The Mod Squad
The Judas Trap
TV Flash files “The Judas Trap” as a desk essential hour — The Mod Squad (1968–1973) on ABC, season 3, episode 11, aired 1970-12-08, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 63 of 124 in the The Mod Squad guide, hour 11 of 24 in season 3. It aired 1970-12-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Time of Hyacinths” (S03E10). Next is “Fever” (S03E12).
Essential hour: “The Judas Trap”. The Judas Trap — mid-run title as betrayal grammar, the trio still photographed like a poster while the casework ticks.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Judas Trap sit in the The Mod Squad guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 63 of 124 — hour 11 of 24 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did The Mod Squad S03E11 air?
The Judas Trap aired 1970-12-08 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…