The Mod Squad
The Teeth of the Barracuda
TV Flash files “The Teeth of the Barracuda” as a desk essential hour — The Mod Squad (1968–1973) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1968-09-24, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 124 in the The Mod Squad guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1968-09-24 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Bad Man on Campus” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “The Teeth of the Barracuda”. The Teeth of the Barracuda is the 1968 poster: Cole, Williams, Lipton as young undercovers with records, fighting the system from inside.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Teeth of the Barracuda sit in the The Mod Squad guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 124 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did The Mod Squad S01E01 air?
The Teeth of the Barracuda aired 1968-09-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Pete, Linc, and Julie on an undercover youth-case hour is the poster: Cole, Williams, Lipton, social-issue crime with fashion. Capt. Greer is the establishment foil.
In the series
Why this series still plays
One Black, one white, one blonde — three young undercover cops with records, fighting the system from inside Aaron Spelling's youth-crime franchise. Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, and Peggy Lipton photographed like a poster while late-sixties social issues rode along. Establishment television wearing love beads.
The poster is the form. ABC's *The Mod Squad* (1968–1973) photographs Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, and Peggy Lipton as one Black, one white, one blonde — three young undercover cops with records, fighting the system from inside Aaron Spelling's youth-crime franchise. Tige Andrews as Capt. Greer. Leather, social issues, parental-generation bosses. Bud Ruskin and Spelling packaged troubled youths recruited to infiltrate youth-crime cases. Five seasons of establishment television wearing love beads. The trio…
Filed against
- Michael Cole as Pete Cochran
Michael Cole’s Pete Cochran photographed The Mod Squad like a poster that could still arrest you — one Black, one white, one blonde, three young undercover cops with records, Aaron Spelling’s late-sixties youth-crime franchise. Social…
- Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes
Clarence Williams III played Linc Hayes on The Mod Squad — one Black, one white, one blonde, three young undercover cops with records, fighting the system from inside Aaron Spelling's youth-crime franchise. Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, a…
- Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes
Peggy Lipton played Julie Barnes on The Mod Squad, Aaron Spelling’s 1960s youth-crime franchise — one Black, one white, one blonde, three young undercover cops with records, fighting the system from inside. Photographed like a poster…
- Tige Andrews as Capt. Adam Greer
Tige Andrews supervised The Mod Squad as Capt. Adam Greer — one Black, one white, one blonde, three young undercover cops with records, fighting the system from inside Aaron Spelling's youth-crime franchise. Late-sixties social issues…