The BEST episodes written by Tom Blomquist

#1 - The Hurting

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 25

When an elderly woman, named Irma Swanson, who knew and befriended Swamp Thing, dies, her estranged daughter, Cathy, comes to town for her funeral. Swamp Thing and the spirit of Irma then show Cathy the past of Irma’s troubled life in order for Cathy to make amends meet.

#2 - Blood, Sweat and Cheers

The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 8

Someone sabotages a car at a regional stock-car race and attracts the A-Team's attention-the car belongs to Hannibal's nephew.

#3 - Does Not Compute

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 3

Rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) *see note A liberal city councilman embroiled in controversy for allegedly defaulting on various financial obligations blames it on the "right wing" police department discrediting him through computer tampering. To their surprise, none other than Lt. Quinlan hires the Riptide Detective Agency for Murray to use his computer expertise and disprove the claims and find who the real culprit is. But their investigation angers the hacker who is behind the councilman's problems, who promptly turns his hacking towards the Agency, tampering with their financial accounts and causing them to go into the red. Murray finds himself up against a worthy computer opponent as he tries not only to disprove the councilman's claims, but to prevent the hacker from wrecking the Riptide Detective Agency financially...

#4 - Standoff (1)

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 3 - Episode 24

Walker and Trivette protect a Mexican Presidential candidate from an assassin.

#5 - Only the Strong Survive

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues - Season 2 - Episode 7

Peter goes undercover in a Kung Fu tournament to help save a little girl who has been kidnapped.

#6 - A World of Difference (2)

Werewolf - Season 1 - Episode 12

In the hospital recovering from a werewolf attack, Rogan reflects on how to deal with his dilemma. Things get sidetracked in a hurry when he learns that Eric isn't dead after all.

#7 - DNA Mad Scientist

Farscape - Season 1 - Episode 9

A scientist extracts DNA from several of Moya's crew, promising them that with it he would be able to use it to find the location of their home planets. Things get more interesting however when he asks for some of pilot.

#8 - Behind the Badge

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 20

Action surrounding Walker stymies Trivette's attempts to impress the female reporter of a "Behind the Badge" documentary show.

#9 - Night of the Dying

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 1

Archane buys a rare book of voodoo spells and while summoning Baron Samedi he is possessed by evil spirits. The book is actually a trap for Archane by the daughter of the Ogun Duchamp who seeks revenge for Jim Kipp. On Archane's side is Duchamp's son who has taken his father's place.

#10 - School for Scandal

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 17

Robert Culp guest stars as Arthur Farnel, an ex-con who runs a school leading and teaching their students how to break the law. Mark decides to go undercover in order to gather enough evidence to put him away.

#11 - Dreams That Kill

Freddy's Nightmares - Season 2 - Episode 11

In this sequel to "Dream Come True", Charlie Nichels, the new host of Springwood Confidential, receives a warning from Freddy not to proceed with his latest show topic: "Dreams That Kill." Meanwhile, a doctor performs an experimental brain matter transplantation surgery on a patient that results in the man awakening with another man's personality—and dreams.

#12 - Evil in the Night

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 6

Running Wolf, a malevolent medicine man resurrects after the desecration of his burial ground, and Walker must confront his past demons if he hopes to stop the spirit before he gets revenge.

#13 - The Grey Team

The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 12

The A-Team must bring a girl in who has stolen a briefcase from her father, filled with material she believes he's selling to the Soviets.

#14 - Trial by Fire (2)

The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 2

The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.

#15 - The Return of LaRue

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 4 - Episode 15

Paroled on a technicality, Victor LaRue pretends to have changed as he takes revenge on Walker and Alex.

#16 - Friendly Haven

Werewolf - Season 1 - Episode 9

Eric takes refuge at the home of an old woman while being chased by Skorzeny.

#17 - Gams People Play

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 11

rc: Ken Olant (Dooley)* see note, Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) When Nick returns from National Guard duty, he thinks Cody and Murray are playing a trick on him when they tell him they've been hired to over-watch a beauty contest. But sure enough, it's true, they've been hired when one of the contestants, Charlene West, receives threatening phone calls. Their immediate suspect is a big-headed, womanising Game Show host who is the M.C. for the pageant, but when he is killed, they must dig deeper to find the true culprit...

#18 - Catch a Fallen Star

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 10

The trio come to the rescue of an elderly lady vagrant who is being grabbed by two thugs, only to learn that she is none other than a once-famous actress who vanished fifty years previously. It turns out she had been placed in a sanitarium by a man connected with the Mob that she was having an affair with after she refused to marry him, and what's more, she owns the deeds to Pier 56. The thugs were sent out by the man's son, who, determined to finish what his father has started, is determined to get his hands on the deed, the one last possession of the woman's that his father never took from her, even if it's against his father's wishes...

#19 - Harmony and Grits

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 22

rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Cody and Nick are loath when Murray drags them to a "harmonising" seminar, an event that ends in a punch up. But afterwards, a woman, having heard them introduce themselves as Private Detectives, hires the trio to check out her husband Chris, who she believes is having an affair. However, when the P.I.s set about following the man, they find that, instead of having an affair, he is involved with something much more sinister, but as they watch the man, they witness to the husband's distress - the shooting of a man involved with the shady operation. The next day, Quinlan tells them that the body has disappeared and the investigation has been dropped – leaving the P.I.s even more certain that there is something big to investigate, something to do with the sale of a top secret project, and set about finding out just what the woman's husband is mixed up in... Meanwhile, all the way through the investigation, the detectives toy with the "honesty" methods they h

#20 - Boz Busters

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 15

rc: Ken Olant (Dooley), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Realising that something is bothering their friend, Cody and Nick try to find out what's troubling Murray, only to learn that he has been offered an unmissable job position to work at a cutting edge robotics company. Sadly leaving his friends, Murray decides to take the job. Missing their friend almost as soon as he's gone, Cody and Nick decide to deliver the rest of his belongings personally, but upon arrival find that the supposed company that he's gone to work for doesn't exist. As they investigate, they remember how they first met Boz in the Army, assigned to escort him to prison after he had punched a Colonel in the nose, the same man who is now intending to sell him to the Soviets for his electronic skills...

#21 - The Day the Music Died

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 21

While driving through Arizona on his way home from Las Vegas, Mark is surprised to hear the voice of Nick Damion, a rock deejay he idolized in his youth, on local radio station KKSB. Back in California, Hardcastle is working on a dedication for the Pioneers of Music Hall of Fame Museum. Hearing that the Museum needs a master of ceremonies, Mark suggests Nick Damion. Returning to Arizona, Hardcastle and McCormick try to learn something from Jeannine Alexander, KKSB's manager. After helping Damion, who has been using the alias of Joe Cross, out of a fake drug charge, Mark convinces the deejay to return with him to California. Trying to find out why someone tried to frame Damion (as well as why the deejay originally went into hiding), Hardcastle begins to investigate Kello Records, a company that had received a great deal of air time in the deejay's old radio show. At the same time, Damion, who had gone into hiding after discovering that music executive Joe Kello had killed a singer named Danny Phillips to cover up a payola scheme, realizes that he needs to go public with the story. Hardcastle's investigation proves partially unnecessary for the case is resolved when Damion publicly accuses Kello at the Museum dedication. Afterwards, Damion is shocked to discover that Hardcastle has uncovered proof that Jeannine is working with Kello. As the series' penultimate episode ends, Damion gets a new deejay job at a Los Angeles station.

#22 - Scared Stiff

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 1 - Episode 23

Mark and Hardcastle take a group of misfit kids to a local prison in order to scare them straight; but while they are there, they are taken hostages by prisoners who are frustrated because of the repeated abuse from the guards and the warden.

#23 - Lady Killer

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 10

rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) Nick and Cody manage to make fools of themselves when they both unsuccessfully try to hit on an attractive woman while shopping in a grocery store. After the latest in a string of serial killings, the Agency is hired by a man who claims to have reason to believe that his elusive roommate might be the murderer. The detectives find to their surprise that the woman from the store is none other than their new Police contact; but as they investigate their case, there is a twist they don't expect, as they hunt for a killer with a hatred for engaged women...

#24 - Wipe Out

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 1

rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) The detective trio are worried about a new Private Investigation company in the area that is taking all their business, and, to the reluctance of Nick, decide to take on the case sent to them anonymously by post, asking them to investigate the death of a surfer that took place in 1964. Cody and Murray visit Billy Hagen, the lead singer of a popular band at the time, who were playing at a dance that was the scene of a fight between the surfer and another man shortly before the death. Hagen, whom Cody is a big fan of, is planning a comeback, but the deeper the detectives dig into the case and the past, the more it begins to seem that maybe Hagen was more involved in the death than previously thought...

#25 - Double Your Pleasure

Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 12

rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Cody and Nick are reluctant when Murray takes them to a singles party, but Cody is soon glad he went when he meets an attractive, pleasant woman named Sheila. The two quickly develop a fondness for each other, but Sheila breaks down when she mentions her missing sister Marcy. Cody assures her that the Riptide Detective Agency will look around for her sister, much to the annoyance of Nick, but Cody talks them into investigating anyway. They are shocked to discover that Marcy works as a prostitute, and that her mobster boss is after her. But as Cody continues to fall deeper in love with Sheila, Murray and Nick uncover an unexpected, surprising fact about her and Marcy...

#26 - Father's Day

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 6

rc: Ken Olant (Dooley), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) When a troubled young woman named Cheryl leaves her baby at the local church, the priest, Father Bob, heads to the Riptide Detective Agency to ask the guys to investigate the trouble the girl is in, and also leaves the baby girl with the trio for safe keeping. The Father is sworn to confidentiality over what Cheryl had told him in confession, but as the detectives juggle investigating the case and trying to find Cheryl with trying to look after the young child, they find a superior Police Officer with connections with the Mob to be connected with the trouble that she is in. But solving the case is only half the problem as the three bachelors must learn how to take care of the young baby...

#27 - The Twisted Cross

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 19

rc: Ken Olant (Dooley), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Walking through Chinatown, Cody, Nick and Murray see a gang of masked men trying to kidnap a teenage boy away from his father, and intervene. The next day, giving their report of the incident at the Police Station, Quinlan tells them that the boy's mother was brought in over suspicion of the attempted kidnap. But outside, admits to the P.I.s that she was behind the attempted kidnapping, explaining that her ex-husband Kyle, who has custody of her son Chad, is teaching him bad ways and preventing her from seeing him. Convinced by her story, the Private Detectives stop by Chad's school, only to find him in a fight with a black pupil, and carrying Nazi literature. Finding that the boy's father runs a local Boys Institute that is peddling the Nazi message to other youngsters too, they send Dooley undercover to see exactly what is taught at the Institute. The leader of a local Neo-Nazi party informs them that Kyle was thrown out for refusi

#28 - Dead Men Don't Floss

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 19

rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) After a female reporter with the hots for Nick writes an article naming him as the primary force behind the Riptide Detective Agency, an argument ensues between himself, Cody, and Murray. Lt. Parisi tries to put a stop to the squabble by taking three help wanted ads from the newspaper and giving one to each of them, with the first to complete their individual task to be declared the best detective of the trio. Murray's case is to find a biker's estranged girlfriend; while Nick must find a short-tempered battleaxe's missing man; and a gifted young boy, unhappy at home, wants Cody to prove that he's adopted. Meanwhile, the boyfriend of the woman who penned the article behind all the trouble sees Nick as a threat, and sets out to kill him...

#29 - The Wedding Bell Blues

Riptide (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 12

rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi) Cody, Nick and Murray take on one of their bizarrest cases when they are hired by an eccentric millionaire to find a model that he wants to marry, a girl that he has only seen in photos and has never met! But unbeknown to them, the girl's father is a crime lord, and their seemingly strange but simple case finds them walking into the middle of a fierce mob war that has restarted after the girl stood the son of another mobster up at the alter...

#30 - Little Man with a Big Reputation

Hunter - Season 7 - Episode 22

A crook chooses Captain Devane as his best man when he is being pressured by former jailmates to commit a crime.

#31 - Mirage

Riptide (1984) - Season 2 - Episode 4

rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) Teaching a science class at a local collage, Murray falls for an attractive student who appears to be interested in him too. But when two thugs steal the girl's paper that Murray is marking, the detectives are shocked to learn that the girl is actually married, to a millionaire Arabian, who ordered the papers taken after becoming worried that Murray is having an affair with his wife. He warns him that in his culture, the punishment for committing adultery is death. But afterwards, the girl claims that her husband is abusing her and begs for Murray's help; unfortunately, everything is not as it seems about the girl, and Murray is unwittingly being set-up...

#32 - Pay Day

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 16

Three convicts escape from prison in search of loot from a Las Vegas heist buried in the swamp. One by one they learn the justice of the swamp.

#33 - The Specter of Death

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 27

#34 - Blood Money

Stingray (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 12

Ray helps the principal of an urban high school prevent a gang war from erupting.

#35 - Frightmare

The Highwayman - Season 1 - Episode 7

Mafia crime-lord Manetti's men use a high-tech machine that can read agents' minds, to try and find the one man that is set to testify against him. When their first victim dies, Manetti's men capture Ms. Winthrop, and Highway and Jetto are in a race against time to save her before Manetti discovers the witness' true location...

#36 - A Jury of His Fears

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 7

After being electrocuted while at the controls of his latest scientific experiment, Arcane has a near-death experience where he is put on trial and gets judged for all his past misdeeds with Tressa as the judge and Will as his lawyer and both the prosecutor.

#37 - Love Lost

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 2

A self-proclaimed psychic comes to the swamp in search of Alec Holland with a message from his dead wife Linda. She also reveals that Jim is still alive and will be heard from soon.

#38 - That's a Wrap

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 39

#39 - 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.

#40 - A Most Bitter Pill

Swamp Thing - Season 3 - Episode 20

#41 - Smoke and Mirrors

Swamp Thing - Season 2 - Episode 9

Nathan Stone is a heavy mental musician staying alone in the Kipp boarding house where Swamp Thing terrorizes him with a series of mind games as he seeks to teach the shallow and egotistical punk rock star to take responsibility for his wicked lyrics that has led to the suicide of two teenage fans.

#42 - 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?

#43 - Judgment Day

Christy - Season 1 - Episode 5

Dr. Ferrand, mission director, pays a visit to Cutter Gap. Christy receives a large number of donations from Ashville, including equipment to hook up a phone line to El Pano.

#44 - Echoes

Christy - Season 2 - Episode 7

Christy and Miss Alice journey back to Freedom, Kentucky, the site of her first mission. Meanwhile, back in Cutter Gap, Neil discovers that David proposed to Christy.

#45 - The Lie

Christy - Season 2 - Episode 8

New resident, Daniel Scott tries to make friends with the Spencers. Meanwhile, John Spencer becomes enamoured of Christy and Bessie Colburn spreads a malicious rumor about her out of jealousy.