Season 4

1. S04E01

   Lamb to the Slaughter

   1975-09-09

   When burglar Brad Gifford is arrested, his cop-hating, now orphaned son, Jody, is taken to Lambert Hall where he is befriended by Ryker, a former orphan himself. Jody is just beginning to trust and like Ryker when his father escapes custody and comes for him.

2. S04E02

   Reading Writing and Angel Dust

   1975-09-16

   After the tragic death of a bright high school student, the Rookies put in a team effort to get the pushers off the school campus. They get some help from a pusher who is pretending to scorch for the source.

3. S04E03

   One-Way Street to Nowhere

   1975-09-23

   Mike is critically injured when he tries to capture the leader of a militant group and Terry is taken hostage.

4. S04E04

   Someone Who Cares

   1975-09-30

   An unidentified nine-year-old girl is accidentally hit by a car after two hedonistic "swinging single" men spike her lunch with narcotics. Before she dies, she begs Terry for help. Terry, reluctant to let her die a Jane Doe, investigates.

5. S04E05

   Ladies Day (a.k.a.) Ladies Kill, Too

   1975-10-07

   Jill Danko is working in a women's prison, fighting an outbreak of diphtheria. In order to protest for better food and working conditions, inmates take Jill and Dr. Malcolm hostage.

6. S04E06

   Reign of Terror

   1975-10-14

   Young crooks Pat Stevens and Glen Barton rob ticket agent Brewster and shoot rookie Chris. The scene is witnessed by mailman Charlie Brooks, who is adamant about not getting involved.

7. S04E07

   Death Lady

   1975-10-21

   A female officer is blamed for her partner's death during a jewelry store robbery. With her new partner, Mike, she sets out to solve the crime and prove her worth to the police department.

8. S04E08

   Measure of Mercy

   1975-10-28

   The Rookies must investigate a robbery at Memorial Hospital. The blood bank was robbed and its contents sold to the black market, leaving an infant at the hospital on the critical list.

9. S04E09

   A Time to Mourn

   1975-11-04

   Chris' sister makes a surprise visit on her brother. He is suspended after conducting an unauthorized bust of the man who molested her.

10. S04E10

    The Torch Man

    1975-11-11

    An ex-convict out on parole desperately wants to go straight, but is sought after by his ex-cellmates to use his safe-cracking abilities in a robbery.

11. S04E11

    Invitation to a Rumble

    1975-11-18

    Terry is run down by a car driven by the leader of a street gang in his old neighborhood. When one of the members of the gang is overheard calling for an ambulance, he is forced to kill Terry or he will be killed by the gang for betrayal.

12. S04E12

    Reluctant Hero

    1975-11-25

    A rookie accidentally overpowers a professional assassin and is named "hero." The assassin vows to kill the rookie and escapes with Jill as a hostage, offering to exchange her for the rookie.

13. S04E13

    Dead Heat

    1975-12-02

    Chris and Terry have their patrol car stolen by teenage vandals while investigating a major robbery in a department store, and three heavily armed killers trap them there.

14. S04E14

    The Voice of Thunder

    1975-12-09

    After a series of Sunday bombings of porno bookshops and massage parlors sweep the city, Chris and Terry recognize the same girl at the scene of each incident. The dangerously schizophrenic top fashion model believes she is being instructed by a supreme being.

15. S04E15

    The Code Five Affair

    1975-12-16

    The rookies stake out an abandoned factory where a heroin deal is about to take place, and are able to seize the drugs and arrest all but one man. This man must get the heroin back from the police.

16. S04E16

    Shadow of a Man

    1975-12-23

    Forest, a tough career cop, takes $10,000 from the scene of a robbery after his partner is killed by the robbers. Lt. Ryker puts an undercover investigator on the case to retrieve the money.

17. S04E17

    Eye for an Eye

    1975-12-30

    A man who was forced to spend eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit is determined to get the men who framed him.

18. S04E18

    Sudden Death (a.k.a.) Return From the Past

    1976-01-06

    Mike, a former helicopter pilot in Vietnam, becomes the prey of a deranged ex-POW who blames the policeman for his capture by the Vietcong.

19. S04E19

    From Out of the Darkness

    1976-01-20

    Terry vows to find the murderer of Dan Kennedy, a retired cop turned security guard. Dan was the father of a blind girl, Terry's former girlfriend.

20. S04E20

    The Mugging

    1976-01-27

    After a woman is fatally assaulted by three junkies, her son, a doctor in the same hospital where Jill works, announces his intention to get revenge against the three, who were released from jail on a technicality.

21. S04E21

    Blue Movie, Blue Death

    1976-02-24

    The Rookies are given undercover assignments in order to smash a syndicate-owned porno film company responsible for the deaths of some of its actors.

22. S04E22

    Deliver Me From Innocence

    1976-03-02

    A frightened sixteen-year-old boy is forced to take the blame for the crimes of a junkie he has become mixed up with. The two had committed a burglary and escaped after killing a cop. The boy is Terry's current girlfriend's brother.

23. S04E23

    Journey to Oblivion

    1976-03-30

    A gambler kills his creditor and is witnessed by Jill Danko, whom he and his accomplice must now do away with.

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