The BEST episodes written by Tom Lazarus

Laura
star
8.33
9 votes

#1 - Laura

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 4

Jake's former partner is killed while chasing an alleged burglar, but the evidence points towards the dead man's fiancee.

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How Long Has This Been Going On?
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8.33
3 votes

#2 - How Long Has This Been Going On?

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 21

Jake tries to prove that his friend, a philandering priest, is innocent in the murder of his married lover.

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Lady, Be Good
star
8.25
4 votes

#3 - Lady, Be Good

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 17

McCabe believes that what looks like a drunken-driving accident is a murder, so he sends Jake to investigate.

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What is This Thing Called Love?
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8.20
5 votes

#4 - What is This Thing Called Love?

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 16

McCabe and Derek are held captive by a grenade-laden gunman claiming to be out for revenge, but Jake discovers a different motive.

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Rape and Revenge (2)
star
8.00
8 votes

#5 - Rape and Revenge (2)

Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 7

Hunter ends up in San Pablo wanting to shoot Raul Mariano, the man who raped McCall and shot Hunter. McCall comes and tries to stop Hunter from killing Mariano. She fails, and Hunter shoots Mariano four times. After, Hunter and McCall must escape from an army that is trying to kill them

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How to Dial a Murder
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7.69
377 votes

#6 - How to Dial a Murder

Columbo - Season 7 - Episode 4

A famous psychiatrist uses an appointment with his doctor as his alibi while he calls his house, where his dead wife's lover is. The call serves as the first step in a conditioning reflex on the psychiatrist's dogs. The other part is the word Rosebud as uttered by the victim. When Columbo arrives on the scene, the psychiatrist is very understanding when police say they may have to put his dogs to death. But Columbo notices how friendly the dogs seem, and then there's the telephone that's hanging from it's hook.

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Blue Lights
star
7.67
6 votes

#7 - Blue Lights

Starman - Season 1 - Episode 4

When Scott decides to try out the blue sphere's otherworldly powers, the light causes a small town sheriff to report that he has seen a flying saucer and put Paul and Scott in jail, with Fox on the way.

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Rape and Revenge (1)
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7.63
8 votes

#8 - Rape and Revenge (1)

Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 6

McCall is raped and beaten by a diplomat who has a strange opinion of the way to treat women. Hunter is angry, but can do nothing when the culprit claims diplomatic immunity. McCall is appalled to find that the man's father shares his attitude toward women.

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Death Machine
star
7.25
8 votes

#9 - Death Machine

Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 18

A couple of young punks rip off the house of Lucky Lacy, an underworld jewelry connection, and get away with $2,000,000 in jewels. But when Lacy hires Lincoln, a huge punk killer to find them, dead bodies start piling up and Hunter and McCall are up against their biggest foe yet!

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Happy Days Are Here Again
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7.22
23 votes

#10 - Happy Days Are Here Again

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 1

A speechwriter frames a politician for murdering his assistant, then tries to blackmail him.

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A Multitude of Idols
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7.22
23 votes

#11 - A Multitude of Idols

War of the Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 5

The aliens move toward an operation that will begin integrating themselves into human society, thus developing agents to be active anywhere in the world.

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Case X
star
7.00
10 votes

#12 - Case X

Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 1

A modeling agent is a front for a photographer's personal pornography ring, and when the female porn stars start turning up dead, McCall goes undercover.

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Body and Soul
star
6.86
7 votes

#13 - Body and Soul

Jake and the Fatman - Season 1 - Episode 8

Jake helps a determined cop (who is also a former lover) try to convict the man who killed her father, a criminal whom McCabe suspects of committing another murder.

Eye for an Eye
star
6.85
20 votes

#14 - Eye for an Eye

War of the Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 6

As Grover's Mill celebrates the 50th anniversary of the radio drama that made it famous, little do they know what really happened that night in 1938, or that the "Martians" have returned.

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Fever
star
6.80
5 votes

#15 - Fever

Starman - Season 1 - Episode 10

The fugitives get a brief respite when Agent Fox is taken off Paul's case, but then Paul's life is endangered by a common cold and Scott comes to realize how much he would miss his newfound father.

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The Last Supper
star
6.67
3 votes

#16 - The Last Supper

War of the Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 19

A secret meeting between countries is conducted in order to evaluate the global alien threat. However, the Advocacy learn of this grouping, and seize it as an opportunity to swiftly crush resistance. for his own brand of justice.

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Below the Line
star
6.66
67 votes

#17 - Below the Line

Stingray (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 3

When a woman's husband disappears and everyone at the oceanic research lab he worked at claims not to know him, she turns to Ray for help.

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He Feedeth Among the Lilies
star
6.25
4 votes

#18 - He Feedeth Among the Lilies

War of the Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 15

To better understand their problem, the aliens begin abducting humans to learn the secret of their immune systems

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