmail scheme.
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#28 - A Penny for the Peep Show
Mannix - Season 3 - Episode 6
Prison escapees hide out in Mannix's office.
#30 - Pirates
MacGyver - Season 2 - Episode 15
While on an expedition to find a Spanish treasure fleet, Dr. Barbara Ortega's boat is hi-jacked by modern-day pirates. They steal the small amount of treasure that she has already found - including the ship's log, which is the key to finding the whole fleet - and take off. When she makes it public that she was hi-jacked, the Phoenix Foundation sends MacGyver to help. Now, MacGyver and Barbara must recover the ship's log, so she can find the treasure before the pirates do.
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#32 - Judgment from Outer Space (2)
Wonder Woman - Season 1 - Episode 11
Wonder Woman realizes that the fate of the world rests on her ability to prove the worth of mankind by saving an alien from outer space.
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#34 - The Defector
Hawaii Five-O - Season 8 - Episode 8
McGarrett meets his match in Dr. Grant Ormsbee, a grumpy and aggravating scientist who is sheltering a suspected Chinese defector.
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#35 - The Rustlers
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 2 - Episode 3
Bo and Luke visit the Tolliver farm and discover that their horse can run very fast. Rosco also sees it too and when he notifies Boss Hogg, He schemes to steal the horse to race in the Mrs. J.D. Hogg's stake race and pin it on the Dukes. But a group of crooked horse ranchers have their own plans to steal the horse from Boss Hogg.
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#36 - Target MacGyver
MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 10
After blowing away a nuclear facility under the control of an aggressive world leader, MacGyver returns home for some peace and quiet, only to find his boss waiting for him. He advises MacGyver that a contract is out on his life and he needs to skip town for awhile.
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#37 - The Fountain
Mission: Impossible - Season 7 - Episode 17
Syndicate exec Tom Bachman has stolen the computerized records from his rival Matthew Drake in a power struggle. Bachman is hiding in a village in Mexico from the crippled Drake, waiting for a hired pilot to take him to safety. Barney takes the pilot's place and then fakes a crash where he and Bachman stumble across the "Fellowship of the Golden Circle." Bachman discovers they have a fountain of youth - when Drake's men catch up to him, he takes Casey along as proof of his claim and offers to return the records if Drake backs him in distributing the water. Casey ages and dies before their eyes, and Drake agrees so he can get a shot at the water's healing properties. Bachman leads Drake (and the IMF) to the hidden tapes and the crooks gets arrested.
#39 - The Gauntlet
MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 4
MacGyver attempts to get a reporter out of a Central American country with evidence linking a general to an illegal arms dealer. As MacGyver and Kate reach the border, it is clear escaping to Mexico will be no easy task, as the general and the arms dealer have every imaginable route severely guarded. There is no turning back. MacGyver must figure out how to get across the border, as his life, as well as Kate's, hangs in the balance.
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#42 - Kidnap
CHiPs - Season 3 - Episode 18
A couple of kids are supposed to be touring the courthouse after winning a traffic safety contest, but, after starting one of the CHP bikes they hide in the back of Rolls Royce. Two fleeing criminals jump into the Rolls and drive off, initially unaware that the kids are in the back. After briefly losing the Rolls, Ponch decides to follow undercover in a borrowed car, and leads his colleagues to the kidnappers with his "La Cucaracha" horn.
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#43 - The Odd Triple
MacGyver - Season 3 - Episode 14
After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver has an unwelcome surprise. Jack Dalton is waiting and wants him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some invaluable jewels, needing Jack to fly her back to her home in France. Things seem to be going fine, that is, until they land. Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.
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#44 - The Escape
MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 20
When a mother superior at a religious mission in North Africa asks MacGyver to help a young woman with something, he is glad to help. However, when he finds out the young woman wants him to break her brother out of jail, he may have taken on more than he expected.
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#45 - Canyon of Death
The Bionic Woman - Season 1 - Episode 10
Jaime is captured by men who are plotting to steal an atomic-powered flying suit, and her life depends on a story-telling Indian boy's ability to convince someone that he saw a silver man in the desert.
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#46 - A View of Nowhere
Mannix - Season 2 - Episode 11
On a helicopter trip, Mannix thinks he sees a murder being committed.
#47 - Slow Death
MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 19
MacGyver is somewhere in Asia to retrieve documents for his government. Soon after, a local tribe stops the train. They take all passengers hostage until the men responsible for the death of the tribal leader's son is found among the passengers.
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#48 - The Wish Child
MacGyver - Season 2 - Episode 4
While MacGyver goes to pick up a Chinese friend's brother from a birthday party, he witnesses something strange: Paul is being called "The Wish Child." It seems that a greedy businessman has wrapped him up in a scam, because he looks exactly like a boy from an old legend that owns the secret of immortality. Now, MacGyver must try to talk him out of this, because Paul is starting to believe he really is The Wish Child!
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#49 - Mind Stealers from Outer Space (2)
Wonder Woman - Season 2 - Episode 11
Wonder Woman realizes that the fate of the world rests on her ability to save the great minds of America from evil alien forces from outer space.
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