The F.B.I.
The Death Wind
TV Flash files “The Death Wind” as hour 46 of 241 in the TV Flash guide — The F.B.I. (1965–1974) on ABC, season 2, episode 14, aired 1966-12-25, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E14: listed hour 46 of 241 in the The F.B.I. guide, hour 14 of 29 in season 2. It aired 1966-12-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “List for a Firing Squad” (S02E13). Next is “The Raid” (S02E15).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Death Wind sit in the The F.B.I. guide?
S02E14 is listed hour 46 of 241 — hour 14 of 29 in season 2, season 2 episode 14.
When did The F.B.I. S02E14 air?
The Death Wind aired 1966-12-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Zimbalist's Erskine on a federal manhunt hour is the polish: Quinn Martin case-file cool, Bureau-inspired plotting. Weekly Most Wanted energy, not a serialized mole hunt you must enter at episode one.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The F.B.I. is Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Erskine, case-file cool with the Bureau's cooperation — and J. Edgar Hoover's shadow in the production lore. Quinn Martin packaged Most Wanted energy as weekly procedural myth. Mid-sixties crime TV as official branding: federal polish, nationwide manhunts, and a series that treated the badge as drama engine and public-relations campaign.
The silhouette is a badge with a handshake. *Federal polish, Most Wanted energy, case-file cool as official branding.* The F.B.I. is Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Lewis Erskine — Quinn Martin's ABC drama (1965–1974; nine seasons, 241 episodes) packaged with the Bureau's cooperation, and J. Edgar Hoover's shadow in the production lore. Philip Abbott's Arthur Ward and William Reynolds's Tom Colby in the orbit. Dramatized cases inspired by Bureau files, spies to bank robbers. **This was not a private-eye bruise;…
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- Philip Abbott as Arthur Ward
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- William Reynolds as Special Agent Tom Colby
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