The BEST episodes written by Steven L. Sears

#1 - When in Rome...

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 16

It's all about power, when Xena must deal with Caesar and the politics of Rome by trading a Roman aristocrat for the leader of the Gauls, whom Xena wants freed but first she must try not to kill the hated Caesar.

#2 - Succession

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 3

Ares decides to pit Mavican, Xena, and Gabrielle in a fight to the death in an unkown arena. One catch, Xena and Gabrielle share one body and Mavican is determined to fill-out her destiny of the one who kills Xena.

#3 - 'Til Death Duel Us Part

The Highwayman - Season 1 - Episode 3

Highway breaks Cody Teague, his friend and mentor from Vietnam, out of prison for stealing an armored car, of which Highway is certain he is innocent. Now both of them are fugitives, and a number of parties - including Jetto - are after them as they search for the evidence to prove Cody's innocence...

#4 - Endgame

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 20

Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons after Ephiny dies at the hand of Brutus. But things become even more complicated when she learns that Caesar's enemy Pompey has taken many of her tribe as slaves. With the help of an eager young Amazon Amarice and the initially reluctant Brutus, Xena shifts the balance of Roman power forever.

#5 - Sacrifice (1)

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 21

Xena and Gabrielle must stop Gabrielle's friend, Seraphin, from sacrificing herself to bring back a goddess, but they also have to contend with Ares and Callisto, who are helping Hope be reborn.

#6 - Hooves & Harlots

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 10

When Xena and Gabrielle encounter the Amazons, Gabrielle tries to save an Amazon and unwittingly finds herself an Amazon princess.

#7 - The Price

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 20

After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark and dangerous ways by stooping to the Horde's level.

#8 - Between the Lines

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 15

An Indiana ritual sends Xena's soul into the karmic future for an encounter with the reincarnation of the evil shamoness Alti.

#9 - Knights of the Road

The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 20

The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.

#10 - A Good Day

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 5

Teaming with Greek Soldiers, Xena plots against Caesar and Pompey, whose war between one another has spilled over from Rome to Greece, and Xena plans to send them both back to where they came from.

#11 - Back in the Bottle

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 7

After a vision Xena, Gabrielle, and Joxer return to Chin, where they are reunited with Kao Syn. Where they must defeat the warlord Khan, who has joined forces with the evil spirits of Pao Tsu and Ming Ten, aka The Green Dragon, and knows the recipe of the deadly black powder.

#12 - Destiny

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 12

After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the very first time.

#13 - Past Imperfect

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 9

Xena and Gabrielle work to save a village that is being destroyed in exactly the same manner in which she destroyed another village in a battle with the Centaurs years before.

#14 - Lost Mariner

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 21

After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.

#15 - Dreamworker

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 3

When Gabrielle is kidnapped by a mystic, Xena enters an altered state of consciousness and must face ghosts from her past in order to rescue her friend.

#16 - A Fistful of Dinars

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 14

Xena searches for Ambrosia, a substance capable of turning someone into a god. She hopes to find it before someone who is unworthy to be a god does.

#17 - The Greater Good

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 21

Xena helps Salmoneus, aka Lord Seltzer, when a warlord wants him dead, due to a bad transaction. Meanwhile, a mysterious blond woman is stalking Xena.

#18 - The Royal Couple of Thieves

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 17

Xena enlists the help of Autolycus, the King of Thieves, in order to steal a treasure chest from a warlord and return it to its rightful owners - unless Autolycus has something to say about that.

#19 - The Dirty Half Dozen

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 3

Xena, Gabrielle and four warriors go up against Ares and his new army who possess armor and weapons forged by the god, Hephaestus, which cannot be harmed by any mortal weapons.

#20 - The Quest

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 13

After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life. But Xena's rebirth and Gabrielle's life are both threatened by an Amazon bent on obtaining the Amazon crown and the ambrosia.

#21 - Conventional Warfare

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 11

In an unusual coincidence, a judge's convention is scheduled at the same hotel as a major mob meeting. Unable to do anything about the mobsters (as they have not been caught breaking any laws), Hardcastle instead concentrates on his nomination for a lifetime achievement award. For some extra insurance, Hardcastle pulls strings and has himself put in what he considers to be a lucky room. Actually, Hardcastle ends up in a room originally assigned to a hitman. That night, believing the assassin is in the judge's room, someone leaves a suitcase containing a rifle and a picture of mobsters Don Ferris and Sid Storm. Before Hardcastle can show the police, he is ambushed and the suitcase is taken. Hardcastle, unable to provide the police with any evidence, decides to visit Ferris. Although the mobsters are initially unwilling to believe the judge, they change their mind after Sid is murdered. Establishing an uneasy alliance, Ferry and Hardcastle put together the clues and realize that the hitman is a man named Lee Orlando. Reviewing Orlando's' recent history, Hardcastle discovers that the hitman has a connection with "Bucky" O'Neil, his main rival for the judge's award. Analyzing Bucky's court records, Hardcastle uncovers evidence that his rival has been fixing trials for the mob. Meanwhile, Ferris learns that Hardcastle is the assassin's next target. Due in part to the unorthodox teaming of Mark and the mob, Orlando is stopped and Hardcastle captures Bucky. Afterwards, Hardcastle, who does not win the judge's award, finds himself the unlikely recipient of an award from Ferris and the mob.

#22 - The Bitter Suite

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 12

After trying to kill one another, grief-stricken Xena and Gabrielle awake in a strange land called Illusia, filled with familiar faces, where they must face the pain and anger caused by the deaths of their children and forgive one another in order to live.

#23 - Orphan of War

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 1

When Xena tries to help the centaurs protect a sacred stone that contains their evil, she encounters someone from her past...her son.

#24 - Case Closed

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 21

Walker seeks to disprove 40 years of UFO sightings in a small, Texas town, while also trying to find the missing father of a young girl.

#25 - Mission of Peace

The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 20

Senior citizens hire the A-Team to protect their historic Texas mission home and tourist attraction from land developers.

#26 - Family Reunion

The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 8

A former political adviser offers to trade a diary for a reunion with his daughter- who Face is hitting on, but Murdock learns that the man may be Face's father and the daughter Face's sister.

#27 - The Deliverer

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 4

When Xena travels to Brittania to help stop Caesar's invasion, Gabrielle is tricked into losing her blood innocence, by taking the life of an innocent, which binds her to the evil ""one god"" Dahuk.

#28 - Trouble Brewing

The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 24

Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.

#29 - The Theory of Revolution

The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 5

The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.

#30 - Date to Mate

She Spies - Season 2 - Episode 5

D.D., Shane, and Duncan are attending a reality-dating show, Date to Mate, when revolutionaries take over the studio.

#31 - Curse of the Mary Aberdeen

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 14

rc: Ken Olant (Dooley), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Late one evening during a fierce thunderstorm, Murray is alone on the Riptide when a mysterious character suddenly appears seemingly out of nowhere, and pays $1000 cash for the Riptide Detective Agency to find the Mary Aberdeen, a supposedly cursed boat who's former owners have all been killed, before she kills again. Finding Murray's story of the incident hard to believe, Cody and Nick are certain that someone, probably Lt. Quinlan, is playing a joke on them, when the phone number on the business card that the man left turns out to be for the local cemetery. They visit the original owner of the Aberdeen, only to have him hire them, with $5000 in cash, to find the boat as well. As they look into the case, they are surprised, and worried, to find that what was the Mary Aberdeen is now the Riptide! What's more, somebody seems determined to stop them investigating, and is the Riptide really cursed and haunted, or is there a more logic

#32 - War of the Species

The Adventures of Superboy (1988) - Season 1 - Episode 19

The military has given funding to an artificial intelligence project. T.J., Clark, and Lana visit the project to get a story for the Shuster Herald. They discover a dangerous android and are narrowly saved from death by Superboy. T.J. had taken pictures of the machine and the leader of the project took it, so T.J. returns to the project to get more shots. He is captured so that the android can undergo a final test against Superboy. Superboy arrives to save him, and discovers that the android's creator has his own secret. He too is an android from another world who created the other android to be his kiling machine, since he was programmed never to kill. He is badly damaged in Superboy's battle and a self-destruct program is initiated. Superboy flies him away as he explodes.

#33 - Family Reunion

She Spies - Season 2 - Episode 14

The She Spies get involved in the world of international soccer when they're asked to reunite a scientist defected from Cuba with his daughter.

#34 - A Matter of Policy

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 11

rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) Cody returns from a visit to his mother only to find that his boat is gone, being repaired after Nick damaged it in an accident. But the pair's minds are soon taken off the incident when Nick is informed that the father of a man he once tried to save in Vietnam has recently been killed, and has left Nick a substantial amount of money in his will. With Murray away at a computer convention, Nick and Cody attend the reading of the will, and whilst there, the man's niece, upon learning that they are private investigators, confides that she thinks her uncle was murdered. As they investigate, they uncover what seems to be a huge insurance scam, and meet resistance and hostility from the insurance investigator who is overlooking the legal proceedings...

#35 - Chapel of Glass

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 20

rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) The detectives are investigating how an unqualified chemical company was able to win a disposal contract that led to a local beach being contaminated, when two phoney cops try to kill them. At the police station after the incident, they are reminded that Lt. Parisi is engaged to get married. As they investigate their assignment, they learn that the fake cops were employed by someone to keep them away from investigating the case, and also find that someone has been using their high-ranking position to illegally fix Government contract bids, and that person is none other than Lt. Parisi's fiance, Michael Todd! As they confront Todd and he claims he was blackmailed into the scam, they are torn whether and how to tell their friend Lt. Parisi...

#36 - Heart of the Mantis

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 38

Oliver Duncan awaits death in a hospital while Archane plots to gain his former teachers secrets.

#37 - Summer of '45

The Highwayman - Season 1 - Episode 4

Highway and Jetto travel back in time to 1945, to rescue Ms. Winthrop, who has not returned after pursuing a twisted genius who is intent on ending the atomic age before it has even begun...

#38 - Changes

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 6

Archane has created a poison engineered to specifically target Swamp Thing's genetic code. Ann has discovered a method of temporarily changing Alec back to human form.

#39 - Hide in the Night

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 15

#40 - That's a Wrap

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 39

#41 - Mist Demeanor

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 3

A cold paralyzing cloud of mist from the swamp attacks the town. In the face of this threat, Abigail makes the ultimate sacrifice to save a little boy.

#42 - Dead and Married

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 1

A recent storm in the swamp uncovers a car wreck from ten years ago,including the married couples ghosts that think only hours have passed.

#43 - Revelations

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 11

Swamp Thing is wounded and being tracked down by mercenaries hired by Arcane. He makes his way to Dr. Ann Fisk's lab and is transformed back into Alec Holland. Afterward he is still wounded and aided by Tressa Kipp who finally learns the truth about Swamp Thing.

#44 - This Old House of Mayan

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 10

Will is taken hostage by two men whom are greedy explorers whom force him to help them find the location of a mystic Mayan temple in the swamp housing buried treasure which is guarded by two vengeful Mayan ghosts.

#45 - Lesser of Two Evils

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 10

Arcane's rival, Carla Jeffries (Tyne Daly) takes over his business. Swamp Thing discovers that she's a much more formidable enemy than Arcane ever was. Will he, Arcane and Graham put their differences aside to oust Carla?

#46 - Haunted Highway

The Highwayman - Season 1 - Episode 9

When an American Indian is accused of murder, Highway and Jetto investigate and stumble onto a long-forgotten gold mine, and an ancient curse "of fire and ice", which will kill anybody who tries to mine there...