The Mod Squad
And Once for My Baby
TV Flash files “And Once for My Baby” as a desk essential hour — The Mod Squad (1968–1973) on ABC, season 5, episode 24, aired 1973-03-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E24: listed hour 124 of 124 in the The Mod Squad guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 1973-03-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Cry Uncle” (S05E23). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “And Once for My Baby”. And Once for My Baby closes five ABC seasons of establishment-needling crime TV — hop-friendly, fashion-forward, catalog-honest.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife is an unknowing victim of cervical cancer.
Viewer FAQ
Where does And Once for My Baby sit in the The Mod Squad guide?
S05E24 is listed hour 124 of 124 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 24.
When did The Mod Squad S05E24 air?
And Once for My Baby aired 1973-03-01 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…