The Manhunter Episode Guide

Manhunter

First aired: Feb/26/1974
Writer: Sam Rolfe
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Gary Lockwood (Frank Clinger), Stefanie Powers (Ann Louise Hovis), Marie Windsor (May), Luke Askew (Max Chabriol), R. G. Armstrong (Henry Stratemeyer), L. Q. Jones (Crutch Shanks), John Anderson (Aaron Denver), James Olson (Walt Hovis), Tim O'Connor (Ben Marks)

When his fiancee is killed in a bank holdup, former Marine Dave Barrett decides to go after the gang responsible. The gang is led by Bonnie and Clyde wannabes Frank Clinger and Ann Louise Hovis.

1 :01x01 - The Ma Gantry Gang

First aired: Sep/11/1974
Writer: William Bast
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Don Howard (Jim Miller), Patricia Mattick (Nancy Miller), Robert Mandan (Arnie Olson), Barney Phillips (Olin Thomas), Davey Davison (Cassie Flynn), Beverly Washburn (Doreen), Don Stroud (Ira Gantry), Sam Elliott (Will Gantry), Tim O'Connor (Ben Marks), Ida Lupino (Ma Gantry)

Dave faces off against Ma Gantry and her murderous brood of train robbers.

2 :01x02 - The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger

First aired: Sep/18/1974
Writer: Sam Rolfe
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Robert Emhardt (Anders), Ray Danton (Homer), Alexandra Hay (Terri), Mitchell Ryan (Bailey), David Hedison (Jeffrey Donnenfield)

Ex-mental patient Jeffrey Donnenfield begins emulating public enemy John Dillinger right down to dressing his moll in red. Dave Barrett gets on Donnenfield's trail when he blinds a fellow detective.

3 :01x03 - The Baby-Faced Killers

First aired: Sep/25/1974
Writer: Larry Alexander
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest star: Laurence Haddon (Timothy Simpson), Joan Tompkins (Mrs. Beal), Darrell Fetty (Wayne Kroger), Paul Koslo (Tommy Wednesday), Lynne Marta (Beth Anders), Denver Pyle (Sam Dickerson), Michael Burns (Bobby Lee Dickerson)

A farmer hires Dave to track down his wanted son because he's afraid the police will kill him if they catch up to him.

4 :01x04 - Death on the Run

First aired: Oct/02/1974
Writer: Robert W. Lenski
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Grant), William Watson (Fred Lummit), Bo Hopkins (Sonny Welch), William Schallert (Dr. Harley), Harry Guardino (Bert Heidemann)

Dave brings his seriously injured father to a hospital for treatment only to discover that the place has been taken over by a gang of fugitive bank robbers wanting treatment for one of their wounded co-horts.

5 :01x05 - Trackdown

First aired: Oct/09/1974
Writer: Robert W. Lenski
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Bucklind Beery (Ed Yarborough), Herman Poppe (George Yarborough), Mary Jackson (Mary Cotton), Royce D. Applegate (Josh Cotton), Katherine Justice (Esther Cotton), R. G. Armstrong (Sheriff Mosely), Neva Patterson (Emma Yarborough), Chris Robinson (Willie Cotton)

After Dave tracks a fugitive bank robber to his Arkansas hometown he discovers that he might have to wait in line. The family of a girl the robber raped and murdered a few years before wants to tear him a new one.

6 :01x06 - Terror from the Skies

First aired: Oct/16/1974
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Regis Cordic (Sam Corby), Don Dubbins (Deputy), Harry Lauter (Sheriff Logan), Linda Marsh (Jean Chapman), Billy Green Bush (Donald Chapman), Glenn Corbett (Steve Iron)

A gang of cattle rustlers uses a World War I airplane to confuse and confound law enforcement authorities. Dave Barrett is called in to lend a helping hand.

7 :01x07 - The Doomsday Gang

First aired: Oct/23/1974
Writer: Robert Sherman
Guest star: Steven Benson (Factory Worker), Jack Donner (guest star), Robert Doyle (guiest star), Russell Thorson (guest star), Dana Elcar (guest star), Ramon Bieri (guest star), Jason Evers (Elliott), Marj Dusay (Lorna), Monte Markham (Maxwell)

A mentally unbalanced ex-minister and his new "flock" begin sttealing industrial payrolls and blowing up factory machines.

8 :01x08 - The Deadly Brothers

First aired: Oct/30/1974
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Robert Pine (guest star), Arlene Golonka (guest star), Jerry Douglas (Proctor), Joan Van Ark (Victoria), Peter Haskell (Wyland), Robert Webber (Newcomb)

A muckraking reporter comes to Dave for protection against two powerful and corrupt brothers whom she plans to expose.

9 :01x09 - The Truck Murders

First aired: Nov/06/1974
Writer: Robert Bloch
Guest star: Sorrell Booke (guest star), Charles Knox Robinson (guest star), Patricia McCormack (Doris), Fred Sadoff (Tolman), Celeste Holm (Clara)

Dave's investigation into the murder of a friend leads him to a strife-ridden theatrical company.

10 :01x10 - Jackknife

First aired: Nov/13/1974
Writer: John Higgins
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Richard Bakalyan (Johnny Fusco), Richard O'Brien (Walt Ryan), Brooke Bundy (Allison Collins), Christopher Stone (Rick Collins), Andrew Duggan (Joe Monahan), Leslie Nielsen (Vince Hammond)

When he refuses to do business with mobsters, the owner of a trucking company finds his trucks being hijacked. Dave goes undercover as a driver to try and put an end to things.

11 :01x11 - The Carnival Story

First aired: Nov/20/1974
Writer: R. W. Goodwin
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: John McLiam (Doc Hummel), Paul Carr (guest star), Janit Baldwin (Marie), Anne Helm (Rose), Robert Foxworth (David Delong)

A sleezy carnival owner preys on teenaged girls and forces them into prostitution.

12 :01x12 - The Lodester Ambush

First aired: Dec/04/1974
Writer: Barry Oringer
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest star: Anthony Charnota (Bill Stoker), Eunice Christopher (Dora Kenny), Suzanne Charney (Melissa), William Campbell (Sam Janiss), Mark Hamill (Mark), Martine Bartlett (Mady Gordon), Charles Tyner (Joshua Grant), Dabbs Greer (Harry Bell), Burr deBenning (Norman Hobson), William Smithers (Jack Hobson)

While transporting a criminal to prison, Dave gets ambushed in a small town by a gang led by the criminal's older brother.

13 :01x13 - A.W.O.L. to Kill

First aired: Dec/11/1974
Writer: Robert W. Lenski
Guest star: Devon Ericson (Jamie Bellows), Adrienne LaRussa (Marion Liggett), Kurt Grayson (Alex Liggett), Frank Maxwell (Colonel Foster), James Hampton (Lon Tyrell), Alan Fudge (Ned Fawcett), Dabney Coleman (Sheriff Stigman), Stephen Elliott (Van Phillips), Geoffrey Deuel (Walt Bellows)

Dave tracks down a former Marine buddy who has gone AWOL to kill the men responsible for the death of his wife.

14 :01x14 - Flight to Nowhere

First aired: Dec/18/1974
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: John Zaremba (guest star), Norman Alden (guest star), Christine Belford (guest star), Tom Skerritt (guest star), Stephen Brooks (Browning)

A once wealthy man, who lost his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, seeks to rejoin the ranks of the well-to-do by heisting a fortune in gems.

15 :01x15 - Web of Fear

First aired: Jan/01/1975
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: Bill Fletcher (guest star), David White (Bullock), George DiCenzo (Horgan), Michael Baseleon (Williams), Shirley Knight (guest star)

Dave must protect a murder witness from a network of corrupt lawmen.

16 :01x16 - Day of Execution

First aired: Jan/15/1975
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Rhodes Reason (guest star), Diane Shalet (guest star), Paul Jenkins (Traxler), Edward Power (Brice), Bill McKinney (Smiley), Bradford Dillman (Dwyer)

Dave and a surprisingly uncooperative Army officer track two thieves who stole an Army tank and killed two soldiers.

17 :01x17 - Man in a Cage

First aired: Jan/22/1975
Writer: Leonard Kantor
Director: Paul Stanley
Guest star: Abigail Shelton (Ticket Seller), Daxson Thomas (Jeff Banner), Stuart Nisbet (Wheeler), Dal Jenkins (Daniel Fox), Jack Dodson (Judge Corman), James Keach (Reichart), John Durren (Jackson), Greg Morris (Simon), Michael Constantine (Warden Lewis)

A crooked prison warden, fearing exposure by Dave Barrett, has the Manhunter framed and forced to bust rocks on a chain gang.

18 :01x18 - The Seventh Man

First aired: Jan/29/1975
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Dale Tarter (Coast Guardsman), Charles Briscoe (Policeman), Barbara Collentine (Mrs. Ruppert), Barbara Rhoades (Laura), George D. Wallace (Martin Quinlan), Kaz Garas (Harry Croft), Murray Matheson (Major Markley), Frank Marth (Lieutenant Carradine), Edward Binns (Simon Ambler), Darleen Carr (Carol)

Dave is approached by a lady to help her find the criminal behind six corpses found in ship.

19 :01x19 - The Wrong Man

First aired: Feb/05/1975
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Eugene Martin (Lou Conway), Cesare Danova (Phillip), Laurie Prange (Marie), James Sloyan (Damon)

A man targeted by mobsters sets up his innocent brother to take the bullets meant for him.

20 :01x20 - The Death Watch

First aired: Feb/19/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Mark Jenkins (guest star), Steve Sandor (guest star), Lin McCarthy (guest star), Simon Scott (Howard Cantwell), Collin Wilcox (Ellie Cantwell), Susan Oliver (Liz Butler)

Dave's friend, Paul Tate, is critically injured in an explosion and he's determined to discover who was behind the blast.
Dave Barrett seeks the killer who set off an explosion in which his friend was critically hurt, and he learns that a beautiful woman fears the blast was meant for her.

21 :01x21 - To Kill a Tiger

First aired: Feb/26/1975
Writer: S. S. Schweitzer
Director: Bernard McEveety
Guest star: Warren J. Kemmerling (guest star), Robert Loggia (guest star), Janet MacLachlan (Kathy Smith), Van Williams (Crawford), Jo Ann Harris (Zoe), Kevin McCarthy (Governor Haines)

A controversial Southern governor hires Dave to protect him against assassination.

22 :01x22 - Trial by Terror

First aired: Mar/05/1975
Writer: Bob Barbash
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest star: Parley Baer (Bartneder), John Fiedler (Fletcher), Allen Jaffe (Kobe), Conrad Janis (Dutch Weller), Woody Strode (Ernie Sutton)

An ex-Navy man who spent five years in the brig and blames Dave for his imprisonment gets his revenge by kidnapping Barrett's father.

23 :01x23 - The Windy City

First aired: Mar/12/1975
Guest star: Bruce Gordon (Frank Nitti), James Best (Kenny Wagner), Lois Nettleton (Connie Bates), Mills Watson (Rocky Cantrell), Anthony Caruso (Louis Campagna), Cliff Osmond (Augie Swoboda), Linda Gray (Nitti's Secretary)

Barrett trails two fugitive bank robbers to Chicago where all three manage to run afoul of legendary gangland boss Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti.