Diagnosis Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan is a doctor at Community General Hospital, and he is a consultant for the police department. His son Steve Sloan is a detective for the department. He and his father, along with emergency room resident Dr. Jesse Travis and Dr. Amanda Bentley, who is the pathologist at the hospital help to solve some very strange murder cases in Diagnosis Murder.

Cast

• Dick Van Dyke
• Charlie Schlatter
• Victoria Rowell
• Barry Van Dyke
• Michael Tucci
• Scott Baio
• Delores Hall
• Anne Lockhart
• Arye Gross
• Harry Lennix
• Joanna Cassidy
• Shane Van Dyke
• Kim Little

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Miracle Cure
  When a man says in confessional he knows Father Morrissey has 'sinned', the priest takes a gun from ...
• Episode 2: Amnesia
  Mark is eager take some vacation; his son, Steve, isn't holding his breath to go fishing together as...
• Episode 3: Murder at the Telethon
  Since the hospital board decided that the ER is to shut down unless $100,000 is raised, Norman decid...
• Episode 4: Inheritance of Death
  Retired wine tycoon patient Jonathan Nash, Mark's second cousin and 93 year-old, pledges his entire ...
• Episode 5: The 13 Million Dollar Man
  Longtime patient and friend Dale Harlan stumbles into ER and tells Mark to get something from his le...
• Episode 6: Vanishing Act: Part One
  When Detective Steve Sloan reports to Internal Affairs agent Lloyd Schroeder his well-founded suspic...
• Episode 7: Vanishing Act: Part Two
  Mark Sloane was scared out of his wits when Tommy Rafonte and an armed goon took him without asking ...
• Episode 8: Shanda's Song
  Dr. Jesse Travis: Hey, look at that, a message.::Detective Steve Sloan: I know.::Dr. Jesse Travis: W...
• Episode 9: The Restless Remains
  Mark tries rollerskating, even to work now his car doesn't start again. Then he tries a traditional ...
• Episode 10: Murder with Mirrors
  Eddie Clark brings Mark Soan tickets for his last show in the Magic Mansion with his traitorous part...
• Episode 11: Flashdance with Death
  Shortly after he had a shouting match when his partner Sammy Garrett, who lacked the money to buy hi...
• Episode 12: Reunion with Murder
  Amanda and several of her wealthy, professionally successful college friends are invited to a dorm r...
• Episode 13: Lily
  At a riding stables Dr Marc is asked if he can ride a horse - His reply: "Only the merry-go-round ty...
• Episode 14: Guardian Angel
  When LA mayor George Ridgeway's wife Lauren recognizes Benjamin Strand in the audience at a fund rai...
• Episode 15: Nirvana
  Chet Brooks, a born charmer, bright, attractive, witty, works in Nirvana spa and has a girl on every...
• Episode 16: Broadcast Blues
  When young prison doctor Dr. Tom Harvey gets his former mentor, Dr. Mark Sloan, to treat convict Pau...
• Episode 17: Shaker
  A relatively severe earthquake causes a mess, including in Community General, many people crash give...
• Episode 18: The Plague
  While staking mob hitman Bruno Crespi in his hotel room, Steve observes he has medical symptoms for ...
• Episode 19: Sister Michael Wants You
  The title comes from the World War I and World War II recruitment posters showing the picture of Unc...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Many Happy Returns
  D. Sloan is terribly nervous about an IRS audit, sees 'sloppiness' everywhere, and leaves a 'death t...
• Episode 2: A Very Fatal Funeral
  Chairman Elton Malone drops dead from the fast poison on an envelope he licks claiming it contains p...
• Episode 3: Woman Trouble
  Dr. Mark Sloane gets suspicious when his patient Robert Stanton, a businessman, doesn't show up for ...
• Episode 4: The Busy Body
  After a birthday dinner with the boys -even Norman, who rushes off early to greet a hospital accredi...
• Episode 5: My Four Husbands
  Pamela Dorn, the 'Queen of the Jungle' TV series star who desperately wanted to follow in her mother...
• Episode 6: Murder Most Vial
  Corporate multimillionaire William P. Bissell slaps Community General with a frightening lawsuit for...
• Episode 7: You Can Call Me Johnson
  The title comes from a comic routine performed by 'Bill Saluga' (qv) of the Ace Trucking Company com...
• Episode 8: Georgia on My Mind
  The title is based on the song "Georgia on My Mind" with lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by 'Hoag...
• Episode 9: The Last Laugh: Part One
  The title is based on the old saying: He who laughs last, laughs best....
• Episode 10: The Last Laugh: Part Two
  The title is based on the old saying: He who laughs last, laughs best....
• Episode 11: Death by Extermination
  As soon as she arrives in L.A., Mark remembers why he was happy not to see his sister Dora for years...
• Episode 12: Standing Eight Count
  The title refers to a boxing referee practice where he can stop the fight and give a still standing ...
• Episode 13: The Bela Lugosi Blues
  Dr. Jack Stewart has been forced by Norman's duty roster-blackmail to 'represent the field of medici...
• Episode 14: The New Healers
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• Episode 15: Call Me Incontestable
  The title is a parody of the song "Call Me Irresponsible" composed by 'Jimmy Van Heusen' (qv), with ...
• Episode 16: A Blast from the Past
  Steve gets a 'friendly' visit from Eddie Gault, a wife-killer he put away, who just finished his pri...
• Episode 17: Playing for Keeps
  Norman takes pride in a Community General sponsorship contract with his second cousin's women's voll...
• Episode 18: Sea No Evil
  Agent Gretchen McCord: I've never been able to stand the sight of blood.::Dr. Mark Sloan: And that d...
• Episode 19: How to Murder Your Lawyer
  Arnold Baskin, Steve's timid evening law course professor, is suddenly the target of a hit and run. ...
• Episode 20: Naked Babes
  Amanda surprised the gang plus Norman hosting a dinner party, when her high-pregnant friend Angela P...
• Episode 21: Death in the Daytime
  In a raffle, Amanda won a 'walk-on' guest appearance on the soap The Young and the Restless. Everybo...
• Episode 22: My Baby Is Out of This World
  Psychiatrist Max Frye asks Mark's help convincing his patient, Tara Sampson, that she isn't pregnant...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: An Innocent Murder
  Teenager Ashley York murders her surprised sick father Arthur by fixing his Deprosine pills to an ov...
• Episode 2: Witness to Murder
  A forest ranger finds little Blair at night in a home-trailer on protected, rarely patrolled land, h...
• Episode 3: All American Murder
  While his blind beach-house neighbor Leo Pepper sees Vicki Fox just as a foxy jogger, Mark notices s...
• Episode 4: Murder in the Courthouse
  While Mark is on jury duty -slacking according to Norman, as doctors can excuse themselves-, defendi...
• Episode 5: Murder on the Run
  George Edward Karn is arrested, having been seen looking over the banister of the high-tower gym roo...
• Episode 6: Murder on the Run: Part II
  Detective Steve Sloan: [to the Bad Guy] Take the gun off my father or I'll take your head off your s...
• Episode 7: Love Is Murder
  Steve's new girl-friend, traveling reporter Lynn Conklin, shoots another lover, uniformed LAPD offic...
• Episode 8: Misdiagnosis Murder
  Tycoon Gregory King is admitted in Community General by Mark's fellow army veteran Dr. Ed Quiller. J...
• Episode 9: The Pressure to Murder
  After watching him play rugby, Amanda sees intern Troy Sommers crash to his death with his motorbike...
• Episode 10: Living on the Streets Can Be Murder
  A homeless woman's corpse is found in the streets, but her liver was removed while she was still ali...
• Episode 11: Murder Murder
  At a party where he gave his younger wife Jennifer a black Viper sports car, Bill Stratton is called...
• Episode 12: Murder in the Dark
  Dr. Claire Hartman is extremely hostile towards a friend of Mark's, specialist Dr. John Foster, whom...
• Episode 13: 35 Millimeter Murder
  While high-pregnant Amanda's hormones turn her into the most unreasonable spoiled bitch, father Coli...
• Episode 14: The Murder Trade
  The board has given ruthless business-bitch Marsha McArthur authority to downsize Community General....
• Episode 15: Mind Over Murder
  Per the title, the term "Mind Over Matter" was used in reference to paranormal phenomena such as ext...
• Episode 16: Murder by the Book
  At the L.A. book signing session for "Munchies, Snacks and Spreads", which Mark mistook for a cookbo...
• Episode 17: FMurder
  While Mark is the cooking guest that week in her daily healthy housekeeping show, TV host Kitti Lynn...
• Episode 18: Left-Handed Murder
  Just when Jesse takes a now unamused girlfriend yachting, the harbor master brings in a shark who sw...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Murder by Friendly Fire
  Per the title, friendly fire occurs when soldiers, police officers or security offerers are mistaken...
• Episode 2: Murder Can Be Contagious
  While surfing, Jesse finds a dying man on Venice beach; Mark knows the symptoms from Guatemala, 1953...
• Episode 3: Murder on Thin Ice
  Figure-skating athlete Julie Miller is able to avoid serious injuries when attacked with a knife by ...
• Episode 4: X Marks the Murder: Part 1
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• Episode 5: X Marks the Murder: Part 2
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• Episode 6: A Model Murder
  P.I. Ray Donovan is murdered at his desk by a disguised woman. Best man Jessie's frat buddy Rick 'Sl...
• Episode 7: Murder Can Be Murder
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• Episode 8: An Explosive Murder
  Just when Mark posts his tax return, a nearby milk truck explodes; luckily he has no serious injurie...
• Episode 9: Murder by the Busload
  Steve had bought expensive Laker floor tickets for him and dad Mark that evening, but a traffic acci...
• Episode 10: A Candidate for Murder
  U.S. Senator Terrence Bell's daughter Melanie Bell collapses after being thrown out an electoral din...
• Episode 11: The ABC's of Murder
  While Amanda and her friend visit an ethnically widely mixed school, a driving-by car fires at a cla...
• Episode 12: Murder in the Family
  Mark is pleasantly surprised by a Christmas time visit from his daughter Carol Sloan Hilton after ei...
• Episode 13: In Defense of Murder
  Former nurse Mary Capshaw is the director, in fact fund raising soul, of Community General's childre...
• Episode 14: A History of Murder
  When Norman ceremonially knocks down a piece of wall at the inauguration of a Community General expa...
• Episode 15: Murder Two
  Stuntwoman Paula McCarthy was found beaten to death in an L.A. hotel-room. Her husband Barry McCarth...
• Episode 16: Murder Two: Part Two
  While poor innocent Jessie still shivers in jail, Ben and Mark sleuth on. They assume Debbie's now a...
• Episode 17: Hard-Boiled Murder
  The episode "Hard-Boiled Murder" (episode 4.17) is actually a sequel to an episode of _"Mannix" (196...
• Episode 18: Murder, Country Style
  At the All-stars Country Awards in L.A., Mark is grateful singing patient Dusty's guest, with Amanda...
• Episode 19: Delusions of Murder
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• Episode 20: A Passion for Murder
  When her separated lover and predecessor as local rep, David 'Dave' Chambers, who just got promoted ...
• Episode 21: Blood Brothers Murder
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• Episode 22: Physician, Murder Thyself
  The title is from "Physician, heal thyself" a biblical proverb found in Luke 4:23....
• Episode 23: Murder in the Air
  The airplane Mark and Amanda are taking for a medical conference in Zurich (Switzerland) is delayed ...
• Episode 24: The Merry Widow Murder
  The title is based on the operetta 'The Merry Widow' by composer Franz Lehar....
• Episode 25: Comedy Is Murder
  Tim Conrad, the clumsy half of a once legendary TV comedy duo, fails to kill his ex-partner Harvey H...
• Episode 26: The Murder of Mark Sloan
  The Sloans fear for Mark's life after the escape of Sam Rosser who vowed revenge since Mark got him ...
• Season 5
• Episode 1: Murder Blues
  Steven and fellow LAPD Detectives Halloran and Stang, who are partners, find Councilman Watson, whom...
• Episode 2: Open and Shut
  When David McReynolds feels his flirt Allison Porter is too cumbersome and unwilling to stay out of ...
• Episode 3: Malibu Fire
  When a forest fire rages near Malibu, the Community General mobile team and voluntary firefighter St...
• Episode 4: Deadly Games
  Former cop turned bodyguard Frank Waldeck arranges a murder attempt on his filthy rich employer Vict...
• Episode 5: Slam Dunk Dead
  Jesse proudly serves as the LA Mustangs basketball team doctor during filming for a commercial, but ...
• Episode 6: Looks Can Kill
  When Jesse's young patient in fine condition dies just after jogging, her supplier, a certain Marco ...
• Episode 7: Fatal Impact - Part One
  Mark and Amanda participate in the emergency plan at its grimmest: examining with the National Trans...
• Episode 8: Fatal Impact - Part Two
  Scenes showing Amanda in bed with Ron Wagner were edited from syndicated airings on more conservativ...
• Episode 9: Must Kill TV
  The title refers to the "Must See TV" slogan used by NBC to advertise it's various nights of televis...
• Episode 10: Discards
  Jesse's dad Dane Travis fights of an assaulter with amazing ease, then turns up in Jesse's flat unan...
• Episode 11: A Mime Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  The title is based on the advertising slogan for the United Negro College Fund: A mind is a terrible...
• Episode 12: Down and Dirty Dead
  Mark and Jesse are both impressed but a bit worried when joining Steve whose young friend Jake Hallm...
• Episode 13: Retribution
  At the beginning of the episode, Sgt. Archer tells Police Chief Masters ('Fred Dryer (I)' (qv)) "It ...
• Episode 14: Retribution: Part Two
  Mark, framed for the murders on mob king Gonza and a police informer from his entourage, is on death...
• Episode 15: Drill for Death
  In this episode there are five actor/actresses from M*A*S*H. Two from the movie (Elliot Gould and Sa...
• Episode 16: Rain of Terror
  The title refers to the French Revolution that was known historically as the Reign of Terror when th...
• Episode 17: Baby Boom
  Mark gets a call from Amanda that her child birthing class -not the autopsy expert's field of expert...
• Episode 18: Talked to Death
  When Darrin Tate is brought into Community General for a heart attack after his co-host Mary Montgom...
• Episode 19: An Education in Murder
  Noelle Andrew enjoys sadistically manipulating her fellow Norrington Hall private school students so...
• Episode 20: Murder at the Finish Line
  When former racer Steve presents lay fan Jesse to his favorite team Eagin, star driver Matt Thomas h...
• Episode 21: First Do No Harm
  The title refers to the Latin phrase "primum non nocere" which translates as "First, do no harm" and...
• Episode 22: Promises to Keep
  When Steve has a murder victim identified, Ryan Matthews is relieved it's 'only' the room mate of hi...
• Episode 23: Food Fight
  Cynthia Bennett: I'm sorry, I don't have time for this meeting after all.::Dr. Jesse Travis: What me...
• Episode 24: Obsession
  Just after the execution of Louis Sweeney, the serial Sunnyview bomber who got arrested thanks to Ma...
• Episode 25: Obsession: Part Two
  Now that he and his friends are discredited and professionally hurt, Mark figures out how the geogra...
• Season 6
• Episode 1: Resurrection: Part One
  Now the murderous Sweeney vengeance against LA has taken the form of Carter's sister Caitlin bombing...
• Episode 2: Resurrection: Part Two
  As the owner's divorce caused the founding owner of their favorite barbecue restaurant to let the bu...
• Episode 3: Till Death Do Us Part
  Gold digger Philip Cobler and his bride Cindy Garrett were confident their carefully planned murder ...
• Episode 4: Wrong Number
  After Mark has listened to the phone recording for the umpteenth time, Steve tells him that the tech...
• Episode 5: Blood Will Out
  When Amanda prepares for an autopsy on another of the victims of a mass shooting with a bullet in hi...
• Episode 6: Alienated
  6 actors in this episode about aliens have appeared in Star Trek. Walter Koenig, George Takei, Will ...
• Episode 7: Write, She Murdered
  When murder novelist Kay Ludlow has writer's block she stabs her agent to death just after his tirad...
• Episode 8: Rear Windows '98
  Late at night Amanda witnesses on-line on 'Joannecam' the star stab-murder by a masked man who looks...
• Episode 9: The Last Resort
  The LAPD teams up Steve with his former training officer Det. Reggie Ackroyd, who keeps blaming a mu...
• Episode 10: Murder x 4
  After catching several murderers without apparent motive nor either criminal or psycho profile, Stev...
• Episode 11: Dead in the Water
  The title refers to a boat or watercraft that no longer has an ability to move due to engine problem...
• Episode 12: Trapped in Paradise
  Dr. Jesse Travis: All those times you dragged me into doing police work, all those times I stood fac...
• Episode 13: Voices Carry
  Detective Steve Sloan: Get me some bacon and eggs will you Jess::Dr. Jesse Travis: You can get them ...
• Episode 14: Murder, My Suite
  When Mark and Jesse accompany Amanda to her award in forensic pathology, Alex Vander crashes on thei...
• Episode 15: Murder on the Hour
  When several patients and the unpopular ER resident Dr. Mason, who acted erratic since a grave accid...
• Episode 16: Rescue Me
  The title comes from the song "Rescue Me" written by Raynard Miner and Carl Smith....
• Episode 17: Down Among the Dead Men
  When Mark and Amanda twist Steve -who receives the first of several letters quoting the penal code o...
• Episode 18: Never Say Die
  The title is common British expression meaning "Don't ever give up, do not despair" which dates back...
• Episode 19: Trash TV - Part One
  An unusual patient in Community general is the "Masked Magician", who reveals magic tricks in highly...
• Episode 20: Trash TV - Part Two
  While Kent Beudine presents a cynical show on the horror gripping Hollywood after two TV celebrity m...
• Episode 21: Blood Ties
  Pimp Milton Wilder is shot in an alley by women. An embezzled businessman who finds his partner also...
• Episode 22: Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of My Life
  The title is a parody of the common optimistic expression, "today is the first day of the rest of my...
• Season 7
• Episode 1: The Roast
  The day Dr. Mark Sloane is to be 'honor' as Man of the Year at the Roast, where comedians makes merc...
• Episode 2: Sleeping Murder
  Dick Van Dyke's brother, Jerry Van Dyke, plays Dr. Mark Sloan's brother, Stacey Sloan. In the "Dick ...
• Episode 3: Bringing Up Barbie
  Now Susan his run off to Oregon with a chiropractor, Jesse suffers babysitting Amanda's rascal CJ. M...
• Episode 4: Murder at Midterm
  When bright med student Quinn Montgomery, whose formerly rich family from Miami was ruined, learns d...
• Episode 5: The Flame
  While Jesse is jogging he sees smoke coming out of a garage, breaks the door but is too late to save...
• Episode 6: The Killer Within
  Dr. Madison Wesley asks Mark to help Lisa, her great love's daughter, whom she found OD'd, into a pr...
• Episode 7: Gangland: Part One
  It is revealed that Amanda was a foster-child. 'Victoria Rowell' (qv), who played Amanda, was a fost...
• Episode 8: Gangland: Part Two
  It is revealed that Amanda was a foster-child. 'Victoria Rowell' (qv), who played the character, was...
• Episode 9: The Mouth That Roared
  Mouthy star-radio presenter Denise Steiner declared on a TV show 'in jest' she would have to kill he...
• Episode 10: The Seven Deadly Sins
  The title refers to The Seven Deadly Sins or The Cardinal Sins that have been considered immoral sin...
• Episode 11: Santa Claude
  Claude Campbell, the hospital's janitor, is looking forward to play Santa Clause again, but Mark dia...
• Episode 12: Man Overboard
  Mark accepts a friend's invitation for a 'free' cruise splitting the medical duties with Jesse and A...
• Episode 13: Frontier Dad
  The whole gang, plus Alex Smith and Amanda's rascals, is invited to observe the shooting of an episo...
• Episode 14: Too Many Cooks
  The title is based on the common English expression, "too many cooks spoil the broth."...
• Episode 15: Jake's Women
  The title refers to the play "Jake's Women" by 'Neil Simon (I)' (qv) which opened at the Neil Simon ...
• Episode 16: Murder by Remote
  In this episode Mark has home movies of Steve as a baby. The home movies are actually 'Barry Van Dyk...
• Episode 17: Teacher's Pet
  Mark and Steve go fishing; when they return they find med student Mickey Hoving, who was house-sitti...
• Episode 18: The Unluckiest Bachelor in L.A.
  Despite his clumsy and willful appearance, his honesty gets Steve picked in a TV dating program by c...
• Episode 19: A Resting Place
  Steve's retired colleague Dave 'Hawk' Hawkins is murdered undercover in resting home Sunny Meadows w...
• Episode 20: Murder at BBQ Bob's
  While US Marines Captain Paul Davis, Lieutenant Richard Martinelli -an MP- and Lt. Col. Sally MacPhe...
• Episode 21: Two Birds with One Sloan
  Among the questions Dr. Mark Sloan answers while on "Through the Roof," one references the musical "...
• Episode 22: Swan Song
  Patient: Have you actually graduated from medical school yet?::Dr. Jesse Travis: Oh no, my mom just ...
• Episode 23: Out of the Past
  When a girl cop is brought in wounded, Jesse patches her up and dates her, but as Amanda finds and b...
• Episode 24: Getting Mad, Getting Even
  Two weeks later, Brett Hayward murders Dr. Hjortsberg, the plastic surgeon who created his present i...
• Season 8
• Episode 1: Death by Design
  Kendra Masterson commits -we see so- elaborately planned crimes, using her lover Jake Myers as muscl...
• Episode 2: Blind Man's Bluff
  The title references a childhood game played with a blindfold....
• Episode 3: Sleight-of-Hand
  Mark is having a hard time preparing for a magic show for the child patients- first he misplaces the...
• Episode 4: By Reason of Insanity
  The title is a line of defense used in a court trial for capital offenses that insists that the accu...
• Episode 5: The Patient Detective
  Steve is rushed to hospital; Jesse operates him just fine, but while still under narcotic influence ...
• Episode 6: The Cradle Will Rock
  Community General's bright ER nurse Stacy Bradshaw's husband Derek is shot dead while hunting- it wa...
• Episode 7: Hot House
  Steve and especially Mark Sloane watch the reality show Hothouse because med student Alex Smith, the...
• Episode 8: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die
  The title refers to the common expression "All dressed up and nowhere to go" after one's evening pla...
• Episode 9: Confession
  Father Dominic, the only priest on duty that night in the monastery where Amanda is having a retreat...
• Episode 10: Playing God
  No whodunit, this episode. Hunter Kaskov, a gifted med student, has for a while been playing with fr...
• Episode 11: Less Than Zero
  Mark Sloane treats actress Thalia Roselawn who faints during filming in the hospital, and later witn...
• Episode 12: Sins of the Father
  A sniper kills Julie Langford Adams during her consultation with Mark Sloane, but wasn't he more lik...
• Episode 13: Sins of the Father: Part 2
  Surviving sister Carrie Langford Adams helps nurse beaten-up Steve at Marks place. Mark believes Jos...
• Episode 14: You Bet Your Life
  Cardiologist Dr. Simon Hodiak is addicted to gambling and out of friends to borrow from; when his lo...
• Episode 15: Bachelor Fathers
  Grace Boyd is approached by two sinister men who threaten her and her baby Casey unless she helps th...
• Episode 16: Being of Sound Mind
  The eccentric misanthrope Mr. Oscar Hemmings, who died very old in Community General without friends...
• Episode 17: Dance of Danger
  While small time actor Phil Gwen dances with his unidentified blond girl he's stabbed in the back - ...
• Episode 18: The Red's Shoes
  When Amanda visits the studio where she learned ballet before med school, an extremely talented Chin...
• Episode 19: No Good Deed
  The title comes from the common idiom: No good deed goes unpunished....
• Episode 20: Deja Vous
  ["Déja vous" is the credit title of the episode in this position; episode AKAs locked presently] Mar...
• Episode 21: On the Beach
  [This episode is actually titled "On the Beach"] Another ride on his mini-scooter in the hospital ge...
• Episode 22: The Blair Nurse Project
  A group of film school students convince med student Alex Smith, a friend of director Craig Wilson, ...
• Episode 23: Town Without Pity
• Episode 24: Without Warning
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