The Mod Squad
The Connection (1)
TV Flash files “The Connection (1)” as a desk essential hour — The Mod Squad (1968–1973) on ABC, season 5, episode 1, aired 1972-09-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 101 of 124 in the The Mod Squad guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 1972-09-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Big George” (S04E24). Next is “The Connection (2)” (S05E02).
Essential hour: “The Connection (1)”. The Connection (1) opens the last season as a two-door hour: Spelling's youth cops at the end of their undercover lease.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Connection (1) sit in the The Mod Squad guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 101 of 124 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did The Mod Squad S05E01 air?
The Connection (1) aired 1972-09-14 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
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- 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…