The Best Episodes Written By Henry Slesar

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(10 votes)

   #1 - The Old Man in the Cave

   S5:E711/8/1963

   A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Ma Parker

   S2:E1010/6/1966

   Now in charge of the Gotham State Pen, Ma Parker and her jailhouse full of criminal cohorts use it as their base of operations. No one suspects jailed prisoners of the crimes, but a clue picked up by Batman and Robin may lead them right to Ma's whereabouts.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - One Grave Too Many

   S5:E325/22/1960

   Chronic unemployment makes a poor husband desperate enough to steal from a man he believes is dead, but he soon regrets the decision when he sees that the lifted wallet contains more than just cash.

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   7.4/10(9 votes)

   #4 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

   S5:E161/17/1964

   A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #5 - The Greatest Mother of Them All

   S2:E910/5/1966

   Ma Parker and her delinquent children are pulling off a crime wave in Gotham City. Batman and Robin round up the gang one by one, but when the arrests seem all too easy, the Dynamic Duo suspect something else more sinister may be up.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Examination Day / A Message From Charity

   S1:E611/1/1985

   In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the government intelligence test. He is very nervous about the outcome of the test but eager to show how smart he is. At the end his parents get the news - Dickie "passed" the test...but the government kills anyone who is too intelligent. In 1985, a fever-stricken Peter Wood finds himself in telepathic contact with Charity Paine, a sick girl his age living in Puritan New England. The two rejoice in sharing their thoughts, and Peter gives Charity the chance to see things that she'd never experienced in her limit time and place. However, their new-found contact turns to horror when Peter's knowledge of the future endangers Charity's life. She inadvertently speaks of the future, causing the villagers to believe she is a witch.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #7 - I Saw the Whole Thing

   S1:E410/11/1962

   There are five witnesses for a hit-and-run accident at an intersection who all say the car did not stop at the stop sign, but are they all wrong?

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Money

   S6:E911/29/1960

   To win the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, a bookie-turned-import agent eyes the main chance with a deceitful ploy. In so doing, he finds himself earning more than the highest prize.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - The Man with Two Faces

   S6:E1112/13/1960

   The theft of a woman's purse is the start of a tale of profit and loss which strikes close to home when the identity of the culprit is sought through a series of conflicting photographs.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - A Crime for Mothers

    S6:E161/24/1961

    When a mother returns to seek out her long-lost abandoned daughter, money rather than love seems to be her driving motive. Refusing to pay, the girl's pseudo-adoptive parents call the woman's bluff and demand a court settlement to the matter.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - A Woman's Help

    S6:E243/28/1961

    When you're handsome and attractive, the ladies will always pay you the sort of attention you want. For Arnold Bourdon, there's only one problem: how to get rid of his shrewish but wealthy wife. Perhaps her new companion and nurse hold the key.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Last Escape

    S6:E171/31/1961

    An escapologist with a daring new act, a deceitful wife with a passion for music and the musician performing it, and a last escape worthy of Houdini himself, make cheating death a circus act to bend anyone's sanity.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Horse Player

    S6:E223/14/1961

    On a wing and a prayer, a gambler with a mission thinks he has a hotline to God in praying for a string of successful winners. Convincing a naive minister to play the odds with the parish funds, could this be the race which beats the horse player?

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Coming Home

    S6:E356/13/1961

    When an armed robber is released from prison, beaten down by the system and wanting to retreat to his long-lost family life, his homecoming makes for a shocking revelation.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Servant Problem

    S6:E346/6/1961

    Good staff are hard to come by and, once found, are as priceless as one's own wife when it comes to their talent in the kitchen. At least, for handsome and distinguished Kerwin Drake, this is certainly the case when the arrival of his dowdy down-at-heel wife is a mere hors d'ouevres for the murderous meal that follows.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Forty Detectives Later

    S5:E284/24/1960

    The forty-first private eye hired by a man to find his wife's killer follows the clues to a suspect, and then realizes that the case is more complex than he had realized.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Insomnia

    S5:E305/8/1960

    Lack of sleep is ruining a widower's life, but the real nightmare begins when he finally meets his brother-in-law, a menacing veteran still holding a grudge for his sister's death.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Hatbox

    S7:E110/10/1961

    When caught cheating on a test, Perry Hatch visits his college Professor to plead his case before a letter is sent to his parents. But upon witnessing the Professor disposing of a brand new ladies hat box, Perry thinks he may be onto something sinister.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Cop for a Day

    S7:E410/31/1961

    Two bank robbers, Phil and Davey, are forced to act when it is revealed a woman was an eye-witness to their crime. Phil devises a clever plan to dress up as a policeman to gain entry to her secure location, but will his plan go without a hitch?

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Morning After

    S4:E141/11/1959

    Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Right Price

    S4:E223/8/1959

    A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Pen Pal

    S6:E611/1/1960

    Love letters from a pen pal bring an escaped convict to a country cottage in search of the woman he plans to make his bride. With the police closing in, is more than his heart trapped?

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    #23 - Final Vow

    S1:E610/25/1962

    Sister Pamela suffers a crisis of conscience just as she is about to take her final vows. Is her belief real or is she just hiding from the rest of the world? The sisters in the convent give her time to think everything over by letting her pick up a valuable statue from a reformed gangster. As she is returning, however, the statue is stolen by a young criminal named Jimmy Bresson. In order to get the statue back she leaves the convent and hunts Jimmy down. She arranges to have a date with him to get into his apartment. Unfortunately, she discovers that he has pawned the statue. She takes the pawn ticket and heads for the pawn shop. As she is about to get it back, Jimmy catches her. Jimmy and the dishonest pawn shop owner want to kill Pamela, but they want to have the statue appraised first. They call an appraiser, but it turns out to be the man who originally offered the statue to the convent. He tells them that the statue is worthless and convinces them to let Pamela go. Having confr

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - House Guest

    S1:E811/8/1962

    John and Sally Mitchell offer a stranger named Ray Roscoe a place to stay after Roscoe saves the life of their son Tony. When Roscoe turns out to be a womanizing freeloader, they begin to believe that they made a terrible mistake. One night Roscoe wrecks their car and hits on a camper's wife. Angry, John punches him and knocks him to the ground. John is shocked, however, when the camper examines Roscoe's body and declares that Roscoe is dead. The camper suggests that they bury the body in the woods and forget the whole thing. John agrees and lets the camper deal with the body. Later, John is disturbed to discover that the woods are going to be excavated as a part of a new highway construction. Since he doesn't know exactly where the body is, he calls the camper and tells him that they must move the corpse. The camper agrees, but demands $20,000. He tells John that he will go to the police if he does not pay the money.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - What Really Happened

    S1:E161/11/1963

    Over the protests of his wife Eve, Howard Raydon fires Addie the family maid when her son breaks a valuable antique. Unwilling to leave, she poisons Howard's milk and kills him. An autopsy reveals the poison, but Eve is the chief suspect after she is fingered by Howard's mother. Believing that Eve's innocence will come out in trial, Addie remains silent about any wrong doing. Unfortunately, the prosecution reveals that Addie's 'son' is really Eve's son from a previous marriage. They claim that Eve killed her husband to prevent being seperated from the boy. As things begin to look worse for Eve, Addie confesses her guilt in a note and attempts suicide. Her suicide attempt is stopped in time and she is forced to stand trial.

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