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- Though he looks to be in his forties, the man caught breaking into a research laboratory claims he's over 200 years old. He says he learned the secret formula for youth from the medicine man who raised him. The researchers find him to be sad and lonely, afraid to love someone because she will die of old age while he just keeps going.
- Detective Sam Cragg goes to meet a client in the "Little Serbia" section of the city and finds the man murdered. Everyone in the neighborhood lives in fear of the unseen C. W. Roberts, a mysterious loan shark who keeps the poor permanently in debt. Cragg sends a book to Roberts and watches to see who picks it up.
- Tex McCrary and wife Jinx Falkenburg host. Guests include folk singers The Weavers, vaudeville comics Smith and Dale, and trick golfer Jack Redmond. Milton DeLugg is bandleader, Wayne Howell the announcer, Bob Stanton does commercials, and Radcliffe Hall delivers a 5-minute newscast.
- Elderly country lawyer Samuel Putnam is spitting' mad when his client, Agatha Wentworth, loses her motor court to the deed-holders, the Denhams. Putnam declares he'd rather see the place burn than that couple get their hands on it. It does burn and Putnam is wanted for arson. Maris works to clear his old friend of the charge.
- While taking the subway home from the Stork Club, a musician is detained by police for a robbing a loan office. One of the clerks identifies him as the criminal and he's eventually sentenced to jail. It is only through the determination of his lawyer that he is finally freed.
- In World War II Italy, Count Montressor has watched with horror as his former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general. In the process, General Fortanato has murdered the Count's sister and stolen his wife. Knowing the General plans to murder him, Count Montressor lures him into the palace's catacombs to taste the rare cask of Amontillado he has procured.
- Wanting to catch other criminals, the British secret service gains the release of a counterfeiter who's dropped into France. He is to produce bills that contain a tiny flaw to be used to pay off the suspected double-dealers. With the plan a success, the ex-con is free to go. Following the war, the counterfeiter disappears and authorities find two perfect plates. Clearly, he couldn't resist the temptation to print a little for himself
- Vickie spends her first day ever at a horse racing track.
- 1965–197130mTV-G7.9 (77)TV EpisodeThe law office of Douglas and Williams is open for business, even though the sign has Oliver Mendell Douglas (later Oliver Wendell Wilkie Holmes) listed as a partner. Unqualified secretary Lisa destroys an office typewriter before having the new phone connected to a fire alarm "clanger." Later, to boost business, she advertises a grand opening special with free prizes and discount law services.
- A professional stage pick-pocket has fallen on hard times, unable to get a booking since he developed arthritis in his hands. Desperate for money, he puts his skills to work on the general public, but his conscience won't let him actually keep their money. Then suddenly, good things start coming his way.
- Herb Maris travels to Paris to close a merger deal with a corporate client and Lt. Weston goes along to learn from Interpol. When his client can't be found, Herb suspects foul play and notifies the French police. Meanwhile, he and Weston discover the missing man's last known whereabouts: a restaurant run by an American.
- The man renovating an 1800s opera house in Carthage, MO is suffering with paranormal trouble. He reports seeing a ghostly woman, hearing footsteps, and being shoved down a staircase. His employees also report ghostly sightings. The team hears music from the basement and talks with an entity using an EMF meter. Next, TAPS travels to Fairfield County, CT, to help the Eberlin family. Their kids are terrified by being scratched, dishes being thrown, voices, and visits by a spirit. The investigators experience some of the reported activities.
- Thomas Sullivan is a respected heart surgeon who clamors for even more recognition. He has the chance to perform a heart transplant on a fellow man of science when a laborer, killed in an automobile accident, is brought in. That man isn't quite as dead as he appears, but Sullivan takes his heart nonetheless and transplants it. Events take an eerie turn when the donor's body disappears and Sullivan begins getting unsettling phone calls.
- Pam buys an old trunk at an auction and is immediately approached by a woman who offers her big money for it. Mrs. North digs in her heels and refuses to sell. When the trunk is delivered to the North home, it contains corpse--the body of the woman who'd desperately tried to buy it earlier.
- A young suburban family, The Macaulays, gets to work on beautifying their yard. Mom Liz draws up plans for what goes where while husband Arthur stocks up on gardening tools. After dirt samples are analyzed by the county agent, the nursery supplies them with the right mixture of soil conditioners. Working on their rose bed, they add peat moss and fertilizer along with bushes. Gladiola bulbs and seeds for other flowers are planted elsewhere. Their son takes part in the fun.
- Tired of living in a dump, Lisa demands some serious home improvements. Oliver fires the Monroe brothers and hires an architect to draw up plans. Renovations come to a screeching halt thanks to the Monroes' picket line and famous Hootervillian Rutherford B. Skrug.
- After a friendly doe wanders onto the farm, Lisa starts a drive to ban deer hunting. When the governor arrives in Hooterville for the start of hunting season, Lisa presents him with her petition. He threatens Oliver and Lisa with jail time because her petition promises everyone who signed it a one-hundred dollar payment.
- Oliver plans to leave Eleanor with Mr. Cowan's bull Dudley so she'll birth a calf and start giving milk again. Lisa complicates matters when she wants to make sure Eleanor has a good "husband" with bright prospects. No bull that Lisa meets seems good enough to marry her "daughter."
- Irritated by complaints and about how much money he's losing, Oliver raises the rates at the Hooterville Phone Company. His top priority, however, is getting the Monroe brothers to connect his own phone inside the house. In the kitchen, Lisa discovers the magic of Dee Dee's Dehydrated Dinners. Just drop a bag into boiling water and out comes a full meal and a bottle of wine.
- Story of a woman who is competing as a business executive in a man's world.
- Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first. An evening out with his wife to watch their oldest daughter star in "Romeo and Juliet" becomes a disaster when a panicked new mother interrupts the balcony scene with a silly phone call.
- A married out-of-towner is set up for a mugging in Central Park by a sexy young woman he'd only met that day. Wanting his stolen briefcase back and his name out of the newspapers, the cheating husband comes to Mike for help. Ellen Robbins, who's still on probation, is running the mugging scam with her boyfriend and another thug. Matters turn deadly when she returns the briefcase for $1000 bucks and doesn't cut her cohorts in on the extra money.
- Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.
- A nightclub singer fears she's marked for death. The racketeer she testified against vowed to have her murdered if he "got the chair" and it's the night of his execution. Despite being watched over by a plainclothes policeman, she's foolish to believe everyone is looking out for her well being.
- Oliver is invited to New York to be the guest speaker at a Harvard alumni banquet but he arrives with an unexpected stowaway. Meanwhile, the Ziffels fear that they'll lose Arnold to Mr. Haney, who's trying to take the pig in lieu of a debt that he claims the Ziffels owe him.
- A man who is stressed over the affairs of his business walks out and goes on a surreal train ride to the nonexistent town of Meadbrook.
- Cocky newspaper reporter Turk Wilson has made it clear in articles and in person that he believes druggist Max Hensig murdered his wife. When Hensig is acquitted, he puts Wilson on notice that there are many undetectable ways to kill a man. Wilson's swagger turns to panic when a fellow reporter who borrowed his coat dies from a drug-resistant strain of flu.
- Criminals rob a jewelry store in Chicago and stash their haul in a grain bin. The expensive gems end up packed in boxes of Crickly Wickly cereal shipped to Hooterville. Lisa knows real jewels when she sees them, but Oliver's sure they're just costume. After taking them to be appraised, the sheriff arrests Oliver for the jewelry store heist.
- Lisa gives yet another conflicting version of how she and Oliver met. She tells Lori that she was sharing a Paris apartment with her father, the deposed King of Hungary. While he was scheming his return to power, Lisa was a waitress at a sidewalk café when Oliver Douglas stopped by for six bottles of champagne. The King wants her to marry a baron who can bankroll his army, but Lisa is in love with the penniless American.
- On this episode of Ghost Hunters, TAPS heads to Derby, Connecticut to investigate one of the country's oldest Opera houses, the Sterling Opera House.
- A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. Knowing Sonnett has vision problems, he challenges the lawman to a duel.
- 1965–197130mTV-G8.2 (112)TV EpisodeArnold's performance as a British police dog in the Hooterville theater production of "Who"--the marquee wasn't big enough for "Who Killed Jock Robin?"--turns him into an overnight star. Lisa is so impressed, she arranges for an old friend to give him a Hollywood screen test. After the locals stage a telethon to raise money for the trip, the Douglases are soon escorting the hammy actor West for his big showbiz break.
- 1965–197130mTV-G8.4 (107)TV EpisodeOliver and Lisa chaperon Arnold to Hollywood for his screen test. Producer Boris Fedor isn't interested in the pig; he's just using him to pressure a greedy horse to come back to work. When the horse's agent balks, the publicity machine starts promoting Arnold as the studio's next big star. A stunned Oliver, who came along for laughs, can't believe what he's witnessing.
- The star of a theater group, an aging Lothario with several marriages to his credit, falls for a younger actress in the cast. After meeting her family, he realizes that his past will stand in the way of their happiness. He pretends to romance one of his ex-wives so the girlfriend will be able to dump him.
- "Famous pig lawyer" Oliver Douglas arrives in Chicago with Lisa and Eb to prove Arnold's the rightful heir to a $20,000,000 Birnbach pork fortune. While Arnold is given the royal treatment by the hotel staff, the Douglases are brushed aside as persona non grata and shoved into a room the size of a closet. At the lawyers' meeting to claim the money, Arnold's tail makes the ridiculous prediction of snow in July. The red carpet is suddenly rolled up and they're all given the bum's rush out of the hotel.
- First stop is the abandoned Elizabeth V. Edwards Elementary School in New Jersey, said to be haunted by its namesake. Ms. Edwards has been sighted roaming the halls; lights glow even though bulbs have been removed. Next are three buildings making up the old Clay County (Florida) courthouse and jail. The TAPS team captures convincing audio and video evidence, and Amy is scratched on her arm.
- Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, Henry sends out announcements saying Carol has unexpectedly died on an American trip. A friend of Carol's finds this suspicious and goes to Scotland Yard, forcing Henry and his secretary to hop a boat incognito and head across the Atlantic.
- Maris is out West checking property for a client when he's joined by Lt. Weston, sent to investigate a possible scam involving a worthless mine. The two head to Lost Star, Nevada (population 30) and learn from the old coot sheriff that the mine's owner was murdered. The lawmen try to uncover the killer among the town's residents.
- Bill is infatuated with his sexy blonde co-worker Alice, but she remains cool to his advances. Hoping he can control her, Bill confronts Alice with his knowledge of her embezzling, but she also has proof of his questionable bookkeeping. Bill's obsession leads him to investigates her background and he comes to believe she's the dame wanted for the murder of a Chicago mobster.
- Disaster looms in the threat of a power plant failure.
- Alf and Ralph announce that they are finally going to finish the Douglas' bedroom, but the project stalls when the "brothers" have a fight. Lisa hires Ralph as their maid and Oliver can't bring himself to fire her when he discovers she's a good cook.
- Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.
- Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death. Knowing he'll be the prime suspect when Leo doesn't check in with his parole officer, Georgie goes in search of an airtight alibi. Desperate, he turns to the wife he'd walked out on earlier. Despite her cooperation, Georgie is undone by a delivery boy bringing a giant sucker from Leo.
- The TAPS team investigates the Midwest Railway Preservation Society in Cleveland, OH. Employees who work with the rail cars report voices, shadows, and other disturbing activity. One man who purchased a restored car claims his came with a ghost. The team focuses on the infamous "Death Car" in which 26 people were killed by scalding steam and water in the 1940s.
- In 1880s London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saintly man. An otherworldly visitor who knows Markheim intimately informs him that he will never change his evil ways and therefore should kill again.
- This annual live presentation of the opera is telecast in color on this series. Amahl, a disabled young peasant boy, tells his widowed mother that he's just seen a magnificent star in the sky. Soon, there's a knock at their door. Three kings on a long journey arrive at their door asking for a place to rest. They are carrying with them gifts to present to the Christ Child. Wanting to send a gift, but being very poor, Amahl has only his crutch to give.
- At the Brunswick Old City Hall, employees believe the building is haunted by an officer who was murdered by a man he was taking into custody. Reports include full-bodied apparitions and voices. Amy and Adam hold an extended conversation with a spirit using flashlights. Next, TAPS travels to an old textile mill from the days before child labor and safety laws. People report being touched, hearing screams, and seeing human figures.
- The car carrying cultured Geoffrey, brutish Claude and eligible Kay swerves off a cliff and into a mysterious valley. Surprised by the weird vegetation and climate, they come to believe they've traveled back in time 50,000 years. An encounter with an unfriendly caveman results in all three being held captive in the wild man's cave.
- A beautiful old inn that was once part of the Underground Railroad is investigated by TAPS to determine whether the 150th anniversary to the end of the Civil War could be stirring spirits and more.
- 1950–1953TV EpisodeKen Murray's guests are actress Ann Rutherford, band leader Kay Kyser, adagio dancers Les Zoris, George M. Cohan, Jr., and the West Point Cadet Color Guard with regulars Darla Hood, the Enchanters, Oswald, and pitchman Nelson Case. Ann Rutherford does a take-off on her old movie series with Murray playing Andy Hardy. Les Zoris do a jungle dance between a hunter and a leopard. Murray leads an extended tribute to West Point. Kyser joins in a tribute to the late George M. Cohan with Cohan's son portraying his late father.