The Mod Squad
Return to Darkness, Return to Light
TV Flash files “Return to Darkness, Return to Light” as hour 49 of 124 in the TV Flash guide — The Mod Squad (1968–1973) on ABC, season 2, episode 23, aired 1970-03-17, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E23: listed hour 49 of 124 in the The Mod Squad guide, hour 23 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1970-03-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Time for Remembering” (S02E22). Next is “Call Back Yesterday” (S02E24).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Return to Darkness, Return to Light sit in the The Mod Squad guide?
S02E23 is listed hour 49 of 124 — hour 23 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 23.
When did The Mod Squad S02E23 air?
Return to Darkness, Return to Light aired 1970-03-17 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…