TV Episodes
The Waltons
Season 9, Episode 4
With the war drawing to a close, Jason and a young man in his squad deal with the question of killing. Ike and Corabeth face problems with the Ration Board.
It's a Living
Season 1, Episode 6
This series featured a group of waitresses (and a pianist, Sonny) who work at a fancy restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
Magnum, P.I.
Season 1, Episode 3
Magnum is hired by a beautiful Chinese antiques dealer that he's making a play for to protect a precious ancient vase—The Soul of Sung—until its buyer arrives in Hawaii to collect it. But unbeknownst to him, the priceless ornament is wanted by a Tong gang from the girl's home country, and a deadly martial arts assassin who can kill in the blink of an eye is hot on the trail.
Bosom Buddies
Season 1, Episode 4
Henry decides to toughen up his image when another date insists she just wants to be friends.
Mork & Mindy
Season 3, Episode 7
Mork dresses up as his favorite hero, Squellman the Yellow. One boy at the day care idolizes Billy the Kid and starts immitating him in a dangerous game. Mork and Mindy teach him a lesson about violence.
Barney Miller
Season 7, Episode 6
Dorsey takes a protective stance to a young prostitute; Harris is getting stock tips from another one; and Dietrich is tempted by all of them as he experiments with celibacy.
Taxi
Season 3, Episode 5
Jim is sought out by a detective, hired by his wealthy father to locate him and give him plane tickets to come visit him in Boston. Jim explains to the gang that he has been estranged from his family after dropping out of Harvard in the 1960's and changed his name from Caldwell to Ignatowski. Jim agrees to go to visit his father and brings Alex with him, who is curious about what Jim's family must be like. At his father's mansion, Jim's oddness upsets his father and they get into an argument during dinner. Jim is asked to leave, but Alex speaks to Jim's father privately to try to smooth things over. It turns out Jim's father still thinks of Jim as his favorite child, but it hurts him to see him wasting his life when he had so much potential. Jim comes in and convinces his father that he's got a happy life and doesn't need his father's money and they share a moment before Jim leaves.
Quincy, M.E.
Season 6, Episode 6
Quincy rushes to an Arizona Native American reservation when he hears that his foster son, Chester, is suffering from bubonic plague. When he confirms this and tries to warn the local authorities he finds that they have no interest in the potential disaster. They are much more concerned with the forthcoming opening of a new country club that will bring tourists to the area. They have a big golf competition planned with many big names arriving and they don't want to cause a panic that would ruin the resort before it has even opened.
Astro Boy
Season 1, Episode 12
After a spacecraft crashes to the earth Astro rescues a mining robot, Goliath, from the flames. Dr Elefun has Goliath's head removed as it contains a powerful neutron beam. But soon the head is stolen and Goliath starts to search for it...
Eight Is Enough
Season 5, Episode 8
Caught up in a newspaper strike and laid-off, Tom tries to bring the feuding parties together thanks to something Nicholas says about giving and compromise. To save everyone money, Nicholas starts a barter system for the family. The Bradford's have a five car pile-up in their driveway.
Diff'rent Strokes
Season 3, Episode 8
After Arnold fails to measure up to the demands of the basketball, baseball and volleyball teams, Drummond convinces the boy to try football on for size and then pays the coach a clandestine visit to ensure Arnold a place on the team.
Love in a Cold Climate
Season 1, Episode 8
Two cousins come of age in the early twentieth century, but fate leads them down very different paths.
Soap
Season 4, Episode 6
Danny finds a hooker who will help bring Tibbs to justice. The cash-poor Tates hold a barbecue. Leslie gets more creative in her efforts to kill Billy. Jessica accepts El Puerco's invitation to spend the night in his tent.
Hart to Hart
Season 2, Episode 5
Industrial espionage is a problem at Hartoy company. When the investigator Jonathan has hired is murdered, the Harts go undercover in an attempt to foil the crooks and save the company from financial destruction.
Happy Days
Season 8, Episode 6
On Christmas Eve, a terrible blizzard traps Howard and Joanie at the hardware store and Fonzie, Potsie, Chachi, Jenny, and Roger at Arnold's.
M*A*S*H
Season 9, Episode 5
Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret try to save the life of a critically injured solider so that his family won't think of Christmas as the day that their father died. Meanwhile, Winchester fulfills a family Christmas tradition but has trouble maintaining the anonymity required to keep it a truly charitable act. Even Klinger lends a hand.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Season 1, Episode 11
Franz goes to Reinhold and tells him he wants to get involved with Pums again. Reinhold still has his suspicions but Franz is allowed to assist the gang with a job. Mieze is upset that Franz is earning money because she thinks Franz wants to be independent of her, but Franz reassures her. Franz brags to Reinhold about Mieze’s devotion and decides to show him what a fine woman she is. In the apartment, Franz has Reinhold hide in the bed when Mieze arrives. She reveals she is in love with another man. Franz is angered and beats her cruelly, but Reinhold saves her and throws Franz out. Mieze goes out to Franz and the two reconcile, though she has been bloodied by him. Franz and Mieze take a trip outside Berlin, where he explains to her he simply wanted Reinhold to see a true woman.
