The Best Episodes Written By Dan Gordon

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - The Gift of Life

   S3:E255/6/1987

   Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is R.R. Benson, a cold and heartless businessman, who is polluting the oceans, maintains apartments which are below living standards, just to name a few. When he proved to be a tough nut to crack, Jonathan decides to take the direct approach and reveal to Benson that he is an angel and at the rate he is going he won't make it to heaven. But Benson is still unmoved, and the last thing Jonathan tells him is to read the Bible. That while sleeping a burglar breaks into Benson's home and shoots him. Benson runs into Jonathan asking him what happened, Jonathan shows him that he is a spirit and that he died. Jonathan shows him exactly the kind of life that he's been leading and how it affects others, and how people really feel about him like his girlfriend, who has another guy and who is planning a palimony suit. Jonathan then takes him back to his office and tells him that his ""boss"" is giving him the opportunity to relive the final week of his life. He

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #2 - The Return of the Masked Rider

   S1:E410/3/1984

   A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Another Song for Christmas

   S1:E1312/19/1984

   Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.

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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #4 - Innocent Man

   S1:E410/24/1992

   An Immortal friend of MacLeod's is beheaded in his isolated mountain retreat where he had hoped - like MacLeod - to retire from the fight for a while. A brain-damaged, homeless veteran is charged with the grisly crime, and an attempt is made to link him to the killing of Slan Quince (the villain of episode one, 'The Gathering'), an Evil Immortal whom MacLeod himself had slain in combat. MacLeod must try and clear the innocent man and unravel the mystery of who killed his friend. Here again we get a glimpse of MacLeod's past, in flashbacks set during the American Civil War.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - A Divine Madness

   S1:E811/7/1984

   A widower who built an empire in the construction business now believes he's King Arthur, and his ambitious son is determined to have him declared incompetent.

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   #6 - Help Wanted: Angel

   S1:E1011/21/1984

   An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.

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   #7 - A Song of Songs

   S3:E161/21/1987

   James Earl Jones stars as Gabe Wilson, an old friend of Mark's and down-and-out jazz pianist who tries to re-build his life after suffering a heart attack. Gabe reconnects with an old flame named Ellie, a God-fearing widow who is having problems trying to relate to her daughter, Vanessa, the vocalist in a rock band. When Gabe tries to encourage Vanessa to pursue her dreams, he unwittingly strains the not-so-harmonious mother-daughter relationship even more. After Vanessa runs away without leaving a note, Ellie lashes out at Gabe, telling him that God made him blind to make him pay for his sins (he had become blind after a drunk driver struck his vehicle years earlier). It is up to Jonathan to reunite Ellie and Vanessa and set them both straight.

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   5.5/10(8 votes)

   #8 - The Gathering

   S1:E110/3/1992

   Duncan McLeod is roused from his peaceful existence with the love of this life, Tessa Noel, when he is challenged to Immortal combat by Slan Quince, an Evil Immortal. An old friend and Clansman, Connor MacLeod, comes to try and convince Duncan to once more join the fray in the battle of Good versus Evil. This episode also introduces Richie Ryan, a kid from the streets whom Duncan befriends after catching him breaking into his antique store.

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