The Best Episodes Written By Ken Pettus

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Jury Of One

   S5:E243/13/1973

   A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.

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   7.6/10(8 votes)

   #2 - The Living Legend (1)

   S1:E1011/26/1978

   While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

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   7.4/10(8 votes)

   #3 - The Living Legend (2)

   S1:E1112/3/1978

   The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #4 - Missing in Action

   S1:E92/5/1981

   Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Magnum befriends her and, in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Martyr

   S4:E263/29/1970

   As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - A Ghost Story

   S5:E212/27/1971

   Howard Bainbridge, a chemical warfare expert who defected to East, was contaminated by his own experiments and then returned back to the U.S. and his family manor, where his father (a paranoid arch-conservative) had him killed and the body buried. Since Howard destroyed the records before defecting, the IMF must recover the body to get a sample of the chemicals. The elder Bainbridge, Justin, is unaware that his head of security is an enemy agent also trying to find Howard' sbody. The IMF gain access to a air-raid shelter on the grounds and start ""haunting"" Justin with a secretly-implanted microphone and holographic projectors. Plagued by visions only he can see of his son and his dead wife Janette (played by Dana), Justin calls in physician Paris, who recommends he assauge his guilt conscience and Justin ends up digging up his son's body, which the IMF take.

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Fool's Gold

   S4:E510/26/1969

   Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Chico

   S4:E171/25/1970

   Two halves of a microfilm add up to one dangerous list for the agents it will incriminate. But Barney plans to use a trained dog to retrieve it.

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #9 - The Crane

   S4:E233/8/1970

   Jim and his team rescue a prisoner and place him in a spot his captors will never think to look - a conspicuous location right under their noses.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Choice

    S4:E253/22/1970

    A duchess is under the powerful spell of a mystic, who notices his uncanny resemblance to Paris and plans to use him in a plot to ascend to the throne.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Rebel

    S5:E1111/28/1970

    The IMF must rescue three scientists in a dictatorial country and destroy their notes. They rescue two but the third one, Khora refuses to leave and is executed. Jim and Dana meet with his son Alex (a rebel leader) to get his notes and Dana is captured by the militia along with Alex's girlfriend, who has memorized the doctor's notes. Barney and Doiug parachute in with a giant hollow religious statue that Jim uses to get close enough to dig into the prison while Paris, pretending to be an Intelligence officer, plays the militia leader, Bakram, against the people. When Bakram discovers that the prisoners have escaped he destroys the statue, further enraging the country's people against him while the team make his escape.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Amnesiac

    S4:E1312/28/1969

    Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.

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