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The Mod Squad

Tue, Sep 24, 1968
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Synopsis

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

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  • Peggy Lipton
    Peggy Lipton
    as Julie Barnes
  • Clarence Williams III
    Clarence Williams III
    as Linc Hayes
  • Tige Andrews
    Tige Andrews
    as Capt. Adam Greer
  • Michael Cole
    Michael Cole
    as Pete Cochran
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Episodes

5 seasons · 124 episodes

Ended · 124 aired
Season 1
26 episodes · 26 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Teeth of the Barracuda
    Aired · Tue, Sep 24, 1968 · 60m

    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. Note: Produced as a 90 minute pilot (73 minutes without commercials), this episode was edited for a 60 minute slot.

  • E2
    Bad Man on Campus
    Aired · Tue, Oct 1, 1968 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    My, What a Pretty Bus
    Aired · Tue, Oct 8, 1968 · 60m

    The Squad go undercover in a prison to investigate one case but accidentally stumble onto another one involving counterfeiters.

  • E4
    When Smitty Comes Marching Home
    Aired · Tue, Oct 22, 1968 · 60m

    Linc tries to help an old friend, a returning Vietnam War soldier, after he is framed for the murder of a policemen.

  • E5
    You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer
    Aired · Wed, Oct 30, 1968 · 60m

    Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer dating service operating in blackmail.

  • E6
    A Time to Love - A Time to Cry
    Aired · Wed, Nov 13, 1968 · 60m

    A photographer wakes up in his studio and discovers his model is dead. The Squad works to clear him of her murder.

  • E7
    Find Tara Chapman!
    Aired · Wed, Nov 20, 1968 · 60m

    A young woman arrives in L.A. not knowing she has meningitis. The Squad desperately tries to find her, but she thinks they're really looking to kill her, as she witnessed a mob hit back East.

  • E8
    The Price of Terror
    Aired · Wed, Nov 27, 1968 · 60m

    The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.

  • E9
    A Quiet Weekend in the Country
    Aired · Wed, Dec 4, 1968 · 60m

    Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant.

  • E10
    Love
    Aired · Wed, Dec 11, 1968 · 60m

    Pete's cousin Karen turns to kidnapping to gain her parents attention after they are distracted by the new baby.

  • E11
    Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet
    Aired · Wed, Dec 18, 1968 · 60m

    When several young, blonde actresses are murdered by a serial strangler, Julie goes undercover as an aspiring actress, hoping to catch the killer.

  • E12
    The Guru
    Aired · Wed, Jan 1, 1969 · 60m

    Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.

  • E13
    The Sunday Drivers
    Aired · Wed, Jan 8, 1969 · 60m

    Linc is convinced that the death of his stunt driver friend was not accidental. The trio investigates and uncover a drug smuggling operation.

  • E14
    Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
    Aired · Wed, Jan 15, 1969 · 60m

    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.

  • E15
    Flight Five Doesn't Answer
    Aired · Wed, Jan 22, 1969 · 60m

    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.

  • E16
    Shell Game
    Aired · Thu, Jan 30, 1969 · 60m

    Pete and Linc successfully infiltrate a gang of thieves only to discover they are protected by crooked cops and that Julie has become an unwitting hostage.

  • E17
    Fear Is the Bucking Horse
    Aired · Wed, Feb 5, 1969 · 60m

    Pete and Linc go undercover in a rodeo after a movie stuntman is nearly killed by an unknown shooter.

  • E18
    A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light
    Aired · Wed, Feb 12, 1969 · 60m

    Blind author Jenny Wills is viciously attacked on the beach by an unknown assailant, who makes repeated attempts on her life. Unbeknownst to her, he thinks she saw him commit a crime.

  • E19
    The Uptight Town
    Aired · Wed, Feb 19, 1969 · 60m

    The Squad searches for Captain Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town, only to find the townspeople not particularly helpful.

  • E20
    A Reign of Guns
    Aired · Wed, Feb 26, 1969 · 60m

    The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns.

  • E21
    A Run for the Money
    Aired · Wed, Mar 12, 1969 · 60m

    Pete's girlfriend gets him tangled up in a mess involving her convict father and stolen money.

  • E22
    Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
    Aired · Wed, Mar 19, 1969 · 60m

    Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.

  • E23
    Keep the Faith, Baby
    Aired · Wed, Mar 26, 1969 · 60m

    The Squad is assigned to protect the life of a black priest who was defrocked for his liberal views on society, before being threatened by a murderer who is afraid he will break his seal of confession.

  • E24
    Captain Greer, Call Surgery
    Aired · Wed, Apr 2, 1969 · 60m

    Someone is stealing narcotics from area hospitals and Greer has the team go undercover in what he thinks will be the next target.

  • E25
    Peace Now - Arly Blau
    Aired · Wed, Apr 9, 1969 · 60m

    Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger (and old friend of Julie's), whose father is a General in the Vietnam War.

  • E26
    A Seat by the Window
    Aired · Wed, Apr 16, 1969 · 60m

    After someone is killed at a bus station, the killer is believed to have escaped in one of three outgoing buses. Linc, Pete, and Julie each board one of the buses to track the possible killer.

Season 2
26 episodes · 26 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Girl in Chair Nine
    Aired · Tue, Sep 23, 1969 · 60m

    Capt. Greer reluctantly enlists the aid of a psychic to help find a kidnapped coed.

  • E2
    My Name Is Manolete
    Aired · Tue, Sep 30, 1969 · 60m

    Julie takes in a young, apparently destitute, Mexican boy, not realizing that he is connected to a couple of thieves who don't want him talking to the wrong people.

  • E3
    An Eye for an Eye
    Aired · Tue, Oct 7, 1969 · 60m

    Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang.

  • E4
    Ride the Man Down
    Aired · Tue, Oct 14, 1969 · 60m

    While on vacation Pete befriends a woman who tells him her brother is missing. When she is found dead he's charged with her murder.

  • E5
    To Linc - With Love
    Aired · Tue, Oct 21, 1969 · 60m

    Linc is initially bummed about having to get his driver's license renewed until he meets the examiner. They start dating but a man from her past comes back into her life and causes problems.

  • E6
    Lisa
    Aired · Wed, Nov 5, 1969 · 60m

    The squad is unaware that the writer they are assigned to protect has a split personality.

  • E7
    Confrontation!
    Aired · Wed, Nov 12, 1969 · 60m

    As dissident students prepare to demand changes in a school policy, a black student is found murdered on campus and the Squad is called in to investigate.

  • E8
    Willie Poor Boy
    Aired · Wed, Nov 19, 1969 · 60m

    An illiterate small time crook gets caught when he can't read the sign warning of danger. The squad rallies to help him if he cooperates with the law and snitches on his partner, who is responsible for the death of the security guard.

  • E9
    The Death of Bill Hannachek
    Aired · Wed, Nov 26, 1969 · 60m

    Julie goes undercover as a country singer at a wayside inn while Pete and Linc investigate the suspicious death of a faded country western star.

  • E10
    A Place to Run, A Heart to Hide In
    Aired · Wed, Dec 3, 1969 · 60m

    Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover at Sims College to investigate a frat boy's mysterious death. Pete plays a running back, Linc an African exchange student, and Julie the object of desire for the star quarterback.

  • E11
    The Healer
    Aired · Wed, Dec 10, 1969 · 60m

    The Mod Squad sets to work busting an extortion racket run by a self styled healer responsible for the death of Linc's friend. Julie befriends a wheelchair bound man paying large sums for empty promises that his paralysis will be cured.

  • E12
    In This Corner - Sol Alpert
    Aired · Wed, Dec 17, 1969 · 60m

    When Pete and Linc's friend Sol Alpert finds his business vandalized, he then learns it was done in protest over living conditions in ghetto housing owned by his own cousin. Sol decides to fight his cousin to get improvements in the housing, and with Pete, Linc, and Julie's help decides to bring the matter to a Jewish court.

  • E13
    Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break
    Aired · Wed, Dec 24, 1969 · 60m

    Pete, Linc, and Julie go undercover to trap a suave, charming veteran con man. His latest targets are three gullible elderly widows.

  • E14
    The Debt
    Aired · Wed, Dec 31, 1969 · 60m

    After a young man helps Pete when he is attacked by hoodlums, Pete learns the man's father may be plotting a serious crime.

  • E15
    Sweet Child of Terror
    Aired · Wed, Jan 7, 1970 · 60m

    An embittered handyman kidnaps Julie, mistaking her for the daughter of the woman who fired him.

  • E16
    The King of Empty Cups
    Aired · Wed, Jan 21, 1970 · 60m

    Chief Metcalf asks the squad to find his daughter, who has left home despondent after the death of her fiancé in Vietnam. They find her, addicted to drugs and part of a decadent rock star's coterie.

  • E17
    A Town Called Sincere
    Aired · Wed, Jan 28, 1970 · 60m

    While on a motorcycle trip to Mexico, Pete and Linc are detoured by a biker gang into a border town and held hostage along with all of the town's residents. The gang refuses to leave until they find out who in the town killed two of their members.

  • E18
    The Exile
    Aired · Wed, Feb 4, 1970 · 60m

    Julie's romance with a charming foreign exchange student turns dangerous when it's revealed that he's really a Middle Eastern Prince who's targeted for assassination by emissaries from his country.

  • E19
    Survival House
    Aired · Wed, Feb 11, 1970 · 60m

    A founder of a halfway house for drug addicts is wrongfully accused of statutory rape of a minor. Pete and Linc work undercover as tenants to find the person who framed him.

  • E20
    Mother of Sorrow
    Aired · Wed, Feb 18, 1970 · 60m

    Pete's fraternity brother Curtis Bell casually tells him that he's going to kill a girl. When that very girl is found murdered, the trio investigate. Curtis happily tells them just how the murder was committed. But Pete and the others wonder if he really killed her, or is just trying to get attention from his neglectful mother.

  • E21
    The Deadly Sin
    Aired · Wed, Feb 25, 1970 · 60m

    A set of rosary beads found on a corpse are traced to a young novice, who witnessed her father, a Syndicate figure, commit the murder. The Squad tries to help her sort out the situation, while higher-up mobsters from out of state plot to kill the girl.

  • E22
    A Time for Remembering
    Aired · Wed, Mar 4, 1970 · 60m

    As the trio reminisces over two years together, and Pete considers quitting the group to work with his father, an old nemesis arrives: Beau Graves, one of those they helped put in jail in the premier episode. He has just been paroled and has come seeking revenge against the trio.

  • E23
    Return to Darkness, Return to Light
    Aired · Wed, Mar 18, 1970 · 60m

    Janny Wills, first introduced in the first season episode "A Hint Of Darkness, A Hint Of Light", invites Linc, Pete, and Julie to meet her new fiancé, Dr. Frank Tarver. Tarver doesn't tell them that he is being threatened by a man blaming him for his daughter's death. But when the trio investigates further, they find that Tarver may not be who he seems.

  • E24
    Call Back Yesterday
    Aired · Wed, Mar 25, 1970 · 60m

    Pete visits his Beverly Hills home to try to help his old girlfriend, who believes her father is being kept in a mental ward against his will and manipulated by her uncle and cousin. While there, Pete also reunites with his mother.

  • E25
    Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!
    Aired · Wed, Apr 1, 1970 · 60m

    The Squad goes undercover on a movie set to aid a director whose film is being sabotaged. The film is based on a real life murder case from twenty years before that Greer worked on.

  • E26
    The Loser
    Aired · Wed, Apr 8, 1970 · 60m

    After he tries to stop a runaway car, the son of a former cop and friend of Captain Greer is charged with stealing the vehicle. Then it is learned that the car, which belonged to a judicial candidate's campaign worker, was also involved in a hit and run. The trio goes undercover at the candidate's headquarters to further investigate.

Season 3
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    Long Road Home
    Aired · Tue, Sep 22, 1970 · 60m

    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.

  • E2
    See the Eagles Dying
    Aired · Tue, Sep 29, 1970 · 60m

    A friend of Captain Greer asks the trio to help find out what's bothering his daughter, who has been acting strangely since she's been associating with a group of motorcyclists who also engage in skydiving. The group let an old derelict go with them on a dive and jump, but the old man never opened his parachute.

  • E3
    Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?
    Aired · Tue, Oct 6, 1970 · 60m

    Linc receives a desperate call from an old friend, now an inmate at a mental institution. Shortly afterward, the friend is dead of "heart failure", only the latest of a number of strange deaths at the place. Linc goes undercover as a patient at the institution, hoping to find out what's going on.

  • E4
    'A' Is for Annie
    Aired · Tue, Oct 13, 1970 · 60m

    Julie comes to the assistance of her old teacher, who is being targeted by others in her community for teaching sex education in school.

  • E5
    The Song of Willie
    Aired · Tue, Oct 20, 1970 · 60m

    Linc works undercover as an assistant to his childhood friend, movie star Willie Rush, 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.

  • E6
    Search and Destroy
    Aired · Wed, Oct 28, 1970 · 60m

    A hard nosed ex-cop returns from Vietnam to investigate the death of his brother, who was killed in a car accident just after he called him and told him that he had seen a murder, and that the murderer was an undercover cop.

  • E7
    Just Ring the Bell Once
    Aired · Wed, Nov 4, 1970 · 60m

    The trio becomes involved in the case of a young boy who's being raised in an orphanage. His mother is not taking care of him, but she does not want to give him up for adoption, and she is involved with a drug dealer.

  • E8
    Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee!
    Aired · Wed, Nov 11, 1970 · 60m

    Pete and the Squad try to clear a young Apache falsely accused of murdering a man in a small desert town.

  • E9
    A Far Away Place So Near
    Aired · Wed, Nov 18, 1970 · 60m

    Linc comes to the airport to meet a friend who is returning from Vietnam, only to learn that he was killed by a sniper on the day he was supposed to go home. Suspicious of the story of how his friend died, he wonders if any of the four other servicemen in his unit who have returned know more than they are telling.

  • E10
    A Time of Hyacinths
    Aired · Wed, Dec 2, 1970 · 60m

    Julie becomes involved with a mysterious stranger, a movie actor believed to have died twenty years earlier.

  • E11
    The Judas Trap
    Aired · Wed, Dec 9, 1970 · 60m

    The head of a local campus ROTC is murdered, and the main suspect is the man's mentally disabled teenage son, whom he had frequently beaten. However, Pete and Linc, who have befriended the youth, believe he is innocent.

  • E12
    Fever
    Aired · Wed, Dec 16, 1970 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    Is There Anyone Left In Santa Paula?
    Aired · Wed, Dec 30, 1970 · 60m

    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.

  • E14
    A Short Course in War
    Aired · Wed, Jan 6, 1971 · 60m

    An attention starved misfit gunman 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, who has a heart condition but left her medication in her car.

  • E15
    Kicks Incorporated
    Aired · Wed, Jan 13, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer's.

  • E16
    A Bummer for R.J.
    Aired · Wed, Jan 20, 1971 · 60m

    Carl Betz plays a disillusioned solid citizen who becomes involved in the death of a hippie girl. He's seeking the girl's killer while his heartsick daughter searches desperately for him.

  • E17
    The Hot, Hot Car
    Aired · Wed, Jan 27, 1971 · 60m

    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.

  • E18
    Suffer, Little Children
    Aired · Wed, Feb 10, 1971 · 60m

    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.

  • E19
    Is That Justice? No, It's the Law
    Aired · Wed, Feb 17, 1971 · 60m

    Greer and another veteran cop have both been frustrated by a drug pusher they've been trying to nail, who has twice had his case dismissed on legal technicalities. Finally, the third time appears to be the clincher, as the man is caught at an airport with a case full of heroin.

  • E20
    A Double for Danger
    Aired · Wed, Feb 24, 1971 · 60m

    A girl working undercover for a cop trying to bring down a drug lord is accidentally killed. Because of her resemblance to the dead girl, Julie is quickly recruited to impersonate her and continue in the mission, despite the great risk.

  • E21
    Welcome to Our City
    Aired · Wed, Mar 3, 1971 · 60m

    The trio tries to help a boy in his search for his father, who came to L.A. from West Virginia hoping to find work. It soon becomes apparent that there are people who don't want them to find the man, and that he is in debt to loan sharks.

  • E22
    The Comeback
    Aired · Wed, Mar 10, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad helps the son of an aging ex-boxing champ who is being harassed by gamblers for inside information on his dad's return to the ring after an 11-year absence.

  • E23
    We Spy
    Aired · Wed, Mar 17, 1971 · 60m

    While working undercover as safe crackers, Pete and Linc meet a timid, clumsy young man who asks them to teach him about their trade. They learn that the young man has a twin brother who is a successful businessman. What they don't know is that the businessman is actually the leader of the industrial spying ring they are trying to investigate. And that's only the start of the surprises to come.

  • E24
    The Price of Love
    Aired · Wed, Mar 24, 1971 · 60m

    When his motorcycle breaks down on a trip, Linc stops in an abandoned town, only to discover that a kidnapped boy is being held there for ransom. The kidnappers decide to hold Linc as well until they get the money.

Season 4
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Sentinels
    Aired · Tue, Sep 14, 1971 · 60m

    While searching for a pair of murderers, the trio uncovers a link between murder, a stolen car and a threatened epidemic.

  • E2
    Cricket
    Aired · Tue, Sep 21, 1971 · 60m

    Julie and a young boy named Cricket go to the park where Cricket finds a gun dropped by a man he runs into. Cricket then accidentally shoots Julie and, thinking he's killed her, runs away.

  • E3
    Home Is the Streets
    Aired · Tue, Sep 28, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad pursues a dope pusher on the run for shooting two policemen.

  • E4
    Survival
    Aired · Tue, Oct 5, 1971 · 60m

    After Julie picks up a blind hitchhiker, they have a flat tire and flag down a passing car for help. Unfortunately, the people in the car trick them into switching cars and abandon them in the desert.

  • E5
    Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
    Aired · Tue, Oct 12, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad investigates a circus carnival that is being sabotaged before its opening day. The circus' owner vows the show will go on, despite it being in more danger of additional accidents.

  • E6
    The Medicine Men
    Aired · Tue, Oct 19, 1971 · 60m

    Julie falls in love with a young doctor who is being blackmailed by one of his fellow students from medical school.

  • E7
    The Sands of Anger
    Aired · Tue, Oct 26, 1971 · 60m

    Julie, Linc and Pete attend a dune buggy race where a pickup truck blows up, killing a young man Julie had just met. The trio then investigate the incident, suspecting foul play.

  • E8
    The Poisoned Mind
    Aired · Wed, Nov 3, 1971 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    Exit the Closer
    Aired · Wed, Nov 10, 1971 · 60m

    The trio helps a used car salesman who's made a deal with the devil.

  • E10
    Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?
    Aired · Wed, Nov 17, 1971 · 60m

    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?

  • E11
    And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them
    Aired · Wed, Nov 24, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad tries to protect a TV clown whose life is in danger.

  • E12
    The Loser
    Aired · Wed, Dec 1, 1971 · 60m

    The Squad defends a drug dealer, whose daughter is a sick child in need of medical care; his associate has marked him for murder.

  • E13
    Death of a Nobody
    Aired · Wed, Dec 8, 1971 · 60m

    A woman is killed by a hit and run driver, but Pete is sure he was the intended victim.

  • E14
    Feet of Clay
    Aired · Wed, Dec 15, 1971 · 60m

    A young deaf-mute is credited as a hero after he saves a guard from a warehouse fire just as Pete, Linc, and Julie come upon the scene. But someone is trying to kill the young man, who seems ashamed by all the attention he's getting, and may know more than he's letting on.

  • E15
    I Am My Brother's Keeper
    Aired · Wed, Jan 5, 1972 · 60m

    Linc, Julie, and Greer race against time to find Pete, who has left the hospital prematurely after being run down by a car. He is determined to find out who murdered the friend he was meeting, and is unaware that he has a dangerous blood clot which could kill him. The killers of his friend are also looking for Pete, planning to kill him as well.

  • E16
    Deal with the Devil
    Aired · Wed, Jan 12, 1972 · 60m

    Pete is contacted by his old friend Rusty Bryson, a war correspondent whom he knew and idolized as a boy. But the Treasury department is looking for Bryson, who it suspects of smuggling drugs from Vietnam.

  • E17
    Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie
    Aired · Wed, Jan 19, 1972 · 60m

    A convicted murderer out on parole goes on a mission to kill Pete, who he mistakenly believes was responsible for a savage beating he suffered years earlier.

  • E18
    Shockwave
    Aired · Wed, Jan 26, 1972 · 60m

    Julie becomes emotionally attached to an abandoned baby whose parents are terrorizing the area with armed robberies.

  • E19
    No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland
    Aired · Wed, Feb 2, 1972 · 60m

    A Vietnam veteran returns to the police force with questionable ideas of dealing with dissident ghetto residents.

  • E20
    The Cave
    Aired · Wed, Feb 9, 1972 · 60m

    Julie, Linc and Pete break down in the desert during a sandstorm and seek shelter in an abandoned mine. An old man embittered by the death of his son in the war who hates hippies then sets off dynamite and traps the trio inside.

  • E21
    The Wild Weekend
    Aired · Wed, Feb 16, 1972 · 60m

    Pete is kidnapped and almost killed by the jealous boyfriend of his former fiancée.

  • E22
    The Tangled Web
    Aired · Wed, Feb 23, 1972 · 60m

    Pete and Linc come close to breaking the law as they attempt to help a parolee, an old friend of Julie's, return stolen jewelry.

  • E23
    Outside Position
    Aired · Wed, Mar 1, 1972 · 60m

    A stable boy's employer frames him for possessing drugs and continues conspiring against him after his parole, all in order to stop the young man's romance with his daughter.

  • E24
    Big George
    Aired · Wed, Mar 8, 1972 · 60m

    A man happens to witness the murder of a sales clerk and agrees to testify at the trial. As a result he and his family are relentlessly terrorized by someone, even after the trial has ended.

Season 5
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Connection (1)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 15, 1972 · 60m

    When Greer is seriously hurt by 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 leads the Squad on their most challenging assignment ever, looking at every possible connection.

  • E2
    The Connection (2)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 15, 1972 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    The Thunder Makers
    Aired · Fri, Sep 22, 1972 · 60m

    The Squad investigates when a youth 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.

  • E4
    Yesterday's Ashes
    Aired · Fri, Sep 29, 1972 · 60m

    The Squad witnesses a shoplifting by a badly scarred woman and arranges plastic surgery, believing it would prevent her from a life of crime.

  • E5
    A Gift for Jenny
    Aired · Fri, Oct 6, 1972 · 60m

    A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.

  • E6
    Taps, Play It Louder
    Aired · Fri, Oct 13, 1972 · 60m

    The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.

  • E7
    Eyes of the Beholder
    Aired · Fri, Oct 20, 1972 · 60m

    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, although her surgeon fears the positive results may not be permanent.

  • E8
    Good Times Are Just Memories
    Aired · Fri, Oct 27, 1972 · 60m

    A police lieutenant involved in a jewel theft ring murders an informer and plants evidence implicating Pete as the killer.

  • E9
    Corbey
    Aired · Fri, Nov 3, 1972 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    Can You Hear Me Out There?
    Aired · Fri, Nov 10, 1972 · 60m

    A rash of car thefts appear to be connected to a particular radio station and a puzzling code. Pete becomes friends with the car thief while Julie and Linc check out the station.

  • E11
    Another Final Game
    Aired · Fri, Nov 17, 1972 · 60m

    When a con man takes a little old lady friend of Linc's for $600, Pete and Julie assume the roles of a wealthy young couple to lure the bad guy.

  • E12
    Crime Club
    Aired · Fri, Nov 24, 1972 · 60m

    The Squad matches wits with a group of students with genius IQs responsible for bizarre headline making robberies.

  • E13
    The Twain
    Aired · Fri, Dec 1, 1972 · 60m

    A Korean girl finds trouble in her search for her American father. Pete accidentally hits her with his car after she runs from the scene of a murder she witnessed, and the killers are still after her.

  • E14
    Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
    Aired · Fri, Dec 8, 1972 · 60m

    The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.Note: Songs "Bitter Weeds" and "Take Me Along", words and music by Peggy Lipton.

  • E15
    Kristie
    Aired · Fri, Dec 15, 1972 · 60m

    A little girl's father gets in trouble with jewel thieves just before Christmas. He leaves his daughter with Pete, an old friend, but then doesn't return for her as promised, and the trio tries to find him.

  • E16
    Sanctuary
    Aired · Sat, Dec 22, 1973 · 60m

    Julie is hit by a truck after collecting evidence against a mobster. Though her injuries are not serious, she is kept in the hospital for her protection. But she is still in danger from people working for the syndicate who want to keep her from testifying.

  • E17
    Run, Lincoln, Run
    Aired · Fri, Jan 5, 1973 · 60m

    A friend of Linc's is caught in the clutches of loan sharks and forced to set Linc up for elimination.

  • E18
    Don't Kill My Child
    Aired · Fri, Jan 19, 1973 · 60m

    Although a stepfather confesses to child beating, the Squad believes the mother is guilty.

  • E19
    Death in High Places
    Aired · Fri, Jan 26, 1973 · 60m

    Linc takes an undercover job as a high steel construction worker to find his friend's murderer.

  • E20
    Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
    Aired · Fri, Feb 2, 1973 · 60m

    The trio investigates a euthanasia that may turn out to be murder. The accused man, who killed his terminally ill wife, claims she was in intolerable pain, but doctors say she was receiving too much morphine to be suffering that much.

  • E21
    Scion of Death
    Aired · Fri, Feb 9, 1973 · 60m

    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.

  • E22
    The Night Holds Terror
    Aired · Fri, Feb 16, 1973 · 60m

    Convalescing in the home of a doctor and his wife, Julie is terrorized by a man who vows to kill everyone in the house.

  • E23
    Cry Uncle
    Aired · Fri, Feb 23, 1973 · 60m

    The visit of Captain Greer's eccentric Uncle Max, a Greek painter, coincides with a series of art thefts. The robberies are baffling police as the guards can recall no one entering or leaving the galleries.

  • E24
    And Once for My Baby
    Aired · Fri, Mar 2, 1973 · 60m

    The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife is an unknowing victim of cervical cancer.