The F.B.I.
The Extortionist
TV Flash files “The Extortionist” as the last listed hour of season 2 — The F.B.I. (1965–1974) on ABC, season 2, episode 29, aired 1967-04-16, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E29: listed hour 61 of 241 in the The F.B.I. guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1967-04-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Force of Nature” (S02E28). Next is “The Gold Card” (S03E01).
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Extortionist sit in the The F.B.I. guide?
S02E29 is listed hour 61 of 241 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 29.
When did The F.B.I. S02E29 air?
The Extortionist aired 1967-04-16 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.
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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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