The Best Episodes Written By John T. dugan

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - The Rivals

   S4:E141/9/1978

   Charles must try to save his business from a competitor. Laura, who is love with Jimmy Hill, must compete with somebody else for him.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Here Come the Brides

   S4:E1212/5/1977

   Adam Simms and his son Luke move into town. Adam falls in love with Miss Beadle, while Luke and Nellie Oleson fall for each other. After Miss Beadle talks to Nellie about love and marriage, Nellie and Luke decide to get married.

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   7.5/10(38 votes)

   #3 - Return to Tomorrow

   S2:E202/9/1968

   Ancient alien minds are given control of Captain Kirk's and First Officer Spock's bodies.

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   7.4/10(38 votes)

   #4 - The Most Crucial Game

   S2:E311/5/1972

   The manager of a football team kills the team's owner, disguising himself as an ice cream vendor as a cover. He then uses a recording of a faked phone call as an alibi to prove he was elsewhere at the time of the murder.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Creeper of Walnut Grove

   S4:E610/24/1977

   Things are being stolen in Walnut Grove. Laura and Andy try to figure out who's the crook. They end up getting a lot of people mad at them, including Mr. Ingalls, especially after his hair turns green.

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   6.6/10(48 votes)

   #6 - Dead Weight

   S1:E310/27/1971

   A famous general kills a business associate, then woos a neurotic female witness to thwart Columbo's investigation.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - To Run and Hide

   S4:E710/31/1977

   When Doc Baker is unable to save a patient of his, he believes that he is unhappy being a doctor. He finds a new doctor for the town. Doc Baker stays on when he realizes that the new doctor really doesn't care about his patients.

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   5.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - The Cardinal

   S3:E611/17/1968

   General Zepke plans to rise to power - the only threat to him is Cardinal Souchek who stands for a free people. Zepke has had Souchek imprisoned and plans to replace him with a double who will endorse him. The IMF use an infected mosquito to make the doiuble, Nagorski, ill. Phelps and Cinnamon are called in as doctor and nurse to tend to him while Rollin impersonates a Cardinal and sees through Nagorski's impersonation. He escapes from an airtight sarcophagus and helps Barney and Willy enter the monastery through a booby-trapped tunnel before their air runs out. When Jim has Nagorski placed in an oxygen tent, the others open up the wall behind him, take out Nagorski and replace him with Souchek whom they've secretly freed. Zepke has Souchek-as-Nagorski-as-Souchek give a speech, but Souchek doesn't say what Zepke was expecting...

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   #9 - The Vault

   S3:E234/6/1969

   Phillipe Pereda, finance minister of Costa Mateo has stolen $40 million from the vault of the country's president, De Varo. De Caro plans to announce the money will be used for an industrialization process. Pereda plans to frame the president for embezzlement when it is found the money is missing from the supposedly impenetrable vault, then take over the country. The IMF must stop him. Willy sneaks Barney into the vault and he gets it open and makes it look like it was robbed before setting off the alarm. Rollin (as an auditor) lets a guard see Barney before knocking him out, then knocking himself out. Pereda realizes that with this new robbery, he won't be able to frame De Caro. Cinnamon and Jim (as representatives trying to cut a deal with Pereda to buy land once he is in power) suggest he temporarily replace the stolen money with Treasury cash before De Caro confirms the theft. Pereda sneaks into the vault using an audio tape of De Varo's perfectly pitched code, he puts in the money

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