List of The Mod Squad episodes
This is a list of episodes for the television series The Mod Squad.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 26 | September 24, 1968 | April 15, 1969 | ||
| 2 | 26 | September 23, 1969 | April 7, 1970 | ||
| 3 | 24 | September 22, 1970 | March 23, 1971 | ||
| 4 | 24 | September 14, 1971 | March 7, 1972 | ||
| 5 | 24 | September 14, 1972 | March 1, 1973 | ||
| Television film | May 18, 1979 | ||||
Episodes
Season 1 (1968–69)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Teeth of the Barracuda" | Lee H. Katzin | Tony Barrett | September 24, 1968 | |
| 90-minute pilot (73 minutes without commercials): The origin of the Mod Squad. Greer puts his newly-formed squad to work investigating a cop killing, which the evidence suggests was the work of young people. Guest stars: Fred Beir, Brooke Bundy, Lonny Chapman, Noam Pitlik, Robert DoQui. Uncredited cameos by Harrison Ford and Richard Pryor. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Bad Man on Campus" | Earl Bellamy | Robert Heverly | October 1, 1968 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie work undercover in a high school to break up a juvenile car theft ring. Guest stars: Clive Clerk, Booker Bradshaw, Judy Pace, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Alden. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "My, What a Pretty Bus" | Gene Nelson | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | October 8, 1968 | |
| A wily ex-con, unaware that Pete, Linc and Julie are cops, recruits them for a big counterfeiting caper. Guest stars: Henry Jones, Byron Morrow, Paul Sorensen, Troy Melton, Pepper Martin, Val Avery. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "When Smitty Comes Marching Home" | George McCowan | Tony Barrett & Harve Bennett | October 22, 1968 | |
| Returning Vietnam veteran Smitty, being sought by police on a homicide charge, turns to his boyhood friend Linc for help proving his innocence. Guest stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Valerie Allen, Art Lewis, Edward Faulkner. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer" | Earl Bellamy | Story by : Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov Teleplay by : Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov & Stephen Kandel | October 29, 1968 | |
| Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer-dating service operating in blackmail. Guest stars: Linda Marsh, Julie Adams, Mark Goddard, Byron Foulger, Harry Basch, Art Metrano. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "A Time to Love, a Time to Cry" | Michael Caffey | Mel Goldberg, Warren Hamilton Jr. & Donald Wrye | November 12, 1968 | |
| A probation officer (Robert Lansing) with an eye for Julie joins the Squad in its search for a young photographer accused of murder. Harry Townes, Rex Holman, and Jerry Ayres also guest star. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Find Tara Chapman!" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett & Arthur Weingarten | November 19, 1968 | |
| The Squad tries desperately to track down a dying girl on the run who may unwittingly spark a meningitis epidemic. The girl is also wanted by a mafioso, as she witnessed a mob killing in New York City before having fled to Southern California. Guest Stars: Yvonne Craig, Della Reese, John van Dreelen, Mills Watson, Peter Leeds, Sid Melton. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Price of Terror" | Earl Bellamy | Tony Barrett | November 26, 1968 | |
| Greer is the target of an unknown assailant who has rigged a number of "close calls" to intimidate him. Guest stars: James Best, Gail Kobe, Richard Bakalyan, Herb Vigran, Harry Basch. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "A Quiet Weekend in the Country" | Jack Arnold | Tony Barrett & Jackson Gillis | December 3, 1968 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant. Guest stars: James Gregory, Ahna Capri, Dub Taylor, Irene Hervey, and Bruce Glover. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Love" | Lee H. Katzin | Story by : Tige Andrews, Jack Marlando & Tom Carota Teleplay by : Henry Rosenbaum | December 10, 1968 | |
| Pete's beloved cousin Karen (Diana Ewing) turns to crime in a desperate attempt to win the attention of her wealthy parents. Also guest starring Nina Foch and Arthur Franz. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet" | George McCowan | Jerome Ross | December 17, 1968 | |
| With Pete and Linc close by, Julie poses as a Hollywood starlet to lure into the open a serial assailant preying upon young actresses. Guest stars: Richard Evans, Joan Van Ark, William Smithers, Alan Oppenheimer, Ben Wright, Virginia Gregg, and Norman Grabowski. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Guru" | Richard Rush | Leigh Chapman | December 31, 1968 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as hippies to investigate the bombing of The Guru, an underground newspaper. Guest starring Dabney Coleman, Jane Elliot, Max Julien, and Adam Roarke. (And an uncredited appearance by a pre-Brady Bunch Barry Williams as a newspaper boy.) | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Sunday Drivers" | Gene Nelson | Edward J. Lakso | January 7, 1969 | |
| Linc joins an automobile thrill circus in Las Vegas to investigate the death of a stunt-driver friend. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie" | Jack Arnold | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | January 14, 1969 | |
| Julie's mother, a former prostitute, arrives in Los Angeles to introduce Julie to the man she plans to marry. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Flight Five Doesn't Answer" | George McCowan | Stephen Kandel | January 21, 1969 | |
| While transporting a prisoner by commercial airline, Pete, Linc and Greer face death in a forced plane crash. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Shell Game" | Gene Nelson | Edward J. Lakso | January 29, 1969 | |
| Investigating a policeman's death, Pete and Linc infiltrate a gang of thieves, only to find it has kidnapped Julie. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Fear Is the Bucking Horse" | George McCowan | Tony Barrett | February 4, 1969 | |
| The Squad works a rodeo undercover to protect a TV cowboy star whose life has been threatened. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "A Hint of Darkness, a Hint of Light" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | February 11, 1969 | |
| The Squad moves into a blind woman's home, posing as houseguests, to offer protection against a mysterious assailant. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "The Uptight Town" | Earl Bellamy | Norman Katkov | February 18, 1969 | |
| The Squad searches for Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "A Reign of Guns" | Gene Nelson | Tony Barrett & Daniel B. Ullman | February 25, 1969 | |
| The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "A Run for the Money" | Harvey Hart | Edward J. Lakso | March 11, 1969 | |
| Pete, romantically involved with a girl whose father (Tom Bosley) is in prison for robbery, faces a dilemma when he finds the stolen cash. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Child of Sorrow, Child of Light" | Gene Nelson | Cliff Gould | March 18, 1969 | |
| Posing as an unwed expectant mother, Julie infiltrates an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies. Guest stars: Ida Lupino and Daniel J. Travanti | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Keep the Faith, Baby" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett | March 25, 1969 | |
| The Squad is assigned to protect the life of a militant black priest (Sammy Davis Jr.), threatened by a murderer (Robert Duvall) who is afraid he will break his seal of confession. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Captain Greer, Call Surgery" | Earl Bellamy | Anthony Lawrence | April 1, 1969 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie get undercover jobs in a hospital to block a narcotics robbery, while the hospital's head nurse was desperate to not get involved. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "Peace Now – Arly Blau" | Gene Nelson | William Wood | April 8, 1969 | |
| Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "A Seat by the Window" | Michael Caffey | Edward J. Lakso | April 15, 1969 | |
| The Squad is split up and assigned to separate charter vacation buses in an attempt to catch a bus station killer. | ||||||
Season 2 (1969–70)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "The Girl in Chair Nine" | Gene Nelson | William Bast | September 23, 1969 | |
| A mother receives a note that her daughter has been kidnapped, but the Squad soon discovers the girl was trying to cover up an illegal abortion. | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | "My Name Is Manolette" | Robert Michael Lewis | Margaret Armen | September 30, 1969 | |
| The Squad "adopts" a 9-year-old Mexican waif who has been abandoned by a gang of American thieves. | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | "An Eye for an Eye" | Earl Bellamy | Tony Barrett | October 7, 1969 | |
| Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang. | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | "Ride the Man Down" | George McCowan | William Clark | October 14, 1969 | |
| Pete finds himself framed for murder after he helps a young woman who claims to be in trouble. | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | "To Linc – with Love" | George McCowan | Carol Sobieski | October 21, 1969 | |
| Linc falls in love with an attractive young woman, but their romance is threatened when a man from her past turns up. | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | "Lisa" | Robert Michael Lewis | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | November 4, 1969 | |
| The Squad is called in to protect a successful woman writer Carolyn Jones with a split personality whose life has been threatened. | ||||||
| 33 | 7 | "Confrontation!" | Gene Nelson | George Bellak | November 11, 1969 | |
| As dissident students prepare to demand changes in a school policy, a black student is found murdered on campus and the Squad is called in to investigate. | ||||||
| 34 | 8 | "Willie Poor Boy" | George McCowan | Richard H. Landau | November 18, 1969 | |
| Pete befriends a young man caught in a robbery after learning that the suspect is illiterate. Joe Don Baker guest stars. | ||||||
| 35 | 9 | "The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek" | Earl Bellamy | Mark Saha | November 25, 1969 | |
| Julie poses as a singer at a wayside inn as the Squad investigates the death of a fading country-western singer. | ||||||
| 36 | 10 | "A Place to Run, a Heart to Hide In" | Earl Bellamy | Robert Heverly & Edward J. Lakso | December 2, 1969 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie pose as college students for the campus investigation of a young man's mysterious death. | ||||||
| 37 | 11 | "The Healer" | Earl Bellamy | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | December 9, 1969 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie investigate the activities of a faith-healer after one of his patients dies. | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | "In This Corner – Sol Albert" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Rita Lakin | December 16, 1969 | |
| After television mechanic Sol Albert (introduced the previous season in "Flight Five Doesn't Answer") was being wrongfully blamed for slum-like conditions at neighborhood apartments, Pete, Linc and Julie try to find the landlord responsible - which turned out to be Sol's cousin. | ||||||
| 39 | 13 | "Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break" | Earl Bellamy | Malvin Wald | December 23, 1969 | |
| The Squad tries to gain the confidence of the top con man in the business and catch him by becoming involved in a caper. | ||||||
| 40 | 14 | "The Debt" | Jerry Jameson | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | December 30, 1969 | |
| After a young man helps Pete when he is attacked by hoodlums, Pete learns the man's father may be plotting a serious crime. | ||||||
| 41 | 15 | "Sweet Child of Terror" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | January 6, 1970 | |
| Julie, mistaken for someone else, is kidnapped by an embittered handyman who threatens her life when he realizes his mistake. | ||||||
| 42 | 16 | "The King of Empty Cups" | Robert Michael Lewis | Sonya Roberts | January 20, 1970 | |
| Assigned to find Chief Metcalf's daughter after she disappears, the Squad's investigation leads to a pop singing idol. | ||||||
| 43 | 17 | "A Town Called Sincere" | Earl Bellamy | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | January 27, 1970 | |
| A sleepy Mexican town becomes a prison for Pete and Linc, captured by a savage motorcycle gang. The bikers center their terror tactics on the townspeople as they try to learn who killed two members of their gang. | ||||||
| 44 | 18 | "The Exile" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Don Richman | February 3, 1970 | |
| Julie falls in love with an exchange student, not knowing he is a Middle Eastern prince and in danger following a military coup. | ||||||
| 45 | 19 | "Survival House" | George McCowan | Joanna Lee | February 10, 1970 | |
| The Squad tries to help an ex-dope addict accused of attempted rape, a crime he claims he didn't commit. Sammy Davis Jr. guest stars. | ||||||
| 46 | 20 | "Mother of Sorrow" | Gene Nelson | Rita Lakin & William Wood | February 17, 1970 | |
|
Pete tries to clear an old classmate of the murder of his girlfriend. Lee Grant and Richard Dreyfuss guest star. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #95 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[1] | ||||||
| 47 | 21 | "The Deadly Sin" | Jerry Jameson | Robert M. Young | February 24, 1970 | |
| The Squad's investigation of a syndicate killing leads to a young postulant nun who witnessed the crime and is now a target. | ||||||
| 48 | 22 | "A Time for Remembering" | Gene Nelson | Harve Bennett | March 3, 1970 | |
| Shortly after Pete announces his plans to quit his undercover work, Linc is critically shot by an ex-convict seeking revenge. | ||||||
| 49 | 23 | "Return to Darkness, Return to Light" | Robert Michael Lewis | Edward J. Lakso | March 17, 1970 | |
| A blind woman's plans to marry are wrecked when Pete and Linc discover her husband-to-be is a man of many aliases. | ||||||
| 50 | 24 | "Call Back Yesterday" | Gene Nelson | John W. Bloch & Robert M. Young | March 24, 1970 | |
| Pete's mother re-enters her son's life when the Squad investigates a murder attempt on a friend of Pete's family. | ||||||
| 51 | 25 | "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!" | Robert Michael Lewis | Harve Bennett & Rita Lakin | March 31, 1970 | |
| Posing as production personnel at a movie studio, the Squad probes a series of mishaps and a twenty-year-old murder. | ||||||
| 52 | 26 | "The Loser" | Gene Nelson | Sheldon Stark | April 7, 1970 | |
| The Squad investigates a hit-and-run accident involving a stolen car when the suspect pleads his innocence. | ||||||
Season 3 (1970–71)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | "The Long Road Home" | Robert Michael Lewis | Edward J. Lakso | September 22, 1970 | |
| Pete falls in love with a young woman he has injured in an auto chase involving a robbery suspect, only to learn she is the sister of the suspect. | ||||||
| 54 | 2 | "See the Eagles Dying" | Jerry Jameson | Edward J. Lakso | September 29, 1970 | |
| Pete endangers his life by joining a skydiving group (which includes Lane Bradbury) to find out the truth about the death of a wino who was goaded into jumping but died when failing to pull his ripcord. | ||||||
| 55 | 3 | "Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?" | Gene Nelson | Richard Landau | October 6, 1970 | |
| Linc feigns insanity to get into an institution to investigate the death of a friend there. | ||||||
| 56 | 4 | "‘A’ Is for Annie" | Robert Michael Lewis | William Bast | October 13, 1970 | |
| The Squad investigates when a school teacher, under attack for her views on sex education, becomes the target of violence. | ||||||
| 57 | 5 | "The Song of Willie" | Gene Nelson | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | October 20, 1970 | |
| The Squad tries to protect a heartless black movie star (Sammy Davis, Jr.) whose life has been threatened. | ||||||
| 58 | 6 | "Search and Destroy" | Philip Leacock | David P. Harmon | October 27, 1970 | |
| The Squad's investigation of a bogus policeman and the murder of a young man is hampered by the brother of the victim. | ||||||
| 59 | 7 | "Just Ring the Bell Once" | Jerry Jameson | Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov | November 3, 1970 | |
| Linc befriends an 8-year-old boy whose mother is involved with liquor hijackers. | ||||||
| 60 | 8 | "Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee!" | Robert Michael Lewis | Walter Black | November 10, 1970 | |
| Pete and the Squad try to clear a young Apache falsely accused of murdering a man in a small desert town. | ||||||
| 61 | 9 | "A Far Away Place So Near" | Terry Becker | Theodore Apstein | November 17, 1970 | |
| The Squad investigates the mysterious death of a soldier who fails to return from Vietnam. | ||||||
| 62 | 10 | "A Time of Hyacinths" | Robert Michael Lewis | Margaret Armen | December 1, 1970 | |
| Julie becomes involved with a mysterious stranger (Vincent Price), a man supposed to have died twenty years earlier. | ||||||
| 63 | 11 | "The Judas Trap" | Robert Michael Lewis | Story by : Alvin Boretz Teleplay by : Walter Black | December 8, 1970 | |
| The Squad tries to help an intellectually disabled boy who was discovered with the rifle that killed his father. | ||||||
| 64 | 12 | "Fever" | Jerry Jameson | Story by : Paul Schneider, Margaret Schneider & Marty Roth Teleplay by : Paul Schneider & Margaret Schneider | December 15, 1970 | |
| Pete and Linc conduct a search for Julie, who has been exposed to disease by a man on the run and the son he doesn't have legal custody of. | ||||||
| 65 | 13 | "Is There Anyone Left in Santa Paula?" | Lawrence Dobkin | Gene L. Coon | December 29, 1970 | |
| Investigating the death of an immigration agent, the Squad finds a cop involved in the illegal entry of Mexican youths across the border. | ||||||
| 66 | 14 | "A Short Course in War" | Robert Michael Lewis | Mann Rubin | January 5, 1971 | |
| A group of student activists take over their college campus administration building, with Julie and an elderly teacher as hostages. | ||||||
| 67 | 15 | "Kicks Incorporated" | Gene Nelson | Peggy O'Shea | January 12, 1971 | |
| The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer's. | ||||||
| 68 | 16 | "A Bummer for R.J." | Philip Leacock | Jack Turley | January 19, 1971 | |
| The Squad investigates when a 40-year-old man who tries the hippie life to recapture his youth is implicated in a murder. | ||||||
| 69 | 17 | "The Hot, Hot Car" | Robert Michael Lewis | Elroy Schwartz | January 26, 1971 | |
| The Squad learns that an innocent family is driving a stolen car wired with dynamite and set to explode at 5 o'clock. | ||||||
| 70 | 18 | "Suffer, Little Children" | Lawrence Dobkin | Gene L. Coon | February 9, 1971 | |
| The Squad attempts to help a minister find out who murdered his brother, a psychologist who ran a clinic for troubled youngsters. | ||||||
| 71 | 19 | "Is That Justice? No, It's the Law" | Philip Leacock | David H. Vowell | February 16, 1971 | |
| The Squad helps an overzealous detective get the goods on a known dope pusher, but the pusher swears he's been framed. | ||||||
| 72 | 20 | "A Double for Danger" | Gene Nelson | Roger Hill Lewis | February 23, 1971 | |
| Julie assumes the identity of a dead undercover agent to expose the leader of a narcotics ring. | ||||||
| 73 | 21 | "Welcome to Our City" | John Llewellyn Moxey | Story by : Shirl Hendryx Teleplay by : Tony Barrett & Shirl Hendryx | March 2, 1971 | |
| The Squad tries to find the father of a 15-year-old farm boy and learns that the man is involved in a loan shark racket. | ||||||
| 74 | 22 | "The Comeback" | William Crain | Mann Rubin | March 9, 1971 | |
| The Squad helps the son of an aging ex-boxing champ (Sugar Ray Robinson) who is being harassed by gamblers for inside information on his dad's return to the ring after an 11-year absence. | ||||||
| 75 | 23 | "We Spy" | Lawrence Dobkin | Harve Bennett & Walter Black | March 16, 1971 | |
| Pete poses as a safecracker in order to break up an industrial espionage plot and in the process stumbles onto a murder. | ||||||
| 76 | 24 | "The Price of Love" | Philip Leacock | Tony Barrett & Robert Foster | March 23, 1971 | |
| On vacation, Linc stumbles onto the kidnapping of a young boy in a desert ghost-town and finds himself held hostage as well. | ||||||
Season 4 (1971–72)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 1 | "The Sentinels" | Robert Michael Lewis | Alvin Boretz | September 14, 1971 | |
| The Squad searches the city for a pair of killers who harbor a flock of pigeons which could cause an encephalitis epidemic. | ||||||
| 78 | 2 | "Cricket" | Michael Caffey | Rick Husky | September 21, 1971 | |
| An autistic and withdrawn boy who has accidentally shot Julie is sought by the Squad in order to save him from a murderer. Note: This episode was remade as an episode of "Charlie's Angels." | ||||||
| 79 | 3 | "Home Is the Streets" | Barry Shear | S.S. Schweitzer | September 28, 1971 | |
| The Squad pursues a dope pusher on the run for shooting two policemen. | ||||||
| 80 | 4 | "Survival" | Philip Leacock | Walter Black & Byron Twiggs | October 5, 1971 | |
| Julie, suffering a snake bite, is left stranded in the desert with a blind man when three young hoodlums steal her car. | ||||||
| 81 | 5 | "Color of Laughter, Color of Tears" | Philip Leacock | Edward J. Lakso | October 12, 1971 | |
| The Squad investigates a circus carnival that is being sabotaged. | ||||||
| 82 | 6 | "The Medicine Men" | Seymour Robbie | Arthur Weingarten | October 19, 1971 | |
| Julie falls in love with a young doctor who is being blackmailed. | ||||||
| 83 | 7 | "The Sands of Anger" | Earl Bellamy | Edward J. Lakso | October 26, 1971 | |
| The Squad investigates a mysterious explosion that kills a driver at a dune-buggy rally in the desert. | ||||||
| 84 | 8 | "The Poisoned Mind" | Don McDougall | Ernest Frankel | November 2, 1971 | |
| Depressed after having shot a young man during a robbery, Greer takes time off to recover. | ||||||
| 85 | 9 | "Exit the Closer" | Don McDougall | Robert Collins | November 9, 1971 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover at a used car lot to crack a narcotics ring. | ||||||
| 86 | 10 | "Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | November 16, 1971 | |
| Suffering from amnesia after getting mugged, Linc wanders the city, unsure as to whether or not he is the escaped mental patient he reads about in a newspaper. (Includes flashbacks to previous episodes.) | ||||||
| 87 | 11 | "And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them" | John Llewellyn Moxey | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | November 23, 1971 | |
| The Squad tries to protect a TV clown (Milton Berle) whose life is in danger. | ||||||
| 88 | 12 | "Real Loser" | George McGowan | Robert C. Dennis | November 30, 1971 | |
| The Squad tries to track down a killer who was hired by his intended victim. | ||||||
| 89 | 13 | "Death of a Nobody" | Robert Michael Lewis | Mann Rubin | December 7, 1971 | |
| A woman is killed by a hit-and-run driver, but Pete is sure he was the intended victim. | ||||||
| 90 | 14 | "Feet of Clay" | Don Taylor | Don Ingalls | December 14, 1971 | |
| Linc befriends a deaf-mute (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) who becomes a reluctant hero after saving a guard's life in a warehouse fire. | ||||||
| 91 | 15 | "I Am My Brother's Keeper" | Jerry Jameson | James Schmerer | January 4, 1972 | |
| The killing of a union member sends Linc and Julie undercover to the ship docks to find Pete, who is suffering a brain injury. | ||||||
| 92 | 16 | "Deal with the Devil" | Don McDougall | Robert C. Dennis | January 11, 1972 | |
| Pete investigates the disappearance of a Vietnam war correspondent (Leslie Nielsen) who was an older friend of his in his childhood. | ||||||
| 93 | 17 | "Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie" | Lawrence Dobkin | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | January 18, 1972 | |
| A convicted murderer out on parole goes on a mission to kill Pete, who he mistakenly believes was responsible for a savage beating he suffered years earlier. | ||||||
| 94 | 18 | "Shockwave" | Barry Shear | Rick Husky | January 25, 1972 | |
| Julie becomes emotionally attached to an abandoned baby whose parents are terrorizing the area with armed robberies. | ||||||
| 95 | 19 | "No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland" | Seymour Robbie | Arthur Weingarten | February 1, 1972 | |
| The Squad works undercover as social workers to find a stolen cache of guns. | ||||||
| 96 | 20 | "The Cave" | Jerry Jameson | Don Ingalls | February 8, 1972 | |
| Pete, Linc and Julie are trapped in a cave by a crazed man who holds them responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. | ||||||
| 97 | 21 | "The Wild Weekend" | Robert Michael Lewis | Jack Turley | February 15, 1972 | |
| Pete is kidnapped and almost killed by the jealous boyfriend of his former fiancée. | ||||||
| 98 | 22 | "The Tangled Web" | Richard Newton | Ernest Frankel | February 22, 1972 | |
| Pete and Linc jeopardize their lives and careers by helping Julie's friend return the jewelry he has stolen. | ||||||
| 99 | 23 | "Outside Position" | Philip Leacock | S.S. Schweitzer | February 29, 1972 | |
| Pete tries to help an ex-convict who has been framed on a narcotics charge. | ||||||
| 100 | 24 | "Big George" | Philip Leacock | Richard Landau | March 7, 1972 | |
| The Squad guards a man (Andy Griffith) whose life is threatened because he witnessed a murder. | ||||||
Season 5 (1972–73)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 1 | "The Connection: Part 1" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | September 14, 1972 | |
| When Greer is seriously wounded by three phony cops, and four suitcases of heroin are stolen, the Squad goes to work. First half of a two-hour special. | ||||||
| 102 | 2 | "The Connection: Part 2" | George McCowan | Rick Husky | September 14, 1972 | |
| See Part 1, above. | ||||||
| 103 | 3 | "The Thunder Makers" | Jerry Jameson | Jack Turley | September 21, 1972 | |
| The Squad investigates when a youth joins a motorcycle gang, plots a fake payroll robbery of his father's company, and learns the other gang members are playing it for real. | ||||||
| 104 | 4 | "Yesterday's Ashes" | Richard Newton | Skip Webster | September 28, 1972 | |
| The Squad witnesses a shoplifting by a badly scarred woman and arranges plastic surgery, believing it would prevent her from a life of crime. | ||||||
| 105 | 5 | "A Gift for Jenny" | Don McDougall | Gerald Sanford | October 5, 1972 | |
| Linc's friend is kidnapped after receiving a fur coat as a gift, setting the Squad on a chase of a fur-theft ring. | ||||||
| 106 | 6 | "Taps, Play It Louder" | E.W. Swackhamer | Sandor Stern | October 12, 1972 | |
| The Squad finds a missing ex-soldier working as a longshoreman, but because of mysterious circumstances they question his identity. | ||||||
| 107 | 7 | "Eyes of the Beholder" | Richard Newton | Steffi Barrett & Tony Barrett | October 19, 1972 | |
| The brother of a fur thief attempts to kill Pete, holding him responsible for his brother's death. | ||||||
| 108 | 8 | "Good Times Are Just Memories" | Ivan Dixon | Richard Bluel & Fenton Hobart Jr. | October 26, 1972 | |
| A police lieutenant involved in a jewel theft ring murders an informer and plants evidence implicating Pete as the killer. | ||||||
| 109 | 9 | "Corbey" | Richard Newton | Jack Turley | November 2, 1972 | |
| When Greer is framed as being on the take, the Squad begins an investigation to clear his name. | ||||||
| 110 | 10 | "Can You Hear Me Out There?" | Seymour Robbie | Stanley Ralph Ross | November 9, 1972 | |
| The Squad's investigation turns up a radio disc jockey who was an unwitting helper of an auto-theft ring when his commercial indicated where stolen cars could be picked up. | ||||||
| 111 | 11 | "Another Final Game" | Jerry Jameson | Buddy Ruskin | November 16, 1972 | |
| When a con man takes a little old lady friend of Linc's for $600, Pete and Julie assume the roles of a wealthy young couple to lure the bad guy. | ||||||
| 112 | 12 | "Crime Club" | Don McDougall | Theodore J. Flicker | November 23, 1972 | |
| The Squad matches wits with a group of students with genius IQs responsible for bizarre headline-making robberies. | ||||||
| 113 | 13 | "The Twain" | Georg Olden | Skip Webster | November 30, 1972 | |
| The Squad helps a Eurasian girl who, while looking for her father, witnesses the murder of a passport forger. | ||||||
| 114 | 14 | "Belinda, End of Little Miss Bubble Gum" | Seymour Robbie | Bryn Morgan | December 7, 1972 | |
| The Squad protects a former child star, upon whose life attempts were made when she became eligible for money held in trust for her. | ||||||
| 115 | 15 | "Kristie" | Richard Newton | Rick Husky | December 14, 1972 | |
| On Christmas Eve a 5-year-old girl is left in Pete's care by her father, who then disappears. | ||||||
| 116 | 16 | "Sanctuary" | Jerry Jameson | Robert Hamner | December 21, 1972 | |
| An underworld boss issues orders to have Julie killed after learning she posed as his secretary to collect evidence to present to the grand jury. | ||||||
| 117 | 17 | "Run, Lincoln, Run" | Leonard Horn | Donald L. Stewart | January 4, 1973 | |
| A friend of Linc's is caught in the clutches of loan sharks and forced to set Linc up for elimination. | ||||||
| 118 | 18 | "Don't Kill My Child" | Harry Falk | Margaret Schneider & Paul Schneider | January 18, 1973 | |
| Although a stepfather confesses to child beating, the Squad believes the mother is guilty. | ||||||
| 119 | 19 | "Death in High Places" | Don McDougall | Robert Hamner | January 25, 1973 | |
| Linc takes an undercover job as a high-steel construction worker to find his friend's murderer. | ||||||
| 120 | 20 | "Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death" | Reza Badiyi | Elroy Schwartz | February 1, 1973 | |
| Investigation of a dope ring leads the Squad to a hospital where the husband of a terminal cancer patient committed a mercy killing because his wife was deprived of morphine. | ||||||
| 121 | 21 | "Scion of Death" | Daniel Haller | Robert Schlitt & Skip Webster | February 8, 1973 | |
| Pete and Linc witness a kidnapping, but the victim's father refuses to report the abduction to the police. | ||||||
| 122 | 22 | "The Night Holds Terror" | Richard Newton | Rick Husky | February 15, 1973 | |
| Convalescing in the home of a doctor and his wife, Julie is terrorized by a man who vows to kill everyone in the house. | ||||||
| 123 | 23 | "Cry Uncle" | Phil Bondelli | Sandor Stern | February 22, 1973 | |
| When Greer and the Squad investigate a series of art thefts, they come up with an unexpected culprit. | ||||||
| 124 | 24 | "And Once for My Baby" | Richard Newton | Robert Sherman | March 1, 1973 | |
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The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife is an unknowing victim of cervical cancer. The Squad presumably broke up after this episode's subject case, as its members would not rejoin forces again for another six years. | ||||||
Television film (1979)
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Return of the Mod Squad | George McCowan | Robert Janes | May 18, 1979 | |
| Six years after the events in "And Once For My Baby" were resolved, Peter Cochrane, Lincoln Hayes, and Julie Barnes are called back to team up again after several attempts are made on the life of Adam Greer, their former commander, now a Deputy Chief in the LAPD and on the verge of retiring. However, they soon discover that the attempts on Deputy Chief Greer's life were a ruse to draw them out, and that they themselves are the real targets of the would-be killer. | ||||
Home releases
The entire series has been released on DVD, in the following box sets:[2]
| DVD set | Episodes | Company | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mod Squad: Season 1, Volume 1 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | December 18, 2007 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 1, Volume 2 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | March 11, 2008 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 2, Volume 1 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | November 25, 2008 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 2, Volume 2 | 13 | Paramount Home Video | May 26, 2009 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 3, Volume 1 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | September 24, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 3, Volume 2 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | September 24, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 4, Volume 1 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | October 1, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 4, Volume 2 | 12 | Visual Entertainment | October 1, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: The Complete Collection | * | Visual Entertainment | November 12, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: The Complete Collection Gift Set | 124 | Visual Entertainment | November 12, 2013 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 5, Volume 1 | * | Visual Entertainment | February 11, 2014 | |
| The Mod Squad: Season 5, Volume 2 | * | Visual Entertainment | February 11, 2014 | |
* This information is unknown at this time|
References
- "Special Collector's Issue (100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.
- The Mod Squad Archived 2013-01-28 at the Wayback Machine at TVShowsOnDVD.com
External links
- The Mod Squad at epguides.com
- The Mod Squad at IMDb
- Episode guide at Chezgrae.com
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