The Best Episodes Written By Deborah Pratt

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Little Girl Who

   S7:E711/5/1986

   Magnum must help his ex-wife Michelle and her daughter to freedom before they are assassinated.

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   8.2/10(10 votes)

   #2 - So Help Me God

   S2:E911/29/1989

   July 29, 1957: Though he can't remember much more than habeas corpus, Sam finds himself the defense attorney for a young black woman accused of murdering the son of the most powerful man in a small Louisiana town.

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   7.9/10(13 votes)

   #3 - The Color of Truth

   S1:E65/3/1989

   August 8, 1955: Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.

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   7.8/10(10 votes)

   #4 - Another Mother

   S2:E131/10/1990

   September 30, 1981: As a divorced mother of three, Sam's job of preventing his teenage son from running away, never to be seen again, is made more interesting by the fact that his youngest daughter can see both him and Al.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Shock Theater

   S3:E225/22/1991

   October 3, 1954: Leaping into Sam Bederman, a mental patient who is suffering from acute depression, Sam receives an overloaded electroshock treatment, which causes his Swiss-cheesed memory to be replaced by personas from previous leaps. Al, finding himself visible to the mentally absent, must try to complete Sam's mission, and convince him to take another shock treatment, in order to leap Sam out before contact is lost forever.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Black on White on Fire

   S3:E711/9/1990

   August 11, 1965: Sam leaps into a black med. student engaged to a white woman in order to ensure that he and his fiancée survive the Watts Riot together.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Deliver Us from Evil

   S5:E711/10/1992

   March 19, 1966: Things are already on there way downhill when Sam leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta. Despite Sam's inaction, history continues to change for the worst. The cause is unknown until Sam discovers another time traveler on the scene, one who's determined to destroy Jimmy's family, as well as Sam.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Last Dance Before an Execution

   S3:E195/1/1991

   May 12, 1971: "Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled

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   7.3/10(12 votes)

   #9 - Star-Crossed

   S1:E23/31/1989

   June 15, 1972: Sam leaps into the persona of a womanizing college professor in 1972, encounters his lost love and attempts to reshape the past

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Stand Up

    S4:E215/13/1992

    April 30, 1959: Sam, as the singing half of a comedy team, soon finds that trying to convince two people that they're truly in love is no laughing matter, especially when one of them is the object of a sleazy casino owner's desire.

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #11 - 8½ Months

    S3:E123/6/1991

    November 15, 1955: Billie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into labor himself

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Dreams

    S4:E811/13/1991

    February 28, 1979: It's more like a nightmare when Sam leaps into a detective, investigating a gruesome murder. He may be next if he doesn't find out who eviscerated the victim and his only hope is the victim's catatonic son and her husband's psychiatrist. The horrific flashbacks he's experiencing don't help matters much either.

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13. 

    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Trilogy (1)

    S5:E811/17/1992

    August 8, 1955: A pair of unsolved murders marks just the tip of the iceberg when Sam leaps into a sheriff in a small Louisiana town. Rumors of a history of family insanity, the suspicions surrounding his daughter Abigail's involvement in the murders, and ghostly visions of his institutionalized wife just make matters worse.

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Trilogy (2)

    S5:E911/24/1992

    June 14, 1966: Finding himself back in the same small Louisiana town, in the arms of Abigail, now twenty-one, Sam must prevent an angry crowd of townspeople from lynching his fiancée, following the disappearance of a young boy whom she had been babysitting.

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Trilogy (3)

    S5:E1011/24/1992

    July 28, 1978: Sam is an aging lawyer, recruited by Abigail, now thirty-three, to defend her when she is put on trial for the murder of Leta Aider, the woman whose daughter Abigail was accused of killing almost twenty-five years earlier.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #16 - A Song for the Soul

    S4:E152/26/1992

    April 7, 1963: As a backup singer in a black, amateur girl group Sam finds between the fifteen year-old lead singer and her father as he attempts to rescue the girl from a sleazy night club owner's clutches.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Liberation

    S5:E131/12/1993

    October 16, 1968: Leaping into a housewife and mother of two on the verge of women's lib, Sam must prevent the death of his daughter during a sit in, while convincing the girl's father that his marriage can survive a liberated wife and daughter.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Revenge of the Evil Leaper (2)

    S5:E172/23/1993

    September 16, 1987: Having simu-leaped, both Sam and Alia find themselves trapped in a women's prison, accused of murdering a fellow inmate. Their efforts to unmask the real killer are not their top priority as the two attempt to keep Alia's location hidden from her observer, Zoey, who leaps into the same place and time, determined to make Alia pay for her betrayal.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Little Games

    S5:E121/3/1985

    A very attractive security expert brings out the romantic in Magnum when she is hired to help protect Robin's Nest during a jewelry exhibit worth millions of dollars.

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    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #20 - Her Charm

    S2:E152/7/1990

    September 26, 1973: Protecting a female member of the witness protection program from a mafia hitman proves difficult for Sam, since the FBI appears to have an informant confounding his attempts to hide her.

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    6.2/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Sea Bride

    S2:E215/2/1990

    June 3, 1954: Aboard an ocean liner, Sam must stop the marriage of a young man's ex-wife to a mobster. In the process, he finds himself in one heck of a mess in the ship's garbage compartment.

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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Fallen Angel

    S2:E711/3/1984

    String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.

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    5.0/10(13 votes)

    #23 - What Price Gloria?

    S2:E410/25/1989

    October 16, 1961: Sam is shocked when he learns he's leaped into a woman, Samantha Stormer. As a gorgeous secretary for an automobile company, Sam has to cope with sexual harassment by the boss, a suicide attempt by a roommate, and the effect his looks have on Al's lecherous tendencies.

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