Banyon Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Decent Thing to Do

First aired: Sep/15/1972
Writer: William P. McGivern
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Collin Wilcox (Ella Fisher), Sarah Kennedy (Susie), Vincent Van Lynn (Paul Fisher), William Traylor (Ed Bailey), Frank Aletter (John Garvey), Peter White (Ross Vincent), Marlyn Mason (Maggie Starr)

A man Banyon was hired to protect turns up murdered. Banyon decides to see things through and discover the killer

2 :01x02 - The Old College Try

First aired: Sep/22/1972
Writer: Ed Adamson, Theodore J Flicker
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Michael Delano (guest star), Bobby Diamond (guest star), Shelly Novack (guest star), Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Barbara), Tim O'Connor (Harry), Jessica Walter (Emily), Darrell Larson (Donald Moore)

Banyon hobnobs with some university types when he searches for a missing college student.

3 :01x03 - The Graveyard Vote

First aired: Sep/29/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman, Carey Wilber
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Tom Bosley (Steve Corbett), Larry Gates (General), Diana Hyland (Julia Egan), Pat O'Brien (guest star), Ted Hartley (Tim Egan)

Banyon finds himself in a hornet's nest of politics, blackmail, and murder.

4 :01x04 - Completely Out of Print

First aired: Oct/06/1972
Writer: Norman Katkov
Director: Daniel Petrie
Guest star: Phillip Pine (guiest star), Rosemary Murphy (Hildy), John Sylvester-White (Carruthers), Fritz Weaver (Whitney Pemberton)

Banyon searches for a mystery writer whom no one has ever seen.

5 :01x05 - Meal Ticket

First aired: Oct/13/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman, James D. Buchanan
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Gabriel Dell (Sam Whitney), Bo Svenson (Carlo), Sharon Farrell (Wanda), James McCallion (Johnny)

A sportswriter hires Banyon to find a hulking Basque prizefighter who disappeared shortly after winning the biggest match of his career.

6 :01x06 - The Clay Clarinet

First aired: Oct/27/1972
Writer: Jack Sher
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest star: E. J. Peaker (Jan Shelton), Fred Sadoff (Don Messinger), Jack Sheldon (Shorty Durbin), John Saxon (Johnny Clay)

Banyon is hired to discover who is trying to kill a famous bandleader.

7 :01x07 - Dead End

First aired: Nov/03/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman, Ed Adamson
Director: Ralph Senensky, Arthur H. Nadel
Guest star: Billy Green Bush (Chet), Diana Muldaur (Paula Marshall), Morgan Sterne (Jennings Marshall), Jack Cassidy (Grey Gloves)

A debonair mystery man who wears grey gloves keeps trying to stop Banyon from finding a missing businessman.

8 :01x08 - Time to Kill

First aired: Nov/10/1972
Writer: Ed Adamson
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Guest star: Jo Ann Pflug (Crystal), Barbara Babcock (Caroline Wheeler), Dick Van Patten (Earl Gifford), John Carter (Phillip Wheeler), Fred Beir (guest star)

Banyon's client hires him to find a woman who supposedly died a year ago but the client recently saw her alive and well.

9 :01x09 - Think of Me Kindly

First aired: Nov/17/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman, George F. Slavin
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Guest star: Norma Crane (Marge Douglas), Dabney Coleman (Ralph Hubbard), Ahna Capri (Amy Cullen), Gerald Hiken (Eli Brand)

Banyan steps in when a fellow private eye gets murdered while working on a case.

10 :01x10 - A Date with Death

First aired: Nov/24/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman, Morton Fine
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest star: Teri Garr (Mabel), Vincent Beck (Floyd Vendor), Allen Garfield (Henry Spear), Meredith MacRae (Myra Shaw), Eileen Heckart (Mrs. Shaw), Anita Alberts (Joy Prentiss)

Banyon digs into the sordid past of a taxi dancer to discover who killed her.

11 :01x11 - Sally Overman is Missing

First aired: Dec/01/1972
Writer: Milton S. Gelman
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Karen Carlson (Juanita), Curt Conway (Landlord), Robert Webber (Waldo), Jo Ann Harris (Sallie Overman)

It's Banyon to the rescue when his new secretary turns up missing.

12 :01x12 - The Lady Killer

First aired: Dec/08/1972
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Nelson Gidding
Director: Joaquin Martinez
Guest star: Elaine Giftos (Verna), Paul Sorenson (Big Al), Marian McCargo (Mrs. Sinclair), Arch Johnson (Boyle), Kristina Holland (Daisy Davis), Don Chastain (Sinclair), Jack Klugman (guest star)

Banyon investigates a hit-and-run accident with a twist: the victim is okay but the driver turns up dead.

13 :01x13 - The Murder Game

First aired: Dec/15/1972
Writer: William P. McGivern
Director: Reza Badiyi
Guest star: Joseph V. Perry (Sgt. Krantz), Leigh Hamilton (Jill Payton), Joaquin Martinez (Gomez Santoro), Gregory Sierra (Raoul Lopaca), Kaz Garas (Tom Porter), Skye Aubrey (Claire Wilcox)

Banyon once again comes to the aid of a damsel in distress. It seems as though an old flame is being followed by a pair of Spanish speaking gentlemen.

14 :01x14 - Just Once

First aired: Dec/22/1972
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Guest star: Meg Wyllie (guest star), Nate Esformes (Silverio), Jennifer Shaw (Dolly), Ed Flanders (Randall), Dennis Redfield (Torrance), Murray Matheson (Charles Troy), Janice Rule (Lorraine Corman)

Banyon tries to solve a murder that ties into a three year old robbery and discovers that the culprit is someone even he never suspected.

15 :01x15 - Time Lapse

First aired: Jan/12/1973
Writer: Ed Adamson, Milton S. Gelman
Director: Daniel Petrie
Guest star: Anne Seymour (Consuelo), Charles McGraw (Kanderis), John Fiedler (Trumbull), John Williams (Albert), Estelle Winwood (Birdie), Donna Mills (Trina), Ken Lynch (Ben Granick)

Banyon gets more than he bargained for when he traces an alimony dodger to a seedy hotel.