List of The Mod Squad episodes
This is a list of episodes for the television series The Mod Squad.
Series overview
[edit]| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| 1 | 26 | September 24, 1968 | April 15, 1969 | |
| 2 | 26 | September 23, 1969 | April 7, 1970 | |
| 3 | 24 | September 22, 1970 | March 23, 1971 | |
| 4 | 24 | September 14, 1971 | March 7, 1972 | |
| 5 | 24 | September 14, 1972 | March 1, 1973 | |
| Television film | May 18, 1979 | |||
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (1968–69)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Teeth of the Barracuda" | Lee H. Katzin | Tony Barrett | September 24, 1968 | |
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The origin of the Mod Squad: After one of Greer's undercover associates was murdered at a psychedelic nightclub, he puts his newly-formed undercover squad of young adults, all previously in trouble with the law, to work investigating, which the evidence suggests was the work of young people. Produced as a 90-minute pilot (73 minutes without commercials), this episode was edited for a 60-minute slot. Guest stars: Brooke Bundy, Lonny Chapman, Noam Pitlik, and Robert DoQui. Uncredited cameos by Harrison Ford and Richard Pryor. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Bad Man on Campus" | Earl Bellamy | Robert Heverly | October 1, 1968 | |
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Following the death of a high school teacher, the Squad work undercover at her school to investigate a juvenile car theft ring, and the circumstances that led to the teacher's death. Guest stars: Booker Bradshaw, Judy Pace, J. Pat O'Malley, and Norman Alden. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "My, What a Pretty Bus" | Gene Nelson | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | October 8, 1968 | |
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The Squad work with a wily ex-con on a big counterfeiting caper, in which real money destined for the treasury is swapped with not only counterfeit money, but also a counterfeit Volkswagen Bus used to transport it. Guest stars: Henry Jones, Byron Morrow, Paul Sorensen, Pepper Martin, and Val Avery. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "When Smitty Comes Marching Home" | George McCowan | Tony Barrett & Harve Bennett | October 22, 1968 | |
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Returning Vietnam veteran Smitty, being sought by police on a homicide charge, turns to his boyhood friend Linc for help proving his innocence. Guest stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Art Lewis, and Edward Faulkner. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov Teleplay by : Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov & Stephen Kandel | October 29, 1968 | |
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Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer-dating service operating in blackmail. Guest stars: Linda Marsh, Julie Adams, Mark Goddard, Byron Foulger, Harry Basch, and Art Metrano. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "A Time to Love, a Time to Cry" | Michael Caffey | Mel Goldberg, Warren Hamilton Jr. & Donald Wrye | November 12, 1968 | |
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A probation officer (Robert Lansing) with an eye for Julie joins the Squad in its search for a young photographer accused of murder. Harry Townes and Rex Holman guest star. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Find Tara Chapman!" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett & Arthur Weingarten | November 19, 1968 | |
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The Squad tries desperately to track down a dying girl on the run who may unwittingly spark a meningitis epidemic. The girl is also wanted by the Mafia as she witnessed a mob killing in New York City before she fled to California. Guest stars: Yvonne Craig, Della Reese, John van Dreelen, Mills Watson, Peter Leeds, and Sid Melton. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Price of Terror" | Earl Bellamy | Tony Barrett | November 26, 1968 | |
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Greer is the target of an unknown assailant who has rigged a number of "close calls" to intimidate him. Guest stars: James Best, Gail Kobe, Richard Bakalyan, Herb Vigran, and Harry Basch. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "A Quiet Weekend in the Country" | Jack Arnold | Tony Barrett & Jackson Gillis | December 3, 1968 | |
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Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant. Guest stars: James Gregory, Ahna Capri, Dub Taylor, Irene Hervey, and Bruce Glover. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Love" | Lee H. Katzin | Story by : Tige Andrews, Jack Marlando & Tom Carota Teleplay by : Henry Rosenbaum | December 10, 1968 | |
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Pete's beloved cousin Karen (Diana Ewing) turns to crime in a desperate attempt to win the attention of her wealthy parents, made worse when she kidnapped her baby sister. Guest stars: Nina Foch, Arthur Franz, and Isabel Sanford. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet" | George McCowan | Jerome Ross | December 17, 1968 | |
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With Pete and Linc close by, Julie poses as a Hollywood starlet to lure into the open a serial assailant preying upon young actresses. Guest stars: Richard Evans, Joan Van Ark, William Smithers, Alan Oppenheimer, Ben Wright, Virginia Gregg, and Norman Grabowski. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Guru" | Richard Rush | Leigh Chapman | December 31, 1968 | |
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Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as hippies to investigate the bombing of The Guru, an underground newspaper. Guest stars: Dabney Coleman, Jane Elliot, Max Julien, and Adam Roarke. (Uncredited appearance by a pre-Brady Bunch Barry Williams as a newspaper boy.) | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Sunday Drivers" | Gene Nelson | Edward J. Lakso | January 7, 1969 | |
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Linc joins an automobile thrill circus in Las Vegas to investigate the death of a stunt-driver friend. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie" | Jack Arnold | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | January 14, 1969 | |
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Julie's mother, a former prostitute, arrives in Los Angeles to introduce Julie to the man she plans to marry: a bank robber under investigation by Pete and Linc. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Flight Five Doesn't Answer" | George McCowan | Stephen Kandel | January 21, 1969 | |
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While transporting a prisoner by commercial airline, Pete, Linc and Greer face death in a forced plane crash, brought on by the prisoner's foes on the ground. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Shell Game" | Gene Nelson | Edward J. Lakso | January 29, 1969 | |
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Investigating a policeman's death, Pete and Linc infiltrate a gang of thieves, only to find the gang has kidnapped Julie. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Fear Is the Bucking Horse" | George McCowan | Tony Barrett | February 4, 1969 | |
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The Squad works a rodeo undercover to protect a TV cowboy star whose life has been threatened. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "A Hint of Darkness, a Hint of Light" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | February 11, 1969 | |
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The Squad moves into a blind woman's home, posing as houseguests, to offer protection against a mysterious assailant. Guest starred Gloria Foster (wife of star Clarence Williams III). | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "The Uptight Town" | Earl Bellamy | Norman Katkov | February 18, 1969 | |
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The Squad searches for Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town, only to find the townspeople not particularly helpful. Guest stars: Jason Evers, Cliff Osmond, and Louis Gossett Jr. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "A Reign of Guns" | Gene Nelson | Tony Barrett & Daniel B. Ullman | February 25, 1969 | |
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The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "A Run for the Money" | Harvey Hart | Edward J. Lakso | March 11, 1969 | |
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Pete, romantically involved with a girl whose father (Tom Bosley) is in prison for robbery, faces a dilemma after finding himself behind bars after finding the stolen cash. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Child of Sorrow, Child of Light" | Gene Nelson | Cliff Gould | March 18, 1969 | |
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After a mother died in a car bomb after losing her baby in an adoption scam, Julie poses as an unwed expectant mother to get deeper inside an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies. Guest stars: Ida Lupino and Daniel J. Travanti. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Keep the Faith, Baby" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett | March 25, 1969 | |
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The Squad is assigned to protect the life of a black priest (Sammy Davis Jr.), who was defrocked for his liberal views on society, before being threatened by a murderer (Robert Duvall) who is afraid he will break his seal of confession. William Schallert also guest starred. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Captain Greer, Call Surgery" | Earl Bellamy | Anthony Lawrence | April 1, 1969 | |
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The Squad get undercover jobs in a hospital to block narcotics theft; the hospital's head nurse was desperate to not get involved, while an orderly involved in the theft is estranged from his dying father at the same hospital. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "Peace Now – Arly Blau" | Gene Nelson | William Wood | April 8, 1969 | |
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Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "A Seat by the Window" | Michael Caffey | Edward J. Lakso | April 15, 1969 | |
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The Squad is split up and assigned to separate charter vacation buses in an attempt to catch a bus station killer. | ||||||
Season 2 (1969–70)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 27 | 1 | "The Girl in Chair Nine" | Gene Nelson | William Bast | September 23, 1969 | |
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The Squad works with a psychic (Cesare Danova) in finding the whereabouts of a woman who did not show up for night school, but later discovered to be kidnapped in relation to an illegal abortion. | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | "My Name Is Manolette" | Robert Michael Lewis | Margaret Armen | September 30, 1969 | |
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The Squad "adopts" a 9-year-old Mexican waif who has been abandoned by a gang of American thieves. | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | "An Eye for an Eye" | Earl Bellamy | Tony Barrett | October 7, 1969 | |
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Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang. | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | "Ride the Man Down" | George McCowan | William Clark | October 14, 1969 | |
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Pete finds himself framed for murder after he helps a young woman who claims to be in trouble. Guest stars include Richard Anderson. | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | "To Linc – with Love" | George McCowan | Carol Sobieski | October 21, 1969 | |
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While pursuing a driver's license renewal at the DMV, Linc falls in love with one of its inspectors: an attractive young woman. However, their romance is threatened when a man from her past turns up: her ex-husband who seeks to reconcile their relationship. | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | "Lisa" | Robert Michael Lewis | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | November 4, 1969 | |
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The Squad is called in to protect a successful woman writer (Carolyn Jones) with a split personality whose life has been threatened. | ||||||
| 33 | 7 | "Confrontation!" | Gene Nelson | George Bellak | November 11, 1969 | |
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During the student strike at a local university to demand changes in a school policy, a black student is found murdered on campus, with the police claiming that one of the students murdered him. The Squad is called in to investigate, though they fear that the strike would turn into a riot if the suspect was not brought forward. Guest stars include Richard Pryor. | ||||||
| 34 | 8 | "Willie Poor Boy" | George McCowan | Richard H. Landau | November 18, 1969 | |
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Pete befriends a young man from Appalachia (Joe Don Baker) caught in a vending machine robbery after learning that the suspect is illiterate. Daniel J. Travanti also guest starred. | ||||||
| 35 | 9 | "The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek" | Earl Bellamy | Mark Saha | November 25, 1969 | |
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The Squad works undercover at a country-western bar as they investigate the death of a fading country-western singer. Guest stars include Tyne Daly. | ||||||
| 36 | 10 | "A Place to Run, a Heart to Hide In" | Earl Bellamy | Robert Heverly & Edward J. Lakso | December 2, 1969 | |
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The Squad poses as college students at a prestigious college, investigating a mysterious death of a young fraternity pledge, and possible ties to a rich donor (Don DeFore) and his aspiring football quarterback son. | ||||||
| 37 | 11 | "The Healer" | Earl Bellamy | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | December 9, 1969 | |
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The Squad investigate the activities of a quack after one of his patients dies of mysterious circumstances, while another dies of a hit-and-run accident during the funeral service. | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | "In This Corner – Sol Alpert" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Rita Lakin | December 16, 1969 | |
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After television mechanic Sol Alpert (introduced the previous season in "Flight Five Doesn't Answer", played by Marvin Kaplan) was being wrongfully blamed for slum-like conditions at neighborhood apartments, Pete, Linc and Julie try to find the landlord responsible - which turned out to be Sol's cousin (Noam Pitlik). With the police helpless in this case, as the Squad know about the Alperts' Jewish faith, they get help from a higher authority. Henry Silva also guest starred. | ||||||
| 39 | 13 | "Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break" | Earl Bellamy | Malvin Wald | December 23, 1969 | |
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The Squad tries to gain the confidence of the top con man in the business and catch him by becoming involved in a caper. | ||||||
| 40 | 14 | "The Debt" | Jerry Jameson | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | December 30, 1969 | |
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After a young man helps Pete when he is attacked by hoodlums, Pete learns the man's father may be plotting a serious crime. Guest stars: Marj Dusay, Nehemiah Persoff, and Jay Novello. | ||||||
| 41 | 15 | "Sweet Child of Terror" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | January 6, 1970 | |
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An embittered handyman who claims to be related to Billy the Kid kidnaps Julie, thinking that she was a socialite friend of hers, but threatens her life when he realizes his mistake. | ||||||
| 42 | 16 | "The King of Empty Cups" | Robert Michael Lewis | Sonya Roberts | January 20, 1970 | |
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Assigned to find Chief Metcalf's daughter after she disappears, the Squad's investigation leads to a pop singing idol - and to a life controlled by drugs. | ||||||
| 43 | 17 | "A Town Called Sincere" | Earl Bellamy | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | January 27, 1970 | |
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A sleepy Mexican town becomes a prison for Pete and Linc, captured by a savage motorcycle gang. The bikers center their terror tactics on the townspeople as they try to learn who killed two members of their gang. | ||||||
| 44 | 18 | "The Exile" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Don Richman | February 3, 1970 | |
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Julie falls in love with an exchange student, not knowing he is a Middle Eastern prince, and an heir to the throne in a country embroiled in a civil war. | ||||||
| 45 | 19 | "Survival House" | George McCowan | Joanna Lee | February 10, 1970 | |
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A founder of a halfway house for drug addicts (Sammy Davis Jr.) is wrongfully accused of statutory rape of a minor. Pete and Linc work undercover as tenants to find the person who framed him. | ||||||
| 46 | 20 | "Mother of Sorrow" | Gene Nelson | Rita Lakin & William Wood | February 17, 1970 | |
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Pete's old eccentric classmate (Richard Dreyfuss) confessed to the Squad of murdering his girlfriend - and also has the pictures to prove it - yet he refused to tell Greer anything. He later divulged plans to give his mother (Lee Grant) the same photo finish. (In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #95 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.)[1] | ||||||
| 47 | 21 | "The Deadly Sin" | Jerry Jameson | Robert M. Young | February 24, 1970 | |
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A nun returns home, only to witness her father murdering one of his associates as a mob hit. He must decide whether to spare his daughter, or kill her to appease his underworld superiors. | ||||||
| 48 | 22 | "A Time for Remembering" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett | March 3, 1970 | |
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In a sequel to The Teeth of the Barracuda, as the Squad celebrate their second anniversary together, Pete contemplates leaving the Squad to join his father in his family's business, until an ex-convict related to their first case shot Linc in an act of revenge. A clip show, including clips from Barracuda, plus My, What a Pretty Bus, Flight Five Doesn't Answer, The Sunday Drivers, The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek, and The King of Empty Cups. (Florence Halop appears as a nurse.) | ||||||
| 49 | 23 | "Return to Darkness, Return to Light" | Robert Michael Lewis | Edward J. Lakso | March 17, 1970 | |
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In a sequel to A Hint of Darkness, a Hint of Light, Linc's blind friend announced that she was engaged to a doctor. What she didn't know was that the "doctor" was actually a career impostor, complicated by the fact that he was targeted by a man for malpractice committed by the real doctor. Gloria Foster reprises her role as the blind woman. | ||||||
| 50 | 24 | "Call Back Yesterday" | Gene Nelson | John W. Bloch & Robert M. Young | March 24, 1970 | |
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Pete's mother re-enters her son's life when the Squad investigates one of her friends: a chemical company executive who was mentally ill. | ||||||
| 51 | 25 | "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Rita Lakin | March 31, 1970 | |
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Posing as production personnel at a movie studio, the Squad probes a series of mishaps tied to a film about a cold case involving a 1948 string of murders, with an ending that someone didn't want filmed. Guest stars: Frank Converse and Ed Asner. | ||||||
| 52 | 26 | "The Loser" | Gene Nelson | Sheldon Stark | April 7, 1970 | |
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The Squad investigates a hit-and-run accident involving a stolen car when a young suspect (David Cassidy) pleads his innocence; he would later be released on bail by a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, an election candidate is a victim of blackmail related to the case, saying he would tell the truth about the hit-and-run unless he pays. Guest stars include Marion Ross. | ||||||
Season 3 (1970–71)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 53 | 1 | "The Long Road Home" | Robert Michael Lewis | Edward J. Lakso | September 22, 1970 | |
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Pete falls in love with a young woman he has injured in an auto chase involving a robbery suspect, only to learn she is the sister of the suspect. | ||||||
| 54 | 2 | "See the Eagles Dying" | Jerry Jameson | Edward J. Lakso | September 29, 1970 | |
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The Squad investigate a motorcycling and skydiving group following the death of a wino who died when he failed to pull his ripcord during a group skydiving expedition, while intoxicated. The parents of one of their members, a daughter of an upper-class couple, are also concerned that she was mixing up with the wrong crowd. Guest stars include Lane Bradbury. | ||||||
| 55 | 3 | "Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?" | Gene Nelson | Richard Landau | October 6, 1970 | |
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Linc feigns insanity to get into an institution to investigate the death of a friend there, finding out that one of the doctors there used electroconvulsive therapy as a method of punishment. | ||||||
| 56 | 4 | "‘A’ Is for Annie" | Robert Michael Lewis | William Bast | October 13, 1970 | |
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The Squad investigates when a school teacher, under attack for her views on sex education, becomes the target of violence during the political campaign of a politician who used the abolition of sex education as its platform. | ||||||
| 57 | 5 | "The Song of Willie" | Gene Nelson | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | October 20, 1970 | |
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Linc works undercover as an assistant to his childhood friend, movie star Willie Rush (Sammy Davis, Jr.), after an attempt on his life with an ill-timed car bomb on the movie set. But concerning Linc more was Willie's cavalier lifestyle and attitude, created in part due to Willie's fear that he may have Huntington's disease. | ||||||
| 58 | 6 | "Search and Destroy" | Philip Leacock | David P. Harmon | October 27, 1970 | |
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An army officer, a former police detective, took a leave from the Vietnam War to volunteer himself to assist Greer and the Squad in the investigation of the death of his brother. While Greer suspected that an undercover cop was doubling as a drug pusher, the officer mistakenly suspected that Pete was that crooked cop. | ||||||
| 59 | 7 | "Just Ring the Bell Once" | Jerry Jameson | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | November 3, 1970 | |
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Linc befriends an 8-year-old diabetic boy whose young mother was just released from jail after being involved with liquor hijackers. With his mother still indecisive on whether or not to resume parenting him, and the deadline to make a decision nears, the child's future hangs in the balance. | ||||||
| 60 | 8 | "Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee!" | Robert Michael Lewis | Walter Black | November 10, 1970 | |
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Pete and the Squad try to clear an Apache (Henry Silva) falsely accused of murdering a man in a small desert town. | ||||||
| 61 | 9 | "A Far Away Place So Near" | Terry Becker | Theodore Apstein | November 17, 1970 | |
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The Squad investigates the mysterious death of a soldier who fails to return from Vietnam. | ||||||
| 62 | 10 | "A Time of Hyacinths" | Robert Michael Lewis | Margaret Armen | December 1, 1970 | |
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Julie becomes involved with a mysterious stranger (Vincent Price), a movie actor believed to have died twenty years earlier. | ||||||
| 63 | 11 | "The Judas Trap" | Robert Michael Lewis | Story by : Alvin Boretz Teleplay by : Walter Black | December 8, 1970 | |
| 64 | 12 | "Fever" | Jerry Jameson | Story by : Paul Schneider, Margaret Schneider & Marty Roth Teleplay by : Paul Schneider & Margaret Schneider | December 15, 1970 | |
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A man on the run, with the son he doesn't have legal custody of, kidnaps Julie. However, as both have Rocky Mountain spotted fever, she is more concerned for their lives than hers. | ||||||
| 65 | 13 | "Is There Anyone Left in Santa Paula?" | Lawrence Dobkin | Gene L. Coon | December 29, 1970 | |
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Following a death of an immigration agent at a car wash where an undocumented immigrant (and a friend of Pete's) work, the Squad finds a cop involved in the illegal entry of Mexican youths across the border - all tied to a village in Sonora. The officer and Greer are at odds on how to handle the case. | ||||||
| 66 | 14 | "A Short Course in War" | Robert Michael Lewis | Mann Rubin | January 5, 1971 | |
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An attention-starved misfit gunman (Bob Balaban) hell-bent on starting a "war" with the establishment infiltrates a student protest with Julie trapped as one of the hostages. Also among the hostages is her humanities teacher (Josephine Hutchinson) who has a heart condition but left her medication in her car. | ||||||
| 67 | 15 | "Kicks Incorporated" | Gene Nelson | Peggy O'Shea | January 12, 1971 | |
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The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer (Jack Cassidy). Features a special appearance by Danny Thomas as himself. | ||||||
| 68 | 16 | "A Bummer for R.J." | Philip Leacock | Jack Turley | January 19, 1971 | |
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The Squad investigates a 40-year-old man (Carl Betz) who tries the hippie life to recapture his youth after he was implicated in a murder. Meanwhile, his daughter, whom he lost sight of following a divorce, was in town in hopes of reuniting. Guest stars include Daniel J. Travanti. | ||||||
| 69 | 17 | "The Hot, Hot Car" | Robert Michael Lewis | Elroy Schwartz | January 26, 1971 | |
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A car belonging to a businessman's associate has been stolen. However, the investigation becomes dire after Greer learns that that car was rigged with dynamite, as the businessman wanted to commit murder. The Squad rush to find the car before the dynamite explodes at 5 p.m., potentially killing an innocent family who rented it. | ||||||
| 70 | 18 | "Suffer, Little Children" | Lawrence Dobkin | Gene L. Coon | February 9, 1971 | |
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The Squad helps a minister find out who murdered his brother, a psychologist who ran a clinic for troubled youngsters. Besides differing ideologies, complicating matters was that the clinic was used to hold stolen goods before they are fenced. (Note: The clinic was previously featured briefly a couple of episodes earlier in "A Bummer for R.J." Also, an exterior scene took place at Walt Whitman High School, a fictional high school used as a setting for an ABC sitcom at the time, Room 222.) | ||||||
| 71 | 19 | "Is That Justice? No, It's the Law" | Philip Leacock | David H. Vowell | February 16, 1971 | |
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The Squad helps an overzealous detective get the goods on a known dope pusher, but the pusher swears he's been framed. | ||||||
| 72 | 20 | "A Double for Danger" | Gene Nelson | Roger Hill Lewis | February 23, 1971 | |
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After an undercover agent was killed in a pedestrian accident unrelated to her case, Julie assumes her identity to expose the leader of a narcotics ring (Ray Walston). | ||||||
| 73 | 21 | "Welcome to Our City" | John Llewellyn Moxey | Story by : Shirl Hendryx Teleplay by : Tony Barrett & Shirl Hendryx | March 2, 1971 | |
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The Squad tries to find the father of a 15-year-old farm boy and learns that the man is involved in a loan shark racket. | ||||||
| 74 | 22 | "The Comeback" | William Crain | Mann Rubin | March 9, 1971 | |
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The Squad helps the son of an aging ex-boxing champ (Sugar Ray Robinson) who is being harassed by gamblers for inside information on his dad's return to the ring after an 11-year absence. (Featuring sports announcer Dick Enberg as himself.) | ||||||
| 75 | 23 | "We Spy" | Lawrence Dobkin | Harve Bennett & Walter Black | March 16, 1971 | |
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Pete poses as a safecracker in order to break up an industrial espionage plot and in the process stumbles onto a murder - as well as the young son of a businessman who is overeager in learning the art of safecracking. Guest stars include René Auberjonois. | ||||||
| 76 | 24 | "The Price of Love" | Philip Leacock | Tony Barrett & Robert Foster | March 23, 1971 | |
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On vacation, Linc stumbles onto the kidnapping of a young boy in a desert ghost-town and finds himself held hostage as well. | ||||||
Season 4 (1971–72)
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| 77 | 1 | "The Sentinels" | Robert Michael Lewis | Alvin Boretz | September 14, 1971 | |
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After a botched payroll robbery led to a shooting death, the Squad searches the city for a stolen car that harbored a flock of pigeons which could cause an encephalitis epidemic. | ||||||
| 78 | 2 | "Cricket" | Michael Caffey | Rick Husky | September 21, 1971 | |
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An autistic and withdrawn boy who has accidentally shot Julie is sought by the Squad in order to save him from a murderer. (Note: This episode was remade as the Charlie's Angels season one episode To Kill an Angel.) | ||||||
| 79 | 3 | "Home Is the Streets" | Barry Shear | S.S. Schweitzer | September 28, 1971 | |
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The Squad pursues a dope pusher on the run for shooting two policemen. | ||||||
| 80 | 4 | "Survival" | Philip Leacock | Walter Black & Byron Twiggs | October 5, 1971 | |
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Julie, suffering a snake bite, is left stranded in the desert with a blind man (John Rubinstein) on a mysterious mission when three young hoodlums steal her car. | ||||||
| 81 | 5 | "Color of Laughter, Color of Tears" | Philip Leacock | Edward J. Lakso | October 12, 1971 | |
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The Squad investigates a circus carnival that is being sabotaged before its opening day. The circus' owner, Joe Walton (Ed Asner), vows the show will go on, despite it being in more danger of additional accidents. | ||||||
| 82 | 6 | "The Medicine Men" | Seymour Robbie | Arthur Weingarten | October 19, 1971 | |
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Julie falls in love with a young doctor who is being blackmailed by one of his fellow students from medical school. | ||||||
| 83 | 7 | "The Sands of Anger" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | October 26, 1971 | |
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The Squad investigates a mysterious explosion that kills a driver at a dune-buggy rally in the desert. Guest stars include Shelly Novack and Tony Dow. | ||||||
| 84 | 8 | "The Poisoned Mind" | Don McDougall | Ernest Frankel | November 2, 1971 | |
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Depressed after having shot a young man during a burglary, Greer takes time off to recover. However, while on vacation, he found himself poisoned by a slow-acting poison that could kill him, leading to the Squad to go on a race against time to find the criminal. Guest stars include Laraine Stephens, Jean Byron, and Wesley Lau. | ||||||
| 85 | 9 | "Exit the Closer" | Don McDougall | Robert Collins | November 9, 1971 | |
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The Squad go undercover to investigate an irreputable used car dealer (Larry Blyden). However, after attempts to murder him, they found out that a mob ring owns the lot, and the "owner" was, in reality, a pawn used for cover. Guest stars include Ruta Lee. | ||||||
| 86 | 10 | "Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | November 16, 1971 | |
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Suffering from amnesia after getting mugged, Linc wanders Skid Row, unsure as to whether or not he is the escaped mental patient he reads about in a newspaper. The second clip show of the series, which includes flashbacks to previous episodes Bad Man on Campus, My, What a Pretty Bus, and Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates? | ||||||
| 87 | 11 | "And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them" | John Llewellyn Moxey | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | November 23, 1971 | |
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The Squad tries to protect a TV clown (Milton Berle) whose life is in danger. | ||||||
| 88 | 12 | "Real Loser" | George McGowan | Robert C. Dennis | November 30, 1971 | |
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The Squad defends a drug dealer (Martin Sheen), whose daughter is a sick child in need of medical care; his associate has marked him for murder. Guest stars include Harold Gould. | ||||||
| 89 | 13 | "Death of a Nobody" | Robert Michael Lewis | Mann Rubin | December 7, 1971 | |
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A woman is killed by a hit-and-run driver, but Pete is sure he was the intended victim. | ||||||
| 90 | 14 | "Feet of Clay" | Don Taylor | Don Ingalls | December 14, 1971 | |
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Linc befriends a deaf-mute (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) who becomes a reluctant hero after saving a guard's life in a warehouse fire. But his status of being a "hero" comes into question after a second guard was discovered in the charred ruins - dead. | ||||||
| 91 | 15 | "I Am My Brother's Keeper" | Jerry Jameson | James Schmerer | January 4, 1972 | |
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Pete was struck by a hit-and-run driver while undercover as a union member to gather information from an informant - who was shot and killed by the same guys. Hospitalized with a brain injury that may prove fatal if untreated, Pete is adamant on finishing his assignment. The rest of the Squad race to find Pete before his brain injury - or the mobsters - kills him first. | ||||||
| 92 | 16 | "Deal with the Devil" | Don McDougall | Robert C. Dennis | January 11, 1972 | |
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A gonzo journalist (Leslie Nielsen), who was Pete's older friend of his in his childhood, returned from a reporting stint in Vietnam with information about the war - and a suitcase full of heroin, which gone missing. Pete and the Squad need to find the heroin before the journalist finds it, or his foes find him. | ||||||
| 93 | 17 | "Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie" | Lawrence Dobkin | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | January 18, 1972 | |
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A man convicted of manslaughter is released on parole, vowing to find and kill Pete, who he mistakenly believes was responsible for a savage beating he suffered years earlier. | ||||||
| 94 | 18 | "Shockwave" | Barry Shear | Rick Husky | January 25, 1972 | |
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Julie becomes emotionally attached to an abandoned baby whose parents are terrorizing the area with armed robberies. | ||||||
| 95 | 19 | "No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland" | Seymour Robbie | Arthur Weingarten | February 1, 1972 | |
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Ernie Holland (Robert Pine), a plainclothes cop fresh from his tour of duty in the Vietnam War, assists the Squad in finding a stolen cache of guns. However, his military-style method of operation clashes with the Squad's more diplomatic approach as they deal with an idealistic protest group leader (Henry Silva). | ||||||
| 96 | 20 | "The Cave" | Jerry Jameson | Don Ingalls | February 8, 1972 | |
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Pete, Linc and Julie are trapped in a cave by a crazed man who holds them responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. | ||||||
| 97 | 21 | "The Wild Weekend" | Robert Michael Lewis | Jack Turley | February 15, 1972 | |
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Pete is kidnapped and almost killed by the jealous boyfriend of his former fiancée. | ||||||
| 98 | 22 | "The Tangled Web" | Richard Newton | Ernest Frankel | February 22, 1972 | |
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Pete and Linc jeopardize their lives and careers by helping Julie's friend return the jewelry he has stolen. | ||||||
| 99 | 23 | "Outside Position" | Philip Leacock | S.S. Schweitzer | February 29, 1972 | |
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Pete tries to help an ex-convict (Bobby Sherman) who has been framed on a narcotics charge. | ||||||
| 100 | 24 | "Big George" | Philip Leacock | Richard Landau | March 7, 1972 | |
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The family of a man (Andy Griffith) who witnessed a murder entered a living hell after receiving death threats, which led to their neighbors shunning them as if they were pariahs. The Squad comes to their aid as they search for the man who desired to avenge his partner's arrest and prosecution. | ||||||
Season 5 (1972–73)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 101 | 1 | "The Connection: Part 1" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | September 14, 1972 | |
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When Greer is seriously hurt by three phony cops (one of these a drug dealer whom Greer had previously apprehended), and four suitcases of heroin belonging to a crime syndicate are stolen, Sgt. Ed Lassiter (Ed Asner) leads the Squad on their most challenging assignment ever, looking at every possible connection. One of these is a jazz trumpeter (Richard Pryor) who was marked for death. The other a mother who's a heroin addict, who was due to give birth to another child. First half of a two-hour special. Guest stars include Robert Reed, Cesar Romero, Barbara McNair, Cleavon Little, Stefanie Powers, and Gene Washington (of the San Francisco 49ers). | ||||||
| 102 | 2 | "The Connection: Part 2" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | September 14, 1972 | |
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Second half of the two-hour special: three of the suspects were found dead, one of them with a clue that could lead to the stolen heroin. Also, Pete and Julie risk their lives gathering evidence of the syndicate's plan of distributing the heroin while attending an upscale party of one of its henchmen. And Sgt. Lassiter harbors a dark secret that would not only affect his career, but also his future. (Episode ends with Michael Cole in a voice-over afterward, urging mothers with a drug problem to seek help.) | ||||||
| 103 | 3 | "The Thunder Makers" | Jerry Jameson | Jack Turley | September 21, 1972 | |
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The Squad investigates when a youth (Bobby Sherman) joins a motorcycle gang, plots a fake payroll robbery of his father's company, and learns the other gang members are playing it for real. | ||||||
| 104 | 4 | "Yesterday's Ashes" | Richard Newton | Skip Webster | September 28, 1972 | |
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The Squad witnesses a shoplifting by a badly scarred woman and arranges plastic surgery, believing it would prevent her from a life of crime. However, her partner in crime is counting on her to join him in holding up a bank. Guest stars include Jo Ann Harris, Robert Pine, and Ivor Francis. | ||||||
| 105 | 5 | "A Gift for Jenny" | Don McDougall | Gerald Sanford | October 5, 1972 | |
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Linc's friend is kidnapped after receiving a fur coat as a gift, setting the Squad on a chase of a fur-theft ring. Guest stars include Paul Richards and Bo Svenson. | ||||||
| 106 | 6 | "Taps, Play It Louder" | E.W. Swackhamer | Sandor Stern | October 12, 1972 | |
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The Squad finds a missing ex-soldier working as a longshoreman, but because of mysterious circumstances they question his identity. | ||||||
| 107 | 7 | "Eyes of the Beholder" | Richard Newton | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | October 19, 1972 | |
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The brother of a fur thief attempts to kill Pete, holding him responsible for his brother's death. Meanwhile, a blind childhood friend of Pete's returns home for an operation that would give her the ability to see, though her surgeon fears the positive results may not be permanent. | ||||||
| 108 | 8 | "Good Times Are Just Memories" | Ivan Dixon | Richard Bluel & Fenton Hobart Jr. | October 26, 1972 | |
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A police lieutenant (and longtime friend of Greer) accidentally kills his accomplice in a jewel theft ring. Desiring to cover his tracks, he planted evidence implicating Pete, working on a related case, as a murderer. Greer, however, was skeptical on the authenticity of the evidence, leading to him, Linc and Julie to dig deeper. (Guest stars include Tyne Daly.) | ||||||
| 109 | 9 | "Corbey" | Richard Newton | Jack Turley | November 2, 1972 | |
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When Greer is framed as being on the take, the Squad begins an investigation to clear his name. Complicating things is a boy who became handicapped after being injured by Greer a few years earlier during a shootout. | ||||||
| 110 | 10 | "Can You Hear Me Out There?" | Seymour Robbie | Stanley Ralph Ross | November 9, 1972 | |
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The Squad's investigation turns up a radio disc jockey (Louis Gossett Jr.) who was an unwitting helper of an auto-theft ring when his commercial indicated where stolen cars could be picked up. Guest stars include Henry Silva. | ||||||
| 111 | 11 | "Another Final Game" | Jerry Jameson | Buddy Ruskin | November 16, 1972 | |
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A con man (Clu Gulager) poses as a U.S. marshal to steal $600 from an elderly liquor store owner (Zara Cully). When Linc found out that she was taken in, Pete and Julie assume the roles of a wealthy young couple to lure the bad guy. | ||||||
| 112 | 12 | "Crime Club" | Don McDougall | Theodore J. Flicker | November 23, 1972 | |
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A group of students with genius IQs at a prestigious university pull off a series of bizarre headline-making robberies. But when a security guard dies of a heart attack during a heist, they expanded their activity list to include murder. | ||||||
| 113 | 13 | "The Twain" | Georg Olden | Skip Webster | November 30, 1972 | |
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When a Korean girl witnessed a hit man (Vic Tayback) murdering a passport forger, the Squad comes to her aid. Immigration officials were also looking for her, as she overstayed on her visa while looking for her long lost father. | ||||||
| 114 | 14 | "Belinda, End of Little Miss Bubble Gum" | Seymour Robbie | Bryn Morgan | December 7, 1972 | |
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The Squad protects a former child star, upon whose life attempts were made when she became eligible for money held in trust for her. Guest stars include Catherine Burns, Bob Balaban, Ruth Roman, Dane Clark, and John Karlen. | ||||||
| 115 | 15 | "Kristie" | Richard Newton | Rick Husky | December 14, 1972 | |
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On Christmas Eve, a 5-year-old girl is left in Pete's care by her father (Michael Anderson, Jr.) who then disappears. | ||||||
| 116 | 16 | "Sanctuary" | Jerry Jameson | Robert Hamner | December 21, 1972 | |
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Julie goes into hiding at a local hospital after posing as a secretary to a crime lord (Victor Buono) to collect evidence to present to the grand jury. After finding out where she was, he blackmails a doctor into giving her special treatments that could alter her testimony, or even kill her. | ||||||
| 117 | 17 | "Run, Lincoln, Run" | Leonard Horn | Donald L. Stewart | January 4, 1973 | |
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A pair of loan sharks murdered a restaurant owner over a loan, and are out looking for its two witnesses - one an injured Vietnam vet whose their "customer", and his friend, Linc. | ||||||
| 118 | 18 | "Don't Kill My Child" | Harry Falk | Margaret Schneider & Paul Schneider | January 18, 1973 | |
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A stepfather of a little boy confesses to beating him; however, the Squad speculates he was covering for the boy's mentally-ill mother. | ||||||
| 119 | 19 | "Death in High Places" | Don McDougall | Robert Hamner | January 25, 1973 | |
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After Linc's Hispanic friend is accused of the murder of his co-worker at a construction site, Linc goes undercover as a worker, only to find that corporate executives - and trouble - also roam the sites. Guest stars include Jim Backus. | ||||||
| 120 | 20 | "Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death" | Reza Badiyi | Elroy Schwartz | February 1, 1973 | |
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A nurse stealing morphine for her addict son indirectly led to the death of a terminally-ill cancer patient, creating undue strife for her husband. | ||||||
| 121 | 21 | "Scion of Death" | Daniel Haller | Robert Schlitt & Skip Webster | February 8, 1973 | |
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Pete and Linc witness a kidnapping of a son of a newspaper publisher, but his father refuses to report the abduction to the police. After Greer and the Squad got involved, it was revealed that an ex-servant of the publisher was involved. | ||||||
| 122 | 22 | "The Night Holds Terror" | Richard Newton | Rick Husky | February 15, 1973 | |
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Convalescing in the home of a doctor and his wife, Julie is terrorized by a man who vows to kill everyone in the house. | ||||||
| 123 | 23 | "Cry Uncle" | Phil Bondelli | Sandor Stern | February 22, 1973 | |
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Greer's Greek uncle comes to pay a visit, not realizing that he was behind a series of thefts of Cézanne's masterpieces. | ||||||
| 124 | 24 | "And Once for My Baby" | Richard Newton | Robert Sherman | March 1, 1973 | |
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The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife may be positive for cervical cancer. Just as important as foiling the crime is letting her know that she might have the cancer. (The Squad presumably broke up some time after this episode's subject case, as its members would not rejoin forces again for another six years.) | ||||||
Television film (1979)
[edit]| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| The Return of the Mod Squad | George McCowan | Robert Janes | May 18, 1979 | |
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Six years after the last known case, Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to team up again after several attempts are made on the life of Adam Greer, their former commander, now a Deputy Chief in the LAPD and on the verge of retiring. However, they soon discover that the attempts on Greer's life were a ruse to draw them out, and that they themselves are the real targets of the would-be killer. | ||||
Home releases
[edit]The entire series has been released on DVD, in the following box sets:[2]
| DVD set | Episodes | Company | Release date | |
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| The Mod Squad: Season 1, Volume 1 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | December 18, 2007 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 1, Volume 2 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | March 11, 2008 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 2, Volume 1 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | November 25, 2008 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 2, Volume 2 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | May 26, 2009 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 3, Volume 1 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | September 24, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 3, Volume 2 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | September 24, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 4, Volume 1 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | October 1, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 4, Volume 2 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | October 1, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: The Complete Collection | 124 | Visual Entertainment | November 12, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: The Complete Collection Gift Set | 124 | Visual Entertainment | November 12, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 5, Volume 1 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | February 11, 2014 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 5, Volume 2 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | February 11, 2014 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Special Collector's Issue (100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.
- ^ The Mod Squad Archived 2013-01-28 at the Wayback Machine at TVShowsOnDVD.com
External links
[edit]- The Mod Squad at epguides.com
- The Mod Squad at IMDb
- Episode guide at Chezgrae.com