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- Breaking the fourth wall, Veronica introduces us to the types of guys that hang out at house parties, hitting on the girls who typically scorn them. Maybe this time, though, Veronica will finally meet someone who she might like to get to know a little better.
- This recording of a live concert performed at a folk club in San Francisco featuring popular songs European and American songs from past centuries to the present time. The album was originally conceived when British folk singer Richard Thompson was asked by "Playboy" magazine to provide a list of the top ten songs from the previous millennium. Thompson's list, which included songs dating back to the 1200s, was never published, but the artist decided to put together a concert that featured arrangements of many of those songs.
- The Armchair Historian lays out the reasons why the United States and its allies decided that regime change in Iraq was imperative, while the United Nations argued that diplomacy was a better solution. Despite massive protests against the coming invasion, the Coalition of the Willing launched air and land attacks that started with poor military intelligence causing condemnation throughout the world.
- Blake poses as a bank robber in order to infiltrate a gang who owns a number of hotels across the country to serve as hideouts after robberies.
- In 1803 in Hammersmith, a village then outside London, England, a ghostly apparition appeared in a church graveyard and frightened late night passersby. When a blunderbuss toting excise officer mistakenly shot a bricklayer dressed head to shoes in white was shot to death, his trial for murder began a nearly 200-year legal debate in the United Kingdom over what could be asserted as a valid self-defense justification for a charge of murder or manslaughter.
- 2020– 53mPodcast EpisodeThe tale of how a Russian expatriate, pretending to be royalty, managed to take control of the micro-nation of Andorra in 1934 and declared himself king, much to the joy of the locals, but not so much France and Spain who ruled the country in alternating years.
- Blake investigates when a prowler terrorizes a neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks.
- 2020– 51mPodcast EpisodeThe Casual Criminalist describes the career of serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who after escaping from jail in France where he was imprisoned for theft fled to South and Southeast Asia where he preyed on tourists, robbing and murdering them. Because several of his victims were wearing bathing suits, the newspapers called him "The Bikini Killer".
- 2020– 1h 1mPodcast EpisodeSimon discusses John Billington, one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, who in 1630 was convicted of murder and hanged in the Plymouth Colony and is considered the first murderer in America, or at least in an English North American colony.
- Cadet Happy is ordered to "meet and greet" two new cadets who are the scions of prominent members of the government. He takes an immediate interest in pretty Joan "Jo" Vance, but Ferris Macklin, the son of the governor of Triton, immediately expresses his discontent with being forced to join the Space Patrol. Their relationship is further strained when Macklin blames Happy for taking Corry's space cruiser through a meteor belt causing a crash landing when he, in fact, disobeyed Happy's orders concerning their course.
- An old woman gets the Nottingham villagers to breathe into bottles and then convinces them that she now possesses all their good luck and will sell the vials to the highest bidder. Little John believes the woman wholeheartedly because every move he makes causes him to run afoul of the sheriff and his men.
- Pat Garrett is wounded trying to prevent an express office robbery. His new deputy finds evidence that the shooter was his close friend, Billy the Kid. Billy swears he's innocent of the crime and flees the posse sent to arrest him so he can find the men who are trying to frame him for the crime.
- Madame Francine's girl immigrant cousin keeps being dragged back to a mysterious black freighter from China, The William Brown, supposedly only containing the finest silk. Reconstruction administrator Colton suspects smuggling, but lacks evidence so he assigns Derringer and Pahoo to use not-quite-legal methods to investigate, and to protect the adorable, pug-nosed Irish waif Gidget from being silenced.
- While visiting a friend of his father, the mayor of a small Indian village, Terry gets involved when a smooth-talking swindler sells the townsfolk to a broken down bus. Terry fixes the cut fuel line, but that's just the beginning of the vehicle's mechanical issues. With the assistance of Raji and the use of Maya's considerable strength and the villagers assistance, Terry sets about returning the bus to the crook.
- Mundy is ordered to attend a foreign film festival and steal the only copy of an avant-garde motion picture. The movie's director accidentally filmed eleven American spies making a drop at a location behind the Iron Curtain and if the film is premiered the agents will all soon be captured or dead.
- The spaceship piloted by Oscar, a friendly alien, crashes in Tommy's backyard and the two immediately strike up a friendship. Tommy introduces Oscar to his circle of friends: Professor Leonard, an eccentric scientist; Yucari, a formidable female martial arts practitioner and Peter, an aspiring musician. Yucari discovers Cesare, a villainous businessman, plans to turn the city park into a desert by killing all the plants with his special herbicide, then buying the property for next to nothing and turning it into a parking lot. Professor Leonard learns when music is played, the effects of the herbicide are spectacularly reversed, but when the crew is trapped in an abandoned tunnel, they may not be able to save the park before the mayor sells Caesar the deed.
- A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
- When Canarvin's clone manages to escape and disable the Academy's shields, Dragos orders an all-out attack, which causes the ship to hurtle out of control towards a star. Jason transforms a furry, speechless creature into its true shape - a lovely princess and the two manage to escape from Dragos' cells to a tiny planetoid that begins to disintegrate from the force of the Dragos' attack on the Academy.
- After defending his boxing title, Joe and the gang decide it's time to take a vacation, so they pack their bag and head for the mountains. While stopping for a picnic lunch, a pair of gunsels hijacks their station wagon at gunpoint, leaving the foursome to walk to the nearest farmhouse to phone the police. Unfortunately, the crooks have invaded the home and are waiting for the husband to return so they can kill him.
- While trying to ride a bucking bronco, Billy is thrown violently off the horse's back and smashes his head against a wooden post. Taken to Lincoln for medical examination, the doctor decides that Billy has a concussion and prescribes medicine to keep him unconscious for at least twelve hours. The medication has the opposite effect on Billy - worse, he barricades himself in the cantina, believing everyone in town is conspiring to hang him.
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- Roger Fane complements Laura Marshall, his step-daughter, on the way she kept tabs on Bill Kirby after he left the Channel Ferry and asks her to maintain contact. He explains that he fears that Kirby has learned something vital that could be put to use to the detriment of the British government if he chooses to pass it on the wrong hands. Kirby takes a leave of absence from the his job as an insurance salesman. After failing to make contact with the intelligence community using a go-between, he discovers a friend on a rural road with a bullet in the back of his head.
- Mike is hired to track down a man's missing girlfriend. The client tells Hammer that he just returned from South America, but his pasty complexion belies his claim of three years in the tropics. Hammer learns that the man is really an ex-con out on parole. Mike can understand his client hiding his criminal past, but what he really can't understand is why a powerful television anchor like Butler Tilton would hire an inept private eye like Andy Anderson to tail the former bank robber.
- A diamond dealer's offer to pay Lime an extra $100,000 if his rough diamond is properly cut sends Harry and Brad off to La Jolla, California in search of a retired gem cutter who used to be the best in the world. The cutter insists he has retired from the business, but the murder of an insurance investigator causes Harry to wonder if the old man has been blackmailed into recutting stolen gems.
- Mike and Alexandra's wedding ceremony is interrupted on several occasions by maritime disasters requiring Mike's rescue expertise. Chris misses his friends from his mother's previous posting in San Diego and takes out his unhappiness on Tom, his new stepfather.
- The estranged wife of a washed-up boxer returns to Gloribee to obtain custody of the couple's only child. Needing quick cash for legal fees, the boxer challenges the Frisco Kid, an up-and-coming pugilist, to a fight and wins, only to discover that the fight was fixed so that the Kid's crooked manager and his stooge could clean-up on side bets.
- While on their regular stagecoach run Simon and Davey Kane pick up a man walking by the road in the middle of nowhere. Their new passenger takes an unusual interest in their only cargo - a coffin. The Kanes soon learn that the man is the leader of an outlaw gang who plans to hold the contents of the coffin, the remains of a dead war hero, for ransom.
- Ten years after the events described in "Out of the Valley of Death", Asa Bennett is persuaded to join an expedition to find the Lost Gunsight Mine, a legendary vein of silver in the heart of Death Valley. Running low on water, the men decide to return to civilization, but when they awaken they discover Charley Alford is too drunk to walk. Leaving the old man to his one devices, Bennett and his other partner arrive safely, but when the old desert rat doesn't turn up two days later, the man who rescued Bennett, Wiillam Lewis Manley, insists that a rescue mission be undertaken.
- A badly wounded Republican courier manages to elude his pursuers and find Marco's studio.
- The winner of New Orleans' $100,000 lottery is murdered, but the lottery administrator is convinced he was the target of the gunmen. Yancy plots to force the killer to reveal who hired him and, hopefully, whether the lottery itself is really on the level by rounding up the Bourbon Street riffraff to act like a lynch mob.
- Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was really the ransom money to payoff kidnappers. When the woman who collected the ransom from Hammer is double-crossed, she tries to get revenge on her partner but is killed before she can meet with the private detective. Hammer investigates the dead woman's friends and co-workers to mete out his kind of justice upon the kidnapping murderer.
- A retired British officer hires China Smith to find the grave of his son who died a hero's death on Sumatra during World War II. Finding no one to guide him into the jungle area he needs to search, Smith creates a fake treasure map as a ruse to create interest in his search. Unfortunately, the guides he attracts are more interested in stealing his map than in searching the jungle for the missing war hero.
- 1955–196030mApproved7.3 (78)TV EpisodeNottingham's tax collectors find it harder and harder to collect the county's levied assessments. When the Sheriff of Nottingham decides to make an example of Will Stukely, a poor farmer who could not pay his taxes, by hanging him, Robin Hood determines to rescue the young man by tricking the Sheriff into leaving the walled town, capturing him and offering to save his life in exchange for the condemned man's.
- A wild bunch of cowboys ride into Lincoln, vowing to blow the town wide open. Because of a tragedy, Pat Garrett has turned in his badge. Can Billy convince Pat of his duty in time?
- After the murder of his wife and son by an escaped criminal Sheriff Matt Austin sets out to capture him only to find he's been hired by a greedy land baron seeking to take land from a widow and her son.
- Mike is hired to discretely investigate a series of attempts on the life of Carl Kunard, a successful building contractor, the most recent of which took place at the man's vacation lodge in upstate New York. Mike's suspects include Kunard's unhappy business partner, his trophy wife and his resentful son. Hammer's efforts are hindered by a fraternity pledge held in the lodge to escape the prying eyes of the university authorities.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.5 (69)TV EpisodeMaid Marian's absent father has arranged her marriage with the knight who saved her father's life. When Robin learns that the man to be Marian's husband cares only for her hefty dowry, he plans to break up the wedding by posing as a German knight who had earlier been promised her hand in marriage long ago, but never arrived to take the marriage vows.
- Cully kills a drunken rancher who threatened him in a saloon and is stricken with remorse. Rather than face the man's three brothers who ride into Velardi demanding revenge, Cully plans to slip out of town leaving Ringo to confront the men alone.
- Jamie Coburn, a member of Birch Morgan's notorious outlaw gang, agrees to turn himself in and help Wells Fargo capture the outlaw leader. Hardie allows the gunslinger to visit his ailing mother, but when Jamie returns home he learns his mother has died and his wife wants nothing to do with him in spite of the hefty reward Wells Fargo has paid for Jamie's assistance.
- Over the objections of Pat Garrett and the boy's father, Billy Bonney tries to teach the son of an alcoholic ex-lawman some of the gunslinger's craft that he's learned over the years. When the youngster is wounded in a gunfight that he provoked, the boy's father goes gunning for Billy.
- Saloon singer and town drunk Ossie Harper shows shyster lawyer Addison a land grant his father earned in 1859 deeding him the land on which Cimarron City was built. Ossie only wants to be respected, but his crooked partner's determined to bleed Cimarron City dry by extorting money from each businessman to allow them to remain on the land they've already developed.
- Two gunmen, escapees from Leavenworth Prison, hideout in a small Arizona town near the Arizona border after hiding their getaway car. As Marshal Morgan and his men close in, one of the criminals threatens his sister with scandal if she doesn't provide transportation to the Mexican border for he and his partner.
- A beautiful blonde with a syrupy Southern accent wants to hire the Brannigans to serve as bodyguards. When she refuses to reveal who is threatening her and the reasons for the threats, Bob is in favor of turning down her business, but Mike is smitten with the Dixie belle and agrees to provide 24/7 protection.
- When her daughter is abducted with no demand for ransom, an ex-hostage negotiator will do anything to find her.
- The U.S. Army plans to commandeer The Enterprise to launch a punitive expedition against the Indians and avenge the loss of Lieutenant Devereaux and his men. Frazer tries to convince the army brass that the local Indian agent and his men are the cause of the Indian uprising.
- Tired of the Sheriff of Nottingham's blundering, Prince John hires the three thieves to bring Robin Hood to justice. The thieves are only interested in robbing the villagers by pretending to be tax collectors. Robin decides that the Sheriff is the lesser of two evils and sets about to help the former sheriff capture the thieves red-handed.
- 1952–196630mTV-G6.6 (25)TV EpisodeA painting from Rick's past comes back into his life and causes contention between him and Kris.
- Adam Shepherd visits a Civil War museum commemorating the Centennial and is attracted to one of its artifacts, a pair of old boots. He imagines what the man who wore them felt during the battle. In his vision, he becomes a Confederate sergeant for a ceasefire with Union soldiers after a bloody battle to treat their wounded and bury their dead. The truce is violated by a Confederate private who covets a pair of boots worn by a Union soldier. The rebel sneaks into enemy lines, kills the Yankee and steals the boots only to discover the footwear of huge holes in their soles. Furious over the violation, the Yankees hurl themselves against the Confederate lines resulting in massive casualties for both sides.
- 1952–196626mTV-G8.5 (36)TV EpisodeThe fraternity wants to buy a piano for the Christmas party, and David and Rick meet a nice older couple with a piano they can afford.
- In 1956, a Hungarian family whose son is a prominent revolutionary leader must flee their country during their abortive revolt against the Soviet Union before the Russians can capture them and use them as hostages to force the son to surrender. The daughter stumbles across a group of smugglers who she confuses with the Three Magi of the Bible and enlists their help in their race to the Austrian border.