The BEST episodes written by William Fay
#2 - The Riley Gratton Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 12
The train is halted. Flint McCullough is away, scouting. Then in rides a rangy young man with the gift of the gab who fought alongside the Major during the war. The Major takes a shine to him and invites him to stay, which suits this young man with the name of Riley Gratton just fine. It takes the wiley old Wooster to remind the Major that, when they were in the army, Gratton went missing shortly after the Major's prized golden spurs did. It seems Gratton has done the same again, only this time he disappears after selling some worthless land to the settlers. The Major decides to go after him to get it all back by hook or by crook.
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#3 - The Luke O'Malley Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 16
Flint is in town at a saloon. He is standing by the bar when a man seated at a nearby table with a deck of cards in his hand, asks Flint if he wants to play a hand. Flint declines. The bartender remarks that he thought the gambler would be at the hanging. The man, O'Malley, doesn't wish to see his old friend hang, especially as Ramero blames him for his capture. Flint is told that Ramero, a notorious Mexican bandit leader, is to be hanged there that day. Later that day, a parson with his two small children, a girl and a boy, turn up at the wagon train. He claims to have been robbed by Ramero, who even took his bible. The Major allows them to join the train, although Flint thinks the man is too similar in looks to the gambler he met. The Major's suspicions are only aroused when the ""parson"" gives an unlikely off the cuff sermon, and his daughter gives Wooster a lesson in cardplay. When word is received that Ramero has escaped the noose and is on the run again Flint goes off to see if h
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#4 - Isabel
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 31
Howard Clements is wrongfully accused of assaulting a woman named Isabel Smith. He is convicted of the crime and is sent to prison for two years. When he gets out of prison he steals $13,000 which is the exact amount he would have earned if he had not been in prison. He then opens a record store in his hometown. He meets Isabel a few times and manages to get a date with her. Eventually the two become engaged. On their honeymoon, Howard sabotages the fuel line of the boat they rented and convinces Isabel to take a ride on it solo. Later, Howard gets hiw revenge when he hears an explosion in the distance. As he returns home, he is stopped by the police who know about his theft and also suspect him of murder.
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#5 - The Dan Hogan Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 33
The wagon train is stopping off at a small town called ""Sweet Sabbath"". Sweet by name, but not by nature, the name belies it's true, tough, character. Here the Major comes across an old friend, ex- New York cop and sometime prize fighter, Dan Hogan. Unwillingly, Dan finds himself up against the local villain who is fast with his gun. Dan has never carried or used a gun in his life, not even when he was a cop. He has a choice. He can run, or he can stand and fight - with his fists.
#6 - Goodbye, George
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 2 - Episode 10
Academy Award hopeful Lana Layne's past comes back to haunt her when her husband George, an ex-convict who she thought was dead, wants her back. She's not interested, but if she does divorce him, he would get half of everything. Then there's Haila French, a gossip columnist who wants an exclusive story, so she surprises Lana and her boyfriend with surprising results.
#7 - The Crooked Road
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 4
A joyride in a new convertible is seriously called to a halt as the corrupt public officials in a small town attempt to take advantage of the defenseless drivers.
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#8 - Man from the South
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 15
A down-on-his-luck gambler bets his hand (literally) for a convertible, but the game is stopped by a person with an even larger interest in the outcome.
#9 - The Willy Moran Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 1
Major Adams is keen to get the Wagon Train under way, but one of the wagons is missing a driver. Adams is arguing with the owner to pull his wagon out of line when Willy Moran is thrown out of the nearby saloon and lands practically at Adams feet. Moran is known to Adams from his army days. Then, Moran was a boxer. Now he is an alchohlic. Robinson, the owner of the wagon, sees Moran as his passport to staying on the train. Against his better judgement, Adams agrees to let Moran drive for Robinson. It is an opportunity for Moran to redeem himself, especially when a young widow takes a shine to him. For Robinson's purposes, though, Moran is more use as a drunkard.
#10 - Brother Thaddeus
The Virginian - Season 2 - Episode 7
Former n'er do well Willie Caine (Albert Salmi) is now a monk, Brother Thaddeus. He is involved in establishing a mission and boy's school on property owned by Judge Garth and Trampas and Steve Hill are helping to build the mission. A gang, including a former crony of Thaddeus', robs the train and Sheriff Abbott (Ross Elliott) locks him up as an accomplice. Thaddeus manages to escape and with the help of Trampas sets out to track down the gang and exonnerate himself.
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#11 - I'll Take Care of You
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 23
A used car salesman with a spendthrift wife concocts a killer deal with his father and two college boys.
#12 - No Pain
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 5
Nothing is as it seems when a polio victim in an iron lung suspects his wife of becoming attracted to a new neighbor and wonders if she's planning to get rid of him for good.
#13 - Safety for the Witness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 8
A gunsmith sets his sight on two gangsters who will kill him if he testifies to what they've purchased in court.
#14 - Madame Mystery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 24
A ruthlessly ambitious Hollywood publicist capitalizes on the drowning death of an actress, but his hopes for success sink like a stone when he learns that she's still alive.
#15 - The Avon Emeralds
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 24
Nothing is as it seems when a young Scotland Yard inspector follows a widow suspected of smuggling jewelry.
#16 - The Wayward Warrior
Yancy Derringer - Season 1 - Episode 28
Trying to stop some gun smugglers, Yancy has a run-in with a boxing champion and a re-match with a female river pirate.
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#17 - The Contest for Aaron Gold
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 4
A pensive, withdrawn child attending a summer camp fashions a one-armed warrior knight in clay, to the consternation of his counselors. Is there a reason behind this particular display?
#18 - The $2,000,000 Defense
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 5
A lawyer gets creative when the man he is defending offers him half of his net worth if he will find a way out of the case.
#19 - Touché
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 35
A millionaire takes a hunting trip during which he hatches a plan to make his wife's lover his prey.
#20 - Your Witness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 31
A prominent lawyer appears able to manipulate any situation successfully - except, perhaps, for his marriage.
#21 - Gratitude
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 6 - Episode 28
When a prosperous racketeer with a fear of death gambles with life, those closest to him turn their backs on him in his hour of need. Can a dead man walking really show gratitude?
#22 - Ten O'Clock Tiger
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 7 - Episode 26
When a boxing manager tries out a special formula designed to enhance the performance of race horses on one of his prize-fighters, he finds himself in the ring fighting for his own life.
#23 - The Last Dark Step
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 - Episode 18
It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.
#24 - A Man of the People
The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 15
Trouble comes to Medicine Bow in the form of a number of settlers who camp on land they say has been promised to them but that Judge Garth and others traditionally have leased from the government for grazing cattle. The land settlement has been promoted by Congressman Matt Cosgrove (James Dunn) who had read law with the Judge 30 years before. The Judge knows the soil is no good for farming but is told government reports support the reverse. While the Judge and Cosgrove are at odds, Cosgrove's nephew, Army Lt. David O'Mara (Martin West), and Betsy Garth find each other more to their liking.
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#25 - The Jingle Bells Affair
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 3 - Episode 15
Solo and Illya must protect Premier Georgi Koz, a Khrushchev like European leader, on a visit to Mew York, Priscilla Worth is befriended by Loz and she takes him to a school for Santa Clauses run by Francis X. O'Reilly where just one of a series of assassination attempts against him must be thwarted by the two U.N.C.L.E. agents.
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#26 - Main Event
Combat! - Season 4 - Episode 1
Saunders' latest green replacements are a boxer and his cocky fight manager, Murphy (Jack Carter), who wants to run both the war and Saunders.