The BEST episodes written by Ted Bergman
#1 - Come Fly with Me
Small Wonder - Season 4 - Episode 5
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
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#2 - Home Sweet Home
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 7
When a Japanese company tries to buy out the neighborhood to build a brewery, Fred holds out for as much as he can get.
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#3 - The Masquerade Party
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 18
Fred and his pals don ridiculous costumes to win a prize for Lamont on a TV game show.
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#4 - Diplomatic Immunity
What's Happening!! - Season 2 - Episode 20
After Rerun is hit by a car, the gang tracks down the driver, who is the son of a foreign diplomat.
#5 - The Creep Detective
What's Happening!! - Season 3 - Episode 4
Roger and Rerun find themselves in a sticky situation when a detective finds stolen goods in their apartment.
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#6 - Sanford and Rising Son
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 10
Fred and Ah Chew start a takeout food business in the Sanford home but run afoul of the health inspector.
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#7 - Lamont in Love
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 18
To find the truth about Lamont's new girlfriend Janet, Fred goes undercover.
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#8 - Divorce, Sanford Style (a.k.a.) Divorcee, Sanford Style
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 2
Fred becomes entangled in a spat between Esther and Woodrow.
#9 - Strange Bedfellows
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 17
After calling into a local radio show, Lamont is drafted to run for state assembly.
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#10 - The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 19
With inheritance money from Cousin Wolverine, Grandpa and Herman develop an invention for transporting an electrical current without wires. Lily and Marilyn use the rest of the money to operate their own beauty salon. Both endeavors turn out to be disasters, causing various parties to take legal action.
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#11 - My Brother-in-Law's Keeper
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 20
Fred is mortified to meet his new brother-in-law Rodney, a white impresario with an overabundance of affection.
#12 - Basketball Brain
What's Happening!! - Season 3 - Episode 3
Roger takes on a lucrative gig tutoring a basketball star.
#13 - The Sanford Arms
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 4
Fred and Lamont open a boarding house and fill the rooms with a variety of strange characters.
#14 - The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 20
After Lamont pops the question to Janet, Fred worries that the marriage will cause him to be alone.
#15 - Sergeant Gork
Sanford and Son - Season 5 - Episode 23
Fred's tall tales about World War II give way to fantasy sequences starring the entire cast.
#16 - The Older Woman
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 23
Fred tries to convince Lamont to end his romance with an older woman.
#17 - Mr. First Nighter
What's Happening Now! - Season 1 - Episode 20
Roger writes and produces a play, with his friends and family cast in the lead roles.
#18 - Julie's Rejection
Gimme a Break! - Season 1 - Episode 8
Julie wants to join Katie's club, and gets help from Nell and Katie on how to be cool, sitting, and dancing. When she shows up to Katie's group of friends, she totally messes up, as they ask her several questions about personal experieces such as kissing and virginity, and she is rejected into the club. In the end, she says she only wanted to be in the club because of the jacket they get, but cries hystericolly, because she knows she cannot be like Katie and her friends. Katie decides in the end to quit the clique that she is in, and decides that she and her sister need to stick together.
#19 - Samantha Steals a Squad Car
Gimme a Break! - Season 1 - Episode 14
As the Chief is preparing a speech for an awards banquet, Nell accidently sits on his cap, which ticks him off. As the two fight, Samantha comes home, complaining that a girl called her a dumb Pollak, but Nell and the cheif are too busy arguing. To get their attention, she tells Nell ""how would you like it if somebody called you a niggar?"" The chief gets her attention, goes on a rampage, and she locks herself in the bathroom, only to escape through the bathroom window, steal her fathers squad car, and take off to the police station, where she meets a drunkard named Bill, who is out of his cell, drunk in the Chief's office. In the end, the Chief and Nell show up at the police station, and all is forgiven, as Nell tells Samantha that they should have listened to her in the first place, instead of fighting over a stupid squashed police cap.
#20 - The Robbery
Gimme a Break! - Season 1 - Episode 18
The Kaniskis come home to find burglars at work, when they return home from thei Chief's law enforcement officer of the year award ceremony. However, Nell is at a strip club, seeing male exotic dancers, returns home, tricks the robbers by saying there are jewels in the closet in a locked box, gets the Chief's gun, and saves the family from danger. When the reporter shows up, Nell and the girls try to make the Chief look good, even though he was tied up by the robbers, and make it look like he was the hero, but finally, the Chief admits to the reporter that Nell is the real hero, and she did a very important deed for the family, which they will always be grateful of.
#21 - Brother Ed and the Hooker
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 2
At the bowling alley, the Chief meets up with Maxine, a prostitute who is used to nail bad cops. When Ed meets Carl at the bowling alley, he introduces him to Maxine and the two hit it off. When the Chief finds out that Ed and Maxine moved in together, he tells Ed that he will not have his brother living with an ex-prostitute since she has decided to retire from the business. In the end, Ed stands up for himself and Carl accepts his brother and Maxine living together.
#22 - Take My Baby, Please
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 5
Katie's friend, Valerie shows up at the Kanisky house with her new baby David. She tells the family that she and her husband Jonathan broke up since he left her for a bleached blonde lady at ""Kentucky Friend Chicken"". Valerie is serious about putting David up for adoption, since she doesn't have a job to afford his upkeep. Nell and the girls take Valerie shopping for baby supplies and leave David with the Chief, who grows attached to him. When the girls return home the Chief tells Valerie that they would have to kill him first before he lets her put David up for adoption and that the family will help her find a job. Nell then takes Valerie to a job interview to become a receptionist and uses her keen sense to drive off fellow competators for the job. In the end, everyone is glad to hear that Valerie got the job and can afford to keep David.
#23 - Katie Steals Julie's Jock
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 8
Julie invites a handsome boy at school to come over to study with her, but he falls for Katie, and the two go out. When Katie comes home, Julie and her have it out in a hilarious catfight of sister versus sister. In the end, Katie finds out that the boy knew Julie was her sister and wanted to go over the house so he would get a date with her. Katie and Julie finally make up when Katie tells Julie what the boy told her.
#24 - Love Thy Neighbor
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 11
Nell is woken up in the early hours of the morning by a neighbors barking dog. When the Chief wakes up he sees that she is asleep at the kitchen table and she tells him why she didn't get enough sleep. He phones their neighbor to come over and have coffee and Nell tells her about her dog. She then leaves and Nell goes outside to throw his dog doo inside a bag and light it on fire as he bites her and she takes the neighbor and her dog to court. At court, the neighbor says that the dog never bit anyone before, and the case is dropped, until Simpson shows up and says the dog had bitten two people before and the case is open again, the lady is sued, and the dog will be put to sleep. However, Nell changes her mind and drops the case when she hears about the dog being put to sleep for what he did. The neighbor tells Nell that she will keep her dog inside at night from now on.
#25 - The Centerfold (1)
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 14
When Mr. Swackhammer shows up to inform the Chief about the female officer who posed nude, he rushes into work and tells her she is fired. Once the town and the country get a hold of what happened, they are against what the Chief did. Even the girls and Nell don't like how he fired the officer. The police station begins to be mobbed by angry women who picket and are forced to leave, and Simpson's mother shows up and hits the Chief with her pocket book. If that wasn't enough, Hamilton Storm shows up to do a cover story on how unfair the Chief is, just as a mad bomber shows up and is about to blow up the whole place.
#26 - The Centerfold (2)
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 15
The man who has a bomb strapped to him tells Simpson he knows him from some place. He realizes that he's seen him before at the singles bar. They both talk about how they can never pick up women, and how Simpson likes a woman officer but he can't have the courage to tell her. The man decides at the last second to stop the bomb and tells Simpson he will look him up when he is done his time in jail. Simpson then confesses to the Chief that he sent a picture of the officer from the Christmas party to the magazine and that is why they chose her to model in it. The Chief decides to take back his compliment of telling Simpson he is a hero. The Mayor of Glenlawn who is about to be re-elected tells the Chief to re-hire the officer or else he will fire him. The Chief decides to go to a live telecast taping with the Mayor and decides to hire the officer back. Simpson finally has the courage to tell the officer he likes her and she decides to go out with him.
#27 - Nell and the Kid
Gimme a Break! - Season 2 - Episode 21
While at ""Max's Delicatessen"", Nell and Max see a girl shoplifting. Nell saves her from being arrested, telling Max she is taking her home. Nell finds out she has nowhere to go since her parents left her and her grandmother had recently died. When the Chief finds this out he is ready to arrest her, but she agrees to live with Max and help him out at the store. At first, the two don't get along so well, but they accept that each other has to get by even though there are people in their life that are no longer around.
#28 - Aunt Shirley
What's Happening Now! - Season 1 - Episode 10
Carolyn feels unloved and tries to leave.
#29 - Dee's Dilemma
What's Happening Now! - Season 1 - Episode 9
Roger fumes when Dee decides to leave college to sell cosmetics.