Episode guide
The Mod Squad
124 episodes · 5 seasons · 1968–1973 · ABC
Season
Season 1
26 episodes
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S01E01 The Teeth of the Barracuda 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.
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S01E02 Bad Man on Campus 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.
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S01E03 My, What a Pretty Bus The Squad go undercover in a prison to investigate one case but accidentally stumble onto another one involving counterfeiters.
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S01E04 When Smitty Comes Marching Home Linc tries to help an old friend, a returning Vietnam War soldier, after he is framed for the murder of a policemen.
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S01E05 You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer dating service operating in blackmail.
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S01E06 A Time to Love - A Time to Cry A photographer wakes up in his studio and discovers his model is dead. The Squad works to clear him of her murder.
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S01E07 Find Tara Chapman! 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.
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S01E08 The Price of Terror The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.
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S01E09 A Quiet Weekend in the Country Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant.
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S01E10 Love Pete's cousin Karen turns to kidnapping to gain her parents attention after they are distracted by the new baby.
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S01E11 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet When several young, blonde actresses are murdered by a serial strangler, Julie goes undercover as an aspiring actress, hoping to catch the killer.
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S01E12 The Guru Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.
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S01E13 The Sunday Drivers Linc is convinced that the death of his stunt driver friend was not accidental. The trio investigates and uncover a drug smuggling operation.
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S01E14 Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie 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.
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S01E15 Flight Five Doesn't Answer 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.
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S01E16 Shell Game 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.
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S01E17 Fear Is the Bucking Horse Pete and Linc go undercover in a rodeo after a movie stuntman is nearly killed by an unknown shooter.
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S01E18 A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light 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.
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S01E19 The Uptight Town The Squad searches for Captain Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town, only to find the townspeople not particularly helpful.
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S01E20 A Reign of Guns The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns.
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S01E21 A Run for the Money Pete's girlfriend gets him tangled up in a mess involving her convict father and stolen money.
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S01E22 Child of Sorrow, Child of Light Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.
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S01E23 Keep the Faith, Baby 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.
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S01E24 Captain Greer, Call Surgery Someone is stealing narcotics from area hospitals and Greer has the team go undercover in what he thinks will be the next target.
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S01E25 Peace Now - Arly Blau 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.
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S01E26 A Seat by the Window 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
Season 2
26 episodes
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S02E01 The Girl in Chair Nine Capt. Greer reluctantly enlists the aid of a psychic to help find a kidnapped coed.
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S02E02 My Name Is Manolete 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.
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S02E03 An Eye for an Eye Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang.
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S02E04 Ride the Man Down 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.
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S02E05 To Linc - With Love 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.
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S02E06 Lisa The squad is unaware that the writer they are assigned to protect has a split personality.
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S02E07 Confrontation! 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.
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S02E08 Willie Poor Boy 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.
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S02E09 The Death of Bill Hannachek 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.
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S02E10 A Place to Run, A Heart to Hide In 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.
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S02E11 The Healer 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.
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S02E12 In This Corner - Sol Alpert 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.
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S02E13 Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break Pete, Linc, and Julie go undercover to trap a suave, charming veteran con man. His latest targets are three gullible elderly widows.
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S02E14 The Debt After a young man helps Pete when he is attacked by hoodlums, Pete learns the man's father may be plotting a serious crime.
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S02E15 Sweet Child of Terror An embittered handyman kidnaps Julie, mistaking her for the daughter of the woman who fired him.
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S02E16 The King of Empty Cups 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.
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S02E17 A Town Called Sincere 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.
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S02E18 The Exile 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.
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S02E19 Survival House 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.
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S02E20 Mother of Sorrow 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.
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S02E21 The Deadly Sin 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.
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S02E22 A Time for Remembering 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.
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S02E23 Return to Darkness, Return to Light 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.
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S02E24 Call Back Yesterday 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.
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S02E25 Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot! 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.
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S02E26 The Loser 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
Season 3
24 episodes
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S03E01 Long Road Home 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.
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S03E02 See the Eagles Dying 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.
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S03E03 Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates? 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.
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S03E04 'A' Is for Annie Julie comes to the assistance of her old teacher, who is being targeted by others in her community for teaching sex education in school.
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S03E05 The Song of Willie 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.
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S03E06 Search and Destroy 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.
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S03E07 Just Ring the Bell Once 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.
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S03E08 Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee! Pete and the Squad try to clear a young Apache falsely accused of murdering a man in a small desert town.
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S03E09 A Far Away Place So Near 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.
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S03E10 A Time of Hyacinths Julie becomes involved with a mysterious stranger, a movie actor believed to have died twenty years earlier.
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S03E11 The Judas Trap 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.
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S03E12 Fever 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.
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S03E13 Is There Anyone Left In Santa Paula? 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.
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S03E14 A Short Course in War 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.
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S03E15 Kicks Incorporated The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer's.
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S03E16 A Bummer for R.J. 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.
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S03E17 The Hot, Hot Car 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.
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S03E18 Suffer, Little Children 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.
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S03E19 Is That Justice? No, It's the Law 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.
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S03E20 A Double for Danger 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.
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S03E21 Welcome to Our City 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.
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S03E22 The Comeback 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.
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S03E23 We Spy 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.
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S03E24 The Price of Love 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
Season 4
24 episodes
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S04E01 The Sentinels While searching for a pair of murderers, the trio uncovers a link between murder, a stolen car and a threatened epidemic.
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S04E02 Cricket 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.
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S04E03 Home Is the Streets The Squad pursues a dope pusher on the run for shooting two policemen.
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S04E04 Survival 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.
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S04E05 Color of Laughter, Color of Tears 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.
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S04E06 The Medicine Men Julie falls in love with a young doctor who is being blackmailed by one of his fellow students from medical school.
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S04E07 The Sands of Anger 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.
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S04E08 The Poisoned Mind 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.
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S04E09 Exit the Closer The trio helps a used car salesman who's made a deal with the devil.
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S04E10 Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes? 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?
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S04E11 And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them The Squad tries to protect a TV clown whose life is in danger.
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S04E12 The Loser The Squad defends a drug dealer, whose daughter is a sick child in need of medical care; his associate has marked him for murder.
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S04E13 Death of a Nobody A woman is killed by a hit and run driver, but Pete is sure he was the intended victim.
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S04E14 Feet of Clay 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.
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S04E15 I Am My Brother's Keeper 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.
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S04E16 Deal with the Devil 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.
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S04E17 Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie 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.
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S04E18 Shockwave Julie becomes emotionally attached to an abandoned baby whose parents are terrorizing the area with armed robberies.
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S04E19 No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland A Vietnam veteran returns to the police force with questionable ideas of dealing with dissident ghetto residents.
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S04E20 The Cave 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.
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S04E21 The Wild Weekend Pete is kidnapped and almost killed by the jealous boyfriend of his former fiancée.
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S04E22 The Tangled Web 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.
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S04E23 Outside Position 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.
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S04E24 Big George 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
Season 5
24 episodes
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S05E01 The Connection (1) 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.
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S05E02 The Connection (2) 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.
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S05E03 The Thunder Makers 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.
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S05E04 Yesterday's Ashes The Squad witnesses a shoplifting by a badly scarred woman and arranges plastic surgery, believing it would prevent her from a life of crime.
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S05E05 A Gift for Jenny A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.
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S05E06 Taps, Play It Louder The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.
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S05E07 Eyes of the Beholder 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.
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S05E08 Good Times Are Just Memories A police lieutenant involved in a jewel theft ring murders an informer and plants evidence implicating Pete as the killer.
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S05E09 Corbey 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.
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S05E10 Can You Hear Me Out There? 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.
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S05E11 Another Final Game 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.
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S05E12 Crime Club The Squad matches wits with a group of students with genius IQs responsible for bizarre headline making robberies.
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S05E13 The Twain 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.
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S05E14 Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum 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.
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S05E15 Kristie 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.
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S05E16 Sanctuary 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.
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S05E17 Run, Lincoln, Run A friend of Linc's is caught in the clutches of loan sharks and forced to set Linc up for elimination.
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S05E18 Don't Kill My Child Although a stepfather confesses to child beating, the Squad believes the mother is guilty.
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S05E19 Death in High Places Linc takes an undercover job as a high steel construction worker to find his friend's murderer.
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S05E20 Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death 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.
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S05E21 Scion of Death 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.
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S05E22 The Night Holds Terror Convalescing in the home of a doctor and his wife, Julie is terrorized by a man who vows to kill everyone in the house.
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S05E23 Cry Uncle 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.
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S05E24 And Once for My Baby The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife is an unknowing victim of cervical cancer.